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  1. Re:Logic FTW! on Man Gets 15 Years For Trying to Break Back Into Jail · · Score: 1

    attempted suicide is probably a death penalty rap there,too...

  2. Re:Interesting on High Fructose Corn Syrup Causes Bigger Weight Gain In Rats · · Score: 1

    probably not. the reason you're more likely to get stuff with hfcs here is because the sugar industry lobbies for increased tariffs on import sugar in order to artificially inflate the price, coupled with subsidies for farmers. i was once at a luncheon event in dc for a congressman from iowa, and across from me at the table was a sugar lobbyist. wonder what he wanted... hmmm...

  3. Re:Satellite vulnerability on Senate Votes To Replace Aviation Radar With GPS · · Score: 1, Funny

    sunspots are a myth perpetrated by climate holocaust deniers

  4. Re:What About The Parents? on Later School Start For Teenagers Brings Drop In Absenteeism · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Second News Flash: referring to them as "lusty beasts" is probably a pretty good indicator of perpetual failure to do well with them.

  5. Re:Next up on the Chinese agenda on Google's New Approach For China Is To Serve From Hong Kong · · Score: 4, Informative

    The British already gave .hk back to the PRC back in 2000 (i think that's the right year), so they already have it. It's just maintained as a semi-autonomous "free-enterprise zone" iirc. They don't need to invade it, conquer it or annex it. They just need to enforce the law there in the same way they do everywhere else.

  6. Re:These techniques are horrid for maintainability on Metaprogramming Ruby · · Score: 1

    I think an example (I just started learning Ruby a few weeks ago, coming from Perl and C but I'm already in love with it) is when setting 'attr_accessor' in a class definition to automatically create getters and setters if you don't intend on doing anything fancy with regards to an attribute but don't want it accessed directly. Also, I think Rails pretty much relies on this as well, as is my understanding, but as I said, I've only had a brief association with the language.

  7. Re:Unintended consequences? on House Passes Massive Medical Insurance Bill, 219-212 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, I think most people on the left would be quite happy in Europe or Canada. Whether Europe or Canada would be happy with having a bunch of whiny Americans is another story.

  8. Re:H.R. 4789 introduced by Congressman Alan Grayso on House Passes Massive Medical Insurance Bill, 219-212 · · Score: 1

    the part where "totally reasonable and pretty sane" is the hallmark of a bill that's going nowhere, no matter what it's about.

  9. Re:Not citizens, just cars, ode to Detroit. on House Passes Massive Medical Insurance Bill, 219-212 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you see the natural evolution of this legislation turning into tougher regulations against your ability to download copyrighted material without paying for it, I suggest you get out more. There's this whole, big world out there that isn't all plugged into the wall and where the RIAA isn't the most evil guy on the block.

  10. Re:Unintended consequences? on House Passes Massive Medical Insurance Bill, 219-212 · · Score: 1

    Wel, good luck and god speed to them. I hope they can find another country with a similar standard of living where the government won't run their health care. It always makes me smile when right-wingers threaten to leave for Europe or Canada if Hillary/Obama/Whomever gets elected president. 'Cause, you know... Belgium's all christian and conservative and crap.

  11. Death by Snoo-Snoo on Scientists Use Sex-Crazed Bugs As Pesticide · · Score: 5, Funny

    nuff said.

  12. Re:DHS on US Military Shuts Down CIA's Terrorist Honey Pot · · Score: 1

    Take it up with the government; I didn't name that crap.

  13. Re:DHS on US Military Shuts Down CIA's Terrorist Honey Pot · · Score: 3, Informative

    DHS has nothing to do with DOD and CIA. You may be thinking of Director of National Intelligence, who is meant to head up the cooperative efforts of NSA, CIA, DIA, FBI counter intelligence, etc. However, the current DNI is a former Naval officer and is, of course, going to be more sympathetic to the arguments of the NSA (formerly known as Army Signals Intelligence) and DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) than the CIA.

  14. Re:It's not a kick in the teeth for anyone. on UK ID Cards Could Be Upgraded To Super ID Cards · · Score: 1

    I thought it was a joke on Apple's product cycle and not a commentary on civil liberties, but silly me...

  15. Re:Best birthday present ever on Details Emerge On Futurama's "Rebirth" (and Return) · · Score: 1

    I'll be 26 on 21 June. At least you get this, plus not being 25 yet.

  16. Re:Good news everybody! on Details Emerge On Futurama's "Rebirth" (and Return) · · Score: 1

    damn your Farnsworthian Paracosia!

  17. Re:DUPE on Coming Soon, Smartphone-Based Banking · · Score: 1

    My grandfather was a Navy officer from 1936-1942 (medically discharged after Pearl Harbor), and my mom's dad was in 75th infantry. Neither my father nor my mother were in the military, but qualify for USAA, and I qualify for USAA, too... and they constantly try and sell me services. So they take grand kids, too.

  18. Re:WTF? on Facebook Attracting More Visitors Than Google.com · · Score: 1

    WAN parties?

  19. Re:11k Is Too Big? on Simpler "Hello World" Demonstrated In C · · Score: 1

    slashdot filtered my stdlib.h, but that should be obvious to everyone here over the age of 20, I think.

  20. Re:11k Is Too Big? on Simpler "Hello World" Demonstrated In C · · Score: 1

    otherwise she would have done something like this:

    #include

    void main(void) {
            while (1) {
                    malloc(sizeof(unsigned long long));
            }
    }

  21. Re:Not for Long on C-Span Posts Full Archives Online · · Score: 4, Informative

    C-SPAN is a private non-profit and receives no government funding.

  22. Re:I'd hope so. on Federal Agents Quietly Using Social Media · · Score: 1

    yeah, it's all fun and games until someone loses Cuba to Castro.

  23. alibis on Federal Agents Quietly Using Social Media · · Score: 1

    Because, you know, people twitter "going downtown to cap off @bigjimmy then getting stromboli" or whatever... and like tweets really establish an alibi anyway. Maybe with geo-tagging, but even then that's suspect, for there is no reason to believe that the perp didn't give his phone to someone to go tweet something from somewhere else.

  24. Re:Socialist internetz on FCC's Broadband Plan May Cost You Money · · Score: 3, Informative

    I used to work in DC with very conservative groups, because I grew up in the household I describe, and that's just what I was brought up with. Spend enough time being forced to write propaganda against health care reform by people who don't give their employees health insurance, sick days, or anything else, and it gets to you. Spend enough time being made to write propaganda against labor protection by people who pay you less than $15/hr in a place where the median salary is like $90k or something, while they're driving BMWs, Audis and Aston-Martins to work, and you get really pissed off. I learned first-hand what a bunch of slave-driving hypocrite douche-bags so-called "conservatives" are and have adjusted accordingly. Frankly, its become more about punishing them than it is about improving my own situation at this point. I got back into the private sector and make enough money, plus benefits, etc at this point. But I'll do just about anything to make the Sam Brownbacks of the world feel pain right back.

  25. Re:Socialist internetz on FCC's Broadband Plan May Cost You Money · · Score: 1

    Fox News is the Der Sturmer of our day. That said, I just used that as an example of one side. Anyone who only consumes media with a single point of view is eventually going to end up completely radicalized in whatever direction they're pointing. The same with the MoveOn people (Especially also the MoveOn people). I find it of great benefit to seek out media from all sides available. There is no point getting myopic... that's something a Python fan would do.