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• Commented on Transborder Immigrant Tool helps Mexicans cross over safely
  I find it pretty hard to get worked up over illegal immigration. I am pretty sure a non-trivial portion of my ancestry crossed more than couple of borders illegally or when the immigration check was a rubber stamp on Ellis...
• Commented on Father kidnaps daughter's killer
  But I’m human, and prone to hotheadedness, and that’s why we have laws and due process, which while not perfect, are designed to prevent abuses like the one in my hypothetical above. I fail to see how the above is...
• Commented on International Climate Day this Sat needs 22 countries to collect the set
  Eh. Who cares? I bet all of these countries combined don't add up to more than a thimble full of the world's CO2 output. As someone already pointed out, most of these countries are already doing their part by being...
• Commented on Video of laser weapon fired from airplane
  I am not saying I really want to fund this stuff, but it actually could have uses in an upgraded capacity. If from a freaking airplane they could hit a little square like that, this sort of weapon has uses....
• Commented on Thoughts for Polanski apologists, by another woman raped at 13.
  It is pretty hard to have a "show trial" when the trial is over and he is guilty. I think the guy should rot for the normal time you get when you drug and fuck a 13 year old girl...
• Commented on Thoughts for Polanski apologists, by another woman raped at 13.
  if you hope to have a fair justice system you need to ask how it is possible that a judge can relent about a bargain that all the involved parties have agreed to, how it is possible that a justice...
• Commented on Kill Al-Qaeda in Three Easy Steps
  I've always been in favor of carpet-bombing the Middle East... with DVD players, PS3s, TGIFridays and The Gaps. After that even neo-cons will thing Shock and Awe is for pussies. You joke, but I would be willing to bet that...
• Commented on Bank of America demands thumbprint from man with no arms
  I am with Coop. I think the real story is drone like idiocy of middle management. I could understand a teller getting stumped (har har) as to what to do. The teller should get a manager because clearly the teller...
• Commented on Britain seeks ban on glass pint-glasses to prevent bar-brawl injuries
  I can't totally disagree with the proposal, mostly because I'm from New York. You fail at being from New York. I don't mean to be an ass, but could we please round up all of the people that want the...
• Commented on Britain seeks ban on glass pint-glasses to prevent bar-brawl injuries
  I really didn't think it could get any more absurd when they started putting restrictions on frigging kitchen utensils... but bloody pint glasses? I am pretty sure the beer INSIDE the pint glass is far more likely to harm you...
• Commented on Downward Facing Dollar
  Starting off by insulting me and calling me a troll... real classy. What can I say, I am a classy guy. You say health care has nothing to do with the value of the dollar then you immediately turn around...
• Commented on Downward Facing Dollar
  Nice troll COWICIDE. I can safely say that haggling around the margins with health care has fuck all to do with the value of US currency. At most, if you really screw the pooch with the health care budget you...
• Commented on Netflix is about to commit a privacy Valdez with its customers' viewing data
  To tell if you are in danger if a someone theoretically finding out what movies you like, do the following. Look around your zip code. Do you see another person of the same age and gender? Fear not, Netflix has...
• Commented on Netflix is about to commit a privacy Valdez with its customers' viewing data
  The article states pretty clearly why this is absurd to fear. They are not releasing birthdays. They are releasing age. With my gender, zip code and age, you would narrow it down to, oh, a few thousand. I mean sure,...
• Commented on Raising money to air an anti-special-interest ad with Lessig and Olbermann
  Public option is not dead. An idea can not die, and the public option lives manifestly (?!) in several places in the world, for example the scandinavian countrys and britain and bla bla bla. I am pretty sure he wasn't...
• Commented on Raising money to air an anti-special-interest ad with Lessig and Olbermann
  For this reason, campaign contributions from anything other than private citizens should be illegal. And even those should be heavily capped to prevent the wealthy from having more influence than the less well off. I don't actually disagree, my head...
• Commented on Student kills burglary suspect with Samurai sword
  The idea that a person who is being robbed needs to act rationally and in accordance to whatever the silly laws and regulations of whatever state/town he is in is silly and absurd. The kid was almost certainly so pumped...
• Commented on Amateur science tools and resources at Make's new Science Room
  This looks like the tools for building a young budding... TERRORIST! Quick! Someone call the DHS! No fly list these bastards!...
• Commented on Surveillance video of insurgents in Afghanistan accidentally blowing themselves up while planting a bomb
  People need a little perspective. You can think that the US beating around Afghanistan is a waste of lives and money but that doesn't make the Taliban the good guys. By absolutely any measure of a government, the Taliban government...
• Commented on If lotto tickets told the truth
  What does Taleb call gambling? "Paying to be delighted by randomness" I think it was? I buy the occasional lotto ticket once on a blue moon. I know fully well that the chances of winning are so absurdly small and...
• Commented on Brutal police violence at Berlin "Freedom not Fear" demonstration
  WTF is wrong with you people? We clearly were not watching the same video. I saw some violent long haired hippie, probably already driven into an insane and violent trance from MARIJUANA inhalation brandishing a DEADLY WEAPON. He could have...
• Commented on Space Shuttle scheduled to land near LA this evening, big sonic boom expected
  With every launch/landing that passes into history, and very likely last-ever flight of a vehicle with wings into space, I get a bit more scratchy about emptying out my meagre savings and taking a trip to the US to watch...
• Commented on Vegemite's stupid and clueless linking policy
  I see two possabilities. 1) It could be stupid over paid lawyer zealotry. I have seen companies lawyers and PR sides actively contradict and get into pissing matches with each other on more than one occasion. The lawyers will make...
• Commented on Daredevil LA tagger "Buket" of YouTube fame gets nearly 4 years in jail.
  Look, the guy is clearly an ass. I do think that he needs a good smack upside the head. That said, sending him to jail for 4 years is a waste of tax payer money. Fine him for the cost...
• Commented on Treatment of intersexed African athlete appalling
  I think that the handling of this has been appalling, but I don't think that there are any clear answers. The simple fact that males and females can't compete directly in most physical sports. Men will crush women. They have...
• Commented on Conservative California legislator gives pornographic account of his multiple affairs (including a lobbyist) into open mic
  To be honest, I don't give two shits who politicians shag. Billy Clinton getting a little under table treatment from whatever is in grabbing distance and has a pulse is annoying because it would be nice to have politicians who...
• Commented on Harvard Crimson runs ad for Holocaust denier
  Bradley Smith, the founder of the organization that placed the ad, is a known Holocaust denier who has been identified for his hiding behind the veil of free speech in America. "Hiding behind the veil of free speech?" Right. America...
• Commented on Boston's amazing Papercut Zine Library needs a home
  I am pretty sad to see the zine library go. I found it here in Cambridge just a couple of weeks before they closed down. I really hope they find a new home within the city....
• Commented on Al Franken talks an anti-healthcare-reform mob down
  It seems to me that whilst there is a fundamental rift between two groups in American society - one that believes that healthcare is a right and one that believes it is a privilege.... Your view of Americans is skewed...
• Commented on Al Franken talks an anti-healthcare-reform mob down
  My biggest concern with frigging with the health care system isn't the normal concerns of the reactionary right winger. I fully recognize that if society has decided that it is going to make a reasonable attempt to save everyones' life...