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  1. Some racket on Denmark Now Supports EU Copyright Term Extension · · Score: 1

    I wish that I too could keep getting paid for the work I did decades ago but because I don't make records if I don't do more work I don't get paid.

    Maybe if I bribe enough high ranking public officials they'll take stuff that rightfully belongs to the public and give it to me too.

  2. Re:The cost of nuclear on Crack In Fukushima Structure May Be Leaking Radiation · · Score: 1

    Ok, fine, I'll play your little game. Let's shut down and replace every nuke plant with...well...what?

    Common sense tells us to avoid the next predictable environmental disaster by switching to energy sources that cannot leak poisons into the land, sea, and air.

  3. Re:Nothing to worry about on US Alarmed Over Japan's Nuclear Crisis · · Score: 1

    Modern designs are safer, perhaps, but building them on an earthquake-and-tsunami-prone planet is still a game of Russian roulette.

  4. Re:Bad Bill on Utah Governor 'Honored' With Blackhole Award · · Score: 1

    Do the citizens of Utah have the ability to repeal bad laws via ballot initiative?

  5. Re:what progress? on Japan Battles Partial Nuclear Meltdown · · Score: 1

    Fact 8: Common sense dictates that it's now time to harness solar and wind power and stop building power plants that can poison the environment.

  6. Re:DHS on Man Arrested For Linking To Online Videos · · Score: 1

    They're behaving like it's the Department of Hosni Security.

  7. Re:What for? on Researchers Turn Mice Into Wine Snobs · · Score: 1

    The big payoff will come when the scientists take the next step and figure out how to turn wine snobs into mice.

  8. Depends on Is Setting Up an Offshore IT Help Desk Ethical? · · Score: 1

    Was it ethical for Benedict Arnold to try to offshore the ownership of West Point?

  9. Re:Cut YouCut on 'YouCut' Targets National Science Foundation Budget · · Score: 1
    One of the commenters in TFA had the perfect response:

    # Steve Flammia Says:
    Comment #2 December 16th, 2010 at 7:59 pm

    Actually, why don’t we launch YouTax, where Ordinary Americans get to pick the the marginal income tax rates?

  10. Re:Some People on A Nude Awakening — the TSA and Privacy · · Score: 1

    Best case though would be the TSA dies groping my awesome, dignified fireballs.

    "Goodness gracious, great balls of fire!" -- Jerry Lee Lewis

  11. Re:I smell a conspiracy! on Problem-Solving Bacteria Crack Sudoku · · Score: 1

    showing much more intelligence and logical-thought ability than anyone else on the ticket

    That's a low bar.

  12. Re:Nations are stupid on Targeted Attacks Focus On Economic Cyberterrorism · · Score: 1

    So laws against murder, bank robbery, and other real crimes (with real victims) are oppressive?

  13. Climate change cover-up on Canadian Government Muzzling Scientists · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's obviously a cover-up of climate change data, ordered by lobbyists for the planet-raping carbon industry. Those other restricted topics are only there to make the climate change cover-up a bit less flagrant.

  14. Re:They really DO love "open source" on Microsoft Claims 'We Love Open Source' · · Score: 5, Informative

    That isn't my experience. Several years ago I worked at a software house that was acquired by Microsoft. The first thing they did was audit our source code to identify all the modules derived from open source. Before the sale could go through we had to rewrite those modules from scratch.

  15. Re:So... what's the purpose of the 50,000 remainin on Obama Sets End of Iraq Combat For August 31st · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Guarding the oil.

  16. What about pilot error? on Southwest Adds 'Mechanical Difficulties' To Act Of God List · · Score: 1

    God is my co-pilot.

  17. Re:Good, sensible decision on US Senate Passes 'Libel Tourism' Bill · · Score: 1

    Good on you, Americans. So, now can you stop complaining if we try to stop our courts enforcing *your* mad decisions, like Gary McKinnon?

    And the Lockerbie bomber? No chance.

  18. Free speech vs. the DMCA on China Explains Internet Situation In Whitepaper · · Score: 1

    Free speech means being able to tell others how to decrypt DRM.

  19. Re:Two Words...TERM LIMITS on Recrafting Government As an Open Platform · · Score: 1

    I've always thought that term limits are a bad idea because the choice of whether or not to reward an elected official with another term should belong to the voters. Anything that restricts a voter's ability to choose is bad. The people know best. Trust them.

  20. Re:Fight them on California Moves To Block Texas' Textbook Changes · · Score: 1

    If I were the POTUS I would offer them back to Mexico. Mind you if I were the Mexican president I'd turn the offer down.

    The US did not acquire Texas from Mexico. Texas won its independence from Mexico and then joined the US many years later as an independent nation.

    Texas used to belong to Mexico, so it can be given back to them. It does not matter how it somehow came to be part of the US.

  21. Time to give Texas back to Mexico on Texas Schools Board Rewriting US History · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's time for the US to give Texas back to Mexico. This will solve many problems, such as: (1) lying textbooks, (2) warmongering presidents, (3) Mexicans illegally streaming across the border for jobs, and (4) country and western music.

  22. The answer on Gulf Gusher Worst Case Scenario · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The answer is blowing in the wind.

  23. Re:Who has more clout these days? on Neil Armstrong Criticizes Obama's Space Strategy · · Score: 1

    President Obama has zero education or experence in business,

    other than running his national campaign organization which was effectively a successful $800 million business.

  24. Re:Reminds me of broadband internet in the beginni on Gas Wants To Kill the Wind · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Your math is misleading. You give the cost of a wind turbine in quantities of one and then multiply it without taking into consideration volume discount and economy of scale, so your bottom line is probably twice what it would cost. Even so, it's still competitive with building a new nuclear power plant.

    Cost of a new nuclear power plant

    But then when the wind farm is built, the fuel costs nothing, there is no cost associated with storing and disposing of spent fuel rods, and there's no possibility of a nuclear meltdown and the inadvertent release of radioactive material into the environment.

  25. Re:Reminds me of broadband internet in the beginni on Gas Wants To Kill the Wind · · Score: 1

    This just sounds hokey. The wind is free. How much cheaper is gas, according to your friend?