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• On the post: German Government Blocks Ed Snowden From Testifying Before Parliament So As Not To Upset The US

  

  mdpopescu ( profile ), 02 May, 2014 @ 03:53am

  Children?

  Sometimes, when you look at world diplomacy, it looks like a bunch of elementary school kids.

  
  
  When is that not the case?

• On the post: DailyDirt: Judging The Quality of Science

  

  mdpopescu ( profile ), 08 Apr, 2014 @ 09:20pm

  That should be easy...

  If you can get your work published in respectable scientific journals -- that is to say, if you can produce evidence through replicable scientific experiments, then Wikipedia will cover it appropriately.

  
  
  You mean like this?

• On the post: Chilling Effects: Climate Change Deniers Have Scientific Paper Disappeared

  

  mdpopescu ( profile ), 06 Apr, 2014 @ 10:35am

  Re: That is indeed bad...

  Oh, and apparently the paper was retracted because it was just bad:
  
  Frontiers did not ?cave in to threats?; in fact, Frontiers received no threats.

• On the post: Chilling Effects: Climate Change Deniers Have Scientific Paper Disappeared

  

  mdpopescu ( profile ), 04 Apr, 2014 @ 06:27am

  That is indeed bad...

  ... almost as bad as shutting down an entire journal because it published an article doubting global warming, right?
  
  (I sincerely hope that Timmy starts defending IP soon; then I can just ignore him as a 100% idiot.)

• On the post: Australia May Soon Regret Giving Up Its Refusal To Accept Corporate Sovereignty In Trade Agreements

  

  mdpopescu ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2014 @ 02:12pm

  Good

  Good, we might have some sanity as a result.
  
  

  Given that experience of being sued by a company simply as result of introducing new laws to protect the health of its citizens...

  
  
  Wow, seriously? Plain packages protect someone's health? That's a new level of stupidity.

• On the post: Apple Decides That Dead Silence Is The Best Way To Address Major Encryption Flaw On OS X

  

  mdpopescu ( profile ), 25 Feb, 2014 @ 03:01am

  Re: But but but...

  Damn... I swear I hadn't read AC's comment when I wrote this.

• On the post: Apple Decides That Dead Silence Is The Best Way To Address Major Encryption Flaw On OS X

  

  mdpopescu ( profile ), 25 Feb, 2014 @ 02:58am

  But but but...

  Windows has viruses! Apple doesn't! So there!

• On the post: OSHA To Cell Carriers: Maybe Somebody Could Better Equip And Train Cell Climbers So They Stop Dying?

  

  mdpopescu ( profile ), 21 Feb, 2014 @ 03:20am

  Non-problem

  Another non-problem, let's make noise about it. 50 people dead in eight freaking years? Seriously? What's next, the danger of drowning in bathtubs?

• On the post: Economic Benefits Of Trade Agreements – Past, Present And Future – Not At All Clear

  

  mdpopescu ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2014 @ 06:56am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  The whole point of the AC was that "control from London" is the opposite of free trade.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Drinking Healthy Stuff…

  

  mdpopescu ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2014 @ 06:59am

  Scientific evidence

  ...even though there's no scientific evidence to support that specific amount of water for everyone to consume daily.

  
  
  Good. Is there any real evidence?

• On the post: EA Deploys The Comcast Defense: 'It Only Sounds Like A Lot Of Complaints Because We Have So Damn Many Customers'

  

  mdpopescu ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2014 @ 12:05pm

  Stupid?

  If it's stupid but it works, it's not stupid.

• On the post: NY Times 'Uses' Scare 'Quotes' To Highlight How 'They' Don't 'Understand' How Snowden 'Copied' Documents

  

  mdpopescu ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2014 @ 01:03pm

  Re: Re: Re: ZOMG the command line!

  I thought you were supposed to see if he weighs as much as a duck...

• On the post: Innovation And Our Better Future Depend On Preserving Net Neutrality

  

  mdpopescu ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2014 @ 02:49pm

  Moar government!

  Yes, let's give the government even more power to mess with the Internet! What could possibly go wrong?
  
  (The concept of "regulatory capture" appears to be a difficult one for a lot of people.)

• On the post: Google Promises To Point To Competitor's Results To Settle Antitrust Claims In Europe

  

  mdpopescu ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2014 @ 02:47pm

  Clearly?

  "... and that's clearly what European regulators are concerned with".

  
  
  Maybe I'm slow today; please explain to me what's so clear about it. Use small words.

• On the post: Homeland Security Is An Embarassment With The Way It Treats US Citizens At The Border

  

  mdpopescu ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2014 @ 01:46am

  Re: Re: Unbelievable.

  Don't worry, I got it covered.

• On the post: California Cracking Down On Coding Bootcamps For Teaching Coding Without A License

  

  mdpopescu ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2014 @ 01:16am

  Re: Re: About time...

  It doesn't matter. What you're saying is "but I like these guys". Either you like the Nanny State protecting idiots from themselves or you don't.

• On the post: T-Mobile Writes The Best Press Release You'll Ever See From A Phone Company

  

  mdpopescu ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2014 @ 06:09am

  Think of how stupid the average person is, and then this: half of the people is dumber then the average.

  
  
  Ouch. That was painful.

• On the post: Network Solutions Tries To Auto-Enroll Users Into Its $1,850/Year Domain 'Protection Plan'

  

  mdpopescu ( profile ), 28 Jan, 2014 @ 09:51am

  Charge-backs

  If they get hit with a couple thousand charge-backs, won't that be really bad even for a company as big as NS?

• On the post: USPTO: The Term 'Redskins' Is Offensive And Can't Be Trademarked

  

  mdpopescu ( profile ), 15 Jan, 2014 @ 01:58am

  Report button missing

  Where's the report button on articles? I've about had it with Timmy's PC bullshit.

• On the post: ACLU Sues City Of Omaha, 32 Police Officers For Use Of Excessive Force, Warrantless Search And Seizure

  

  mdpopescu ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2014 @ 08:49am

  SO WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO START SHOOTING THEM?

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