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  1. Re:Fact vs. Fiction on North Carolina Town Defeats Big Solar's Plan To Suck Up the Sun (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It should if the water you store in your lake used to end up on other people's property, or if the waste from your cows does end on other people's property. I'm sure if your neighbor had a water cannon shooting Tabasco sauce onto your land you'd probably think twice about your absurd position.

    You are not an island.

  2. Re:An interesting concept on Anonymous Goes After Donald Trump · · Score: 1

    Only if you are illiterate.

  3. Re:During or immediately after the attack on DHS Deployed Plane Above San Bernardino To Scoop Up All Phone Calls After Attack (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It didn't help before the attack, why should it now suddenly work after the attack? Some sort of magic? A miracle, perhaps?

  4. Re:An interesting concept on Anonymous Goes After Donald Trump · · Score: 1

    And you are using the actions of a few to judge the many. You just might want to work on your reasoning, as it currently sucks.

  5. Re:An interesting concept on Anonymous Goes After Donald Trump · · Score: 1

    No, this has been happening since the dawn of mankind when one group with power exerts it over those without, and refuses to listen to their concerns. If you want to shoe-horn this into some anti-SJW rant, that speaks more to your complete lack of historical understanding of conflicts within countries or between groups than it does anyone else. It happened, for example, with the birth of IRA terrorism in Britain. The British government refused to address the rampant civil rights abuses, and instead attacked the civil rights groups. This pushed the groups underground, and the only way they could get listened to was by violence. This led to decades of violence and thousands killed and maimed.

    I guess you also have a problem with the American revolution, as that was a use of force against people simply because they didn't get their will. Your childish attempts to paint "SJW"s as some sort of relentless violent lunatics is making you sound like a complete illiterate, devoid of any understanding of history or the actors at play.

    "SJW". Grow up - the future begs you.

  6. Re:Democracy on Anonymous Goes After Donald Trump · · Score: 1

    Unless you asked every Muslim, we need to know more about how the survey was performed. You seem so hell-bent on painting Muslims as the bad guys that you forgot to at least perform the necessary rigour to do so.

    So yeah, you are some sort of messed up xenophobe, using weak numbers to try to prove a horrific point. If you're not, you are doing a wonderful impression of one.

  7. Re:Documents that made him look like an stupid jer on Anonymous Goes After Donald Trump · · Score: 1

    Hint: Muslims don't just live in Muslim-majority countries. Plenty of Muslims don't even need a visa to enter the US.

  8. Re:Sounds like the Microsoft plan on Microsoft (Briefly) Reveals New Extensions For Edge, Including Reddit and Pinterest (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter. It's Microsoft, so some people will complain due to tradition.

  9. Re:Anybody actually using Edge? on Microsoft (Briefly) Reveals New Extensions For Edge, Including Reddit and Pinterest (thestack.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I use it quite a bit on my media PC, as the PC is rather underpowered, and the entire Edge rendering is hardware accelerated, including flash video. Chrome is nearly as quick on that PC, but it just doesn't have the hardware acceleration that Edge offers. The lack of extensions is very noticeable, as is the lack of quite a few other standard browser features, but that will improve over time.

    So yes, people are using Edge, because it already can do some things other browsers can't.

  10. Re:Actions of a few.. on France Will Not Ban Wi-Fi Or Tor, Prime Minister Says (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Dereliction of duty is not protected by free speech.

  11. Re:I just added it to my resume. on Tech Giant SAP Seeks To Hire More Autistic Adults (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    They are looking for people with useful abilities which can make, not save, money. You are not being cynical, just missing the point entirely.

  12. Re:Actions of a few.. on France Will Not Ban Wi-Fi Or Tor, Prime Minister Says (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    He actually sounds more like a page or two from the Stasi handbook. They were all about reporting suspicions to the authorities. The irony is palpable, and totally lost on that muppet.

  13. Re:Actions of a few.. on France Will Not Ban Wi-Fi Or Tor, Prime Minister Says (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    You are confusing socialism with a socialist government. Of course a socialist government is going to have an attachment to the state.

    You might want to brush up on your reading before showing everyone just how much you think of yourself.

  14. It's not ancient history when the repercussions are still felt to this day. That you would be fine with attempted genocide is strange.

  15. Looking at their firearm homicide rate compared to the US, I'd say quite the opposite is true.

  16. You do realise that if you pick a time to discuss gun control it will be quite soon after a mass shooting, simply because of the frequency of mass shootings. By your logic there is no time to discuss gun control. Maybe that's the way you want it.

    And no, a very large percentage of the guns used in mass shootings are legally obtained. Many guns used in crime were legally owned by people such as yourselves, but were subsequently stolen and entered the black market.

  17. Gun control is about stopping that up-until-now-a-"Good Guy with a gun" from flipping out about the bad news at work or his wife's infidelity and shooting a bunch of innocent people. It's also about making it far more inconvenient and expensive for a premeditated crime (robbery, assault, whatever) to rely on one. The fact you don't seem to understand why gun control exists and how it works doesn't reflect too well on you. You are arguing against something you clearly don't understand. Weird.

  18. ... as is everyone else.

  19. English is a descriptive language. Get over it. Get over yourself, too, while you're getting over stuff.

  20. Re:Microsoft's comment on TAG Heuer Increasing Weekly Production To Meet Demand For Its Smartwatch (slashgear.com) · · Score: 1

    Microsoft sold nearly 1.5 million Surface Pro tablets in Q1 2015 alone...

  21. So your sense of entitlement trumps the law? Amazing. You might just want to calm down a bit.

  22. It's almost as if you have no idea that Google provides a lot more than a search engine. Hint: they have their own operating systems, and that is directly comparable to Microsoft, who also sell operating systems.

    It's not 2001 any more. You've got a lot to catch up on.

  23. "Nobody" wants it? Really? That's what you came up with?

    Hint: If you find yourself making generalisations, your argument probably needs work.

  24. Really? You see no benefit of moving users to a more secure operating system other than making money from the store?

  25. Re: Snitching devices on Hit-and-Run Suspect Arrested After Her Own Car Calls Cops (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    He stated quite clearly that you have privacy in private, which is kind of in the name. It's a bit of a hint put in there for people like you who seem to not understand what it means.