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  1. Re:Awesome on Huffington: Trolls Uglier Than Ever, So We're Cutting Off Anonymous Commenting · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The number of Americans who have a clue about such things is vanishingly small, and they are vastly outnumbered by those who don't *want* Americans to know such things.

  2. Re:Yeah, that's just what the world needs on Aging Is a Disease; Treat It Like One · · Score: 1

    How wonderful it must be for you, to love death more than I love life.

  3. Re:Yeah, that's just what the world needs on Aging Is a Disease; Treat It Like One · · Score: 1

    And refusing to call age a disease is a rhetorical manipulation.

    The relevant question is whether you want people to live, or people to die.

  4. Re: Yeah, that's just what the world needs on Aging Is a Disease; Treat It Like One · · Score: 1

    Our blood will pave the way to the future!

  5. Re:Yeah, that's just what the world needs on Aging Is a Disease; Treat It Like One · · Score: 1

    Yay, Death! The Savior of us all!

  6. Re:Yeah, that's just what the world needs on Aging Is a Disease; Treat It Like One · · Score: 1

    What the World, needs now, is Death, sweet Death, it's the only thing, that there's just, too little of.

  7. Re:or Obama could follow the laws he proposes on Court: NRC In Violation For Not Ruling On Yucca Mountain · · Score: 1

    Or the Obama administration could you know, follow the law.

    No, I think they're simply unable to follow the law.

  8. Re:Basis for discrimination on US IT Worker Files Hiring Lawsuit Against Infosys, Class Action Proposed · · Score: 2

    You can be perfectly socially adept but simply revolted by the hypocrisy and dishonesty required in many organizations. As a species, developers are just less willing to go with the herd and spout bullshit they don't believe.

  9. Re:Basis for discrimination on US IT Worker Files Hiring Lawsuit Against Infosys, Class Action Proposed · · Score: 1

    Yes, there are supposed to be legal requirements to using H1B visas. There might be some question of whether a US worker has standing to sue based on abuse of H1B visas for jobs they applied for, but could be. I don't care how the case turns out as much as seeing the results of discovery.

  10. Re: FBI director reports to Clapper, Obama on Half of Tor Sites Compromised, Including TORMail · · Score: 0

    "Black people" sounds weird to me, as does "white people". "Blacks" and "whites" sounds fine to me.

  11. Re:Verbal abuse and physical abuse ... on Kernel Dev Tells Linus Torvalds To Stop Using Abusive Language · · Score: 1

    I nominate you as this year's Thug of the Year.

    People who preach that there is no difference between words and bullets deserve to learn the difference first hand.

  12. Re:Depends on the energy source duh! on Electric Vehicles Might Not Benefit the Environment After All · · Score: 1

    The engines themselves aren't 100% efficient. www.fueleconomy.gov says 60% from the socket, not counting transmission line losses.

  13. Re:impossible on Larry Ellison Rejuvenating Hawaii's Sixth-Largest Island (Which He Owns) · · Score: 1

    because corporations have no ethics or morals other than the profit motive - all other things and people are secondary.

    Equivalently, governments have no ethics or morals but the power motive, which I find a much more dangerous motive than profit.

  14. unintended consequences on Proposed Rule Would Drastically Restrict Chimp Research · · Score: 1

    What this likely does is increase the cost of owning *any* chimp, for *any* purpose, including conservation, in the US. And decrease the benefit.

    Most will be sold off abroad where the laws aren't so stringent. The conservationist sympathizers will feel all warm and fuzzy about themselves, because all the chimps *they see* will be "retired", but most of the chimps affected end up with worse lives.

  15. Re:Killing Politicians on Proposed Rule Would Drastically Restrict Chimp Research · · Score: 1

    Conflicting goals means the guy who disagrees with you is evil?

  16. people are attracted to hot scantily clad women on Sexism Still a Problem At E3 · · Score: 2

    Male or female, makes no difference. Women's magazines sell with pictures of women. Men's magazines sell with pictures of women.

    Feminist ideology says people are sinful for being attracted to women, and capitalists are especially sinful for capitalizing on this fact. But if you don't happen to share their religion, there's nothing to see here but a brute fact of human preferences that no one needs to feel shame over.

  17. contact the original company on Ask Slashdot: What To Do When Another Dev Steals Your Work and Adds Their Name? · · Score: 1

    Either they're dicks, or they're not.

    Point out that you've received the new source code in interviews, with inaccurate notices about who wrote the code. Doesn't look good for you, doesn't look good for them. Suggest they make the notations accurate. Either they'll be dicks, or they won't.

    If your former company is full of dicks, you've just got a problem. I'd still claim credit. Most companies won't have access to those files anyway. For those who do, and confront you with it, offer to explain the code, if you remember it well enough. "I wrote that, I remember it, I can tell you about it. They probably just weren't thinking when they rewrote the notice."

    Don't get mad. Don't condemn the company. Honestly say what you did, and offer evidence to the effect. References who can vouch for the details of your work are ideal in this situation.

    You don't want to show conflict with a former employer. Minimize the appearance of one, while claiming credit for what you did.

  18. Re:Do humans cause birth defects and disease as we on Fear of Death Makes People Into Believers (of Science) · · Score: 1

    Being separated from God is, in fact, a consequence of some decisions that were made by humans a long time ago... so yes, humans did cause that.

    There's that good old fashioned justice of Yahweh - punish the children for the sins of the parnets, to the umpteenth generation.

  19. Re:Do humans cause birth defects and disease as we on Fear of Death Makes People Into Believers (of Science) · · Score: 1

    Are you promoting a Church-based 10% income tax (otherwise known as a "tithe") on top of what the State takes,

    The State is the Church, at least here in the US. Tithing much higher than 10%, with tens of thousands of pages of commandments in the Federal Register alone.

  20. Re:Observation: on Fear of Death Makes People Into Believers (of Science) · · Score: 1

    God created people for one of two purposes - worshiping him, or being tortured forever.

    Sounds exactly like what an all powerful psychopath would do.

  21. Re:Am I missing something? on Dell's New X18: 5 Pounds, 18 Inches · · Score: 1

    Or the price will come down *a lot* if it doesn't catch on.

  22. Re:It is truly sad... on Activist Admits To Bugging US Senate Minority Leader · · Score: 1

    The Left is much more chummy with Iran than the Right. True to form, with the communist totalitarians in the dustbin of history, Islamic totalitarianism is the new darling of the left. Back to the Cave theocratic totalitarianism - now that's Progress!

  23. Re:It is truly sad... on Activist Admits To Bugging US Senate Minority Leader · · Score: 1

    They don't get cheered for much now, now. But back when it mattered? You bet.

    Just like eugenics. All the rage with the left in the early 20th century. After the Nazis get crushed - not so much.

  24. Re:It is truly sad... on Activist Admits To Bugging US Senate Minority Leader · · Score: 1

    Vote Progressives - We're Not as Bad as Stalin.

  25. Re:ATT is forcing users onto Uverse on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Future of Old Copper Pair Technology? · · Score: 1

    More support work for Dad!