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  1. Re:TX Law on Mad Cow Disease Blamed For Patient's Death In Texas · · Score: 1

    You know that none of that has anything to do with Mad Cow disease, yes?

  2. Re:Not really on AT&T To Use Phone Geolocation To Prevent Credit Card Fraud · · Score: 1

    Because they're American. They don't pay their cards off. Gotta keep the great wheels of consumerism turning.

  3. Re:Not really on AT&T To Use Phone Geolocation To Prevent Credit Card Fraud · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure this article is about American credit card companies who (mostly) only give cards to Americans so ... it's a problem.

  4. Re:Routine unregistered securities case on Man Who Issued Securities For Bitcoins Settles With SEC · · Score: 2

    Welcome to the world of white collar crime. Yes, that is normal.

  5. Re:Scotland? on Ask Slashdot: Do 4G World Phones Exist? · · Score: 1

    I know the Scottish accent might sound foreign, but they are still speaking English there.

  6. You confuse something that benefits with something done FOR your benefit. I know, it's hard when you're AC with barely two neurons to smack together, but there is a big difference.

    Those things are ALL done for their benefit. Any benefit to you is incidental.

  7. Aw, you still think they do things for our benefit. How cute. And naive.

    Nothing the government does is for our benefit.

  8. Re:Wait a sec on Belief In Evolution Doesn't Measure Science Literacy · · Score: 1

    So where do you put Ohm's law then, which is called a law, and which is not as universal?

    Outside your reading comprehension skills. Try reading my post again.

  9. Re: Yeah, but.... on Misogyny, Entitlement, and Nerds · · Score: 2

    Well no, but you'd be hard pressed to call his targeting sexist.

  10. Re:Wait a sec on Belief In Evolution Doesn't Measure Science Literacy · · Score: 1

    Well that didn't take long to get Poe's Lawed.

  11. Re:Wait a sec on Belief In Evolution Doesn't Measure Science Literacy · · Score: 1

    No, they're not. Laws are repeated observations which are true so overwhelmingly frequently that they are effectively considered to always be true.

    Even though they're not (See: Law of Conservation of Matter, Second Law of Thermodynamics, Dalton's Law, etc.)

    All of these are mathematical statements of things that were observed so universally they were assumed to be universal (except that none of them are except within certain limited domains).

  12. Re:Plenty of k-12 resources on Microsoft Office Mix: No-Teacher-Left-Behind Course Authoring · · Score: 2

    I despise Prezi. It's powerpoint with asinine animations and always-on internet required. Every time someone suggests I use Prezi in my classroom I want to cut their tongue out with an angle grinder. Ugh.

  13. Re:Ridiculous on German Court Rules That You Can't Keep Compromising Photos After a Break-Up · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No body plans to break up while going into a relationship normally

    Then they're obviously not paying attention since that is how the majority of their relationships will end.

  14. Re:What does Obama know that we don't? on White House Pressures Legislators Into Gutting USA FREEDOM Act · · Score: 1

    Can you read? Do you see the word "closing" in my original post? Are you on LSD?

  15. Re:Really? on Teachers Union: Computers Can Negatively Impact Children's Ability To Learn · · Score: 4, Informative

    This post is hysterically misinformed, or based on the school district in Teacher-Shangrila.

    I have no prep time during the school day. None. I teach four 75-min classes, two before lunch and two after. During Lunch (70 min) I supervise students in the cafeteria or I tutor students who are behind on their work. In between sentences I shovel a peanut butter sandwich down my throat. After school is the same. I work from 8am to 5pm without so much as a piss break most days (thank god I have a strong bladder). All prep work occurs either before 8am or after 5 pm, which means that my work day normally runs 6am to 5pm (I prefer that over 8am to 7pm).

    I'd love to know where this babysitware or paraprofessionals I'm supposedly offloading my job onto are. That'd be nice.

  16. Re:Speak Truth to Power on NSA Surveillance Reform Bill Passes House 303 Votes To 121 · · Score: 2

    The intelligence community isn't doing this in bad faith.

    None of the other totalitarians in history were either. That's completely irrelevant.

  17. Speak Truth to Power on NSA Surveillance Reform Bill Passes House 303 Votes To 121 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    last-minute efforts by intelligence community loyalists to weaken key language in the USA Freedom Act

    Instead of the NewSpeak "intelligence community loyalists" how about we call them what they really are: Enemies of the People.

  18. Re:What does Obama know that we don't? on White House Pressures Legislators Into Gutting USA FREEDOM Act · · Score: 1

    You do know, (right?) how to read...right? I didn't say anything about closing Guantanamo. I said he claimed to support due process rights when talking about Guantanamo.

    He has abandoned due process in favor of extrajudicial murder. That is not hyperbole; that is fact. You can stick your fingers in your delusional ears all you like, but it won't change the facts on the ground. It has nothing to do with what he says and everything to do with what he DOES. US citizens have been murdered by drone attacks based on secret evidence without trial. He has admitted to signing off on those killings. All of that is fact. He has allowed the NSA to read whatever they want, including the text messages and emails of everyone.

  19. Re:What does Obama know that we don't? on White House Pressures Legislators Into Gutting USA FREEDOM Act · · Score: 1

    You mean his words when he said he believe AT&T should have faced penalties for helping with the NSA wiretapping? Those words? The words where he said he believed in due process (in reference to guantanamo)?

    Because this is the guy who believes in reading all your mail and murdering citizens by drone with no accountability. Those were his words then, these are his actions now.

  20. Re:Glimmer of hope, squashed on White House Pressures Legislators Into Gutting USA FREEDOM Act · · Score: 2

    When did we cross over into 1984?

    December 31, 1983.

  21. Re:Robot Competence on The Sci-Fi Myth of Robotic Competence · · Score: 1

    Repeat after me: CyberMEN are not robots. Because, you know, they got man parts too. Women parts even in some cases.

  22. Re:The Problem Isn't "Free Speech vs Privacy" on The US Vs. Europe: Freedom of Expression Vs. Privacy · · Score: 1

    The problem with that is that we live in a society of wage slavery and indentured servitude that has been structured to systematically favor those businesses. If the playing field between businesses and workers was fair, I'd agree with you. Because it is not a fair playing field, and so being fired from a single job can RUIN a person, then this attitude amounts to tyranny and the de facto suppression of free speech.

  23. Re:No. And there is a precedent. on Cisco Complains To Obama About NSA Adding Spyware To Routers · · Score: 1

    The LdS Church has not destroyed the Boy Scouts of America (the Church actually published a statement they agree with the BSA's stance on homosexuality)

    I'm pretty sure that's what he meant--that the BSA has taken those stances because of Mormon influence.

  24. Re:In Soviet Russia, the Internet surfs you on Cisco Complains To Obama About NSA Adding Spyware To Routers · · Score: 1

    The Dark Ages are returning!

  25. Re:Hypocritical on Cisco Complains To Obama About NSA Adding Spyware To Routers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In the case of Cisco most of the world can trust their gear with the exception of people who are direct targets of the NSA.

    If there is anything we have learned since the Snowden Saga started, it is that most of the world are direct targets of the NSA. That is, your post is self-nullifying and vanishes in a poof of logic.