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  1. Re:Up to 10 times the size of Alaska?? on Expedition To Explore an Alaska-Sized Plastic "Island" · · Score: 1

    Continental USA, of course. Or we would have some sort of recursive paradox, there.

  2. Re:What about... on Expedition To Explore an Alaska-Sized Plastic "Island" · · Score: 1

    I'm sure it's nothing that crushing, confiscatory taxation on the "rich", plus the violation of a few basic freedoms for the good of the "global community" couldn't solve!

  3. Re:How are they SUPPOSED to license it? on AP Will Sell You a "License" To Words It Doesn't Own · · Score: 1

    A polar bear is on the loose? Natalie must be positively petrified.

  4. Re:The cops that arrested him must be proud on California Student Arrested For Console Hacking · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Which is why the Soviets have been gone for a couple of decades now and we are still cranking out super weapons like we are getting ready for WW3.

    Our nuclear stockpile has been halved since 2001 and should be about 2,200 by 2012.

  5. Re:The Third Key on California Student Arrested For Console Hacking · · Score: 0

    4. Health care

  6. Re:The cops that arrested him must be proud on California Student Arrested For Console Hacking · · Score: 1

    Oh and remember, Hitler was elected in a democracy.

    No, he was appointed Chancellor by Hindenburg, who he later pressured into resigning and subsequently seized the power of the office instead of holding a presidential election. That being said, an actual democracy does result in mob rule and atrocity, and the repeated dissolution of the Reichstag that Hitler enabled had that effect.

  7. Re:Beware of namechanges on RadioShack To Rebrand As "The Shack"? · · Score: 1

    Circuit City is now defunct and all its holdings split up; so who owns those stores now?

  8. Re:How? on New HIV Strain Discovered · · Score: 1, Informative

    W earned degrees from Harvard and Yale. If that's a chimp education, well then sign me up, Bonzo! BTW, Obama has a similar education: BA from Columbia, law degree from Harvard.

  9. Re:1984 on Student Suing Amazon For Book Deletions · · Score: 1

    I would think a conservative area would be MORE likely to read 1984.

  10. Re:All good, but... on Prototype Vehicle For the Blind · · Score: 1

    whoo ahh

  11. Re:What, what? on Prototype Vehicle For the Blind · · Score: 0, Troll

    Dust it off? It's been in constant use since Obama became president.

  12. Re:first to say on Prototype Vehicle For the Blind · · Score: 1

    That's cute, but the beeping is for pedestrian walk signals.

  13. What's next? on Prototype Vehicle For the Blind · · Score: 0, Troll

    Now, how about creating a vehicle that will help women to drive?

  14. Re:Bill Gates wrote to me for money in 1976 on Bill Gates Remembers 1979 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well, at least he was entitled to payment for services rendered. But that's just the capitalist pig talking. I'm sure everyone else on Slashdot works for free.

  15. Re:BASIC is good. on Bill Gates Remembers 1979 · · Score: 1

    Those bad habits were due to bad instructors and low-memory systems. I've never used a BASIC that didn't have a GOSUB and a computed GOTO (select-case even, since the 1980s DEC BASIC). Unfortunately, rudimentary books taught GOTO on about page 2 and my VIC-20 used to run out of RAM pretty quickly if you tried to write too many subroutines.

  16. Re:Dr. Who on Bill Gates Remembers 1979 · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's something like one billet to a thousand Millard Fillmores.

  17. Re:DEFINE: Subjectivity on Are Women Getting More Beautiful? · · Score: 1

    The key is that the article just points out the theory that women are becoming more beautiful due to natural selection. Since beauty is subjective, proving this theory would require more than forty years of study, and would have to include polling to determine whether a sample set of people really are more attractive. It's become fashionable to call anyone who questions evolutionary theory a holocaust denier or ignorant fundie, but I assure you that my opinion has nothing to do with that but the simple fact that seeing any changes due to evolution by definition requires historical data, of which this study appears to have little.

  18. Re:Windows 7 on One Year Later, "Dead" XP Still Going Strong · · Score: 1

    I think you mean: This way to the Egress --->

  19. Re:I don't get it on UK Compulsory ID Plan Shelved · · Score: 1

    That's true, but it's not the same as being a criminal just for not carrying and presenting an ID card, is it?

  20. Re:I don't get it on UK Compulsory ID Plan Shelved · · Score: 2

    I mostly agree with you, except that shooting for any reason other to kill is a good way to get yourself killed. This isn't the movies, where to cop shoots the gun out of the crook's hand or pops him in the knee. If less-than-lethal force is required, they have nightsticks, tasers, and pepper spray.

  21. Re:I don't get it on UK Compulsory ID Plan Shelved · · Score: 1

    On the morning of September 11, the 9-11 terrorists hadn't done anything wrong.

    That's incorrect. More than one of them had overstayed their visas. This is a deportable offense.

  22. Re:Reasonable! on GPS-Based System For Driving Tax Being Field Tested · · Score: 1

    I don't care about the cost. The federal government doesn't have the right to decide where we go and how we do it.

  23. Re:old/weird cars? on GPS-Based System For Driving Tax Being Field Tested · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So I guess they will have exemptions for older cars, cars that have value in original condition and adding/changing something will reduce value, etc.

    Not likely. These are the same fascists who are pushing through a bill that would require you to make your old home "green" before you could sell it.

  24. Re:How the? on States Push Makers' Role In Disposing of Electronic Waste · · Score: 1

    The problem is a matter of properly accounting for the full cost to society. If I have a tree on my property and it falls in your yard, I have to pay for disposal. If I'm burning leaves in my yard and catch your house on fire, I'm on the hook. This makes sense.

    It makes a lot less sense when you consider that cause and effect are temporally close in your analogy, while they are years apart in reality. Also, if your neighbor had PAID you to knock the tree down, or PAID you to burn leaves, absent a contract he would share the accountability-- but in your analogy, he's an innocent victim.

  25. Re:This is a terrible idea on States Push Makers' Role In Disposing of Electronic Waste · · Score: 1

    Reagan cut taxes across the board (although, yes, the ridiculously "progressive", confiscatory top tax bracket was the most affected) and the Republican Congress was responsible for creating the reasonable budget which Clinton was forced to sign if he wanted the government to start working again.