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• Commented on Baby chicks ground up alive: animal rights video goes viral
  Creepy as it is, dropping them in to a grinder like that is probably the most humane way of killing them. They're in little pieces before they can even feel it. And then they're food for the next generation: it's...
• Commented on Routines are easier to remember when combined with complex "silly" motor tasks
  Another one for the check the door to make sure it is locked even though you just locked it ritual. I also must check three pockets for keys, wallet, and phone whenever I leave a room. I suppose it derives...
• Commented on Brit photographer who shot demolition of flyover arrested for terrorism
  Britain got this way because its people relinquished their capacity for violence. When only the state is allowed to protect you, it will protect you, good and hard. And no, the appropriate response to being kidnapped is to use every...
• Commented on Hmm. Maybe that wasn't such a good idea after all.
  Isn't the heel supposed to lose? Are they setting him up for a big fall later?...
• Commented on Response to IEEE paper that characterizes P2P as undesirable and illegal
  Of course, they deny the most useful application of P2P software: to prevent network congestion by spreading popular data far and wide, such as how it is used by Blizzard to distribute updates to World of Warcraft. P2P actually makes...
• Commented on Spherical pocket watch
  Good luck getting that thermal detonator through an airport....
• Commented on Elderly retired boxing champ beats six kinds of crap out of drunken burglar neighbour
  It's a shame they don't have the Second Amendment in Great Britain. Not everyone can be a retired boxing champion. How many times does this happen and the elderly person end up stabbed, beaten, or dead?...
• Commented on New Space Opera 2: sf stories with sweep
  Huh. I got it on Saturday from a Books-a-Million, apparently before the street date. Take that, evil publishing cartels!...
• Commented on Fine art with party hats photoshopping contest
  Rubenesque chicks in party hats? How droll....
• Commented on Hundreds of top British cops defrauded the taxpayer for millions in phony expense racket
  It's also human nature that positions of power and authority attract the very people most likely to abuse it....
• Commented on Giant Jules Verne diver takes to the streets of Nantes, courtesy of the Sultan's Elephant people
  #2 - NASCAR culture is superior. The Robosaurus doesn't require strings....
• Commented on Old moonshiner and son busted for dope smuggling
  Many counties in Georgia are still dry counties. And besides, why buy The Man's alcohol when you can make your own, and sell it without the revenuers skimming their take?...
• Commented on Father, High on PCP, Eats Son's Eyeballs Out
  We live a world where mass murder has been made efficient by applying the principles scientific management and you people whine about learning that a crazy man ate his son's eyes? Welcome to reality. It is horrible. The more you...
• Commented on Greed is an Excuse, Not an Instinct
  Greed and cooperation are both instincts. The instincts themselves are the result of "cooperating" genes, their chances of replication are better functioning in concert than against each other. Sometimes they compel people to work together to exterminate their rivals. You're...
• Commented on Stuff it would be great to have designed
  I stopped caring what he said. I stopped reading when he started talking about the software he could do better....
• Commented on Chunky crapgadget used to conduct the US census (kind of)
  Digital mapping is something the Census Bureau should receive more credit for, not less. They were selling it for several thousand until Bruce Perens bought it and started giving it away. See, they couldn't actually stop him because it was...
• Commented on Chunky crapgadget used to conduct the US census (kind of)
  The truly sad thing is that there have been a plethora of off-the-shelf ruggedized PDAs that would have met the requirements (sans pointless fingerprint reader) for a while now. Those of you who think everything is aping the iPhone really...
• Commented on MBAs: Most Bloody Awful, Aussie radio documentary on the problem with biz-school
  Has anyone measured the effectiveness of people who got an MBA after working in their field for a time, and those who got an MBA immediately after college? Whether the degree is valid or not is a different question than...
• Commented on "The most cynical apology I have ever seen"
  They refused my Operation clone. You'd think they'd want to cut out Steve's cancer....
• Commented on Warren Ellis's GI Joe
  It's basically the original cartoon, but with actual violence. Sweet. I hope we get to see a machine gun shoot a blue laser and it actually cut someone's torso in half....
• Commented on UAE royal caught torturing man on video
  It's a monarchy, what do you expect? It's a dictatorship with delusions of grandeur. Every sheikh deserves the same fate as Saddam Hussein....
• Commented on The new Apple ads
  Of the four laptops I've owned, the Macbook Pro has had the most problems. Apple are hypocrites, and their fanboys are the freepers of computerdom....
• Commented on CIA waterboarded individual suspects up to 183 times
  You know what they say about doing the same thing, over and over again, and expecting a different result....
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• Commented on Mob of Britons blocks Google-cam
  The simplest explanation is that they are powerless against their government but do not fear Google. I posit a slightly more complex explanation: the British accept themselves as subordinates in a social hierarchy, and they only become agitated about it...
• Commented on Ant slaves' murderous rebellions
  I am Temnothorax spartacus!...
• Commented on Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: adding much-needed zombies to the Austen classic
  I believe the problem is your defective chromosome, you know, the one shaped like a 'Y'. Don't worry, it's an affliction many of us have....
• Commented on Galactica
  I wish Baltar didn't have to disintegrate Adama....
• Commented on Obama Continues Bush-Era Extremism on Liberties, Secrecy
  Apparently there is an infiltration threat so dire that even Obama agrees that we need to continue the Bush policies. Cylons are among us. I knew it!...
• Commented on Goth clockwork doll performance/dance
  Am I the only one particularly annoyed with how her movements weren't well synchronized with the mechanical sounds? Perhaps I demand too much realism in my sexy robot simulacra....