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  1. Re:Lucky for Stripe on Online Payment Firm Stripe Boots 3D Gun Designer Cody Wilson's Companies · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In Federal law, homosexuals are not a protected class. State laws vary.

  2. Re: Old saying on New Atomic Clock Reaches the Boundaries of Timekeeping · · Score: 1

    Interestingly, that's how long Windows 95 could stay up before crashing. COINCIDENCE?

  3. Re:Old saying on New Atomic Clock Reaches the Boundaries of Timekeeping · · Score: 1

    One word: geostationary.

  4. Re:Terrible on Russia Takes Down Steve Jobs Memorial After Apple's Tim Cook Comes Out · · Score: 5, Funny

    If the guy decides to show me his Little Caesar, he's getting no tip.

  5. Re:Six Years Ago on US Midterm Elections Discussion · · Score: 1

    Of course there is no nationwide popular vote. But fact is more Americans voted for Democrats and they don't have the majority in the House.

    And that means jack shit in a representative democracy. It's not a popularity contest-- those are BY DEFINITION REPRESENTATIVES of their constituents. So what is your point, other than crapping all over a discussion?

  6. Re:Laugh on YouTube Opens Up 60fps To Everyone · · Score: 1

    Um, TV has been at least 30 FPS (with frame drop 29.97 for color) since the NTSC standard was put into place. ATSC also supports up to 60.

  7. Re:Rainbow PUSH said ... on Amazon Releases (Not Many) Details On Its Workforce Demographics · · Score: 2

    Organizations like this are fatally lazy, in that they like to quote statistics and suggest that any incomplete data must be hiding something nefarious-- rather than doing the investigation themselves. They're afraid they'll find out that there is no barrier of racism in place-- that the issue is cultural, economic, or governmental, and thus their bigoted organization will become redundant.

  8. Re:I really don't understand smart watches... on How Apple Watch Is Really a Regression In Watchmaking · · Score: 1

    Then you refuse to use the products of bourgeois oppression. Perhaps if there was an IWW stamp (in braille).

  9. Re:I really don't understand smart watches... on How Apple Watch Is Really a Regression In Watchmaking · · Score: 1

    Has there been some change over recent years that has made phones hard to get out of your pocket?

    Yes. They are now FUCKING HUGE. I really miss my RAZR V3.

  10. Re:I really don't understand smart watches... on How Apple Watch Is Really a Regression In Watchmaking · · Score: 1

    So Rolexes come in kit form now, where each component is separate? That's interesting, but I want to know if they are discreet.

  11. Re:How many engineers does it take to screw netfli on First Detailed Data Analysis Shows Exactly How Comcast Jammed Netflix · · Score: 1

    FFFT

    *rubs nipples*

  12. Re:Tip of the iceberg on Pope Francis Declares Evolution and Big Bang Theory Are Right · · Score: 1

    The "Gnostic Gospels" aren't all gnostic, and most of them aren't gospels. And the Book of Mormon is not called "the Bible" even by Mormons.

    If you're going to stretch this out to such lengths, then the Qur'an is also "the Bible" and maybe the Bhagavad Gita and the Satanic Bible are "the Bible".

  13. Re:left/right apocalypse on Imagining the Future History of Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Are you seriously threatening a stranger on the internet because you disagree with him? You are fatally ignorant.

  14. Re:What did you expect.. on New Crash Test Dummies Reflect Rising American Bodyweight · · Score: 1

    Maybe because we're not fascists trying to create some kind of micromanaging bureaucratic dystopia.

    I mean, regulating checkout aisles? Putting fruit there isn't going to make people buy it. Michele Obama pressured schools into putting tasteless, low-quality versions of "gourmet" dishes and fruit on kids' lunch trays, and they responded by throwing it out.

  15. Re:He believes in God? on Tim Cook: "I'm Proud To Be Gay" · · Score: 1

    Jesus confronted the Samaritan woman at the well about her multiple divorces, and the fact that she was currently unmarried (John 4). He also commented that God hates divorce, and only gave it to us because our hearts were hard-- which implies that marriage has value.

    Also, Creimer was responding to another person's question about Cook's invocation of God in his speech. So maybe you shouldn't rush to judgement yourself, since you obviously missed the context of an ongoing discussion.

    Finally, I should note that an appeal to hypocrisy is irrelevant to an argument which depends only on whether it is true or false.

  16. Re:parsing his quotes with a dose of reality on Tim Cook: "I'm Proud To Be Gay" · · Score: 1

    The question is, how many times will he use his bully pulpit at Apple to make these statements before admitting he is, actually, an activist?

  17. Re:News for Nerds? on Tim Cook: "I'm Proud To Be Gay" · · Score: 0

    That's an interesting hypothesis, but prepare to be personally attacked for the implication that homosexuality is somehow a bad thing that needs to evolve away.

  18. Government priorities on Labor Department To Destroy H-1B Records · · Score: 2

    You know your government is overreaching when they collect and keep your telephone records forever, but have to destroy lists of H1-B visas after five years "to save storage space".

  19. Re:What did you expect.. on New Crash Test Dummies Reflect Rising American Bodyweight · · Score: 2

    Actually, you are wrong. There was more industry and correspondingly far more blue-collar workers, who typically engage in a lot more physical activity.

  20. Re:What did you expect.. on New Crash Test Dummies Reflect Rising American Bodyweight · · Score: 0

    In a sane world we would respond by backing off of meat and dairy subsidies and heavily subsidize fresh fruit and vegetables. Maybe outlaw checkout aisle candy and put baskets of fresh fruit there. Some euro countries are doing this, we probably never will.

    Maybe because we're not fascists trying to create some kind of micromanaging bureaucratic dystopia.

    I mean, regulating checkout aisles? Putting fruit there isn't going to make people buy it. Michele Obama pressured schools into putting tasteless, low-quality versions of "gourmet" dishes and fruit on kids' lunch trays, and they responded by throwing it out.

  21. Re:What did you expect.. on New Crash Test Dummies Reflect Rising American Bodyweight · · Score: 1

    ... from our country that now judges food quality in calories per dollar?

    Who does that, Captain Strawman?

  22. Re:left/right apocalypse on Imagining the Future History of Climate Change · · Score: 1

    you know that Carbon Credits are a fundamentally free market oriented solution, right?

    Not if government creates the market. Then, it's called crony capitalism.

  23. Re:left/right apocalypse on Imagining the Future History of Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Are you kidding? The people who fudged the data so that they could get a nice hockey stick chart are still employed.

  24. Response will be telling on Cutting the Cord? Time Warner Loses 184,000 TV Subscribers In One Quarter · · Score: 1

    I wonder if they will respond by raising prices on their broadband now, especially in the areas where there is no real competition.

  25. Re:Ads always load fine on YouTube Considering an Ad-Free, Subscription-Based Version · · Score: 2

    It makes Real Player BUFFERING look fantastic.