Dear dumbass, In one scenario, if future evidence is discovered that exonerates a person who was wrongfully convicted, the innocent person can be removed from their sentence. In the other scenario, there's no takesy-backsies. Can the dumbass figure out which scenario is which?

If I can invent a robot that has an asshole, surely some government-funded NASAbot can be invented that has teeth.

I hereby pledge to only install software that "seems to work."

and then it's still open season in the land of the free.

Please accept my sincere my thanks for your service to our country that has protected us from imaginary foreign threats while we're still stuck dealing with domestic threats that refuse to accept losing a civil war. I am envious of your bandwidth.

Surely, the news of a video driver that "works fine if you don't care about performance or are fine with running hardware that's a few generations old" is the awesome secret magic that the masses have been waiting for. And it's free as in beer! As long as you don't care about your mug of beer being poured from 20 mugs of swill. The only thing holding my nana back from ditching windows is lack of an apk-approved HOSTS file for the ooboontooo.

Instead of misusing words like 'homophobia' and 'hypocrisy', how about you actually explain in essay form, what is homophobic, and what is hypocritical? Correct answers must also explain why someone who is so pissed off at this article appearing on slashdot is so engaged in the comment thread.

While I realize that the GOP is adamant in its opposition of funding public education -- despite the long-term ramifications such a policy has toward global competitiveness -- surely, your coloring books depicting Jesus Riding Dinosaurs taught you that when citing primary sources, you should make sure that they support your argument?

Operation-Hilarity-Failed-Yet-It-Succeeded

So let me get this straight, in your world, the chances of "the one candidate who has a chance against Obama" is such a weak candidate that a small number of Democratic voters in Michigan is able to futz with his ability to secure the GOP nomination? Wow. I knew Republicans were shitting bricks, but I didn't realize that they were shitting so many bricks that they could build a Romney-sized mansion out of them, complete with a Romney car-elevator.

Somehow you've confused Santorum's homophobia -- homophobia that as a Senator, he sought to have inscribed into the letter of the law of the United States; homophobia that as a Presidential candidate, he sought to have executed by the powers of the office -- with a successful, embarrassing-to-said-homophobe re-definition of his surname.

I don't understand your outrage. You should praise the beauty that is the living language we call English.

The second part of your point (respectfully bolded for your genius):

Contradicts the first part of the point that you thought you were making:

Given the above,

Regardless of your clear genius, the political direction of the US Congress, Presidency (and judiciary that they put into power) directs the crafting and execution of legislation that applies to geeks. If your head wasn't preoccupied with spelunking the deeper regions of your colon, you'd be aware of such geek-centric topics as net neutrality, copyright, and piracy, and how US policy is deeply intertwined with global policy.

That is, people who view Mormanism as an anti-Christian cult, and thus, distrust Romney. Romney's pledge to "Say whatever it takes to agree with the crowd I am currently speaking in front of" has only fueled this distrust.

That is to say...

...is an idiotic belief* not grounded in any sense of history or reality.

* In other words, 'the belief of an idiot'.

To my dearest Thomas,
The results of elections affect the entire world. Please instruct your ignorance to go fuck itself, and please take time out of your day to send Mr. Frothy-Mix a letter asking him how he thinks people without insurance deal with the hospitalization of a 3-year-old.

Yours,

yours.

FTFA:

The farthest point on Earth from me is in the middle of the fucking ocean, and I don't feel the need to exclaim to my wife "Honey! I've discovered the best place on Earth where we can fuck like animals while I teach you the superiority of a properly-configured HOSTS file vs. antimalware software!"

It's so expensive!

You are only visible to people when they need you. If you're not available when they need you, they assume that you're always unavailable. You think people are thinking about YOU when they're asleep at 2AM? And when they -are- in distress at 2AM and you answer a call, you think the pressing thought in their mind is that you were there, and not the problem they're experiencing that's freaking them the fuck out at 2AfuckingM? Why would they be impressed that you're doing the job that you're being paid to do -- afterall, if they're calling you at 2AM, they're in the middle of doing their own job; you want special kudos? People are self-centered, and Information Technology is thankless; it's not going to change, and you'll be happier if you just accept it, even if it's not fair.