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  1. Re:Communism is the only way forward on Job Automation and the Minimum Wage Debate · · Score: 1

    I'm starting to think roman_mir is a novelty account mocking himself.

  2. Re:Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated. on EA Takes Over Scrabble App, Wipes Player Histories and Switches Dictionary · · Score: 2

    Or you could just download Wordfeud.

  3. Re:No Cures, just more drugs, drugs drugs... on Researchers Determine Chemical Structure of HIV Capsid · · Score: 1

    Smallpox was never cured--they just developed a vaccine for it. New vaccines continue to be developed, for example hand foot and mouth disease (2013), HPV (2006), rotavirus (1998), Lyme disease (1998), hepatitis A (1992), and the list goes on...

  4. Re:I agree, totally wrong on UK Benefits Claimants Must Use Windows XP, IE6 · · Score: 1

    Why the fuck does any working individual, who is getting robbed by the mob this way, why is even one of them is still left in these socialist nightmares of countries?

    I'd like to know this too... Why are you still here?

  5. Re:Three words... on BlackBerry CEO: Tablet Market Is Dying · · Score: 1
  6. Re:How Tragic on Huge Explosion at Texas Fertilizer Plant · · Score: 1

    Protesting the addition of toxins to drinking water is not the same as WANTING toxins added to one's drinking water.

    Neither lead nor fluoride is a toxin

  7. Re:FOIA on West Virginia Won't Release Broadband Report Because It Is 'Embarrassing' · · Score: 5, Informative
    The FOIA that we all know and love is a federal law that applies to federal agencies. West Virginia, like most states, has their own public records law that applies to their state agencies which you'll need to read to know whether they're in violation. Maybe they're claiming exemption #13:

    (13) Computing, telecommunications and network security records, passwords, security codes or programs used to respond to or plan against acts of terrorism which may be the subject of a terrorist act;

  8. Re:Formula for success on Sewage Plants Struggle To Treat Fracking Wastewater · · Score: 1

    What happens when the owner of the nuclear waste dies? Who pays the storage fee then?

  9. Re:really conflicted on this on iPhone Infringes On Sony, Nokia Patents, Says Federal Jury · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Apple is pissed off that everyone copied them. And everyone did. This is not in dispute. THIS REALLY HAPPENED.

    Oooh, let me try!

  10. Re: OT: Splitting physical displays in Windows? on LG Introduces Monitor With 21:9 Aspect Ratio · · Score: 1

    It does work with two screens if you setup your displays to meet at the corners rather than at the sides. For example, if I want to move something to the display on my left, I drag it through the upper left corner of my primary.

  11. Re:Truly a 1st world problem on FCC Chief Urges FAA To Ease Airplane Electronics Ban · · Score: 1

    Pretty much any airport with commercial service will have instrument landing system, which is what the GP is referring to.

  12. Re:When I was in high school on Ask Slashdot: How To Ask College To Change Intro To Computing? · · Score: 0

    There is a way to get a degree from real world experience. It is called a Regent's Degree. Most if not all universities offer them.

    Yes, they're called diploma mills.

  13. Re:All I can say is... on NASA Morpheus Lander Test Ends In Explosion · · Score: 1

    ...and if you look closely, you can see at least one of the fire engines says "NASA" on the side.

  14. Re:Poor... on The Poor Waste More Time On Digital Entertainment · · Score: 1

    Looking at this 1960s used car ad, it appears used cars could be had for as low as $95. but ~$500 seems to be the low end for anything decent.

  15. Re:School inquiry? on Automated Dorm Room Causes a School Inquiry · · Score: 1
    I'm guessing it has something to do with this:

    The wall switch was particularly dangerous and I left as a last resort. With no access to the circuit breakers of the dorms, the contacts and wiring inside the wall switch remains live even as I open and try to modify it.

    http://lab.dereklow.co/brad/

  16. Re:hope it was worth the megan's law list on Man Protests TSA With Nudity · · Score: 0
    According to the Portland Police Bureau:

    Being naked in public in Portland is legal if it falls within the guidelines of ORS 163.465, which are included below. Or. Rev. Stat. 163.465. Public indecency (1) A person commits the crime of public indecency if while in, or in view of, a public place the person performs: (a) An act of sexual intercourse; (b) An act of deviate sexual intercourse; or (c) An act of exposing the genitals of the person with the intent of arousing the sexual desire of the person or another person. (2) (a) Public indecency is a Class A misdemeanor. (b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of this subsection, public indecency is a Class C felony if the person has a prior conviction for public indecency or a crime described in ORS 163.355 to 163.445 or for a crime in another jurisdiction that, if committed in this state, would constitute public indecency or a crime described in ORS 163.355 to 163.445.

  17. Re:Just wrong on all counts on DoJ Files Suit Against Apple, Ebook Publishers · · Score: 0

    If Amazon wants to charge the consumer less than what they have to pay the publisher for each copy sold then I'm pretty sure they can. It depends on how much profit Amazon is really making from its eReader sales.

    No, they can't. That's the whole issue here.

  18. Re:Really? on DoJ Files Suit Against Apple, Ebook Publishers · · Score: 0

    So what you're saying is paper books are cheaper because they're more expensive...?

  19. Re:Time on California Going Ahead With Bullet Train · · Score: 0

    Eminent domain is confiscation of private property, which is one of the people's rights. This is clearly unconstitutional[...]

    Is the fifth amendment somehow not part of the constitution in your world?

  20. Re:Hulda Clark on AIDS Vaccine Breakthrough · · Score: 0

    She also claimed that device could cure cancer... until she died of cancer.

  21. Re:No sports on Netflix on Why Netflix Had To Raise Its Prices · · Score: 0

    I'm not sure which aren't, but here are the ones that are.

  22. Re:No sports on Netflix on Why Netflix Had To Raise Its Prices · · Score: 0

    ESPN3 to the rescue.

  23. Re:what's the difference? on ATM Repairman Accused of Taking (and Faking) Cash · · Score: 0

    - it's not that useful as industrial material, and as the value of fiat plunges, the usage of gold as of industrial material will diminish further, as people will find alternatives.

    So if I understand you correctly, gold is valuable because its relatively useless?

  24. Re:Where did this idiot learn English? on The Space Station As a Simulated Mars Mission? · · Score: 0
  25. Re:Misleading "science" on New Energy Efficiency Rules For TVs Sold In California · · Score: 0

    I hear SUVs are more efficient per pound, too.