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  1. Re:Reminds me of kids. on Disputed Island Disappears Into Sea · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's also a big problem with large sandbars created in the 1970s by a flipping hurricane, the current object of dispute.

  2. Re:Been there, done that? on Could UK Tax Breaks Pave the Way For GTA London? · · Score: 1

    OTOH, you could be an Irish bastard who gets to kick the shit out of a bunch of chavs.

  3. Re:Doesn't matter what country you are in... on Wikileaks Receiving Gestapo Treatment? · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The Senate bill has been around for how long exactly? Certainly that's not based on the proposed house reform, but it could very well be based upon the actual senate bill. Of course, the elephant in the room is that the proponents of HCR are ignoring that it was fucking stupid to link insurance to employment in the first place. but hey, government knows best. They knew what they were doing then and they know what they're doing now.

  4. Re:Wow... on Anti-Gamer South Australian Attorney General Quits · · Score: 1

    That wasn't the Biker Game Devil. That was George Lucas snuffing out all that is good and right with the world. Luckily, The Old Republic seems to have escaped his wrath. So far at least.

  5. Re:A false choice, of course... on Health Care Reform · · Score: 1

    Technically Bernie's only crime was that he was not an apparatchik of the State. It's perfectly legal for the government to run Ponzi schemes.

  6. Re:A false choice, of course... on Health Care Reform · · Score: 1

    There are some forms of diabetes which are hard to properly treat, but these are rather rare. Most of the excess costs incurred come from those who do not take care of themselves. Which this will do nothing to change.

  7. Re:A false choice, of course... on Health Care Reform · · Score: 1

    Individual health problems would most certainly fall under Specific Welfare. General Welfare would be things that cannot be applied to benefit single individuals. Like, sayyyyy, roads.Or the USPS. Or even National fucking Parks.

  8. Re:A false choice, of course... on Health Care Reform · · Score: 1

    Rather, it would cover the Anarliberdempublican.

  9. Re:A false choice, of course... on Health Care Reform · · Score: 1

    They have an anti-trust exemption specifically because the government regulations surrounding their business mean that in order to survive they have to break pretty much all the anti-trust laws. Otherwise they'd all go bankrupt within the week.

  10. Re:Corporations are sociopaths on Mississippi Makes Caller ID Spoofing Illegal · · Score: 1

    True, he's talking about the dumb old bat who managed to do that while parked in the passenger seat. The really funny part is I had an Outdoor Ed teacher who always said that cotton kills.

  11. Re:Way to go on Venezuela's Chavez To Limit Internet Freedom · · Score: 1

    Yes, OPEP has increased the venezuelan government's income PER UNIT OF OIL. Of course, given Chubby Chavez's actions with regards to the oil producers, Venezuela is producing so much less oil that the increase in price isn't making up for the decrease in oil to export. But you go on believing the stupidity.

  12. Re:Afro-American Racism Against Whites and Asians on Obama Backs MPAA, RIAA, and ACTA · · Score: 1

    No, they were Jack Ryan's divorce records. They should not have been released at all, but suddenly Obama pops up on the scene, and the records get released by a friendly judge. Afterwards, of course, everybody in the judicial sector agreed they shouldn't have been released, but by then Jack was sunk.

  13. Re:Not Trolling ... on Obama Backs MPAA, RIAA, and ACTA · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sarah Palin. The only remotely realistic candidate for prez with a history of actually kicking the crap out of corp/gov corruption.

  14. Re:It could have been worse... on Obama Backs MPAA, RIAA, and ACTA · · Score: 1

    You expect Obama to concede he's wrong on something? At this point he's quintupled down on health insurance reform, even though win or lose it's going to end up fucking the Democrat party up the ass come November. Difference is, if it doesn't pass at least the dems'll get lube.

  15. Re:Afro-American Racism Against Whites and Asians on Obama Backs MPAA, RIAA, and ACTA · · Score: 2, Insightful

    *blinks* You voted for the guy from Chicago who only managed to get elected to the lower offices by DQing his opponents and getting his buddies to release confidential court records of his opposition opponent as the not total sell out? What color is an orange in your universe?

  16. Re:Open source, steal? on MetaLab Accuses Mozilla of Ripping Off UI Elements In Mockups · · Score: 1

    *blinks* Um, Ayn Rand wasn't a particular fan of either copyright or patents.

  17. Re:What's a Paypal? on PayPal Freezes Cryptome's Account · · Score: 1

    Largely irrelevant. Well, unless you're a Keynesian economist. Starting conditions and ending conditions may not look anything alike, but it is the starting conditions which determine ending conditions. Without the mid- 90's revisions to the CRA, there wouldn't have been such a massive housing bubble at all. Without the tech bubble popping and the Keynesian attitude towards low interest rates afterwards, there wouldn't have been such a jump into housing from other market sectors. Without certain Democrats insistence that there was nothing wrong with the housing market on the THREE separate occasions Bush tried to at least partially lance the bubble, it wouldn't have been nearly as big and nasty as it ended up being.

  18. Re:Well, at least the important keys still work. on Microsoft Says, Don't Press the F1 Key In XP · · Score: 1

    ? You have FF set up so that it pulls up the Windows Help Center(The vulnerability for this particular attack) when pressing F1? Cause mine directs me to a Firefox help page without accessing the Help Center at all. I assume it's something similar in Opera and Chrome. If that isn't accessed, nothing happens.

  19. Re:Well, at least the important keys still work. on Microsoft Says, Don't Press the F1 Key In XP · · Score: 3, Funny

    Or you could use FF/Opera/Chrome. Really the title should be, Don't use IE in XP.

  20. Re:Activision on Infinity Ward Lead Developers Axed Unexpectedly · · Score: 1

    Which gets us Government Motors and Crapler

  21. Re:Crypto-news-ology on Infinity Ward Lead Developers Axed Unexpectedly · · Score: 1

    Personality? Ego? Bobby Kotick? NEVER.

  22. Re:Fascinating on Another ACTA Leak Discloses Individual Country Data · · Score: 1

    If by we you mean the Americans, Canadians, Swiss, Israelis, and Finns, then yes, yes we do.

  23. Re:As always... on Another Study Attacks Violent Video Games, Claims To Be "Conclusive" · · Score: 2, Informative

    And,of course, was quite probably doing steroids for the vast majority of that time. Along with who knows what other strength enhancers. Unless you can prove that all the boxers who don't take drugs exhibit the same behaviors your argument isn't worth the electrons it's composed of.

  24. Re:About $2K savings per month on Fuel Cell Marvel "Bloom Box" Gaining Momentum · · Score: 1

    Computer hardware and energy generation are two entirely different things, especially since one assumes they wouldn't be radically redesigning the interior components of the fuel cells every 3-7 years.

  25. Re:Loyalty is paid for in cash. on Perth Game Company CEO Takes IP By Night · · Score: 1

    Except the vast majority of Blackwater operators(I assume their other employees tend not to be) are already military vets, most of them from various spec ops groups or the marines.