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

    Picturing a surgeon flipping a coin.

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

    Check one: __Male __Female __Human

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

    So females are just males with damaged genes....my suspicion is confirmed.

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

    This is going on my resume: "Experience in adopting transgender data modeling to facilitate superior customer service."

  5. Re:Protecting the arts and artists on Birthday Song's Copyright Leads To a Lawsuit For the Ages · · Score: 1

    Corporations have always been made of people you dumb shit. Is that how we rationalize the sociopathic behavior by claiming that corporations are not people?

  6. Re:FIrst Post Maybe? on Woz Compares the Cloud and PRISM To Communist Russia · · Score: 1

    Nothing is decided by race or gender, it is ALL decided by economic status. But I live in America so my views may be skewed.

  7. Re:FIrst Post Maybe? [Nope] on Woz Compares the Cloud and PRISM To Communist Russia · · Score: 2

    My grandmother always told me as a small child that the boss gets all the crap jobs. She has owned a very small business for 40 years.

  8. Re:FIrst Post Maybe? on Woz Compares the Cloud and PRISM To Communist Russia · · Score: 1

    Small companies are small because they are inefficient. I guess this is the corollary of your relation to communism. Large companies are more efficient although it is not a linear scale and they have their own social problems.

  9. Re:FIrst Post Maybe? on Woz Compares the Cloud and PRISM To Communist Russia · · Score: 1

    I would like it if we applied some of our pedantic nature to labeling income taxes for what they really are: labor taxes. I think it really reveals the nature of what the taxes are really for, paying banks for debt interest on the money we allow them to create.

  10. Re:Who watches the watchers? on Snowden's Big Truth: We Are All Less Free · · Score: 1

    At my son's B-day party my mom was getting on some rant about health-care--she is a nurse--and she said" the people have spoken they voted for OBAMA!" She is an Obama mama. Then my "father in law" said "yeah, but Congress won't work with him." Anyway, I got to thinking, the PEOPLE also voted for George Bush, the same ones who elected Obama to office, and the people also voted for Congress! WTF the fuck is wrong with people's logic? I think my mom is nuts by ignoring these bits of fractured logic, but I suspect the problem is spread among the vast majority of the populace. She has a Master's degree by the way. I've seen enough master-idiots to ward me away from pursuing one myself (I work in education).

    Thoughts?

  11. Re:Eric Schultz on Your License Is Your Interface · · Score: 1

    Yes, but the implicit license is no license (copyright law). If you want to freak out the lawyers call it Public Domain and be done with it. Sure way to short-circuit a lawyer's brain.

  12. Re:Is the power saving feature PATENTED ?? on Microsoft Boasts of Tiny Energy Saving With IE · · Score: 1

    I want scientific proof that not starting IE and running Chrome is using more energy.

  13. Re:But its still difficult on One Year After World IPv6 Launch — Are We There Yet? · · Score: 1

    Indeed, at this point it is a matter of clearing away the cob-webs of ignorance and configuring your damn device for a modern networking protocol.

  14. Re:But its still difficult on One Year After World IPv6 Launch — Are We There Yet? · · Score: 1

    Everyone is waiting on everyone else to force them to change to IPv6. I think it could be used a security tool, but none of our "security conscious" idiot admins will admit it because they are really just ignorant of IPv6 and treat as some type of alternate configuration. I've seen way more labor put into disabling IPv6 than anything else. Kind of stupid and frustrating.

  15. Re:lawsuit by proxy? on The Amish Are Getting Fracked · · Score: 1

    I don't know where they get their logic to avoid courts, but the bible does speak out directly against banking which they utilize quite readily. There is always moral or religious justification until you get to cold hard cash. The Amish are not any more moralistic, no matter their community practices, than a corporation. I have lived in a community with them most of my life, I don't have any reverence for them. They are just people, just as a corporation is people. Any altruism they exhibit is derived from an extreme amount of brain washing that starts young and is persisted throughout their life by a lack of integration with society. But they will take your money.

  16. Re:Read the court order here, all 4 pages of it on Verizon Ordered To Provide All Customer Data To NSA · · Score: 1

    Indeed it has been a suck-fest which belies our collective level of competence.

  17. Re:Read the court order here, all 4 pages of it on Verizon Ordered To Provide All Customer Data To NSA · · Score: 1

    All this yack about Bush, did HE really do anything? I remember Chaney as the most powerful vice president to ever hold office in America.

  18. Re:Read the court order here, all 4 pages of it on Verizon Ordered To Provide All Customer Data To NSA · · Score: 1

    Taxes wouldn't have come close to covering wars either way, and yes, the financial data always points to an increase in prosperity when taxes are cut. Make sense? Let citizens have/spend their own money and it gets spent with other citizens. If the government takes your money it is consumed and the pattern of their spending/debt is not altered. Why can't people realize that your tax money is just kind of recycled and is not really a consideration, they can and do 'print" any money that is needed. Taxes are mainly a social engineering tool. I find it funny and quaint when people talk about tax money as though it is some resource that the government needs to pay for things. We left that reality behind some time ago.

  19. Re:Read the court order here, all 4 pages of it on Verizon Ordered To Provide All Customer Data To NSA · · Score: 1

    I see no evidence that "everyone" loves Obama. The country was 50/50 at best and it only takes getting poked in the economic ass a little bit to start hatin' on Obama for people who don't suffer from severe cognitive dissonance. Just wait til "Obama Care" really kicks in.

  20. Re:let me guess on When Smart Developers Generate Crappy Code · · Score: 1

    Dude, relax. Feminism is dead. I can't really detect it in modern women and a lot of the older ones I have talked to say that feminism (as in every woman working) was a mistake. It hit me when I stayed home for a few years with my son while my wife worked. It was freaking great, although I didn't allow myself to get bored (coded full time at home while my son played in the room with me). Most of the feminist crap you hear is in the media, but it doesn't really resonate with the populace except to get people riled up. You can't affront nature very long.

  21. Re:translation on When Smart Developers Generate Crappy Code · · Score: 1

    In my last year of college I just told the people in my group projects to chill, and that I would do all the work. I would send them updates to get comments and then I submitted for an A. This worked great for me because I was never stressed by people not doing anything and I got to turn in quality work. I always gave everyone credit unless they failed to submit comments to me. Very liberating, and the work got done much faster.

  22. Re:Skilled in what exactly? on When Smart Developers Generate Crappy Code · · Score: 1

    What is it with people and documentation? I LOVE documenting. You're done, go get a latte, relax, and write the damn documentation. It's theraputic and helps you find nasty little bugs sometimes. Testing!? That's for users!

  23. Re:Coding Architecture Models on When Smart Developers Generate Crappy Code · · Score: 1

    Just build this shit, and when you need to just convert classes to interfaces with your lovely IDE. It's called refactoring; do you even know what you are doing? Who has time to sit around dreaming up interfaces all day? I think we're lucky to get a DAL/DAO half the time.

  24. Re:re Online Dating is Out! on Marriages Spawned From Online Dating As Satisfying As From Traditional Dating · · Score: 1

    There is a couple in my town who have separate houses. His is supposedly filled with comic books. They have grown children in college. I think the separate house thing would be awesome, that way you are not up each others ass and it can be like dating or something. Nothing wrong with it.

  25. Re: That bad huh? on Marriages Spawned From Online Dating As Satisfying As From Traditional Dating · · Score: 2

    I worked with a guy when I was about 19 who was around 50+. He was ugly as sin but he said women were hounding the hell out of him. He claims it is because at that age when they are single their options are limited and they are desperate to snag a man--looks be damned.