Comment Giving up the essential for the trivial (Score 5, Insightful) 195

by mykos on Saturday November 23, 2013 @05:01AM (#45499517) Attached to: Project Free TV, YIFY, PrimeWire Blocked In the UK

These companies exist because the public allows it. The public is getting nothing but censorship out of the bargain, giving these companies carte blanche to do whatever they please to the internet. The world is caving to the slightest whims of an industry that we would survive just fine without.

Comment Those who live by the sword... (Score 3, Insightful) 213

by mykos on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @02:42AM (#43911981) Attached to: iPhone 4, iPad 2 Get US Import Ban

I wish karma were a real thing.

Comment His running mate will be Koch Industries (Score 5, Funny) 461

by mykos on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @02:32PM (#40831921) Attached to: Mitt Romney To Announce VP Decision Via Smartphone App

Corporations are people too!

Comment But Romney talks to aliens from Kolob (Score 1) 305

by mykos on Wednesday June 27, 2012 @11:11PM (#40474979) Attached to: Majority of Americans Think Obama Is Better Suited To Handle an Alien Invasion

Surely Romney would be better suited for alien contact, since he already prays to God and Jesus, who are in fact aliens from Kolob as this informative video demonstrates.

Comment Too little, too late (Score 2) 540

by mykos on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @05:53PM (#40301557) Attached to: <em>Diablo 3</em> Banhammer Dropped Just Before RMAH Goes Live

Between the hacks, single player lag, gold and material replication, and lack of content, I've just had it, which is why I got a refund.

Comment Freelance chemistry (Score 1) 701

by mykos on Thursday June 07, 2012 @07:06PM (#40251041) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Teaching Chemistry To Home-Schooled Kids?

I hear there's a lot of money to be made at home as a freelance chemist. Looks like he should be able to pull a good bit of coin.

Comment Re:Bigoted language (Score 1) 640

by mykos on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @05:24PM (#40225401) Attached to: South Korea Surrenders To Creationist Demands On Evolution Textbooks

until you can propose a better alternative then it seems we're stuck with "belief" language.

What about "accept"? Facts do not require belief.

Comment Bigoted language (Score 4, Interesting) 640

by mykos on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @11:01AM (#40219569) Attached to: South Korea Surrenders To Creationist Demands On Evolution Textbooks

Silence is not the answer, says Dayk Jang. He is now organizing a group of experts, including evolutionary scientists and theologians who believe in evolution

We're never going to get anywhere if even an article that supports science uses this kind of bigoted language. Do scientists "believe in" gravity? Do scientists "believe in" relativity?

Comment Concept of "pornography" (Score 1) 544

by mykos on Friday June 01, 2012 @05:30PM (#40186573) Attached to: What Should We Do About Wikipedia's Porn Problem?

Doesn't the very concept of pornography go against the core reasons for Wikipedia's existence?

Comment Re:Or what? (Score 1) 346

by mykos on Thursday May 24, 2012 @05:18PM (#40103975) Attached to: NASA To Future Lunar Explorers: Don't Mess With Our Moon Stuff

Landing stuff takes so much more effort! Gravity is a bitch.

Comment Federalist Papers (Score 4, Informative) 398

by mykos on Wednesday May 23, 2012 @08:20AM (#40085777) Attached to: Legislation In New York To Ban Anonymous Speech Online

Good thing we didn't have laws like this when the Federalist Papers were written.

Comment This dream I had (Score 4, Funny) 542

by mykos on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @01:43AM (#40073467) Attached to: Of currently dead inventors, my favorite is ...

I dreamed that I woke up and it was 1890.

My first thought was "I need to go get a job quick, because people who don't work starve in 1890!"

My second thought was "I need to plot the murder of Thomas Edison!"

When I woke up, I agreed with my subconscious. Does that make me crazy?

Comment Need to come up with a final solution for piracy! (Score 2) 585

by mykos on Monday May 21, 2012 @10:21PM (#40072261) Attached to: BSA Claims Half of PC Users Are Pirates

Clearly, the solution is to incarcerate 60% of the population, or at least monitor all their activities, North Korea style.

Comment Re:Ok, scratch that business plan... (Score 0) 138

by mykos on Monday May 14, 2012 @05:32PM (#39999521) Attached to: LightSquared Files For Bankruptcy

It could also be

1) Come up with profitable idea that threatens business models of crooked, incumbent telecoms
2) Incumbent telecoms pay off people that do the studies and claim that your product will kill people and end life as we know it and kick puppies
3) Be forced into bankruptcy because you don't have that kind of political clout

Comment No purpose? You sure about that? (Score 2) 569

by mykos on Sunday May 06, 2012 @05:50PM (#39910527) Attached to: Some USAF Pilots Refuse To Fly F-22 Raptor

There is no purpose, no mission in Afghanistan or Iraq, unless you believe that al Qaeda is going to have a fleet of aircraft

But there are companies with lucrative military contracts in Iraq, so it has a purpose for someone.

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