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  1. Re:Superbowl and War Porn on Video Game Industry Starting To Feel Heat On Gun Massacres · · Score: 1

    Hey, I wasn't born with a college fund, and my only way up is the military, and all my politicians are owned, but I'm free!
    Excellent points tovarish! Let's go forth and round up the Kulaks, and bring about the dictatorship of the proletariat.

  2. Re:How is this tech and wtf is this doing on Slash on Possible Chemical Weapons Use In Syria · · Score: 1

    This is doubly so for America as you add in the Democrats knowing damned well that no matter how justified an intervention is they will be tarred even more by Republicans claiming it was simply warmongering (see Libya).
    Yes, that great Republican Dennis Kucinich had constitutional objections. But that's okay we're "rushing to war" in Syrian, but since there is a Democratic president it will all turn out OK.

  3. Re:Just wait for the news media to pick this up. on Growing Consensus: The Higgs Boson Exists · · Score: 1

    c'mon.....this is slashdot not huffington post
    I know, where's the side boob pix?

  4. Re:European Magic on EU Car Makers Manipulating Fuel Efficiency Figures · · Score: 3, Informative

    but regulations require a certain amount of ethanol to be blended into the real-world gasoline supply ... and this drastically hurts efficiency. Except it doesn't have to.
    Yes, yes it does. Gasoline ~34.2 MJ/L; E10~33.18(~3% less); E85~26.5. Ethanol has less energy per liter, so if you have to add it to your fuel, you will get fewer MPGs.

  5. Re:Chaotic good. on Bradley Manning Pleads Guilty To 10 Charges · · Score: 2

    I found where Obama said "He broke the law." and if you think answering a reporters questions at a dinner reception is command influence, you're out of touch with reality.
    And if you think any constitutional lawyer worth his salt would not be smart enough when asked such a question to say,"Hey, I don't comment on investigations esp. military ones to avoid creating the appearance of bias." you're out of touch with reality.

  6. Re:life-saving device for cycling on Sergey Brin Says Using a Smartphone Is 'Emasculating' · · Score: 1

    Permanent recording could be a safety feature for cyclists. It would make road hooligans less enthusiastic as an HD video of an accident could be played later in a judicial assembly.
    Only if the glasses could automatically detonate when a cyclist blasts past a stop sign without stopping.

  7. Re:How does this account for those who change part on Is "Left" Vs. "Right" Hard-coded Into Your Brain? · · Score: 1

    , the conservatives have been throwing their stalwarts (Arlen Spector, John McCain, and now Chuck Hagel, et al)
    Stalwart, not how I would describe a former Democrat, the guy everybody in Washington would go to for a quote from a Republican to bad mouth other Republicans, and the dude who lost his shit about the surge, and doesn't have the courage to admit he lost his shit. +5 insightful, I think not.

  8. Re:Like it or not, Samsung is Android on Samsung Amps Up Its Multi-Window Android Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Well really there are three Androids now: 1) Amazon 2) Samsung 3) Everyone else
    Which ever one of those vendors fixes the bluetooth stack in 4.2.1 to work w/ my in car audio gets my business, I have no need for 8-12 tiles/windows, but I do need for shit that wasn't broken to remain not broken going forward.

  9. Re:Ah! on Why Ray Kurzweil's Google Project May Be Doomed To Fail · · Score: 1

    then figures out a way to eliminate war without eliminating the idiots waging it. That's a reality show I would pay good cash money to watch.
    I saw that movie, dumb idea Copper Top.

  10. Re:America's response. on How Mobile Operators Are Caught In the Middle In the Middle East and Africa · · Score: 1

    easily-distracted and short-memoried as the average USAian.
    The term is American, see later you use the word America ...America's evil history to name the nation you are talking about, ergo the term to describe people from that nation is American.
    America's evil history of toppling peaceful regimes, undermining democracies, assassinating legitimate heads of state,
    Oliver Stone, is that you?I love your revisionist history show on Showtime, haven't laughed that hard in weeks.

  11. Re:Anyone hungry? on Scientists Create New Gasoline Substitute Out of Plants · · Score: 1

    his does not damage engines, but assuming it is done (and with bio-ethanol) it does put a 5 or 10% dent in the CO2 production.
    Actually, since E10 has less energy density than straight gasoline(33.2 MJ/L vs 34.2) you would use more to get the same amount of work(E85 is even worse @ 25.7 MJ/L) so your CO2 may not be lowered by as much as you would hope.

  12. Re:We need gas control! on New York Passes Landmark Gun Law · · Score: 1

    No, what we need is an agenda that keeps to minimum someone who is hearing voices saying that Miss Jowinski's kindergarten class are really demons from Hell that are trying to kill him from grabbing the specially-designed murder device that Mom keeps under her bed and using it to rain, onto a bunch of kids who were busy coloring just a few seconds before, a hundred 6.8 Rem SPC rounds (armor-piercing) with a muzzle velocity of 800 meters per second and energy of 2390 joules, that Mom bought from Lucky Gunner Online, tearing their tiny bodies to shreds.
    Sorry, you need to pick a problem, do you worry about spree killings? Or do you worry about children dying? If it is the former, then mental health reform is where you want to focus, if it is the latter, then you would be better served filling swimming pools with concrete since more children drown than are killed by gunfire. The current solution doesn't really do anything but make the hoplophobes feel good about standing up to those "EVIL" firearms.

  13. Re:Ban Walmart on New York Passes Landmark Gun Law · · Score: 4, Informative

    Bleach and ammonia = mustard gas
    Sorry to be pedantic(not really, this is /.), but mustard gas is C4H8Cl2S. Where's the sulfur in bleach(NaClO) or Ammonia(NH4OH), hint there isn't any. Hell, you don't even have any carbons either, so no, you cannot make a "mustard" gas out of bleach and ammonia(you'll make some nasty chlorinated ammonia compounds, but not mustard). Still it is a bad idea to mix the two, so don't.

  14. Re:Seems perfectly reasonable on New York Passes Landmark Gun Law · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nobody's TERKIN YER GERNS
    Yet. This little gem. The law also requires that when a mental health professional determines a gun owner is likely to do harm, the risk must be reported and the gun removed by law enforcement."
    Is ripe for abuse, and I will enjoy seeing this bitch slapped down by the federal judiciary faster than you can say Zen Fascism. After all no bad law has ever been passed in the emotional furor after a tragedy.

  15. Re:Probably? on US Near Bottom In Life Expectancy In Developed World · · Score: 1

    It's been shown that there are different types of suicidal persons, and they don't switch the means of (attempted) suicides - people prone to kill themselves with pills are not very likely to jump in front of an oncoming train and vice versa.
    citation needed. Anyways, perhaps a study could be done of say, Australia pre-and post gun bar to see if their suicide rate correlated strongly with the availability of guns.

  16. Re:One question on The Problem With Internet Dating's Frictionless Market · · Score: 1

    There are no "types" of feminism that are about "trashing men
    Bzzt! Wrong see SCUM Manifesto. But hey keep calling yourself something without studying the history of the group you've chosen to associate with it will serve you well. Also avoid any false Scotsmen.

  17. Re:Metric . . . the liberal's tool on Petition For Metric In US Halfway To Requiring Response From the White House · · Score: 1

    Anything French must seemingly be spat upon the moment it is mentioned. Anything French must be inferior, cowardly, belittled etc, simply because its French, and they didn't want to come play in the first Gulf War when the US told them to. Its sad.
    So much cluelessness for a +4 insightful, sad really. In America, it has been cool to mock the French, since before the fouding of the United States, due to colonists fighting both the French and the Indians in a war(forgot what it was called...). Additionally, during the cold war, the French liked to try and play the US and the Soviets off against eachother, and then there was the whole French Indo-China fiasco that helped generate a lot of Oliver Stone movies. Not helping the cause was France's reticence to allow the use of their airspace when attempting to strike at Gaddafi post Lockerbie. The Gulf War and France not wanting to go against their client state while pretending to do so in the name of internationalism was merely the icing on the cake. Ditto sinking of the Rainbow Warrior.

  18. Re:Spot the obvious problem on EFF Spinoff Pools Donor Dollars To Prevent WikiLeaks-Style Payment Blockades · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Even better, how long until some finds a way to use this new system to launder money, and then the feds will come down very hard on these folks.

  19. Re:Android is NOT a useable tablet experience on Windows 8: a 'Christmas Gift For Someone You Hate' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've been using an Android tablet after I switched away from the iPad. It was TERRIBLE. Android is definitely the worst of all tablet UIs.
    Stop using the 79 dollar chinese made resistive screen tablet you bought a Walgreens last Christmas and try a real android tablet or install Cyanogen Mod on an HP Touchpad. Then get back to me.

  20. Re:amazon's immense size on Cyber Monday and Amazon's Online Dominance · · Score: 4, Insightful

    YOU OWE USE TAX TO YOUR STATE even if sales tax was not collected at time of purchase -- so pay 'em already you fucking tax deadbeats.
    Why, b/c so govt. asshole decided to put his hand in my pocket? If I purchased an item that may have been subject to a tax(and let's get real there's plenty of tax holiday shenanigans an individual could run afoul of), why does the locality get any extra tax? The fuel that powered the truck that made the delivery was taxed, the income used to pay for the item was taxed(Assuming not living in NH, Florida etc). The land on which I will use the item was taxed, so why does the govt get another slice of the pie? Nevermind, the silliness of paying a use tax on a digital download. that has contributed to budget messes for many states?
    Sorry, you were looking for unsustainable pension funds and failure to recognize the conflict of interest inherent in collective bargaining of public sector unions. Just ask that rabid union buster FDR. "All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service."

  21. Re:Just stay out of the fast lane. on OnStar Gives Volt Owners What They Want: Their Data, In the Cloud · · Score: 1

    People trade in beemer 3 series, camaros, etc for these little rockets,
    Rocket? I think not, 8.3-9 seconds for 0 to 60? 2008 328i does that 2.3 to 3 seconds quicker. Now, I am glad people enjoy their cars, but one doesn't move to a chevy volt for the raw 0 to 60 acceleration.

  22. Re:Starship Troopers here we come. on Artificial Muscles Pack a Mean Punch · · Score: 1

    A 15 second conversation from the book that described the whole veterans are the only citizens that can vote thing. Which seems like a solution to the bread and circuses problem democracies face.

  23. Re:My offer stands on WordPress To Accept Bitcoins · · Score: 1

    I will pay you five billion bigsexyjoe nickels to stop running bitcoin stories.
    What's the exchange rate vs Schrute Bucks? I think I want to try some arbitrage action.

  24. Re:Not exactly on Man Arrested For Photo of Burning Poppy On Facebook · · Score: 1

    Well, it isn't like genocide was an official part of the party platform this year,
    As opposed to the party that has supported over 40 million abortions since Roe v. Wade. As for Islamaphobia, not really an irrational fear when someone makes several attacks on your nation state in the name of Allah.

  25. Re:Security is easy on The Cyber Threat To the Global Oil Supply · · Score: 1

    who run bartertown?