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  1. Grew suspicious of this a few weeks ago on Facebook Knows If You're Gay, Use Drugs, Or Are a Republican · · Score: 1

    I was having a conversation about physics with a friend via comments. It wrapped up with him expressing he enjoyed the argument, thanked me, and added "we should get high sometime. Haha, jk." Anyway, I liked the comment because of the leading statement. The next day I see a "suggested post" about marijauna. Thanks FB. I tried pot in college, the time and place for that, and have too much to lose by getting caught with it now. However, I think you should be able to do what you want with your body and legalization would cut expenses of chasing it. But FB seems to think I'm a habitual smoker based on the ads I've seen.

  2. Hokay! on North Korea Threatens US With Preemptive Nuclear Strike · · Score: 1

    Ruling out the ice caps maelting, meteors becoming crashed into us, the ozone leaving and the sun exploding, we are definitely going to blow ourselves up. Hokay!

  3. Re:Worth noting on SimCity 5: How Not To Design a Single Player Game · · Score: 1

    I feel a little hurt that I won't be buying it. But not as hurt as I'd be spending money and can't play because the servers are down. :)

  4. I'm hurt on SimCity 5: How Not To Design a Single Player Game · · Score: 1

    I've been looking forward to SC5's release for a while, but now I can't buy it. It's marks the end of one of my favorite game series of all time.

  5. Re:BULLSHIT on How the U.S. Sequester Will Hurt Science and Tech · · Score: 0

    Why couldn't Obama and Tiger pay for their own fucking golf game as me and my buddy pay for our own fishing trips?

  6. Re:Maybe I'm missing something... on iOS 6.1.3 Beta 2 Patches evasi0n Jailbreak · · Score: 1

    If you're talking about Jailbreakme, I believe that exploit patched itself after jailbreaking the device.

  7. M$ don't care on HP Continuing To Flee Windows Reservation With Android Tablet · · Score: 1

    M$ don't give a shit. Android tax. They still make a dollar off of it.

  8. Re:So what exactly is 'beats audio?' on HP Back In Tablet Game With Android-Based 'Slate7' · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's licensed from Dr. Dre's line of headphones (which I believe is manufactured by Monster cable). Existing technology that they had to slap some hip guy's name on. I have it on my HP laptop and it honestly sounds pretty good as far as laptop speakers go.

  9. Definition of insanity on HP Back In Tablet Game With Android-Based 'Slate7' · · Score: 2

    ...doing the same thing and expecting a different result. To the stockholders: what could possibly go wrong?

  10. Re:American Wage Slaves are an Even Better Value on US CEO Says French Workers Have Three-Hour Work Day · · Score: 1

    You must work in one of those Right to Fire... errr... Work states! They call it "Right to Work" yet every time I hear the phrase it's in the context of getting fired. Healthcare reform? Let's try some labor reform. Tax the living fuck out of companies exporting jobs that could be done here. There's a hell of a lot more people in other countries who will do the a job you can do on the cheap. Protect the worker. Big business isn't your friend, they're here to rob you.

  11. Re:Sounds cool on the surface on Ubuntu Tablets: Less Jarring Than Windows 8? · · Score: 1

    You need to get laid (as you have demonstrated).

  12. Re:Sounds cool on the surface on Ubuntu Tablets: Less Jarring Than Windows 8? · · Score: 1

    I was speculating and, if those speculations are true, expressing my distaste. Want to argue about something else?

  13. Re:Sounds cool on the surface on Ubuntu Tablets: Less Jarring Than Windows 8? · · Score: 0

    Ubuntu is a cloud whore. They push it on you every time you install an Ubuntu desktop/laptop product.

  14. Sounds cool on the surface on Ubuntu Tablets: Less Jarring Than Windows 8? · · Score: 1

    But it sounds like you'll need cloud storage forward to work. That's something I'm not very crazy about. And then there's the privacy issues that have been plaguing Ubuntu lately. It seems to be driving a lot of Linux users away, including me. The integration strategy sounds really cool.

  15. Re:Excellent News! on Canonical Announcing Ubuntu Tablet Tomorrow? · · Score: 2

    Just like everything else: everybody's doing it!

  16. C. diff simply spreading? on Are Plastic Bag Bans Making People Sick? · · Score: 1

    It's communicated by contact and perhaps it's spreading noticeably enough outside of nursing homes and hospitals. Some people carry c. diff in their GI tracts without having any issues, however antibiotic use (and misuse) can cause a c. diff overgrowth. Overgrowth can also occur with exposure while on antibiotics. So to California: wash your hands, and your bags. Hey, packs of chicken leak their juices sometime so washing those bags would only seem prudent for infection control.

  17. Re:Would not fly in the US on Publisher Sues University Librarian Over His Personal Blog Posts · · Score: 1

    Case in point: Westboro Baptist Church. If they can get away with it, then so could someone in this guys shoes.

  18. Re:Steve Jobs on Tax Peculiarities Mean Facebook Paid No Net Taxes For 2012 · · Score: 1

    Ok, then perhaps if you're living off the dividends you should pay more? It's a tax dodge, albeit a legal one.

  19. Steve Jobs on Tax Peculiarities Mean Facebook Paid No Net Taxes For 2012 · · Score: 2

    The taxes are pushed off to the employees and it is there problem. What bothers me about income tax is when people Ike Steve Jobs got paid $1/year on the books and lived off their stock (I'll honestly admit I don't know how that works). So I'm for shifting away from just taxing income to taxing more in sales tax because the rich tend to have fine tastes.

  20. Re:Low Hanging Fruit on SSH Password Gropers Are Now Trying High Ports · · Score: 1

    Add fail2ban and clean up your log. I've been using key-authentication for outside my LAN and was still getting hundreds of brute force attacks a day. After adding fail2ban, I see about a dozen attempts and 2-3 bans a day.

  21. Can't please everyone on Missouri Legislation Redefines Science, Pushes Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    Everyone has faith in something and it's going to be what makes the best personal sense to them. I don't agree with intelligent design, but we are biased towards statistics. Some find it hard to believe that life as we know it is an accident; that it is too much of a shot in the dark. Key phrase there is "life as we know it." The butterfly could have flapped its wings twice instead of thrice and we would be lizards. Well, the way I see it is, of course it is a shot in the dark, but it apparently happened as we are here in existence. I have *faith* in that much. However, my beliefs are of a minority and different like any other person out there. And unless you are personally conducting your own research regarding the origins of the universe, you have faith in whomever your sources are. When you service a general population, you are bound to say something that some of them won't agree with. It happens. Get over it.

  22. Batterygate on Tesla Motors Battles the New York Times · · Score: 1

    Put a piece of electrical tape on the driver side quarter panel and it'll work right.

  23. Logic opinion on Xbox 720 Could Require Always-On Connection, Lock Out Used Games · · Score: 1

    I do borrow games sometimes and my younger siblings do come over to visit and bring their games. However, for the most part, I buy most if my games new as many games hold that $60 price tag for a while (COD MW2 was $60 for over a yer after release at many stores) and a used game may only be $5 less. Principles, however, has me leaning towards PS4 for my next console assuming they don't pull something like this. And to those saying PC is where it's at when it comes to avoiding DRM, go read up on that: root kits, always on DRM, etc.

  24. FNURMOM on DMVs Across the Country Learning Textspeak · · Score: 1

    ...doesn't get approved either.

  25. Re:Shouldnt a debit card at gas pump get cash pric on Credit Card Swipe Fees Begin Sunday In USA · · Score: 1

    The argument I've heard is: you don't go inside and see that bag of chips, big gulp fountain, or smell the hotdogs that've been in the rollers for a few days. That's a loss for the gas station. Out of the two competing stations near me, station-A charges a few extra cents for using a card, station-B doesn't and their gas is usually the same if not cheaper than station-A's cash rate. I've since written station-A off.