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  1. Re:So on Scientists Locate Sunken, Radioactive Aircraft Carrier Off California Coast · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Polyester leisure suits. Paul Williams. "Song of the South". Asbestos. Smoking. Thalidomide. As it has always been, and as it will always be.

    What's wrong with Song of the South? Are you one of this lilly livered liberals who like to ignore and whitewash the past so that nobody can learn from it?

  2. Does it have the ability to let teenagers play the Game "Global Thermonuclear War"?

    And the backdoor password "Joshua".

  3. Re:Of course that Republican bitch... on Reddit CEO Ellen Pao Bans Salary Negotiations To Equalize Pay For Men, Women · · Score: 1, Insightful

    doesn't want labor t be able to negotiate higher pay. Their kind hates us and wants us to die. She is so Republican. She thinks we have no rights.

    Really? She sounds more like a Democrat to me. I thought the mantra of the Democrat party was equality through mediocrity?

  4. Re:Proper, fair punishment on How Ubiquiti Networks Is Creatively Violating the GPL · · Score: 0

    Shouldn't that be to give head to Stallman? Having to put your face in his unwashed, lice-infested bush would be a fitting punishment.

    The problem is that nobody would be able to find his member. In fact, he has not seen his penis in years.

  5. Re:It's rape Jim, but not as we know it on How Ubiquiti Networks Is Creatively Violating the GPL · · Score: 0

    The GPL was violated. Doesn't matter how they did it.

    The GPL is rape in license form. Viral infection of the GPL sounds like an STD left behind by a rapist.

  6. Re:Redundant measures on Court Mulls Revealing Secret Government Plan To Cut Cell Phone Service · · Score: 1

    Now might be a good time to invest in CB Radios or a HAM license and station.

    The only laws that would exist under that situation would be those that can be enforced at gunpoint. A license for HAM equipment would be the least of your worries.

  7. Dietrich Bonhoeffer died in prison for conscience on Carly Fiorina Calls Apple's Tim Cook a 'Hypocrite' On Gay Rights · · Score: 1

    Basically some of you are saying that you would have sided with the third reich instead of someone like Bonhoeffer? He died in prison for refusing to go along with teachings that he found reprehensible. He took a stand against tyranny and paid for it with his life.

  8. Re:Saudi Arabia, etc. on Carly Fiorina Calls Apple's Tim Cook a 'Hypocrite' On Gay Rights · · Score: 1

    Are you aware the the law prior to the amendments made no mention of gays at all? It was basically, a right to refuse service based on your conscience. You support discrimination of people of conscience apparently. So you supported the nazis and opposed Dietrich Bonhoeffer? He died in prison for refusing to service the nazi agenda to force churches to teach pro-nazi propaganda.

  9. Another "progressive" wants to limit freedom. on Al Franken Urges FBI To Prosecute "Revenge Porn" · · Score: 0

    The left seem to have a lot of fascist tendencies of late.

  10. Democrats are unmasked as fascists. on Sen. Feinstein Says Anarchist Cookbook Should Be "Removed From the Internet" · · Score: 0

    Democrat supporters like to call fascism as extreme right but an extreme right person would be for deregulation of the economy. NAZI = National Socialist Worker Party in German.

  11. A Pyrrhic victory for Nintendo. on Mario 64 Remake Receives a DMCA Complaint From Nintendo · · Score: 0

    Way to cause everyone to hate you Nintendo. I hope you enjoy your no-none sales of your rehashed products.

  12. A degree does not guarantee success. on Why America's Obsession With STEM Education Is Dangerous · · Score: 2
    A degree will not guarantee success and a school will not inspire creative genius. It is something that one has to develop early in life. Look at all of the geniuses who have transformed our technological world who either never attended university or dropped out of university.

    The problem with tech in numerous countries is that you are only hiring someone with a degree. Um, hello. A degree might be a somewhat safe predictor that the individual might have personal drive and ambition but that is about it. It does not predict whether they are creative or inspired but only that they can follow directions and regurgitate you teach them. They can certainly be a cog in the machine but there is no guarantee that they can lead and inspire others.

    Companies need to stop relying solely on recruiting agencies and HR department matrices to weed out potential candidates. You should consider experience. Why would a company keep someone around for a long time and put them in areas of great importance and responsibility if they did not have confidence in their abilities?

  13. Re: Another silly decision on The Mathematical Case For Buying a Powerball Ticket · · Score: 1

    The big difference between renting and buying is that instead of throwing away money to pay someone else's mortgage, you are building equity in your own property.

    Renting is not throwing away money. Where I live (Seattle) rents are easily less than half what your monthly mortgage would be to buy. If I take the extra cash and invest it somewhere else, I'll have more money from my investments than I would have equity from buying. And that's not even accounting for maintenance costs, which are the landlords responsibility when you rent.

    Depending on how much property values change and how rent compares with mortgage payments and maintenance, you could just as well say buying is throwing away money.

    Renting in most markets is throwing away money. You are forgetting that rents increase not only with inflation but with availability of vacancies. I switched from years of renting to owning last summer and I am paying around the same as I would for rent for the same condo but I am building equity and I live in the 2nd least affordable city on earth. If the price of renting is the same or less than mortgage payments then you are better off owning even if you are single. If you cannot stay in the same job for at least 2 years or same city then there is something seriously wrong with you. You should have at least a 5 year plan.

  14. Why is it that anecdotes are not data when we disagree with where the evidence points and they are when we don't?

    Who is doing that, are you you do that? Stop it if you are.

    You are so please stop.

  15. Re:Why bother with Estonia on Mooted: An Undersea Link From Finland To Estonia · · Score: 2

    Cut it over to .de or .dk, a real country.

    Because Finns and Estonians have a shared ancient history. Estonians are descendants of finnic tribes. Their language is very similar to Finnish.

  16. Re:Another silly decision on The Mathematical Case For Buying a Powerball Ticket · · Score: 1

    buying a home. Hasn't made sense since the 1970s. The social contract is broken, you no longer can rely on job security or a decent pension. Yet the banks still expect you to pay them on time. A home is a *liability*, not an investment.

    No, rent is a liability with no possible return on what you put in. Renting is for suckers and I wish that I had bought over a decade ago instead of renting all that time. I finally got into the property market and the assessed value of my condo has increased in just 6 months.

  17. Re: Another silly decision on The Mathematical Case For Buying a Powerball Ticket · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Definitely a good option in your case. In ours, we found a townhome that allows us to paint and do limited remodeling, and plant a garden. And if anything major goes wrong, we don't have to foot the bill. Oh, and there's rent control on the entire complex, so raising the rent is indexed against property taxes (meaning property tax would also be going up like this).

    Other than as a financial investment, I really can't see the reason for buying a condominium though -- you pay just as much, and own no land (but still have conditions you must agree to about property use).

    I'd buy land in a rural area if I could afford to live there -- but that's what retiring people tend to do, and it's bumping up the land value pretty much everywhere as the boomers retire.

    The big difference between renting and buying is that instead of throwing away money to pay someone else's mortgage, you are building equity in your own property. You do "own" a portion of the strata if you bought a "freehold" instead of a "leasehold". The latter is rent free for a period that is usually 99 years and after that date, you lose whatever value you had and have to enter into a lease with the land owner.

  18. Re:A better solution... on Smartphone Theft Drops After Spread of Kill Switches · · Score: 1
    Vermont and New Hampshire are pretty polite. Very low murder and gun murder rates. They have high gun ownership and no permits required to open or concealed carry.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...

  19. Re:Now what's Tyyrone going to do for a living? on Smartphone Theft Drops After Spread of Kill Switches · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hard to believe such a racist comment is posted from an account with positive karma, but even harder to believe this has been upvoted. WTF??

    Are you an American? That would explain your lack of sense of humour. It's called black humour and ironically your righteous indignation makes you sound racist to non-Americans. Get with this century already.

  20. Joh Stewart and Brian Williams going on tour on Jon Stewart Leaving 'The Daily Show' · · Score: 1

    The show will be called "Paul Bunyan and Me".

  21. Re:So they are back to steady state? on Quantum Equation Suggests Universe Had No Beginning · · Score: 1

    " people are not saying that the Genesis" That should read "people are now saying".

  22. Can climb stairs? Shit on Boston Dynamics Introduces Their Newest Four-Legged Robot, 'Spot' · · Score: 1

    With the Daleks, you could just climb some stairs to get away but not with these things.

  23. So they are back to steady state? on Quantum Equation Suggests Universe Had No Beginning · · Score: 0

    Ok, now the scientists are just fucking with everyone. They are angry that people are not saying that the Genesis account of creation matches the big bang and the end of the universe in revelation matches the big crunch so they want to go back to the old model.

  24. Re:Alien life on Craters Pop As NASA's Dawn Probe Approaches Ceres · · Score: 1

    Well, there are beliefs substantiated by mathematics and overwhelming statistics, and then there are beliefs substantiated by coercion and threats of everlasting hell fire and torture unless you behave properly.

    But you are still basing your belief on a combination of unsubstantiated (made up) constants and statistics deprived from those made up numbers. We only have one data point of planets with life, namely the earth. Everything in the Drake equation is fictitiously speculation.

  25. Re:Too bad about WWII on Does Showing a Horrific Video Serve a Legitimate Journalistic Purpose? · · Score: 1

    The world went to war against Germany to fight Nazism

    No. The world tolerated the Nazis. We went to their Olympics. We marveled their zeppelins. Their eugenics ideas were fairly debated in universities. We made business deals and traded heavily with them.

    The world went to war against their imperialism, not their policies. Don't pretend we actually gave a shit about their internal affairs. If they hadn't started a war, we'd have treated them like we treated China today.

    Fine, imperialism. ISIS has taken significant portions of two countries already and has vowed to conquer more. Should that not be enough to motivate the nations to crush them?