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  1. Re:tl;dr Phonebook? on Bennett Haselton: Google+ To Gmail Controversy Missing the Point · · Score: 1

    How about I demand my personal information back? Oh wait, you can't do that, they've sold it to everyone already.

  2. Re:tl;dr Phonebook? on Bennett Haselton: Google+ To Gmail Controversy Missing the Point · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Maybe it's because things were changed after they signed up for an account? Without their permission? In order to cross promote a product no one wants?

  3. Re:Egocentrism on How Weather Influences Global Warming Opinions · · Score: 1

    A color that varies, can be measured, and understood scientifically, without allowing the fact that it's currently blue tell me it's never red.

  4. Re:Google plus on Bennett Haselton: Google+ To Gmail Controversy Missing the Point · · Score: 0

    Yep, it's time for Google to go away. I've already stopped using google search because they pushed too far. Gmail is next on the chopping block if they don't cut it out.

  5. Re:We need to make an example of him. on LulzSec's Sabu To Be Sentenced In New York · · Score: 2

    Precedence has no bearing on sentencing

    --anonymous coward, legal expert

  6. Re:Yeah, like the present school system is working on How Good Are Charter Schools For the Public School System? · · Score: 0

    The sad thing, that this post glosses over, is the current school system educates better than any time in U.S. history. It's just the rest of the world doing even better that.

  7. Re:Egocentrism on How Weather Influences Global Warming Opinions · · Score: 2

    Recurring record high temperatures are real, substantive evidence, you half-wit.

  8. Re:Egocentrism on How Weather Influences Global Warming Opinions · · Score: 1

    And while people do say all those things, none of them are the official position of a major political party in the U.S.

  9. Re:Egocentrism on How Weather Influences Global Warming Opinions · · Score: 1

    Nope. Harassment and malicious litigation aren't terrorism. Nobody's afraid that these people in Wisconsin are going to kill them.

    -jcr

    Playing devil's advocate again, since people I'd agree with are making so many dumb assertions in this thread, but "harassment and malicious litigation" get called terrorism every time the RIAA or patent trolls are involved.

  10. Re:Egocentrism on How Weather Influences Global Warming Opinions · · Score: 2

    Well, no, even though I think the charge of "atheist terrorism" is incredibly moronic, Stalin did have a quite official anti-religion position, stemming, quite directly, from Marx and his "opiate of the masses" assertion.

  11. Re:The detrimental effects for sleep thwart it for on Experiment Shows Caffeine Boosts Long Term Memory · · Score: 2

    Considering the demographics on slashdot, I'm going to take a shot in the dark: caffeine and other stimulants have been noted to have uncommon side-effects in ADHD diagnosed population. Could that be you?

  12. Re:Utilitarianism is correct on People Become More Utilitarian When They Face Moral Dilemmas In Virtual Reality · · Score: 1

    No, I'm not asking anyone to make it go away. Just trying to account for things is better than ignoring them.

  13. Re:Cant be worse on Largest Bitcoin Mining Pool Pledges Not To Execute '51% Attack' · · Score: 1

    Oh come on, it was clearly commentary on how polar opposite of "flamebait" that particular post was.

  14. Re:Cant be worse on Largest Bitcoin Mining Pool Pledges Not To Execute '51% Attack' · · Score: 1

    "conspiratorial" and "money making scheme" are your loaded words not mine.

    Nuh-uh!

  15. Re:Cant be worse on Largest Bitcoin Mining Pool Pledges Not To Execute '51% Attack' · · Score: 1

    A lot of those are bad, but they tend to be of the sort, very widely, of "regulation wasn't happening anymore," which is a farcry from your conspiratorial allegation that it's a "money making scheme".

  16. Re:Cant be worse on Largest Bitcoin Mining Pool Pledges Not To Execute '51% Attack' · · Score: 1

    Another A:

    Vaguely conspiratorial accusations centering around the fed and/or federal government(but never states, oddly) that are completely unhelpful

    Come on, give me a non-vague demonstration of your point. At all.

  17. Re:Cant be worse on Largest Bitcoin Mining Pool Pledges Not To Execute '51% Attack' · · Score: 1

    Well, that does require some basic understanding of the financial tools involved. I could see a serious argument from a behavioralist perspective that that's wrong. But I'd be incredulous of any such argument.

  18. Re:Cant be worse on Largest Bitcoin Mining Pool Pledges Not To Execute '51% Attack' · · Score: 2

    Oops, it looks like your agreeing politely with another poster on the internet is "flamebait." I mean, I try not to get too tied up in how people moderate me, but there really is a kind of paranoid delusion of oppression from people in column A, that they fight with whatever power they happen to have.

  19. Re:Cant be worse on Largest Bitcoin Mining Pool Pledges Not To Execute '51% Attack' · · Score: 1

    And we have a little bit of column A from my post below as real-world sample.

  20. Re:Cant be worse on Largest Bitcoin Mining Pool Pledges Not To Execute '51% Attack' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You've got 3 schools of criticism there. In order of frequency,
    A. Vaguely conspiratorial accusations centering around the fed and/or federal government(but never states, oddly) that are completely unhelpful. Typical quote: "Quantitative easing is stealing money"
    B. Austrian school whining about Chicago school being the de facto source of understanding. Typical quote: "But our assumptions say all regulation is bad."
    C. Actual scholars and sane economists highly detailed concerns about specific courses of action within one department they're familiar with, that usually reflect incremental improvements on economic planning. Typical quote: [actually the media never covers this sort of thing, except, oddly, the Volcker rule]

  21. Re:So let me get this straight on Largest Bitcoin Mining Pool Pledges Not To Execute '51% Attack' · · Score: 1

    Indeed, I've found that to be the logical conclusion of my premise as well, but it doesn't sit well with the neoclassicalists, so I thought I'd let the premise stand on its own.

  22. Re:Shorter version on Largest Bitcoin Mining Pool Pledges Not To Execute '51% Attack' · · Score: 0

    Nah, you can have survival economies before population levels reach concentrations that require modern agriculture. I'm not advocating that as a superior alternative(it sucks), but it is an alternative that doesn't require trusting interactions with others to continue.

  23. Re:So let me get this straight on Largest Bitcoin Mining Pool Pledges Not To Execute '51% Attack' · · Score: 1

    Alternative phrasing, modern post-industrial economies always depend on you dealing with other people, some of whom will benefit from screwing you.

  24. Re:Cant be worse on Largest Bitcoin Mining Pool Pledges Not To Execute '51% Attack' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The US government makes no such promise, and investors know it. Slow, long-term inflation is part of the instability prevention plans of most currency issuing nations.

  25. Normally, I'd like a sarcastic oblique reference to the french revolution, guillotines or the like, but knowing how some people are about the cars, I'd genuinely worry someone would try to kill this poor fool.