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  1. Re:Zimmerman? on 55,000 Sign Twitter Abuse Petition After Jane Austen Campaigner Threats · · Score: 1

    "And no matter what you say - Trayvon was still an innocent young man who was doing nothing illegal at the time."

    Other than jumping George and attempting to cave the back of his head in by repeatedly slamming it onto concrete you mean?

    "If he didn't feel big and safe with his gun and the "stand your ground" laws behind him then Trayvon would still be alive and Mr. Zimmerman wouldn't be getting death threats."

    No, Trayvon would still be alive if he did not start the altercation.

  2. Re:Zimmerman? on 55,000 Sign Twitter Abuse Petition After Jane Austen Campaigner Threats · · Score: 1

    I notice you used the word 'chase'. At no time did George chase the guy. Second point, George did not start the fight, he was jumped. So, apparently your reasoned response to someone following you - especially if you believed he/she was carrying a gun - is to jump them and start beating on them and hope like hell they don't pull and use the gun you especially believe them to be carrying.

  3. Re:In fairness on 55,000 Sign Twitter Abuse Petition After Jane Austen Campaigner Threats · · Score: 1

    And, much like Jane Austen's characters, you speak in hyperbole. Her prose is tepid at best.

  4. Re:What's most surprising about this story. on Dentist Who Used Copyright To Silence Her Patients Drops Out of Sight · · Score: 0

    It was completely relevant to the context.

  5. Re: nature and consumers on GMO Oranges? Altering a Fruit's DNA To Save It · · Score: 1

    That doesn't even make sense. Spinach doesn't copy its DNA into a host. Spinach has no host. If you're referring to the fact that humans are moving spinach DNA into the orange, then you are apparently only concerned about the mechanism, not genetic modification per se.

  6. Re:More a fingerprint then a name on Unique Howls Are What Wolves Use As Names · · Score: 2

    Odd then, how frequently we select names for ourselves that we wish others to use.

  7. Re:So... how do they call each other? on Unique Howls Are What Wolves Use As Names · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oh, please. Calls are at the top of their communications methodologies. They have self-identifying calls for a reason and it's not over-vocalized introspection.

    Your statement would be like saying that although you have a unique # here on ./ and it appears on all your self-identified posts, others really can't read it.

  8. Re:Sad, if true on The Last GUADEC? · · Score: 1

    "Sure it also still runs the usual work stuff, but that has not been the reason for its existence for a long time now."

    Nice vacuous affirmation.

  9. Re:U.S., cough, international pressure much? on Crowdsourced Finnish Copyright Initiative Meets Signature Requirement · · Score: 1

    This is about the most shallow and lame excuse for reaching for justification I have ever read. Are you seriously so thin of mind that you think music is the only thing that is effected by copyright? Does that thinness extend to the inability to understand that those producing "free" music and videos are just creating promotional pieces in hopes of generating a paying audience?

    "Someone forced themselves to push out a turd just to get money, not because he really liked to do it."

    Nice straw justification for the dehumanization of the artist attempting to make a living at art so you can live with yourself for ripping them off.

  10. Re:U.S., cough, international pressure much? on Crowdsourced Finnish Copyright Initiative Meets Signature Requirement · · Score: 1

    No normally. But if you use it as a template, manufacture clones and sell them, yes.

  11. Re:U.S., cough, international pressure much? on Crowdsourced Finnish Copyright Initiative Meets Signature Requirement · · Score: 1

    Does this include your employer (or a client) simply deciding they don't want to deal with you anymore and using your output without any recompense? If not, please explain why an author doesn't deserve the same type of protection you do on their livelihood.

  12. Re:U.S., cough, international pressure much? on Crowdsourced Finnish Copyright Initiative Meets Signature Requirement · · Score: 1

    First of all, you're wrong, the creators have the control. I own the copyrights on my works and I control them. I can, however, choose to enter into a contract and allow someone else to publish them (although I still own them) or I can sell them outright. Well, I have to admit I'm a bit wrong - *copyright infringers* attempt to usurp that control.

    The punishments *can* be harsh, but typically it's simply an order to quit and provide restitution.

  13. Re:treason? on MIT Uses Machine Learning Algorithm To Make TCP Twice As Fast · · Score: 1

    "Once skynet becomes self aware, it will be considered its own person..."

    Why? There are numerous self aware animals that don't get considered persons. It wouldn't be charged with treason, it would be disabled. .

  14. Re:The only truly sustainable development is none on America's First Eco-City: Doomed From the Start · · Score: 1

    "negative impact on the environment"

    With such a non-definition, OF COURSE we (and every living organism and many non-animate processes) have a negative impact.

    The only appropriate answer to that is - so?

  15. Re:Nice name on America's First Eco-City: Doomed From the Start · · Score: 1

    Everyone worldwide does it. We're just not shy about it.

  16. Re:Smart guns... on Hardly Anyone Is Buying 'Smart Guns' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "I believe that its better to not have the need to carry than to carry just in case."

    So do I, and once you create that place, please invite everyone, as it currently does not exist on this planet. And no, the first step is no to take protection away from honest people.

  17. Re:Smart guns... on Hardly Anyone Is Buying 'Smart Guns' · · Score: 3, Informative

    Good site is the FBI. They keep stats on homicides and their means. Guns are not number one. So wait, it *does* prove they're dangerous even without guns.

  18. Re:Smart guns... on Hardly Anyone Is Buying 'Smart Guns' · · Score: 2

    More people are killed in the US every year by being beaten to death than by gunshot. So no, guns are *not* what makes belligerent people dangerous.

  19. Re:Abusive speech is not good on Kernel Dev Tells Linus Torvalds To Stop Using Abusive Language · · Score: 1

    *Some* very successful people. I do believe you're stating on opinion and mine is more centric.

  20. Re:ha! "not acceptable" on Kernel Dev Tells Linus Torvalds To Stop Using Abusive Language · · Score: 1, Insightful

    When I'm speaking to someone, it is unacceptable for them to treat me with discourtesy, as I do not treat them in that manner. It is a delimitation, not an imposition. It is a statement that the *manner* in which they've chosen to present their argument is unacceptable, not the argument itself. No one has the unfettered right to abuse others in whatever manner they see fit.

  21. Re:hes right on Kernel Dev Tells Linus Torvalds To Stop Using Abusive Language · · Score: 2

    Having a grand yell-out in no way guarantees peace afterward. Some of the biggest back-stabbers I've met were also yellers and screamers. They're simply abusive people who can't maintain boundaries.

  22. Re:Political Correctness has no place in Kernel De on Kernel Dev Tells Linus Torvalds To Stop Using Abusive Language · · Score: 2

    Being a dick is a purposeful act. Simply don't be a dick and the uber thin skinned self-reveal.

  23. Oddly enough... on How Intellectual Property Reinforces Inequality · · Score: 3, Insightful

    his articles are copyrighted.

  24. Re:Something built into the TV? Samsung? on Ask Slashdot: Video Streaming For the Elderly? · · Score: 1

    "most old people will ..."

    You understand the description following that was one that applies to the general /. commenter audience, right?

  25. Re: not 'self defense' on George Zimmerman Acquitted In Death of Trayvon Martin · · Score: 1

    "Considering the wide spread racism in the south of the US..."

    You're pulling that out of your ass. I contracted all over during my career and I *never* saw such raw, unadulterated racial hatred as I experienced in the NE and Chicago. Never. Yet, every time, they would spout about southern hatred. Such self-blinded people.