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Comment: Saudis? Or somebody closer to home.... (Score 1) 128

by cbiltcliffe (#43718139) Attached to: Saudi Arabian Telecom Pitches to Moxie Marlinspike

' I know that already and I have same thoughts like you freedom and respecting privacy, actually Saudi has a big terrorist problem and they are misusing these services for spreading terrorism and contacting and spreading their cause that's why I took this and I seek your help. If you are not interested than maybe you are on indirectly helping those who curb the freedom with their brutal activities.'"

Is this a quote from the Saudi government? Sounds like something Canada's Vic Toews would say. Or maybe somebody from Washington D.C.....

I'm confused.....

Comment: Re:I-Tech Maverick SP Powered Parachute (Score 1) 91

by cbiltcliffe (#43704183) Attached to: Flying Car Crashes In British Columbia

That's not the only thing wrong with the name. Take another look at it.

I-Tech Maverick SP Powered Parachute"

The first flying card I get in will not be named after wild cattle. It might be name after the most loyal of tame creatures or one of the more sedate birds (preferably one that floats too).

The I-Tech Maverick, by any other name, would still crash as hard.

Comment: Re:I figured out the problem (Score 2) 91

by cbiltcliffe (#43704159) Attached to: Flying Car Crashes In British Columbia

Actually, a ton is *not* equal to a tonne. A metric tonne, and an Imperial long ton are pretty close, by pure coincidence, but the long ton is about 1.5% larger. If you're talking short tons, which most Americans call simply, a "ton", then the metric tonne is over 10% bigger.

Then there's the mess with American vs. Imperial gallons. The gallon that the rest of the world uses (or at least, recognizes as a gallon) is over 20% larger than the American gallon. That's one of the reasons why people think American cars are so fuel hungry. It's not that they use more fuel, it's just that the measurement is screwed up, in a uniquely American way. It appears American cars use 20% more fuel than they actually do, simply because the American gallon is smaller than the rest-of-the-world gallon.

Comment: Re:It's a Catholiban terrorist dictatorship (Score 3, Insightful) 390

by cbiltcliffe (#43544413) Attached to: No Porn From Public WiFi Hotspots In the UK Proposed

Sex is not a sin.
Oppression is.

As a Christian, I agree with this 100%.
Many sins have been committed in the name of God, and calling sex a sin is one of them.
I mean, think about it: assuming you believe in God, then you also probably believe people were designed and created by God. In that case, sex was also designed by God, so how could it possibly be a sin?

Comment: Re:Well.. (Score 1) 91

by cbiltcliffe (#43541721) Attached to: Privacy Groups Attack UK ISPs 'Collusion' With Government Snooping

I'm not a US citizen. I don't care about their laws; just the stupid parts that seem to get exported by force to other countries.
I remember something mentioned on /. a year or so back, where some US citizen had something shipped to him from another country; some religious artifact if I remember rightly. It was legal to import into the US, and legal to own in the US, but illegal to export from the country it was sent from. He was charged under a US law that makes it illegal to break the laws of any other country.
Somebody, presumably from the US, quoted the relevant section of law, and I didn't look it up to confirm it, because, as I said, I'm not a US citizen, and I don't care about their stupid laws.
Unfortunately, I can't remember the exact wording, so I can't find it right now, but I'll do some digging and see if I can come up with it.

Comment: Re:Well.. (Score 1) 91

Ah. Well now, that's much more specific. And British. I suppose I am expected to keep up with all the laws of not just my own country (whose laws are so numerous that even my own government cannot provide an exact count), but all the laws of the other 173 countries (give or take a dozen) as well.

From my understanding, there are laws in the US that make it illegal for you to break other countries' laws if you're a US citizen in the US.
Assuming from your "libraries of congress" comment that you are, in fact, American, then yes, you are expected to memorize all those other countries' laws.

Comment: Re:Microsoft Security Essentials... (Score 1) 274

by cbiltcliffe (#43481043) Attached to: Botched Security Update Cripples Thousands of Computers

Everyone keeps saying that MSE is lightweight and doesn't bog down your computer, but it seems that more and more often recently, I've seen it max the CPU for a minute or more, for no apparent reason. This is on many different machines with many different configurations, so it's not a single data point,either.

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