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Comment Re:Crunch all you want... We'll make more! (Score 1) 136

So is he saying that doctors should keep prescribing antibiotics for illness where they are unnecessary, and that prophylactic application of antibiotics in agriculture should continue? That is, the only thing that needs to be fixed is the manufacturing leakage?

The biggest joke is that if we were to reduce prescription, we would reduce leakage by the same factor if not more.

Comment Re:I would rather see 1000 terrorists go free... (Score 2) 562

You know who has trouble with "bad cops?" The people who don't respect authority in the first place.

Maybe you can do a little research (Google) on cops accused of rape.

Or just look at cops sentenced to life imprisonment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Eppolito_and_Stephen_Caracappa

I am still here, still free, and still have my privacy.

No, you do not.

Not being interesting to the authorities is not the same as having your privacy intact.

Comment Re:I would rather see 1000 terrorists go free... (Score 5, Insightful) 562

And I would rather not die.

If you live in the USofA, you are in more danger of being killed by someone in your family than by a terrorist.

But there comes a point where I need to balance that with other things such as seeing my daughter grow up.

The question is whether you believe there are more terrorists in the USofA or more bad cops/contractors/other-people-with-access-to-track-your-daughter.

Once you sign away her privacy she probably won't be getting it back.

And she will still be in more danger from her boyfriend/husband (and ex-boyfriends/husbands) than she is from any terrorist in the USofA.

Comment Completely believable! (Score 5, Funny) 98

Thor is in jail because he's a hacker. But the bad guys are doing bad things and Thor is the only one who can stop them.

So people who want to help Thor stop the bad guys get Thor out of jail.

And a really hot Asian woman falls in love with Thor.

And Thor and the Asian woman race around the world fighting the bad guys. Literally fighting. Thor kicks physical ass. And he has a hot Asian girlfriend.

No "restore from backup" or "patch your servers" or "fix your firewall's DMZ". This is REAL hacking.

Comment Re:Beats using bullets (Score 4, Interesting) 206

It's a step in the right direction.

Now, instead of just posting a graphic of a flag, how about posting some justification? Explain what you are objecting to and why you find it objectionable.

You have the attention of the media.

Unless you're a bunch of teenage script kiddies doing this for the lulz.

Comment Re:The Dangers of the World (Score 5, Informative) 784

From TFA:

The Meitivs say that on Dec. 20, a CPS worker required Alexander to sign a safety plan pledging he would not leave his children unsupervised until the following Monday, when CPS would follow up. At first he refused, saying he needed to talk to a lawyer, his wife said, but changed his mind when he was told his children would be removed if he did not comply.

I think the whole family just learned that.

Comment Re:And in the name of Jihadists... (Score 1) 509

There was a clear chain of command and structure of authority to decide who gets to be a priest and who doesn't, and set rules as to what areas priests may have authority over with procedures for dispute resolution.

Simony was a big problem in the Middle Ages. HRE Henry IV fought against Pope Gregory VII over who would name the bishops. There was still only 2 players who could name priests, which kept it relatively safe.

And there were Cathars and Bogomils who got written off as heresy by the victors. Much closer to us (10-20 years or so), there were some (swiss?) traditionalist priests who got excommunicated for saying the mass in latin.

All that does not stop some random Westboro Church or fake Caliphate from sprouting, but it might keep them from surviving a century or two.

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