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  1. Re:Pollution from China on Up To a Quarter of California Smog Comes From China · · Score: 1

    Until you figure out how to run all industry and, verify, every living creature on antimatter/matter annihilation, indeed, ZERO EMISSIONS ARE IMPOSSIBLE.

  2. Re:Pollution from China on Up To a Quarter of California Smog Comes From China · · Score: 1

    To be fair, most Americans don't live in company dormitories, from which they are not allowed to leave and have no creature comforts. When you have the freedom to move about, you tend to engage in activities that produce pollution.

  3. Re:Pollution from China on Up To a Quarter of California Smog Comes From China · · Score: 1

    That's a red herring, because you only need to handle lead to absorb it into your body.

  4. Re:Pollution from China on Up To a Quarter of California Smog Comes From China · · Score: 1

    Well, since the US isn't part of the EU, and the products are coming to the US, I'd say this is out of your jurisdiction by every imaginable law, international and otherwise.

  5. Re:One and the same on Why Whistleblowers Can't Get a Fair Trial · · Score: 1

    Seems that the words "ex post facto" are right in the constitution. But no one is ever concerned about the President's contempt for the constitution when he's doing what they want.

  6. Re:a pittance in ayn rands america. on Facebook's Biggest Bounty Yet To Hacker Who Found "Keys To the Kingdom" · · Score: 1

    instead of hiring more security engineers and challenging developers to write safer stronger code

    The fact that someone outside Facebook found a security flaw does not mean that Facebook is deliberately not investing in sufficient personnel. Everyone makes mistakes.

    they get away with this because unscrupulous conglomerates headed by sociopathic billionaires have plunged this economy so far into an intractable recession that any critical analysis of their low wage cubicle farm mentality is tantamount to anticapitalism.

    I can't help but notice that government meddling in the economy wasn't part of your straw man.

    code bugs and exploits are constant. However, just because your team doesnt find a new one every hour doesnt mean they arent working.

    Right. And just because Facebook's team didn't find this one doesn't mean that they are too small. Do you even have a clue of the daily, weekly, and monthly processes required to maintain security compliance? This has to be done, along with vetting new code and detecting breaches and circumventions of policy.

  7. Re:Internet filters are a joke ... on Sites Blocked By Smartfilter, Censored in Saudi Arabia · · Score: 1
    SHE: Candace Lightner. It would be amusing if Mothers Against Drunk Driving had been started by a man, for sure.

    Furthermore, deaths by drunk drivers have decreased quite significantly since MADD started.

    Post hoc. Anyway, I think there is correlation there due to a change in attitudes wrought by MADD, but that doesn't mean MADD gets a perpetual pass for all their activities.

  8. Re:Why do these exist on T-Mobile Jumping Into the Check-Cashing Industry · · Score: 1

    To the low-information-voter who modded me down: look up "New Agency proposed to oversee Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae" in the Sept. 11, 2003 NYT and Barney Frank's press release from September 8, 2008.

  9. Re:I deciphered it last month. on Voynich Manuscript May Have Originated In the New World · · Score: 3, Interesting

    1 Corinthians 1:18

  10. Re:Why do these exist on T-Mobile Jumping Into the Check-Cashing Industry · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Guess what? Those are pretty much impossible to get, due to Dodd-Frank. Dodd-Frank commits age discrimination, by prohibiting legal adults from obtaining credit cards unless they meet income requirements that are impossible to obtain for most young people, especially students.

    Now you know who to thank when our society is a race of paupers: a guy who got a sweetheart deal on a loan from Countrywide in exchange for ignoring their fraudulent bookkeeping, and a guy who claimed the Republicans were responsible for the housing bubble bursting while he was the one opposing Fannie/Freddie reforms in the mid 2000s.

  11. Re:Why do these exist on T-Mobile Jumping Into the Check-Cashing Industry · · Score: 1

    Let them eat cake?

  12. Re: healthcare.gov or Nieman Marcus on Hacker Says He Could Access 70,000 Healthcare.Gov Records In 4 Minutes · · Score: 1

    And THAT is how the federation dies. The federal government de facto can tell the states what to do by setting up situations to ensure the people will suffer if they do not obey-- and said people will blame the states, and welcome more federal government control.

  13. Re:Government! on Hacker Says He Could Access 70,000 Healthcare.Gov Records In 4 Minutes · · Score: 0

    You guys didn't complain when the Apollo Alliance (project of the Tides Center, tool of leftist market manipulator George Soros) wrote the stimulus bill. That was a "private sector" project. And it wasted billions on failing companies, and caused tens of thousands of running, inexpensive used vehicles that poor people could have used to be crushed so that smug rich people could buy Priuses.

  14. Re:Before they patch the hole on Hacker Says He Could Access 70,000 Healthcare.Gov Records In 4 Minutes · · Score: 1

    It's all asterisks. See?
    hunter2

  15. Re:Internet filters are a joke ... on Sites Blocked By Smartfilter, Censored in Saudi Arabia · · Score: 1

    We should have blocked MADD decades ago. They're so off base now that their founder is their harshest critic. They're a temperance union.

  16. Re:Erm, the 3DS on How Can Nintendo Recover? · · Score: 1

    xobx si hueg, LOL

  17. Re:Erm, the 3DS on How Can Nintendo Recover? · · Score: 1

    I'm sure the NSA has already passed on this information to the Army's R&D department.

  18. Re:Erm, the 3DS on How Can Nintendo Recover? · · Score: 1

    Is your definition of a flop "didn't have #1 runaway sales numbers for every quarter it was offered"?

  19. Two grand can get you a pretty nice sound system, big enough to fill a medium to large living room, and a 50" 1080p screen. You might have enough left over to buy an easy chair, or quite a few months of Netflix or Hulu.

  20. Re:More distressing than apathy on Americans To FCC Chair: No Cell Calls On Planes, Please · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the totally unneeded history lesson. I knew all that, but if it made you feel better to totally restate my post, then God or Spaghetti-Monster bless you. I was focusing on the response to the survey, not the impetus for it.

  21. Re:Show me a climate model for the past 16 years on Global-Warming Skepticism Hits 6-Year High · · Score: 1

    Yes they do, if they want to insist on driving public policy like the current blowhards we have to deal with.

  22. Re:This isn't helping... on Global-Warming Skepticism Hits 6-Year High · · Score: 1

    You might want to crack a dictionary sometime.

  23. Re:Of course it is here to stay on Senator Dianne Feinstein: NSA Metadata Program Here To Stay · · Score: 1

    Cuz Clinton was a Republican.

    Welfare needed reforming. He was smart enough to cut something, instead of just raising taxes. Regardless, it was remarkable and unusual.

  24. Re:Of course it is here to stay on Senator Dianne Feinstein: NSA Metadata Program Here To Stay · · Score: 1

    Unemployment benefits have been extended from 26 weeks to 99 weeks. You have a funny idea of "rolled back".

  25. Re:Well, at least they are honest on Senator Dianne Feinstein: NSA Metadata Program Here To Stay · · Score: 1

    Riddle me this, Batman: Why didn't the NSA stop the Target data breach?

    For most of the same reasons police ignore people who warn about suspicious activity, and just show up after the crime's been committed to document the tragedy and blame the victims.