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  1. Re:Don't blame just the policy makers. on Internet Only 1% Porn · · Score: 1

    Porn is free speech like perjury is free speech

  2. Re:Diebold lobbied slashdot... on Worst Ever Security Flaw in Diebold Voting Machine · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They are still 200X more secure than previous systems. All you need to do is secure the loyalty of the precinct captain to get your boxes stuffed. It sure worked for JFK.

    Vote fraud is a sacrament in the Appalachians and in the inner cities. You don't an ID, you just need a name of someone you are sure will not vote.

  3. Re:Two things: on CIA Blogger Fired for Criticizing Torture Policy · · Score: 1

    It's practiced in the UK as well. For example:

    Caretaker Argus Filch: A pity they let the old punishment die... Was a time detention found you hanging by your thumbs in the dungeons... God, I miss the screaming.

  4. Re:Do you really mean that? on Western Union Blocking Money Transfers to Arabs · · Score: 1

    I have yet to see any President who can figure out the difference between a Republic and a Democracy. The whole concept completely befuddled Bush 1 and Clinton.

  5. Re:Do you really mean that? on Western Union Blocking Money Transfers to Arabs · · Score: 1

    Repeat after me: The most obvious answer is almost always the right answer.
    Repeat after me: People who can hardly fly Cessnas also cannot weave complicated and precisely timed conspiracies
    Repeat after me: "National Treasure" was not a documentary

  6. Re:Do you really mean that? on Western Union Blocking Money Transfers to Arabs · · Score: 1

    "So what do you call it when you allow pretend free elections, like in Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004?"

    Easy. The toys that inhabit the playground-like mind of the foot-stomping crazed moonbat. I didn't like it when Clinton won twice without a majority of the votes cast but I moved on like an adult should. I got a job, had kids and fished for trout even when my guy didn't win. It was easy. Try it.

    But before you go, let me taste your salty tears of feverish disappointment. Mmmmm.... delicious

  7. Re:Do you really mean that? on Western Union Blocking Money Transfers to Arabs · · Score: 1

    "And then what if they decide to pre-emptively invade the United States to neutralize this threat? "

    Bring it on. But first they need to get the US to agree to inspections and then wait for the US to blow off the inspections. And the US will have to inventory their supply of chemical and bio weapons and then refuse to account for it under UN rules.

    Which ain't going to happen. We need a better dictator than Bush to pull this off.

  8. Re:Do you really mean that? on Western Union Blocking Money Transfers to Arabs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You need to get out more. Your phobias are controlling your perception. Pretty soon, little George Bush's will be climbing out of your kitchen drawers with knives, seeking to slash your quilts and behead your stuffed animals. Little Bush gnomes will be prancing gaily through your lawn, pawing and raping the snapdragons.

    Repeat after me: Terrorism is when you fly planes into skyscrapers, not when you allow free elections. Turn off your television and use your mind. That's why it is there.

  9. Re:Inevitable Discovery on Canadian Scientists Regrow Teeth · · Score: 2, Funny

    Big deal. It's been done. I saw it in a Harry Potter movie. Growing bones is a nasty business.

  10. Re:Unions on The Making of a Motherboard at ECS · · Score: 1

    " I'd argue that China's workers would be better off if they did form unions."

    Yeah, that union might help you get a better price for your kidney when you are in that labor camp for sedition.

  11. Re:Chinese work conditions on The Making of a Motherboard at ECS · · Score: 1

    "Unions are more necessary than ever if we want all Americans to share in the prosperity that their hard work has created through productivity growth."

    I pay the union every pay period so the union leaders can drive BMW's and vacation in luxury condos owned by the union. They protect me from being fired when I break a rule. When we go on strike, the union swears it doesn't have any money even though we have been paying into the system for decades. If I ask too many questions, I lose my job.

    How does this help me share in prosperity?

  12. OK I'm lost on Man Arrested for Wireless Piggybacking · · Score: 1

    Isn't this like complaining because people are smelling your coffee without buying anything? The coffee shop left the connection open for the use of its customers. To make it simple, they made if freely available to all. They didn't charge for the service. This guy simply takes advantage of that.

    The coffee shop was handing out free internet. This guy was using the free internet. If they didn't want people to use it outside the store, they should have confined it to the store by using a lockdown or aluminum foil wallpaper or something.

    I'm surprised someone hasn't sued them for beaming cancerous rays in their head that control their thoughts as they walk by.

  13. Bout time on All D&D Books To Be Available As PDFs · · Score: 1

    Goldang, slap my ass and call me Sally. This is better than a fried pickle at the fair. I won't have to carry that crap aroun in the truck no more. When Wally wants to throw one a them spells at Bobby Lee, he won't have to find all 'em books. He kin jus pull it up on the tv screen. It won't take so long to wallop poor ole Bobby Lee's little wimpy ass troll back to garage door with my cipherin double-ought spell from my old fearsome ass-kickin chicken. Course, we won't get as drunk no more cause it won't take as long. Price of progress I reckon.

  14. Check the House Rules on Finding Programming Work on the Side? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I work for the State and we are not allowed to work another job in the same field. I have no idea why or how it would be enforced. I thought about taking my 6 weeks of vacation and going to Iraq as a contractor. Great money. But the university stomped it flat, especially since I was on their insurance. I can understand that.

    So I do volunteer web work for no-profits.

  15. Give them what they really want on A Database for the Office? · · Score: 1

    Create mySQL databases and teach them how to use Excel and Access as the front end.

  16. Re:Why is that Jack on Games Seized Following Murder · · Score: 1

    Exactly, we didn't call him Batty Jack for nothing. He's a media whore of the worst kind.

  17. Re:Wow on Nintendo Learns from Mistakes with GameCube · · Score: 1

    My son bought one for $70 used at GameStop. It's a great mindless arcade system. We passed on the PS2 and Xbox because the same games are available on the computer. But the arcade type games are only on the game systems. It's nice to play them on a 32" TV. The resolution is kinda lame but the kids don't seem to mind.

    For a little over what he paid for BF2, he got a game system and he can get games for it at Blockbuster. That's a great deal.

  18. Re:Fight your own battles. on Tech Workers of the World Unite? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The union's job is to screw you out of money. I don't see the difference.

  19. Re:I don't think they ever went away on Mainframe Programming to Make a Comeback? · · Score: 1

    I'd rather be boiled alive than code in RPG. Show me a well-dressed RPG coder and you'll be showing me a mirage.

  20. Re:Blaming video games on The Impact of Violent Gaming · · Score: 1

    It's all fun and games until someone kills Mohammed.

  21. Re:Jesus Christ! on Yahoo! Bans "Allah" in Screen Names · · Score: 1

    If a muslim DID condemn the violence, we would never know about it. Such pronouncements do not make for exciting news. Burning buildings sell more commercials.

    If I were to denounce South Park because it is anti-Christian but called for no violence against it, no one would care. If I burned the local WB affiliate, I'd be guaranteed to be on TV. If I did it through proxies, I could get on Hannity and Colmes as the spokesman.

  22. Re:The problem is... on Keeping the OS/2 Flame Alive · · Score: 4, Informative

    The greatest thing about OS/2 is that it is rock solid and stable. My OS/2 would stay up for months at a time. can't even get Linux to do that in a desktop environment. It had great graphics for the time and applications didn't stomp on each other. I could even run DOS games while I compiled code on my fire-breather 386. I When they finally moved us to Windows, it was hard times. Windows blew up constantly. If you played a DOS game while you compiled, it would freak out like a prom date in a Hummer limo.

    I still have a copy of Warp in the closet of old-school stuff. eBay baby.

  23. Re:Shit on Congressman Quizzes Net Companies on Shame · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I can't believe Lantos the Loony criticized the Red Chinese. I would have expected that question from a conservative.

  24. Re:Raised eyebrows on Possible Breakthrough for AIDS Cure · · Score: 1

    I hope they can apply this to other viruses as well. Viruses like influenza have the potential to kill a lot more people than AIDS.

  25. Re:Stupid on NASA Public-Affairs Appointee Resigns in Disgrace · · Score: 1

    The Big Bang is no longer popular with the evolutionist debate crowd. It implies a source of the bang that makes Creationists salivate. I rarely hear it used anymore during debates about such matters.