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  1. Re:Really?!? on Orson Scott Card Pleads 'Tolerance' For Ender's Game Movie · · Score: 1

    I agree. I boycott business that are pro gay marriage so I can understand people for it boycotting those against it.

  2. Re:Unless you have a 1st gen iPad ... on iOS 7 Beta 3 Now Available For iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch · · Score: -1, Troll

    Obvious troll - You picked the most obvious issue that people have with Android devices to inspire rants against Android devices.

  3. Re:Silliness on Obamacare Employer Mandate Delayed Until After Congressional Elections · · Score: 2

    Why would you change what you are doing now? The penalty is currently 0.

  4. Re:So, is this delay legal? on Obamacare Employer Mandate Delayed Until After Congressional Elections · · Score: 1

    That is the issue people are having with the new sets of immigration reform.

    We already passed a law and had funding for that border fence they are touting again. I live in Texas and see very few fences.

  5. Re:Oh, look! Just what the economy needs! on Obamacare Employer Mandate Delayed Until After Congressional Elections · · Score: 1

    So your point is that something that works in one state must work in all?

  6. Re:Why not automate the fix? on Debian Says Remove Unofficial Debian-Multimedia.org Repository From Your Sources · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure if they can. The whole reason for that repo is that it contained packages not legal for Debian to distribute in all countries. Doing your fix would imply that Debian endorses and aids this repo.

  7. Yeah - I hate it when those Anonymous Cowards try to karma whore.

  8. Re:Yeah... on 97% of Climate Science Papers Agree Global Warming Is Man-made · · Score: 1

    NOBODY is saying this is going to wipe us out

    It's hard to believe people when they lie. You even capitalized NOBODY.

  9. Re:Yeah... on 97% of Climate Science Papers Agree Global Warming Is Man-made · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think the real debate is what the consequences are from global warming. Most skeptics I know don't doubt that we impact out world. The questions we have is how large an impact that really is and whether the earth can adapt to it (without wiping us out.)

    It doesn't help that the extremest on the global warming side keep giving dire apocalyptic warnings with near timelines that keep turning out false (or not anywhere near as dire as the predictions where told to us.)

  10. Re:Something is wrong on Bill Gates Regains the Position of World's Richest Person · · Score: 1

    Not directed at you, but leaving out inflation kind of defeats his whole point. The way he wrote it made it sound like people made the same as before but have less buying power.

  11. Re:Something is wrong on Bill Gates Regains the Position of World's Richest Person · · Score: 1

    The average worker in the USA in 1970 earned $19.20
    In 2010 the average worker earned $19.70

    The average worker's wage was under 10,000 in 1970.
    http://www.stanford.edu/class/polisci120a/immigration/Median%20Household%20Income.pdf
    http://www.davemanuel.com/median-household-income.php

  12. Re:From TFA on How To Talk Like a CIO · · Score: 1

    They you end up with a lot of people that know just enough to make false conclusions and make your job harder.

  13. Re:Very un-PC on IRS Admits Targeting Conservative Groups During 2012 Election · · Score: 1

    Which rally did you go to?

  14. Your bias is clear. I am starting to think that no liberal will ever see another liberal as extreme

  15. Re:Sounds good. on John McCain Working On Legislation For 'a La Carte' TV Channel Packages · · Score: 1

    I keep hearing that about Jeb, but I really don't think a Bush would ever win a nomination again.

    As a San Antonian, I am hoping for Cruz.

  16. Re:Sounds good. on John McCain Working On Legislation For 'a La Carte' TV Channel Packages · · Score: 1

    Tea Party did not lose. Romney was never a Tea Party candidate.

    Romney was a left leaning moderate (by US standards before you Europeans throw a fit,) who tried to fake being a strong conservative. As a result, he came across insincere to both the left and the right. The Tea Party folks never really trusted him - which was why turn out was lower on the republican side than in '08.

  17. Re:Neat, a new updated Aptosid! on On the Heels of Wheezy, Aptosid Releases 2013-01 · · Score: 1

    Assuming by "normal" debian, you mean stable, that is incorrect. You can install testing and update to sid. That is a much easier path than stable to sid.

  18. Re:Yep, typical on President Obama To Nominate Cable and Wireless Lobbyist To Head FCC · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What do you expect? This is the same party that gave us the DMCA.

  19. Re:Some other relevant stories on Crowdsourcing Failed In Boston Bombing Aftermath · · Score: 2

    You are honestly stating that Glen Beck is a 4chan user/reader?

  20. Re:No-fly list should be a no fly on State Secrets, No-Fly List Showdown Looms · · Score: 1

    No it doesn't, but focusing on the past president without even mentioning the current is a irresponsible.

  21. Re:No-fly list should be a no fly on State Secrets, No-Fly List Showdown Looms · · Score: 2

    Bush tossed the constitution out on it's ear 9/12/01.

    Good thing he's gone and it's all better. It's well past time to hold the "new" regime responsible for its own abuse.

    I know you never said it wasn't Obama's fault, but when you continue to blame Bush for what Obama is doing, it helps create a cover for him.

  22. Re:Please, stop with the hype on State Secrets, No-Fly List Showdown Looms · · Score: 2

    Obama will just demand Congress act and then, when they can't agree om anything, come up with some new executive authority.

  23. Re:sudden outbreak of judicial mental clarity on State Secrets, No-Fly List Showdown Looms · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why did you only mention to pro-life judges?

  24. Re:Here we go again on Ricin Tainted Letter Sent to Senator and Possibly the President · · Score: 1

    Stupidst post ever.
    If an outsider with a gun attacks me, and have a gun to defend me, and he kills me: is that not gun violence?
    Or I kill him: is that not gun violence?

    No more than any other type of self-defense.

    On top of that: how retarded is the idea that having a gun protects you from some attacker? Obviously he will pull his gun first. And then you are standing hands up, and your gun is pointless.

    Not retarded at all. You hear someone breaking in, you have time to draw first. If you are outside and they shoot you without warning, then your comment has merit but there are other situations where having a gun can save you.

  25. Re:Here we go again on Ricin Tainted Letter Sent to Senator and Possibly the President · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The ridiculous meme that says something like: "Chicago has strict gun laws and they have lots of gun violence" completely ignores the fact that many if not all of the guns used in Chicago come from outside the city's jurisdiction. The same goes for NY, Washington DC, Miami, etc.

    Then why don't the cities around them have the same level of gun violence? The problem with these cities - and the entire country if the politicians have their way - is that honest people do not have guns to defend themselves against people that illegally obtain them.

    Your comment is the perfect example of "If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns."