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Comment Re:Stone Age diet ? he wants to live all 20 years? (Score 1) 441

that at some point in the past mankind was somehow in sync with their environment, and their diet at that point was perfectly aligned with their nutritional needs.

When was this "perfection" alleged, exactly? The idea behind Paleo and other low-carb diets (Atkins, Mediterranean) is that humans evolved as hunter/gatherer/herders, not consumers of processed carbs/starches.

Comment Re:Old news. (Score 1) 285

What are you talking about? No one forced you to slam your brakes on at the last second.

No one but the state that can send you a ticket for $300. Which, for a wage-slave, could easily be the difference between having a roof over your head or moving into the backseat of your car.

Comment you mean thank right-wing tax cut jihadists... (Score 0) 285

Ordinarily the left-of-centers around here have no trouble making the connection between higher government revenue and greater public safety.

...for starving states and cities of revenue so they look to sin taxes (moving violations, pot busts) to make up the difference. Because 1) civilization costs money and 2) low taxes have high costs.

All they're doing in Chicago is providing themselves the means to fund their Government [1] by punishing law breakers

You mean what "tough on crime" right-of-center wankers have been demanding for decades? You jokers like to whine about big buggmit, but you find yourselves slipping into a brisk goosestep when it comes to all things authoritarian.

Anyhow Chicago, enjoy your statist hell. You deserve it.

Just how divorced from reality are you? Declaring war on public schools and selling off metered parking to a private company (that promptly jacked up rates) is a sign that Chicago is in a socialist hell on what planet???

Comment Re:San Diego (Score 1) 285

Being a self-righteous wanker might give you warm fuzzies, but it does nothing to change the fact that a system that encourages drivers to suddenly stand on their breaks is a shitty system. One that has been proven to cause more rear-end collisions, your self-righteous wankery notwithstanding.

Comment Re:Tailgaters cause rear end crashes (Score 1) 285

Nope, the tailgater is always wrong, without exception

Nope, that's conflating "unable to come to a complete stop if the driver in front stands on his brakes for some BS reason" with tailgating. As someone said upthread, getting all self-righteous at other drivers might give you warm fuzzies, but it doesn't change the fact that shitty traffic engineering is shitty traffic engineering.

Comment Re:Not seeing the issue here (Score 3, Interesting) 209

When you can get the criminals to do the same, I'll agree with you.

When the Feds stop charging people for lying to federal investigators, I'll agree with you. Either both citizens and officials are allowed to be dishonest - outside of being under oath in a court of law - or neither one is.

Comment Re:The battle of extremes. (Score 4, Insightful) 176

I guess even people who are supportive of abortion (but not supportive of late term abortions) will defend late term abortions simply because

Simply because no one gets a dilatation and extraction for shits and giggles.

because they fear that making them illegal will affect conventional abortion

It has been the standard operating procedure ever since Roe v Wade: chip away at abortion without passing an Ireland-style ban. Because shit happens when medical decisions are made by religious fanatics rather than doctors.

Submission + - Well, if it's a war they want...

cpt kangarooski writes: Information has come to light, thanks to the recent Sony hack, in which MPAA and major studios are colluding as to what legal actions are available to them to compel an entity referred to as 'Goliath,' most likely Google, into taking aggressive anti-piracy action on behalf of the entertainment industry. MPAA and member studios Universal, Sony, Fox, Paramount, Warner Bros., and Disney have had lengthy email discussions concerning how to block pirate sites at the ISP level, and how to take action at the state level to work around the failure of SOPA in 2012. Emails also indicate that they are working with Comcast (which owns Universal) on some form of inspection of traffic to find copyright infringements as they happen. More information at The Verge.

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