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  1. Re:Godwin's Law on Panel Urges Major NSA Spying Overhaul · · Score: 1

    What you're talking about is an actual part of Godwin's Law. Literal Nazism, historical discussions related to Nazi Germany or similar regimes, and legitimate political comparisons such as dehumanization, war crimes, and a police state are all exempt from Godwin's Law because they aren't a spurious comparison.

  2. Two cats and a wool sweater on North Korea Developing Electromagnetic Pulse Weapons · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe even some wool socks if they're really pushing things.

  3. You're absolutely right. "YOU" are entitled. So entitled in fact that you feel entitled to force people to waste hours of actual working time sitting in a room satisfying a completely worthless corporate-culture convention whose only appreciable function is to allow middle management to spout buzzwords for a few hours. And of course YOUR time is so important than even people who don't need to be, and SHOULDN'T be there, cannot do ANYTHING but sit raptly in attention to your pure gospel.

  4. And if he ever decides to short-sell his own company?

  5. Re:“SOURCE: Strategy Analytics” on Smartphone Sales: Apple Squeezed, Blackberry Squashed, Android 81.3% · · Score: 1

    Because it's completely unheard of for multiple companies to have headquarters in the same massive building...

  6. Re:Lets not forget on GPUs Keep Getting Faster, But Your Eyes Can't Tell · · Score: 1

    Some of us like 100+hz because the refresh rate allows a faster screen redraw and prevents headaches.

  7. Re:There are other applications on GPUs Keep Getting Faster, But Your Eyes Can't Tell · · Score: 4, Informative

    First off you're so wrong it hurts. Until very recently graphical framerates in the average FPS were relatively insulated from "physics framerates", in the days of TFC for example 100fps didn't make your rockets any more accurate because the SERVER calculated its trajectory.

    Secondly it's been proven time and time again that humans are perfectly capable of detecting framerates well into the hundreds. Fighter pilots can not only detect a SINGLE frame from somewhere around 1/200th of a second but even tell you what enemy jet it was. Gamers are similar, until consolization forced a lower standard onto everyone and covered it up with a lower FOV filled with massive amounts of bloom and blur performance was judged by the gold standard of a solid 60fps minimum, 30 was choppy and 100 was idea.

  8. Re:The problem being... on Why Amazon Is Profitless Only By Choice · · Score: 1

    Actually it's not, what you're demanding IS Somalia. It's not a facetious argument just because it happens to be inconvenient for your already-tried-and-failed ideology.

  9. Re:The problem being... on Why Amazon Is Profitless Only By Choice · · Score: 0

    So you want how many companies digging up your lawn to lay their own cable? You're fine without building codes? We tried it your way before, in fact we tried things your way right up until the Guilded Age.

    I think I'm going to start including "statist" in my list of phrases that automatically signify a wingnut, right up there next to ZOG and Chemtrails.

  10. Re:The problem being... on Why Amazon Is Profitless Only By Choice · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Where's the competition in the ISP or Cellphone market then? Oh, right, it doesn't exist because of BARRIERS TO ENTRY.

  11. Re:There have been a lot of firsts on Federal Prosecutors, In a Policy Shift, Cite Warrantless Wiretaps As Evidence · · Score: 1

    you mean like Citizens United? The SCotUS is going to decide 5-4 in favor of utterly destroying the 4th amendment, just like they have every other time a 4th amendment issue has come up. The problem is Scalia and Thomas, they're taking phenomenal quantities of money, gifts, and bribes from the Koch Brothers to shit all over the bill of rights.

  12. Re:I want my games to have all the pixels! on 4K Ultra HD Likely To Repeat the Failure of 3D Television · · Score: 1, Informative

    1080p took off for the same reason macs did, marketing. 1900x1200 was starting to be common when everything suddenly got yanked back to 1080 because it was cheaper and marketing bullshit convinced people to pay more money for less monitor.

  13. Re:Help us Google Fiber! You're our only hope. on Top US Lobbyist Wants Broadband Data Caps · · Score: 1

    I doubt they even care that much. All they really want to do is just charge people more than they do now for less service than they currently offer, and this gives them an excuse.

    Just look at how utterly exorbitant mobile data costs are.

  14. Re:They didn't think this through on Scientists Say Climate Change Is Damaging Iowa Agriculture · · Score: 1

    And you think virtually every scientist, in every university and lab, in every country is in on this massive world-spanning conspiracy... EXCEPT for the ones that also just so happen to be getting a lot of money from american right-wing thinktanks and big oil.

  15. Re:They didn't think this through on Scientists Say Climate Change Is Damaging Iowa Agriculture · · Score: 1

    Your problem isn't with the science, it's with the deliberately disingenuous reporting on said science.

  16. They didn't think this through on Scientists Say Climate Change Is Damaging Iowa Agriculture · · Score: 3, Insightful

    More or less the entire scientific community of the planet has been in a consensus about this for most of the last decade or two and our government still does not give a fuck. Iowa is not going to accomplish by itself what the whole freaking world didn't all together. The only way we'll ever start making progress on climate change is if somebody finds a way to outspend big oil, the car manufacturers, and every other petro-lobby.

  17. Re:You are so right! on DNA Sequence Withheld From New Botulism Paper · · Score: 1

    You're doing more to prove my point than rebutt it. Those were pathetically ineffective attacks, explosives made with household supplies could probably have killed far more people.

  18. Re:Full of BS on OCZ May Be On Its Last Legs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you couldn't find a citation then maybe you shouldn't have fucking said it.

  19. Re:I know the scientist... on DNA Sequence Withheld From New Botulism Paper · · Score: 1

    Yes because terrorists are going to go through all the trouble to use yet another one of a million different biological/chemical attacks they already don't use instead of simple and cheap explosives.

  20. Re:Rich People Find Loophole.... on How Entrepreneurs Overturned California's Retroactive Tax On Startup Founders · · Score: 1

    Funny I didn't notice germany, which has more new millionaires than any other country, hemorrhaging population recently. Or the scandinavias. Or pretty much anywhere that isn't a blatant kleptocracy.

  21. Re:The solution is simple. on Google Cracks Down On Mugshot Blackmail Sites · · Score: 3, Informative

    It isn't simple at all, my dear ass, because as other comments have pointed out these pictures are taken for *anyone* that gets booked... whether or not you even committed a crime.

  22. Re:The are mortal after all on Owner of Battery Fire Tesla Vehicle: Car 'Performed Very Well, Will Buy Again' · · Score: 1

    No, it just happens to be completely surrounded by an oxygen atmosphere...

  23. Re:The are mortal after all on Owner of Battery Fire Tesla Vehicle: Car 'Performed Very Well, Will Buy Again' · · Score: 1

    As opposed to a plastic bin full of highly volatile, easily vaporizable, combustible fuel?

  24. Re:They were greedy on Two Years In Prison For Using Infrared Contact Lenses To Cheat At Poker · · Score: 1
  25. Re:They were greedy on Two Years In Prison For Using Infrared Contact Lenses To Cheat At Poker · · Score: 1

    High level gamers routinely have near perfect accuracy statistics anyway, it wouldn't make much of a difference.