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  1. Re:Politics on It's Ham Vs.Ham As Radio Amateurs Are In Conflict At ARRL (perens.com) · · Score: 1

    That's always been the problem with HAM radio enthusiasts, man...too political.

    Don't be slamming the HAMs.

  2. Not all gay men are into anal.

    But we're not talking about all gay men, we're talking about Tim Cook. And you have to admit, Tim Cook definitely comes across as the kind that likes a little Prince Albert in the can, if you catch my drift.

  3. That's the best way to use an iPhone in my opinion. Each one personally tested by Tim Cook.

    Now that's just mean. Funny, but mean.

    I seem to have reached my Slashdot quota of friends, or I would add you.

  4. Right, damn them to hell! They should all be forced to carry iPhones.

    Yes. Up their asses.

  5. Re:And all because... on Humans Having Sex With Neanderthals Gave Us Protection Against Ancient Epidemics (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Some homo sapiens sapiens couldn't get a date some evening, but there was always their Neanderthal friend for evenings like that

    The Neanderthals were really the fun ones, but could not hold their liquor. And the Sapiens girls definitely preferred them because they were bad boys, and they thought the protruding brow ridges were sexy.

  6. But what of Samsung? Exactly this. There should be some Samsung execs sitting in the same hoosegow as the South Korean president.

  7. Pope, we shot you once, we can repeat.

    Hey, welcome to Slashdot! One of my very favorite things is when I can get someone to make an account here just to reply to me. I choose to take it as a testimony to my popularity. Plus, Slashdot pays me in Bitcoin whenever I can convert an Anonymous Coward into a registered account.

    Just think: as long as your account exists, your very first comment will be a testament to me.

  8. In other words, you admitted that the joke topics you do these days is different from before

    The topics have changed, but they're still the same. They're dick jokes, but the dick is an orange mushroom.

    If you disagree and think joke topics are fungible, next time you make a joke about Trump, Pence, Republicans, or whoever, replace target of ridicule with your own mother.

    So, you just don't find them funny because they are at the expense of someone you love like a family member. I think you just admitted that Trump is your daddy. And apparently you have forgotten that mother jokes are a staple of Slashdot comments.

  9. The proof that it is political bullshit is the public announcement to ensure it never ever goes to court.

    These charges were brought by the Trump Justice Department. Just what exactly are you blaming him of?

  10. Honestly dude, you used to be HILARIOUS. Like, I'd literally LOL frequently at the stuff you'd say. Since Trump won, you've let your funniness wither.

    Maybe my sense of humor hasn't changed, but you've lost yours. It's all a matter of perspective.

  11. Countdown to "It's just more anti-Russian hysteria. I'm shocked...SHOCKED I tell you that someone would suggest there would be any shenanigans regarding their Olympic athletes. #MAGA" Signed, Not a Russian Troll, But a Totally American Guy Named Pyotr

  12. In California, Starbucks must label their coffee as "contains materials known to cause cancer", because of Proposition 65.

    Now if that had anything to do with the EPA, you might have a point worth considering in this discussion.

    There's got to be a middle ground, where the sane people are.

    I hate to break this to you, but if there is this "middle ground, where the sane people are", you won't find Trump or any Republican, for that matter.

  13. Never Forget on The EPA's Bold New Idea Has Massive Implications For Public Health (motherjones.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just a reminder to you younger Slashdotters, that there was a time, before there was an EPA, where several of the Great Lakes had all their fish dying, there were rivers in Ohio that would burst into flames and several American cities where the smog was so bad that the air was a yellowish-green even on a cloudless day. And not just cities like LA and Cleveland, Pittsburgh, but also Houston, Atlanta, and Dallas and many others.

    A Republican president created the EPA in 1970, and within a decade and a half, you could find Lake Trout and Salmon in the Great Lakes again, there are even fish in the Cuyahoga, and people could actually breathe in cities without coughing up brown phlegm again. Corporations adjusted to the new regulations and the '80s and '90s saw a booming US economy with widespread improvement across all economic strata.

    We are being ratfucked by our own government. If your big issue is "feminists are taking my jobs!" and supporting this administration in order to "own the libs and SJWs", you are what is known as a useful idiot, and you are hurting yourself.

  14. Re:It's not hard on Australia Set To 'Eliminate' Cervical Cancer By 2028 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    However, I am nonetheless very bothered as a human being that we're using a vaccine to control risk that could be controlled by simple human behavior.

    Now think about what you've said. Every communicable disease from the common cold to ebola could be controlled by "simple human behavior". You could simply never go outside or come into contact with other people.

    And if you think that teenagers having sex is a behavior that can be simply controlled, you're ignoring all of human history. Hell, you're ignoring all history of mammalian life on Earth. If there's one thing for which we have copious evidence, from thousands of peer-reviewed studies right down to our own two eyes, it's that abstinence does not work.

    Think of all the states where sex education, including contraception, have been replaced by evangelical politicians with abstinence-only programs. In every single instance - no exceptions - the rate of teen, unmarried pregnancies has gone up and the rate of sexually-transmitted disease has gone up.

  15. You mean national emergency alerts like what Obama helped set up, and has only just now been tested?

    It was set up during the Bush administration, but for some reason hasn't been used until now. I wonder why now.

  16. Be honest. No matter what he does, you'll find a way to shit on him.

    To be fair, I don't always shit on Trump. Sometimes, I just laugh, and sometimes I shrug ruefully. But don't worry, a day will come when Trump is gone and I'll still be here. Then we can go back to dick jokes and ragging on systemd.

    I wonder who mods him up sometimes,

    You don't have to wonder. I have been voted the most-beloved commenter on Slashdot seven years running now. You can look it up. I get great reviews, and my inauguration was the biggest ever.

  17. Orange Alert! on Vice President Mike Pence Says Google Should Halt Dragonfly App Development (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I wonder how Pence feels about technology that would allow a political leader to push instant messages onto every single cellular device, allowing citizens no ability to opt out.

    But since he supported giving electro-shock to homosexuals to "cure" them, I think we have a pretty good idea.

  18. Re:There's not a lot of those on Australia Set To 'Eliminate' Cervical Cancer By 2028 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Is your problem with her profession, or the fact that he paid her off?
    I for one, as a christian, have no problem with her profession(s).

    No, my problem is that he was raw-dogging porn stars while his wife was home with his new baby, and lying about it to voters, and then violating US law in order to hide the fact.

  19. Re:It's not hard on Australia Set To 'Eliminate' Cervical Cancer By 2028 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Is there some kind of axe to grind with the Christians that all of them are the sole and only cause of anti-vaccers?

    It's not the anti-vaxxers that are driving the opposition to widespread use of the HPV vaccine in schools. It's the evangelicals.

    And an argument can be made that evangelicals are not Christians and do not deserve to be included in that category. So no, I don't have any axe to grind with Christians.

  20. Re:Anti-vax on Australia Set To 'Eliminate' Cervical Cancer By 2028 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Correct but to be fair we also have the (mostly) granola munching anti-vax crowd who wrongly think that their kid will immediately become autistic if they vaccinate them.

    We elected an anti-vaxxer as president.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/...

  21. Re:There's not a lot of those on Australia Set To 'Eliminate' Cervical Cancer By 2028 (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You are also welcome on my lawn. Sorry some of my fellow Christians have behaved so poorly.

    Brother, you come to my house any time. I can't imagine what it's like to be a devout believe in a faith that is being so badly misused by horrible people.

    Here is a famous photo of Donald Trump being "anointed" by a group of evangelical "leaders". There's a similar photo, taken right after inauguration, with Trump attorney Michael Cohen standing behind him. Cohen is the one who Trump had pay off the porn star and the playboy model.

    https://goo.gl/images/ux8VE9

  22. Re:It's not hard on Australia Set To 'Eliminate' Cervical Cancer By 2028 (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I belong to a Christian community and am from Australia where the vaccine was invented and there is ZERO objection to it here.

    The kind of evangelicalism I'm talking about is unique to the United States.

    Our vaccination rates are high, simply because it is given free of charge to all school girls during school hours. No need to drag your bigotry into the discussion.

    We've tried to have the HPV given to school children, but the evangelicals have blocked every single effort. We even had such a program going in Texas, if you can believe it, but the governor and lieutenant governor, one of whom used to be a radio host on an evangelical-owned network, made it their personal mission to stop the program.

    Christians are fine people. But American evangelicals have nothing to do with christianity, I'm afraid.

  23. Re:There's not a lot of those on Australia Set To 'Eliminate' Cervical Cancer By 2028 (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    but there are a ton of folks who can't afford the vaccine.

    Insurance will cover vaccines with at most a very minimal copay. And all of drug companies manufacturing the vaccine have patient assistance programs that will send you a coupon to get the vaccine for free or maybe $5.

    And I'm sure school districts would happily offer vaccines for free, except it upsets the god-botherers. Fortunately, over the past 2 years a lot of people have opened their eyes to what the evangelicals are really all about, and it's not about worshipping God or serving Jesus.

    https://youtu.be/aRcnJPQqY0c

  24. It's not hard on Australia Set To 'Eliminate' Cervical Cancer By 2028 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    We could do it in the US, but we've got evangelical so-called "christians" who refuse to give their kids the vaccine, because Jesus told them sex is bad, m'kay? These are the same people who will enthusiastically vote for child molesters and men who admit to committing sexual assault because their helmet-haired preachers have told them they are "chosen".

    https://www.theguardian.com/us...

    https://www.thetrumpprophecymo...

  25. Re:Duuuuude....weeeeeed! on Psychedelic Mushrooms Are Closer To Medicinal Use (nytimes.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    what a cesspit this country is becoming.

    Why do you libs have to make everything about Trump?