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  1. Re:Why not? on FBI Admits To Domestic Surveillance Drone Use · · Score: 2

    I imagine the drones being programmed to detect and inventory personal gardens or food production facilities. The government seems awful interested in or paranoid of unknown/un-tracked food production. This aspect of government intervention isn't really noticed by people until you live in agricultural areas where it is not uncommon to get harassed by the USDA--especially if you have acreage.

  2. Re:Why not? on FBI Admits To Domestic Surveillance Drone Use · · Score: 1

    Don't be stupid. It is only a matter of time before they are armed and used to eliminate targets. Go boil a frog dumbass.

  3. Re:Why not? on FBI Admits To Domestic Surveillance Drone Use · · Score: 1

    So now we have people defending the efficiency of deploying drones on the populace? When the barrier was high costs we were assured that it would be used only when it was really needed. Eliminate the cost and.....

  4. Re:Different strokes for different folks on Subversion 1.8 Released But Will You Still Use Git? · · Score: 1

    T-SQL scripts, Websites, documentation in technical fields

  5. Re:Different strokes for different folks on Subversion 1.8 Released But Will You Still Use Git? · · Score: 1

    Unless you have Windows 7 which doesn't support WebDAV. True story. Check out the market prices on 3rd party WebDAV clients now.

  6. Re:Different strokes for different folks on Subversion 1.8 Released But Will You Still Use Git? · · Score: 1

    I heard about a developer recently who was trying to pad two digit IP addresses with zeros (10.200.10.1 -> 010.200.010.001). The admin couldn't figure out WTF was wrong until he went onsite and verified the printer configuration. I remarked that he should probably not be developing software--he has ten years of development experience though.

  7. Re:Different strokes for different folks on Subversion 1.8 Released But Will You Still Use Git? · · Score: 1

    As a lone developer I found Mercurial to very easy to setup and use. It is second nature now after a breif tutorial and I have never used any other VCS.

  8. Re:I cut my teeth on that CPU on PDP-11 Still Working In Nuclear Plants - For 37 More Years · · Score: 1

    Yeah, does anyone know the specs on the modern YUKs?

  9. Re:Wow, just wow. on KWin Maintainer: Fanboys and Trolls Are the Cancer Killing Free Software · · Score: 1

    Had I still been living in my mom's basement I never would have believed that their are IE fan-boys but now I work with some. Boy are these some real assholes--also known as idiots and luddites.

  10. Re:Good on Have We Hit Peak HFT? · · Score: 1

    They apply quantitative algorithms developed against enormous amounts of data that most people do not have access to. This is not a "market" activity.

  11. Re:Good on Have We Hit Peak HFT? · · Score: 1

    I'm truly uncomfortable with how taxes are used to manipulate and manage society and how people are so wuick to employ them for this purpose without acknowledging it.

  12. Re:Good on Have We Hit Peak HFT? · · Score: 1

    I like that. Maybe shares will then be a representation of the value instead of penny fragments. Their investment value is minuscule until you can purchase a certain amount anyway. Imagine, real investment instead of speculation. I think you are on to something.

    https://www.google.com/search?q=bershire+hathaway+share+price&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#client=firefox-a&hs=ovL&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=berkshire+hathaway+share+price&spell=1&sa=X&ei=BZrAUeiwN6XWygHOwIGoAw&ved=0CCsQvwUoAA&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.47883778,d.aWc&fp=af3742879feae6e9&biw=1371&bih=837

  13. Re:Good on Have We Hit Peak HFT? · · Score: 1

    You're obviously a smart guy--as evidenced by your low id number--but I always cringe when sweeping generalizations are made about what will happen given changes to tax code and when people say "Way too much of our economy is tied into the stock market."

    Economies adapt, as they are really just aspects of human desires and the activity people engage to fill those desires based on their tradeoffs or costs. Economies do not rely on any particular market.

  14. Re:Don't Do The Dig ... on Canadian Couple Charged $5k For Finding 400-Year-Old Skeleton · · Score: 1

    It was more like lazy law making. It was easier to wave off the cost onto the person running into the cave than to structure the law as such that it funded any type of loss or archaeological expedition.

  15. Re:They both need to be removed from their positio on Ortiz-Heymann: the Prior Generation · · Score: 1

    According to former IRS agents there was never a good time to work there.

  16. Re: doesn't help people take games seriously eithe on Sexism Still a Problem At E3 · · Score: 1

    I hate you.

  17. Re:doesn't help people take games seriously either on Sexism Still a Problem At E3 · · Score: 1

    For crying out loud, women are not blow up dolls to be paraded around like show animals.

    The women begin paraded around like animals feel otherwise. We have a few faults of nature working here, male animal reproductive drive and economics. Men can't help it (so they are in fact being exploited as well) and the women find the price offered by the (probably female) marketing director equitable (economics).

  18. Re:Treason on Facebook and Microsoft Disclose Government Requests For User Data · · Score: 1

    Stupid terrorists....all they had to do was invest in MacDonalds and Little Debbie.

  19. Re:Treason on Facebook and Microsoft Disclose Government Requests For User Data · · Score: 1

    The same can be said of the Lusitania and Pearl Harbor

  20. Re:Treason on Facebook and Microsoft Disclose Government Requests For User Data · · Score: 1
  21. Re:impossible on Larry Ellison Rejuvenating Hawaii's Sixth-Largest Island (Which He Owns) · · Score: 1

    Again, banker funded sociopathic asshole. At least they have Putin now. http://tomatobubble.com/putin_obama.html

  22. Re:Debit / Credit Cards on Larry Ellison Rejuvenating Hawaii's Sixth-Largest Island (Which He Owns) · · Score: 1

    It's just how bankers think. Take income taxes for example. A tax on your labor which is used to pay banks, administered by a central entity which you pay for as well.

  23. Re:impossible on Larry Ellison Rejuvenating Hawaii's Sixth-Largest Island (Which He Owns) · · Score: 0

    Thanks for bringing this to light mister AC. I've been thinking about the modern welfare state and how it keeps growing. Such an obvious thing dawned on me one day, with a group of people marginalized (on purpose by government) into a low-productivity subsistence role of "welfare receiver," the fact that those people can vote assures that the group will grow larger while eating into the productive portion of society until one day we are all owned by banks (disguised as government) and there is no longer any need to tax our labor in order to enslave us for the grand purpose of.....?? Unification under one world government? Seriously, what is the reason for all of this? Are the "elite" afraid of population overgrowth, and is this their way to gain and maintain some type of control? Look at China, you are strictly limited to how many children you can have.

  24. Re:Gov. Work on Transgendered Folks Encountering Document/Database ID Hassles · · Score: 1

    When it comes to ERP software sold to government the standard practice is to apply narrow requirements (use cases) so you can charge for each and every little custom "feature."

  25. Re:Genetically speaking... on Transgendered Folks Encountering Document/Database ID Hassles · · Score: 1

    That girl has testicles....QUICK cut em off!