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  1. Re:Basic Science! on NASA Proposes Ending Voyager · · Score: 0

    Once again you prove the obvious, that stupidity is a renewable resource!

  2. Thats not the only problem on Credit card signatures: Useless? · · Score: 0

    A couple of years ago I was involved in developing a web store. After people had tested the site for three weeks, I tried my credit card and was rejected! When I contacted my card company they told me the card expiration date was wrong. When the developer examined his code he discovered it was reversing the month and year before asking for confirmation! This means that about 10 card processors never checked the card expiration date!

  3. How ironic on World's First Physics Processing Unit · · Score: 0

    Games become more successful the more they are based on reality.

    Politicians become more successful the more they avoid reality.

    Games: better than politicians?

    FredRated
    Stupidity: it's a renewable resource!

  4. Re:I used to work with Martin Taylor on Microsoft's Martin Taylor Responds · · Score: 0

    "He does have a really nasty habit of picking his nose ... and eating the booger."

    Studies have shown that people who do this have fewer allergies to the surrounding environment because the potential antigens have been introduced to their immune system in a non-threatening way.

  5. The poster is right on Images of Ocean Floor Show Effects of Tsunami · · Score: 0

    damage:
    1.loss or harm resulting from injury to person, property, or reputation.
    2.Harm or injury to property or a person, resulting in loss of value or the impairment of usefulness

    I don't think the ocean floor lost value or usefulness.

  6. Re:Let the Bush bashing begin! on U.S. Scientists Say They Are Told to Alter Finding · · Score: 0

    "In the last 15 years, the majority of most of these scientist's time has been spend under a Democratic president"

    And this relates to what exactly? Are you trying to tell us that this is another 'Clinton' (the source of all evil) problem?

    "Most scientists in FWS reported no such pressure"

    So, if I, say, kill 5 out of 15 people, it's OK because I didn't kill most of the people?

    Stupidity: it's a renewable resource!

  7. can terminator seeds terminate you? on Open-Source Technique for GM Crops · · Score: 0

    And then when a company selling terminator seeds to a third world country goes out of business, do the people in those countries just starve to death?

    Stupidity: it's a renewable resource!

  8. Re:wow on Tsunami Satellite Images · · Score: 0

    I guess Jesus was a weepy-feely liberal, because when asked if he was his brothers keeper he responded with the story of the good Samaritan.
    But then, in this so-called Christian nation, Jesus's teachings are rejected by the Christian right, as you just rejected them.

    I am an athiest, yet I believe more in what Jesus taught than most Christians. Go figure.

    Stupidity: it's a renewable resource!

  9. Re:How about a disappointment booth? on Setting up a High-Tech Language School? · · Score: 0

    But then, those who can, do.. Those who cant, teach

    That is a disgusting calumny that should never have been repeated. Without teachers we would still be at the level of flint knives and clubs.

    Besides that, your logic is crap and you need to go back to school.
    The statement logically means
    "If you can't do then you teach"
    It doesn't mean "If you teach then you couldn't do". These have different meanings, figure it out.

    Stupidity: it's a renewable resource!

  10. Re:Your faith in digital media is touching on Berkeley Researchers Analyze Florida Voting Patterns · · Score: 0

    The weakness of my paper verification is the loss of ananimity, but the signature could be deposited on a separate slip of paper, giving a 'checksum' of the ballots cast, or it could be on a tearoff slip that is torn off in the course of a recount if a recount is demanded before the ballots are destroyed.

  11. Your faith in digital media is touching on Berkeley Researchers Analyze Florida Voting Patterns · · Score: 0

    but magnetic storage media and electrons will always be maliable to the right electronic and software tools, it is the nature of the media.

    The paper trail is non-negotiable, and it is varified by having the voter sign the jurisdictions copy of their voting slip with the same signature they signed in with before it is deposited into the safe keeping of the bureacracy.

    This makes the bureacracy of the voting system the last weak link, and a formalized methodology of administering and monitoring the vote and the count must be developed and applied, because as the Supreme Court has sought to reminded us, Amendment XIV says

    "No State shall ... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws"

    and this can be translated to mean election jurisdictions must use uniform procedures. Let's get on with it, this is not rocket science.

    Stupidity: its a renewable resource!

  12. Your post is a window into your mind on Public Interest Groups Face Uphill Battle at WIPO Meeting · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    And ugly it is indeed.

    Stupidity: It's a renewable resourcee!

  13. How ironic on Dolphin Jumps Again with Artificial Fin · · Score: 0

    Isn't it in Japan where they have a sport of clubbing dolphins to death?

    Stupidity: it's a renewable resource

  14. Just one question on Richard Clarke on Cyberterrorism and Iraq · · Score: 0

    How many innocent people did you kill while you were over there? People that were no threat to you or your country?

  15. Have I got a deal for you! on U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft Resigns · · Score: 0

    Pst. Howd you like to buy a toll both I own on the Golden Gate Bridge? I'll let you have it for cheap! Call me at 800-555-1212! Good while supply lasts (did I mention I own several?)!

  16. Re:OMGWTFBBQ BUSH IS A CHEEEEETTTTUUURR on Evoting Problems in Ohio · · Score: -1, Troll

    The only thing needing a recount is your IQ, which you have now proved can be LESS THAN ZERO! And they thought it couldn't happen.

  17. Re:Big fucking deal on Evoting Problems in Ohio · · Score: 0

    Yep, everybody wins if we are all kept in the dark.

    Just how fucking stupid can you get? Real stupid, apparently.

  18. Re:Why not? on Round-Up Ready Coca Plants · · Score: 0

    So a few sturdy plants survived, then mutated.

    Actually, it's the 'mutated' plants that survive and become dominant when all of their competition is eliminated by our herbicides.

    Sexual reproduction (in plants thats pollination) always results in variations on the theme, and sometimes outright mutations, and when one of these has an advantage, like shrug off roundup, then bingo! Away we go!

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  19. It was engineered! on Round-Up Ready Coca Plants · · Score: 0

    It's called, repeat after me, e-v-o-l-u-t-i-o-n.
    It happens all the time, all around us, and is no mystery except to the ignorant.
    Bugs evolve to resist our pesticides, plants evolve to resist our herbicides, bacteria evolve to resist our antibiotics. It isn't rocket science, and it isn't explained by creationism.

    And it's easily understood by those that haven't discarded thinking as an option.

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  20. Re:Now, let's all have a big Slashdot group hug on Kerry Concedes Election To Bush · · Score: 0

    Yes we are lunatic-right and successful, but did our success only now happen? Didn't it also happen when we were more to the left? Or doesn't that count?

    (For the life of me I don't know why I make these posts, the willfully ignorant couldn't be convinced the sun was comming up at sunrise if they had convinced themselves it wasn't)

    As for Russia and China, they were successful until they wern't, and the same will apply here. You can't run large, continuos government deficits and trade imbalances forever. When China and Japan decide they will no longer prop up America we will collapse like a popped baloon, and all the prayers from the right will matter not.

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  21. Amen to that on Florida E-Voting Machine Fails · · Score: 0

    Like I told my mom, me and all my athiest buddies are praying this jerk is thrown out on his head

  22. Re:Bull$hit on 100,000 Civilians Dead in Iraq · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "Have any of them been deliberate? No."

    Right on! If I level city blocks to get at insurgents, not deliberately targeting civilians, I'm off the hook!!!

    Kill On!

    What part of mass murder don't you understand?

  23. Re:The skeptic's opinion: Number hard to calculate on 100,000 Civilians Dead in Iraq · · Score: 0

    "Every article about military firefights ends with a quote from some official saying how the Americans attacked mostly women, children, and the elderly."

    Maybe you could link to one of these claims. The only ones I have ever heard assured us that everybody killed was an insurgent, over and over and over. No civilians killed, only insurgents.

    What part of mass murder don't you understand?

  24. Re:The skeptic's opinion: Number hard to calculate on 100,000 Civilians Dead in Iraq · · Score: 0

    "The problem with liberals is that they are much more inclined to believe the enemies of the USA than they are to believe the leaders of the country"

    The problem with republiscums is they have their heads so far up their ass they can see out of their mouths.

    "there is more terrorism in the world now"
    At least you got that part right, but isn't this the opposite of what we were told was going to happen?

    What part of mass murder don't you understand?

  25. Re:The study is a lie and an extrapolation tsarkon on 100,000 Civilians Dead in Iraq · · Score: 0

    "This is a well times lie to fuck Bush."
    Excuse me, perhaps coherence on your part would make your post more respected, but not likely.

    Sean Penn? We don't no stinking Sean Penn, or your straw man assertions.
    Have the schools been rejecting republican students?
    Who ties your shoe laces in the morning?

    "This whole thing was done at Kerry's behest. This is a Kerry and Soros attempt to subject us to the will of the UN."

    Like I always say, fools should be allowed to speak so their foolishness will be known.

    "If you believe the lies and propaganda, especially timed news releases right before an election, you are a fool."

    No, you are a republican, which amounts to the same thing.

    An extrapolation is a well respected and heavily used mathematical tool. Of course, you and the rest of the republican accomplices to murder never got beyond 2+2=4, so I bet you didn't even understand the meaning of the word when you looked it up in the dictionary if you bothered to do that.