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  1. Re:Are all americans one dimensional on Ask Skewz.com Founder About Detecting Media Bias · · Score: 1

    That's okay. Just pretend you only speak Spanish and you'll get great care. Illegal immigrants cost US hospitals billions every year, using the ER as primary care.

  2. Re:Are all americans one dimensional on Ask Skewz.com Founder About Detecting Media Bias · · Score: 1

    I hate to break it to you, but you're not a centrist, you don't represent the majority and it puzzles me why you think that a man who was tortured would want others to be tortured. I don't support the act, but the fact remains that waterboarding isn't torture. Causing permanent psychological and physical injury is torture.

    Obama wants radical change, such as compulsory health care and the passage of a bill of attainder against American oil companies because they are making too much money. This in the beginning of a recession, when neither the people nor their government have money to spend on any new programs and destroying one of America's few remaining powerful industries would turn us into a third world country.

  3. Re:Are all americans one dimensional on Ask Skewz.com Founder About Detecting Media Bias · · Score: 1

    No, Obama wants to force everyone to pay for Universal Health Care as well. A ponzi scheme doesn't work unless you constantly have new money entering the system (see: Social Security).

  4. Re:heat spreaders on Rambus Wins Patent Case · · Score: 1

    HP ships 1U and 2U servers with heat spreaders on the RAM, with nary a window to be found. The 3U and larger boxes have "naked" RAM. I'd say there could be something to that.

  5. Re:The big joke on Rambus Wins Patent Case · · Score: 1

    Actually, when Slashdot editors wake up on April 1, most of the world population considers it April 2. But thanks for the bigoted Euro-centric view.

  6. Re:Losing my faith in politics on The Man Who Guards Clinton's Wikipedia Entry · · Score: 1

    And I see Jerry Falwell blame 9-11 on lesbians, abortionists, the ACLU and secularists.
    McCain and Falwell were far from buddies. McCain ripped Falwell as an "agent of intolerance" until he made peace with the man in 2006. Falwell never endorsed McCain, nor was McCain ever a part of his congregation. Apparently you think every Republican is some belligerent religious radical. I feel sorry for anyone who thinks anything you post could possibly be based in fact with this kind of malicious, misleading rant.
  7. Re:Losing my faith in politics on The Man Who Guards Clinton's Wikipedia Entry · · Score: 1

    He said, "I took the initiative in creating the internet," which is very similar. Notice the use of "creating" instead of the words "the creation of," which would have indicated coordinated efforts. It would have still be inaccurate, because claiming that his work in the 1980s to upgrade an internet that had existed since the 1960s was the point of creation shows his ignorance of its history.

  8. Re:Typical /. troll on The Man Who Guards Clinton's Wikipedia Entry · · Score: 0

    Please show me the papyrus/stone tables/cave drawings that prove your assertion.

  9. Re:Losing my faith in politics on The Man Who Guards Clinton's Wikipedia Entry · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What has been will be again,
    what has been done will be done again;
    there is nothing new under the sun.

    Is there anything of which one can say,
    "Look! This is something new"?
    It was here already, long ago;
    it was here before our time.

    There is no remembrance of men of old,
    and even those who are yet to come
    will not be remembered
    by those who follow.
    -Ecclesiates 1:9-11
  10. Re:Losing my faith in politics on The Man Who Guards Clinton's Wikipedia Entry · · Score: 1

    No one would claim that being allowed to move about freely is a privilege, yet that too is denied when one is imprisoned. Once released, an ex-con is once again able to move about and to vote. The nature of punishment, determined in a fair trial by one's peers, is that some rights must be suspended. Your analogy is fallacious, and the moderators who modded you up are clueless.

  11. Re:Life is dangerous: that's why it's fun on Report Suggests That Nanny State Might Actually Not Be For the Best · · Score: 1

    Yes, you have learned incorrect behavior through experience. How about changing, unless you expect that you will only be stuck from the side in an accident? I would also recommend not driving while "buzzed".

  12. Re:Then why not a space escalator? on Space Elevators Face Wobble Problem · · Score: 4, Funny

    No Stairway? DENIED!

  13. Re:Not so good on US Broadband Policy Called "Magical Thinking" · · Score: 1

    Nationalize the communications infrastructure and put AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and ALL OF 'EM right outta business
    Goodie! Then, with the government owning the infrastructure, it will be even easier for them to perform surveillance on their subjects! No silly warrants!
  14. Re:magical thinking on US Broadband Policy Called "Magical Thinking" · · Score: 1

    Clinton didn't inhale, but he passed the Telecom act of 1996 anyway.

  15. Typical Slashdot on US Broadband Policy Called "Magical Thinking" · · Score: 0, Troll

    Monday through Thursday, Slashdot complains about the government interfering with our lives. On Friday, it demands more government intervention. The more power you give to government, the more it takes from you.

  16. Re:kill -9 on SCO's "Least Supported Idea Yet" · · Score: 1

    It would be more fun with the Doom interface to pstat and kill.

  17. Re:Lay off the weed, man! on City-Provided Wi-Fi Rejected Over "Health Concerns" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Saccharine, of course, causes cancer only in huge quantities and aspartame doesn't cause cancer at all-- although it does cause headaches in some people and can break down into toxic compounds in extreme heat. But thanks for continuing to spread the 1970s-era hysterics of the ignorant.

  18. Re:Cell Phone Tumors on City-Provided Wi-Fi Rejected Over "Health Concerns" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's a cargo-cult way of looking at it. Once person is a coincidence. Two is interesting. Three is a trend.

  19. Re:Lay off the weed, man! on City-Provided Wi-Fi Rejected Over "Health Concerns" · · Score: 1

    Argumentum ad ignoratum.

  20. Re:Teach her some physics. on City-Provided Wi-Fi Rejected Over "Health Concerns" · · Score: 1

    It's not "dill."

  21. Re:I can't imagine 1 TB on Array-Based Memory May Put a Terabyte On a Chip · · Score: 1

    ... or one station wagon full of DLTs.

  22. Re:This happened to me...Sort of on FBI Posts Fake Hyperlinks To Trap Downloaders of Illegal Porn · · Score: 1

    We so badly habeas corpus for seized evidence in the USA. 72 hours is probably too short for legitimate investigations; but even four weeks would be a huge improvement on the current method of hounding law enforcement personnel who have already decided you're guilty and wish to provide summary punishment by withholding your stuff indefinitely.

  23. Re:I would have read the article before replying on FBI Posts Fake Hyperlinks To Trap Downloaders of Illegal Porn · · Score: 5, Funny

    i am in china and so out of the juristiction of the fbi, so i was able to rtfa without much fear of retribution.
    Caution: irony overload!
  24. Re:"Manhattan Project?" on "Manhattan Project" For Prosthetic Arms · · Score: 2, Funny

    Would you guys get a grip already?

  25. Re:One heard saying... on "Manhattan Project" For Prosthetic Arms · · Score: 1

    Ash had to be the greatest genius ever to create a hydraulic goblet-crushing prosthetic hand with middle-age technology.