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  1. Re:All part of their plan. on US Students Struggle With Understanding of the 'Equal' Sign · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually I observed more people in CS/college to have more left leaning socially supportive views than any other class.

    By contrast, the poorly-educated-blue-collar work force, I've found more Rush Limbaugh listening imbeciles with completely socially deviant views, absolutely ignorant of the reality about them

    To me, this clearly indicates how we can have a government for 10 years that ass rapes it's citizens, especially their low income supporter base (Rush Limbaugh & Fox news viewers), whereas when a change in command comes in and wants to support the less privileged, these same people dig their nails in for a fight to the death, instead of change for a better life and opportunities.

    Completely mind boggling. America is reviving the dark ages that Europe went through during the middle ages. Lead by the conservative christian right and religious superstitions of men.

  2. Re:So? on Linux Foundation Makes Open Source Boring · · Score: 1

    Exactly !
    Someone bitching about a linux desktop being stable, as being boring?
    There are several cutting edge distribution that are not very stable such as Debian Sid.
    If a thrill is what you're after, try running your business on one of those.

  3. Re:For pedantry's sake on Genetically Modified Canola Spreads To Wild Plants · · Score: 1

    Okay
    I was wondering who Monsanto would sue next over this
    The Bees joke was good but after reading your post, I wonder if they can just go to the top and sue God instead
    Film at 5:00

  4. Re:tl;dr on Buried By The Brigade At Digg · · Score: 1

    Agreed!
    For those that use Digg regularly ..
    Instead go to http://www.getalife.com/

    Oops .. getalife.com is intended to be a joke. But it's an actual frigg'n insurance co. site .. who'da thunk it

  5. Re:eh on Senate Confirms Elena Kagan's Appointment To SCOTUS · · Score: 1

    Oh Yay!
    Let's hijack a tech forum to argue political opinion
    At the bell, let the monkeys fly

    Ding

  6. Re:a gun on Where To Start With DIY Home Security? · · Score: 1

    I once saw one of those on the home of a state trooper
    If I was a bad guy, I'd pick another house in another neighborhood..

  7. Re:a gun on Where To Start With DIY Home Security? · · Score: 1

    Home security is usually based upon locks, they keep honest people honest. If you have an electrified fence or wall, this may work to keep bad guys out. As a former construction worker, I can get into anyone's home with a cordless sawzall. Who needs doors, just cut your own pass through in an exterior wall. Unless of course the wall is concrete, this is the best security. Concrete and electrified solid steel doors.

    Security dogs can be killed. You have to be home for a gun to work.

    Stephen Colbert prefers the old flaming moat filled with fire resistant alligators.

  8. Re:blah on Churchill Accused of Sealing UFO Files, Fearing Public Panic · · Score: 1

    Good explanation! I had not heard that phenomenon could by synthesized in the lab

    And thanks again, it's good to still be in the pool. Second chances are rare and all who saw me that day gave me zero percent chance of surviving, but today I am up and running around like before. I just have to adapt to a shiny new embedded electronic ignition module with auto start .. and stay away from EMFs

  9. Re:blah on Churchill Accused of Sealing UFO Files, Fearing Public Panic · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure what you mean, but I have no inner turmoil over what seems obvious or possible to me

    If you're referring to raising people from the dead, or walking on water, science cannot explain, but according to eyewitness accounts, someone once did just these things, but only one guy could pull that off and no other has since

    To steal a line from fox news, "We report, you decide" .. Whatever floats your boat

  10. Re:blah on Churchill Accused of Sealing UFO Files, Fearing Public Panic · · Score: 1

    When physicists can see across time and change energy to matter and vice versa, I have questions to ask them.

    Until then, theories such as you bring up are merely science fiction completely without substance. Santa Clause & tooth fairy ..

    Saying the verse is like a soda pop can is merely pulling monkeys out your ass

  11. Re:blah on Churchill Accused of Sealing UFO Files, Fearing Public Panic · · Score: 1

    As a scientific minded Christian, I believe it may be some of both. The earth has been here much much longer than the propaganda conservative christians promote. I also believe the earth may have been a petri disk for biological experiments (so to speak) before we arrived. Additionally, I recognize intelligent design in our cosmos. There is SO much we cannot possibly understand regarding the true physics of the universe. All we can surmise are unprovable theories based upon observation. This is the way is it. Debate of the unknown is stupid and a waste of time. Just live in the day, one day at a time. Believe whatever makes you happy without infringing the rights and choices of others

    As far as ET goes. I'll reserve judgment until I meet ET. Until then, ET sits on the same shelf as the tooth fairy and santa clause. Fakes are easy to produce and require no proof other than Photoshopped images and/or hearsay.

    Here is a spoiler alert for all in cyber world and those that believe in tooth fairy like tales. I had complete electrical system heart failure a month & 1/2 ago. I died but kept alive through CPR and later revived. There is no light to "go to" as promoted through hollywood and hearsay. When the switch goes off, so do the lights. The dead know nothing. I know this for a fact, I went there ..

    Until the next life we may never know the full truth, for those that believe in a next life. For those that choose not to, your on your own to make up whatever dreams you choose. There is no spoon ..

  12. Re:blah on Churchill Accused of Sealing UFO Files, Fearing Public Panic · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, Scientology
    Perhaps you can discuss this at TomCruise.com

  13. Re:Nearly two thirds... on Most Consumers Support Government Cyber-Spying · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The role of the government in this case is to turn half the population against the other half to distract them from the fact that they are robbing the population blind.

    All too true.
    The cable news media is also a tool of some political misleaders to put the nation at odds with itself.
    Anymore, I see slanted ignorant political garbage polluting public debate, which is really stupid, pathetic and counter productive.

  14. Re:Nearly two thirds... on Most Consumers Support Government Cyber-Spying · · Score: 1

    Funny, my government has never asked me if I approve of anything they do
    What I fear about the scums cyber spying is that they will do it to me as well

  15. Not Fair on Coronal Mass Ejection Hits Earth · · Score: 1

    I'm in Fairbanks
    We won't see night before the end of August
    Auroras just aren't the same in daylight

    Can we reschedule this to reoccur around the end of September?
    Then we get total darkness early enough to be of use and the temperatures aren't too cold to go outside

  16. Re:MS: Always imitating, rarely innovating on To Ballmer, Grabbing iPad's Market Is 'Job One Urgency' · · Score: 1

    I've heard this before so will put it up here again, MS is not an innovation company, they are a marketing company

    Gates bought QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System), relabeled to MSDOS, that got him in the game. He copied the Mac GUI to get his first Windows product out. Since, MS is always buying out some smaller developer to get some product they want, or stealing ideas from other successful companies.

    To date, MS has never come up with any form of innovation at all. All their products are copies of other successfully produced products. XBox came after Nintendo & PS3. Zune came after iPod.

    They even want to copy the Linux/Unix security model of Super/User permissions system, but this system involves completely redesigning windows from the ground up to achieve, which may be too expensive and/or difficult for them to pull off. Additionally this security model would make Windows too difficult and confusing for their target user base to use.

    The only innovation MS can claim is a desktop system that is so easy to use that a complete moron can use it. That and their other legacy is producing an OS that is so easy to compromise that children can do it. Viruses, malware, botnets all target all the windows operating systems because their just such easy targets to hack into. Low hanging fruit ...

  17. Re:This research is FALSE! on Global Warming 'Undeniable,' Report Says · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Part of the problem with intelligent debate is people like you that don't have the capacity to understand the subject at hand, But still insist in participating in the discussion.

    The topic at hand is not future predictions of what the weather will do, but past observations of weather trends.

    Simply put for dolts like you:
    Past weather trends based upon observations taken over the past 100 years show our planet is gradually warming. Our climate is changing in ways we do not understand yet, but could lead to melting polar ice caps, rising sea levels and even droughts. The pattern is unpredictable. But the data points to a conclusion that we are changing our weather patterns.

    This is probably too much for you right now, so go back to the cartoon channel and your bong.

  18. Re:Slashdot Had the Option to Interview Him in Mar on Interview With the Man Behind WikiLeaks · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The difference between the countries you name and the US, as human rights violators, is that the US is clearly the biggest violator of human rights all the while claiming to be the enforcer of human rights laws globally.

    We covertly support war criminals and dictators when politically advantageous, Saddam was one such person that comes to mind. We've also supported and sold weapons to the islamic leadership of Iran even though publicly we recognize them as adversaries.

    We've started wars and invaded countries promoting ourselves as heroes and saviors and then kill civilians using depleted uranium weapons before pillaging all wealth from those countries.

    The headlines today state that our pentagon has misplaced and cannot account for $8.7B of Iraq's reconstruction money. I wonder who's pockets were lined with that.

    It's good there is something like WikiLeaks out there that is willing to risk themselves and their lives to expose just what hypocrites, liars and assholes the American leadership really is. Every American should hang their heads in shame over what we've allowed ourselves to become. Global assholes!

    Here at home, we've had political leadership for at least 30 years now, that no longer fear the people. We are being ass-raped by our government and are unwilling to do anything about it, like go to DC and kill everyone there.

    We now have the government we deserve

  19. Re:Hover on this comment on Google Nabs Patent To Monitor Your Cursor Movement · · Score: 2, Informative

    Firefox w/ Adblock and NoScript may be of some use here already.
    Just block all google related scripts
    Nothing to see here, move along

  20. Re:A big fat idiot on Al Franken's Warning On Net Neutrality · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "more Democrats in Washington oppose net neutrality" - citation needed

    Keep in mind that democrats == republicans anymore. There is little difference in stupidity asshole factor

    Net Neutrality == internet providers are regulated to provide fair and equal access to the 'net for everyone == Very good for all

    Dems may wish to tax the internet, to much resistance from the general public
    But Republicans want to deregulate the internet, which is double speak meaning circumventing net neutrality. This is very very bad!

    Historically, every time Republicans deregulated a public service or utility, the service has turned to shit. Costs go up and service goes down.

    Support Net Neutrality
    Oppose Internet deregulation. Don't let them do it!

  21. Re:Or it could be because they would be bankrupt . on Microsoft Says No To Paying Bug Bounties · · Score: 1

    There may be a virus out there for that

  22. Re:Or it could be because they would be bankrupt . on Microsoft Says No To Paying Bug Bounties · · Score: 1

    You're over analizing the dynamics of sex
    It's not difficult at all
    Tab A goes into Slot B
    Even a nerd can do it

  23. Wait a minute on GOP Senators Move To Block FCC On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Wasn't it just a couple years ago the GOP was trying to get net neutrality passed. Net neutrality specified as a tiered cost based internet.
    WTF happened, we traded one bunch of asshats leaning right for a bunch of asshats leaning left.
    Hard to tell the good from the bad these days except the old method of: "You must be lying, your lips are moving"

  24. Re:Suckaz on Onion Story Gets Blown Out of Proportion · · Score: 1

    Bush is still catching flack because of how badly he and his party have fucked up the country, national economy, and world.
    Bush will continue to catch flack as all the lies and incompetence continue to come to light.

    Obama is catching flack because of the crazy shit the dems in congress have done over health care and other legislation.
    Obama is catching flack over the gulf oil spill even though he has no control over how BP manages the repairs and clean up
    Obama is catching flack over Bush's wall street bail out plan.
    Obama is catching flack over the republicans in congress resisting, blocking and obstructing any and all economic recovery for the nation.
    Obama will catch flack because it snows next winter
    Obama will catch flack because it rains

  25. Re:Suckaz on Onion Story Gets Blown Out of Proportion · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Arguing that communists and nazis can be considered the same is the like categorizing apples and oranges are of the same family because they both grow on trees

    You tea baggers are all the same. Ignorant and dumb as a bag of rocks