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Comment Re:Lots of weird crap coming out of Congress latel (Score 2, Insightful) 517

No.. The EPA would propose a regulation and during the required comment period, people could examine the science and the data used and attempt to reproduce it. If they find fault during the regulation process (the EPA cannot just declare regulation, it has to propose it, wait for a comment period, address any concerns brought up, comment, then vote to pass it). But anyone can reproduce the science if it is sound. You will have people in favor of the regulation reproducing it, you will have universities doing the same. if someone cannot reproduce it and others can, you will only have people looking like dumbasses and nothing more.

Comment Re:Or maybe it was aliens (Score 1) 128

You do not know if he was even captured at all. Let alone speculating about big foot, drug cartels, the NSA, or Chinese military. Its just wishful thinking and hoping that he is still alive and alright at this point. For all we know, he could have ran off with some chick that wasn't his wife or interrupted something illegal and is face down in a shallow grave somewhere.

Comment Re: Doxing is asking for trouble. (Score 1) 467

Lol.. you do not need to know someone's identity, you benifit from identifying the person you are talking to as the person you have been talking to.

Try holding a conversation with a random stranger walking down the street, pause it then pick it back up with another random stranger right where you left off. And as far as the logical fallacy goes, when it is spread across three different post how do you know the current poster is the one who made the previous posts and really using the fallacy? Well, you do not.

Like i said, its just annoying. That is a reason people don't like conversing with ACs. It may not bother you, but its annoying to others.

Comment Re:Systemd in 4.0-era, for or against? (Score 2) 125

Wow, not only is the story a dupe, so is the lame attenpt to hijack it and.make it about/ whine about systemd.

Now all we need is for aa bunch of dupes pointing this out and we can just take off for a mini vacation before we all fork the kernel and role our own and try to hijack every other linux story.

I do not know what to think about systemd other than it seens to work but i do know i'm about sick with the people trying to inject it inti any linux related story. Perhaps someone should just move to BSD or something.

Comment Re: Doxing is asking for trouble. (Score 1) 467

Without being able to distinguish who holds what position means there is no debate, just shouting. But more importantly, it resolves or exposes possible issues like circular reasoning and so on.

Its not impossible to converse with ACs. Sometimes it adds depths of insight to a discussion. It just get annoying at times.

Also, you are no less identified when you create an account verses posting AC. Its trivial to get a junn or apam email address and create an acciunt qith as much or little information as you want to give. You can make it completely fictitious or out yourself completely. Your IP is logged with the comment either way and can be used by LEOs or the NSA just the same. What it does do though is make it more dificult to troll or shill some position though. But on the pluss side, it is also simple to chAnge browsing leveks for comments so you can easily see the downmodded comments. There are a lot of downmodded comments that are otherwise insightful, funny, informative, or just provide context that get downmodded vecause it threatens soneone's worldview or agenda. You would think that alone would be worth it to log in. You can still post anon when needed.

Oh, and sorry about thw downhill quality of my posts. Just has carpal tunnel done and usinf my other hand more is already causing it to goto sleep and shoot pains. Guesss it needs dons too

Comment Re: Doxing is asking for trouble. (Score 1) 467

Lol.. thanks for proving my point. You did not even bother reading what was posted and said stupid shit about just doing what was already said to be annoying.

What part about a conversation or thread is so dificult for you to understand? Slashdot has a discusion system not a tweet post where you just yell something and ignore the responses or whatever.

Comment Re:Doxing is asking for trouble. (Score 1) 467

The problem with ACs is that you do not know if you are responding to the same people and a lot of them more or less just troll. But it is annoying to hell and back when some AC is too lazy to read the start of the thread and wants to rehash everythibf already discussed or you assume it is the same AC who has already taken a position in which the new AC has not.

Comment Re:new argument to undo copyright extension (Score 1) 99

The constitution gjves congres the ability to establish and regulate copyright. But yoy question was basically answered by its own wording. Any right granted can be removed also. That is why the founding documents talk about inalienable rights endowed by a creator- rights that exist purely becaause you exist and inherent within the conciousness of the majority of people.

This is why the GP is wrong too. One of the roles thd federal government was constituted to do was copyrights and pattents. Collective barganing is a bit different though. It is using the interstate commerce clause to impose requirements on employers to recognize unions and collective bargaining which is also exempt from monopoly laws too.

Comment Re:Scylla and Charbdis (Score 2) 99

Please enlighten us on why they are more ans not les corrupt than congres. I have read their recent decisions and think the GP is correct. SCOTUS is less corrupt than congres in appearance if not practice.

But here is a hibt, wherher you like or dislike a decision or fail to grasp the reasoning does not mean corruption.

Comment Re:Uh ...wat? (Score 1) 467

That's probably true unless you are the subject of the comments, someone who loves and cares for the subject, or a victom of rape who feared similar comments elsewhere and nobody did a damn thing because it was made by immature and weak people until after they or someone else tried to proce they weren't .

To them, its a threat to their life, their safety, their reputation or the same to someone who cares for them. It can be reliving the nightmares they experienced too.

And talking about it, talking about making it public and what happened to the weak and immature people gives pause to other weak and immature people who might think nothing can happen when they think its funny to act the same.

But more interestingly is a lesson to ALL that you may think you are anonymous but you likely already left a trail to your real identity or will eventually. Even if you do not try to piss someone off, you might still be identifyable by people wanting to do you harm.

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