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  1. Re:Bandwidth, People on Verizon To Throttle High-Bandwidth Users · · Score: 1

    But they would only be saturating the pipe for 1 hour instead of 2...

  2. Re:Sorry, no "dirty tricks" campaign here... on Wikileaks Founder Arrested In London · · Score: 1

    Well, not all laws... Like murder laws, I like those, and would rather they not expire...

  3. Re:Skynet on Iron Man Is Another Step Closer To a Reality · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe I'm just missing something, but isn't 'Ironman - man = Iron' ?

  4. Re:Should be good for the economy on 2010 Election Results Are In · · Score: 5, Informative

    Boehner has been quoted that he is more than willing to work with President Obama, as long as what they're working on is what he and the Republicans want

  5. Re:I would've been first but... on DOS Emulator In and Out of App Store · · Score: 1

    Ignore

  6. Re:How long will this last? on Pirate Parties Plan To Shoot Site Into Orbit · · Score: 1

    I don't care how much Britain wants to pretend that SeaLand is under its rule, it isn't. The laws that would have prevented its founding were put into place long after its founding

  7. Re:Worse on 2012 Mayan Calendar 'Doomsday' Date Might Be Wrong · · Score: 1

    Well, it being off by 4000 years is because of a totally different calculation, right? Wasn't there an article before saying that the whole shebang occurs at the end of 13 solar cycles, which people are claiming its only the end of the 12th. Kind of like how we started numbering at year 1, and not 0, they started numbering at solar cycle 1

  8. Re:just plainly wrong on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    Animals are property. Just like if someone stole your dog, and you take them to court, the judge can only award you the value of the dog, and not the dog itself

  9. Re:Why not just bill him? on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    This has all been sorted out above, but I'll explain.

    The man hasn't paid for this service in years. The mayor said that the SOP would have been to save the people, but nothing else. Pets are property, not 'lives'. The firefighters insurance would not cover them for fighting this fire, as it isn't in their jurisdiction. The city can't put a lein on his house or anything to force him to pay the full cost, as the city not only doesnt have the jurisdiction, its in ANOTHER STATE. Any bill that he would have agreed to pay at the time of the fire wouldn't hold up in court, as he had agreed to the terms under duress.

    So there. Everything, EVERYTHING was done as it was supposed to be done. The only dick is the guy himself

  10. Re:well maybe on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    Are you fucking kidding me? I wish all insurance worked that way! Not to mention, the firefighters own health insurance wont cover them if they get hurt fighting that guys fire.

  11. Re:This happened to me once! on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    They did show up, they would have gone in (they are required to) to save a person, and would have fought the fire to the extent to save the person's life

  12. Re:Gambling with your home is a bad bet on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    There isn't an 'opt-out' policy. The city CANNOT make the people out of their jurisdiction pay. This is strictly opt-in

  13. Re:The Better Policy on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    Ok, for once and for all:

    The fire department is owned by the city, who has no jusirdiction outside the city limits, so no lein can be placed. If a firefighter were to be hurt fighting this fire, his firefighter insurance would no cover it, because it would have been considered an unnecessary service. Finally, even if the FD has some sort of "pay now" contract, it would never hold up, as the homeowner would sign it under duress (let alone be able to pay for it)

    This man decided that his stuff and his family are not worth a yearly $75 for fire insurance

  14. Re:Well Duh on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    Would you trust him? If he refused (he didn't forget, thats bullshit) to pay the $75, what makes you think he has however many thousands of dollars to pay for the fire crew?

  15. Re:Overly pedantic on Can We Travel To That Exciting New Exoplanet? · · Score: 1

    I call bullshit. Doc Brown had one hell of a time getting the train up to 88 for the DeLorean to travel from 1885 to 1985

  16. Re:"appear"... "virtually"? on Non-Embryonic Stem Cells Developed From Skin Cells · · Score: 1

    It's a good day for anyone but the pro-abortion crowd. (And yes, I mean pro-abortion vs merely pro-choice, as in the industry profiting by the practice and its allies.)

    Of course pro-choice and pro-abortion are the same thing. Ya know, I just can't seem to hold myself back from committing abortion. I see pregnant women all the time and just hope and pray that they get abortions

  17. UMCP on Levitating Graphene Is Fastest-Spinning Object · · Score: 1

    Its University of Maryland, College Park

    It is the University of Maryland

    UMBC, UMES, and UMUC may share the 'University of Maryland' name, but are in no way related beyond the fact their state owned.

  18. Re:Where to buy? on Femtocells To Replace Parts of the 3G Network · · Score: 1

    I think its more likely that they don't want people taking these overseas to use to make cheap calls to the us

  19. Re:Fucking backwards on FCC Fights To Maintain Indecency Policy · · Score: 1

    The majority didn't vote to ban homosexual marriage; Of those who voted, the majority voted to ban homosexual marriage. Just because something passes or doesnt pass, doesn't mean that it was the will of the majority

  20. Re:Not ready as a gaming platform on Steam Not Coming To Linux · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think its less to do with some ideology about only using free software, but with the license under which ubuntu is packaged, where it can't automatically opt you into closed-source software

  21. Re:The difference between recording and bootleggin on Music Festival Producer Pre-Sues Bootleggers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Nobody said it was legal, the point is that it isn't bootlegging unless the material is sold. People who only recorded cannot be brought up in this court case without selling what they've recorded.

  22. Re:You've got to be shitting me. on Music Festival Producer Pre-Sues Bootleggers · · Score: 1

    The officer can detain and arrest the suspect, but he certainly cannot charge him with resisting arrest if the person is shown to be not guilty of the robbery.

    Its the same as having your house raided and the cops finding drugs, only to find out the raid was done illegally...the drug evidence is null and void because the raid was illegal in the first place

  23. Re: user-replaceable batteries on Microsoft Losing Big To Apple On Campus · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a non-problem then, since the new MBP battery is rated for 1000 full charge-discharge cycles while maintaining >80% of their original charge, whereas the industry standard battery lasts 300 charges. So, you can either buy 2 replacement batteries on your other laptops, or probably never replace your battery on your MBP.

    And yeah, the battery costs more since it last over 3x longer than other batteries...

  24. Re:LINUX rounds numbers fine on Microsoft Losing Big To Apple On Campus · · Score: 1

    Sorta. They give out $229 towards an iPod, and also $100 towards a printer, so you either get free stuff, or see it on ebay. In all, $329 in free stuff plus the 15% student discount

  25. Re:LINUX rounds numbers fine on Microsoft Losing Big To Apple On Campus · · Score: 1

    Thats like saying "My hyundai has built in towing for when it breaks down, whats the equivalent on your Jaguar?"