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  1. Re:Damned liars ! on Moore's Law For Razor Blades? · · Score: 0

    Do you mean retro-cool as in a Huffy with a banana seat, or a penny-farthing?

  2. Re:greater or lesser evil on Google Under Fire Over Racist Blogs · · Score: 1
    I can't say I'm a big fan of censorship - but it is a law like any other law and ideally reflects the democratic will of the people.
    Without freedom of speech, there can be no democracy.
  3. Re:greater or lesser evil on Google Under Fire Over Racist Blogs · · Score: 2, Insightful
    No question always demands an absolute yes or no answer.
    Did you get out of bed today?
    Did you brush your teeth today?
    Did you post on Slashdot today?
    There's three. I'll try to ignore the irony of your statement itself being an absolute statement.
  4. Re:The REAL truth on Laptops Searched and Confiscated at U.S. Border · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Even if that 650,000 figure is correct, we, the United States of America, did not kill all those people. Most were killed by other Iraqis, by Syrians, by Lebanese, by Jordanians.

  5. Re:now, yes, but why maintain it? on Laptops Searched and Confiscated at U.S. Border · · Score: 1
    And 2550 years ago, some under-tree-sitting guy knew that you should love everyone as yourself, because 'they' are not distinct from 'you'.
    Funny. Just the other day, I was beating a guy with a steel pipe and I distinctly remember not feeling a thing!
  6. Re:The Netherlands on If Not America, Then Where? · · Score: 1

    What's a right-wing Dutch person like? They only smoke marijuana on Mondays?

  7. Re:The Netherlands on If Not America, Then Where? · · Score: 1

    Who are you... Rosie O'Donnell? If the Netherlands change, it will be because of Islamic radicals, not Christians. Theo van Gogh ring a bell?

  8. Re:The Netherlands on If Not America, Then Where? · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, if the USA had one like it we would end up being censured by the UN. As it is, we're criticized for trying to enforce of existing immigration laws.

  9. Re:And so it begins... on SGI Sues ATI for Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    DEC hasn't existed for eight years. What are they suing for?

  10. Re:Easy solution on Securing a High School Windows XP Computer Lab? · · Score: 1

    Today, you would be expelled for possession of the pocket knife thanks to the "zero tolerance" policy.

  11. Re:Obligatory Star Wars Quote on Securing a High School Windows XP Computer Lab? · · Score: 1

    No problem, it's magnetically sealed.

  12. Re:It's a different society. on China Moving to Real Name Registrations for Blogs · · Score: 1

    Nope. Don't like Egypt much, frankly.

  13. Top Ten Fake Cisco Equipment Brand Names on Counterfeit Cisco Gear Showing Up In US · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Crisco": Trans fats, very bad!
    "Frisco": Works okay, but seems a bit too... flamboyant
    "Disco": Status lights all blink in hypnotic rhythm. Once you get really into it, it dies.

  14. Slahsdotted on RentACoder Losing Street Cred? · · Score: 0

    Perhaps they should Rent-A-Server...

  15. Hardly scientific. on US Slips Again In Freedom of the Press Ranking · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Any "press ranking" list that places Bosnia and El Salvador higher than the United States, has a pretty obvious agenda that has little to do with improving freedom of the press and all to do with pushing a personal vendetta against the hated single superpower.

  16. Re:I actually missed it on Firefox 2 Launch - Interview With Chris Beard · · Score: 2, Funny

    Which hotkey do you hit to pull up your pants?

  17. Re:It's a different society. on China Moving to Real Name Registrations for Blogs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not mine. You must live in a different dimension where Democratic party talking points are reality.

  18. Re:LOL on EU Considering Regulating Video Bloggers · · Score: 1

    You don't even know me. Try adding insights to comments instead of looking for opportunities to lash out at strangers.

  19. Re:The current face of censorship: "Hate speech" on EU Considering Regulating Video Bloggers · · Score: 1
    Are we working fom the same definition of hate speech?
    Yes-- the one that has an "etc." at the end for future expansion.
  20. Re:The Penguin Classics Library on Wikipedia's $100 Million Dream · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just in case anyone is confused, keep in mind that Mickey Mouse is a trademark of Disney and allowing Steamboat Willie to lapse into the public domain doesn't allow others to use Mickey Mouse's image. It would allow people to produce and distribute copies of "Steamboat Willie" freely. So you could sell DVDs but Disney could still sell you for using images of Mickey on a website or T-shirt.

  21. Re:Whose Textbooks and Repair manuals? on Wikipedia's $100 Million Dream · · Score: 1
    A nice cosy little world we live in. I had thought that Wikpedia was for the world's use, but i see now that I am wrong. By the flavour of the posts above, it is very much an American resource.
    And that's why it's in only ten languages, apparently all only used in the United States.

    You're quite the whining brat. Go create your own blog and whine about imaginary issues there, would you?

  22. Re:Yea, and when it explodes/melts down on Strange Bacteria Sustains Itself Without Sunlight · · Score: 1

    That's because Slashdotters get their nuclear science information from the Simpsons, where Homer Simpson has sent Springfield up in a mushroom cloud at least three times.

  23. Re:Simple Nuclear Chemistry Lesson on Strange Bacteria Sustains Itself Without Sunlight · · Score: 1
    But hey, the opposite end of the scale from hippies are the corporatists, who figure it's fine to kill a few people with lingering, painful and expensive deaths, as long as their share price goes up a buck or two from it.
    I didn't know that the old Soviet Union was controlled by corporatists. With Slashdot, who needs textbooks?
  24. Re:Forgive my ignorance on Strange Bacteria Sustains Itself Without Sunlight · · Score: 1

    Your own straw man was to claim that the USA entered Iraq to gain control of its oil. Three years later, who has control of the oil fields? The Iraqi government. Who had control of it before? The French and Kofi Annan, pretty much.

  25. Re:Please... on Strange Bacteria Sustains Itself Without Sunlight · · Score: 1

    I thought Nirvana created Lithium!