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  1. Re:Not the same on Call for a Presidential Debate on Science · · Score: 1

    No, it is screwing with church/state by existing as a religious monument in a state court building. Since the law has to give equal consideration to all religions, by allowing it there they should allow Muslims, Scientologists, Wiccans, Buddhists, etc to put whatever they want in the court building. I don't think *any* of it belongs there because it is not a religious institution nor a museum of history but a court of law.

  2. Re:Not the same on Call for a Presidential Debate on Science · · Score: 1

    All good arguments against putting religious stuff there in the first place. The oft-quoted concept that our laws are founded on the principles of the ten commandments is nothing but utter BS.

  3. Re:Why? on Call for a Presidential Debate on Science · · Score: 1

    The only parts of the ten commandments that are actual law deal with murder, theft, and not committing perjury. Those ideas cannot be claimed by Jews and Christians to be original to their religion and are illegal pretty much everywhere. The rest of the commandments would violate the First Amendment if they were actual laws.

  4. Re:Why? on Call for a Presidential Debate on Science · · Score: 1

    How would you feel if you walked into a court room that had "THERE IS NO GOD BUT ALLAH AND MOHAMMAD IS HIS PROPHET" displayed? You might get an idea that the court was a bit biased, and you'd have good reason to.

  5. Re:Why? on Call for a Presidential Debate on Science · · Score: 1

    When people talk about the US government 'persecuting' a religion what they usually mean is some benefit that Christians use to enjoy courtesy of the US taxpayer has been taken away.

  6. Re:Republican answer on Call for a Presidential Debate on Science · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually I probably lean more towards Republican side of the fence if anything but religious/superstitious intervention in science is one of my pet peeves.

  7. Republican answer on Call for a Presidential Debate on Science · · Score: 5, Funny

    All you need is Jesus.

  8. Re:indeed on Leopard Upgraders Getting "Blue Screen of Death" · · Score: 1

    Price is the only one you are correct about, but do continue to fantasize. :)

  9. Re:How is this anything like a BSOD? on Leopard Upgraders Getting "Blue Screen of Death" · · Score: 1

    Most BSODs in Windows are caused by some conflict of third-party software with normal system operation. They both cause the system to lock up and no longer respond so essentially they are the same in this case.

  10. Re:While it's a nice idea in theory on Comcast Confirmed as Discriminating Against FileSharing Traffic · · Score: 1

    Yeah the initial key exchange as well as encrypting every block of data does require more processing power. Multiply it by thousands of hits per minute or whatever and it can add up.

  11. Re:While it's a nice idea in theory on Comcast Confirmed as Discriminating Against FileSharing Traffic · · Score: 1

    He said signed, that means digital certificates generally. And who said anything about HTTPS anyway? Not me.

  12. Re:Wow so on 360 And Halo 3 Push Past the Wii's Sales · · Score: 2, Interesting

    PS2 is still the most played game console and has an immense library of games to choose from. There is a very large market for affordable game systems with fun games. This is why the Wii is dominating right now. The PS3 suffers from a smaller selection of good games and the price being too high for all but the serious gamer.

  13. While it's a nice idea in theory on Comcast Confirmed as Discriminating Against FileSharing Traffic · · Score: 1

    In practice, it would require that everyone that gets a moderate amount of traffic to probably upgrade hardware to handle all the extra overhead of cipher processing. Also, since most users are clueless as to how it works, they will accept any old certificate and click "Yes" to everything.

  14. Re:11% approval rating for Congress on White House Wins On Spying, Telecom Immunity · · Score: 1

    What's more fucked up is a lot of that disapproval is probably coming from neocons who are upset that the Republicans aren't far enough to the right and attacking Iran as we speak...

  15. There is no shortage of caring on White House Wins On Spying, Telecom Immunity · · Score: 1

    And there is a lot of charity. When the government puts a gun to your head and asks you to "donate" or go to jail, it's not really much about charity anymore though. Then everybody ends up actually paying more than they would have (except the people who pay nothing at all) otherwise because the government is so incompetent at running anything efficiently.

  16. Yup on White House Wins On Spying, Telecom Immunity · · Score: 1

    And moreover they only won their seats because of opposition to the war in Iraq and promises to bring the troops home. Tick, tock, tick, tock and they keep passing more funding to keep it going and do nothing to fulfill their election campaign spiels. They have shown themselves to be completely spineless for the most part.

  17. Re:Consumer Reports on Does Computer Use Actually Cause Carpal Tunnel? · · Score: 1

    Sure, that makes total sense for a provider like a hospital (many are non-profit) but for an insurance company not so much.

  18. Re:Consumer Reports on Does Computer Use Actually Cause Carpal Tunnel? · · Score: 1

    Just imagine a not-for-profit healthcare industry, where the government picks up the tab and all the treatment is "free"!

  19. Re:Bull-fucking-shit on Does Computer Use Actually Cause Carpal Tunnel? · · Score: 1

    According to the article and the studies cited, other medical conditions can predispose you to CTS but regular computer users had no higher occurrence of CTS than the normal population.

    Do any of these apply?
    rheumatoid arthritis, menopause, hypothyroidism, acromegaly, end-stage renal disease, pregnancy, and obesity :)

  20. Indeed on Does Computer Use Actually Cause Carpal Tunnel? · · Score: 3, Funny

    I call upon them to Ctrl-Shift-Underscore everything they have said about Emacs!

  21. Re:Other OSes? on Ubuntu's Power Consumption Tested · · Score: 1

    Your second statement would explain the first one by itself.

  22. Re:Other OSes? on Ubuntu's Power Consumption Tested · · Score: 1

    Strange that it would make a difference since Safari's web rendering engine is based on Konq's KHTML.

  23. No no no on How the U.S. Became Switchboard to the World · · Score: 1

    He just took the initiative in getting the peace prize for it. See how that's entirely different?

  24. Re:Lucky! on How the U.S. Became Switchboard to the World · · Score: 1

    Whatever country it goes through, you certainly can't consider anything unencrypted to be private communication over the Internet so best practice is to encrypt anything personal anyway.

  25. Weird on Al Gore Shares Nobel Peace Prize with UN Panel · · Score: 1

    Most of the cars you guys send over here don't get very impressive gas mileage and they break all the time. Anyone who is interested in good gas mileage is freely able to buy a Japanese econo-car here.