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  1. Re:That pay is just for the first few months on Apple Store Employees Soak Up the Atmosphere, But Not Much Cash · · Score: 1

    Being like BMW? You mean driven by assholes?

    (J/K, I know there are some decent BMW drivers out there

  2. Re:That pay is just for the first few months on Apple Store Employees Soak Up the Atmosphere, But Not Much Cash · · Score: 1

    Your definition of enslaved is not only factually incorrect but makes no sense metaphorically either.

    You would be metaphorically enslaved if you could not afford to leave a job, not if you could not afford to stay in it.

  3. Re:Why do YOU think everyone needs a living wage on Apple Store Employees Soak Up the Atmosphere, But Not Much Cash · · Score: 1

    What does "need" have to do with it? If the hiring of the employee offers a feasible value proposition at the lower wage compared to the higher wage, that is reason enough to do it. For example at $4/hr, it might improve profits to have someone load a rivet hopper. At $8/hr you might just make the ($25/hr) riveter do it himself.

    As an additional bonus, the hopper loader might gain enough experience/interest to become a riveter himself instead of sitting at home, collecting food stamps and watching Oprah all day.

  4. Re:Damn! on Blocking Gun Laws With Patents · · Score: 1

    Andrew Jackson could probably be considered a serial killer for that reason. He whacked a lot of people

    Has anybody here seen my old friend Andrew...

  5. Supprised she hasn't heard. on Primary School Girl Told To Stop Photographing and Blogging School Meals · · Score: 1

    School dinners are cool dinners.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_xJHhbYQus

  6. Re:Interesting on Rockstar Creates 'Cheaters Pool' For Game Hackers · · Score: 1

    My Eng Lit teacher said Dickens made that up for effect. I never bothered to check though.

  7. Re:Really? on Search Tracking Purports To Show Effect of Racism On '08 Election · · Score: 1

    Good luck with that.

  8. Re:Counterbalance of vote for race on Search Tracking Purports To Show Effect of Racism On '08 Election · · Score: 1

    Yes indeed. Obama's rise was particularly scary and perplexing. I try to avoid being a conspiracy nut but it certainly makes me rub my chin and go "hmmm"

  9. Re:Counterbalance of vote for race on Search Tracking Purports To Show Effect of Racism On '08 Election · · Score: 1

    Yep. it's a pretty big mess. The whole not-voting-at-once thing gives certain states way too much influence and I don't see that the states themselves should be legally involved in parties picking their candidates in any case.

    But what I was referring to is that there I read that there is some evidence that McCain was trialing badly early in the campaign and only started surging ahead when more open primaries entered the equation (and therefore Democrats were able to influence Republican candidate choice). Arguably McCain was a terrible candidate, possibly the worst possible choice and should never have been fielded. I didn't know anyone who liked him (though I tend Libertarian myself so don't like any of them particularly).

  10. Re:Not Turing. von Neumann. on Honoring Alan Turing, "Father of Computer Science" · · Score: 1

    Yeah, what goobers. Why didn't they just look it up on Wikipedia?

  11. Re:Really? on Search Tracking Purports To Show Effect of Racism On '08 Election · · Score: 0

    Shame they also didn't care that he was carrying a gas can and a box of matches.

  12. Re:Counterbalance of vote for race on Search Tracking Purports To Show Effect of Racism On '08 Election · · Score: 1

    If you look at the effect of the open primaries, it seems quite possible that Democrats chose McCain also.

  13. Re:So Miguel . . . on Mono Abandons Open Source Silverlight · · Score: 1

    How do you intend to De-Windows .NET when it is owned and controlled by Microsoft who have every reason (and prior form of doing so) to stop at nothing to ensure that any other version will never be quite compatible.

    Many of the failures of recent Microsoft technologies are because the truth does finally sink in eventually.

  14. Re:Canada will keep the USPS alive on USPS To Ban International Shipping On Lithium Ion Powered Gadgetry · · Score: 1

    You misunderstand how currencies (most particularly the exchange of) work.

  15. Re:How the money could better have been spent on West Virginia Buys $22K Routers With Stimulus, Puts Them In Small Schools · · Score: 1

    "Arguably" in what sense of the word? Should they also have their gas subsidised to their transportation costs are the same?

    Abd you say "happen" to live. as if it's something that people have no choice on. Whilst there occasionally are circumstances which trap people, in the vast majority of places, location of residence is a choice and millions of people can and do move every year.

  16. Re:For Mozambique ... on Ask Slashdot: How To Feed Africa? · · Score: 2

    What about the gluten intolerant?

  17. Re:One hand, 12 o'clock ... on You're Driving All Wrong, Says NHTSA · · Score: 1

    I think there's a song about that.

  18. Re:One hand, 12 o'clock ... on You're Driving All Wrong, Says NHTSA · · Score: 1

    Yes, it is.

  19. Re:I broadcast about 120 open AP's on Queensland Police to Look For Unsecured WiFi Spots · · Score: 2

    That's a terrible idea. The channels overlap somewhat.

  20. Re:I understand WEP is bad but ... on Queensland Police to Look For Unsecured WiFi Spots · · Score: 1

    Yep. I'm upset with Nintendo about this. Even though the 3DS can do WPA, some of the games still only do WEP so we have an old access point that only gets plugged in when required. Really need to lock it all down sometime.

  21. Re:It's Basic Infrastructure on Queensland Police to Look For Unsecured WiFi Spots · · Score: 1

    I am happy for you that you have the legal budget of those companies.

  22. Re:Imagine that on Scientists Work Towards Naturally Caffeine-Free Coffee · · Score: 1

    Haha, no, that wasn't "brains" they were moaning, it was "beans".

  23. Re:obligatory xkcd link on Scientists Work Towards Naturally Caffeine-Free Coffee · · Score: 1

    You could also have gone with the obligatory Dilbert link. I haven't seen it yet but I know it will be in here.

  24. Re:Jerry Can on UK Plan Would Use CCTV To Stop Uninsured Drivers From Refueling · · Score: 1

    But that would be illegal

    Just like driving without insurance...

  25. Re:What is the point of all this? on UK Plan Would Use CCTV To Stop Uninsured Drivers From Refueling · · Score: 1

    Because catching speeders is easier than checking tax discs.