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  1. I'd say it does a good job of it so far on Drug Runners Perfect Long-Range Subs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Try this: find a kid in high school and ask her what's easier to buy: booze or weed.

    If weed is so easy to purchase today, it doesn't follow that legalization will create a significant increase is usage.

    Get away from the bias of wanting to believe that legalization will significantly or dramatically increase drug use and abuse, and you're left with the realization that the current form of government addressing the ill of drug abuse is far worse than the abuse itself.

  2. Using terms like... on Senators Bash ISP and Push Extensive Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Tribal Identifier render your opinion on Dennis Miller worthless. Really.

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  3. What would you say... on NASA Says 2010 Tied For Warmest Year On Record · · Score: 1

    is the dollar per degree of temperature effectiveness given the state of green tech? Really, how many trillions do we have to spend to affect each .1 degree K?

    Shouldn't be too hard to calculate, given that this is science we are talking about, right?

  4. Naa... on Apple Pulls VLC Media Player From AppStore · · Score: 1

    I'll pass on the strong dose of ideologue fueled hyperbole. Besides, I only buy dogma from people over 30.

  5. Re:What is reasonable? on 'No Refusal' DUI Checkpoints Coming To Florida? · · Score: 1

    Alcohol-related collisions involving fatalities.

    Speeding isn't an accident. If we're drawing lines and defining reasonableness, then let's start with fatalities. No need for exaggeration just yet.

  6. What is reasonable? on 'No Refusal' DUI Checkpoints Coming To Florida? · · Score: 1

    When alcohol related driving deaths represents 40% of all driving fatalities (in the US, in 2006), then it seems we're right up against the defining line of what is reasonable and what is not. Does increasing that percentage to, say, 99% then pass the test of what is/is not reasonable?

    That's advocating the devil's position: Personally, I'd rather take the route where being convicted of a DUI ends permanently one's legal ability to drive. One strike you're out.

  7. While it may seem unlikely... on Skype Slowly Restores Service To Users · · Score: 1

    and remote: there exists a real possibility that both his internet and cell phone service don't work during the same period he needs to call an ambulance. Some people value preparedness over trendiness.

  8. Re:Wouldn't it be easier? on Word Lens — Augmented Reality Translation · · Score: 1

    If somebody with a size challenged funny bone can make money writing comedy, then you should make a killing.

    Mark Twain received many death threats, probably at couple of those from professional comedy writers.

  9. No social benefit... on Ex-Goldman Sachs Programmer Found Guilty · · Score: 1

    says you.

    I can think of one -- Free Market. As in free to invest, free to lose your house. Fascists need not apply.

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  10. Hello editors... on Australia's Privacy Boss Slams Gov't Data-Retention Scheme · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's not like this post was originally not in English. Is that a record for first sentence errors?

  11. If only you could see... on Julian Love, Lead Technical Artist for Diablo 3 · · Score: 1

    what I've seen with your eyes.

  12. Thank You on Chinese Nobel Winner's Wife Detained · · Score: 1

    for pointing out the central and performative contradiction of those whose stance is "all culture is wrapped in context and thus equal" - while ignoring the cultural origin of that very statement. All cultures do not deserve an equal spot at the table. Are the Nazis just as valuable as everybody else? Of course not.

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  13. flywire on Is DIY Algae Farming the Future? · · Score: 1

    one word. I also put "mosquitos" after it.

  14. Do not disturb... on 100-Sq.-Mile Ice Island Breaks Off Greenland Glacier · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    a True Believer when they have that look in their eyes: it'll just create more heat.

  15. Umm... on Google Engineer Decries Complexity of Java, C++ · · Score: 2, Insightful

    pretty well, actually.

  16. Agree... on Sound As the New Illegal Narcotic? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    and disagree. Education: yes. Using erowid as a single source: definitely not.

    My nephew found an old tank of freon from an A/C service cart at a diesel repair shop. After reading the info and reports at erowid he believed he was perfectly safe to inhale from the tank. Apparently none of the reports and info on erowid mentions the dangers of inhaling freon from an A/C service machine: which is full of oil and contaminates from all the service discharges performed.

    My nephew got more than he bargained for. Fortunately the I'm-sure-I'm-dying spell only lasted a couple days and only required one trip to the ER.

    I would have told him, had he simply asked. However, not so sure he would have listened seeing as how brilliant the internet has turned him.

  17. Your ignorance... on A Look Back At Bombing the Van Allen Belts · · Score: 1

    has been addressed above. The simple: no mistranslation or opaque intent, only useful idiots like yourself.

  18. Or... on The 'Back' Button the Most Clicked Firefox Icon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    it's the most used gesture: Right button down, drag left.

  19. Spoken like... on NASA Ends Plan To Put Man Back On Moon · · Score: 1

    a true ideologue.

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  20. Re:Well for starters on IRS Wants a Cut of Sales On eBay and Craigslist · · Score: 1

    About entering you are incorrect: Improper entry by an alien is a violation of Title 8 of the U.S. criminal code punishable by a fine of between $50 and $250 and/or a maximum of six months in jail.

    There is a legal distinction between entering and simply lacking legal immigration status, which is a civil violation as you noted.

  21. I see. on EFF Says Forget Cookies, Your Browser Has Fingerprints · · Score: 1

    Your nitpick then wasn't just about Noscript and disabling Javascript. We get it: you don't use or like Firefox.

  22. Nobody is saying that Firefox... on EFF Says Forget Cookies, Your Browser Has Fingerprints · · Score: 1

    is the only way to protect against this, or that Noscript is the only way to protect against this. Hairyfeet described Noscript as indispensable for use with Firefox. You obviously took that as a chaff against non-firefox and non-noscript users.

  23. People use Noscript... on EFF Says Forget Cookies, Your Browser Has Fingerprints · · Score: 2, Insightful

    because of its whitelisting feature. Otherwise they would use their browser's built-in ability to turn off Javascript. What percentage of people use a browser that doesn't enable the user to turn off Javascript?

  24. And Noscript... on EFF Says Forget Cookies, Your Browser Has Fingerprints · · Score: 1

    doesn't just disable Javascript.

  25. Ultima memory... on EA Launches Ultima-Based Browser Game · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Finding the rocket in UII was a top ten gaming highlight.