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  1. Re:Im all for human rights... on OKCupid Warns Off Mozilla Firefox Users Over Gay Rights · · Score: 5, Funny

    being gay is not a matter of religion

    Romans 1

    26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. 28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.

    It is very much a religious issue for many people.

    That's just artifacts of the English translation being unable to convey the true meaning of the scriptures. It doesn't remotely mean the same thing when read in the original Klingon.

  2. Re:Not playing nice. on If Ridesharing Is Banned, What About Ride-Trading? · · Score: 1

    No sympathy here. Play by the established rules and regulations or GTFO, ok?

    Depends where you are talking about and which company. Most are operating under loopholes or bizarre interpretations of the laws, but aren't quite running a speakeasy of cab services. Of course, at least in Seattle, playing by the established rules and regulations means they can't enter the market as all the taxi licenses are already owned and they will not issue more. One of the companies in Seattle therefore ran under the rules that towncars and limos ran under as a charter service. It's just that with cell phone apps, the charter could be made from anywhere in seconds. Still, there are reasons that these service can even function at higher rates than taxis, and that's because that taxis, in Seattle anyway, and unreliable, inconvenient, and dirty.

  3. Re:Makes sense.... on If Ridesharing Is Banned, What About Ride-Trading? · · Score: 1

    If Seattle is anything like New York they make a ton of money on taxi medallions. Less taxis, less revenue. :-(

    Pretty sure that Seattle is not like NYC. The issue is not that medallions to become a taxi cost money, it's that there are no medallions for sale. For the current medallion owners, less taxis mean more revenue. They use that revenue to protect their profits. If Uber or Lyft could just pay money and keep operating, they probably would. In Seattle such operations charge more money than cabs, and the people here are willing to pay it because the cabs are pretty much unreliable, inconvenient, dirty, and lack customer service. The last time I stood in the rain for over an hour because the cab company kept telling me that the first two cabs went by where I was and called my cell but I wasn't there and didn't answer, I stopped relying on taxis for transportation.

  4. Re:Redefine hunting. on Drone-Assisted Hunting To Be Illegal In Alaska · · Score: 1

    Besides, I've never been to a supermarket that serves venison.

    They don't have venison in the US? Every supermarket has venison in the UK, even the cheapest ones like Lidl and Aldi. They don't have a big selection, though.

    He's probably never looked for it. It is pretty rare but can be found. If they have venison, it will probably be one item, frozen, next to the frozen duck, rabbit, and less used cow organs in the bottom of the freezer section. Asian markets will probably carry it as well as exotic meat markets. Otherwise, most of the US will probably just ask for some from the part of the family that hunts when they want it.

  5. Re:Flight recorder on How Satellite Company Inmarsat Tracked Down MH370 · · Score: 1

    There's no real reason to assume that this was deliberate versus a massive failure on board the plane that caused loss of most communications and navigation.

    Most of the analysis I've read has pretty much stated that anything that massive that would have kept the pilots from reporting in via the various means of independent communication on the plane for the hours they were still in control, would have been so massive, the plane would not have still been airworthy. A single turn and cruise till it runs out of fuel, and there might be an argument for fire, loss of cabin pressure, or something overcoming the crew and passengers. There were at least three turns and altitude corrections in over an hours time that would have required manual control. If things were so bad that they couldn't tell where they were going and couldn't radio, they probably would have ditched and hoped for rescue with the liferaft transponders rather than fly blindly into the Indian ocean.

  6. Re:His debate on How Did Bill Nye Become the Science Guy? · · Score: 1

    If there is a God that created the universe then,...

    I think you've got it backwards. God is what created the universe. If there is nothing but a collection of impersonal physical laws, so be it. Any collection of impersonal physical laws complicated enough to create creatures which will anthropomorphize them, deserve to be anthropomorphized.

  7. Re:Paris had cars? on Paris Bans Half of All Cars On the Road · · Score: 1

    The Pacific Electric Streetcars went out of business because they were slow, expensive, and unprofitable. The stretch from downtown LA to Santa Monica averaged 13 mph. That was good compared to your options in 1905. By the 1930s, it was horribly slow.

    This differs from driving on the LA freeways today how?

  8. Re:So..... on Russian State TV Anchor: Russia Could Turn US To "Radioactive Ash" · · Score: 1

    > Tell me again why Obumbles gets more RSPECT than Palin?

    Even Bush the Younger gets more respect than Palin.

    Well, he is smarter and more experienced than Palin. He at least managed to finish his term as governor.

  9. Re:This should be amusing. on Diamond Suggests Presence of Water Deep Within Earth · · Score: 1

    This is really obscure - it might take a couple of months, but I predict that this is at some point going to be noticed by creationists who will then read the summary (not the paper of course, just the summary) and proudly declare that this is where the water from the great flood disappeared to.

    Long past that point. I can remember seeing something on the internet at least a decade ago talking about not only where the water went to, but where it came from to begin with. The idea that there is water trapped deep in the mantel is not new or surprising. It has been known for along time, this is just more and better evidence.

  10. Living the Dream on Lies Programmers Tell Themselves · · Score: 2

    "I'll get back to work after reading the comments on this next /. article."

  11. Re:Lame on Lies Programmers Tell Themselves · · Score: 1

    Seriously, this is like 1990s levels of ad spamming. First you have the full window click through ad, then you have ads on every 10 word slide, a click through in the middle of the slides, and then just for good measure the last slide isn’t a content slide but yet another ad!

    I feel like I need 10 levels of toolbars and bonzo-buddy running in the background to really appreciate the experience of this site.

    Why do you think that it is the rest of us don't bother to read the 'fing articles anymore.

  12. Re:"LONG extinct"? Hah. on 43,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth Remains Offer Strong Chance of Cloning · · Score: 1

    If mammoths were wiped out by climate change, then resurrecting the species in a modern climate would be bringing it into an environment that it was not evolved to handle.

    I suspect that there is a significant difference between sustaining themselves in the wild in a climate they have trouble handling and being raised in essentially what will be a zoo which is where they are going.

  13. Re:If I were Samsung on Apple Demands $40 Per Samsung Phone For 5 Software Patents · · Score: 1

    I wonder why they have not done this already. Okay, Apple spends a lot of money with them, but would it be more than what they would gain from seeing a massive shortage of Apple devices and potentially a reduction in quality/performance?

    Because Samsung is really, really big and the section they are suing is not the same as the one they are buying things from. It's doubtful that the section being sued has enough pull to make another section take a hit to their finances. Besides, having a good deal with Apple provides leverage they wouldn't have if they dropped it and no reason to believe that dropping it would give any other benefit besides being spiteful.

  14. Re:And... on 70% of U.S. Government Spending Is Writing Checks To Individuals · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why is this a problem? You've outlined some interesting results here, but what makes you think there's an issue here?

    Because they are paying people, when they should be paying corporations!

  15. Re:I won't hold my breath on Senator Accuses CIA of Snooping On Intelligence Committee Computers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because Northern California voters are beyond stupid. They'll unthinkingly vote for anyone who is "Democrat" even if he bankrupted the state twice already or if she has already been a downright awful senator for 3 or 4 terms already.

    It's not that they'll vote for anybody that is a Democrat, but rather against anybody who is a Republican. No matter how bad their guy is, they're still better than the other guy's guy. I see the same thing for people voting for Republicans in OK. So long as they're not a democrat, they think they'll come out ahead.

  16. Re:How are nuclear weapons going to help though? on Ukraine May Have To Rearm With Nuclear Weapons Says Ukrainian MP · · Score: 1

    I'll agree with all that but part of it is also that Crimea seems to be siding with Russia. I was reading an old thread on militaryphotos.net (they're really good at collecting photos of military actions and giving commentary on what exactly is being shown) dealing with the Kiev riots, and from months ago, the Crimea parliament said that Kiev better quell the rioters because it would come or go with Russia. This shouldn't have been a surprise to anybody watching the situation.

  17. Re:Effects of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan on 3 Years Later: A Fukushima Worker's Eyewitness Story · · Score: 1

    But as it is, the meltdown has rendered a big swath of land uninhabitable.

    It's not uninhabitable. People could live there perfectly fine for a long time I bet, just like some are around Chernobyl. It is probably more danger in the long run than other land, but we are just attempting death avoidance in levels far safer than other situations that we are ok with. Living in the evacuated zone is probably safer than being a coal miner.

  18. Re:Spin? on WSJ: Americans' Phone Bills Are Going Up · · Score: 1

    WSJ is in the back pockets of big businesses. How can we be sure this is not anti-competition (i.e, pro-oligopoly) propaganda?

    Because WSJs support to big businesses is in telling the people that run them the facts. That is why the WSJ can be trusted, because people (who make up the CEOs and boards of various big business companies) read it to determine where to put their money. If WSJ puts spin and prints propaganda and people base where they put their money on that info and lose it because it was falsified, there are going to be lots of mad billionaires. That includes honest criticism of same big businesses. WSJ may be pro-business, but they are about the best fact checking news provider that exists.

  19. Re:I have your conversion right here... on Microsoft's Attempt To Convert Users From Windows XP Backfires · · Score: 1

    My grandmother refuses to upgrade because she's so in love with the greetings card workshop software that came with her first computer in the mid-90's. It's run fine on each computer since, but definitely won't run on Win 7 or 8 so she won't upgrade again. I don't think your solution is any better for her, and she's pretty representative of a large segment of the people still on XP.

    Once again, computers and their OS are all dependent on the "Killer App".

  20. Re:"pro-Russian forces in Crimea" on WikiLeaks Cables Foreshadow Russian Instigation of Ukrainian Military Action · · Score: 1

    The thing is that most of them weren't. Some originally joined Russian Empire completely voluntarily like Georgia. Some didn't even have a state when those territories were colonized and have them now simply because they weren't exterminated like American natives. Some are failed conquerors of Russia themselves, like Poland and Lithuania. Most post soviet countries are artificial. Some of peoples that stayed within Russian Federation have more claims to sovereignty than those states. Making them independent was pointless. Many of them got even worse regimes than the past soviet one. Russian Federation happens to be one of more democratic ones. I think all of them would be better off staying in the same state and building their post-soviet future together.

    However, despite years of being joined and with time to all become on happy family that work well together, once given the chance, they not only separated, but almost all of them put out feelers and looked at joining the EU and NATO. NATO, whose only real point is to protect people from Russia. In the European family of nations, it really does seem like Russia is the drunk uncle who likes to abuse his wife and kids and gets mad when they try to move out and go to a shelter.

  21. Re:Troll on Whole Foods: America's Temple of Pseudoscience · · Score: 2

    Homeopathy is not silly; it is a lie. If you sell it, you're lying to people. So it matters that Whole Foods sells it, as it casts doubt on their grasp of science, which indicates their "healthly" foods are just marketing to the credulous.

    Why do you hate homeos? You sound very homeophobic.

  22. Re:the science on organic food on Whole Foods: America's Temple of Pseudoscience · · Score: 1

    Add in that organic tends to make it to market quicker and is fresher.

  23. Re:Take pictures, press charges. on Woman Attacked In San Francisco Bar For Wearing Google Glass · · Score: 1

    You are confusing private property and a public place.

    You're forgetting to define your terms, provide support for your definition, and gain agreement upon such definitions in the frame of reference upon which you are speaking. If you are speaking of legal definitions of terms, then you should state so as most people are using common argot.

  24. Re:Take pictures, press charges. on Woman Attacked In San Francisco Bar For Wearing Google Glass · · Score: 1

    What idiot thinks he is private on a sidewalk, a bar, or a grocery store!

    The type that thinks that a bar is a private property that allows entrance to the public under the understanding that they follow the house rules for behavior?

  25. Re:lipstick and suction cups on Apple Drops Snow Leopard Security Updates, Doesn't Tell Anyone · · Score: 2

    I got about 15 minutes into this project before I discovered that suction cups are involved.

    Just what I need in my service kit: suction cups.

    When I ran into that issue, I just used some packing tape to make handles. Screen came off nicely, and didn't leave any residue either.