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  1. Re:Interesting guy on Man Of Steel Leaps Over Record With $125.1 Million To Mixed Reviews · · Score: 1

    Superman II, particularly the restored Richard Donner cut, is a pretty fine film. The first one was, well, Superman, and like the first Star Wars was big more because it was the first in the series, and a major commercial success. But the second one gives a glimpse of a character that is ultimately pretty conflicted about himself and his role, and really eyes humans with a bit of jealousy.

  2. Re:Yay? on Proposed Rule Would Drastically Restrict Chimp Research · · Score: 1

    And who asked the chimps if they wanted to be used in medical experiments?

  3. Re:Trust First Comment to be a Nutter on Proposed Rule Would Drastically Restrict Chimp Research · · Score: 1

    When it comes to the Great Apes, I think there are serious ethical questions to be raised. These animals are our closest relatives, sharing, even if in lesser degrees, many of our cognitive and psychological features. I don't think it is going too far to call them sentient, and while I realize that this very close physiological and neurological relationship to humans make them valuable as test subjects, I just can't support their continued use in such a way.

  4. Re:Do not understand this. on Transgendered Folks Encountering Document/Database ID Hassles · · Score: 2

    There's nothing more fun than watching ignorant bigots parade just how contemptibly stupid they really are. Thank you for sharing you small minded bigotry.

  5. Re:Trolls are not the problem on Congress Proposes Strategy For Fighting Patent Trolls · · Score: 1

    So the real solution is to start killing lawyers...

  6. Re:Come on MS on Microsoft Office Finally Gets iOS App · · Score: 1

    Ah well, there's always Quickoffice.

  7. Re:Okay on Partially-Undersea Water Discus Hotel To Be Built In the Maldives · · Score: 1

    Offtopic? Boy oh boy, there sure are some youngins here.

  8. There's got to be a morning after
    If we can hold on through the night
    We have a chance to find the sunshine
    Let's keep on lookin' for the light

    Oh, can't you see the morning after
    It's waiting right outside the storm
    Why don't we cross the bridge together
    And find a place that's safe and warm

    It's not too late, we should be giving
    Only with love can we climb
    It's not too late, not while we're living
    Let's put our hands out in time

    There's got to be a morning after
    We're moving closer to the shore
    I know we'll be there by tomorrow
    And we'll escape the darkness
    We won't be searchin' any more
    There's got to be a morning after

  9. Re:Run your own servers and use encryption on Keeping Your Data Private From the NSA (And Everyone Else) · · Score: 1

    Even there, however, the government can still potentially gain information on who you may be sharing the data with. We have encrypted VPN pipes to our branch offices. Yes, the government cannot (likely) determine the content that goes through those encrypted pipes, but it can sure tell where the data is going. You only gain partial privacy. Even anonymizing networks are potentially vulnerable at their boundaries.

  10. Re:Yes on Will PCIe Flash Become Common In Laptops, Desktops? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll have you know I copy big files back and forth all day long, you insensitive clod!

  11. Is It Wrong? on Ask Personal Audio's James Logan About Patents, Playlists, and Podcasts · · Score: 0, Troll

    Is it wrong for me to hope you die of the most unimaginably awful cancer, that will cause you to ooze horrible puss-like fluids that reek so awfully you're family won't be able to bear to be around you, and they will pray to God each and every night that you finally die... but you don't, and just linger in that state for years.

    Is that wrong?

  12. Re:Someone start a defense fund on USA Calling For the Extradition of Snowden · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That a government may want something kept secret hardly means that it is wrong to reveal the secret. Yes, it will be a crime, but the debate here is not whether he committed a crime ore not, but whether what he did was right or not.

  13. Re:data sample question on Scientists Explain Why Chairman of House Committee On Science Is Wrong · · Score: 0

    Good thing we have ice cores, ocean sediments and the like.

    Ever actually considers reading something by a climatologist?

  14. Re:Modern Jesus on NSA WhistleBlower Outs Himself · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Can't we blame them both?

  15. Re:iPad also has a barrier to entry on Can Microsoft Survive If Windows Doesn't Dominate? · · Score: 1

    Windows RT mail does not work with POP email accounts.

    Are you serious? Please tell me it at east supports IMAP.

  16. Re:Trending away from Microsoft on Can Microsoft Survive If Windows Doesn't Dominate? · · Score: 1

    Samba 4 has a ways to go before it can replace AD. Believe me, I'd love nothing better than a drop in replacement for Windows Server, but I think Samba has at least another three or four years before it reaches that point.

  17. Re:Server & Tools too... on Can Microsoft Survive If Windows Doesn't Dominate? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I would imagine the reason for this is because of MS's enterprise penetration. I don't see Microsoft leaving the enterprise any time soon. But I can see its consumer market shrinking considerably.

  18. Re:Surface: The tablet that runs Office on Can Microsoft Survive If Windows Doesn't Dominate? · · Score: 3, Funny

    The public seem to be reacting by buying lots of Nexus 7s.

  19. Re:What is patentable? on White House Announces Reforms Targeting Patent Trolls · · Score: 1

    No, it should be offloaded on to the applicants.

  20. Re:I knew it would be 5-4 on SCOTUS Says DNA Collection Permissible After Arrest · · Score: 1

    All your base pairs are us!

  21. Re: Dark on Green Lantern Writer To Pen Blade Runner Sequel · · Score: 1

    Yeah, she's a substance abusing mess these days. I think she's burned way too many bridges to ever make it into a mainstream Hollywood film again.

  22. Re:Dictator hating free speech, news at 11. on Turkish PM: "To Me, Social Media Is the Worst Menace To Society." · · Score: 0

    Ah good, a Serb appears to explain their conduct in the Balkans. As usual its everyone else's fault.

  23. Re:Dictator hating free speech, news at 11. on Turkish PM: "To Me, Social Media Is the Worst Menace To Society." · · Score: 1

    Because the Serbs were oh so innocent.

  24. Re:Software killed the PC, not hardware on Intel Haswell CPUs Debut, Put To the Test · · Score: 1

    You forgot to add "Now get off my lawn!"

  25. Re:DRM Pain on DRM: How Book Publishers Failed To Learn From the Music Industry · · Score: 1

    Stripping the DRM off an iBook means installing an earlier version of iTunes. It was just easier for me to find the torrents and use other eReading software. Love my iPhone, won't touch iBooks.