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  1. Re:How do you make a lego character female? on Lego To Produce Three Box Sets Featuring Female Scientists · · Score: 1

    It's just bundling female looking hair attachments in the same set as the scientist clothing minifigs.

    Nominally you can get the female hair units by getting princesses or a few other sets that have kind of "specifically" female characters.

  2. Re:A number of countries?? Say it ain't so! on Vodafone Reveals Warrantless Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    They do assert that things that voluntarily pass through the government controlled post office can be inspected, though.

  3. Re:A number of countries?? Say it ain't so! on Vodafone Reveals Warrantless Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    The minimal interpretation required is that "persons, papers, and affects" would be extrapolated to phone calls if the tech had existed when it was written.

  4. Re:A number of countries?? Say it ain't so! on Vodafone Reveals Warrantless Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    You're right that some people have a stick up their ass regarding the US government, and see conspiracy upon conspiracy in behaviors dominated by realpolitik thinking.

    The unique thing about the US is the 4th amendment that prohibits such behavior with only the most minimal of interpretation.

  5. Re:Arbitrage on High Frequency Trading and Finance's Race To Irrelevance · · Score: 1

    Could always unwind it if something unforseen results.

    To play devil's advocate for a position I find distasteful, but haven't yet heard a totally valid takedown of: the neo-liberal set(republicans, libertarians, you know) argue that pragmatically speaking, regulatory laws don't get unwound.

    I consider myself insufficiently informed to either debunk or accept that argument, and lack a good tool to find out more.

  6. Re:Mmhmm on High Frequency Trading and Finance's Race To Irrelevance · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Which is why you always do it running a mutual fund. Dangle other peoples' testicles instead.

  7. Re:Yawn on Kickstarter Expands Allowed Projects, Automates Launches · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you communicated your own idiocy quite competently.

  8. Re:Yawn on Kickstarter Expands Allowed Projects, Automates Launches · · Score: 1

    Nope. I re-read the argument and can't acknowledge that.

  9. Re:Yawn on Kickstarter Expands Allowed Projects, Automates Launches · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry I parodied your absurd complaint.

    In simpler terms, you're making an arbitrary and irrelevant distinction.

  10. Re:Neutron star, or? on Star Within a Star: Thorne-Zytkow Object Discovered · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nerds are supposed to be self-loathing.

    But reddit is a gigantic blight on the internet and and I'm pro-shitting all over them, anytime.

  11. Re:Fucking ads on Star Within a Star: Thorne-Zytkow Object Discovered · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I used to think adblock was unnecessary back when google was doing the whole "unobtrusive text ad" thing, and I saw a future with hope for ads being reasonable things. But it's been years since that was worth worrying about.

    Marketers haven't learned that their obnoxiousness is a tragedy of the commons thing, and upping that factor to compete just quietly hurts the marketplace as a whole.

  12. Re:Yawn on Kickstarter Expands Allowed Projects, Automates Launches · · Score: 1

    "Hey jerk, why don't you acknowledge this minor technicality with regard to the subject of why its a bad idea"

    I'm not sure that has much bearing at all on the potential legal quagmire they'd be stepping into for the sake of supporting a notion of freedom that's unique to just one country.

  13. Re:Yawn on Kickstarter Expands Allowed Projects, Automates Launches · · Score: 1

    "Oh woe is me, this website doesn't assume a US monoculture, and many places make the thing I want to sell illegal for quite reasonable reasons"

    Let me ask you a question: Do you even know the US's laws regarding exporting weaponry?

  14. Re:Back my project: on Kickstarter Expands Allowed Projects, Automates Launches · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh, looks like we met our goal.

    Stretch goals:
    $10,000 Post again.
    $20,000 Write a book about how I posted
    $30,000 Exclusive backer-only behind-the-scenes documentary including interviews with all the people worked on the project, like me, and me. You will get so fucking tired of my smug face.

  15. Back my project: on Kickstarter Expands Allowed Projects, Automates Launches · · Score: 5, Funny

    Please back my kickstart project: Get a +5 funny post by ironically mocking the general quality level of "art" projects on kickstarter.
    Goal $2,000

    For $5: you will get my heatfeltfelt thanks(but I won't actually talk to you)
    For $10: I will let you know when I make the post so you can reply
    For $20: I will put your name on a website, no one but other backers will ever look at
    For $50: A T-Shirt with the post-ID image printed on it.
    For $1000: You can talk to me for a day, because the fact that I ran a kickstarter makes me interesting.

  16. Re:Does this include attacks from your own governm on DARPA's Cyber Grand Challenge Offers $3.75 Million In Prizes · · Score: 1

    Of course it doesn't include that. One of the quiet realizations of the information age is that more powerful groups are able to leverage any given information better through their ability to acquire new information and tools to parse information rapidly.

    The pragmatic reality is that this makes realpolitik the default relationship of government to technology. And it's not clear that are real demand for restraint is going to outweigh the potential leverage all that information gives intelligence workers. For all intents and purposes, it's "too easy" to grab for them to leave it on the table.

  17. Re:Judicial proceedings should never be secret on Local Police Increasingly Rely On Secret Surveillance · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, if you look at the Supreme Court Case [Redacted] vs. [Redacted], you'll find that Justice [Redacted] made the very clear argument that sometimes [Redacted] is necessary because [Redacted]. Honestly, how can you contest that precedent?

  18. Re:Oh noes! Skeery *GUNS*!!! on 3D Printed Gun Maker Cody Wilson Defends Open Source Freedom · · Score: 1

    And while I respect TJ and the other drafters of the constitution, this was a mistake that didn't account for how badly revolution can go for tyranny instead. Revolution netted us Stalin, Mao, Gaddafi, the Islamic Republic, Bonaparte, and lots of other shitty dictators. It was a novel idea, but it turned out under, more pragmatic inspection, to be a bad idea.

  19. Re:Oh noes! Skeery *GUNS*!!! on 3D Printed Gun Maker Cody Wilson Defends Open Source Freedom · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because a little killing is necessary, like a little eating.

    Your argument by metaphor totally lacks any crucial flaws that reflect a complete lack of understanding. Good job.

  20. Re:Behind the curve on Seattle Approves $15 Per Hour Minimum Wage · · Score: 1

    Investment is automation is considered to be a good thing for the long term viability of an economy, usually.

    We shouldn't be demanding that our workers live in poverty just to prevent systemic investment.

  21. Re:If your gear is heavy enough to necessitate rob on Robotic Exoskeletons Could Help Nuclear Plant Workers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If your work is delicate or uncertain enough to require human intervention, just use humans. Oh wait, we can't, because we'll die.

  22. Re:Stop with the fucking Start Button bullshit. on Microsoft Won't Bring Back the Start Menu Until 2015 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hey, let's hold off on that negativity. Let's talk about the positives here. Like HIV positive, because windows 8 is AIDS.

  23. Re:Prior Art Exists. on Zazzle.com Thinks Depictions of Pi Are Protected Intellectual Property · · Score: 1

    Their P equivalent is notably nothing like the symbol for pi, though.

  24. Re:Good on UK Ballistics Scientists: 3D-Printed Guns Are 'of No Use To Anyone' · · Score: 1

    Oh riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. It's me that constantly brings up the socially equalizing force of guns, and not literally every pro-gun organization within the US. Do you have any other completely uninformed insights to share?

  25. Re:Good on UK Ballistics Scientists: 3D-Printed Guns Are 'of No Use To Anyone' · · Score: 1

    Oh, you mean an expert in manufacture of firearms? Tell him that expertise is required to manufacture firearms?