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  1. Re:Reserves isn't the only reason... on Oil May Be Finite, But U.S. Production Is Ramping Up · · Score: 1

    Gas prices have doubled. It's killing our economy. We really don't have the luxury of entertaining your zealotry at the moment.

    Someone environmentalists need to grasp is that environmentalism is itself a luxury. In poor countries they don't worry about it because they have bigger problems like how they're going to eat tonight.

    By assaulting the US economy, environmentalists in the US have forced a realignment of resources AWAY from all unnessary spending. That includes nearly everything they care about. Obviously environmentalists will argue that their issues are just as or even more important. But they don't control the money and what they think at that point doesn't matter.

    If the environmental movement is to save itself it had been find a way to do its work without trashing the economy. Because on top of everything else if people come to associate environmental policy with a bad economy then that alone could kill the movement.

    This is survival time here guys. Time to adapt.

    But in the Amazon Rainforest, they sing koombaiya and live in harmony with nature we're just not poor enough... </sarcasm>

  2. Re:Wellllll on Florida School District Begins Fingerprinting Students · · Score: 1

    Let us not forget that for most of human history most human beings were intelligent enough to survive on planet earth,

    Most humans? Technically almost all humans died for all of human history. More specifically, lots of humans died from infant mortality, in child birth, or before "old age"

    it takes a capitalist society though to take that away from them to serve a wage caste society in which they have to sell their labor and try to increase the value of their labor through school to survive

    For most of our economic history, humans have been loosely capitalist along with subsistence farming. Just 100 years ago in my city it was common for everyone inside city limits to have chickens, sheep, etc in their yards. It's not capitalism that changed, it's the new food production system.

  3. Re:totalitarian control on DHS Goes Ahead With 'Pre-Crime' Detection Project · · Score: 1

    I admire one thing about Communists. They appreciated the toxicity of religion and weren't shy about pulling a trigger on the primitives who espouse it. I want my government to kill them and I support legislators who facilitate killing them.

    I'm going to assume you mean followers of violent, destructive religions based on your prior comment of

    Awlaki etc are superstitionists whose supersition is vastly worse than any ideology that has come before.

    But just in case... it doesn't make sense for a government to destroy a religion that aspouses peace, love, generosity, etc unless the government in question wants absolute control.

  4. Re:Wait, "has resisted"? on US Drone Fleet Hit By Computer Virus · · Score: 1

    My bet is the virus is on the clone image for their machines. Too many clone image makers don't do the paranoid clean-room thing.

  5. Re:duh on US Drone Fleet Hit By Computer Virus · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Hell, in Linux a simple rootkit can work just by editing the system commands like ls.

    That is as simple to detect as installing TripWire.

    And keeping your checksum values on non-writable disks (like CDs), and using another computer to regularly scan your computer offline, and maybe throw some known changes in occasionally. Because if tripwire is replaced with a program that just says "yup, checksum's good. no need to worry", then it's no better than a sleeping security guard.

  6. Re:Where's Billy Mays? on Graphene Creates Electricity When Struck By Light · · Score: 2

    With the refreshing power of orange!

  7. Re:Conservative Democrats on Facebook Forming a PAC · · Score: 1

    BTW, do you own any German or Japanese products? If so, how do you feel about supporting the Nazi regime or Japanese empire? They both have long histories of atrocious behavior you know...

    So the topic is political parties, and you choose to strawman with two parties (one a dynasty I suppose) which no longer exist? I suppose your point is that the D and R or the 60s no longer exist either, but that's not true.

  8. Re:Why replace? on Ohio Supreme Court Drawn Into Magnetic Homes Case · · Score: 1

    Not to mention all the aluminum shielding of the outer housing.

  9. Re:Gamma Ray Emission on Does Italian Demo Show Cold Fusion, or Snake Oil? · · Score: 1

    Gamma Ray Emission have been observed during ecat operation.

    This information makes me really ANGRY!

  10. Re:Taught sin? on Phelps Clan Tweets Intent To Picket Jobs Funeral Via iPhone · · Score: 1
    Oh dear Lord. It's the nutters!

    "Furthermore, the Darwin OS is released under an "Open Source" license, which is just another name for Communism. "

    Yeah, communist, like the followers of Christ when they were being persecuted by Rome.

    "chmod 666"

    I have _never_ done a chmod 666. Nor have I ever seen it done. If I don't care if everyone can edit the file, I tend to just 777 it so that it stands out like a sore thumb. If people execute it, that's their own darn fault.
    Darwin, daemon, the apple logo, those are marginally "proof" for someone already convinced, but the "open source" and "chmod 666" are not only stretching, they're outright wrong even with the paranoid Illuminati context. Obviously the "chmod 666" was sent from a knowledgeable geek to "Dr." Paley as a joke, and he ran with it. His belief that communism is inherently atheistic/evil is a function of the era he grew up in.

  11. Re:WTF?? on Does Italian Demo Show Cold Fusion, or Snake Oil? · · Score: 1

    This place went from a news site, to a warez site, then to a Window$ fanboi site , and now it is a nutball krackpot site.

    Hey now! It's just plain krackpot. It's not nutball krackpot until timecube gets its own story.

  12. Re:Its true... on After Six Days of Outages, BofA Claims It Hasn't Been Hacked · · Score: 1

    Eh, screw it. It's only $5.

  13. Re:Didn't Sound Optimistic to Me! on Does Italian Demo Show Cold Fusion, or Snake Oil? · · Score: 1

    I call dibs on the Rossi-device-on-the-internet and Rossi-device-with-an-LCD-digital-clock patents!

  14. Taught sin? on Phelps Clan Tweets Intent To Picket Jobs Funeral Via iPhone · · Score: 1

    Which one, specifically? Please provide context.

  15. Re:Its true... on After Six Days of Outages, BofA Claims It Hasn't Been Hacked · · Score: 1

    Mom! MOM! Cook me a hot pocket and get the sunblock! I'm going. outside.

  16. Re:Homo Neanderthalensis on US Scientists Invited To Russian Yeti Hunt · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't evidence of Neanderthals completely invalidate the claims of Creationism?

    Not if they're Nephilim.

  17. Re:Its true... on After Six Days of Outages, BofA Claims It Hasn't Been Hacked · · Score: 2

    Why pay the 5 bucks when their competition doesn't charge?

    Because you can't log in to the webserver to cancel? Perhaps the denial of service was internal and intentional.

  18. Re:One good thing about NY on Big Brother Calls 'Shotgun' In Illinois · · Score: 1

    It can change in the future, absolutely. But it has never been done so far.

    Just imagine what the US would look like if the Constitutional Convention went like this:
    "[...] But what if the President uses executive authority to improperly execute the laws passed by Congress?"
    "Ah, ef it. It's too damn hot in here to worry about what ifs and may-bes."
    "Agreed. If something comes up, then that's why people have the right to keep and bear arms."
    "But that's not codified anywhere in the Constitution we've drafted today!"
    All: "STFU Madison!"

    A little caution is always warranted when dealing with vipers.

  19. Re:LOL .... on Big Brother Calls 'Shotgun' In Illinois · · Score: 1

    And you're trying to say this is "spun by the lib'rul media"?

    Ahh, I see, everyone who disagrees with you is a drooling red-state moron, since no one intelligent could disagree? How's that religion working out for you?

    How is what you said even related to what I said?

    You implied that he mispronounces liberal; a common slight meant to imply that the recipient is unintelligent.

  20. Re:So don't cover it with tape on Big Brother Calls 'Shotgun' In Illinois · · Score: 1

    If they have a picture of you driving at both check points, then they have proof it was you speeding.

    No. They have only proof that you've been driving at the two check points. For example if you are two people in the car, you might have changed seats just after the first and just before the second check point.

    Aha! Then the larger fine for stopping on the tollway takes effect!

  21. Re:Why not the easy way? on Big Brother Calls 'Shotgun' In Illinois · · Score: 1

    However, the solution to the problem of the camera is simple. Turn the transponder around so that the camera is pointed forward. The only picture that they will get is the view through the front windscreen.

    "I found that the manufacturer has recently filed a patent application for a new transponder that has a camera in it â" a camera pointed inward at the occupants. How long before they make it illegal to cover that camera with tape?" or point in the wrong direction..

  22. Re:I do not understand... on Facebook Forming a PAC · · Score: 1

    Stephen Colbert is trying to show how ridiculous the influence of money in politics is, but he's having a really hard time doing anything more ridiculous than what is already the norm that everyone is used to.

    Maybe he should lead by example instead of hoping to argue by absurdity. When he goes over the top, that becomes the new top that people are used to.

  23. Re:...the dock. on Microsoft Killed the Start Menu Because No One Uses It · · Score: 1

    They do. If you use Active Directory, it's easy to set up a "always type in the username" policy for the login screens. Also, remember ".\" works as "this local machine" if you ever want to log in as a local account (like every time you want to log in as your local administrator account), I had been typing in the full names of machines during login for a year before somebody told me about that trick...

  24. Re:...the dock. on Microsoft Killed the Start Menu Because No One Uses It · · Score: 1

    Agreed. The whole Vista/7 dual-sided start bar is still a pain to navigate, especially without a mouse (and yes, there are more than 3 times I've had to do that without a mouse in the last year).

  25. Re:Babylon 5 quote on Spock Gives Up the Con · · Score: 2

    Dude. Not cool. That's the poster the theater teacher got shot over.
    http://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/10/03/1250249/theater-professors-firefly-poster-declared-threatening