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  1. Re:Has to worry on How To End Online Harassment · · Score: 1

    If you're going to enter the land of pedantry, at least crack a dictionary. From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary:

    1. : to emit rays of light : give light : beam with steady radiance

  2. Re:The right to offend ... on How To End Online Harassment · · Score: 1

    So to make a point you reduced the topic category thereby making your comment appropriate to a different conversation.

  3. Re:IANL on GNOME Project Seeks Donations For Trademark Battle With Groupon · · Score: 1

    "As far as operating systems are concerned," Gnome isn't one. Read the first paragraph and then its first clarifying link. And, as far as POS systems, they don't "own" jack.

  4. Re:Why feed the lawyers? on GNOME Project Seeks Donations For Trademark Battle With Groupon · · Score: 1

    And the general public is pretty much oblivious to Gnome, unlike the /. population. To paraphrase what people around here are fond of frequently stating, Gnome should be glad for the advertising they get from people searching for a POS system.

  5. Re:Illegal? on Prehistory's Brilliant Future · · Score: 1

    Bull. There's no difference from digging a swimming pool and excavating a fossil. Well, there is, but it's that universities an museums want to take the fossil from you without reimbursement.

  6. Re:Dinosaurs and fishes. on Prehistory's Brilliant Future · · Score: 1

    Post a link. I do believe you're incorrect.

  7. Re:Illegal? on Prehistory's Brilliant Future · · Score: 1

    But doesn't humanity "own" its own fossil record?

    If by that you mean universities and museums, no. You also have a very wrong view of what's done with fossils. The vast bulk of them simply sit in boxes in basements where researchers (read grad students) study them occasionally. These are the sources of the theft from the discoverers and sometimes preparers of fossils.

  8. Re:meh on Prehistory's Brilliant Future · · Score: 1

    Yes, do a search.

  9. Re:is this news? on Why Scientists Think Completely Unclassifiable and Undiscovered Life Forms Exist · · Score: 1

    So you yourself admit your "Here you go" was bogus as a response to his statement.

  10. Re:Discover life? on Why Scientists Think Completely Unclassifiable and Undiscovered Life Forms Exist · · Score: 1

    Oh bull. Your preconceived notions have nothing to do with whether something lives or not.

  11. Re:Trying to wrap my head around this on Terrorists Used False DMCA Claims To Get Personal Data of Anti-Islamic Youtuber · · Score: 0

    Nice sidestep. He wrote about vandalizing the site, not downloading a copy for perusal.

  12. Re:Typical muslims on Terrorists Used False DMCA Claims To Get Personal Data of Anti-Islamic Youtuber · · Score: 2

    If you are being attacked by group A, then sitting back and doing nothing because it wouldn't be fair to a minority percentage of that group who don't support the attack isn't exactly survival tactics.

  13. Re:Typical muslims on Terrorists Used False DMCA Claims To Get Personal Data of Anti-Islamic Youtuber · · Score: 3, Informative

    Now compare numbers, both raw and percentage to Islam. You are also conveniently ignoring both the fact that they aren't exclusively Christian (shooting your implication that it's a religious movement) and the reason they developed in the first place - Islamic take over of CAR and terrorism. The very first sentence on the Wiki page in the History section: "The anti-balaka militias originally formed in the 1990s as village self-defense forces."

  14. Re:What's wrong with hierarchy? on Meet the 36 People Who Run Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Saying hierarchies are necessary is saying some people have to be controlled.

    Yes, some do.

  15. Re:Resource management on What People Want From Smart Homes · · Score: 1

    Your wife is wrong. Nine times out of ten you can sit and watch the fire and forget about the problem. It will go away or someone else will address it.

  16. Re:Marked Paper Ballots FTW on Another Election, Another Slew of Voting Machine Glitches · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What makes you think they aren't doing exactly what they planned on doing? All of your solutions require that the software not be malicious in the first place. Paper, black pen.

  17. So, not wanting to waste their time, chance getting hired and then canned because he didn't know DB makes him a prima donna? If that's how you handle interviews, lying your ass off, you're exactly the guy I don't want on my team.

  18. Re:It's just business - nothing personal on Online Payment Firm Stripe Boots 3D Gun Designer Cody Wilson's Companies · · Score: 1

    They did pick a side, he just doesn't agree.

  19. Re:...and also not true on New Atomic Clock Reaches the Boundaries of Timekeeping · · Score: 1

    Only if you're concerned with time at the clock's precise location. Otherwise, it's useless. Even in space there's gravity, so Ye might not be correct at all.

  20. Re: Old saying on New Atomic Clock Reaches the Boundaries of Timekeeping · · Score: 1

    Only on that level. For most everything else, it's fine. So not so much "fundamentally", you just need to apply it appropriately, much like Newtonian physics. You don't need to factor in QM to build a plane.

  21. Re:the ones to blame are the 350.org, etc on UN Climate Change Panel: It's Happening, and It's Almost Entirely Man's Fault · · Score: 2

    If you are ascribing moral and ethical rationale to any UN actions then you have not been observing the UN very closely. They are if anything, the antithesis of moral, ethical and rational. ALL of the UN's actions are based on petty politics. If you believe otherwise, you're being foolish.

  22. Re:Who fucking wrote this? on Space Tourism Isn't Worth Dying For · · Score: 1

    Your opinion does not constitute future history. We do *not* have space travel in any meaningful interpretation for more than a select few specialized people and robotic packages.

  23. Re:Two things. on Reactions To Disgusting Images Predict a Persons Political Ideology · · Score: 1

    Immigration is not a problem per se. Immigration of large groups not willing to conform to our local ethnics is.

    Who exactly was it that let them in? Who exactly was it that didn't screen and educate them as to what was expected (unfortunately, not required)?

  24. Re:doesnt work on It's Time To Revive Hypercard · · Score: 1

    I should have used the preview on the blockquote.

  25. Re:doesnt work on It's Time To Revive Hypercard · · Score: 2

    Use the preview: < > or !=. (Just in case, that does display in preview.)