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  1. Re:In case you missed it on Forensic Experts Say Screams Were Not Zimmerman's · · Score: 3, Informative

    If by "feeling threatened", you mean getting your skull bashed against a sidewalk, then yes, it means it OK to kill the person doing the bashing.

    Actually it does not mean it is OK to kill the person doing the bashing. In California as well as Florida, if you START the confrontation you have no right to claim self defense.

  2. Gives new meaning to the question: on Millions In China Live In Energy Efficient Caves · · Score: 0

    Do you live in a cave?

  3. Re:Quite the opposite the opposite on U.S. Missile Defense Against Iran Makes China/Russia Mad, Might Not Even Work · · Score: 1

    Why such an incomplete list? Do you think you are fooling anyone by leaving off the rest?
    For example Obama is clearly responsible for the recent solar storms!

  4. Re:Quite the opposite the opposite - OT on U.S. Missile Defense Against Iran Makes China/Russia Mad, Might Not Even Work · · Score: 1

    Now now, please get back into your crib and stop bothering the adults.

  5. Re:The people will be the ones who suffer on Iran Deleted From the World's Banking Computers · · Score: 2

    "We should leave them be with the warning that the next attack will be the last thing they do as a people."

    What 'next attack'? We were never attacked by the people of Afghanistan. I would wager that most of them don't even know why we are occupying their country.

  6. Re:You don't say on George "geohot" Hotz Arrested In Texas For Posession of Marijuana · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I take it you are doing better than those people, because they are stupid and you are not?

  7. Re:Expensive on Pentagon Wants Disposable War Satellites · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We don't even know who the 'bad guys' are when they are sitting next to us, how the hell are we going to tell them from low earth orbit?
    Besides, what good does it do when we are the bad guys? Do we start shooting ourselves? (Might actually be a good idea).

  8. Re:Not because he believed, but because he recruit on Lawsuit Claims NASA Specialist Was Fired Over Intelligent Design Belief · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Here are some interesting answers to the interesting questions you did not pose:

    The Colorado Plateau slopes north to south, so a rush of water appearing in north east Arizona that might have formed the Grand Canyon would rush south into Mexico and not west to the Gulf of California.

    If the speed of the water was enough to carry it west to cut the Grand Canyon, the canyon would be straight since momentum carries water in a straight line, but the Grand Canyon is sinuous like a normal river canyon.

    The Grand Canyon has very many side canyons tending north-south that are cut all the way down to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. A high speed rush of water to the west could not cut north-south side canyons.

    Just say'n.

  9. What does this sentence mean? on Antibiotics Are Useless In Treating Most Sinus Infections · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "there was no significant difference in symptoms between patients taking amoxicillin to those who took the placebo three days after starting the pills were administered."

  10. Re:My grandpa wasn't a monkey, or pond scum! on Did Life Emerge In Ponds Rather Than Ocean Vents? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "He really doesn't like it ..."

    And you learned this how? Like all of the rest of the religious morons you think you know what God wants? It is people like you that will burn in hell if there really is a God.

  11. Re:Child pornography is not an excuse on Against Online Surveillance? You Must Be 'For' Child Porn, Says Legislator · · Score: 1

    If he gave us access we would know more specifically what kind of lying jackass he is, what problem do you have with that?

  12. We call the anonymous cowards like you.

  13. Re:You're a douche on Ask Slashdot: Where Are the Open Source Jobs? · · Score: 1

    God I wish it was that simple. For example, I am currently caught in an upgrade hell as I try to upgrade ruby, rails and postgresql.

    I think plan B is looking better and better: jam an icepick through my eye into my brain.

  14. Re:You're a douche on Ask Slashdot: Where Are the Open Source Jobs? · · Score: 1

    Exactly. And on top of that, as a long-time MS programmer that is trying to make the transition to linux, it and it's applications are so fragmented that when I have to upgrade some component it practically makes me want to vomit.

  15. And preditor drones? on FAA Bill Authorizes Surveillance Drones Over US · · Score: 0

    How long before they are circling overhead?

  16. Re:WTF submitter?! on U.S. Navy Receives First Industry Built Railgun Prototype · · Score: 0

    Choose not to learn what, how to kill people?
    Why should the poster remember that when commenting on assault rifles etc?
    And when the hell is a belief system 'narrow minded' because they didn't study killing people?
    Your post is absurd on so many levels it is scary.

  17. Re:Two-dimensional? on Researchers Create Glass Just 3 Atoms Thick · · Score: 4, Informative

    From a post by the author at TFA:
    "Inside some of these technically 3D ultrathin materials, the electrons behave like their world is two dimensional."

  18. Re:If only trees could talk on 3,500 Year Old Florida Tree Dies of Natural Causes · · Score: 1

    Wow, you sure get a lot of first posts. Are you retired?

  19. Re:Human rights violation? on Pentagon Drafts Kids To Build Drones and Robots · · Score: 0

    Excellent! Let the slaughter begin!

  20. Re:"Largely Workable" on Autonomous Vehicles and the Law · · Score: 1

    Or, like a friend of mine says, "If you don't like the way I drive stay off the sidewalk!".

  21. Let me take a stab at this: on Ubuntu 12.04 To Include Head-Up Display Menus · · Score: 1

    Within 2 weeks most of the people trying to use this will be choking on their own vomit.

  22. Re:I would rather.... on Mutant Flu Researchers Declare a Time Out · · Score: 1

    What difference does it make if the wild variety has no chance to mutate to the human-engineered form? The people are making this extremely dangerous variety who's escape could kill millions of people. And the upside to creating this dangerous virus is what exactly? You don't know, but are already OK with letting the experiment continue?

  23. The sky is unbelievable in the total dark. on Town Turns Off the Lights To See the Stars · · Score: 4, Interesting

    About 35 years ago I got the chance to sail to Hawaii from San Francisco in a small (31') sail boat. Believe me, when you are 1000 miles from the nearest light the night sky is astounding. It is very obvious why the ancient people put so much stock in the night sky: it hangs over you like a presence you can feel.
    More recently I used to go to Death Valley for a good night sky, but that is becoming increasingly problematic. Even when there is no moon, there is so much light from Las Vegas and Los Angeles it looks like the moon about to rise (in two places!). *snif*

  24. My only beef: on The Coming Tech Battle Over 'Smart TVs' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Where's the content? I would rather watch a good show in black and white that watch the current drivel in 3D surround sound motion enhanced smell augmented life like blah blah blah.

  25. Re:Cavernous Divide? Seriously? on New Group Paves Way For 2012 Online Primary · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    >GWB didn't have ``Fast and Furious''
    You might try to do a little research before you make up a post like this.
    Check out project gunrunner:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal