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  1. Re:This sort of software ought to be abolished on Sites Blocked By Smartfilter, Censored in Saudi Arabia · · Score: 2

    I... never said 1? Come on, you're (hypothetically) run Saudi fucking Arabia, they censor every book that comes through their borders too. They have many people on hand who fit this job title pretty well.

  2. Re:This sort of software ought to be abolished on Sites Blocked By Smartfilter, Censored in Saudi Arabia · · Score: 1

    Yes, but, if you run a country you can do that pretty easily. Just make [local government owned ISP] forward you every DNS request, have some low-paid overzealous "moral assesor" check it out if it hasn't been yet, and ban away.

  3. Re:Great..... on Sites Blocked By Smartfilter, Censored in Saudi Arabia · · Score: 1

    Because it could be seen as tantamount to a confession to previous crimes, possibly justifying extradition?

  4. Re:Internet filters are a joke ... on Sites Blocked By Smartfilter, Censored in Saudi Arabia · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You're assuming that anyone cares about the false positives. No company gives a shit when their developers can't get at information on a library they're using because it's on "forums." They'd much rather have people who can't do their jobs as well than face the risk of anyone "slacking off" on company time.

  5. Re:This sort of software ought to be abolished on Sites Blocked By Smartfilter, Censored in Saudi Arabia · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I think you're reaching. It's not like this kind of software is hard to make. A simple relational database storing classifications, a bit of code to do DNS lookups to make sure people don't just enter IP addresses, and a means of entering the data, and an IP filter packet inspection at any juncture on the way to servers. You could knock out a simple version in a week or two.

  6. Re:Great..... on Sites Blocked By Smartfilter, Censored in Saudi Arabia · · Score: 1

    Besides him being stoned off his ass and unable to make sane decisions?

  7. Re:Hmm on Controversial Execution In Ohio Uses New Lethal Drug Combination · · Score: 1

    And I'm challenging that assertion as arbitrary.

  8. Re:Localized Global Warming? on Heat Waves In Australia Are Getting More Frequent, and Hotter · · Score: 1

    If you want the simple answer, they picked the single hottest year in all of history as their starting date.

  9. Re:Hmm on Controversial Execution In Ohio Uses New Lethal Drug Combination · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, I wasn't aware courtrooms decided who counts as a person.

  10. Re:Killed because of the message on Alleging 'Malpractice' With Climate Skeptic Papers, Publisher Kills Journal · · Score: 1

    Which particular paper of this journal are you referring to? I have my doubts that you've read any of them.

  11. Re:Killed because of the message on Alleging 'Malpractice' With Climate Skeptic Papers, Publisher Kills Journal · · Score: 1

    Well... I'd be cautious in using that argument regarding extremes, not because I imagine it to be untrue, but because new extremes are a statistical inevitability. Getting an unexpectedly large number of them over and over, that tells you something, but the mere presence do not.

  12. Re:Steaming pile-o-crap on Alleging 'Malpractice' With Climate Skeptic Papers, Publisher Kills Journal · · Score: 0

    Oh well, guess you can always kill yourself. That solves both problems, right?

  13. Re:How about we save executions... on Controversial Execution In Ohio Uses New Lethal Drug Combination · · Score: 1

    Come on, if there are 2 parsings of a sentence, and one is complete nonsense, what's wrong with expecting people to take the other?

  14. Re:How about we save executions... on Controversial Execution In Ohio Uses New Lethal Drug Combination · · Score: 1

    Yeah, everyone who abuses a position of authority is equally prosecutable.

  15. Re:Hmm on Controversial Execution In Ohio Uses New Lethal Drug Combination · · Score: 1

    Simple, humans are creatures capable of reasoning, memory, language and pain.

  16. Re:Hmm on Controversial Execution In Ohio Uses New Lethal Drug Combination · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And you're an animal for saying so, and should also die.

    See how easy that is?

  17. Re:How about we save executions... on Controversial Execution In Ohio Uses New Lethal Drug Combination · · Score: 1

    The latter, naturally. The former wouldn't make much sense, would it?

  18. Re:Hmm on Controversial Execution In Ohio Uses New Lethal Drug Combination · · Score: 1

    Yep, not a human being. Nope, a dog, because you say so.

  19. Re:How about we save executions... on Controversial Execution In Ohio Uses New Lethal Drug Combination · · Score: 1

    So, you can be punished for short-selling stocks like I can?

  20. Re:Hmm on Controversial Execution In Ohio Uses New Lethal Drug Combination · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I forgot how important it is to get a second wrong to match with the first one. It's like Go Fish, if you get related pairs, they both go away, right?

  21. Re:If that wasn't crueal and unreasonable... on Controversial Execution In Ohio Uses New Lethal Drug Combination · · Score: 2, Informative

    The phrasing in the 8th amendment is "cruel and unusual" FYI, and I'm pretty sure a court will find a stay of executions necessary until a new method is devised.

  22. How about we save executions... on Controversial Execution In Ohio Uses New Lethal Drug Combination · · Score: 1

    How about we save executions for only people who break laws and participated in enforcing or making laws.

  23. Re:What's the big deal? on Creationism In Texas Public Schools · · Score: 1

    I know, right?

  24. Re:A Third Possibility on Heat Waves In Australia Are Getting More Frequent, and Hotter · · Score: 1

    But see, that's also a demonstrated falsehood, and you yourself said "nuh uh, it's not getting warmer" in this post.

    So... everyone, PRman is a liar. Saying exactly what he said no one was saying.

  25. Re:A Third Possibility on Heat Waves In Australia Are Getting More Frequent, and Hotter · · Score: 1

    Not really. The correlations, core theory, and lack of other matching explanations totally invalidate every such point raised, and have been done to a sufficient degree that these people are basically tremendous liars, pretending to be moderate, while exposing a fundamentally indistinct point.

    Notably, you call a refutation of your own point "off topic" because, of course you would.