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  1. Re:much ado about nothing on Quebec Language Police Target Store Owner's Facebook Page · · Score: 1

    Read it again, pal, I think you got confused.

  2. Re:What I get from this on The Phone Dragnet That Caught the World's Top Drug Lord · · Score: 1

    Hey, look, being called an idiot on the internet. That's new, and helpful.

    Proper doesn't mean smart. And you're a douchebag who is incapable of more than a single-dimension of thinking, but yay, you found something you could twist into a contradiction with enough ignorance.

    Hoo-ray! That means you win! And winning means no one gets anything out of the discussion! Exactly the point!

  3. Re:much ado about nothing on Quebec Language Police Target Store Owner's Facebook Page · · Score: 1

    I'm not asking the stupid store to do it. I'm making a case in a public forum, because that influences how democracy makes laws, numbnuts.

  4. Re:Not surprising at all on Live Q&A With Ex-TSA Agent Jason Harrington Tomorrow 3pm ET · · Score: 2

    I wish there was some objective test that would help us identify those that enjoy hassling others. Sadly the best metric we have is childhood essays on how they want to go into law enforcement.

  5. Re:much ado about nothing on Quebec Language Police Target Store Owner's Facebook Page · · Score: 1

    The near-border quality was a situational description, not a legal one. I was arguing against the intent of the law, thanks.

  6. Re:much ado about nothing on Quebec Language Police Target Store Owner's Facebook Page · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, to get rid of laws enforcing cultural hegemonies, which tend to be short-sighted, ineffective, and harmful.

  7. Re:What I get from this on The Phone Dragnet That Caught the World's Top Drug Lord · · Score: 1

    Of course it failed, it wasn't a well-done traditional investigation, but come on, it's the feds, do you expect constant competence?

  8. Re:What I get from this on The Phone Dragnet That Caught the World's Top Drug Lord · · Score: 2

    Wikipedia sucks with their damned, redirects. And that's all I have to say about my mistake.

  9. Re:What I get from this on The Phone Dragnet That Caught the World's Top Drug Lord · · Score: 1

    I agree, but recall that congress raised gigantic stink about this exact same kind of "traditional investigative work". For no other reason than an imagined slight on guns.

    Politics in this country is poisonous towards doing things right, and apathetic towards abuses.

  10. Re:much ado about nothing on Quebec Language Police Target Store Owner's Facebook Page · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm pretty sure your solution is

    A. Retarded, because having land in multiple provinces doesn't exempt you from their laws
    B. Highly impractical, because a border town doesn't necessarily straddle a border
    and
    C. Obviously meant as an stupidly elaborate work-around for an unnecessary situation.

  11. Re:much ado about nothing on Quebec Language Police Target Store Owner's Facebook Page · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Should it really, though? If you run a store on a border town, where the majority don't actually speak french, should some demi-nationalists be able to dictate your areas culture?

    It'd be like the rest of Canada forcing the Quebecois to have English everywhere.

  12. Re:what will it take for general acceptance on Woman Attacked In San Francisco Bar For Wearing Google Glass · · Score: 1

    As long as you personally feel justified in hurting someone else, what else could possibly matter?

  13. Re:Curse of the Linux-only gamer on Portal 2 Beta Released For Linux · · Score: 1

    It didn't occur to you that the bobbing up and down sphere making elaborate series of facial expressions during the intro was supposed to be talking?

  14. Re:Cognitive dissonance bites greedy capitalists.. on Visual Effects Artists Use MPAA's Own Words Against It · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Correction for topic:

    People point out hypocrisy of major corporations, major corporations ignore the criticism and keep on trucking.

  15. Re:Steam Linux on Portal 2 Beta Released For Linux · · Score: 2

    I doubt it's a fundamental difficulty. They ported the engine. If I had to guess, it's a few of the specific assets, like shaders, that they weren't bothering with.

    Seeing as their console they're releasing is fundamentally just a linux computer, they're almost certainly planning all future major releases to target linux.

  16. Re:New MATH??? on Kepler's Alien World Count Skyrockets · · Score: 1

    Not all 1700 are from Kepler. Problem solved.

  17. Re:hostile ot all known life? on Kepler's Alien World Count Skyrockets · · Score: 1

    Ah, but those evolved from simpler cyanobacteria that could exist in homeostasis in lower pressure liquid water. Those adaptations don't have the same proposed naturalistic mechanisms of arising that self-replicating protein chains do.

  18. Re:Not a problem on Supreme Court Ruling Relaxes Warrant Requirements For Home Searches · · Score: 1

    The baby had been beaten, for clarification. The found evidence were recent bruises and cuts.

  19. Re:Not a problem on Supreme Court Ruling Relaxes Warrant Requirements For Home Searches · · Score: 2

    I'm not sure the idea of "protecting provisions enumerated in the bill of rights" qualifies as a "libertarian-whateveryouguyscalltherestofus" divide. I'm pretty sure you'd get like 90% of Americans to agree the bill of rights is a great idea if you asked them. The problem here is the hyper-conservative majority of the supreme court, for whom legal protection is an idea that only applies to corporations. If you read the majority opinion, it's basically "who cares if someone objects?" And the dissenting opinion is more or less what everyone here is saying.

    On the other hand, the crime being covered up was that the objector beat an infant, and the mother of the infant agreed to the search. Which sounds a lot more sympathetic.

  20. Re:Is IE Really to Blame? on IE Vulnerability Exposing Banking Logins, Spreading Rapidly · · Score: 1

    That's not what I read at all. It seems to be an entirely client side problem.

  21. Re:I thought this had been settled long ago. on Do We Really Have a Shortage of STEM Workers? · · Score: 1

    Ah, but the problem is that the primary H1B supplying nations are actually having their own tech economies pick up, driving up imported wages(and you have to pay for cost-of-living in the US, even if retirement money/other savings goes out of the country)

  22. Re:speed of light on Report: Space Elevators Are Feasible · · Score: 1

    Juuuuuuuuuuust in case someone takes this seriously, one is deliniated in base 10 units, the other is delineated in base 360 fractions.

  23. Re:App permissions on How Mobile Apps Are Reinventing the Worst of the Software Industry · · Score: 1

    Let's hypothetically say you support your app(yeah, I know, basically unheard of on phones, but bear with me). Do you really think you're going to be able to do a reasonable job of it, if you don't know which functions of your app users have enabled permissions for.

    Ooops, your app crashes for the 3% of users who turn of contact searching. It's your fault, because you didn't tell them it was essential(except you did, and they disagreed)

  24. Re:App permissions on How Mobile Apps Are Reinventing the Worst of the Software Industry · · Score: 1

    They wouldn't understand why pieces of the application would throw exceptions that the app itself didn't know how to handle, since it was coded with certain behaviors as default, no.

  25. Re:Because people already have E-mail addresses? on Facebook Shuts Down @Facebook Email System · · Score: 0

    Honestly, I wouldn't know, I don't actually use facebook. I'm just projecting my anger for the principal in question at a relevant target.