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  • On the post: Former Tunisian Regime Goes Beyond Spying On Internet Traffic… To Rewriting Emails & More

    vancedecker ( profile ), 16 Dec, 2011 @ 10:32pm

    Re: Tunisia? Still exists? WTF?

    Well the problem is that we can't get a lot of these rare earth metals elsewhere in significant enough quantities. Same thing with Oil in the middle east, surrounded by a by a bunch of incoherent nuts wearing drapes and yelling a lot.

    God clearly is quite the huckster, probably laughing it up with his Angel friends all the way to the Gates mansion.

  • On the post: Former Tunisian Regime Goes Beyond Spying On Internet Traffic… To Rewriting Emails & More

    vancedecker ( profile ), 16 Dec, 2011 @ 10:27pm

    This country sounds like the NBC IT Department.

    Perhaps miss International Coordinator needs to get one of her friends 'who knows computers' to run a anti-virus anti-malware sweep before she starts hurling wild accusations against a bunch of people who probably know even less than she apparently does about computer security.

    But, let's just, as an intellectual exercise, take this hysterical article at face value. I think that it's probably just a courtesy, and she's acting like it's the end of the world.

    For instance, say that the government made it illegal to say that anything negative about certain corporations programming choices after a lobbying effort. Now I'm not a lawyer, I can't possibly know all of the nutty laws they've passed and substances they have made illegal to posses.

    Now what if I in the course of an email, I was to offend one of our new corporate overlords by lamenting the fact that "Discovery"/"Learning"/"Science" Channel's programming is racing to the bottom of the human debris pile with their newest 'educational' program Punkin Chunkin.

    http://science.discovery.com/tv/punkin-chunkin/

    Now the software in this case will identify the violation and simply remove it and send me a warning, thus saving me the embarrassment of breaking the law and going to jail. I think it's quite clever and a great way to market a product internationally. Is Techdirt against small business entrepreneurs now?

  • On the post: Making AIDS Drugs Affordable With Prizes, Not Patents

    vancedecker ( profile ), 14 Dec, 2011 @ 11:28pm

    Re: Re: More corporate welfare?

    you're welcome.

    I always thought that as more people became internet savvy that their identification and appreciation of quality workmanship would be commensurate. Instead they go to geek squad to have their computers 'fixed' and still think that mosquitoes are the primary vector for HIV transmission.

    That's why instead of working hard to make things better here in my IT department (...within a large studio starting with the letter 'N' owned by an even larger conglomerate starting with the letter 'g') I'm sitting instead posting on some internet technology news blog.

    Why put in the effort, when the entire department is full of bobble headed fakers who can't tell the difference between buggy but cheap H1B VISA labor made code and something which is professionally developed and elegantly done.

  • On the post: First Grader Investigated For Sexual Harassment For Kicking A Bully In His Private Parts

    vancedecker ( profile ), 08 Dec, 2011 @ 08:50am

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

    As an evolutionary biologist myself, I feel I need to clarify the knees, while close to the shins physically, might seem to be similar in terms of advantageous places for reproductive organs, however they are light years apart in any real or significant manner.

  • On the post: Mythbusters Crew Accidentally Fire Cannonball Through Suburban Neighborhood… Quickly Start Deleting Tweets Of The Evidence

    vancedecker ( profile ), 08 Dec, 2011 @ 06:52am

    Re: Re: The myth they need to test

    Ever watched Ghost Hunters International Special Christmas Episode?

    What Shark?

  • On the post: First Grader Investigated For Sexual Harassment For Kicking A Bully In His Private Parts

    vancedecker ( profile ), 08 Dec, 2011 @ 06:44am

    Re: Re: Re: Re:

    Interesting factoid.

    After consulting my copy of the Shatnerverse, apparently, the director was initially adamant that the alien unmentionables be placed on shins for easier access.

    However, lawyers on the set decided, quite smartly, that they would not be able to sustain a convergent scifi meme defense against Farscape, who were first to place alien no no places on the shins, as they did with the Scarrans.

    So, instead, they moved the position slightly higher, to the knees. Which is completely different course, and a much more realistic area for evolution to place reproduction organs.

  • On the post: First Grader Investigated For Sexual Harassment For Kicking A Bully In His Private Parts

    vancedecker ( profile ), 08 Dec, 2011 @ 06:29am

    Re: Re: Re: Re:

    You know what, I think you're right. I knew it was from one of the Queen's subjugated nations, but totally forgot about Australia.

    An American simply wouldn't have the balls to think up camp on this level.

  • On the post: Making AIDS Drugs Affordable With Prizes, Not Patents

    vancedecker ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2011 @ 05:12pm

    Re: Re: More corporate welfare?

    What other significant vectors are there? Mosquitoes?

    That could be solved by simply being proactive about pools of standing water around the house and yard.

  • On the post: Making AIDS Drugs Affordable With Prizes, Not Patents

    vancedecker ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2011 @ 04:56pm

    Re: Nah.

    Innovators? Please.

    A large majority of these drugs are developed in government funded university research labs, then basically given away for pennies on the dollar to drug companies, who supposedly can 'more efficiently' produce and distribute these drugs. Instead they end up hiking up the price and claiming it's to fund 'research' which has already been done.

    I'm not saying all drugs are developed in this manner, but a substantial portion of HIV drugs have been, so it's bizarre/stupid/ignorant to hear these market forces arguments about drug development.

  • On the post: Making AIDS Drugs Affordable With Prizes, Not Patents

    vancedecker ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2011 @ 04:52pm

    More corporate welfare?

    Why not instead, give prizes to gay people for abstaining from sexual intercourse. I know that if I got money for not having sex, then I would definitely abstain more often, depending on how much money it was.

  • On the post: First Grader Investigated For Sexual Harassment For Kicking A Bully In His Private Parts

    vancedecker ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2011 @ 04:37pm

    Re: Re:

    You just offended Utah.

  • On the post: First Grader Investigated For Sexual Harassment For Kicking A Bully In His Private Parts

    vancedecker ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2011 @ 04:36pm

    Re: Re:

    On Dr. Who there was an alien race whose genitals were located on their shins. I can't remember the name of alien race or episode. It could have been another sci-fi show entirely.

    They had one of the doctors 'companions' who is female kick the alien. I think that's kind of sexist.

  • On the post: Mythbusters Crew Accidentally Fire Cannonball Through Suburban Neighborhood… Quickly Start Deleting Tweets Of The Evidence

    vancedecker ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2011 @ 04:31pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Damage in the name of Entertainment

    If the recording industry provided drugs then you'd probably be forced to purchase a whole bag of pills: yellow pikachu, blue dolphins, red dragons, and 1 capsule.

    Everyone knows that capsules are best, and having to buy a whole bag of sub-standard x (or 'e' for those on the east coast) just seems dishonest.

  • On the post: Mythbusters Crew Accidentally Fire Cannonball Through Suburban Neighborhood… Quickly Start Deleting Tweets Of The Evidence

    vancedecker ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2011 @ 02:41pm

    Re: Looks like someone has been drinking the Rush Kool-Aid

    It used to be that if your kid hit a baseball through a neighbors window, the kids parents were responsible for the damages.

    Now the insurance industry has managed to brainwash a significant percentage of 'men on the street' to believe that such accidents are nobody's fault, forcing homeowners to sue in order to get their damages paid for.

  • On the post: Mythbusters Crew Accidentally Fire Cannonball Through Suburban Neighborhood… Quickly Start Deleting Tweets Of The Evidence

    vancedecker ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2011 @ 02:33pm

    Never been a fan of these two fakes...

    The entire show, nearly every episode, has these 'tests' they set up attempting to prove or disprove some commonly held myth or urban legend.

    More often than not, their shoddy 'science' doesn't prove or disprove anything, other than the desperation middle-American television viewers have in convincing themselves that they are watching something educational.

    This doesn't seem to stop them from announcing in big bold letters, of type you might see in demolition derby or pawn shop, that this or that myth has been 'busted'

    My father always told me, never trust a man with a mustache, and I'm not sure if Goatee's count, but I'm pretty sure they do in the case of these two hucksters.

  • On the post: PayPal Freezes Diaspora's Account

    vancedecker ( profile ), 21 Oct, 2011 @ 08:59am

    Re:

    It's really big in the underworld. My drug dealer won't take anything but...

  • On the post: EU Officially Seizes The Public Domain, Retroactively Extends Copyright

    vancedecker ( profile ), 10 Sep, 2011 @ 06:13pm

    Re: Re: Re: Never heard of publicdomain, but...

    Rly? I never thought of that. Where is the submit menu located?

  • On the post: EU Officially Seizes The Public Domain, Retroactively Extends Copyright

    vancedecker ( profile ), 10 Sep, 2011 @ 05:55pm

    Re: Never heard of publicdomain, but...

    woops! How the hell did that happen?

  • On the post: EU Officially Seizes The Public Domain, Retroactively Extends Copyright

    vancedecker ( profile ), 10 Sep, 2011 @ 05:55pm

    Re: Never heard of publicdomain, but...

    woops! How the hell did that happen?

  • On the post: EU Officially Seizes The Public Domain, Retroactively Extends Copyright

    vancedecker ( profile ), 10 Sep, 2011 @ 05:55pm

    Re: Never heard of publicdomain, but...

    woops! How the hell did that happen?

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