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  1. What about the bible? on Red Cross Debates If Virtual Killing Violates International Humanitarian Law · · Score: 1

    The Bible is chuck full of human rights abuses not to mention war crimes. In some cases the war crimes it pictures are far worse than anything that happens today.

  2. Requires a License to Prescribe ? on Supreme Court Legitimizing Medical Patents? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So the doctor needs a license from the patent holder to effectively administer the drug. Well I can see that generating a lot of sales of the drug. Not.

  3. Recycling on EFF Asks To Make Jailbreaking Legal For All Devices · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you cannot do what you like with you hardware then you obviously do not own it. If you do not own it you are not responsible for recycling it. Which means you just have to return all your old devices the store where you got them and it is there problem (cost) to recycle.

  4. IT is not the Problem on Email Offline At the Home of Sendmail · · Score: 4, Insightful

    IT goes to management and says "based on current usage/loadings etc the system will fail in 6 months to prevent it we need to do this....." Management says "Really, that's not what the sales man told me and its his equipment so he should know".

  5. Re:Snow. on After 6 Years, Aptera Motors Is No More · · Score: 2

    That said, in the parts of the urbanized western world where we do get snow every year, we usually remove it from the road within a few hours.

    And where is this magical place where the roads are cleared within a few hours

  6. Re:Snow. on After 6 Years, Aptera Motors Is No More · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm not talking about batteries in an electric car. I am talking about sexy concept cars with small wheels, low clearance and no weight trying to drive through a few inches of wet snow and ice.

  7. Snow. on After 6 Years, Aptera Motors Is No More · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The major problem with these 'concept' cars, not just this one, is that they are only drivable in places that never have winter. Which of course rules out most of the industrialized western world.

  8. Old News, on Patent Expires On Best Selling Drug of All Time · · Score: 2

    Canada has had generic Lipitor for over a year now.

  9. Required V quote on Paper On Super Flu Strain May Be Banned From Publication · · Score: 1

    Our story begins, as these stories often do, with a young up-and-coming politician. He's a deeply religious man and a member of the conservative party. He is completely single-minded convictions and has no regard for the political process. Eventually, his party launches a special project in the name of 'national security'. At first, it is believed to be a search for biological weapons and it is pursued regardless of its cost. However, the true goal of the project is power, complete and total hegemonic domination. The project, however, ends violently... but the efforts of those involved are not in vain, for a new ability to wage war is born from the blood of one of their victims. Imagine a virus - the most terrifying virus you can, and then imagine that you and you alone have the cure. But if your ultimate goal is power, how best to use such a weapon? It is at this point in our story that along comes a spider. He is a man seemingly without a conscience; for whom the ends always justify the means and it is he who suggests that their target should not be an enemy of the country but rather the country itself. Three targets are chosen to maximize the effect of the attack: a school, a tube station, and a water-treatment plant. Several hundred die within the first few weeks. Until at last the true goal comes into view. Before the St. Mary's crisis, no one would have predicted the outcome of the elections. No one. But after the election, lo and behold, a miracle. Some believed that it was the work of God himself, but it was a pharmaceutical company controlled by certain party members made them all obscenely rich. But the true genius of the plan was the fear. A year later, several extremists are tried, found guilty, and executed while a memorial is built to canonize their victims. Fear became the ultimate tool of this government. And through it our politician was ultimately appointed to the newly created position of High Chancellor. The rest, as they say, is history.

  10. This is new? on Book Review: Responsive Web Design · · Score: 1

    I seem to remember that was what the initial release of HTML did. And as I recall it did it quite well. It displayed structured data to fit the display device.

  11. Re:Did I drop that? on Wounded Copyright Troll Still Alive and Kicking · · Score: 1

    Rule #2: Double Tap.

  12. Valve Software on Ubisoft Blames Piracy For Non-Release of PC Game · · Score: 4, Informative

    They should take a leaf out of the Valve Software marketing handbook.

    http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/10/25/gabe-newell-on-piracy-and-steams-success-in-russia/

  13. Re:Fake on High Resolution Global Topographic Map of Moon · · Score: 1

    Actually he did write science fiction.

  14. Re:Title Should Be on Toronto School Bans Hard Balls · · Score: 1

    It is starting to.

  15. Title Should Be on Toronto School Bans Hard Balls · · Score: 3, Funny

    Distinct possibility of frivolous lawsuits cause ban on hard balls at Toronto school.

  16. Re:Interesting but ... on Energy Firm Wants To Be First To Mine the Moon · · Score: 1

    I would but there is no incentive to do any, you see, the cake is a lie .....

  17. Interesting but ... on Energy Firm Wants To Be First To Mine the Moon · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How have they solved the problem of the abrasive Moon dust? It is really hard on bearings and even worse on lungs.

  18. What to call it? on In-Vitro Muscle Cells, It's What's For Dinner · · Score: 1

    Lem: "Don't name it or you won't want to eat it. Remember Chester the carrot?" (Better Off Ted)

  19. Re:the real coup on FEMA, FCC Hope To Forestall Panic Over National Emergency Alert · · Score: 1

    Yes but it is for your own protection.

  20. The real truth about the test on FEMA, FCC Hope To Forestall Panic Over National Emergency Alert · · Score: 1

    What is really happening is the asteroid that is heading to earth is not really in a stable orbit and it may actually hit the Earth. So the NWO has scheduled this test so that they can get the word out to all the elites to proceed to the shelter stations. Now they have been saying that it is just a test so that the general public will not really pay any attention to what is said in the broadcast. However, the elites will be listening for the key words in the broadcast.

  21. Re:What a perfect opportunity... on Asteroid Passes Closer To Earth Than the Moon on Nov 8 · · Score: 1

    Not even if said person was a politician?

  22. Re: Afghanistan Drug Increase on Anonymous Takes On a Mexican Drug Cartel · · Score: 1

    Only because the Western Powers had to employ western police procedure and judicial processes when dealing with them. No taking the owner of the field, when the poppies are discovered, lining him up against the wall a shooting him on the spot.

  23. Re:This is all well and good but... on Anonymous Takes On a Mexican Drug Cartel · · Score: 1

    The thing is Anonymous are not 'idealistic' bloggers. This is where they have the advantage. The hard core Anonymous that is.

  24. Re:Drug Cartels on Anonymous Takes On a Mexican Drug Cartel · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Politicians cannot stop the war on drugs. Too many votes, I mean jobs depend on it.

  25. Police on Anonymous Takes On a Mexican Drug Cartel · · Score: 1

    So why do the police not have this information? Or do they make up the majority of the people on the list?