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  1. Re:Not to make light of a bad situation but... on Universities Hold Transcripts Hostage Over Loans · · Score: 1

    If you're stuck in a dead end job that can't keep up with the interest because the college is holding your degree hostage, I'd call that indentured servitude.

    At least in prison you get free meals.

  2. Re:Good move on Universities Hold Transcripts Hostage Over Loans · · Score: 1

    It's leverage to force them not to blow the loans off completely.

    Basically the same ideas behind letting the carpenter put a mechanic's lien on your house and getting to repo it if you don't pay up.

  3. Re:It's the hypocricy on Leave Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson Alone! · · Score: 1

    I don't know who modded the parent down but you suck at moderating.

  4. Re:It's the hypocricy on Leave Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson Alone! · · Score: 1

    Unless A) you get caught and B) the penalty for getting caught exceeds the benefit you retain.

  5. Re:Lousy kids on Leave Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson Alone! · · Score: 1

    The "He started it" line is often an attempt to whine about others getting away with something you get stuck being punished for.

  6. Re:I guess this means... on Leave Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson Alone! · · Score: 2

    I'm sorry, but lying on your resume and getting away with it is a privilege reserved for the elite.

  7. Re:It's the hypocricy on Leave Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson Alone! · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Acceptance my ass.

    Getting away with things that one of lower social status would get the book thrown at him for is simply one of the perks of being part of the elite.

    We don't embrace it, we just grudgingly tolerate it because we have no choice.

  8. Re:1979 was pre-PC era on Leave Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson Alone! · · Score: 2

    Maybe the fact that there are people who lie on their CV and still do a good job means that the actual importance of a CV is hellishly overblown.

  9. Re:It's the hypocricy on Leave Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson Alone! · · Score: 5, Insightful

    More like by lying he's secured himself an opportunity that never would have been given him otherwise.

    It's a messed up society when you can get further by lying and cheating than you can by playing it straight.

  10. Re:All Chinese authors on Diamonds Used To Increase Density, Performance of Phase-Change Memory · · Score: 0

    Nope, they just steal it.

  11. Re:Make the penalties REALLY severe on Database and IP Records Tie Election Fraud To Canada's Ruling Conservatives · · Score: 1

    Just make election fraud an automatic felony.

    And make a law that convicted felons aren't allowed to participate in politics.

    We're already happy enough to take away their right to vote, so why not just bar them from office or campaign work as well?

  12. Re:Greenies have won while the majority in Japan l on Japan's Last Nuclear Reactor Shuts Down · · Score: 1

    Environmentalists seem to be more concerned with gross pollution, as opposed to pollution per capita or per kwh, and seem to neglect the fact that you need more of something that produces less power to get the same output.

  13. Re:No recourse on Feds Seized Website For a Year Without Piracy Proof · · Score: 1

    Getting to choose between Kodos and Kang is not a democracy.

    Particularly if there's no way to get rid of them once the wolves take off their sheepskin suits and can only be thrown out of office by their fellow wolves by impeachment.

  14. Re:When did they not have a right? on Microsoft Using Linux To Optimize Skype Traffic · · Score: 1

    That's just FUD that they happen to back up mostly because of their superior legal budget that can win them a lawsuit just by sheer intimidation, long before either a judge or jury can decide the merits of the case.

  15. Re:No surprise on Microsoft Using Linux To Optimize Skype Traffic · · Score: 1

    And rumor has it that they chucked out half-assed patches and only did even that much because someone caught them with their fingers in the linux pie taking code and they didn't want to get burned by the GPL.

  16. Re:Why So Serious? on Microsoft Using Linux To Optimize Skype Traffic · · Score: 1

    Is it possible that Apple is a consumer oriented company and leaves servers to the others?

    Unless you're the USAF, you don't use PS3's to run your data centers either.

  17. Re:Eh? This is how Skype works? on Microsoft Using Linux To Optimize Skype Traffic · · Score: 1

    The GPL isn't any more viral than the default copyright law that applies to proprietary products.

    All the GPL does is piggy back on "derived work".

  18. Re:Odd... on NY Times: 'FBI Foils Its Own Terrorist Plots' · · Score: 2

    Not when it's the cops pressuring you.

    Then it's called entrapment.

  19. Re:It helps keep us safe on NY Times: 'FBI Foils Its Own Terrorist Plots' · · Score: 1

    Me too, as long as they leave everyone else the fuck alone.

  20. Re:Failed experiment? on Navy To Auction Stealth Ship · · Score: 1

    Considering that it's military equipment the requirement to dismantle probably has something to do with national security.

  21. Re:Judges Can't Read on Facebook 'Likes' Aren't Protected Speech · · Score: 1, Informative

    It's a free speech violation if the employer IS the government.

    In this case, the incumbent sheriff who is an agent of the county.

  22. Re:Decision erodes rights on Facebook 'Likes' Aren't Protected Speech · · Score: 1

    It's called "being at the bottom of the chain of command and doing what the fuck you are told."

  23. Re:WTF am I supposed to call this thing? on New Particle Discovered At CERN · · Score: 1

    Sounds like how the word "nigger" is racist if used by whites but endearing when used by fellow blacks.

  24. Re:Of course. on TSA Defends Pat Down of 4-Year-Old Girl · · Score: 1

    With an attitude like that you'll be lucky if the prosecutor lets you survive voir dire.

    Lawyers hate geniuses or people with moral conviction on the jury. They want dumb sheep they can lead to the slaughter with grandiose theater.

  25. Re:good idea on DARPA Aims To Reuse Space Junk · · Score: 1

    And just how would such a "law" be enforced anyhow?

    Space ventures are usually the prerogative of national governments who possess sovereign immunity and who may have something to gain from flouting such a law.