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  1. Re:Giving it the old "college try" eh? on Larry Lessig Reaches Funding Goal and Is Running For President · · Score: 1

    Did you even watch the last vice-presidential debate? When Ryan was speaking, Biden was babbling, laughing, and almost drooling.

    I think you may be misremembering.

    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/po...

    http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

    http://www.businessinsider.com...

    But people can watch for themselves. That's the beauty of the Internet:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  2. Re:I live here. on Alaska: The Only US State Where Everyone Gets Free Money · · Score: 1

    So, you're unaware of Abraham Lincoln's predilection for socialist statements? Why am I not surprised?

    http://www.brainyquote.com/quo...

    http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...

     

  3. Re:suggestion on Ask Slashdot: Best Tablet In 2015? · · Score: 1

    Maybe because the Air 3 is being launched in 49 hours it's good advice to wait and consider it?

    The guy said he didn't want to have to spend $300-400 for a new tablet (much less the $600 that a top-end iPad Air 3 will cost.

    Read the summary before you post, okay?

  4. Re: Giving it the old "college try" eh? on Larry Lessig Reaches Funding Goal and Is Running For President · · Score: 1

    Like him or hate him, Trump has shifted the national debate on several issues in his brief involvement in the campaign,

    http://www.rollingstone.com/po...

  5. Re:suggestion on Ask Slashdot: Best Tablet In 2015? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Or wait until the iPad Air 3 comes out, and get one of those.

    My sources tell me the iPad Air 9 will be even better, with more RAM and a faster processor. I mean, as long as he's going to have to wait, why not wait until something really good comes out?

  6. Re:That's nice on Google Donates €1 Million To Help Refugees In Need · · Score: 1

    No they weren't. In fact, the country got its current name 'Iran' during WWII, when the ruling monarchy tried to ally w/ the Nazis - using the name for Aryan to signify solidarity w/ the Nazis claim of being the sole Aryans, and a British intervention in time managed to pre-empt the Soviets.

    Germany is considered part of "the West".

  7. Re:How is this on Larry Lessig Reaches Funding Goal and Is Running For President · · Score: 2

    Lol.. tears of joy that carson won y such a large margin.

    Yes, but the way we stop GOP voters from voting for Ben Carson is just before the election we tell the GOP base that he's, you know, b-l-a-c-k.

  8. Re:Giving it the old "college try" eh? on Larry Lessig Reaches Funding Goal and Is Running For President · · Score: 2

    No Trump is not running running as a 3rd party. He already signed the loyalty pledge.

    Do you have any idea how Donald Trump feels about pledges?

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/debtwire/2015/08/18/a-trip-down-donald-trumps-bankruptcy-memory-lane/

    You know, like pledges to pay back money he borrowed?

  9. Re:He chose Democrat because reasons on Larry Lessig Reaches Funding Goal and Is Running For President · · Score: 0

    No, they just thought it would be nice not to have their First Amendment rights infringed

    You mean the First Amendment as it was interpreted before Citizens United or the First Amendment as it has been interpreted since Citizens United? Because they're not the same thing.

  10. Re:He chose Democrat because reasons on Larry Lessig Reaches Funding Goal and Is Running For President · · Score: 1

    Uhh, the last major reform bill we had was McCain-Feingold, and McCain is a Republican and it had bipartisan support.

    Isn't it interesting that both McCain and Feingold had their planes shot down. In the case of Feingold, it was fatal.

  11. Re:I don't care for the guy on Larry Lessig Reaches Funding Goal and Is Running For President · · Score: 1

    If his campaign was honest, he would help people learn to tune out the the big money and not be so starstruck by bling.

    He's hacking the election, not human nature.

  12. Re:How is this on Larry Lessig Reaches Funding Goal and Is Running For President · · Score: 0

    How about if it comes down to a vote between Ben Carson and Bernie Sanders?

    Then we pop the champagne and watch the GOP tears fall.

  13. Re:Giving it the old "college try" eh? on Larry Lessig Reaches Funding Goal and Is Running For President · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In a two party system, this is a valid argument, whether you like it or not. In 2000, there is no question that Nader threw the election to Bush.

    Yeah, but the Republicans have their own Ralph Nader/Ross Perot in 2016. His name is Donald Trump.

  14. Re:Giving it the old "college try" eh? on Larry Lessig Reaches Funding Goal and Is Running For President · · Score: 0

    He is the only candidate who can speak in front of cameras and microphones without a teleprompter

    In a debate, Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden would eat Donald Trump's lunch.

    There are no teleprompters on a presidential debate. Also, it won't be just a bunch of Fox News goofballs like the GOP debate.

    If Donald Trump were to get the GOP nomination, he would not carry a single state in the general election. Not one. People get a kick out of someone who they think is making the libruls mad, when in fact, he's just making them laugh.

  15. Re:Unversal search on Apple TV To Be Revamped · · Score: 1

    but there is a genuine benefit offsetting the tradeoffs of the Apple ecosystem

    As you say, it's a tradeoff. And it's one I'm just not willing to make.

  16. Re:That's nice on Google Donates €1 Million To Help Refugees In Need · · Score: 1

    The cruel joke about that, is that if the Crusades had succeeded, the Muslim folks there would have eventually had a liberal, tolerant government . . . instead of the feudal tribal oligarchy mess that they now have.

    They did, until Europe (and then the US) started engaging in colonialism and exploitation.

    Hell, Iran was the most liberal, pro-Western country in the Middle East until the CIA installed the Shah.

  17. Re:monogomous relationships on In New Study, HIV Prevention Pill Truvada Is 100% Effective · · Score: 1

    capitalism has agreement between parties for a transaction

    Not the way it's done these days. No sir.

  18. Re:That's nice on Google Donates €1 Million To Help Refugees In Need · · Score: 1

    This succinctly shows why you are posting as an Anonymous Coward. Take a quick google over the Moors in Spain or over the Muslim siege of Vienna.

    While you're at it, you might want to do a quick search for "The Crusades".

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

  19. Re:Unversal search on Apple TV To Be Revamped · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Good for you, Jack.

    But that doesn't make you smarter, better-off or superior to anyone who does.

    I never said I was smarter, better-off or superior to anyone who does.

    But I do happen to be smarter, better-off and superior to you.

  20. Re:I live here. on Alaska: The Only US State Where Everyone Gets Free Money · · Score: 1

    Why? Because it's all about integration with the Apple eco-system.

    As Abraham Lincoln said, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need".

    Or in the vernacular, "If you need to pull the biggest load, hitch up the strongest horses".

  21. Re:Unversal search on Apple TV To Be Revamped · · Score: 1

    Why? Because it's all about integration with the Apple eco-system.

    As a matter of principle, I do my best to avoid any products that are said to be part of some corporate "ecosystem".

  22. Re:I live here. on Alaska: The Only US State Where Everyone Gets Free Money · · Score: 2

    not that it's an aberration for a state to write you a check just because it has some valuable resources.

    "The State" doesn't have any goddamn valuable resources. The people who live in the state have those resources. It's called "the commons".

    Who owns the air over your head? Who owns the motherfucking light on a sunny day? If the state you live in has oil, on public lands then it belongs to the citizens of that state.

  23. Re: It doesn't matter on The Paris Climate Talks: Negotiating With the Atmosphere · · Score: 1

    And he's right....which you seem to accept since you offered no counter arguments.

    No, he's not right. CO2 emissions aren't down because of the switch to natural gas. They're down because of the recession.

    http://www.smithsonianmag.com/...

  24. Re:Good. on In New Study, HIV Prevention Pill Truvada Is 100% Effective · · Score: 1

    The funny thing is that the stories about a supposed supreme being put me in mind of the song "Big Rock Candy Mountain", because that captures intentionally something fundamental which is in a lot of those other stories. The song is about a hobo's paradise. In that version of paradise, nothing has really changed, except that everything individually is better: the hobo in question doesn't even stop getting bitten by bulldogs, it's just that in paradise they have rubber teeth. I like the song because I think it really captures how people think and dream. But because it focusses on a hobo, it's more obviously and intentionally absurd.

    I never considered the religious implications of that song. Thanks for giving me that, friend.

  25. Re:monogomous relationships on In New Study, HIV Prevention Pill Truvada Is 100% Effective · · Score: 1

    He accused the money changers of thieving, not capitalism

    No difference.