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  1. And all those farms not dependent on human labor are dependent on oil. For everything. If the flow of oil stops, or is significantly disrupted, you have no food production or distribution aside from those few acres not dependent on oil.

  2. Re:So? on Airgap-Jumping Malware May Use Ultrasonic Networking To Communicate · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If the internal mic and speaker on a standard laptop can be used to maintain the ultrasonic connection, I don't think this requires an ultra-hifi mic in order to capture the frequencies being used.

  3. Re:But to put it another way.. on How Kentucky Built the Country's Best ACA Exchange · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, there are people who remain illiterate by choice (for many reasons), and do see the use of polysyllabic words as a form of self-aggrandizement by the speaker. It's a form of jealousy about something they can fix in themselves, but which they simply can't be bothered to do. It's easier to point the finger at someone else than it is for many to point it where it really should be pointed: at themselves.

  4. Re:Wow. on How Kentucky Built the Country's Best ACA Exchange · · Score: 1

    Unless you're Amish and work for yourself or another Amish employer, the US government doesn't recognize any objections to participation unless you don't want to be employed at all.

    You can opt out (well, your parents can; you can't rescind participation once you reach the age of majority, unlike every other legally binding agreement your parents enter you into) as long as you never try to make any money. And of course the IRS doesn't allow for the cost of your time and effort, which you can never recover, as an exemption against "income" earned. Time is only worth something in their eyes if it increases your tax burden.

    If I'm working, I have zero income, because I'm trading something which is absolutely unrecoverable in exchange for that paycheck. It's too bad so many either fail to understand that or, worse, don't care.

  5. Re:envy on Japan Refused To Help NSA Tap Asia's Internet · · Score: 1

    Actually, Japan's population problem stems from the fact that it is a net decrease. While over-population is a problem, so is a declining population (unless you're already over-populated).

  6. Re:envy on Japan Refused To Help NSA Tap Asia's Internet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    that you know the language and that you can support yourself

    And this, rather than race, is likely the primary reason why some people cannot immigrate to Japan. Many other countries do not have restrictions on language fluency before they allow others in, and in my estimation that's a large reason why those countries have immigrant enclaves where a large percentage do not speak the national tongue (and hence have low job prospects, leading to radicalization).

  7. Re:WTF on Japan Refused To Help NSA Tap Asia's Internet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Visiting an enemy's actions upon them isn't necessarily justified by their own actions. Those with any sense of honor should know that.

  8. Re:News For Nerds on A Look at the Koch Brothers Dark-Money Network · · Score: 1

    And those who rose up from exploitation swing hard the other way, and are just as evil and extreme as extremist capitalists (who are really no more capitalist than those lefties are communist).

  9. Re:News For Nerds on A Look at the Koch Brothers Dark-Money Network · · Score: 1

    I agree wholeheartedly. I'd assume it was intended humorously, if not for the rest of the comment.

  10. Re:News For Nerds on A Look at the Koch Brothers Dark-Money Network · · Score: 1

    It's always a vocal minority that gets the most attention in any group. Libertarians and pseudo-libertarians are no different. The same goes for the 1% whiners.

  11. Re:News For Nerds on A Look at the Koch Brothers Dark-Money Network · · Score: 1

    But wait, voters are the victims. We can't blame the victims!</sarcasm>

  12. Re:Your hypocricy is astonishing. on A Look at the Koch Brothers Dark-Money Network · · Score: 1

    Tell that to the hundreds of thousands who use firearms in defense every year. Mass shootings are used to whip up hysteria, while the defensive use of firearms in deadly situations is conveniently ignored.

    Toss out suicides and criminal-on-criminal violence, and the US numbers start to look a whole lot like those of other industrialized nations. But then most victim disarmament people like to ignore the results of the CDC study commissioned by Obama, including Obama.

  13. Re:News For Nerds on A Look at the Koch Brothers Dark-Money Network · · Score: 1

    How so? The NRA receives nearly half of its entire operating capital from individuals. It's far more "grassroots" than most organizations.

    If you think the vast majority of firearm owners own them as "penis replacements," you don't know much.

  14. Re:My preference is on Ten Steps You Can Take Against Internet Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Quantum encrypted plutonium enriched weaponized anthrax.

  15. Re:By the people on Ten Steps You Can Take Against Internet Surveillance · · Score: 1

    No, at this point the only thing that will work is to bankrupt the country. If everyone uses absolutely every service available to them to the maximum extent, it'll happen faster.

  16. Re:nonsense, that's just cowering on Ten Steps You Can Take Against Internet Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Absolutely anyone else on the ballot.

  17. Re:10 Steps You Can Take Against Rapists on Ten Steps You Can Take Against Internet Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Too bad I don't have mod points to counteract the idiot who modded you down for obvious satire.

  18. Re:Do you think you are special? on Ten Steps You Can Take Against Internet Surveillance · · Score: 1

    It's pretty easy to narrow things down once there's a massive database to search.

  19. Re:They'd better ship the thing. on Star Citizen's Crowdfunding-Driven Grey Market · · Score: 1

    Any time people don't get the maximum benefit, they bitch and moan.

    They are apparently unaware that life fundamentally isn't fair, and never will be.

  20. Re:So overblown on Star Citizen's Crowdfunding-Driven Grey Market · · Score: 1

    The specific document is the articlee

  21. Re:So overblown on Star Citizen's Crowdfunding-Driven Grey Market · · Score: 1

    CIG is getting money off the secondary market, just not as much as if the buyer paid them directly. The veteran backers are still paying CIG for these items, just at a slightly smaller rate than the non-veterans to which they re-sell.

  22. Re:BS on Star Citizen's Crowdfunding-Driven Grey Market · · Score: 1

    2: These people are actually backing the development, just at a slightly smaller percentage than they may think they are.

  23. Re:I donâ(TM)t suppose... on Feds Confiscate Investigative Reporter's Confidential Files During Raid · · Score: 2

    Not to mention that warrants are supposed to outline those items subject to seizure. The seizure of files, if not listed in the warrant, is illegal, and those seizing them should be prosecuted and jailed. However, given how cozy prosecutors are with law enforcement, that will never happen.

    The US government is now brazenly showing how much of an enemy of the people they are. The government has lost all legitimacy in my eyes, and I can only hope that it collapses within my lifetime. I want to see those running the government ended.

  24. Re:Just curious on Ask Slashdot: Best SOHO Printer Choices? · · Score: 1

    Well, do they even make B&W inkjets any more? :)

  25. Re:laser all the way on Ask Slashdot: Best SOHO Printer Choices? · · Score: 2

    I've never spent more than $75 for a used color laser (Xerox Phasers and Lexmark units), and upgraded due to features rather than mechanical breakage. The toner cartridges on eBay have always cost less per than a single inkjet cartridge, and print many times more pages.