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• On the post: Competitor Steps In To Offer Toxoplasmosis Drug For $749 Less Per Pill Than Martin Shkreli And Turing Pharma

  

  Thrudd ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2015 @ 01:18pm

  Re: Re:

  And at the same time have been reducing staff and closing plants.

• On the post: More Legislators Think Underprivileged Cops Need 'Hate Crime' Law Protections

  

  Thrudd ( profile ), 22 Oct, 2015 @ 08:14pm

  Response to: Anonymous Coward on Oct 22nd, 2015 @ 7:29pm

  If they are so good then why the (censored) have they not done anything about the bad ones?
  
  My own peev with them is the deliberate dehumanizing of people by them and their supporters. How you may ask? Just listen to them speak. Only a few avoid the terms male and female when talking about anyone not a cop. This isn't national geographic doing an essay on chimpanzees or wombats. How is this any different than the crap by both sides during and after each of the world wars to excuse their attocities perpetuated on those others.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Flying Faster Than The Speed Of Sound (Again)

  

  Thrudd ( profile ), 22 Oct, 2015 @ 06:26am

  Now to bring back the Avro Arrow and ditch the F35 boondoggles.

• On the post: Familial DNA Searches May Make You Think Twice About Signing Up With Private Genetic Services

  

  Thrudd ( profile ), 22 Oct, 2015 @ 06:18am

  Yes your honour the match has a certainty of one in a million.
  Would the prosecution please present the other matches then?
  What other matches?
  Well for one the tristate area population is 380 million and I at least did not fail grade school math.
  ....
  Some time latter.
  ....
  Judge Judy finds local prosecutors guilty of all crimes due to overwhelming DNA evidence.

• On the post: Hungarian Camera Woman Filmed Tripping Refugees Plans To Sue Facebook, Refugee She Tripped

  

  Thrudd ( profile ), 21 Oct, 2015 @ 10:05pm

  Re: Re: It seems that those who are most concerned about their honor are those who have none.

  Let's do that to all extents possible.
  That would include existing in the first place.
  Have her erased from every video feed and database.

• On the post: Imbalanced 'Incentives' Hurt Creativity More Than They Help

  

  Thrudd ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2015 @ 07:49pm

  Re: Yep

  There are no Lawyer jokes.
  
  It's all true.

• On the post: Close Only Counts In Horseshoes, Hand Grenades… And (Apparently) Verizon's Fiber Optic Installs

  

  Thrudd ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2015 @ 10:53am

  How Machiavelian of them

  The question these cities need to ask themselves is what does Verizon need from them besides our money that is.
  Does anyone from middle management on up live there.
  Know those and start pulling the same crap on them.
  
  Water and sewer services followed by road access and finally kill off their eelectricity if it comes that far.

• On the post: Awesome Stuff: The Light Non-Switch

  

  Thrudd ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2015 @ 05:50am

  new or just inflared packaging as art?

  So how is this dufferent from the x10 system?
  The remote is in a wood block.
  Does it have a timer function? No.
  Can I overide it? No.
  so it does less for 3x the cost? Yes.
  
  So why would I buy this?

• On the post: Court Tells State Psychology Board It Can't Use Its Powers To Regulate Protected Speech

  

  Thrudd ( profile ), 14 Oct, 2015 @ 04:13am

  The judge should have added some nails to the stick when he smacked down the Kentucky snake.
  
  Dollars to doughnuts that the board will pull the same thing again in the future. Until such time as the members are held personally liable for their actions this will be repeated until a judge with the mind of a honey wagon will rule in their favor.

• On the post: US, Australia & Canada Decide Screw Over Poor Nations Because Big Pharma's Not Happy With TPP

  

  Thrudd ( profile ), 13 Oct, 2015 @ 11:37am

  really now?

  So my question is, when are they restarting the Nuremberg trials?
  
  I hear say that Russia will be bidding on the prisons.

• On the post: US, Australia & Canada Decide Screw Over Poor Nations Because Big Pharma's Not Happy With TPP

  

  Thrudd ( profile ), 13 Oct, 2015 @ 11:37am

  really now?

  So my question is, when are they restarting the Nuremberg trials?
  
  I hear say that Russia will be bidding on the prisons.

• On the post: US, Australia & Canada Decide Screw Over Poor Nations Because Big Pharma's Not Happy With TPP

  

  Thrudd ( profile ), 13 Oct, 2015 @ 11:37am

  really now?

  So my question is, when are they restarting the Nuremberg trials?
  
  I hear say that Russia will be bidding on the prisons.

• On the post: Wikileaks Releases Final Intellectual Property Chapter Of TPP Before Official Release

  

  Thrudd ( profile ), 10 Oct, 2015 @ 08:49am

  It's all fine since dey didna take ur gunz.
  
  News update - all males and females are considered armed and dangerous and shall be treated as such by laws enforcers.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Potato, Po-tah-to… Azodicarbonamide

  

  Thrudd ( profile ), 09 Oct, 2015 @ 05:21pm

  Response to: Anonymous Coward on Oct 9th, 2015 @ 5:10pm

  Only if you started with all natural ingredients and even then there had better not be anything like softeners or accelerants either.

• On the post: Once More: The TPP Agreement Is Not A Free Trade Agreement, It's A Protectionist Anti-Free Trade Agreement

  

  Thrudd ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2015 @ 03:38pm

  The Washington post

  Wasn't that at one time a tree stump that people tied their asses too?

• On the post: No, Making Fun Of Donald Trump's Stupid Red Hat Isn't Trademark Infringement

  

  Thrudd ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2015 @ 11:08am

  so what else buries itself in the ground

  Please do not disparrage the noble peanut which is a useful plant in all its forms and applications by comparing it with the modern press media.

• On the post: As Comcast Broadband Usage Caps Expand, Company Still Refuses To Admit They Even Have Caps

  

  Thrudd ( profile ), 01 Oct, 2015 @ 10:32am

  Response to: Baron von Robber on Oct 1st, 2015 @ 10:15am

  Not dead parrots since it actually is a parrot.
  More like the shop that sold a fish but it was actually a gold painted puppy with a snorkel and fins.

• On the post: Canada Wants To Cut Price Of 'World's Most Expensive Drug'; US Manufacturer Sues To Stop It

  

  Thrudd ( profile ), 30 Sep, 2015 @ 11:30am

  Response to: Anonymous Coward on Sep 30th, 2015 @ 10:01am

  Dumbass (tm)
  
  We do but somehow the big US companies manage to buy them out, strip them clean and then close them down.

• On the post: The Increasing Attacks On The Most Important Law On The Internet

  

  Thrudd ( profile ), 30 Sep, 2015 @ 10:59am

  Alrighty then.
  
  So who will start the process of issuing anonymous takedown notices and make these people be forgotten from the free and open Internet they hate so much?

• On the post: The Increasing Attacks On The Most Important Law On The Internet

  

  Thrudd ( profile ), 30 Sep, 2015 @ 10:59am

  Alrighty then.
  
  So who will start the process of issuing anonymous takedown notices and make these people be forgotten from the free and open Internet they hate so much?

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