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  1. Re:Hey Obama on Cisco Complains To Obama About NSA Adding Spyware To Routers · · Score: 1

    you, and they, are so morally bankrupt I can't understand how you can live with yourself.

    I suspect that their moral bankruptcy has a lot to do with enabling them to live with their moral bankruptcy. It's a self-justifying sort of thing.

  2. Re:No. And there is a precedent. on Cisco Complains To Obama About NSA Adding Spyware To Routers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The Republican spin machine will easily manipulate their "base" to not only accept it, but DEMAND that the big corp's profits are protected at the base's expense.

    Let's face it, the electorate is informed by mass media and mass media is incompetent and in bed with their corporate masters.

    You can't have it both ways. Either they're willful manipulators or incompetent buffoons, but not both. At the most they might be willful manipulators pretending to be incompetent buffoons, but that is not the same thing.

  3. Re:No, no it's not. on Studies: Wildfires Worse Due To Global Warming · · Score: 2

    Fire ignition is not a consequence. Fire sustenance IS a consequence. Warmer temps, drier climate = fires that burn more land faster before they are brought under control. Which is what the article says.

  4. Re:2014: Trusting anyone online, ever. on EFF: Amazon, AT&T, and Snapchat Most Likely To Rat On You To the Gov't · · Score: 1

    It's become socially acceptable to hound someone out of a job for some political cause they supported 5+ years ago - how long until it's legally acceptable?

    Oh, rougly -70 years?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    None of this is new. American, Land of the free, has always been a convenient lie.

  5. Re:#1 rats on EFF: Amazon, AT&T, and Snapchat Most Likely To Rat On You To the Gov't · · Score: 1

    Same problem on the Nasdaq.

  6. Re:Amen, brother Amen! on Game of Thrones Author George R R Martin Writes with WordStar on DOS · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Shut the fuck up and go read a basic grammar text

    Which will show that you're a pretentious fuckwit?

    They is the standard gender-neutral personal pronoun (as opposed to "it" the gender-neutral non-personal pronoun). People who insist on writing "he or she," "he/she," or any other stilted monstrosity are the linguistic equivalent of Kanye West--baselessly arrogant and pretentious.

  7. Re:Electric. on Future of Cars: Hydrogen Fuel Cells, Or Electric? · · Score: 1

    That's because you're dumb enough to think that 80+miles of commuting is a sane way to live. It's not (and I was born and raised in LA and commuted 75 miles each way at one point--I can tell you from experience that it's not a sane way to live).

  8. Re:Amen, brother Amen! on Game of Thrones Author George R R Martin Writes with WordStar on DOS · · Score: 1

    M-x blow-me has always worked for me.

  9. Re:Sanity check on 7.1 Billion People, 7.1 Billion Mobile Phone Accounts Activated · · Score: 1

    No, he wasn't saying that. You're projecting.

    He simply stated the fact that there are cell phones in places without indoor plumbing. It wasn't a judgement. It was an observation.

  10. Re:Nothing unconstitutional about this on Glenn Greenwald: How the NSA Tampers With US Made Internet Routers · · Score: 0

    Keep sucking that totalitarian cock.

  11. Re:NSA = Worlds Largest Criminal Organization on Glenn Greenwald: How the NSA Tampers With US Made Internet Routers · · Score: 1

    Probably not the largest in terms of sheer numbers.

  12. Re:The answer is in marketing on Harvard Study Links Neonicotinoid Pesticide To Colony Collapse Disorder · · Score: 1

    Just keep ignoring that loud wooshing sound over your head.

  13. Re:Overpopulation on Norwegian Infectious Disease Specialists Have New Theory On HIV In Africa · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The key to reducing birth rates is raising the opportunity cost of children. First world countries have falling birth rates because women have other opportunities and the cost of raising 3+ kids (in terms of hours not worked for pay as much as actual outlays for food, clothes, etc.) is very high.

    Letting $insert_disease_here maintain relatively high mortality rates ENCOURAGES birth rates because it increases poverty and so decreases the (opportunity) cost of having children.

  14. Re:What an idea on China May Build an Undersea Train To America · · Score: 1

    . Here's the text of the speech from the horses mouth.

    I believe you mean "the monkey's mouth."

  15. Re:What American goods would China buy? on China May Build an Undersea Train To America · · Score: 1

    The US manufactures more goods by dollar value than China. We just don't export them.

  16. Re: President McCain strikes again! on DOJ Requests More Power To Hack Remote Computers · · Score: 1

    ...and Godwinned. Thread over, time to go home.

  17. Re: President McCain strikes again! on DOJ Requests More Power To Hack Remote Computers · · Score: 1

    Oh good, so he'd have been the same as Obama.

  18. Re: Our patent system is totally broken on USPTO Approves Amazon Patent For Taking Pictures · · Score: 1

    None of that changes the fact that the USPTO is incompetent and worthless.

  19. Re:Undefined on Autonomous Car Ethics: If a Crash Is Unavoidable, What Does It Hit? · · Score: 1

    Shoot the hostage.

  20. Re:Undefined on Autonomous Car Ethics: If a Crash Is Unavoidable, What Does It Hit? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Since when do trees move faster than children?

  21. Re:Undefined on Autonomous Car Ethics: If a Crash Is Unavoidable, What Does It Hit? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why not? The simplest method is to choose the collision with the lowest speed differential. In fact, this whole post is pointless. The self-driving car doesn't need to choose based on abstract concepts--choose the collision with the lowest speed differential. Lower speed differential means less energy transferred in the impact means less damage and less injuries. Moreover this is trivial for the cars to determine at this stage already. They can already calculate relative speeds between themselves and other objects, so if not all of the objects can be avoided, the choice is obvious.

  22. Re:most schools ignore sat essay on Grading Software Fooled By Nonsense Essay Generator · · Score: 1

    The thing that is rote memorization is spelling, as the English language is not phonetic despite being taught that way

    Not really. You can tell from the phonology of a word what language it comes from and once you know that the spelling is usually pretty regular. Almost every spelling irregularity in English is a result of the word's language of origin at the time it was borrowed.

    Example: Words from French follow "i before e, except after c" (niece, achieve, ceiling, receipt, etc. are all from French) Words from Anglo-saxon do not (weird, neighbor, freight, eight, etc are all from Anglo-Saxon).

  23. Re:Not for Nerds on What It's Like To Be the Scientific Consultant For The Big Bang Theory · · Score: 2

    Fine, -1 Arrested Development moderation option.

  24. Re:Out the Back Door on The Million-Dollar Business of Video Game Cheating · · Score: 1

    Or the front door in cases of "Pay to Win"

  25. Re:The time-frame is insane, that's why on The Million-Dollar Business of Video Game Cheating · · Score: 1

    Sounds like an incredibly shitty game. I'm glad I never wasted time playing it.

    More seriously, what you just described is not a game. It sounds more like a psychological torture device.