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Comment Re:A scientific icon (Score -1) 183

Hmmm... I know who Carl Sagan is, and I know who Alan Alda is, so they definitely aren't "nobodies." You, on the other hand are no doubt known only by the urine-filled mountain dew bottles who watch on as you play WOW in your underpants, and your parents, who probably despise you.

Comment Re:Threatening plurality? (Score -1) 703

3% == Americans who *want* health insurance but are not covered. 86% == Number happy with what they've got (TIME Aug 10)

Whine all you want you little asshole, but gov't-funded healthcare is coming, and you are going to help pay for it, whether you like it or not. There is nothing you are capable of saying or doing that will change that. ^_^

Comment Re:Dogma (Score -1) 289

The correlationisnotcausation tag always appears with controversial topics, such as linux and music theft. I've always taken it as an emotional reaction to some piece of news that threatens the limited worldviews of a large number of slashdot users.

Being obese might or might not damage your brain, but I would rather not have to see you regardless. Please have consideration for your moral and genetic betters when you decide whether to stay home and cry in your basement or venture outside where you might accidentally befoul my line of sight.

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Database Error Costs Social Security Victims $500M 299

Hugh Pickens writes "The Washington Posts reports that the Social Security Administration has agreed to pay more than $500 million in back benefits to more than 80,000 recipients whose benefits were unfairly denied after they were flagged by a federal computer program designed to catch serious criminals. At issue is a 1996 law, which contained language later nicknamed the 'fleeing felon' provision, that said fugitives were ineligible to receive federal benefits. As part of its enforcement, the administration began searching computer databases to weed out people who were collecting benefits and had outstanding warrants. The searches captured dozens of criminals, including some wanted for homicide, but they also ensnared countless elderly and disabled people accused of relatively minor offenses such as shoplifting or writing bad checks and in some cases, the victims simply shared a name and a birth date with an offender." (Read more, below.)

Comment you are a faggot. (Score -1) 782

You are being deliberately obtuse, in the late 1700s all slaves were blacks. Yes there were some free blacks but they were a tiny minority compared to the number of slaves. It is one of the great tragedies of American history that blah blah blah

*yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnn* seriously, I am imagining you right now hunched over the keyboard, and biting your knuckle with a small tear coming out of your eye. stop being such a faggot.

Comment Wrong (Score -1, Troll) 515

No, we're biased because, to date, double-blind studies

No, you're biased because you like free wifi. If some double-blind study came out that did support this DJ's claim, you would be among the first group of slashdotters shouting "OMGZ, CORRELATION IS NOT CAUSATIONZ LOL!!!!11!!`~!" By the way, do you even know what a double-blind study is, or did you see someone else using the term upthread? (That's a rhetorical question, by the way. I'm sure you're furiously googling for something you can paraphrase in a reply. Don't bother, I know you're full of shit.)

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