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  1. Re:Beloved by Builders and Developers on LA Mayor Proposes Earthquake Retrofits On Thousands of Buildings · · Score: 1

    Also for big-time property investors. All the little guys who own a building a two are going to have to sell out-- because you can't just take a building with you when a city imposes onerous regulations. Can't wait to see how the LA government is criticizing the landlords for having such high rent a few years from now. What a surprise!

  2. Re:Not to mention on Feds Plan For 35 Agencies To Collect, Share, Use Health Records of Americans · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why have HIPAA, when tens of thousands of federal employees will have access to our personal information?

    This is what you wanted, Democrats.*

    * based on Congressional Record of ACA voting

  3. Re:I don't get it on Civil Rights Groups Divided On Net Neutrality · · Score: 3, Funny

    Check your privilege, cracker!

  4. Re:Shakedown on Civil Rights Groups Divided On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Give Jackson booty and he'll go away.

    FTFY

  5. Re:Ignorance and arrogance seem to go well togethe on How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Twitterbot · · Score: 2

    But, you're an ignoramus who is arguing a genetic fallacy based on your dislike of that admittedly loony religion. Judge a periodical based on its content, not its source. For example, I've professionally used a software package from a company created by scientologists. It has been very reliable and effective. Never has it turned my enterprise systems into e-meters.

  6. Re:Fear the Asian carp on How One Man Changed the Ecology of the Great Lakes With Salmon · · Score: 1

    That's the beauty of the plan. When summer comes, the polar bears will sweat to death.

  7. Re:Ignorance and arrogance seem to go well togethe on How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Twitterbot · · Score: 1

    Speaking of ignorance, you seem to be making some assumptions about the CSM that are wholly incorrect.

  8. Re:Can't avoid medical records on The Sony Pictures Hack Was Even Worse Than Everyone Thought · · Score: 1

    My boss is 70 years old chain smoker, I thought of it after, but I wish I would have said "do you have cancer?" and when he said no, reply with "oh, I am surprised, most people your age who still chain smoke are pretty much on their death bed"

    I LOLed. That would have really been a wake-up call for him in so many ways.

  9. Re:Can't avoid medical records on The Sony Pictures Hack Was Even Worse Than Everyone Thought · · Score: 1

    Fat and sugar are addictive, borderline poisonous substances.

    Oh. My. God. No, they aren't. Don't make excuses for these people. Substances necessary for biological function are not poison.SRE

    And that means obesity will remain a major problem until excessive fat and sugar are removed from food by legislation.

    So let's give up more of our liberty because some of us are irresponsible. The people are too stupid to feed themselves, amirite?

  10. Re:Boy who cried wolf on New Virus Means Deadlier Flu Season Is Possible · · Score: 0

    I love how internet experts debunk someone's anecdotal evidence with their own anecdotal evidence.

  11. Re:Boy who cried wolf on New Virus Means Deadlier Flu Season Is Possible · · Score: 1

    He didn't say he got the flu FROM the vaccine... he just pointed out the one time he bothered to get one, the vaccine proved to be ineffective. Also, I'm not an immunologist, but I know the point of the vaccine is to provoke an immune response-- and that immune response is part of what makes people feel sick. Many, if not most people are guaranteed to feel lousy the day they get the vaccine in exchange for the small chance of feeling REALLY BAD for several days-- or really dead.

  12. Re:CDC needs more funding than the DoD on New Virus Means Deadlier Flu Season Is Possible · · Score: 1

    By *that* measure, which is pretty rational, the CDC and NIH ought to be funded at a higher level than the DoD.

    That makes as much sense as demanding that people spend more on smoke detectors than clothing-- since fires are really dangerous. Just throwing money at medical research while neglecting national defense-- which is simply going to be expensive for a superpower-- doesn't make sense in the big picture.

  13. Re:Meh. on New Virus Means Deadlier Flu Season Is Possible · · Score: 0

    Right-- so why is everyone pushing flu vaccines to non-old, non-young people? Everyone who gets the vaccine is guaranteed to feel crappy and be less productive that day, while you have a greater chance of being hit by a bus than becoming seriously ill from the flu. Let's stop ordering people to get in line to be stabbed with this year's questionable concoction.

  14. Re:Where are your ancestors from? on Interviews: Adora Svitak Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    For example do you think that it is reasonable to "cat call" women as they walk down the street?

    I don't, but I also don't think it's reasonable to inject straw men into a discussion. The intent is far different.

  15. Re:we ARE different on James Watson's Nobel Prize Goes On Auction This Week · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it's because the fuck/non-fuck ratio in his posts is lower than yours.

  16. Re:we ARE different on James Watson's Nobel Prize Goes On Auction This Week · · Score: 1

    It can't be because we're getting smarter

    It could, if natural selection were biased toward intelligence.

  17. Re:Good riddance on Microsoft's Age-Old Image Library 'Clip Art' Is No More · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And it's in Comic Sans, amirite?

  18. Re:I see nothing exciting here on First Star War Episode 7 Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    You criticized all that things that DON'T MATTER IN A FAIRY TALE, which is what Star Wars is-- not sci-fi.

  19. Re:Had a realization on First Star War Episode 7 Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    Yeah, like "cocky cadet eats apple on bridge, and thus is promoted to Captain of the flagship."

  20. Re:I agree, except: on First Star War Episode 7 Trailer Released · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not infinite ammo! You have to press F9 to recharge them, and then your MGLT drops. Don't even have shield from which to redirect charge, dang widow makers.

  21. Re:Three truths about the China tax deal on Was Microsoft Forced To Pay $136M In Back Taxes In China? · · Score: 1

    Mittens are being taxed now? Just in time for winter! Thanks, Obama!

  22. Re:ENIAC wasn't the first on How the World's First Computer Was Rescued From the Scrap Heap · · Score: 1

    ENIAC was Turing-complete, which is a full computer as nearly everyone understands it now.

  23. Re: Except... on How the World's First Computer Was Rescued From the Scrap Heap · · Score: 1

    No one claims America "invented computing", you crass buffoon.

  24. Re:ENIAC wasn't the first on How the World's First Computer Was Rescued From the Scrap Heap · · Score: 1

    Except for those pesky,slow mechanical relays... and total lack of conditional branches.

  25. Re:Ross Perot is awesome! on How the World's First Computer Was Rescued From the Scrap Heap · · Score: 1

    Did you actually read the article? He didn't ask for the ENIAC, specifically. They could have just grabbed an old IBM, but the guy assigned the project kicked it up a few notches. Parts of it are still unaccounted for, and one panel they recovered was destroyed. The missing panels would have to be recreated from plans-- if they still exist-- and the existing ones would have to be extensively repaired.