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  1. Re:Well I say on EA Defends Itself Against Thousands of Anti-Gay Letters · · Score: 1

    By "another church", you really mean another denomination.

    Your assumption that people want to just switch denominations like underwear just prove my point.

  2. Re:How down-scalable is it? on Self-Sustaining Solar Reactor Creates Clean Hydrogen · · Score: 1

    We don't even have electric car mass production worked out to be a sustainable ideal, now you want vehicles with pressurized tanks of hydrogen on the roads ?

  3. Re:Global Warming! on Self-Sustaining Solar Reactor Creates Clean Hydrogen · · Score: 1

    AC is worried that we'd burn all the fresh water in the world up. Cut him some slack, he's in the 3rd grade.

  4. Rackspace has a TOC or whatever that you agreed to when you signed up for their service.

    I doubt they haven't covered their ass on this one, and I doubt that you are even aware of the content of the contract which you freely and willingly entered into and agreed to. If I am incorrect on these assumptions, I apologize for them, and the following remarks based on these assumptions.

    Live and learn, real professionals, real business people, they actually bother to read and comprehend the contracts and contents of them which they have entered into.

    And don't trust /. for advice on something like this, as the geek bias level here is not based on the legal reality, as is evidenced by the majority of posts which place the blame on everybody but you.

    Not that I don't sympathize with you, I really do. Chalk this one up to a very valuable lesson as to how to properly conduct business, and count yourself *extremely* fortunate that you did not learn this lesson with serious consequences. You've got off easy, be grateful and sleep sound knowing you won't make the same mistake again.

  5. Re:Remove annoy or offend and it's ok on Arizona Attempts To Make Trolling Illegal · · Score: 1

    Aren't those things are already illegal ?

  6. Re:Well I say on EA Defends Itself Against Thousands of Anti-Gay Letters · · Score: 1

    So anyone that lives in rural America is SOL, just because you deem smaller population areas unworthy of consideration, therefore, whatever happens in them is irrelevant ?

    You win the STFU award for the day.

  7. Re:Well I say on EA Defends Itself Against Thousands of Anti-Gay Letters · · Score: 1

    Pull your head out of your ass.

    How's that for a citation ?

  8. Re:Well I say on EA Defends Itself Against Thousands of Anti-Gay Letters · · Score: 1

    It takes a special kind of idiocy to be oblivious to the history OF religion, particularly when much of it consists of church's splitting, changing, re-forming, and evolving.

    If you're going to talk about religion, at least know a little bit ABOUT it.

  9. It's not a wonder at all... on Canadians Protest Wind Turbines · · Score: 1

    Live near one, if you think they're so awesome.

    Watch your property values halve.

    And so far as the inevitable NIMBY remarks go, if you're going to advocate passionately for a technology that has a big downside so passionately, lobby for them in YOUR neighborhood. Let us know how that's going for ya'.

    Stupid crazy is advocating for a "renewable" that isn't very "renewable" at all, has a big negative environmental impact, and which there is no real advantage to, because the infrastructure to make it actually beneficial doesn't exist. This isn't even baseload capacity. It's a boondoggle.

  10. How many of us here would do what on NBC Apologizes For Editing Zimmerman 911 Call · · Score: 1

    Zimmerman did ?

    As a former patrol supervisor for a security company, I simply can not relate to Zimmerman's actions, and I don't understand why people feel so compelled to take sides with him.

    He was not a law enforcement official, he had no business stalking and confronting anybody, and he created a dangerous situation of conflict that was not only unnecessary, but dangerous and ignorant.

    He made a series of assumptions, took actions that were compleatly contrary to what ANY private security non-law enforcement official is supposed to do, and it resulted in him using a concealed weapon to kill an unarmed 17 year old.

    If he had approached me and demanded anything from me, I would have told him to go fuck himself.

  11. Too bad I wasn't around on TSA Shuts Down Airport, Detains 11 After "Science Project" Found · · Score: 1

    Because, at a glance, I could tell it's not a bomb.

    Everybody at every level over-reacts and assumes the worst. This is what the USA is all about these days. Hysteria, ignorance, and fear.

  12. Re:Innovation in a country with socialized medicin on UK Surgeons Are the First To Operate In 3D · · Score: 2

    More expensive, new, relatively untested or poorly tested, and dangerous treatment options rushed through by the drug company dominated and controlled FDA is not necessarily better. Also, not all medical innovations in the US are a product of the insurers - THAT is a ridiculous assertion.

    And I LIVE in the USA. We don't have a single system, far from it. Just ignoring the people on Medicare and the system in place for veterans doesn't make those "socialized" systems nonexistent, no matter what your particular political agenda.

    Also, congress and the President are not "exempt" from "Obamacare".

    I know Canadians that are better informed on American health care than you are. Sad. But oddly typical.

  13. Innovation in a country with socialized medicine ? on UK Surgeons Are the First To Operate In 3D · · Score: 2

    How is this possible ?

  14. Re:We all know why on Does Higher Health Care Spending Lead To Better Patient Outcomes? · · Score: 1

    That people don't care that these statistics are collected differently, and do NOT indicate what they are touted as representing IS part of the problem.

    It's almost as grievous a logical error as claiming that the US has ANY kind of "free market" economy, especially when it comes to health care.

    When I had top of the line health insurance there was NO END to all the prescriptions doctors wanted to put me on. Nasal steroid for sinus infections, drugs for "depression" after a car accident, drugs for pain, instead of letting me go to a proper pain-management clinic, steroids for injuries that do not warrant the risks and adverse "side-effects" and "adverse effects" to treatment with them.

    Look, when a doctor wants to put you on a nasal steroid for the rest of your life for a seasonal sinus problem, you know you are getting sub standard health care that isn't about you, it's about the drug companies profits.

    The illegal alien argument, funny how as a group they tend to not be significantly any less healthy in spite of avoiding the perpetual medical interventionism in the name of drug company profits the rest of the country is addicted to.

  15. The comparison works on Wind Map of US Will Blow You Away · · Score: 1

    For Europeans that like to *feel* superior.

  16. Re:Yeah, but... on Wind Map of US Will Blow You Away · · Score: 1

    A North American city is NOT a European nation.

    Comparing these two disparate things is, in itself, an exercise in foregone conclusion and outright deception.

    But it it makes you feel superior, who am I to argue with your lack of reasoning ability and your thinly veiled faux pan-nationalism.

  17. I watch a lot of network news... on Army Reviews Controversial Drug After Afghan Massacre · · Score: 1

    And as usual, a story about a potentially dangerous drug goes compleatly ignored.

    Big Pharma runs the show. I tried to tell you.

  18. Re:It's more than just global warming gas on Climate Change To Drive Weather Disasters, Say UN Experts · · Score: 1

    The thing is, everybody seems to ignore inconvenient truths. The primary one being that this planet has never held so humans, modern humans obviously impact the environment more, yet the focus of climate change and environmental impact is almost exclusively centered around ignoring the long term impact of just having too many damn people competing for finite resources.

    At some point you have to deal with that elephant in the room, because it just gave birth to quadruplets, and there's no place for you to sit-down anymore.

  19. If you give up your passwords on House Kills Effort To Stop Workplace Requests For Facebook Passwords · · Score: 1

    You're an idiot.

    And idiot with a job, but still, and idiot.

  20. Re:I just wish... on Boston Pays Out $170,000 To Man Arrested For Recording Police · · Score: 1

    What a scam the police and the DA have going; they get to fuck-up and violate the law, arrest otherwise innocent and harmless people to keep the public from knowing what they are up to, and make the public pay them to do it, and for their fuck-ups.

  21. Re:Amazing! on Boston Pays Out $170,000 To Man Arrested For Recording Police · · Score: 1

    No, arrest records follow you no mater where you go.

    And just about anybody who works for law enforcement has quick and easy access to them.

  22. Welcome to the new connected world... on UK Man Jailed For 'Offensive Tweets' · · Score: 1

    Drunken tweets aren't anything to be proud of, but neither are attempts to justify the type of heavy-handed punishment meted-down for them.

    The latter I find actually significantly more embarrassing.

  23. Re:The problem is... on Your Privacy Is a Sci-Fi Fantasy · · Score: 1

    And we know not to bother with your future remarks, since you've shown such remarkably poor reading comprehension.

  24. I can't remember the last time I had a meal on Science Reveals Why Airplane Food Tastes So Bad · · Score: 1

    on a plane.

    Oh, wait, yes I do; it was on a flight from Boston to NC back int he late 80's. There was a just HORRIBLE smell filling the cabin, it stank like wet dog. It was the cheese omelette.

  25. A baby ban makes more sense. on Maybe the FAA Gadget Ban On Liftoff and Landing Isn't So Bad · · Score: 1

    Leave your screaming cabbages at home.