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Comment Re:Offensive (Score 1) 1251

> Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's...ass

Wow, so the Bible actually does prohibit homosexuality. I had no idea that it really did. I just thought the typical CONservative liars were just making-up crap again like they always do. They lie constantly and hate people that tell the truth. That's why they hate science and things like NASA.

My neighbor's wife is also my neighbor, and she has a pretty, shapely, and covetable ass at that.

Comment Re:Offensive (Score 1) 1251

It can have a forcing effect on things other than direct belief when it becomes part of the civil or governing code

You are many centuries too late. The 10 commandments and other religious moral codes are already seen as a basis for a lot of common law. Trying to tell yourself otherwise is ignorance. (Now that you've read this it's willful ignorance or self deception.. )

What are they teaching in public schools these days.. Shesh..

Start here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayflower_Compact

Read this: http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html

And if you don't mind, the preamble to the constitution of the united states.

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Not seeing anything religiously oriented in the Preamble there...

Comment Silverlight? No Thanks (Score 3, Informative) 153

Back when I used to be able to stream Netflix (I since changed my account to the 3 DVDs at a time plan instead), I gave Silverlight a try. After Silverlight was installed, my video capture device with WinDVR suddenly stopped working. Suspecting Silverlight was the culprit, I set up the video capture device on a test box, and verified that it worked. Then I installed Silverlight there, and sure enough, no more video capture capability. Removed Silverlight and eradicated all traces of it from the system, and my hardware was once again working properly.

That was when I invoked the hardware owner's right. The ability for any publisher's software to run on hardware that I own is a privilege, not a right. If your product interferes with the rightful and proper operation of my property, then its privilege to exist on my system is revoked permanently.

Do not fuck with my hardware or any other software that I have installed, or you will not be permitted to run on any systems under my control, and word of your dipshittery will be passed on to others, so that they can be made aware that your software is malware.

Comment Re:Pinball (Score 1) 283

Which is a mistake of the poll. Six options refer to actual games, and one option refers to a genre. A potentially interesting poll is completely ruined.

How I would vote depends on WHICH pinball games where there. Faced with Black Knight or F-14 Tomcat the choice between whether to hit up the pinball or the video side is pretty easy.

I am still hoping that some day, there will be a pinball collection for the consoles that includes Lost World from 1977. That is one of the 5 that I remember being regular fixtures at the arcade I hung out at during my preteen and teen years. The others were Gorgar, Black Knight, Flash Gordon, and Eight Ball Deluxe (if that was the pool themed one that ordered passersby to "Quit talking and start chalking!")

Comment Re:Count on Dubai (Score 1) 241

Don't worry, after the oil runs out in a few decades they'll be back to humping camels in tents.

When the oil runs out, the smart ones will follow the example of the Roman Catholic church, set up an Islamic version of Vatican City, and then the oil income they are no longer pulling in can be replaced by offerings from their Muslim followers throughout the Western world. They could pull in hundreds of billions per year that way.

Comment Re: Good (Score 1) 1143

"I can pay $1,000 for a tank of oil... or $200 for a cord of wood"

Did you know that in some areas, wood even grows on trees, so its free.
(well you have to saw it up, and split it, snd store it so it dries...)

But how long does it take to go out yourself saw up that cord of wood, then bring it home? (at which point, there is often a teenager in the house that gets coerced into splitting and storing it). Would you rather spend that time getting the wood, or paying someone else to bring it to you?

Submission + - SEC Proposal Severely Neuters Crowdfunding Projects

Scarletdown writes: A recent proposal by the Securities and Exchange Commission will, if passed, severely limit the effectiveness of any crowdfunded project that is based in the United States of America.

The proposal has six major features, the first three of which appear to be the most harmful to startups and any private backers who are not already among the wealthy uppercrust.

1: Crowdfunding caps an amount an issuer can raise to $1 million in any 12-month period.

2: Crowdfunding caps the amount a person can invest in all crowdfundings over a 12-month period at 10% of annual income or net worth (incomes of $100,000 or more) or the greater of $2,000 or 5% of annual income or net worth (incomes of less than $100,000).

3: Crowdfunding must be done through a registered broker-dealer or registered “funding portal.” Broker-dealers and funding portals may not solicit investments, offer investment advice or compensate employees based on sales. Traditional investment banks have shown little interest in crowdfunding, leading to speculation that crowdfunding will be facilitated by lesser-known financial institutions with little or no retail investment track record.

This proposal, with the $1,000,000 annual cap, would succeed in ensuring that the old 20th Century models of funding would remain in place for the forseeable future.

It seems like this would immediately put a halt to any new and innovative ventures here in the U.S., and drive them to set up shop overseas. It makes no sense to squash growth and development by making it prohibitively expensive to get a foothold.

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