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  1. Re:This sucks. on Sir Terry Pratchett Succumbs To "the Embuggerance," Aged 66 · · Score: 1

    By definition, if you've gone terribly far down the Alzheimer's road, you won't be of sound mind to choose euthanasia.

  2. Re:yeah, California is falling apart on California Looking To Make All Bitcoin Businesses Illegal · · Score: 1

    "I know I will be modded down for this": where's the option '-1, Asking for it'?

    It's called "Flamebait".

  3. Re:yeah, California is falling apart on California Looking To Make All Bitcoin Businesses Illegal · · Score: 1

    So your rebuttal of "taxes are sky-high" is to point out that Alabama's sales tax is higher? And cherry-pick the lowest rate out of California's heavily progressive income tax to show that income tax is also higher in Alabama? Who gives a crap about Alabama? FYI, they suck too. And who gives a crap about your red herring, which is like saying that eating dirt is OK because that other guy has to eat crap?

  4. Re:"line up in sacramento first" on California Looking To Make All Bitcoin Businesses Illegal · · Score: 1

    Hubris. Californians keep telling themselves they are superior-- more intelligent, more enlightened-- than the rest of the country. Every day, it becomes a little more obvious that this is not the case.

  5. Re:Not so much on Sugar Industry Shaped NIH Agenda On Dental Research · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying is that if I have cancer, maybe I shouldn't carb load? How about if I DON'T have cancer? Carbs, Dr. Atkins' mortal enemy, don't cause tumors.

  6. Re:Why blame her for this? on Clinton Regrets, But Defends, Use of Family Email Server · · Score: 1

    Um... there are written rules for email that she would have been expected to read. She should have asked for help from IT THEN. IT can't exactly fuss over email THAT DOESN'T EVEN PASS OVER THEIR NETWORK, which is the entire point.

    Any one of us would have been FIRED doing what she did.

  7. Re:Clear to me on Clinton Regrets, But Defends, Use of Family Email Server · · Score: 1

    All she has to do is stall until next week. At that point, if anyone asks her about it, the response will be "that's old news."

  8. Re:The Clintons on Clinton's Private Email System Gets a Security "F" Rating · · Score: 2

    Obama wasn't a good choice either. I do not expect the President to be an IT professional, but being the "leader of the free world" he should be at least looking at the "From:" line of emails he receives. We know he uses email, as much was made of integrating his Blackberry with the executive branch email systems when he came into office. Secretary Clinton must have sent emails to the President at some time. How can he claim he didn't realize she wasn't using the executive branch email systems? Security is everyone's responsibility. He should have told her she was out of compliance and refused to correspond with her in that manner.

  9. Re:All DNA Evidenceis overrated on On the Dangers and Potential Abuses of DNA Familial Searching · · Score: 1

    What part of "contaminated evidence" don't you understand? It could be any tissue sample, becoming contaminated at some point between the crime scene and the lab (or even IN the lab).

  10. Re:System worked, then? on On the Dangers and Potential Abuses of DNA Familial Searching · · Score: 1

    Even for a celebrity, their semen should be considered pretty damn private. Except maybe to TMZ...

  11. Re:Non Story on On the Dangers and Potential Abuses of DNA Familial Searching · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Also,

    â€oeI had lots of days sitting at the house with the dog,†he recalled in an interview, â€oewondering if these guys were going to use a battering ram to bust open the door and shoot my dog after he started barking at them.â€

    The public is increasingly fearful of the police. And it's THEIR FAULT.

  12. Re:Baking political correctness in society on Yik Yak Raises Controversy On College Campuses · · Score: 1

    Mid-century progressives like FDR renamed themselves "liberals" in the USA because by that time, Progressivism had rightfully acquired a bad name through its association with scientific racism, class warfare, and eugenics.

  13. Re:Baking political correctness in society on Yik Yak Raises Controversy On College Campuses · · Score: 1

    0.0

  14. Re:Baking political correctness in society on Yik Yak Raises Controversy On College Campuses · · Score: 1

    Liberal folks, this is your issue. The conservatives and libertarians are all over preserving the right to speech. Where is your support for the same?

    Like caffeine in 7up, never had it-- never will.

  15. Re:What really happened: on MH370 Beacon Battery May Have Been Expired · · Score: 1

    Nitpick, but GM didn't use ECUs until the 1980s.

  16. Re:And that's half the story on MH370 Beacon Battery May Have Been Expired · · Score: 1

    Does that quality as true, non-Alanis irony if a battery fire caused you plane to go down, and it was never found because the battery in your beacon was dead?

  17. Re:Sure about the Louvre? on Major Museums Start Banning Selfie Sticks · · Score: 1

    Yeah, professional flash... professionals have those on their professional cameras. I've never had one.

  18. Re:Worth it? on uTorrent Quietly Installs Cryptocurrency Miner · · Score: 1

    Didn't know Quark was into Bitcoin. Gold-pressed latinum market on a downturn?

  19. Re:Ok then... on How Activists Tried To Destroy GPS With Axes · · Score: 5, Informative

    Or he wrote that in the hopes of getting laid.

    Probably. In any case, several female scientists were directly involved in the Manhattan Project, so... false. And of course, my favorite genius starlet, Hedy Lamarr, invented a frequency hopping wireless technology for torpedo guidance (which was, naturally, rejected but not because she was female). I guess women just aren't big on gunpowder firearms.

  20. Double vision on Ubisoft Has New Video Game Designed To Treat Lazy Eye · · Score: 1

    My father suffers from double vision following brain surgery. I wonder if this or something similar would help with that. So far, his doctors haven't been able to help him much.

  21. Re:"Loser edit" is a new name for a very old evil. on Technology's Legacy: the 'Loser Edit' Awaits Us All · · Score: 1

    Have you seen the photo of the hotel suite on Wikipedia? Fatty knew how to party!

  22. Re:Roads are now illegal on Police Could Charge Data Center Operators In the Largest Child Porn Bust Ever · · Score: 1

    We don't have many cops as smart and observant as that one anymore.

  23. Re:Secure is now illegal on Police Could Charge Data Center Operators In the Largest Child Porn Bust Ever · · Score: 1

    Which is "hilarious", because landlords are specifically prohibited in most US states from entering their apartments without the permission of the tenant except in an emergency.

  24. Re:Bush White House Email Controversy on Hillary Clinton Used Personal Email At State Dept., Possibly Breaking Rules · · Score: 1

    Thank you for pointing out why retaining the emails on government servers is necessary.

    If, on the other hand, you are reminding us of this incident in order to excuse it through the "everybody does it" doctrine, kindly go pound sand.

  25. Re:Sovereign Immunity on Hillary Clinton Used Personal Email At State Dept., Possibly Breaking Rules · · Score: 1

    In the USA, only the state and federal governments enjoy sovereign immunity. Any government officials in any capacity do NOT enjoy immunity from any ILLEGAL actions they took in office.