Comment "Ministry of Culture" (Score 5, Funny) 380
Someone needs to tell these idiots that 1984 wasn't meant to be a manual.
Comment Re:The big question is... (Score 1, Funny) 55
You're certainly displaying quite a bit of butt hurt. Do you do that every time your side doesn't win at something?
Comment no bank or bitcoin-emitter can be as public-minded (Score 1) 537
"no bank or bitcoin-emitter can be as public-minded as a government"
Ask the public in a totalitarian state, how public-minded their governments are.
Comment Re:Hangings (Score 1) 1160
Some times people deserve capital punishment. I am not saying in most of the cases that we do it they deserve it, but someone who is an un-remorseful mass murderer should be put to death. The tax payer should not be liable to keep them alive, or let them free to kill again.
Whether some people deserve it or not is irrelevant, given that is not demonstrated as the criterion taken into account for people who are sentenced to death. The criterion taken into account, as demonstrated by statistics, is race and socioeconomic background.
Comment Re:Dead Wrong (Score 1) 1160
That's dead wrong!!!!!!!!!!
fp ftw
Dead wrong for a country to take a moral stance that affects others overseas? Do you mean like the US government having as a condition of funding aid agencies in Africa, that they not educate about the use of condoms in Africa?
Comment Re:Conspiracy! (Score 1) 659
Yes, the American hospital system is insanely expensive. Although I don't think the source of the income for that system is the reason it is so expensive. Rather, US regulation is.
It's also worth noting many of those countries (eg: Canada) refuse to permit a patient access to non-government-approved medicine. No, I'm not saying the hospital won't let you have cocaine to ease the pain, I'm saying expensive cancer drugs are banned because they would increase healthcare costs to US levels:
http://www.fraserinstitute.org/research-news/news/display.aspx?id=18745
Australia has a socialised health care system where everyone earning above $19,404 per annum pays into it. That system provides better outcomes for the whole of the population (not just the rich who can afford adequate cover) at under half the cost of the US per capita.
Comment Re:But there are so many fake accounts. (Score 1) 85
Got two fake accounts, then my own plus access to another three accounts that belong to others. Not been busted.
Comment Re: Your sig (Score 1) 513
The sig is mainly aimed at leftists who frequently call libertarians conservative in spite of the fact that they want to end the drug war, promote equal protection under the law including marriage equality, end interventionary foreign policy, reform immigration, etc. etc.
There's really nothing conservative about libertarians at all, they hate almost everything about the status quo.
What is conservative about Libertarians is their economics. Giving more freedom to capital entrenches the status quo.
Comment Re:Just make assholes illegal! (Score 1) 246
More likely to see the otherwise ordinarily bullied up against the wall first in revolution.
Comment Re:Just make assholes illegal! (Score 1) 246
Comment Re:Depends on... (Score 1) 246
What were you doing, thinking you were going to get a free parking spot in the first place
Comment Blast it out of the sky (Score 1) 450
Problem solved.
Submission + - Islamic hacker group resumes attacks on banks (infoworld.com)
tsamsoniw writes: "PNC, Bank of America, SunTrust, and other major financial institutions have experienced a wave of DDoS attacks and site outages over the past couple of days, and Islamic extremist hacker group Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters is claiming responsibility. The group, which launched similar attacks earlier this year, reiterated its demands: that a controversial YouTube video mocking the prophet Mohammed "be eliminated from the Internet.""
Submission + - Atheist blogger sentenced to 3 years of prison for insulting Islam (alarabiya.net)
An anonymous reader writes: Egyptian blogger Alber Saber, maintainer of the Egyptian Atheists Facebook page, has been
sentenced to three years in prison under Egypt's blasphemy law for posting the trailer for the anti-Muslim film Innocence of Muslims. This film was widely blamed for al-Qaeda's coordinated attacks on US embassies on September 11 of this year, which were meant to pressure the US for the release of Omar Abdel-Rahman, who is imprisoned in the US for his role in the World Trade Center attack of 1993.
sentenced to three years in prison under Egypt's blasphemy law for posting the trailer for the anti-Muslim film Innocence of Muslims. This film was widely blamed for al-Qaeda's coordinated attacks on US embassies on September 11 of this year, which were meant to pressure the US for the release of Omar Abdel-Rahman, who is imprisoned in the US for his role in the World Trade Center attack of 1993.
Comment Re:Republicans hate the UN (Score 1) 297
Im not sure why but its a big thing for them to bash on and hate the UN...
Just one point on which the Republican's are massive hypocrites.
"The Republican's got into power and pulled out of the security council" will no one ever say.
