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Comment Re:I think (Score 1) 71

Playing madlibs with redacted documents is fun.
"I think that if 'SEAN CONNERY' 'HIT A HOME RUN' then 'ASTRONOMY' because.'RAISIN' 'DANCE' 'FEVER'. Really.

Someone should make an app that turns redacted documents into adlib games. It would get the cellphone generation reading national security documents. Maybe even retain some info.

Comment Re:I'm all for abolishing the IRS (Score 1) 349

Coast guard finds a locally unregistered megayacht floating in international waters without the owner present, claims it as maritime salvage. The owner can claim it by obtaining a deed, 10% sales tax plus salvage fees, berthing fees, security fees, and "keeping johnny and the other dock workers from having a little after work party in it" fees.

Comment Re:Only mostly dead? (Score 5, Funny) 308

So the scale goes:
Mostly dead- Slightly alive.
Pretty dead- Don't expect them at poker night next friday.
Dead dead- Attempted to invade the NSA.
All dead- Go through their pockets and look for loose change.
Extra dead- Now that's just excessive. I mean really, what possessed you to just keep going like that?
Un dead- Well congratulations. You killed it so hard it went far past Dead on the Life-Death scale and looped around to the other side.

Comment Re:It depends (Score 3, Informative) 199

I prefer using a trackball. But the only decent form factor (thumb ball, 3+button and scroll wheel) I can find is the logitech mx570, which has horrible life expectancy for the buttons.
My experiences have mirrored the reviews. 6 month average before the left or middle button stops clicking normally and starts going off randomly. The little springs in the buttons crap out and don't push the button back properly.

Comment Re:Defense? (Score 1) 274

Right...

*bad mobster accent" "No sir officer, nothing illegal here. We're just three guys going for an afternoon drive in our truck.
Oh, the trailer? The one with the 30kw laser assembly and diesel generator to power it? The 30 foot long double wide trailer that weighs 20 tons? Oh, that's my grandma's. We're just delivering it for her. Why, is a tail light out?"

Comment Re:One Word ... (Score 1) 234

Now begins the stall tactics. "Grass roots" opposition on the basis of the project would be a huge waste. Officials who support the projects finding themselves target by cookie cutter *insert politician name here* attack ads on cable.
All so their lobby drones have more time to rewrite the laws and make it illegal again.

Comment Re:Is that really a lot? (Score 2) 280

So you honestly believe that employers who currently treat their workers like disposible slaves wouldn't keep doing the same thing if they could start paying them 1/10th what they currently do?
You have gone completely off the libertarian deep end. Dear god i hope you aren't in a position of educational authority.

Comment Re:Is that really a lot? (Score 4, Insightful) 280

Bullshit. Minimum wage is supposed to keep employers from abusing the desperate by making sure someone working full time or more can afford to survive without working themselves to death.
When people have to work 18 hours a day, 7 days a week just to afford a roof and food they find crime becomes an attractive alternative.

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