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  1. Re:The first of many? on Microsoft Announces Windows 7 SP1 · · Score: 1

    3 sounds about right.

  2. Re:imdb says she is in Hobbit movie on Filming For The Hobbit Begins In July · · Score: 1

    So you're saying the Hobbit is a sausage-fest?

    Hmm, maybe weenie-fest would be a little more accurate...

  3. Re:I for one... on Scientists Demonstrate Mammalian Tissue Regeneration · · Score: 1

    You missed the qualifying word before immortal. Try again.

  4. Re:Someone tagged this FOIA on ACLU Sues Over Legality of "Targeted Killing" By Drones · · Score: 1

    And both you and and GP both forget to also label them American citizens, which affords them legal rights.

    Show me the statute that says they lose those rights, show me the law that says they lose their citizenship and I'll shut up. In the meantime, enjoy the Rule Of Law. You know, one of those cornerstones of modern democracies that makes the US a much nicer place to live than say, China.

    Hey, I'd be as pissed as you if a fellow citizen dedicated himself to undermining my country. But what you're basically saying is that rules are too hard to follow. Man the fuck up and be an American. And if you don't like the rules, change them. don't just ignore them.

  5. Re:Someone tagged this FOIA on ACLU Sues Over Legality of "Targeted Killing" By Drones · · Score: 1, Redundant

    then they should be eligible as targets as well.

    Damn that pesky Bill Of Rights!

  6. Re:I for one... on Scientists Demonstrate Mammalian Tissue Regeneration · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Macro vs Micro. Regenerating body parts is great. Pretty much freezing genetic diversity with a bunch of near immortal beings? Not so much.

  7. Re:Not for Long on C-Span Posts Full Archives Online · · Score: 4, Funny

    Holy fuck, I just read two posts in a row actually extolling politicians on Slashdot.

    I think I'm going to go lie down now.

  8. Re:Quick on Japan To Standardize Electric Vehicle Chargers · · Score: 1

    centrally located

    Yeah, but in the US, it's missing one major component: Decent public transit. Why you'd want to pay more to drive a car for two hours rather than pay a little less to relax for that same time is beyond me, but that's the way it is.

  9. Re:What is the price of tea in China? on Google Readying To Pull Out of China · · Score: 1

    Also, hundreds of millions of Wal-Mart shoppers.

    *This recycled post Al Gore approved.

  10. Re:Never should have been there on Google Readying To Pull Out of China · · Score: 1

    It seems to me that they were looking for an excuse to leave

    Apart from their "Do No Evil" motto, is there any particular reference you have for that assumption?

  11. Re:A high speed railway on China To Connect Its High-Speed Rail To Europe · · Score: 4, Funny

    china makes shit

    Hundreds of millions of Wal-Mart shoppers can't be wrong.

  12. Re:What? on Texas Approves Conservative Curriculum · · Score: 1

    Stop teaching that Earth is a "mother" and needs us to worship the holy beauty or we shall all surely kill her.

    There's a lot less of those people around than you think they are. Even more so when compared to the rump that wants us all licking God's feet, so why don't you start worrying about the dirty hippies when they're actually a problem.

  13. Re:What? on Texas Approves Conservative Curriculum · · Score: 3, Insightful

    God

    religion

    Two very separate and very different things: One can be taught. The other is pure faith and belongs in a church, not a classroom.

  14. Re:No iPad for me on Here Come the Linux iPad Clones · · Score: 5, Funny

    but at this point, the average person has a basic understanding of how to use a computer, and shouldn't be pandered to with watered down offerings

    You clearly have not done a lot of tech support. The "average person" deserves treatment only slightly better than being beaten with rubber hoses. Since that won't clear marketing, they'll get the iPad instead.

  15. Re:Go go Nanny State... on Bill To Ban All Salt In Restaurant Cooking · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you beat me to it. Salt? That's like saying they're going to ban wheels when they've already banned cars. As stupid as this proposal is, it's kind of hard to get excited about.

  16. Re:Don't shit where you eat on Ex-Sun Chief Dishes Dirt On Gates, Jobs · · Score: 3, Funny

    Shooting your mouth off about everyone in the business is not a good way to win friends and influence people.

    Has anyone told Darl McBride this?

  17. Re:When you don't make anything... on Dot-Com Craze Peaked 10 Years Ago This Week · · Score: 1

    I can't wait to see what happens next...

    Me too! Heads on pikes in my lifetime? FUCKING STOKED!

  18. Re:What is Up with Go.com? on Dot-Com Craze Peaked 10 Years Ago This Week · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yeah, it's part of the Disney behemoth.

  19. Re:Reminds me of broadband internet in the beginni on Gas Wants To Kill the Wind · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    He still has not denied it!

    You expect a man who can't remember what he said an hour ago to remember if he raped and killed a girl in 1990? Guess he climbed on that wagon a little too late:

    Beck "hacked off" by RNC memo, claims America is looking for "someone that is not going to play on our fears"
    Beck: "We are sitting around and we are watching the systematic destruction of everything we hold dear by thugs"

  20. Re:Eh? on US Eases Internet Export Rules To Iran, Sudan, Cuba · · Score: -1, Troll

    Next time, please do try to write something worth reading

    You must be new here.

    not the content

    Funny, I addressed that. Stop now before you hurt yourself.

    devolving into a troll

    Devolving? I'm almost insulted. Oh ye of good intentions...

  21. Re:Eh? on US Eases Internet Export Rules To Iran, Sudan, Cuba · · Score: -1, Troll

    Awww, aren't your kneejerk anti-generalizations cute too!

    Sigh. Reading comprehension fail. Next time, instead of rushing your post, try a little harder next time.

    principled social reform

    Not what we were talking about, were we? Nice try.

    manages to do the right thing

    Still not what we were talking about. All over the shop, this one is.

    That's the real point here.

    I don't think you'd recognize the point if it bit you in the face.

    And if you're claiming that self-interest and money are not a useful metric for evaluating government decisions

    Silly me. You didn't even bother reading what I wrote, did you? Not that I care, but why hide it?

    Oh, and she won't have sex with you either.

    Thank fuck for that. I'd expect it to be more disappointing than your reply, but not by much!

  22. Re:Eh? on US Eases Internet Export Rules To Iran, Sudan, Cuba · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Awww, aren't your generalizations cute!

    If I go a hundred years without hearing "The government sucks because the government sucks!", it still won't be enough.

  23. Not me! on Some Newegg Customers Received Fake Intel Core i7s · · Score: 5, Funny

    I buy AMD!

  24. Re:Possibly another reason on Vivek Kundra On US Government Inefficiency · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah, but a company is naturally limited by its ability to generate sales.

    That was a good argument, once upon a time, but in these days of Enron, AIG, Goldman Sachs...not so much.

    GP up the line has it right: ANY organization large and old enough will be susceptible to all kinds of creeping inefficiencies. Claiming otherwise, in a fit of libertarian apostasy, just makes you look stupid.

  25. Re:the correct solution on Throttle Shared Users With OS X — Is It Possible? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Disable file shares on workstations. Use a file server.

    Well, that's the correct technical solution, but the real, supreme, correct decision is: Find a new job, and fast. Nothing good has ever come from challenging a coworker who enjoys immunity, especially when it's familial.