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  1. No company pays taxes: taxes are part of the overhead which is included in the cost of the product. You pay their taxes.

  2. Re:sounds risky on Senate Votes To Replace Aviation Radar With GPS · · Score: 1

    No, we will struggle to determine why they don't like us, then give them money in the hopes that they will like us in the future.

  3. Re:Satellite vulnerability on Senate Votes To Replace Aviation Radar With GPS · · Score: 1

    Unlike the NCC1701, airplanes have fuses.

  4. Re:Finally Congress gets down to business on Senate Votes To Replace Aviation Radar With GPS · · Score: 1

    Interesting citation re democracy: http://www.lorencollins.net/tytler.html

  5. Re:Scrum master = Project manager!!!!! on Highly-Paid Developers As ScrumMasters? · · Score: 1

    So you are saying that a scrum master is supplementary role like grammar-nazi. Little if any added value.

    Seems that Continuous improvement would dictate the elimination of that role.

  6. Re:Relitivity on Could Betelgeuse Go Boom? · · Score: 1

    Wrong mod: This is FUNNY.

  7. Re:well we're f*****d on NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory Mission Fails · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure I would call climate anything a hard science either.
    The forecasts of Climate scientists may be as accurate as the Weather scientists.
    And they have been studying weather longer.

    Plus they are funded better when the cause is popular.

  8. Re:Coming to a disaster near you. on Seagate Hard Drive Fiasco Grows · · Score: 1

    Samsung had and has a design center in the US manufacturing in Korea. WD had and has design in the US and pilot production in the US, manufacturing in Asia. As does Seagate.

    But then, I only said the US companies as in Seagate, WD, Maxtor... switching to class 10 cleanrooms. In fact WD's San Jose facility completed a "state of the art class 10 cleanroom in their (at that time) new building In south San Jose (1996).

  9. Re:Coming to a disaster near you. on Seagate Hard Drive Fiasco Grows · · Score: 1

    In '95 Samsung had the same assembler who put the media into the disk stack also placing the foilcal on the completed HDA, without a change of gloves. They also thought a cleanroom was cool curtains in a warehouse. The US manufacturers at the same time were building class 10 cleanrooms.

    You have simply been lucky.

  10. Re:I'm only going to say on Discuss the US Presidential Election · · Score: 1

    Can't agree with that.

    "The purpose of a system is what it does."
    Therefore the purpose of government in the US is to take money from the working masses for the support of government.

    What does the government do for us? Our infrastructure crumbles. We shore up failed businesses to the tune of $700 billion...

    Oh yea, and kill people in countries that did not attack us.

  11. Re:I'm only going to say on Discuss the US Presidential Election · · Score: 1

    Yea, the government did a great job of maintaining the infrastructure. Oh, but even with all of those taxes the bridges collapse. And the highways decay.

    As for security from terrorists, sorry but shit happens. To be safe from that you could be placed in a concrete vault, underground. But then an asteroid would still be able to get you.

    No thanks, I will take my chances. I will not give up my freedom for security.

  12. Re:Obama on Discuss the US Presidential Election · · Score: 1

    You're contraction of you are.
    Your, possessive.
    One can not have a "going", nor can you have an ignorant.
    Yet as evidenced by your comment one can be ignorant.

    Republicrat or Demican, two sides to the same coin.

  13. Re:I'm only going to say on Discuss the US Presidential Election · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Would it be so bad if the government were able to do nothing?

  14. Re:God, enough of this on Judge Munley is So Out of My Top 8 · · Score: 1

    "only if you get caught."

    Which is the name of the game.
    We see it in nearly every aspect of life in the US.
    Professional sports, Traffic regulations...

    Pointing it out does not indicate agreement.

  15. Re:And finally... on Global Warming Stopped By Adding Lime To Sea · · Score: 2, Funny

    Add a bunch of virgins and we have

    Cherry Limeade.

  16. Midnight At The Well Of Souls on Sci-Fi Books For Pre-Teens? · · Score: 1

    Jack L. Chalker
    Fun story lots of action. Sort of a Sci-Fantasy.
    Plus a bunch of sequels.

  17. Spaceship Under The Apple Tree. on Sci-Fi Books For Pre-Teens? · · Score: 1

    Thank you for reminding me of that. I had that read to me as a child then read it over and over myself.

    That made me smile on an otherwise bleak day.

    Great starter story.

  18. Re:Where there's a will.. on G8 Summit Aims To Kill International Piracy · · Score: 1

    I thought that there was a robot...

    "Danger, Danger Will..."

  19. Re:Dirty Words on Claimed Proof of Riemann Hypothesis · · Score: 1

    Maybe (.)(.)

    or even (o)(o)

  20. Re:I do all my breathing in the first 2 hours .... on Multitasking Considered Detrimental · · Score: 1

    Now that, is funny.

    and I am out of mod points :(

  21. Re:I can just imagine... on DOJ To Oversee Windows 7 Development · · Score: 1

    I always liked "Biff" and "Zot" as Batman style onomatopoeia.

  22. Re:What kind of plane is it? on First Image of Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo · · Score: 1

    Have we got clearance Clarence?
    What's our vector Victor

  23. Re:in other news on Road Rage Linked To Automobile Bumper Stickers · · Score: 1

    Cool. AC off 30+mpg here I come.

  24. Re:in other news on Road Rage Linked To Automobile Bumper Stickers · · Score: 1

    Now that is funny, and I am out of mod points.

  25. Re:in other news on Road Rage Linked To Automobile Bumper Stickers · · Score: 1

    Sadly I have friends that live in your area. They may come to harm due to what sounds like overly aggressive behavior on your part. But maybe I am wrong, maybe you will teach all of those other aggressive drivers how to drive. I'll keep my eye on the Seattle stats.