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  1. Will my car insurance go down? on Expect Mandatory 'Big Brother' Black Boxes In All New Cars From 2015 · · Score: 1

    No of course not, only up.

  2. Don't Worry on Posting Photos of Olympics Could Land You In Court · · Score: 1

    There's still time for boiling mobs of furious Islamics to protest with arson and rocks as you know they will. 50/50 the Games will be cancelled or dramatically curtailed. Barring that, the UK will decide that the Games are bad for children, promote bad eating, hooliganism and such, and cancel them on their own. It IS Britain.

  3. Teller not Penn on Magician Suing For Copyright Over Magic Trick · · Score: 1

    Because Penn is such a lunatic libertarian he barely wants any laws at all.

  4. So Sharia compliant net it is, then. on British MPs Propose Censoring Internet By Default · · Score: 1

    Awesome. Let's outlaw webcams while we're at it. And since this is the UK, let's require a paid licence for every computer.

  5. It has the ring of famous last words on Twitter: 'We Promise To Not Be a Patent Troll' · · Score: 1

    I aim for the stars. Sometimes I hit London.

  6. Obligatory Leftist/Libertarian Web Responses: on Scientists Say Spread of Schmallenberg Virus Is 'Warning To Europe' · · Score: 1

    Good we need the human race to die
    Blame Global Warming
    Blame Capitalism
    Blame Monsanto
    Meat is Murder

  7. It's clearly deeper than that on Operators: Nokia Would Sell Better With Android · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nokia and Motorola owned the cell phone market in the 1990's and all they've done since is fail. The problems are with the companies in their entirety not the products they make.

  8. Most people don't live in one place that long on $60 Light Bulb Debuts On Earth Day · · Score: 1

    So when you move, you'll need to take all your $60 lightbulbs with you, or, you can charge the buyer a few thousand dollars more for all the lightbulbs. BTW with a bulb that expensive I want a warranty.

  9. The Poor B-1-B on Sixty Years On, B-52s Are Still Going Strong · · Score: 2

    The lowly B-1-B is now the weapon of choice for Afghanistan because its higher speed allows a single plane to be used to cover the country end to end.

  10. Send Ron Paul on NASA Looking For Ideas To Explore Mars · · Score: 1

    Because it would be ironic.

  11. AT&T not a give a shit about their customers? on iPhone Users Sue AT&T For Letting Thieves Re-Activate Their Stolen Devices · · Score: 1

    Where do you get this crazy talk? Now if you'll excuse me I need to enslave another sedan chair carrier.

  12. Accountants vs engineers on Why Your IT Spending Is About To Hit the Wall · · Score: 1

    Accountants feel a resource is being utilized efficiency at very high average rates of capacity utilization. Engineers look at the resource's operational efficiency not financial efficiency which is FAR FAR lower than maximum utilization. Unless you're running a z/OS mainframe, utilization above 80% is counterproductive, operationally. Some systems operate best at 50% of maximum capacity. But try telling that to your financial officer.

  13. Yes thank you on Whistleblower In Limbo After Reporting H-1B Visa Fraud At Infosys · · Score: 0

    For showing us you are utterly clueless how the real world works. Anything short of taking out a hit on someone I would not snitch on my employer about it. And maybe even not that.

  14. Ok so driverless cars are coming on Mandatory Brake-Override Proposed For All Cars · · Score: 1

    Mother Government will require all cars to be driverless soon. And that's fine. No more car insurance.

  15. Harder than it looks on Experts Warn Of Possible North Korean Nuclear Test · · Score: 1

    Sure on paper it sounds like all you need to do is take a late 1950's early 1960's edition Chinese CSS-2 Scud variant and bolt a second stage made out of another Scud-C on top of that and then build another rocket, a smaller one, using a Chinese SRB and bolt that atop your ghetto rigged second stage. But in practice getting all that stuff to work right in your poor broken down slave society driven by terror is a lot harder.

  16. Just tax the crap out of cell phones on Portugal Is Considering a "Terabyte Tax" · · Score: 2

    See the efficacy of taxes is where you gouge something that most people can't or don't want to do without like gasoline, alcohol, tobacco. Cell phones are ubiquitous to the point where even the UN considers them a basic human right. So naturally the plan must be to gouge and gouge and gouge some more. Double, triple, quadruple the cost of handsets and data transmission.

  17. Been done already on Audi Gives Silent Electric Car Synthetic Sound · · Score: 1
  18. Good News on Lack of Vaccination Sends Babies In Oregon To the Hospital · · Score: 1

    It's a self correcting problem in the long run. Go be a left wing green weirdo equivalent of modern day voodoo. Please.

  19. Re:Good luck with that fair trial thing on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    Nice handle. We pretend to work they pretend to pay us. Ever read Koba the Dread?

  20. Read the UNDP report series on Why the Middle East Is a Good Place For Women Tech Entrepreneurs · · Score: 2

    Compiled for the UN by the Arab world's friendliest own Arab economists and technicians. The Arab world is at or near the bottom, for the entire world, in terms of literacy, education, technical proficiency, intellectual property creation, research and development, internet penetration, media penetration, social and media freedom, contract law, technical small business start ups and technology transfer. Below the levels of much of Africa and SE Asia. Culturally, the exclusion of women, minorities only speaks to part of it. It really has to do with a historical tradition of abandoning everything the West had to contribute since the Renaissance, the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. If you want a Turkish -centric history of this read "What Went Wrong?" by Bernard Lewis.

  21. No one cares though on End of Windows XP Support Era Signals Beginning of Security Nightmare · · Score: 0

    Security will always be abysmal no matter what.

  22. Re:Good luck with that fair trial thing on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    No one will remember their names in 2 weeks. And they'll get new jobs no problem.

  23. Re:Good luck with that fair trial thing on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    Yeah that's not the vibe I'm getting. He's been tried convicted sentenced and terminated already. The Judge and the prosecutor aren't going to risk mass mayhem.

  24. Re:Good luck with that fair trial thing on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    Then that's an issue with the police and the DA but somehow they're going to skate. Which is unfortunate.

  25. Re:Good luck with that fair trial thing on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Personally I don't care how it ends. I will be amused by the obligatory screaming and outrage either way. Another famous instance of an Al Sharpton lead 'protest' resulted, intentionally, some would say to the murder of Yankel Rosenbaum. And this was precisely the result Sharpton was looking for. Hell, people rioted at the Conrad Murray trial. They're going nuclear over this. It should be interesting to watch the flames.