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  1. Re:No. on Is Science Just a Matter of Faith? · · Score: 1

    but you can. thats the bigger point.

    you can go and reproduce it, and if not that, you can go and check out how they do it at the labs.

    i have yet to see somebody reproduce "blind people seeing again by the touch of a hand" or any other things like that.

    I did see the image of the Virgin Mary in a piece of toast; does that count? It could be Sophia Loren though.

  2. Re:I think I heard of this somewhere before... on Interpol Wants a Global Identity Card System · · Score: 1

    What have the Romans ever done for us?

  3. Re:One world government on Interpol Wants a Global Identity Card System · · Score: 1

    So, getting cancer, getting in a car accident where you're not responsible, or getting alzheimer is being careless?
    I mean, Why do we support prisonners? Why shouldn't we just kill them? After all, they are sucking up ressources, right?

    And yet socialised health care works for many countries...

    Indeed, why are we supporting convicted criminals? Bring back exile! There are plenty of isolated islands that are suitable for permanent exile. I'd rather pay for college scholarships and medical care for law abiding citizens than for kenneling criminals. Offenders who currently get life sentences or the death penalty would get a one way ticket to an island somewhere far away (the Pacific Ocean is a very big place). So much for the hand wringing over the death penalty.

    Seriously, most countries simply don't have the money for the luxury of attempting to rehabilitate criminals. Save a person early through education instead of wasting them (and other people's money) in prisons.

  4. Re:Go for it on US May Disable All Car Phones, Says Trans. Secretary · · Score: 1

    This isn't about some individual reckless drivers talking on the cell phone. It's a limitation of our brains.

    It's both. Isn't it?

  5. Re:Go for it on US May Disable All Car Phones, Says Trans. Secretary · · Score: 1

    The right wing wants a Nanny state too, it's just a different one.

    I agree, both parties want control, just for different reasons. Both annoy me.

    Or what do you call sanctioned groping of 3 year old girls?

    I call it a sex crime.

  6. Re:Go for it on US May Disable All Car Phones, Says Trans. Secretary · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So, let's just punish everyone driving instead of holding individuals accountable for their reckless driving?

    Sometimes the right wing yelps of "Nanny State!" aren't just a boy crying wolf.

  7. Re:When I see stuff like this ... on UK Seeks Stronger Partnership In Space Technology With India · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...still mostly an religion-ridden oligarchy where family and caste connections buys you (or excludes you) from education, position and power.

    Just substitute "class" for "caste" and you've just described both the UK and more so the US.

  8. Re:The problem with computer sabotage... on Stuxnet Was Designed To Subtly Interfere With Uranium Enrichment · · Score: 1

    Apparently, subtlety is wasted on Slashdot.

    So is civility.

  9. Re:The problem with computer sabotage... on Stuxnet Was Designed To Subtly Interfere With Uranium Enrichment · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm not sure if you're trying to be funny or are just hopelessly naive. You used the phrase "peace in our time" which is very close to what Neville Chamberlain said after allowing Hitler to annex the Sudetenland.

  10. Re:yep... on Saudi Arabia Bans Facebook · · Score: 4, Informative

    And is full of Saudia arabians... It's where they go to look at strippers and drink booze.

    Bahrain is another "entertainment center" for Saudis. The joke in Bahrain is, "Allah cannot see across the causeway."

    I guess now they can go there for alcohol, prostitution, and Facebook.

  11. Visit Request from the Almighty on Annual US Intelligence Bill Tops $80 Billion · · Score: 1

    The US is running so many secret programs that James R. Clapper Jr., director of national intelligence, said during his confirmation hearings that 'only one entity in the entire universe' knows what they're all doing, and 'that's God.'"

    Does God have the need to know? I can't find him in JPAS either.

  12. Re:Fastest. Slashdoting. EVER. on Pay Or Else, News Site Threatens · · Score: 1

    MWUHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    I had to add the evil laugh; after all, it's almost Halloween.

  13. Re:Constant e-mail bombardment (aka signal to nois on Information Rage Coming Soon To an Office Near You · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I do the same since e-mail is documentation (CYA) and it's much easier to prioritize. My office phone went on the fritz more than a week ago and I really don't care when it's fixed.

  14. Race to the Bottom on NASA Data Reveals China's Industrial Air Pollution · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is more evidence supporting the "Race to the Bottom" argument. China isn't known for environmental protections.
    By the way, on the diagram, the northwestern region showing elevated levels is the Gobi desert, but that isn't where the highest levels are.

  15. Re:CHANGE!! on Obama Wants Broader Internet Wiretap Authority · · Score: 1

    This is what I get for not reading the article first. Faux News. Where's my salt lick?

    Mmm....Salt lick.

  16. Re:What do they exepect? on IBM Warns of China Closing the Supercomputer Gap · · Score: 1

    If they want handouts, they should go to a government that actually has money (hint - it isn't the US).

  17. Re:Wow... so everything is aggression then on Some Countries Want To Ban 'Information Weapons' · · Score: 1

    You may want to take protective measures (like arming yourself). You just pissed off a lot of people (if they read slashdot that is).

  18. Re:I don't get it on Interpol Chief's Identity Spoofed On Facebook · · Score: 1

    Sounds like someone didn't pay attention during their OPSEC briefing.

  19. Re:Ugh.. on The A-Team of IT — and How To Assemble One · · Score: 1

    I never had to parachute to a work site, but I've taken a few military transports (mainly C-130s); the coolest was the ride on the Merlin and Lynx helicopters.

  20. Re:And this is news? on Video Games Lead To Quick Thinking Skills · · Score: 1

    I've never doubted that video games were good at developing the skills needed... well, for video games. And some of those apply to the real world. But parents worried whether their game-obsessed kids are developing other essential skills - such as critical thinking, understanding other people, carefully choosing between complex options, developing new ideas of their own, etc. - they still have reason to worry.

    Honestly, I think the vast majority of parents don't have those skills either.

  21. Re:Bad Slashdot summary on UK Teen Banned From US Over Obscene Obama Email · · Score: 1

    And that qualifies for banning a teen for the rest of his life from going to U.S.?

    Probably not, but it depends on the content of the e-mail. Has it been released to the public?

  22. Re:This is why we vote Pirate on EU Surveillance Studies Disclosed By Pirate Party · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Here's the kicker. Every major city in the US has got just as much CCTV surveillance as London! Yes, you're "spied on" just as much in New York as you are in London, and you've got armed police ready and willing to shoot you, too. It must be awful living in the US, with that constant threat over you all the time.

    Yes, it's so awful that millions of people immigrate here every year.

  23. Re:Google has lost it... on Google Logo Changes Again, Hinting RT Search? · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's used by a lot of people for a lot of reasons. Maybe it's time for "Google Lite".

  24. Re:Poor metropolitan area on Northrop Grumman Says 'I'm Sorry' For Virginia IT Outage · · Score: 1

    The ICC is in Maryland.

  25. Re:Censorship? on GameStop Pulls Medal of Honor From Military Bases · · Score: 1

    That's covered too since it's very likely that GameStop won't be selling Medal of Honor in Afghanistan, Pakistan, or Iraq either.