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  1. Re:a decade of ... on Celebrate the XML Decade · · Score: 1

    If a standard is used inappropriately, it's not a flaw in the the standard. It's a flaw in the PHBs we allow to make uninformed decisions.

  2. Re:non-aboriginal nation in Americas before 1776 on Indians Use Google Earth and GPS To Protect Amazon · · Score: 1

    Evidence for this is in debate, and in any case Nova Scotia was a possession of the British Empire until it confederated with Canada.

  3. Re:Best way to ensure conservation on Indians Use Google Earth and GPS To Protect Amazon · · Score: 1
    Unfortunately, it didn't stay that way with the association forming within a couple years of him buying in.
    IANAL. But... if the association was defunct, it seems to be debatable. A new org under the same name is not the same org. This is the same as if the deed was tied to a local business "Vegan central" (that had originally owned the land) with an agreement that the land could not be used for, say, taxidermy. If "Vegan Central" went under, then some guy opened a new business under the same name, it would not be the same business.
  4. Re:Tragedy of the Commons on Indians Use Google Earth and GPS To Protect Amazon · · Score: 1
    Democracies are the collective will of the majority (see tyranny of the majority). If you're in the minority, your will isn't represented. Tough luck.
    This is a fallacious argument against democracy. Assuming things such as racial or religious discrimination are kept in check, being in "the minority" is not a permanent condition. If you think that X function should change in your society, and instead of using your freedom of speech to persuade others you sit on your couch and bitch that "the man" is keeping you down, it's not exactly unfair.
  5. Leftist dilemma alert! on Microsoft One Step From World's Greenest Company · · Score: 1

    Leftist dilemma alert! Stop corporate abuses, or save energy and CO2 emissions? You decide!

    Simple solution: let MS do what it wants. I'll be unchecking that patch in Windows Update when it comes along. That being said, my power is nuclear so CO2 emissions aren't much of a factor.
  6. Re:Honorable Mention on Biggest IT Disaster Ever? · · Score: 1

    Not one to be outdone, the USA now has the Harry Reid bridge.

  7. Re:What is wrong with Captchas? on How to Prevent Form Spam Without Captchas · · Score: 1

    Obviously, that's the flaw with captchas. If it can be generated by a computer, it can be interpreted by a computer.

  8. Re:And how... on How to Prevent Form Spam Without Captchas · · Score: 1

    Please don't continue the "USian" meme. It's confusing the citizens of the United States of Mexico. Thanks!

  9. Re:Oh noes! We is playing Spaghetti Monster! on Stem Cell Research Bill Clears Australian Senate · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the suicide booths.

  10. Re:Bringing the god botherers into the debate on Stem Cell Research Bill Clears Australian Senate · · Score: 1
    Yes it's human but it is not intelligent life - has no more rights than a fingernail clipping (which will also DNA test human).
    A toenail clipping is not alive.
  11. Re:Bringing the god botherers into the debate on Stem Cell Research Bill Clears Australian Senate · · Score: 1

    Human babies are born in a mentally retarded state-- much less intelligent than an adult chimp. Is the chimp more human?

  12. Re:Before coming to a knee jerk conclusion read th on Stem Cell Research Bill Clears Australian Senate · · Score: 1
    Yet those very same men seem to be O.K. with 44,000 dead civilians in Iraq in the name of a Greater Good (namely Democracy); many of the victims are children.
    Nice straw man. You're no C.S. Lewis. And if the USA had not removed Hussein, would we have then been responsible for the people he would have continued killing and tossing into mass graves?
  13. Re:Good. on Stem Cell Research Bill Clears Australian Senate · · Score: 1

    It's too bad Kerry and Edwards didn't get elected, or we could have saved Superman's bloodline! Think about it-- Democrats with super powers!

    I hear Bill Clinton wants his DNA reengineered to give him X-ray vision.

  14. Re:What,, no US? Cuba? on The 13 Enemies of the Internet · · Score: 1
    Cuba is a great place where every dissident is "taken care of."
    Fixed that for you.
  15. Re:Can't declare war on companies on The 13 Enemies of the Internet · · Score: 1
    In case you hadn't noticed, there is a heavy overlap between this list and the infamous US "axis of evil" list.
    Your grasp of logic is a bit weak.
  16. Re:"smear message"? on Republican Robocall Pretexting Campaign · · Score: 1

    Oops...that range was sixty. Not a big difference.

  17. Re:"smear message"? on Republican Robocall Pretexting Campaign · · Score: 1
    Did you notice that:

    This chart has a range from 0 to 50. Fifty!

    The 9/11 deaths aren't included. I suppose the death of thousands of civilians should be treated as some sort of rounding error. Obviously, because 1) it would invalidate the argument and 2) The line would be extending past the image, past my web browser, past my monitor, into the ceiling...

    There have been many civilians present in terrorist-laden areas in Iraq and Afghanistan performing relief work and rebuilding the infrastructure. Some are going to be killed because-- news flash-- the terrorists don't care if you're a civilian performing peaceful work: you're still the enemy.

  18. Re:PJ group "vigilantes"? on Has Verizon Forfeited Common Carrier Status? · · Score: 1

    So when NARAL and MoveOn.org do this, it's called "lobbying".

  19. Slashdot Newspeak on Has Verizon Forfeited Common Carrier Status? · · Score: 1
    "Freedom of speech, the future of the Net, you name it. In October, a U.S. vigilante group asked Verizon to cut off Net access to Epifora, a Canadian ISP that hosts a number of (entirely legal) web sites offering support to minor-attracted adults.
    Minor-attracted? It's paedophilia. Look it up.

    That being said, it's not the ISP or carrier's duty to shut anyone down except for abuse or by subpoena. That's why Verizon did the wrong thing and there's no reason to use doublespeak like "minor-attracted" to sugarcoat it.

  20. Re:No offense... on Funding Cut For Arecibo Observatory · · Score: 1

    Your argument assumes that we already have enough F-22s. We do need to replace older craft as they become obsolete and/or cost-ineffective to maintain. Even if liberals think the USA should practice neo-isolationism by withdrawing all its forces from everywhere on the planet, we would still need to run patrols over US airspace. Your argument could be extended ad infinitium until we had no aircraft. Just the fact that a fighter is expensive and its funds could be used for a purpose you deem important does not make this a viable solution. For example, I could follow you to the computer shop when you want to buy a new Intel Core Cinco Ocho 2 Extreme Burnination Edition Processor and point out that the $500 you paid for it could buy breakfast for 250 people at the soup kitchen.

  21. Re:No offense... on Funding Cut For Arecibo Observatory · · Score: 1

    I love it when liberals fight among one another.

  22. Re:Yay! on Funding Cut For Arecibo Observatory · · Score: 1

    So is the SKA really a code name for some sort of WMD? Or are you just a moron who is not afraid to show it?

  23. Re:Can we have some more sensible introductions to on Login Code of Conduct Found Not Binding · · Score: 1

    I was going to complain about the obvious error "air of automatically," but then I realized the actual quote, "air of automaticity," was just as stupid.

  24. Re:And? on Saddam Hussein Sentenced to Death · · Score: 1

    Please stop trying to revise history.

  25. Re:And? on Saddam Hussein Sentenced to Death · · Score: 1
    What right did US forces have to make judicial decisions on behalf of a sovereign government and people as to how they should dispose of their despots?
    Because one of those natural rights (which leftists like you are fond of ascribing to despots and terrorists who would never sign the social contract) is the right to a fair trial.

    Am I to believe that your response would have been more positive had the US simply turned Hussein over to the street rabble to be lynched, as with Mussolini? Barbarism. Oh, I see... the Hague. Yes, entrust the elitists, who were just a few years ago praising this bloody despot, to this important work of justice.