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  1. "non-violent" on Study Finds Digital Activism Is Effective, Mostly Non-Violent · · Score: 0

    DDOSing a website isn't really violent either. In spite of the libertarian perspective on the matter, property doesn't intrinsically require protection.

  2. Re:Why subsidize? on A War Over Solar Power Is Raging Within the GOP · · Score: 1

    As in exactly what I just posted? And contradicts your point? I'm baffled, really.

  3. Re:Why subsidize? on A War Over Solar Power Is Raging Within the GOP · · Score: 1

    1. ExxonMobil
      Income tax expense: $31.05 billion
      Earnings before taxes: $78.73 billion

    Uh huh.

  4. Re:Begun this solar war has... on A War Over Solar Power Is Raging Within the GOP · · Score: 5, Informative

    Except that's attributed to Gandhi(who likely never said it at all), when it actually came from a American union leader, Nicholas Klein, who never actually won the strike he was pushing.

  5. Re:Why subsidize? on A War Over Solar Power Is Raging Within the GOP · · Score: 1

    Sure, as long as we're going to take one further step of abstraction from the parent post to make ourselves sound more insightful...

    The sooner the constitutionally set processes which drive a unidirectional 2-party debate in the United States morph into something better than what it has become, the better for the entire world

  6. Re:Why subsidize? on A War Over Solar Power Is Raging Within the GOP · · Score: 2

    That's not how taxes work. Corporate taxes come as a subset of profits, and not revenues. You just made an assertion that is literally impossible.

  7. Re:Why subsidize? on A War Over Solar Power Is Raging Within the GOP · · Score: 1, Troll

    Yep, let's support the US military the way you do, by sending soldiers, sailors, and corpsmen to die in completely unnecessary conflicts and huge contracts for unwanted military equipment.

  8. Re:Fucking rednecks on A War Over Solar Power Is Raging Within the GOP · · Score: 3, Informative

    i.e. it has as much to do with global warming as not stabbing you has to do with murder.

  9. Re:Hopefully on HIV Tracking Technology Could Pinpoint Who's Infecting Who · · Score: 1

    I would be all for Marxist Hacker 42 having no sex. Please don't.

  10. Re:Hopefully on HIV Tracking Technology Could Pinpoint Who's Infecting Who · · Score: 1

    Then why are you still breathing?

    (Also, social darwinism isn't evolution, it ignores the reality of how extreme poverty increases reproduction rates, and it makes you look like an asshole, all the same time)

  11. Re:Hopefully on HIV Tracking Technology Could Pinpoint Who's Infecting Who · · Score: 1

    Sick people who know they are sick with a sexually transmitted disease, and then have sex anyway, ARE GUILTY OF MURDER. Doesn't matter if they are homo or hetero.

    HIV is famously stealthy. A test won't even come up positive right after you get it.

  12. Re:Hopefully on HIV Tracking Technology Could Pinpoint Who's Infecting Who · · Score: 1

    And yet people have sex anyways. Congratulations. You've solved zero problems, but you've felt superior to some poor people.

  13. Re:Hope Apple's ready for all those nickels! on Samsung Ordered To Pay Apple $290M In Patent Case · · Score: 1

    I'm worried about you, intermodal, do you have early onset Alzheimer's? You just made this post a little bit ago.

  14. Re:Groklaw where art thou? on Samsung Ordered To Pay Apple $290M In Patent Case · · Score: 5, Informative

    From wikipedia:

    On August 20 2013 an article appeared on Groklaw saying it was to be closed down due to government monitoring of the internet, particularly e-mail.[6] Jones wrote "What I do know is it's not possible to be fully human if you are being surveilled 24/7... I hope that makes it clear why I can't continue. There is now no shield from forced exposure."

    The NSA scared them out of business.

  15. Have you noticed? on Samsung Ordered To Pay Apple $290M In Patent Case · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Have you noticed these summaries never include what the patents are anymore? Samsung didn't even claim they didn't intrude on the patents, just that they made what their market research said was a good idea.

    All you have to do is comprehensively patent every element of your design, and if any of it is a good idea, you'll get to sue anyone in the same field.

  16. Re:Stop with JavaScript on Microsoft Adds Node.js Support To Visual Studio · · Score: 1

    Yes, okay, we can worry about that couple percentage of traffic some other time.

  17. Re:I wonder what Elon's rebuttal to this will be.. on NHTSA Tells Tesla To Stop Exaggerating Model S Safety Rating · · Score: 2

    Yeah, Musk is self-righteous and crazy intense about the PR for his companies. However, this seems like a warning that was justified, and at the same time might not have been foreseen by those making the claims, because it's kind of a technical quibble.

  18. Re:Hopefully on HIV Tracking Technology Could Pinpoint Who's Infecting Who · · Score: 1

    Hey if you can't afford to not be a self-righteous ass, then shut-the-fuck-up.

    People are going to have sex, and your complaints about it just make you a bad person.

  19. Re:Stop with JavaScript on Microsoft Adds Node.js Support To Visual Studio · · Score: 2

    Oh yeah, good idea. Let's just be rid of this whole Internet thing, and all the crap people put on it.

  20. Re:Hopefully on HIV Tracking Technology Could Pinpoint Who's Infecting Who · · Score: 1

    And if I didn't know that(even assuming it's true because I have no reason to doubt you), why would you assume everyone else does?

  21. Re:The distinction is minor on Google Nexus Gets Wireless Charger · · Score: 1

    Oh, sure, say I'm wrong, then don't tell me how. I positively love being misinformed and much prefer being modded up to learning things.

  22. The distinction is minor on Google Nexus Gets Wireless Charger · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You magnetically drop your device into place onto a block on a power cord. Instead of plugging the power cord into your device. The actual distinction in convenience is a half a second of fiddling per day.

  23. Re:Oh, come on. on Building a (Virtual) Roman Emperor's Villa · · Score: 2

    Presumably because boobs come attached to their own self-replicating mechanism.

  24. Re:Hopefully on HIV Tracking Technology Could Pinpoint Who's Infecting Who · · Score: 1

    A tremendous, short-sighted douche.

  25. Re:Hopefully on HIV Tracking Technology Could Pinpoint Who's Infecting Who · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Startling fact: many people haven't had access to affordable healthcare and have to take gambles with their lives sometimes.