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  1. Re:Tweedledee won ! on Barack Obama Retains US Presidency · · Score: 1

    The Greek economy collapsed because it didn't do austerity, they have massive tax evasion, bribes and corruption are the norm and they pay inflated wages to public service workers
    Why the economy in Greece is down the pan, is no one, the IMF, the EU has any faith in the politics or infrastructure of Greece, if Greece had been serious and made serious cut's, tackled Tax Evasion, then the world would off been more willing to play ball.
    The whole austerity question, is like a gambler who's down, do they cut there lose's or hope to make good by putting more money on the table. In short Austerity is the least worse option, the countries more serious about Austerity have tended to retain higher credit rating's hence cheaper credit when suitable in the future.
    In the 30's government's could roll out big infrastructure project's like highway's, rail, ports to boost the economy, they don't have that option now to the same extent.

  2. Re:Why do we need an origin story? on Ask Richard Dawkins About Evolution, Religion, and Science Education · · Score: 1

    the biggest misconception regarding Darwin, Theory of Evolution is that the Established Church at the timeCoE, didn't have an issue with and Darwin received a lot of support from the clergy ,(even Stephen Fry , big time atheists recognized this fact) .
      It just those nutty US type's , and to be fair it does tend to be American's, the land of Ron Hubbard and more cult's than apple pie. Pretty much every Christian I've met has no problem with Darwin, there again I've met atheist's who have no idea how Plane's, Computers work and equate it to some form of magic.
    I'm not religious but i grew up in a Christian environment and most of them are not whack job's and usually quite nice people to be honest, doesn't equate religious = good, atheist = bad, but to be honest i've likewise met a number of atheist who where complete twats

  3. Gmail Recall on Below-Expected Earnings For Google Posted Early, Trading Halted · · Score: 1

    yeah about that email i sent out my bad, i could never get that gmail recall thing working, did i miss anything!

  4. Smokers are a benefit to society on Hiring Smokers Banned In South Florida City · · Score: 1

    why in the UK the NHS for instance relies on tobacco tax, secondly smokers tend to die earlier,they pay tax and spend a far lower proportion of there life not paying tax's thus eliminating the costliest part of healthcare, it's the healthy 80's year olds, that get Dementia and require 10 years of specialized care that are the finanical problem for healthcare.

    Plus how many people who go on about passive smoking, drive, car's produce far more pollutants in a timespan than a smoker.

  5. Re:I can only assume on The Text Message Typo That Landed a Man In Jail · · Score: 5, Funny

    hmmm, the religious fundamentalists went to America, and the convicts to Oz, all we got left with was Charles Darwin and Alan Turing

  6. Re:Will Google block access/disable on The Implications of Google Restricting Access To Anti-Islam Film · · Score: 1

    once again gullable uneducated muslims being played, my money's on the Iranian's, at any rate , the people who profit most from this film , are Islamist's , and they know how to play the Children of Allah,

  7. not sure if any has made the point on Following FEMA's Zombie Preparedness Plan Could Land You On Terrorist List · · Score: 1

    Hey i love zombie movies, can't get enough of them, but some say sadly, the earth is not going to face a zombie Apocalypse, so while it's fine and fun to come up with survival scenarios, you don't need to actually put them in practice, no individual needs a AR15

  8. Re:Why give something like this the publicity ? on 'Wiki Weapon Project' Wants Your 3D-Printable Guns · · Score: 1

    "Control the criminals and the mentally ill, not household cleaners, not knives, not firearms."

    your Logic is flawed, James Holmes (batman premier) had only a summons for speeding previously. So how exactly are you meant to control him, the majority of these mass shooting's by definition usually occur with individual's with no serious priors. They tend to only get to do it 1 time. So for these crime's to be prevented you would need in effect 'minority report', you would to incarcerate individuals based on traits that could lead to that kind of behavior, i.e all Kids who are cruel to animals would become serial killers. So aside's from the obvious civil liberty issue's , how do you enforce that on a whole population, any suspicious behavior and your in jail.

    People will always try to harm others, the key is to try and restrict the mean's to which they can do effectively, especially on a large scale, using you logic individuals' should be entitled to carry grenades, bomb's, chemical, nuclear weapons, why not, there is fundamentally no difference.

    Also this notion of the people being allowed to protect themselves against a Tyrannical Government, really who do think would win a country's Armed force's, trained over years, with Air support, Intel, Huge Logistics or a militia with plastic guns.History shows that these militia's only have a chance if there is external armed support, or the government is unwilling to go the extra mile. In this scenario's the US government would go B52 on yer arse, and not pander to popular opinion like in Iraq. If a Government is Tyrannical and fight's it own people, then plastic guns wont help a bit.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate
    look at the countries which the highest murder rates, and they all have easy access to Gun's.

  9. Re:Needed to sell 3M copies to break even? on Curt Schilling Fires Entire Staff At 38 Studios · · Score: 1

    the US lost the war of 1812, the US 2 main objectives, they failed at ,Stop the impressement of Sailors, occurred naturally due to the end of the Napoleonic wars and territorial expansion into Canada, they failed at.Basically the US tried to invade Canada generally got there arse's handed to them, and because of that the World has William Shatner and Celine Dion.

  10. Dont forgot the Snipers on Helicopters on Surface-To-Air Missiles At London Olympics · · Score: 1

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/apr/30/snipers-patrol-skies-london-olympics

    "Military snipers are to be deployed in helicopters during the London Olympics and if required will shoot pilots of low-flying aircraft that might be involved in terrorist attacks, it emerged on Monday. "

    we should off had them in the riot's last year.

  11. Re:We != Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook, Instagram, Ben Bernanke: Thank You For the New Tech Bubble · · Score: 1

    not really if i offer you my 10 year trainers, that have holes in them and smell a bit cheesy, for $200 dollars, but you haggle me down to $150 dollars, who made the good deal.

  12. Re:Easier and cheaper ways to do that. on Facebook, Instagram, Ben Bernanke: Thank You For the New Tech Bubble · · Score: 1

    yep but it is facebook, if anyone with it's 800 million users could create a product and get people using it surely it's facebook, who's brand recognition dwarfs instagrams. Now they are tied into a brand that only a small minority has heard off (30 million), when they surely could make better capital out of the better known FB brand

  13. Airlines are responsible for you on Damaged US Passport Chip Strands Travelers · · Score: 1

    "The major issue: airlines are NOT immigrations officials!", no but i know that when i used to Travel to Asia , if you didn't have the correct visa or was ineligible for a landing visa, the Airline you arrived on was responsible for returning you and they would have to get that cost from the passenger. So Airlines wont will check the validity or eligibility for a visa/landing visa.

  14. Re:Blegh on Ask Slashdot: Dividing Digital Assets In Divorce? · · Score: 1

    serious i hear sweden also has the same law, apart from being very sexist, what right does the partner have to half your stuff for living with you for 6 months. How does living with you affect her income, she most probably saving money on rent, bills etc.
    I'm surprised numerous men haven't taken this law to court over various human right and sexism violations.

  15. Re:Remember kids on Journalist Arrested For Tweet Deported to Saudi Arabia · · Score: 2

    Actually you have that backwards, the Puritan's did'nt escape religious persecution in England, they where the ones doing the persecution, why they left for the colonies was they didn't like that there was religious tolerance in England to an extent and they wanted to create a puritan nation in the colonies.

  16. Re:How someone can be that smart in hacking.. on Job Seeking Hacker Gets 30 Months In Prison · · Score: 2

    sorry didn't see the "L" , i totally got the wrong impression about the type of interview you conduct, my apologies

  17. Re:Suicide boats is not Iran's primary weapon on Tensions Over Hormuz Raise Ugly Possibilities For War · · Score: -1

    yep but luckily Iran has a lot of oil so it kinda pays for itself

  18. Iran tech is about 50 years behind the west on Iran Wants To Clone Downed US Drone · · Score: 1

    i think we should agree that Iran can reverse engineer this , they will gather things that you tend to need wings and engines , control surfaces etc to make something like an aircraft and not some pixie dust from the big magic A in the sky.
    Seeing as the height of Iranian Aircraft engineering is the Saeqeh-80, which first flew in 2007, i.e a direct copy of the Northrop F-5 which first flew in 1959. So maybe they can copy this by 2059 based on that progress. Remember they having trouble building bombs the west detonated in the 50's

  19. as far as you could throw one on Was Russia Behind Stuxnet? · · Score: 1

    its quite funny speaking from Europe, as the majority of the post's so far seem to portray Russian as some benign country and the US as evil. As a european we distrust the Russian's a lot more than the American's, i.e never accept a cup of tea from a Russian.

  20. Re:anti-war protestors? on Canadian Firm Gave Libyan Rebels Surveillance Drone · · Score: 1

    Obama doesn't get a foreign policy victory from Libya, hate to tell you, the US involvement is minimal and they had to be dragggged into this. the Libyan Rebels, the British and the French get all credit for this, especially William Hague the British FM who was the 1st politician to call for this action and Obama poo-poo it,

  21. Re:LOL, "really inflammatory, inaccurate" messages on UK Police Arrest 12 Over Facebook Use Inciting Riots · · Score: 1

    N*****S******, sorry you must mean Nathan Sinden 27, from St Leonard's on Sea

  22. Re:LOL, "really inflammatory, inaccurate" messages on UK Police Arrest 12 Over Facebook Use Inciting Riots · · Score: 1

    sorry running over 3 Asian's Lad's and killing them , or shooting a person in a car, beating a 70 year old man into a near coma, burning shops with apartments over them, robbing newsagent's, these people are un-employable anyway, having a criminal record will make no difference. Don't think of these as robin hood , scally wag's, they evil little shit's who are burning down hard working people's lives.

  23. Cant be bothered to RTFA but ill insult him anyway on Prosecuted For Critical Twittering · · Score: 1

    dont live in the US , just tell me who got upset and ill insult them more, me singing that Vanilla Ice Classic "cant touch me", yer you cant "touch me"

  24. Re:Fully Informed Jury Association on Jury Acquits Citizens of Illegally Filming Police · · Score: -1, Troll

    your a racist , that's all i got to say, but you are, your a racist, go back to the 18th century, "all black jury acquitting black panthers killing 4 white girls", why didnt you say that, because you judge people on there colour, and you judge people who are white, shame on on you D'SPHITZ ID : 699604 you sad person.

  25. Very dubious grounds on Apple Store Artist Raided By Secret Service · · Score: 4, Insightful

    1.He installed unauthorized software on a computer not belonging to him, a security guard would not have the authority to give this person permission to do this, the Security guard i bet technically doesn't work for Apple, but will work for a security firm that has a contract with the store.

    2.Yes in apple stores you can use the camera, but would you think it's ok for Apple to store those pictures and upload them to a public website, no i doubt you would

    3.Technically he is not in a public space, he is in a apple store who can prohibit people from taking pictures, a lot of shops will not allow you to take pictures in there store.

    4. It cannot be assumed people are aware there pictures are being taken, not everyone is computer literate and would notice things such as the camera light.

    5.There is nothing against the law of taking pictures of people on a beach for instance and posting them on the web, one it's a public area, and also would tend to be more obvious carrying around a camera taking snaps.

    6.there is very little difference legally had he set up a laptop in changing room and done the same thing