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Entropy always wins. Mountains erode, eggs rot, and social news sites get filled with rubbish. My new year's resolution: no more commenting on things on the internet. Bye bye, ever…

The protesters should adopt this tactic widely: sit on the ground, link arms, and force the hand of the police: "pepper spray me, I dare you". The police are entitled, indeed oblig…

I though cops //theoretically// weren't allowed on campus? lolwut? UC Davis has its own police force.

The main thing you got out of this long article about quantum mechanics was a parenthetical aside in the first paragraph?

Lubos Motl is a smart guy, but he's known for having his own somewhat strongly-held opinions on quantum mechanics. I don't believe his assertion that it's a "crackpot paper", but a…

I don't mind the bit which calls people cunts (and I apologize for the fact that I deleted that particular bit in favour of a pithier bit while you were writing your own comment), …

In theory, college students are adults. These kids, though, don't seem to be acting like it. They think they're playing a game.

And comments like these are the reason that this story should never have been submitted, and hopefully will be removed asap.

That's an interesting example. But if an opportunity exists in the market for somebody to come in undercutting me and selling cotton balls for a mere 500% markup, then I think it's…

It's not a question of whether it's interesting, it's a question of whether it's on-topic. Certain things are off-topic, because they have a tendency to invite bad comments which d…

If you're in a situation where a police officer is entitled to arrest you, but he physically can't arrest you because you're sitting on the ground with your arms linked with somebo…

Indeed it is. That's a tech story, of direct relevance to the core topic here, since it's an important milestone in the internet and entertainment industry. Netflix has never befor…

Very very very very very very very flagged. Seriously, this got 76 upvotes? What do you think this is?

Actually I've never seen one of these. Maybe my friends are less annoying than this woman's?

This might be an interesting subject worthy of a proper treatment. I was somewhat put off by the fact that there were giant tangentially-related pictures between every paragraph, t…

It's a possibility, but probably a lot smaller than your chance of being killed by, say, lightning. Or a bee. I don't know why some people vastly overweight certain low probabiliti…

Seriously, this kind of conspiracy theory "fuck the pigs man" stuff doesn't belong here. Reddit is that-a-way.

That doesn't actually solve anything. Except, perhaps, the fact that it's dinnertime.

Right. But if they're innocent, then the evidence won't incriminate them.

Aw geez folks, are we getting so offended nowadays over a flippant piece of exaggeration? No, not all poor people are pumping out a dozen crack babies. But they do seem to find it …

Or because as civic-minded folks they're happy to help the police to do what they can in order to catch criminals and protect the innocent?

I don't know. Apparently a lot of the people here are master criminals, because they seem to be awfully paranoid about the idea that police detectives can, if sufficiently motivate…

Further, I believe that this strategy would be employed as an argument to not ever giving up the passphrase. You would tell the judge, or whomever, that the phrase is a literal con…

I am totally cool with the FBI lying, coercing and otherwise trying to convince criminals to give up the evidence against themselves, as long as they don't actually break out the w…

Boucher ended up having to unlock the hard drive, because he had previously unlocked the drive for border agents. Had he refused, the court likely would have held that he could not…