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  1. Re:So a guy working outside ethical guidlines on China's CRISPR Twins Might Have Had Their Brains Inadvertently Enhanced (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure how China works, but I'd be honestly surprised if they weren't arrested by the army. I foresee a clone army of genetically modified soldiers in the future.

  2. Re:check your state laws on Too Many Workers Are Trapped By Non-Competes (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    The way my old boss put it: "I have a lawyer on retainer, it doesn't cost me anything." He was known to *threaten* to enforce a non-compete and cause an ex-employee to lose the chance at a job. The hiring company didn't want to mess with it. Just because it isn't legally enforceable doesn't mean it isn't practicably enforceable.

  3. Re:About the ethics on Emergence of Lab-Grown Meat Poses New Questions for Religious Leaders (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm really curious about the ethical aspects. Ethically I don't believe in animal farming, but I don't have a problem with natural harvesting. I'm not hardcore about it, though. Does it make a difference if the source of the cloned cells was killed? Then all of it's clones would be a byproduct of the dead animal.

  4. I've had an in-person voice conversation with a friend discussing a moderately unknown religious guru. The next day I started seeing ads for their retreat...

  5. Re:Corollary on Why the First Cowboy To Draw Always Gets Shot · · Score: 1

    Have you ever shot an Uzi? LEO friend of mine has one. The iron sights are bad enough that you might as well not aim. Point it towards their feet & let it spray upwards & pray.

  6. Re:My $.02 on Installing Linux On Old Hardware? · · Score: 1

    If he can get DSL running with X, couldn't he then run the browser off another box? Seems like it's be just powerful enough to be a dumb X terminal.

  7. Re:United States Intelligence Drain..... on Russia Develops Spaceship With Nuclear Engine · · Score: 1

    You're preaching to the choir, here. I didn't say I agreed with it. There's a lot of things that go on in the world that I don't agree with. It's just the way it is.

  8. Re:United States Intelligence Drain..... on Russia Develops Spaceship With Nuclear Engine · · Score: 1

    Rocket scientists are expensive, dance teachers are cheap. The classes cost the same. You do the math.

  9. Re:What about the player? on Google To Take On iTunes? · · Score: 1

    Apparently you don't.

  10. Re:An unemployed LAWYER was perhaps.... on Blogger Loses Unemployment Check Because of Ads · · Score: 1

    Actually, they both have paralegals to do the actual work...

  11. Re:Purpose on Slackware 13.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Well duh. it's SLACK!

    Personally I like the way Slackware does init/rc.d files.

  12. Re:Designated Smoking Area? on Dogs To Sniff Out Smokers · · Score: 1

    Yeah! Let's not forget those freakin' coffee breaks, either! Dadgum caffeine addicts!!! Oh, and FOOD, if they can't wait 10 hours to eat, they don't deserve to work!!!!

    Whatever. As long as I have to wade past the crowd at the coffee pot to go outside in the cold rain to take my 5 minute break (once in morning, once at lunch, once in afternoon... you know, breaks I'm legally entitled to... anyway,) once I don't have to smell burned freaking popcorn... every day, and once I don't have to smell that god-awful perfume from down the hall...

    Fuck it, I'm pissed now & I'm taking my break early. You can blame yourself entirely. In fact, I'll take a TEN minute break & smoke TWO!!!

    You know, I'm glad Obama got elected. He's a smoker, maybe we'll get to retain some smoker's rights for a CHANGE!

  13. Re: He's a Fed!!!! on WCG Tournament Director Admits Drugs In E-Sports · · Score: 1

    LOLZ! I have had such a shitty day at work, but picturing you dancing around some guy yelling "He's a Fed!" over & over in a Monty Python "she's a witch" type voice... that has made my day :P

  14. Re:Pshaw on Your Computer and Cell Phone Are Lying To You · · Score: 1

    Obviously you've never been to the south. It's all coke.

    "Get me a coke, willya?"
    "What kind of coke do you want?"
    "Uhh, either orange or Dr. Pepper..."

  15. Just send them this link on Yahoo Offers All-You-Can-Eat Storage and Bandwidth · · Score: 1
  16. Remember Y2K? on Mega-D Botnet Overtakes Storm, Accounts for 32% of Spam · · Score: 1

    A lot of people spent a lot of time & money preventing anything really bad from happening. It mostly worked. You don't hear "those IT guys were great about keeping everything from shutting down." Nope, what you hear is "What about all the doom & gloom? Nothing happened!" Well, of course not. We patched everything *before* it broke.

  17. Well, I'm excited about it. on Netflix To Lift Streaming Limits · · Score: 1

    I hate DVDs. I actually looked at Netflix, but the streaming limits turned me off. I watch all my movies on a laptop, anyway, so that's not an issue for me.

    The Windows only aspect *may* become an issue for me at some point, assuming I ever get the wireless working under Linux .I'm not spending a lot of time on it, though. Pretty much just trying each version of Ubuntu as it's released.

  18. Re:The 11th factor on The Future of Love and Sex - Robots · · Score: 1

    Probably not ex-wife. She'll drag it out as long as she can. It's a free ride! I'm sure he loves her and wants her to better herself, and will hang in hoping for the best. If she's lucky, one night after he's spent hours at the bar trying to drink away the bitterness he'll hit a brick wall face first, killing him instantly. Then she has a few more years of sponging off his life insurance money.

    Ok, maybe my opinion is biased, after seeing that exact thing happen to my best friend of 20+ years.

    Fuck! I'm turning into a misogynist.

  19. Re:Linux uptime. on NYSE Moves to Linux · · Score: 1

    BS! Anyone who rides a motorcycle can tell you black is faster than red!

  20. Re:How about Microsoft address some of this stuff! on Microsoft Windows 7 "Wishlist" Leaked · · Score: 1

    All I know is this: I tried at least 4 times to click on the X in your picture to close my tabs. Bastard!

  21. Re:Serious Deja Vu on FCC Moves To Regulate Cable TV Competition · · Score: 1

    It seems like the FCC has been *useless* to the American consumer over the past 10 years.

    Well, not completely useless. They drove Stern to satellite radio, and got Imus off the air for a few months...

  22. Re:I wanna be sedated? on Self-Tuning Electric Guitar · · Score: 1

    You go to hell! You go to hell and you die!!!

    And besides, the Ramones use 3, count them THREE chords!!! Don't you know anything about punk rock???

    Sorry about that outburst. The Ramones rock!

  23. One word... Segway on Inventor of GMR Bids To Shake Up Storage, Again · · Score: 1

    Soooo, what do you think about THAT?

  24. Re:Unit of production on System Admin's Unit of Production? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but some of us work with MS systems...

  25. Re:they dont have a clue on Blogger Finds Bug in NASA Global Warming Study? · · Score: 1

    According to the data that you've posted, since we've already had 3 named storms this year, we're *less* likely to have a bad season. The really bad seasons started late. I'd suspect the earlier storms drain some of the potential energy.

    Granted, your posted data is incomplete.

    Also granted, I'm an idiot :)