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  1. Re:Stop blaming Iraqi-on-Iraqi deaths on the US on Bradley Manning Pleads Guilty To 10 Charges · · Score: 1

    It's rather easy to blame the US when the US created the power vacuum which let the violence happen in the first place, using lies to justify its actions. Your comparison with the holocaust and Nazi Germany is pathetic.

  2. Re:Avoiding the Murdock tax on Ask Slashdot: IPTV Service In the UK? · · Score: 1

    It's a license fee, and pays for the excellent programming on the BBC and subsidises some other programming on other networks.

  3. Re:He's kidding, right? on Future Fighters Won't Need Ejection Seats · · Score: 1

    Frequency hopping is a wonderful method of defeating jamming. The amount of power required to overwhelm the in-use frequency and every other possible frequency is practically impossible to manage. Jamming stations also make wonderful targets for anti-radiation munitions. So keep your manned jets - they'll only be shot out of the skies by other countries' drones which can out-manoeuvre them at the drop of a hat.

  4. Re:lag on Future Fighters Won't Need Ejection Seats · · Score: 3, Informative

    Try 1999. Hint: Balkans conflict.

  5. Re:sounds like a great mythbusters episode... on al-Qaeda's 22 Tips and Tricks To Dodge Drones · · Score: 1

    That is by definition untrue, as both the terms "freedom fighter" and "terrorist" describe motive, not action. One can also use terrorism in the pursuit of winning freedom, so they're clearly not mutually exclusive either.

  6. Re:sounds like a great mythbusters episode... on al-Qaeda's 22 Tips and Tricks To Dodge Drones · · Score: 1

    And what the ground's made of, how sensitive the drone is, the air temperature, and the ground temperature. So quite probably no - that's not going to work.

  7. Re:Why such a big problem ? on Flu Shot Doing Poor Job of Protecting Older People This Year · · Score: 2

    It's inconvenient to you, but if you transmit it to someone to whom it's actually life-threatening, you are fucking with them, which is kind of uncool. And it's not "God knows what" - the contents of the flu shots are well understood. It sounds like you simply don't know what you're talking about.

  8. Re:Whiners are us on Flu Shot Doing Poor Job of Protecting Older People This Year · · Score: 1

    With respect, it's 56% effective (this year at least, and this year was apparently rather poor). Remember that other countries which do not make ridiculous amounts of money from healthcare as in the US are also pushing the need for flu shots. Something's clearly not right with your logic, unless you are some sort of genius maverick doctor on the verge of saving humanity. I'd bet against that, though, and put some trust in the doctors who seem to know a lot more about this than you do.

  9. Re:Confusion on Flu Shot Doing Poor Job of Protecting Older People This Year · · Score: 1

    People will be going there anyway. Your point only makes sense if people are going to those places only to get the vaccines, which is not true.

  10. Re:Too much mutation... on Flu Shot Doing Poor Job of Protecting Older People This Year · · Score: 1

    No, his evidence suggests that he believes them to not work on him. That's it. Nothing more. To extrapolate one untrained individual's personal experience to an entire field of medicine is ridiculous.

  11. Re:Makes Sense. on Flu Shot Doing Poor Job of Protecting Older People This Year · · Score: 1

    Not all countries have such shitty healthcare systems as the US - those countries research these things massively, as they have an incentive to develop the most cost-effective medicines possible.

  12. Re:Quit promoting it when it doesn't work on Flu Shot Doing Poor Job of Protecting Older People This Year · · Score: 1

    I wonder how many pests you'd have if the agriculture around you didn't use pesticides...

  13. Re:The fallacy of "Any is better" on Flu Shot Doing Poor Job of Protecting Older People This Year · · Score: 1

    While actively denying people the flu shot while you sort that out? Great logic!

  14. Re:The fallacy of "Any is better" on Flu Shot Doing Poor Job of Protecting Older People This Year · · Score: 1

    How many were reported?

  15. Re:and another fail for the "jobs" metric. on France Plans 20-Billion Euro National Broadband Plan · · Score: 1

    Job creation is just one facet of the benefits this project brings. 10,000 jobs is nothing to laugh at - it will help thousands of families, and at the end the infrastructure of the country will be vastly improved.

  16. Re:Large? on France Plans 20-Billion Euro National Broadband Plan · · Score: 2

    The article doesn't say France is the largest, just that it is large. Yes, Canada is larger, as are a bunch of other countries. That does not stop France itself from being large.

  17. Re:Enough socialism please... on US CEO Says French Workers Have Three-Hour Work Day · · Score: 1

    How's that US debt going, sparky? Quality of life is far superior in "socialist" countries, and that's what most sane people give a shit about.

  18. Re:And yet... on US CEO Says French Workers Have Three-Hour Work Day · · Score: 1

    No, we are talking about a claim that French workers are more lazy when compared to American workers. Talking about those American workers is definitely appropriate.

  19. Re: It's The American Drean on US CEO Says French Workers Have Three-Hour Work Day · · Score: 1

    That's one counter-example to the years and years of examples from Fox. Try harder!

  20. Re:Ironic on US Stealth Jet Has To Talk To Allied Planes Over Unsecured Radio · · Score: 5, Interesting

    He was probably referring to public key cryptography, which was indeed invented in Britain first. Due to the official secrets act, it was not revealed until after some clever people in the US figured it out, too. Interesting anecdote: The Brit who came up with it figured out all the mathematics involved in his head without writing anything down, as he did it at home, where his job forbade him from writing anything work-related down.

  21. Re:Still overdue on Russian Meteor Largest In a Century · · Score: 1

    That's not entirely true. A system could send out many pulses. Returned "pings" would, given sufficient sensitivity in the receiver, indicate the distance, size, and movement of an object.

  22. Re:It is Psychology, Science! Fact! on Paper On Conspiratorial Thinking Invokes Conspiratorial Thinking · · Score: 1

    An "ad hominem" isn't calling someone a name, it is the act of dismissing what someone says because of who they are, not what they say.

  23. Re:Why? on DNA Confirms Parking Lot Remains Belong To King Richard III · · Score: 1

    If you didn't find the answer, you were not looking very hard! It's been thoroughly discussed on the BBC for ages, for example. Don't blame the "MSM" for your laziness! The fact they matched the DNA of this body to a living relative of the king means they clearly had some clue as to what they were doing...

  24. A simple suggestion: on As Music Streaming Grows, Royalties Slow To a Trickle · · Score: 1

    Spend your energy performing live instead of complaining, and see just how much money you could actually make. All these online listens translate to excellent publicity - make the most of it.

  25. Re:limited application on UK Researchers Build Micron LED Light Based Wireless Network · · Score: 1

    Light reflects wonderfully, so no.