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  1. Re:Finally Congress gets down to business on Senate Votes To Replace Aviation Radar With GPS · · Score: 1

    Neither Dem or Rep is pro-smaller-government. Just in case you missed the last 100 years of politics.

  2. Re:That makes sense on Study Shows People In Power Make Better Liars · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I overly simplified the second point. I plan on being rich in the future and don't want my money taken to offset the poor. As far as I'm concerned, screw the graduated system: flat tax, period. 15% income tax after the federal poverty line across the board with no exceptions, no loopholes, and no credits. No one is held up except those that are spending every penny on survival and no one is pulled down.

    If the liars in political power would trim all the government excess, then we could easily pay for everything and then some.

  3. Re:That makes sense on Study Shows People In Power Make Better Liars · · Score: 1

    Or those that don't want health insurance.
    Or those that plan on being rich in the future.
    Or those that think government should be smaller.
    Or...

    See the pattern? The support would still be well divided.

  4. Re:What happened to the Aussie spine? on Aussie Gamers Dress As Zombies To Raise R18+ Awareness · · Score: 1

    They don't play video games, so they don't care.

  5. Re:He could have fixed it with a wave of the hand on Jobcentre Apologizes For Anti-Jedi Discrimination · · Score: 1

    As opposed to the loonies (micromanaging control freaks) running the rest of the world?

    We do have one thing in common: our politicians are the problem.

  6. Re:Game of Chicken on China Warns Google To Obey Or Leave · · Score: 1

    There are four boxes of liberty:

    Soap, Ballot, Jury, and Ammo.

    Speeches against the problems land you in jail or worse. Being a politician against the problems lands you in jail or worse. The courts are full of people who will put you in jail for speaking against the problem and don't dare bring charges against those in charge.

    Which means the first 3 have failed, leaving the ammo box.

  7. Re:Dr Eliza on N.Y. Health Insurers To Offer Virtual Doc Visits · · Score: 1
  8. Re:WE ARE STILL ROCK STARS! on Dot-Com Craze Peaked 10 Years Ago This Week · · Score: 1

    The sad thing is I know someone who honestly believes this level of drivel. I want to explain reality to him, but his 6 months of experience has him convinced he can have an enterprise-level software suite operational in 3 months as a sole coder/DBA/PM.

  9. Re:It's nice to know in this time of economic turm on Funeral Being Held Today For IE6 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    True, but they got more free publicity than they can shake a stick at. I'm sure the goal was exposure.

  10. Re:Why not an app that is platform neutral? on Netflix Gauging Interest In an iPhone App · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I can tell you from experience that they all have vastly different SDKs and writing for a mobile platform requires some thought to efficiency so writing an interface class isn't always an option.

  11. Re:CA must be on easy street on California Legislature Declares "Cuss-Free" Week · · Score: 4, Funny

    No fucking shit. Especially since this forsaken shithole is practically broke because of these dim witted bitches and their cock-biting agendas.

    On a related note, the Facebook response is a group called "Fuck Week." I didn't join, but I was quite amused.

  12. Re:Use a persistence library on Anatomy of a SQL Injection Attack · · Score: 1

    Your sort problem can be solved by something similar to this (from the memory of a non-DBA):

    SELECT blah, blah1, blah2
    FROM table1
    ORDER BY
    CASE @sortby
    WHEN 'blah' THEN blah
    WHEN 'blah1' THEN blah1
    WHEN 'blah2' THEN blah2
    ELSE newid() //random sort!
    END

    Rarely have I ever needed a dynamic query with correctly written procedures. Pivot tables are the only dynamic queries in the company's database right now; even those are parameterized in stored procedures and only dynamic when the column set isn't stable.

  13. Re:BECAUSE on Pole Dancing As an Olympic Sport · · Score: 1

    True, but have you seen the moves the girls perform at national-level competition? It's every much as strenuous and technical as other Olympic gymnastic events.

    That actually might get me to watch the Olympics for once.

  14. Re:If you use open source, you're a pirate... on Use Open Source? Then You're a Pirate! · · Score: 1

    On top of what TooMuchToDo has already pointed out, you forget that many geeks also cover the legal and political spheres.

  15. Re:only 2 general lanes? on Gates and MS Don't See Eye-To-Eye On CO2 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, many people have enough to do in their lives that they don't have time to deal with someone else's commute schedule. Personally, my life is full enough between exercise, my day job, my side business, and other projects that I couldn't typically pick someone else up for work. You know, I try to live life.

    But, I ride a motorcycle that gets great gas mileage (40+ easy, 50 if I'm careful) in far less space than any car. It also doesn't strain the roads as much and takes far less to build. Why don't you get a motorcycle so we can half the lane size and double the capacity of the freeways w/o increasing the pollution? Stop wasting more resources than me, douchebag.

    See? It works both ways. Until you are completely carbon neutral in all aspects, living in a minimal-volume shelter with common living spaces (you don't NEED your own fridge, stove, or table), and traveling in an all electric vehicle that takes no more room or energy to transport you than absolutely required, you are wasting resources for comfort or convenience; stop playing holier than thou.

  16. Re:news? on xkcd, Devotion To Duty · · Score: 1
  17. Re:More than that. on Sony Joins the Offensive Against Pre-Owned Games · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not if all play is online via the new "disconnect your computer and your game freezes" features.

  18. Re:Customer of Size? on Southwest Declares Kevin Smith Too Fat To Fly · · Score: 1

    Some people pay extra to have an ugly fat woman stomp on their balls with stilettos too, but that's not the point.

  19. Re:Simply, no software required. on How Do You Accurately Estimate Programming Time? · · Score: 1

    and, of course, I forgot hours in there.

  20. Re:Simply, no software required. on How Do You Accurately Estimate Programming Time? · · Score: 1

    2 quarters.

    minutes
    days
    weeks
    months
    quarters
    years

  21. Re:Good thing the robotic car is NOT an Toyota. on Robotic Audi To Brave Pikes Peak Without a Driver · · Score: 0

    Except AUDI has been known as 'Accelerates Under Demonic Influence' for some time now.

  22. Re:Violation to freedoms of Free Software on SourceForge Clarifies Denial of Site Access · · Score: 1

    By allowing you to access their hosting, they are exporting their service to your country. FLOSS wishes or not, section 5 of the FoFS doesn't supersede US Law for those in the US.

  23. Re:Anyone who can use SourceForge on SourceForge Clarifies Denial of Site Access · · Score: 1

    Anyone who is going to be able to host a proxy to provide access to SF will be able to get the proxy software from SF and host proxied/cached downloads for the client.

  24. Re:Permanent damage at 100 meters too... on Sound Generator Lethal From 10 Meters · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Given the population of the US is around 330M or so, you want me to get upset about a generally safe tool that has a track record of killing 0.0000001% of the population a year and accounting for a whole 0.00001% of deaths a year? The lethality rate for them is 1.5 or so per 100k uses and is, for the most part, easily attributed to pre-existing health conditions.

  25. Disassembly... on Earthquake Survivors Get Solar Powered Bibles · · Score: 2, Insightful

    These will be disassembled into something immediately useful in short order, would be my bet.