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Comment: Re:Since when is /. a dating site? (Score 1) 220

Choice A, no question.

Seriously, your post is a mess. The choices presented are "Cure cancer" or "$10M". Then somehow the second choice veers off into being an unwashed homeless moron, but then swings back to slap on the giant fucking asterisk of "does not apply to the middle class".

So maybe the hillbilly with the life expectancy of 35 due to unsanitary conditions and drug abuse would chose option B. But I don't see many hillbillies doing targeted investment in the stock market, and fewer doing venture capitalism. I do see a lot of middle/upper-middle class doing the former, and a lot of wealthy people doing the later.

The people in place to actually make the choice already have some assurance of a comfortable lifestyle, including a life expectancy where cancer can be a major concern for themselves, their families and friends. It wouldn't be universal, but plenty of people will take option A.

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EU Court: Programming Languages Not Copyrightable->

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itwbennett writes "The European Court of Justice ruled on Wednesday that the functionality of a computer program and the programming language it is written in cannot be protected by copyright. In its ruling on a a case brought by SAS Institute against World Programming Limited (WPL), the court said that 'the purchaser of a license for a program is entitled, as a rule, to observe, study or test its functioning so as to determine the ideas and principles which underlie that program.'"
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Comment: Re:Anti-Gay? (Score 1) 1069

I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume Autism-spectrum disorder rather than troll, but your supposed insight is bunk. No socially well adjusted person would agree that your example treated people equally. Equality with regards to human rights isn't just a simple mathematical concept; equality and fairness are inexorably linked.

Comment: Re:Anti-Gay? (Score 4, Informative) 1069

Heterosexuals (and maybe 50% of the time bisexuals) can marry a person they romantically love, if that person is able to give consent and does so.

In most of the United States, homosexuals are NOT able to marry a person they romantically love, even if that person is able to give consent as does so.

That anyone can claim that this is not depriving homosexuals of equal rights is astounding.

Comment: Re:There's Your Problem Right There (Score 2) 1108

Google "ring species". A parent species hits a geographic barrier and populations move in a ring around it. Opposite sex members of any two neighboring populations can breed true, until you get to the far side of the ring. The last population at the end of the "clockwise" arc cannot breed (even to produce sterile hybrids) with the last population at the end of the "counterclockwise" arc.

So this it it. We're going to die.

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