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  1. Re: This isn't a question on Ireland Votes Yes To Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 1

    Why indeed. I have no issue with multiple spouses, though I wouldn't want to be part of such a group.

    But one step at a time.

  2. Re: This isn't a question on Ireland Votes Yes To Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 1

    One class: consenting adults

  3. Re: This isn't a question on Ireland Votes Yes To Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 2

    Extrensing marital rights to gay couples is no more creating a new class than overthrowing anti miscegenation laws created a new class. From my point of view, allowingf same sex marriage in fact creates fewer classes.

  4. Re:This isn't a question on Ireland Votes Yes To Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 0

    Sodomy with an infected person is a transmission risk for almost all diseases.

    As does vaginal intercoursw. And, of course, many heterosexual coup!es have anal intercourse as well.

  5. Re:This isn't a question on Ireland Votes Yes To Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 1

    In most common law jurisdictions, a religious ceremony has no legal standing at all. The magic in a marriage ceremony isn't "by the power invested in me by God", it is " by the power invested in me by the State of Massachusetts."

    Churches' attachments to marriage is historic and I doubt there is anywhere in English speaking North America where a religious ceremony was ever required.

  6. Re: This isn't a question on Ireland Votes Yes To Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 1

    Actually in many jurisdictions thee lack of marital status means even attempting to duplicate the full powers of a spouse in regards to incapacity can be all but impossible to replicate. Even powers of attorney and living wills don't quite deliver you the power in the event of your spouse's incapacity that a marriage license does.

  7. Re: This isn't a question on Ireland Votes Yes To Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Up until recently beating the shit out of your wife and forcing sexual intercourse on her against her will (spousal rape) was considered lawful and appropriate. Some traditional views just plain suck and we should welcome their demiwey.

    This has nothing to do with Marxism, any more than throwing out laws banning miscegenation had anything to do with Marxism.

  8. Re:This isn't a question on Ireland Votes Yes To Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 1

    Historically what constituted a marriage varied from place to place, and even in Medieval times there was no mandate in England requiring a church ceremony. In most jurisdictions in Europe where canon law governed marriage, all that was in fact required was for a couple to declare that they were married, and so long as they lived in that fashion, no ceremony was required at all. Marriage in ancient tienes, save where it involves the aristocracy, where marriage had political implications, wasn't that formalizeds an affair.

  9. Re:This isn't a question on Ireland Votes Yes To Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 0, Troll

    Can a goat grant consent?

  10. Re:Strangely mixed signals here on ESA Satellite Shows Sudden Ice Loss In Southern Antarctic Peninsula · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In psuedo-skeptic world a thousand peer reviewed studies aren't worth a single paid Frank Spencer pro-fossil fuel shill piece in the WSJ.

  11. Re:Sudden? on ESA Satellite Shows Sudden Ice Loss In Southern Antarctic Peninsula · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is another GLOBAL WARMING hoax!!!!! Ice is always melting!!!!!

  12. Re:A tool needs a functional purpose on Oldest Stone Tools Predate Previous Record Holder By 700,000 Years · · Score: 1

    Argumentum ad dictionarum is at the very least an informal fallacy. Attempting to argue about what really is a specialized definition of the word "tool" with a general definition you find on Google is tantamount to a fallacious appeal to authority.

  13. Re:A tool needs a functional purpose on Oldest Stone Tools Predate Previous Record Holder By 700,000 Years · · Score: 1

    There is an actual definition of the word tool. We are under no obligation whatsoever to use your private definition.

    And you're not an expert, so your criticisms are largely meaningless.

  14. Re:How does one tell the difference? on Oldest Stone Tools Predate Previous Record Holder By 700,000 Years · · Score: 2

    They very fact that they were banged together by an intelligent agency makes them a tool. In general you can tell by close examination whether a potential tool is simply the product of natural erosion or in fact was used as a tool.

  15. Re:Alternatives on Canadian Piracy Rates Plummet As Industry Points To New Copyright Notice System · · Score: 2

    Piracy really doesn't scare the big studios that much. What does scare them is Netflix becoming the gatekeeper to their products.

  16. Re:Awesome!! on Adblock Plus Launches Adblock Browser: a Fork of Firefox For Android · · Score: 1

    I have yet to find a site that does that.

  17. Re:Awesome!! on Adblock Plus Launches Adblock Browser: a Fork of Firefox For Android · · Score: 1

    So you missed View In Desktop mode then?

  18. NAT? on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Solve a Unique Networking Issue? · · Score: 1

    I guess you could throw each one behind some sort of NAT router; maybe something like a Raspberry Pi, so that to the actual LAN they each have a unique IP. But even going for a low end computer-on-a-stick solution, you'll need a second USB ethernet adapter, or ethernet-to-WiFi bridge, not to mention it sounds like they are still air gapped, so can you reasonably get cabling to the pumps? So you're talking here about 20-30 NAT routers plus cabling. A big cost, with some security implications that need to be thought out.

    Have you thought about talking to the vendor?

  19. Re:One Assumption on The Demographic Future of America's Political Parties · · Score: 1

    Exactly. I'd argue that there was, early on, a largely Libertarian organization known as the Tea Party which was primarily concerned with sustainable and minimal government, but that it was, like Libertarian populists movements before it, taken over by Conservative interests as a vehicle for social conservatism.

  20. Re:One Assumption on The Demographic Future of America's Political Parties · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Exactly. The Tea Party and similar ultra conservative factions are forcing Republicans to keep fighting culture wars that the majority of American society has already moved past. That may win Republicans votes in Congressional and state level races, but in the long term it is unsustainable. Just look at a map of Obama's 2012 victory. The Democrats are making inroads in conservative states.

    The problem for.Republicans is that their own political machine is strangling them, forcing candidates on voters that voters are far less likely to vote for, or even if they do, are so noxious to voters elsewhere that it has the same effect.

    If the Republicans can't figure out a way to marganilize people like Ted Cruz and prevent them from grabbing the microphonez they're doomed.

  21. Re:The group identity bullshit remains the same on Baton Bob Receives $20,000 Settlement For Coerced Facebook Post · · Score: 3, Funny

    Translation: Another loser blaming everyone else for his inadequacies.

  22. Re:Gold and Silver? on The Solution To Argentina's Banking Problems Is To Go Cashless · · Score: 1

    Yes, instead you create an inflexible currency system based on assigning arbitrary value to a physical commodity.

    Outside of its industrial uses, gold has no more intrinsic value than a lump of dog shit. I mean, why not peg your currency to Renaissance paintings?

  23. Re:First understand money on The Solution To Argentina's Banking Problems Is To Go Cashless · · Score: 1

    Since value is relative, then being the best currency means being the best currency, even with the shortcomings.

    So far as I understand it the US has carried debt uninterrupted since the Civil War (maybe even before). Even in times of war and national emergency (including a few self-inflicted ones like the Tea Party trying to go kamikaze), the US Government has demonstrated its will to honor its debts and back the US dollar. It may be overvalued by some standards, but in general, I think the US dollar remains, and likely will remain for decades to come, the most important currency in the world. It really has no competitor.

  24. Re:Oh, the irony.... on The Solution To Argentina's Banking Problems Is To Go Cashless · · Score: 1

    No shit. The one thing bit coin seems very good at is enabling black market exchanges and corruption. We all know how Silk Road was such a warrior against criminal and corrupt activities!

  25. Re:I'm Argentinian and you are wrong on The Solution To Argentina's Banking Problems Is To Go Cashless · · Score: 1

    Apparently a helluva lot of Argentinians DO NOT agree with you, and just as importantly, or perhaps moreso, international markets do not agree with you.

    Your economy and government are being horribly managed, and you're suffering for it. Quit blaming the rest of the world for your domestic problems.