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  1. Re:The problem with double standards. on 35,000 Walrus Come Ashore In Alaska · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying is not only "post hoc, ergo propter hoc", but "we must do SOMETHING!"

  2. Re:The bigger Problem is their "updates" on Will Windows 10 Finally Address OS Decay? · · Score: 1

    It does still push out the malicious software removal tool.

  3. Re:The problem with double standards. on 35,000 Walrus Come Ashore In Alaska · · Score: 2

    The ice is increasing in some areas. Is that due to global warming?

  4. Re:wrong on Study: Compound Found In Beer Boosts Brain Function · · Score: 1

    That would have to be bitter enough to make my face implode.

  5. Re:The problem with double standards. on 35,000 Walrus Come Ashore In Alaska · · Score: 1

    He is not denying AGW, you insufferable troll. He is disputing the allegation that we've passed some historic point in the ice cover that is a grave threat to the walrus population. His evidence is the fact that in recent history, the sea ice was actually lower.

  6. Re:The problem with double standards. on 35,000 Walrus Come Ashore In Alaska · · Score: 0

    Oh. My. God. You are thick. She's saying that she believes this is a stampede caused by other factors related to walrus behavior-- animals, her area of expertise-- not a lack of ice. And claiming she's been "bought" by the heartland institute is fallacious reasoning.

  7. Re:Australia can get it right on UK Government Tax Disc Renewal Website Buckles Under Pressure · · Score: 1

    His point is that the ignorant original post claimed that the US doesn't have any online vehicle registration, which it does.

  8. Re:Australia can get it right on UK Government Tax Disc Renewal Website Buckles Under Pressure · · Score: 1

    Why are you assuming the US doesn't have online vehicle registration? Protip: every state does.

  9. Re:Why only LGBT? on Facebook Apologizes To Drag Queens Over "Real Name" Rule · · Score: 4, Funny

    One gender identity good, two gender identities BETTER.

  10. Re:Why Stop There? on Obama Administration Argues For Backdoors In Personal Electronics · · Score: 1

    We already have tracking chips for them! How long before government requires it? Or better, since we're all required to have health insurance, they could just wait until Big Insurance requires it in order to reduce your premiums.

  11. Re:Where can I find the except clause? on Obama Administration Argues For Backdoors In Personal Electronics · · Score: 1

    Because I have a pen and a phone.

  12. Re:inb4 Obama haters on The Executive Order That Redefines Data Collection · · Score: 0

    We know all this stuff is based on an order from Reagan, you mental midget. Have you read that EO, and the subsequent ones? It's what has been done since that original order that is the real problem.

  13. Re:Another jackboot stomp on the way to facism on The Executive Order That Redefines Data Collection · · Score: 1

    So you think without guns, there would be more liberty?

  14. Re:Start menu usage dropped in lieu of what? on Microsoft's Asimov System To Monitor Users' Machines In Real Time · · Score: 1

    The problem is that searching now requires hunting for a hidden menu, which rarely appears even when you know where to point (especially in a remote session). Then, when you have it, you have to click again to change where you search, then type what you are looking for. I've gone old school-- I've relearned all the hot keys (Win+F for search) and treat Windows Server 2012 like it's a DOS app, because the GUI is unusable.

  15. Re:Fine. Legislate for externalities. on Energy Utilities Trying To Stifle Growth of Solar Power · · Score: 1

    If you have a battery bank, you are either off-grid or you have a very, very expensive hybrid system. It is horribly expensive to be grid-tied AND off-grid; that is, with the ability to run off the panels and/or batteries alone. It costs almost as much as having two entirely separate systems-- totally off the scale. That's an area I'd like to see improve.

  16. Re:A blue trip slip for an eight-cent fare on Energy Utilities Trying To Stifle Growth of Solar Power · · Score: 1

    I assume that the people who manufactured the panels and installed them didn't get paid, then, since that would be capitalism.

  17. Re:Depending on local ordinances... on Energy Utilities Trying To Stifle Growth of Solar Power · · Score: 1

    "Progressives" are the worst reactionaries around. They'll impose regulations like this under the guise of Depression-era ideas of "modernization" that were aimed at enlightening the poor, ignorant hicks in the backwoods. Meanwhile, we've moved past that, but you just try to take back your liberty and see what happens.

  18. Re:So? on Energy Utilities Trying To Stifle Growth of Solar Power · · Score: 1

    Ad hominem tu quoque. Actually, a straw man, since you're assuming that somehow that poster was a shill for Big Oil.

  19. Re:So? on Energy Utilities Trying To Stifle Growth of Solar Power · · Score: 1
    In the USA the road taxes on diesel fuel are higher than on gasoline-- and our adoption of diesel passenger cars is very low-- so de facto we have higher taxes on the heavier vehicles. Of course, toll roads also charge by axle. Won't be a big change in the status quo.

    Alternatively, one could just realize that many government fees are not about proportionately recovering costs, but influencing certain behaviors that have a variety of costs and benefits elsewhere.

    I don't like government trying to modify human behavior, other than to keep humans from harming other humans.

  20. Re:highly damaging to linux on the server on Bash To Require Further Patching, As More Shellshock Holes Found · · Score: 1

    Except that Windows probably has just as many holes only you dont know about them because they aren't public or because Microsoft has decided not to invest the engineering resources to fix them or because Microsoft has fixed them in a patch but the actual security flaw is still unknown publicly.

    An unprovable assertion.

  21. Re:There are no "remote" exploits for bash on Bash To Require Further Patching, As More Shellshock Holes Found · · Score: 1

    That's like saying Perl or PHP can't have any remote code execution vulnerabilities, because you have to apache with mod_perl or mod_php turned on to exploit them.

    When you load mod_cgi, your shell becomes a potential platform for remote exploits.

  22. Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid on Scientists Seen As Competent But Not Trusted By Americans · · Score: -1, Troll

    You are correct. The President's belief in Christian social justice causes him to favor government imposed social programs and punitive taxation, in defiance of economic theory and practice.

  23. Re:Intelligent Leaders verses Intelligent Scientis on Scientists Seen As Competent But Not Trusted By Americans · · Score: 1

    I like Pope Francis, but he probably spent more time bouncing people out of nightclubs than in a lab. Appeal to authority, and all that.

  24. Re:Fox News? on Scientists Seen As Competent But Not Trusted By Americans · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Where is Fox News in this article?

    Seriously, where is it?

    Some of you people have a anti-Fox News fetish, and it is crippling.

  25. Sticker on the dash: "You are being recorded" on 2015 Corvette Valet Mode Recorder Illegal In Some States · · Score: 0

    GM can put a sticker on the dash before shipping. Done. It's up to the driver whether they remove it.