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  1. Re:Stop renting DVD's on Ask Slashdot: How To Make a DVD-Rental Store More Relevant? · · Score: 1

    Yes, because without venture capitalists Hostess wouldn't have gone under in 2009. Instead it would have miraculously become solvent while upholding all its union obligations and there would have been Twinkies for everybody.

  2. Re:Dr. Who's Savior Complex on The New Series of Doctor Who: Fleeing From Format? · · Score: 2

    True, but they had to get rid of the Ponds somehow. I'm still convinced that at some point the Doctor will realize that gravestones don't necessarily have BODIES under them and bring back the Ponds to their proper present. However, being a companion or two past them he will no longer snuggle up to them like a neglected puppy.

  3. Re:Based on the summary... on The New Series of Doctor Who: Fleeing From Format? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Trust me, reading the actual review it only gets worse.

  4. Re:"Obamacare" cost less than free pizzas on Papa John's Sued For Unwanted Pizza-Related Texts · · Score: 1

    The pizzas were "free" as part of an NFL promotion. The idea being that people would buy multiple pizzas at a time on game day, and their 'free' pizza. Given this is the second year running such a promotion, it obviously increases sales more than enough to offset the loss. So unless you're suggesting an Obamacare day promotion to get people to buy pizza to offset Obamacare's cost, your post is useless. This is especially true as revenue is not cost.

  5. Re:USS Thresher on Fukushima Ocean Radiation Won't Quit · · Score: 1

    No, it went down because of a high pressure water leak and poor design. The SCRAM worked perfectly as designed and the reactor has never been any trouble.

  6. Re:Misleading summary on Scientists Who Failed to Warn of Quake Found Guilty of Manslaughter · · Score: 4, Informative

    Exactly, this is the same country where the prosecutors in the Knox trial had her motives ranging from satanic orgy, to sex games gone wrong, to drug money homicide, to jealousy, to Knox just being a sociopath, and reefer madness. Basically, NEVER get arrested in Italy.

  7. Re:The ecological cycle on Seafood Raised on Animal Feces Approved for Consumers · · Score: 1

    No, the reason most people don't eat carnivores is because carnivores are both a much smaller population, and tend to taste fucking nasty. At least mammilian carnivores do. Alligator's actually pretty tasty.

  8. Re:Make it illegal on Hiring Smokers Banned In South Florida City · · Score: 1

    No, it was revived by Johnson. Nixon just formally passed a law.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Drugs

    In 1968, Lyndon B. Johnson decided that the government needed to make an effort to curtail the social unrest that blanketed the country at the time. He decided to focus his efforts on illegal drug use. While this may seem to be an unrelated initiative, Johnson’s choice to go after illegal drugs was in line with expert opinion on the subject at the time. In the 1960s, it was believed that at least half of the crime in the U.S. was drug related, and this number grew as high as 90 percent in the next decade.[64] He created the Reorganization Plan of 1968 which merged the Bureau of Narcotics and the Bureau of Drug Abuse to form the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs within the Department of Justice.[65] The belief during this time about drug use was summarized by journalist Max Lerner in his celebrated work America as a Civilization:

    "As a case in point we may take the known fact of the prevalence of reefer and dope addiction in Negro areas. This is essentially explained in terms of poverty, slum living, and broken families, yet it would be easy to show the lack of drug addiction among other ethnic groups where the same conditions apply.

  9. Re:Make it illegal on Hiring Smokers Banned In South Florida City · · Score: 1

    Alcohol's worse, and it regularly kills other people in the prime of their life, not 50 years down the road.

  10. Re:Make it illegal on Hiring Smokers Banned In South Florida City · · Score: 1

    Since it's not illegal, every single one of these places is going to get hit with a massive lawsuit. It's like refusing to hire someone who eats bacon.

  11. Re:And we move forward on Lab-Made Eggs Produce Healthy Mice · · Score: 2

    We still need the artificial uterus. And the caretaker robots that can create healthy human minds.

  12. Re:the ammo on You Can't Print a Gun If You Have No 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    If by a little work you mean firing 50 additional rounds through the barrel as rapidly as possible, then yes.

  13. Re:Politics on You Can't Print a Gun If You Have No 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    BATFE was originally part of the Treasury dept. They transferred enforcement to the newly create bureau, but cannot legally transfer tax collection unless they transfer it to the IRS as IRS and Treasury are the only two government organizations allowed to tax.

  14. Re:the message is clear: on You Can't Print a Gun If You Have No 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    Except NOTHING he was doing was illicit. If he had taken blocks of aluminium and forged steel, he could have made all the guns he wanted on a CNC machine and no one would have batted an eye. If I were him I would look over the lease terms very carefully to see if he can't nail the wankers.

  15. Re:Helping to Keep it Secret... on Scientists Want To Keep Their Research Work Out of Court · · Score: 1

    Yes, which is why his average for the past 10 years(or was it 20, too lazy to look up) was over 13%. And the percent of charitable giving remained virtually unchanged. So he's going to amend his tax returns for the last 10 years because this was all a play for the presidency.

  16. Monday morning quarterbacking? They were offered a full WIPS. They DECLINED the protection package. Moreover, the Brits clearly saw the writing on the fucking wall.

  17. Old. on Glenn Beck Reports CIA Plot Between Embassy Killing and Something Awful · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    And more importantly, it happened because Beck couldn't believe that the administration would be so fucking stupid as to not provide security in Benghazi after the attacks in June and the Brits had specifically pulled their consulate back to Tripoli because they thought the security situation, even with upgraded security, was too tenuous. So he cast around for any possible theory and his fevered mind came up with that.

  18. Re:Guns on The Explosive Growth of 3D Printing · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Sorry shit for brains, the vast majority of firearms used by the cartels don't come from America, and those that do are given to YOUR military, where they are subsequently taken by the cartels.

  19. Re:For sure! on Iran's News Agency Picks Up Onion Story · · Score: 1

    Make that C-Span and you might have a point.

  20. Re:And it will go down if you get rid of Obama on Electronic Surveillance By US Law Enforcement Agencies Rising Steeply · · Score: 1

    Assange's actions place him in the category of narcissistic sociopath. He performs his actions not for the actions themselves, but for the accolades and reputation boost.

  21. That's funny right there on Sexism In Science · · Score: 5, Funny

    Males, less sexist against females than other females.

  22. Re:Diablo 3 is fine. on Game Review: Torchlight 2 · · Score: 1

    It really isn't though, as the only lock on skills is level. Thus, if you respec a max level character, you CAN make extremely unbalanced builds.

  23. Re:Potion of Respec on Game Review: Torchlight 2 · · Score: 1

    that's for tl1. TL2 has a console command

  24. Re:Diablo 3 is fine. on Game Review: Torchlight 2 · · Score: 1

    respec console command. shows online that you used it, but doesnt ban you

  25. Re:Can you change the keybindings? on Game Review: Torchlight 2 · · Score: 1

    Yes, yes you can. And you can add modifiers. So MB4,MB5,Shift-MB4,Shift-MB5,Ctl-MB4,CtlMB5 etc... can use the 2 side buttons for all needed spells