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  1. Re:needs more prefixes on Spanish Superjudge To Represent Assange · · Score: 2

    Except the Stallone movie was a pile of crap. Dredd never takes off his helmet, and yet Stallone spent the majority of the movie with it off.

    That, and it had Stallone in it.

  2. Re:No worries on Would You Trust an 80-Year-Old Nuclear Reactor? · · Score: 1

    The trouble is the slap on the wrist is just that - a slap and no more. It should be a capital crime (electric chair for added irony, or perhaps radiation poisoning) for the entire board, CEO down, if a nuclear power plant were to melt down.

  3. Re:Sealed letters etc on Being Honest In Exit Interviews Is Pointless · · Score: 1

    That may be true, but that's not a Freedom of Information request

  4. Re:Sealed letters etc on Being Honest In Exit Interviews Is Pointless · · Score: 1

    Sealed letters effectively don't exist in the UK (probably the EU). A freedom of information request can be used to unseal anything held about the applicant.

    AFAIK FoI requests only apply to government jobs (which does include the NHS, Europe's second largest employer). You can't FoI a private company

  5. Re:Exit Interviews are always flowery on Being Honest In Exit Interviews Is Pointless · · Score: 1, Funny

    1) Not if it's your competitor. Why wouldn't you want to pass a terrible employee on to your competitor? (BTW, if your answer is "that's sociopathic", these are corporations we're talking about, not humans.)

    But ... but ... but Mitt says that corporations are people

  6. Re:Incandescent bulbs return? on UCLA Develops Transparent, Electricity-Generating, Solar Cell Windows · · Score: 1

    They are if you're Rick Santorium

  7. Re:would i rather on Why Amazon Wants To Pay Sales Tax · · Score: 1

    I love how you post an insult as an Anonymous COWARD

  8. Re:Journalists? on Japan: Police Arrest Journalists For Selling DVD-Backup Tools · · Score: 1

    Whilst this used to be the case, Occupy seems to have done very little to address the wealth inequality. Frank Dodd for example has been gutted, and completely ineffective. Why? Because it's all about the money. Civil rights 50 years ago wasn't about money, it was (and racism is still) about irrational and unfounded hate.

  9. Re:Content bundling on Canadians To Get Unbundled Cable TV Channels · · Score: 2

    Actually loads of shows are still produced in Canada.

    LMGTFY

  10. Re:It's unfortunate ! on How the Inventors of Dragon Speech Recognition Technology Lost Everything · · Score: 2

    They should have looked at what Goldman-Sachs were doing with their own money. The fact that GS didn't invest in L&H is telling.

  11. Re:What is a driver's life worth? on What Is an Astronaut's Life Worth? · · Score: 1

    Because they don't want to turn into a fat fuck like you?

  12. Re: worth! on What Is an Astronaut's Life Worth? · · Score: 1

    I understand the British Government owns almost $1T in national debt. Perhaps it's that?

  13. Re:Ready? Oops! Oh noooooOOOO! on Windows 8 Mail Leaves Users Pining For the Desktop — or Even Their Phones · · Score: 1

    Because Windows Mail doesn't make them any money? It's a free add on.

    Why they've dropped IMAP support is beyond me. I can see why you might not want to make any "improvements", or changes. But they could just include a previous iteration of the Windows Mail client (perhaps with a new skin on it, to make it look like they've done some work on it) and be done. There are plenty of other IMAP clients out there, so it's not even like they could put some ad space on it.

  14. Re:would i rather on Why Amazon Wants To Pay Sales Tax · · Score: 1

    Yep - that's what I said. And as a result of reading too much Ayn Rand, the disparity between rich and poor has never been greater. Before someone whines that the poor pulled themselves up by their boot straps - doing so takes money. But when your minimum wage isn't enough to live on, let alone improve your education that's kinda tough to do.

  15. Re:would i rather on Why Amazon Wants To Pay Sales Tax · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I love how the Americans always blame their government rather than the obvious flaws in their economic system

  16. Re:would i rather on Why Amazon Wants To Pay Sales Tax · · Score: 2

    Oh the joys of free market economics and capitalism. Good luck protecting the little guy. It won't help one little bit.

  17. Re:A Notable Omission on Melinda Gates Pledges $560 Million For Contraception · · Score: 1

    Why is that notable exactly?

    Bill Gates and Melinda Gates aren't joined at the hip! Or are you telling me that she's not allowed to do something with the money that's legitimately hers, because she's a woman?

  18. Re:IT IS KILLING GOD'S CHILDREN !! on Melinda Gates Pledges $560 Million For Contraception · · Score: 1

    The church was morally bankrupt centuries ago. Just the latest incarnation (pun intended) is better highlighted thanks to world news coverage

  19. Re:So from here on out ... on Supreme Court: Affordable Care Act Is Constitutional · · Score: 1

    Because for 150 years you didn't go around picking fights with random people around the world.

    Seriously - a VERY large proportion of your national debt is from fighting wars

  20. Re:The ADA pushes too hard on ADA May Force Netflix To Provide Closed Captioning On Content · · Score: 1

    Are you telling me that disabled people don't spend money? The analogy may be off - but it's not entirely false.

  21. Re:Participant Psychosis? on Ask Bas Lansdorp About Going to Mars, One Way · · Score: 2

    Indeed - and it has been suggested as an alternative method to both lethal injection, gas chamber and electrocution as methods of capital punishment. The particular program I was watching also discussed such a change with a number of American pro-death penalty advocates. Their response? It wasn't painful or humiliating enough way to day to be used.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7183957.stm

  22. Re:Only in America... on Fires Sparked By Utah Target Shooters Prompt Evacuations · · Score: 1

    My point, which you've touched on was that, there are too many out there with in sufficient training and that if you as a private citizen wish to exercise your 2nd amendment rights, you should be well trained and continue that training

  23. Re:Only in America... on Fires Sparked By Utah Target Shooters Prompt Evacuations · · Score: 1

    My argument wasn't that they shouldn't have firearms. My argument was that they should follow the constitution and be well regulated.

  24. Re:Floods on Tech Manufacturing Is a Disaster Waiting To Happen · · Score: 1

    So captialism working at it's finest then. Capitalism is about companies getting the highest possible profit for the lowest possible cost. If you think anything different, then you are deluding yourself. To achieve that, then companies need a monopoly. Why do you think Microsoft has been so enormously successful?

  25. Re:Easy Fix on Fires Sparked By Utah Target Shooters Prompt Evacuations · · Score: 1

    Apparently they tried to put the fire out before calling 911. This of course is the wrong way round - should have been 911 followed by attempting to control the fire yourself