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  1. Re:Can't stop crims, can fix holes on Why You Can't Dump Java (Even Though You Want To) · · Score: 1

    Can we get Odd Job to throw his hat at Larry Ellison?

  2. Re:This assumes I want Xbox Live Gold on Why You Don't Want a $99 Xbox 360 · · Score: 1

    True, but if you don't pay the early-termination fee, then we're back to court.

  3. Re:This assumes I want Xbox Live Gold on Why You Don't Want a $99 Xbox 360 · · Score: 0

    Can you get this Xbox without the two-year requirement? If you attempt to get out of the two-year requirement, Microsoft will take you to court where there are people with guns.

  4. Re:Can someone explain to me on Pirate Party Gaining Strength In Germany · · Score: 1

    Correct, they're more parrotish.

  5. Re:All the Crap on Pirate Party Gaining Strength In Germany · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They also host Wikileaks. They have a broader view of internet freedom than merely downloading in violation of copyright.

  6. Re:Risque? on How Accurate Were Leonardo Da Vinci's Anatomy Drawings? · · Score: 1

    Footnote: Putting punctuation inside of a quotation that it was not part of is counter-intuitive, illogical, unethical, and in some cases dangerous. English standards are incorrect, so I substitute my own.

    Thank you!

  7. Re:I'd love to see some actual proof on Panetta Labels Climate Change a National Security Threat · · Score: 1

    Sure, you can call it "lazy"---in that people don't meddle in other people's business.

    And if the environment is other people's business? Can someone own the air? It's not obvious how one goes from self ownership to air ownership.

  8. Re:I'd love to see some actual proof on Panetta Labels Climate Change a National Security Threat · · Score: 1

    If the non-aggression principle is wrong, then it's perfectly okay for me to come over there and settle this debate through violence.

    So either it's never correct to initiate violence, or it's always correct. Yep, I detect a logical fallacy here:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dichotomy

    From your freekeene.com link:

    First principle: I own my own body. OR if you prefer: I control my own body.

    This is an irrefutable axiom! If you attempt to deny it, you validate it. In other words, you’d have to exercise control of your body to produce the sound waves that deny that you control your body. Similar to Mises’ first principle – man acts. You have to act in order to say or demonstrate that man does not act.

    Again, the fact that one can exercise some control over one's body does not mean that one has total control over it. Another false dichotomy.

    Also, the writer does not distinguish between responsibility and ownership.

  9. Re:Is Apple the new Microsoft? on Is Google the New Microsoft? · · Score: 2

    Considering the user ID, Khasim isn't a new anything.

  10. Re:Let's just say on Is Google the New Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    How does Google affect the adoption of Bing or Yahoo?

  11. Re:Let's just say on Is Google the New Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    You don't have to use Windows either.

    True, I'm using Linux. But I did have to buy Windows. And about the only way I could have avoided that was buying a Mac.

  12. Re:I'd love to see some actual proof on Panetta Labels Climate Change a National Security Threat · · Score: 1

    And if the non-aggression principle is wrong? And as for free-market environmentalism, who owns the stuff in the first place? And is your free-market dogma any less lazy than the positions you attack?

  13. Re:This is not new on Panetta Labels Climate Change a National Security Threat · · Score: 1

    But if they are friendly, we don't want them toppled. That's why we don't want them toppled by climate-related revolutions.

  14. Dating students? on Missouri High School Principal Resigns After Posing As Student On Facebook · · Score: 1

    Did they get fired for that?

  15. Re:And on Recently Exposed PHP Hole's Official Fix Ineffective · · Score: 1

    That would be the correct answer to "Why should I want a dominatrix to spank me?", not "Why should I use PHP?".

  16. Re:I'd love to see some actual proof on Panetta Labels Climate Change a National Security Threat · · Score: 1

    and rejected the principles of liberalism and freedom that our society is supposed to be based upon.

    And who is making this supposition? What makes that kind of liberty moral?

    Arguing over the factuality of climate change misses the most important point

    So if North Africa runs out of water, the people should die of dehydration rather than violate your sense of liberty?

  17. Re:This is not new on Panetta Labels Climate Change a National Security Threat · · Score: 1

    But what if climate change leads to the toppling of friendly (to the US) governments?

  18. Re:No one sees... on Panetta Labels Climate Change a National Security Threat · · Score: 1

    AGW isn't science. It's politics. Flat-earth, no-growth, global-socialism politics. And it's ugly.

    Yeah, it's so much easier to accept the unsupported claims of an Anonymous Coward than to do actual science.

  19. Re:No one sees... on Panetta Labels Climate Change a National Security Threat · · Score: 4, Funny

    Higher taxes + more bureaucracy = bigger government = more power. How do you not see how this helps them?

    It may help them.

    Good Republicans are for smaller, less powerful government.

    Unless you have a working vagina:

    http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/87be7156f5/republicans-get-in-my-vagina?playlist=featured_videos

  20. Re:War On Climate on Panetta Labels Climate Change a National Security Threat · · Score: 4, Funny

    What do environmental groups need with fucking GUNS

    To show the Republicans that they support the Second Amendment!

  21. And on Recently Exposed PHP Hole's Official Fix Ineffective · · Score: 0

    Why should I use PHP?

  22. Re:Populist security sense? on B&N Pulls Linux Format Magazine Over Feature On 'Hacking' · · Score: 1

    No mod points, but +5 damn you nailed it.

  23. Re:The Name on Gimp 2.8 Finally Released · · Score: 1

    What about tuxpaint?

    http://tuxpaint.org/

  24. Yep, this is slashdot. on Ask Slashdot: Which Comic Books To Start My 3-Year-Old With? · · Score: 1

    If I got to ask Gates McFadden a question, it wouldn't be about artesian wells.

  25. Oops on Android Ported To C# · · Score: 1

    I failed to include the squashed packages. Mine was pretty much a full CD (~700 MB).