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  1. Re:pfftt... on A Computer-based Smart Rifle With Incredible Accuracy, Now On Sale · · Score: 1

    There are lots of places. As an example, there are no McDonalds in Vietnam.

  2. Re:From a long suffering Cardinals fan: on The Bronies Get Their Own Charity · · Score: 1

    They have a problem. Next question.

    Oh, I'm sorry, did you think you were being insightful?

  3. Re:Call me a neigh sayer on The Bronies Get Their Own Charity · · Score: 1

    And those people have a serious problem and should seek mental help. Next question.

  4. Will the trolls come out, out, out
    Will the trolls come out and play today

    Will you lose that job that you don't love
    Will the law come down and save your fate
    Will your woman go and cheat behind your back
    Will your best friend lie right to your face
    Will you put down money that you don't have
    Will you go and gamble that life away
    Will you lose that love that you always had

    Will the trolls come out, out, out,
    Will the trolls come out and play today.

  5. Re: Terrorists? on California Lawmaker Wants 3-D Printers To Be Regulated · · Score: 1

    Yes, but only because this will probably become law in California. Yee is only average for the California state legislature. That guy from Missouri, while even stupider than Yee, was exceptional and much stupider than the average , even in Missouri.

  6. Re:not where from, where to? on World of Warcraft Loses 1.3 Million Players in First Quarter of 2013 · · Score: 1

    I teach in a high school in an overseas US Territory. Three months during the summer, two weeks at christmas, etc. When school's out I'm off travelling.

  7. Re:not where from, where to? on World of Warcraft Loses 1.3 Million Players in First Quarter of 2013 · · Score: 1

    Because you have no idea how little it costs to live. My necessities cost less than $15k per year. I could get even cheaper if I wanted to. I live alone, my rent is under $300 per month, and I don't waste money on crap I don't need (no tv, no internet at home, prepaid phone, etc.).

  8. Re:Terrorists? on California Lawmaker Wants 3-D Printers To Be Regulated · · Score: 1, Redundant

    California state lawmakers are a special brand of stupid. I'd say that they were Congress's autistic cousins, but people with autism aren't actually stupid.

  9. Re:not where from, where to? on World of Warcraft Loses 1.3 Million Players in First Quarter of 2013 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I only make $30k a year and spend 4 months of it bumping around the world. How much you make is irrelevant. How much you spend on nonpriorities is.

  10. Re:Third-party nominations? on Mars One Has 78,000 Applicants · · Score: 1

    "Suck it Armstrong! No, not Neil. I meant Lance."

  11. Re:Great... on EA Is the Game Company Disney Was Looking For · · Score: 1

    Really? First post wasn't Vader's "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"?

  12. Re:The answer to the question on Defense Distributed Has 3D-Printed an Entire Gun · · Score: 1

    The drug cartels get all their weapons from the US. It's an uneven playing field.

  13. Re:Reword on Oslo Needs Your Garbage · · Score: 1

    There's always money in the shit pipes.

  14. Re:Orbital pickup truck on Helium Depleted, Herschel Space Telescope Mission Ends · · Score: 1

    A big-boom drive is dependent on the number of nukes it can carry

    No, it's really not (at least not in the sense you mean). It's only limited by the amount of relevant raw materials you have on hand (there are no limitations on weight or size with this kind of drive), and no other (currently achievable) propulsion tech can match the thrust/power of a nuclear pulse rocket. In other words: the same limitations apply to an ion drive (which is limited by the power-generating facilities you carry on board, and no, solar power won't work in INTERSTELLAR travel) without the other advantages.

  15. Re:What am I missing? on Does Antimatter Fall Up? · · Score: 1

    If you put any gas though into a container such that the mean free path is longer than the distance it takes for significant action of gravity, it will not fill the container.

    It will fill it, just with a density gradient. If the container is large enough (say, on solar system scales), then yes you could say the container is "unfilled," but that's not really accurate because the vacuum of space isn't really a vacuum.

  16. Re:Orbital pickup truck on Helium Depleted, Herschel Space Telescope Mission Ends · · Score: 1

    Ion drives can be more efficient, but efficiency isn't everything (and in this case it really depends on how you define efficiency)

    Ion drives are either low thrust or low specific impulse. They cannot have high both be high. The Project Orion design idoes. This makes it substantially superior for TRAVEL into deep space. Travel meaning, people going from A to B in relatively low time spans.

  17. Re:Orbital pickup truck on Helium Depleted, Herschel Space Telescope Mission Ends · · Score: 1

    No, but beyond the Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field it is STILL the best design we have for travel into deep space.

  18. Re:Third parties on President Obama To Nominate Cable and Wireless Lobbyist To Head FCC · · Score: 1

    Is it hard to talk while fellating that straw man?

  19. Re:Fisticuffs. on MPAA Executive Tampers With Evidence In Piracy Case · · Score: 1

    at least the corps don't have armies.

    Oh you ignorant fool.

  20. Re:And... on MPAA Executive Tampers With Evidence In Piracy Case · · Score: 2

    What is a set of lay judges (i take that to mean judges who are not trained in the practice of law) other than a jury?

  21. Re:And... on MPAA Executive Tampers With Evidence In Piracy Case · · Score: 1

    Depends on whether the tampering proved material to the case at hand. Censoring the names of innocent parties is not in and of itself grounds for dismissal. That it was done under the table, and without the prosecutor's knowledge doesn't help their case, but it doesn't necessarily help the defendant's either.

  22. Re:Art doesn't need remuneration on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Good Reasons For DRM? · · Score: 1

    Yes, one of personal servitude and enslavement to the elites who own all the productive capital (i.e. robots) that make everything necessary for survival. If your child is lucky, they'll get a job as court jester. If they're unlucky, they'll be wiping Murdoch's wrinkly hemmorhoid covered asshole.

  23. Re:Lots of good reasons. on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Good Reasons For DRM? · · Score: 1

    OP is the kind of facile moron who fills the entertainment industry. He doesn't understand that DRM DOES NOT PREVENT PEOPLE FROM COPYING OR DISTRIBUTING MATERIAL.

    It never has, and it never will. It's only function is to prevent legitimate uses. It does nothing to prevent illegitimate uses.

  24. Re:Employability on New Study Suggests No Shortage of American STEM Graduates · · Score: 1

    It would appear that the superrich isn't actually that good at hiding their money, being taxed at something around 30% on the federal income tax.

    Sloppy terminology in these discussions is what allows utter lies like this to appear to be truth.

    The superrich DO NOT pay 30% of their income in taxes because their income is not wages. Their income is capital gains. The term "Federal Income Tax" is itself a lie. It's a "Federal Wage Tax."

    Sloppy use of the term "income" allows both sides to be right while simultaneously lying.

  25. Re:Last Sentence on Federal Magistrate Rules That Fifth Amendment Applies To Encryption Keys · · Score: 1

    Never mind warrants, they used to convict people based on bullet alloy analysis which has ZERO validity. Dogs are at least good sometimes and sound in theory. Bullet alloy analysis was NEVER valid, and was used to justify executing people. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/17/AR2007111701681.html