Sadly you're probably not going to get a response from the advertroll. He's quick-posted his ad in response to a keyword in the article ("Firefox" probably) and will disappear afterwards. Honestly, I've learned just to ignore the first post/thread in the comments of Slashdot articles now.

A delay! Just what all those whiners... err citizens wanted, right? Well, this will serve one purpose at least - to wait until the opposition's momentum has died down before going to a vote. They learned their lesson from the Occupy movement well: wait until people are sick of hearing about the issue, then move to squash it.

-Morbo

Still somebody's property you're profiting off of. And will do you little good when Ivan The Problem Solver tracks you down and introduces your testicles to high voltage.

You're obviously intentionally misunderstanding his point. Easier to make fun of the "bleeding heart librul" than to confront the issue head on, I suppose. OP isn't excusing crime or criminals. What he's saying is that the low-level low-lifes are the symptom, not the cause. Don't go after the hooker or the drug delivery kid, go after the ruthless pimp and the drug cartel. Sure, it involves actual work, but as anyone who's ever seen a huge drop in spam after a botnet takedown will tell you, doing the work and going after the source will get you FAR better results than trying to shut down a million easy to hit endpoints.

Sagan's retort: [T]he fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

So electricity AND a waterslide on the other end!

Dr. Bob, is that you?

Clearly you must think that the continent of Europe is a mystical fantasy land that doesn't actually exist. The Europeans manage to regularly sell vehicles with fuel economies in the high 40s/low 50s of MPG. No flying cars or mandatory ponies. Oh wait, Europe is a commie pinko dystopia, so the laws of physics must work differently over there.

Also notice how GM, Ford and Chrystler are the ones who recommended 54.5 mpg as opposed to the 56.2 that the administration wanted and the 60 that environmentalists wanted. Oh wait, that must mean that GM, Ford and Chrystler are part of the hated Obama administration! Source of all evil! The truth is out there, man!

I mean, what's Steve Jobs going to do about this? Cancel his contracts with Foxconn? Bwahahaha!

When you move all of your manufacturing to China to save a buck, eventually they'll take what they learned building your shit and build their own. If that means stealing your name, logos, store designs etc., so be it. That design stuff seems to be working for Apple, after all. And Apple can't do anything about it since their business is entirely dependent on China's electronics manufacturing base. What, you mean build factories in America? With all those expensive labor laws and safety standards and environmental regulations and such?

Now this might actually be some good news, after all. With NASA out of the whole "space exploration" game (or at least it will be if the U.S. Congress has anything to say about it) maybe the fantasies about the private sector coming to save us all aren't all libertarian tripe. Looking at pics of the capsule from the article, it looks like they're abandoning the whole over-engineered spaceplane concept and sticking with an Apollo capsule/Soyuz style can filled with electronics. Cheap to build, probably easy to fix and refit for the next flight, and disposable if need be (you wouldn't get it back from Mars, for example). Maybe now that the Shuttle (expensive porkbarrel boondoggle that it was) is out of the picture, NASA can get back to engineering and R&D instead of propping up the same micromanaged bureaucrat-interfered ship for decades on a stretch. Assuming that Congress ever lets them do anything again, ever, of course.

Cut the bullshit. "Solemn oaths" don't make massacring a crowd of unarmed civilians and covering it up afterwards okay. What Manning swore an oath to was his country. Covering up war crimes is not serving your country. Dress it up with all the tradition and macho "my country right or wrong" posturing that you want, it's still a war crime.

Who the hell modded this man Troll? This is 100% correct, this IS the true cost of spending all your money on pointless wars - everything else has to suffer.

Exec A: We just released GrindQuest 3: The Grindening and put in all the stuff required by marketing - microtransactions, always-connected DRM, paid DLC released at the same moment as the game, everything - but nobody's paying for it! What do we tell the shareholders?
Exec B: We could take responsibility and admit that we've made gaming into too much of a dull, expensive hassle.
Exec A: Haha, that line always kills me Bob.
Exec B: Yeah, it does. Just blame it on piracy like we always do.
Exec A: Damn you, filthy pirates! Pass the coke, Bob.