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  1. Re:$200,000 of what? on Largest-Yet EVE Online Battle Destroys $200,000 Worth of Starships · · Score: 1

    PvP purse vs purse, dainty psychopathic nerds batting away at each other with their Fabergé purses. Something was lost but it was lost long before the battle started ;).

  2. Re:Civil issue .. not exactly "criminally illegal" on Quentin Tarantino Vs. Gawker: When Is Linking Illegal For Journalists? · · Score: 1

    A even more accurate analogy, would be pointing out the person who committed a criminal act and proof of it and then the victim suing me for doing so because 'er' 'um' 'er' just because. So gawker provides a link to the site pointing them out to police, lawyers, the victim and the Tarantino throws a hissy fit and tries to sue them.

  3. Re:WTF? on U.S. Border Patrol Drone Goes Down, Rest of Fleet Grounded · · Score: 1

    More accurately how many border patrol agents would that $12 million have paid for? Of course the answer would be but where are the corporate profits in those government employed border patrol agents. Perhaps the US government could privatise border patrol, you know, like a bounty per illegal immigrant. Then corporations could set up operations around the US and bus, ship and fly in illegal immigrants for a token payment, 'er' catch them and return them, create new identities for them and rinse and repeat. After all when corporations contract services to government it is all about the privatised profits and absolutely nothing to do with providing an actual service.

  4. Re:That's not what was said. on VC Likens Google Bus Backlash To Nazi Rampage · · Score: 1

    To be a minion of the 1% is to make yourself a target of those who art the victims of the 1%. So the question is what makes you a minion. Public support of the 1%. Acting like a caricature of science fiction character a Ferengi ie Ferengi workers don't want to stop the exploitation, we want to find a way to become the exploiters. Crying about your wages but opposing raising the minimum wage which is about 10% of the tech wage. Working for the NSA/CIA/DOD seriously nothing can get more minion like than that ;D. Whilst of course that does not describe 'many' Google employees, their general privacy invasiveness for profit, still does leave them, well, acting minion like for their major share holders.

    To be a minion of the 1% is in fact more evil than being the 1%, you empower them, you are their fist and boot, you are their inquisitor and in reality without you the 1% cease to exist (well they still exist but they go back to being minor con artists and targets of local police forces).

  5. Re:Texas Barely Registers on Map of Publicly-Funded Creationism Teaching · · Score: 1

    Second to that is if they are teaching anything outside of the law. Things like opposition to a secular government, unequal rights male vs female, prejudice against other religions and of course hate. Many religious works in fact recommend what is in fact now criminal activity and under law these works should not be given to minors read let alone be considered as a guide for acceptable activity.

  6. Re:Outside the range? on Edward Snowden Says NSA Engages In Industrial Espionage · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Almost, more accurately it passed from the NSA to select insiders who individually claim the technology and screw profits out of other Americans with stolen patents. Industrial espionage, criminal act and extortion espionage, business insider trading espionage all having nothing at all to make any country safer and everything to do with enriching select political insiders. Should it trigger cyber warfare the only question is will it be profitable for the select few.

    Once you accept that sort of espionage then fuck it, only one small step to consider foreign banks your piggy bank and start embezzling money straight out of them. Three cheers for the good old USA for working so hard to trigger global economic warfare.

  7. Re:Hrm... on New Russian Fighter Not Up To Western Standards · · Score: 1

    Get real, it's the global corporate military industrial complex, they who pay the biggest bribes and supply the prettiest youngest hookers, 'WIN'. All the rest is marketing bullshit.

    Once they got to nuclear tipped stealth cruise missiles the game was over, everything is now just for show and sucking up billions upon billions of dollars in the military black hole.

    The real competition for a real future, is which country can create and maintain the best most efficient infrastructure, from broadband to energy generation. The continued wasteful military development is psychopathically driven insane shit.

  8. Re:Dangerous... on California Students, Parents Sue Over Teacher Firing, Tenure Rules · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Hmm, so refusing to turn up to work makes you a thug, interesting theory. I gather your idea is that thugs should be whipped as punishment for refusing to work.

    It all boils down to this, trust. Basically teachers were one of the most trusted professions, this level of trust was seen as a threat. So the psychopathic rich and greedy conspired to break down this level of trust and launched an concerted mass media attack. All of this down to politics. Basically they wanted that trust redirected to the pseudo religious right demagogues, those paid by the psychopathic rich and greedy to convince the ignorant to vote against their own interests.

    The US government education system is being purposefully being run down by Republicans so as to promote private for profit education which is destined to collapse after having generated massive profits and the leaving the mess to be fixed up at taxpayer expense. You people are so screwed, you are becoming a global joke.

  9. Re:re. Affects all engineers... on How Silicon Valley CEOs Conspired To Suppress Engineers' Wages · · Score: 1

    Why would I be jealous of those who have spent a life time accruing a negative life balance. One only needs to see their true fear of death and their deep and desperate fear of the inevitably rebalancing to appreciate the value of avoiding selfishness and greed. Hell, hmm, most likely the experiencing the harm you have caused, the more you have harmed well the more negative life experiences to suffer through. For some causing harm to millions, well, a truly sound reason for an extreme fear of death. Write or left, does it really make a difference and that hate it comes from being reminded of your fate.

  10. Re:re. Affects all engineers... on How Silicon Valley CEOs Conspired To Suppress Engineers' Wages · · Score: 0

    The richer you are, the greedier you are. Greed is not rewarded it is punished, for the harm it causes. Who was greedier the engineers who accepted higher bids for their work or the corporations who conspired to cheat them of their fair market (that's a joke) rights. As always when the rich and greedy right the rules only the rich and greedy prosper and their prosperity is in reality lying, cheating and stealing from everyone else. So which level of hell should they end up except for the lowest level reserved for betrayers, after they are those who are most rewarded by society who then seek to use that reward to cheat society http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I... of course that is the "Divine Comedy". I've got an idea how about you give up your hero worship of the rich and greedy, reality is, doing nothing other than taking credit for other people's efforts is nothing to be celebrated.

  11. Re:Come stand trial. on Russia Plans To Extend Edward Snowden's Asylum · · Score: 1

    What a load of crap. We have already seen exactly what happens with regard to Manning Trials. Every single bit of evidence that demonstrates adherence to rule of law with regard to exposing crimes is buried under national security. Not one iota of evidence proving adherence to law is allowed. A public joke, a disgrace to justice, US law proving the corrupt money and power based nature of the system of injustice.

    How stupid can you be to cite principles of justice with the US wealth and power based courts. Law enforcement routinely gets away with summary execution for contempt of cop. The poor and prosecuted and rich get away with everything or get laughable sentences. The US government has so blatantly corrupted justice that the trial system is now the punishment, with it extended for as long as possible and the enemy of the current band of politicians brutalised and even tortured during the whole process and to the point of death.

    Seriously wake up to reality, the US is as bad as the Soviet Union, not worse, equally exactly just as bad. Three cheers for The Shrub and the Uncle Tom bringing American justice down so low (now there is a real challenge picking the worst of the two, technically the Uncle Tom is far worse because he is smart enough to know exactly the consequences of what he is doing and the Shrub, well that was really all down to Darth Cheney).

  12. Re:It's called Gcoin now. on Google Says It Has "No Current Plans Regarding Bitcoin" · · Score: 1

    You make the same mistake again, Amazon does not required encrypted fake currency, it has capital assets to back it own creditor system not a fake currency, it backs it credit provision by capital assets as well as the real world currencies of it's investors. No crazy ass bitcoins required, it has the capital assets to deal in real world currencies, get it.

  13. Re:It's called Gcoin now. on Google Says It Has "No Current Plans Regarding Bitcoin" · · Score: 1

    The idea is just so stupidly silly. Any major corporation that creates is own psuedo currency, simply provides a means by which credit can be earned from them and they provide services in return, this because they have real capital assets backing.

    For example a major banking corporation instead of paying interest can offer services as a tax free percentage of that interest. Things like providing free tax returns (they have loads of lawyers and accounts and fully know the tax law, so it would make sense to offer that service in lieu of paying taxable interest, it keeps the money in it's electronic vaults), also the various forms of insurance can be offered.

    For non-banking corporations like say Google and MSN, there is the options of adding banking features to their repertoire and credit say something like MSN credits in lieu of interest or other earned income and provide a whole range of services in exchange or even cashing out your earned credits (not the original capital which remains regular local currency and can be withdrawn at any time). Really the idea of specialist financial institutions is really just psychopathic capitalism, worthless parasitic middle men.

  14. Re:Oh good on Security Vendors Self-Censor Target Breach Details · · Score: 2

    Well, this might make you warm and fuzzy, perhaps it was a NSA hack in POS software so they could track the majority credit card transactions. This information was then passed onto another party who simply did what the hack was designed to do, extra all personal information. Now the question is can the NSA sue for copyright infringement because according to them and the US government the own the personal information of everyone on the planet.

  15. Re:Great Firewall of China is bad enough ... on Great Firewall of UK Blocks Game Patch Because of Substring Matches · · Score: 1

    Most of the shit needs to happen just before the election. For example the Great Fire Wall of the UK goes 'er' nuts and blocks all protest and political opposition websites for some strange reason. Now if it does that, it does exactly what in reality it has been designed to do, protect those gullible grown children from reality so they continue to vote for the fantasy where conservative politics serves them and not just the richest 1%.

  16. Re:Titanic on Regulations Could Delay or Prevent Space Tourism · · Score: 1

    It most certainly did, for a whole bunch of it's passengers and crew, permanently. Corporations can only be trusted to do it cheaper and cheaper and cheaper, right up until cheaper guarantees failure, then they declare bankrupt and the public pays to clean it up (whilst all the profits generated up until then appear to disappear up a banksters blackhole).

  17. Re:Is it just me? on Heat Waves In Australia Are Getting More Frequent, and Hotter · · Score: 1

    You have ignored psychopathy. People who believe in nothing but their own ego and lusts, to the point that other human beings are not real like they are but are just things like furniture to be used and abused. No denialism, they know what is happening, they just don't give a fuck because as long as they are on top and are winning that is all they care about and the rest of you can just all go piss off and die.

    They pay people, well, pathetic losers to troll forums, troll media, troll the world with any lies that well benefit them in any way possible, there is a whole industry "Public Relations PR=B$" devoted to bullshit that sells.

    So long as they generate profits by polluting, they'll pay liars to say they are not polluting, the pollution doesn't exist, the pollution is a lie and of course the pollution is good for them (for when the other lies fail).

    Want real change, then the core of decision making needs to change, we need to take those psychopaths out of the decision making chain and until we do, expect more of the same insane psychopathic results.

  18. Re:Cause and effect may be backwards on Daily Pot Use Tied To Age of First Psychotic Episode · · Score: 1

    Marijuana is a plant, grown to supply fibres for clothing, ropes etc. and, the seeds with a high protein content for human consumption. Now if you are talking the various other substances to two most well known being THC and CBD, both of those have completely different affects and the ratio between the two have major differences in intoxication and pain relief.

    Basically the bullshit propaganda is pretty obvious as it just lumps marijuana together because it affects pharmaceutical corp profits, alcohol profits, wood pulp profits, synthnic fabric profits and keeping it illegal feeds the insane ego of psychopaths and narcissists who want to destroy peoples lives and target marijuana users gives them plenty of people to crush, lord it over and destroy (those people are truly sick fuckers) and it has nothing at all to do with the intoxicating affects.

  19. Re:Insurance on Who Is Liable When a Self-Driving Car Crashes? · · Score: 1

    Insurance generate profits by charging premiums and by 'not' making payments. The first question the insurance company assessor will ask the driver is what they were doing when the accident occurred. If the driver answer's reading the paper, you can bet no payout.

  20. Re:do yo u really think senior mgmt will read a bo on Senior Managers Are the Worst Information Security Offenders · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ego and arrogance got them their position at the top (all that corporate back stabbing, taking credit for other people's work and of course blaming anyone and everyone for executives own mistakes), so it is hardly surprising that the same attitude arising in the security decision making. Security if for the little people the nobodies, I pay you to make me secure, it's your fault, your fired, is senior managements normal attitude to security.

  21. Re:Measurement of utility on People Become More Utilitarian When They Face Moral Dilemmas In Virtual Reality · · Score: 1

    In video game play, losing, is the bad thing. You play according to the rules of the game and attempt to win. Although there is a difference some people do prefer to play the bad guys and others prefer to play the good guys. So the idea that people become more Utilitarian when with video rather than spoken is an incorrect interpretation, their video game mode is kicking in and they simply try to win as they have programmed by playing video games since youth.

  22. Re:It definitely *IS* a ruse ! on FBI Edits Mission Statement: Removes Law Enforcement As 'Primary' Purpose · · Score: 1

    The FBI has simply made an accurate a truthful correction according to law. It is not up to police forces or investigative agencies to enforce the law, that is the sole prerogative of the courts. Policing and investigative agencies are required to prove their actions as legal in a court of law, if they fail, then the court should enforce the law and seek the prosecution of the offending officers.

    The role of Policing and investigative agencies is to assist the public upholding the law never ever to appoint themselves as judge, jury and executioner and attempting to force the public to adhere to their often ill informed interpretation of the law and to subject the public to immediate physical punishment whether by direct physical assault, attack with chemical weapons, attack with electric shocks with serious risk of injury, and out and out immediate on the spot public execution (all of which are apparently the standard penalty for contempt of cop).

    Now the message should be forced upon those various organisations to remind them of their legal responsibilities and the strict limits to their powers. The courts of course should be doing far more to 'enforce' the laws upon those officers who commit criminal acts.

  23. Re: freedom on Counterpoint: Why Edward Snowden May Not Deserve Clemency · · Score: 1

    I gather from your comment, that if I want to keep my private parts to myself and should avoid flying over any part of the United States or the various puppet states it controls. So which card is mine?

  24. Re:But what about our own coasts? on US Coast Guard Ship To Attempt Rescue of 2 Icebreakers In Antarctica · · Score: 1

    The US has bases in Antarctica and Australia is much closer to Antarctica than the US, hence it makes sense for them to resupply out of Australia. Of course there is also South Africa, Argentina, Chile and New Zealand. However with Australia having a similar culture (fortunately not the same) to the US it makes it better for the crews to rest and recreate in Australia. In fact it would make logical sense for a permanent base 'US Coast Guard' base out of say some place like Hobart to service the US bases in Antarctica.

  25. Re:Cancer isn't one disease on Why a Cure For Cancer Is So Elusive · · Score: 2

    Actually it is all down to evolution, it's a bitch. If we can survive long enough to reproduce and in our case pass on knowledge, then evolution has done it's job, that we then die of heart disease, cancer or various other ailments brought on by age and probability, is all down to the nature of evolving just barely good enough for a species to continue to reproduce.

    Stem cell research and genetics research is all about fixing those inherent defects we are born with. Curing cancer simply requires more knowledge and a greater desire to gain that knowledge, so the defect, the inability of the cell to detect a defective state, the limit in the number of cell reproductions and, the ability of the immune system to detect specific defective cells. Probability means we will inevitably produce cancer cells, effective design means removing the defective cells (cell death or immune response) and replacing them with a non-defective variety (sufficient cell division capacity) and even enhancing cell repair capacity.

    So it is down to smarter genetic design and implementing that smarter genetic design. Attempting to cure conditions by the crude application of external interventions, is merely a stop gap and unfortunately in a psychopathic capitalistic society a very profitable stopgap and even worse treating the symptoms is far more profitable than curing the disease. If that we not the case, them governments would routinely establish treaties to target specific human ailments and provide state based funding for the research with results available free for all. Don't think it works, then look what can be achieved with regard to research when we insane monkeys set out to kill each other during wars, from bi-plane to jet plane, from single shot to full auto, from artillery to guided missles, from light tanks to full battle tanks, from gun powder to nuclear weapons.

    This if of course proof positive of the destructive influence of psychopaths (the 1%) upon the whole of human society, where we will it seems only ever come together as a society to drive research when it comes to killing each other for the profit of a psychopathic minority that drive us into doing it.