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  1. Re:Oh no! on Wealth Therapy Tackles Woes of the Rich · · Score: 1

    There is no such party in the USA named the "Democrat" party. Spellcheck your talking points, Cletus.

    Pedantic much? A democrat is what we call people who vote for the Democratic Party in the US. Richard.

  2. Re:The science is settled on Freeman Dyson Talks Interstellar Travel, Climate Change, and More (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    He is wrong to challenge it.

    You sound like a religious nut job. Your religion is what scientists tell you to believe.

  3. Re:The Register on Freeman Dyson Talks Interstellar Travel, Climate Change, and More (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    > The Reg is shamelessly used to push these views.

    Exacty. That is why proposed laws against challenging settled science are so important. The scientists have already voted.

    Voting creates truth? Scientists lie all the time when someone pays them enough money. They are all whores but their honour varies in price.

  4. Re:Just on Cold Fusion Rears Ugly Head With Claims of Deuterium-Powered Homes · · Score: 1

    Warning: People denying the existence of robots may be robots themselves.

    How many pints have you had tonight? I tried to do the golden triangle in DC but I only made it to 5 pints and three shots of vodka. It was the vodka at the Russian Disco that did me in.

  5. Re:Canada has already rejected it on Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached · · Score: 1

    The outgoing Communist Party of Canada (CPC) made the deal AFTER the election writ was dropped.

    The incoming NDP and Liberals have already announced they will walk away from the TPP.

    Dead trade deal.

    By the way, this will cost the US 500,000 jobs. Are you sure it's "such a good deal"?

    You mean Conservative party as it real fiscal conservatism instead of that Republican crap you have in the US. The NDP are communists and the Liberals are socialist.

  6. Re:GPLv3 - the kiss of death on FLIF: Free Lossless Image Format · · Score: -1, Troll

    Not at all. The goal of free software is that users should have freedom.

    Try to get this through your thick Asperger head. Most users are not developer and have zero interest in source code.

    End users care about the following:
    1. Usability.
    2. Stability.
    3. Frequent updates to their software.

    Until the Aspies in FOSS realize what I user is, their software will be shunned by the majority of users.

    End users do not give a crap about your philosophy or your ego. What they care about is good software.

    If you are developing an open standard, the polite thing to do would be to provide a BSD licensed reference implementation because your goal should be to promote your format and not your egos or infect other software with your license.

  7. Re: Preventing communication is evil. on The Man Who Invents Languages For a Living · · Score: 2

    That's why we Republicans invent languages all the time: because we're evil. We want you to lose your ability to communicate so nobody will heed your pleas for help. As you starve to death, watching your loved ones suffer without even some words of comfort, we will gloat from our Tower of Neo Babel, mocking your plight. Because we hate you and that's the way of our kind.

    I am pretty sure politically correct "New Speak" is an invention of the left to dumb down the public and make it impossible to express yourself clearly. For example "Xe, xir" and other bullshit.

  8. Re:House loses most staunch Democrat on Speaker of the House Boehner Announces Resignation · · Score: 1, Insightful

    President Obama took a page out of the Clinton Playbook by making the Republican agenda his own.

    • Capturing Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan? Checked.

    Sorry but what did Obama do to accomplish that? Was the capture not based on an ongoing operation started during the bush administration? I think the credit should go to the CIA analysis and Seal team 6 and not the sitting president.

  9. House loses most staunch Democrat on Speaker of the House Boehner Announces Resignation · · Score: 2, Informative

    He might have been Republican in name but seemed to vote more like a democrat.

  10. How was the survey conducted? on US Rank Drops To 55th In 4G LTE Speeds · · Score: 1

    Here in Canada, I am getting 27.7 Mbps down and 22 Mbps UP on Rogers on LTE and then there are areas of the city with LTE-Advanced.

  11. Re:That's OK on Delete, Dump and Destroy: Canada's Government Data Severely Compromised · · Score: 1

    in 29 days we're tossing Harper and his religious doomsday-cult Luddites into the dumpster of history.

    I hope.

    So you are going to replace Harper with either an angry socialist or someone who sucks up to anti-semetic muslim extremists?

    Why don't you go back to making lattes for your customers barrista?

    The NDP is a full member socialists international along with various communist parties around the world.

    Justin Trudeau cannot answer hard questions from reporters. He recently had an on air meltdown while being interviewed by CTV on the east coast.

  12. Re:Just wait for UltraHD streaming. on Broadband Users 'Need' At Least 10Mbps To Be Satisfied · · Score: 1

    I disagree. I recall hearing that an UltraHD stream of decent quality requires 20-50Mbps. Netflix is already offering a pilot UltraHD service, but the specifically require that you have 100Mbps connection.

    So I personally think, one way or another the geekdom and nerddom will move onto 100Mbps broadband eventually. At the same time, I fail to see a genuine "must have" application for the gigabit broadband in most homes.

    I have 4k Netflix. You only need a 20Mbps or faster dedicated service. I have watch both 4k Netflix and and UltraFlix movie rentals on my 25Mbps (26Mbps actual) connection. It helps to be near the downtown core network office and have fibre to the building.

  13. Re:10 Mbps on Broadband Users 'Need' At Least 10Mbps To Be Satisfied · · Score: 1

    I have about 3.5 Mbps and I can watch MLB.TV as well. Gets choppy if my kid jumps onto Netflix or Youtube though.

    This sounds like a dick competition where you are measuring to see who has the smallest one. You appear to be the winner.

    I have 26Mbps so I can watch 4K Netflix and Ultraflix.

  14. Re:Some comments on Alabama Will Require Students To Learn About Evolution, Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Why don't you READ about the actual causes, of which there are multiple causes/factor instead of spouting off nonsense to drive your agenda?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Not sure what you are trying to say. By far most scientists in the field agree that we have Anthropogenic Global Warming, like most scientists support evolution over creationism. Some (but mostly not scientists in the field) are still clinging to alternate possible explanations for global warming (like for evolution vs creationism). The Wikipedia link doesn't really say otherwise, but Wikipedia is a really bad source for hot topics like this, where we know there is significant activism and paid spin.

    Not sure who you are trying to argue with but I think you are twisting the fact that various scientists theorize that human activity has an impact on the climate but we are not the biggest factor. We could not stop an ice age or warming trend no matter how hard we tried short of using nukes.

  15. Re:Some comments on Alabama Will Require Students To Learn About Evolution, Climate Change · · Score: 1

    if we're gonna ask permission to teach about scientific topics that people may not 'believe' in, then we need to begin asking permission to teach any science at all.

    It's science. Belief isn't required. Quite the opposite.

    But you want us to believe in the idea that humans are the main cause of climate change?

  16. Re:Some comments on Alabama Will Require Students To Learn About Evolution, Climate Change · · Score: 1
    Why don't you READ about the actual causes, of which there are multiple causes/factor instead of spouting off nonsense to drive your agenda?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  17. Re:Some comments on Alabama Will Require Students To Learn About Evolution, Climate Change · · Score: 1
    Why don't you READ about the actual causes, of which there are multiple causes/factor instead of spouting off nonsense to drive your agenda?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Humans cannot stop climate change.

  18. Cancelling my Sub if they do this. on Netflix Is Becoming Just Another TV Channel · · Score: 1

    What kind of idiots do they have running things over there?

  19. Re:And so the rise of the machines, yippie. on IBM 'TrueNorth' Neuro-Synaptic Chip Promises Huge Changes -- Eventually · · Score: 2

    So which shall it be? Cylons or Skynet?

    Original Cylons or Reboot? In the end both Skynet and the Reboot Cylons ended up nuking humanity. So it is 6 of one or half a dozen of another.

  20. Re: Right to travel...? on US No-Fly List Uses 'Predictive Judgement' Instead of Hard Evidence · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that nasty Obama. He created DHS and the TSA and all these lists...

    Oh, wait. He didn't do that. Bush did that.

    Doesn't mean I think it's right because I don't. I do think you don't know what you're talking about though.

    So let me get this straight, you are blaming a president who has not been in power for almost two terms? Are you saying that while Bush was capable of creating those agencies, Obama was powerless to change anything for the better?

  21. Re:Where have I heard this before... on Finnish Politician Suggests Embedding Chips In Citizens To Protect the Welfare State · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about? So you are now blaming god for the actions of man?

    Well, He created us in his image, didn't he? So yeah, it's on Him.

    You atheists are hilarious.

    I'm not an atheist.

    The devil destroyed our relationship with god and each other.

    Yes, by eating an apple and having sex. What a childish and limited view of God you have. Big Voice In The Sky who will destroy His relationship with you if you happen to do what He created you to do. That's what you get for basing your entire understanding of God on second and third-hand sources.

    The irony of your statements are delicious. The manuscripts of the new testament are close enough to the generation of people who would have witnessed the events that we should conclude that the first copies were written down within a decade or two from those events either by the witnesses themselves or by a scribe transcribing their testimonies. We also have the epistle letters to the churches written by the apostles themselves to congregations around asia minor. Name any other faith where manuscripts exist from within a century of the events described let alone decades. The epistle letters again where written within a decade of the start of the church.

    The reason why I say the irony is delicious is that you seem to have missed the fundamental theme of the bible where we are called to approach god as his children. That requires you to not approach god like this "Hi God, this is George here and I think I have most of my stuff under control myself and I just need a favour from you....". God is not our butler, our next door neighbour we borrow garden tool from or anything else like that. The fact that we can approach god as his children is a gift of grace.

    The bible account does not specifically call the fruit out as an apple and sex in the garden is something that you have interpreted. The account seems to indicate that they suddenly became aware of their nakedness and covered themselves not that they jumped each others bones. They were hiding from God when he came into the garden looking for them. They were in a state of shock.

    You see, they had lost their innocence and they realized that they broke the one rule that god had given them and that brought them shame. That act of broken trust caused a rift between man and god that god himself had to come down to fix.

    I think you need to go back and reread the bible. It is a story about the creator trying to have a relationship with his creation like a father tries to have a relationship with his prodigal son.

    The story of the prodigal son illustrates how God feels about us.

  22. Re:Pedophiles also on Finnish Politician Suggests Embedding Chips In Citizens To Protect the Welfare State · · Score: 2

    Bible allows men to marry female children, including via force.

    Deuteronomy ch 22, v 28-29, hebrew.

    Ofcourse the cunt politician would be for the chips and against the pedos.

    This culture needs to be overthrown.

    What crack are you smoking? It says that if a man sleeps with a virgin and they are found out, he has to pay the family reparations, marry her and never divorce her. That implies that he is not only has to pay money as penalty but loses the right to refuse marriage to her and the right to divorce her at at later time.

    I don't think you understand the context of that scenario. Men were allowed to divorce their wives and women had few rights in that society. A divorced woman was extremely vulnerable economically.

    That guy is held accountable for that woman/girl for the rest of his life. They did not have a welfare state back then.

  23. Re:Where have I heard this before... on Finnish Politician Suggests Embedding Chips In Citizens To Protect the Welfare State · · Score: 1

    To be honest, if the Devil does it and God doesn't, I rather side with The Devil. But that is just a personal preference (that will be downvoted by people who disagree with how I think.)

    This is a good point. If you've read your Bible, you see that God does a lot more horrible things to people than the Devil does.

    There is good reason to wonder about the other side of the story.

    What are you talking about? So you are now blaming god for the actions of man?

    You atheists are hilarious. The devil destroyed our relationship with god and each other.

  24. If dog can be micro-chipped without ethical problem, humans could be, too.

    Ok, so don't have a problem then if you get stripped naked, put on a leash and chain and left outside with a bowl of water and dry dog food then?

  25. Re:Or for Republicans,... on Chemical Treatment Transforms Skin Cells Into Neurons · · Score: 0

    it transfers them back into their basic state, morons.

    Don't you mean democrats? You love Hillary even if she was killing people in the streets. You would vote for Hillary no matter what.