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  1. Freedom of speech letâ(TM)s you know who the idiots are.

  2. Re: A more accurate depiction of the subway's stat on Why New York City Stopped Building Subways (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    World class? Have great train service from the airport to downtown. Took forever for SFO to get BART, was abysmal, now it is great. New York, finally can get into town from Newark or JFK, La Guardia, maybe sometime. Exceedingly stupid for LA Metro to stop a mile away from LAX, now they are finally building a fix. Ever fly into Vegas and wait in that line for a taxi? What monorail?

  3. Re: This guy has no idea how Face ID works on 'Dear Apple, The iPhone X and Face ID Are Orwellian and Creepy' (hackernoon.com) · · Score: 1

    Or just wait for you to fall asleep

  4. Except that it is not a law if it was written by a totalitarian dictatorship, it's a diktat. This is calculated posturing by Apple.

  5. Re: It's time for standards support on Apple Is Manufacturing a Siri Speaker To Compete Against Google Home, Amazon Echo (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Walled prison

  6. Re: What does this have to do with science? on 'Science Must Clean Up Its Act' (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Caveat: China is a totalitarian communist dictatorship.

  7. Re: They are less shit than their competitors on Ask Slashdot: What Is the 'Special Appeal' of Apple Products? · · Score: 1

    You paid more so that they could have that $250 billion cash surplus, while their employees sit around surfing the internet all day and watching their stock price, allowing their customer support to be bitchsourced by online forums, doing the exact opposite of innovating, oh, and nobody wanted to be the PC Guy in the commercial.

  8. Re: And Obama once again is a blatant liar on President Obama Says He Can't Pardon Snowden (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Every discussion of the Iraq war should start with this statement. Sadden Hussein was a murderous tyrant, launching two wars of aggression; for oil. He tried to start WWIII by launching missiles against Israel and committed chemical warfare genocide against his own people. He was personally and solely responsible for the death of over 1 million people, mostly Muslims, putting him in the murderous class of Hitler, Stalin, Kim, and Pol Pot in infamy.

  9. The earthquakes in Perry Oklahoma, the Coalinga, Kettleman Hills and New Idria earthquakes were thought to be related to oil drilling.

  10. Re: Apollo distributed more than wealth! on Barack Obama: America Will Take the Giant Leap To Mars, To Send People There by the 2030s (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Investment in space race, interstate highways, the GI Bill, all gave incredible returns, past tense. Ask scientists what would give us future returns: one manned mars expedition or 100 robot expeditions to planets, moons, comets, asteroids, oh yeah, and nobody dies.

  11. We could launch 1000 unmanned space exploration experiments for the cost of one manned mars mission and nobody would die. The space race is over and everybody won. There is zero added benefit to sending people into space.

  12. Un petit mort

  13. Consensus: 100% of scientists would have said CO2 was not a pollutant to be covered by the Clean Air Act when it was passed. If you want to cut carbon, write a new law, don't redefine pollutant to fit your ultraliberal agenda.

  14. Re: Censorship, again on Google Exec Says Isis Must Be Locked Out of the Open Web (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Why does the Internet still work in Raqqa? Isn't it obvious to cut all cables going into ISIS territory and knock out every cell tower? It wouldn't be too hard to bomb them out of the Information Age.

  15. Solution In Search Of A Problem on The Race To Create a Hyperloop Heats Up (wsj.com) · · Score: 0

    Add this to the list with self driving cars as a solution in search of a problem.

  16. Re: Right decision, wrong reason? on Supreme Court Upholds Most EPA Rules On Greenhouse Gases · · Score: 1

    In 1970 there would have been a 100% consensus amongst scientists that carbon dioxide was not a pollutant intended to be covered by the Clean Air Act.

  17. Re:I reject your patent, M$. on Microsoft Patents 1826 Choropleth Map Technique · · Score: 2

    Back in the 80s I wrote a tip that was published in PC Magazine showing how to trick the new Excel spreadsheet program into having conditional color formatting, they later added this as a feature. Where are my royalties!

  18. Re:Not recognized? on Assange Makes Statement Calling For an End To the "Witch Hunt" · · Score: 1

    We don't have a leader, we have a head servant. The US government is of the people, by the people, for the people. You do not want to live in a country that has a "leader" (sometimes translated as "fuehrer")

  19. Re:RMS thinks giving other people's shit away is g on RMS Responds To NPR File-Sharer's Blog · · Score: 2

    Copyright is an agreement. I agree that in exchange for this price I will not give away copies. It is not morally correct to break this agreement. There happen to be laws that back up this kind of agreement, like many other laws that stand behind agreements.

  20. Re:How exactly do I support myself as a developer? on Evaluating the Harmful Effects of Closed Source Software · · Score: 1

    Copyright is a deal: I agree to give you a copy in exchange for this price as long as you don't copy it and give it or sell it to someone else. You unilaterally break the deal when you give away copies. If you don't like the deal you should not make it in the first place, not declare that you have some right after the fact. If you want a deal that allows you to give away copies, ask for a price.

  21. Re:This Announcement Hot on Heels of Bilderbergers on Earth Approaching Tipping Point Say Scientists · · Score: 5, Funny

    Whatever happens, it will become history, and you can't change history.

  22. Re:No one sees... on Panetta Labels Climate Change a National Security Threat · · Score: 1

    While global warming agendists are trying to detect a 1cm increase in sea level in front of Sean Penn's Malibu beach house, the rest of the world will be fighting World War Three over the last remaining oil.

  23. Re:Excellent... on Apple: Greenpeace's Cloud Critique Driven By Bogus Numbers · · Score: 1

    There is nothing worse than an opportunist with an agenda

  24. Re:Counter-Productive on Anonymous Hacks UK Government Sites Over 'Draconian Surveillance' · · Score: 1

    I say they should go after governments that are actually draconian, like North Korea.

  25. Re:What about older devices? on AT&T To Unlock Out-of-Contract iPhones · · Score: 1

    You lose GPS if you unlock, search: iphone unlock gps baseband 06.15.00