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  1. Re:Stopped reading at... on Ask Slashdot: How To Feed Africa? · · Score: 0

    Africa is actually about a tenth as rich per capita as you just claimed it was. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Africa

  2. Re:Is slashdot deleting posts now? on FBI Tries To Force Google To Unlock User's Android Phone · · Score: 0

    It's a pain, but you have to go to the bottom of the page and click the "Check for New Comments" button until all comments are loaded, at least if there are over 250 comments (with my settings, which I'm unable to improve). It will only give you 250 new comments at a time, too, so if you want to load all of 501+ comments you need to click it multiple times, waiting in between each time.

  3. Re:Jeans on Reddit: No More Suggestive Content Featuring Minors · · Score: 0

    I honestly love FTFY responses. You're putting words in people's mouths, or telling them that they misrepresented their own thought in what they wrote. It seems very polite and courteous. (space before period removed) Honestly, surely you are a better judge of the thoughts that are in my head than me!

    FTFY.

  4. Re:....not exponential on 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons Announced · · Score: 0

    That's not how you're supposed to use time in equations, unless you can substantiate the idea that the name of the year itself has a large impact on things. Instead the proper default is to set the beginning of your data points as having occurred at time unit 0.

  5. Re:Recycling on Should Composting Be Mandatory In US Cities? · · Score: 0

    Different ethics are not necessarily ignorance (or rather based on such). Your post is just an emotional appeal. In the end, the grandparent (aptly named with regards to this post) is only reflecting a view endemic (albeit usually not thought of in such a clear and thus easily derided way; a way that also would increase the difficulty of effective self delusion) to those with less time left to live than the amount of time their actions will take to begin affecting or will continue affecting the world (the full or extra damages after death are not automatically considered a debt for the person, unlike the damages the person will actually oneself experience). Old people have no fundamental reason to care about the future. Ponzi schemes for everyone!!! ;p

    Anyway, just saying someone's ignorant (naturally while also not enlightening them, of course) is little different from just saying "You bad". It is not a logical counter in any sense. The GP is actually very correct. You can only care while you live. Once you cease to exist there is no way to care anyway. You having different ethics from for example a disbelief in altruism does not make otherwise truly wrong, as in logically inaccurate. Unfortunately almost everyone thinks like the GP to some extent, especially for people outside of each of their monkeyspheres, and the GP is simply embracing one way to avoid being buried by everyone else's selfishness: Simply be at least as selfish as the rest are (or at the least be very untrusting), or you have quite good odds of being damaged WITHOUT ending up with anything to show (i.e. enjoy) for it. Oh well.

  6. Re:Nassim is one of the brightest thinkers around on End Bonuses For Bankers · · Score: 0

    All you need to understand are the "interpretations" of stuff the average believers (of whatever group you want to understand better) go along with, not all the stuff in the bible, internal contradictions, bigotry, and fantasy included.

  7. A fungal bloom! on Alaskan Village's Orange Goo Was Fungal Spores · · Score: 0

    Hurry everyone, to the perimeter defense!

  8. Re:It's not "trade" on A Composer's-Eye View of the Copyright Wars · · Score: 0

    I sell the photonic information my body and property reflects, but no one will pay me for it anymore now that there are more attractive sources of it from others!

    Damn thieves! What is this world coming to?!

  9. Re:Post-scarcity needs getting used to on RIAA Says CDs Should Cost More · · Score: 0

    Curse you, Jevon!

  10. Re:It is ridiculous on RIAA Goes for the Max Against AllofMP3 · · Score: 0

    The RIAA is not suing in PPP dollars, so Russia's GDP is actually about $0.76 trillion ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_ GDP_(nominal) ), less than half of what the RIAA wants. In their respective articles, Wikipedia only lists the sizes of countries' GDPs in PPP dollars, sadly, and I have little faith that this will change. I wish that nominal total (and per capita) GDPs were also shown. Don't tell me to edit the articles, because this is clearly a standard enacted by the Wikipedia gods.

  11. Re:Emotions? on PlayStation Marketer Explains PS3 TV Ads · · Score: 0
    Will that make you buy the product or service?

    YES.
  12. Re:Patents? on Hypoallergenic Cats · · Score: 0

    Nature will find a way.

  13. Re:PS4? on PS3's Smart Back-Compat, PS4 Doesn't Play Discs · · Score: 0

    Sony will be producing the Phantom?

  14. Re:Seriously, do some reading comprehension... on Western Union Blocking Money Transfers to Arabs · · Score: 0

    I don't really care about non-Americans less than I do Americans, so I'm not excluding them from consideration. Also, I don't sound uneducated, at least not for the reason that you propose. Look up indiscriminate and tell me again that it means the same thing as less discriminate (i.e. still discriminating, only to a lesser degree).

  15. Re:Difference between India and China on The Myth of the New India · · Score: 0
    What's the modern definition of "third world" that India would have to transcend to be a success?

    India.
  16. Re:Seriously, do some reading comprehension... on Western Union Blocking Money Transfers to Arabs · · Score: 0

    Before you jump on me, yes, I meant "indiscriminate", with the "r".

  17. Re:Seriously, do some reading comprehension... on Western Union Blocking Money Transfers to Arabs · · Score: 0

    You can talk about whatever you want, but I hope you understand what I and likely the former "fucking dumbass" mean: Killing people from a larger group is proportionately less discriminate, not indisciminate. Killing Americans is not the same as randomly going berserk with a flamethrower.

  18. Re:Seriously, do some reading comprehension... on Western Union Blocking Money Transfers to Arabs · · Score: 0

    No, they are both discriminately killing PEOPLE.

  19. Re:Missing the point? on Comparing PC Game Physics · · Score: 0

    What is this Revolution wii speak of?

  20. Re:What's with the headline? on Google Wins Rights to Aussie Algorithm · · Score: 0

    Everyone likes to "save", too.

  21. Re:This is a good thing on This Boring Headline is Written for Google · · Score: 0

    Didn't you know that the British reproduce using spores?

  22. Re:But remember how that ended up on Democrats May Promise Broadband for All · · Score: 0

    It's belligerent.

  23. Re:Vive la France! on France To Force iTunes to Open to Other Players? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I also think that whole "fance surrenders" thing was silly too.

    We can just change "France surrenders" back to "freedom surrenders".

  24. Re:No matter on RFID Injection Required for Datacenter Access · · Score: 0

    But you can make him stop if you cry "Uncle!".

  25. Re:Ha ha ha America on Oldest T. Rex Relative Unveiled · · Score: 0

    Ha ha ha America