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  1. Re:We need to stop big tax dodgers useing loop hol on Silicon Valley Billionaire Takes Out $201 Million Life Insurance Policy · · Score: 0

    Because as a rich asshole you built your wealth on the backs of the citizens of the country and benefited from the services of the country to enable your wealth building and protected it.

    Stop being a greedy fucker and pay what you are due. I am so tired of whiny rich assholes and their fan club.

    OMG you are so oppressed, Want me to get you a new roll of twenties to blow your nose?

    If you want to pay ZERO taxes, then go buy an island, and pay for your own military and security people as well as roads and infrastructure.

  2. Re:Have we said the same thing? on Russian State TV Anchor: Russia Could Turn US To "Radioactive Ash" · · Score: 1

    Limbaugh's opinions are only that of a single manatee with a microphone and do not represent the government of an entire country.

    FTFY

  3. Re:So..... on Russian State TV Anchor: Russia Could Turn US To "Radioactive Ash" · · Score: 3, Funny

    Palin could tell because she can see them from her house.

  4. Re: Great on EU Project Aims To Switch Data Centers To Second Hand Car Batteries · · Score: 3, Interesting

    only when you can get an epic amount of them. Car batteries are not deep cycle, they are there for a single short heavy load. you can only extract 20% of their capacity from them before you damage the battery by sulfating the plates. so if you need 100 Ah of capacity, you need 5 100ah car batteries. and no CCA is not the number you want you want amp hours... In most off-grid applications the load pulls the batteries down over several hours, usually at night, and they then have to sit partially discharged (or still being drawn from) until the sun rises and the charging process begins. Deep cycle batteries are meant to do this. Automotive batteries are meant to have sudden, heavy, but short discharges (starting the car) and then be recharged with high current immediately.

    So you would need 5-8 times the batteries and interconnects to use car batteries than using real deep cycle batteries.

  5. Reality in the USA.... on The Poor Neglected Gifted Child · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Smart and gifted kid? Shove them to the back of the class. Oh that not so bright kid that can run and catch really good? he is a superstar!

    We worship the Low IQ and brawn. (NFL players for example) while ridicule anyone smart. It is a culture thing, and in inner city urban cultures being a smart kid get's you isolated badly as your peers try to make you feel as if you are a traitor.

    It has always been this way, on top of that Teachers are scared to death of kids that are smarter than them, and will punish the smart kid. Our education system is set up for average and can not handle the two sides of the bell.

  6. Re:Living in 1925 kinda sucked on Gates Warns of Software Replacing People; Greenspan Says H-1Bs Fix Inequity · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No it's not. business owners need to be forced to pay honest wages. Paying people wages that are so low that you can not live even in a squalor home is dishonest (minimum wages below $10 an hour)

    Then you get even more dishonest business owners that pay their book keeper $12-14 an hour. That person went to fucking college and just because she is a woman you think you can pay her a pittance? Sorry, but being a business owner is not about being rich, it's about following a dream and making a living. you DO NOT forsake your employees so you can live more comfortably.

    Right now the environment is ripe for employee abuse and has been for the past 10 years. Luckily I work for a guy that treats the employees right. he lives like the rest of us do, he gives guys raises every 6 months and even gives us all a profit sharing bonus every year 2 weeks before Christmas.

    Want a good corperate example of Greed? Comcast.

    Comcast has so much money they want to buy Time Warner.. WTF? why not put that money into Comcast and upgrade service and infrastructure as well as employee pay levels for the bottom 90% in the company? Every single customer of comcast's HATES the company, the quality of service, and the quality of the product. I have never found anyone that has said "I love comcast, they have the perfect everything!" The only reason they make money is they hold monopolies in 99% of their markets.

    Fix the infrastructure, fix the service, fix your employees, fix the business. THAT is honest business, not what corporate america is doing.

  7. Re:An overview, IMHO: on Gates Warns of Software Replacing People; Greenspan Says H-1Bs Fix Inequity · · Score: 2

    "Almost everyone advances; the gap grows ever larger. It has always been this way; likely it will always be so."
    Until the gap becomes very wide, then the poor kill all the rich, loot their estates and the cycle repeats.

    Give it another 10 years and the gap will be getting near the,"let's form an angry mob and kill the rich guy, we can feed the whole city off of what is in his house."

  8. Re:Entitled Asshole Mentality on Controversial Torrent Streaming App 'Popcorn Time' Shuts Down, Then Gets Reborn · · Score: 1, Troll

    But you are not making $1.2million per release, so you cant afford yet another gold plated Ferarri...

  9. Re:Entitled Asshole Mentality on Controversial Torrent Streaming App 'Popcorn Time' Shuts Down, Then Gets Reborn · · Score: 0

    Like how movie studios Deserve financial help from the government and they never make money on a movie so they dont have to pay taxes.

    I would feel bad for them if they were not raging scumbags themselves. Just ask Stan-Lee how he was robbed of any money from the Spiderman movies.

  10. Re:To be fair? on Target Ignored Signs of Data Breach · · Score: 2

    At comcast that is how we worked from 1998 to 2007 when I was there. Security breach? I can tell the CEO to fuck himself to his face and yank the plug. And at many times I saw executives escorted out of the data center by guards because they were being idiots demanding we restore internet access. Management are clueless morons, they must be left out of the loop for security.

    It's why Cops dont have to call the mayor when they see a guy running into a bank with a gun in his hand and a big sack with a dollar sign painted on it.

  11. Re:To be fair? on Target Ignored Signs of Data Breach · · Score: 1

    "Maybe they're just fucking idiots,"

    This describes the management of all large corporation IT departments. IT is an expense, they are not really important like the marketing department.

  12. Re:BULLSHIT! on How Steve Jobs Got the iPhone Into Japan · · Score: 1

    On a stock phone without any hacking, rooting or other tricks needed? HTC hero must have been an awesome phone to come fully open like that.

  13. My Favorite Lie. on Lies Programmers Tell Themselves · · Score: 2

    I'll be paid fairly for the work I am doing....

    It never happens...

  14. I cant buy Pi day greeting cards..... on Happy Pi Day · · Score: 1

    SO therefore it is not a real holiday...

    Damn it Hallmark, we demand Pi day greeting cards!

  15. Re:BULLSHIT! on How Steve Jobs Got the iPhone Into Japan · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And anything else will also be the same way. I have been trying to use the Ubuntu phone releases for 2 years now and they have the exact same problems that geeks hate on android and iphone. It also is a walled garden (Yes kids android IS a walled garden, go ahead and install a new hardware driver in your phone)

    Ubuntu phone suffers from a lot of the same problem because it is designed by a company looking for profits. not by a bunch of engineers and programmers that want to make something powerful and extendable.

    we will NEVER get a cellphone that is perfect for "geeks" not in the sense of a tiny pocket device. now if you instead think outside that box and think in the lines of a "deck" like in the game shadowrun or the TV show "almost human" that is your computer in a larger formfactor that you always have with you, then use a small display+audio device to use the cellular modem/board in the "deck". this means having to carry around essentially a 13" laptop everywhere (OH THE HORROR!) but it will allow someone the best of all worlds. their choice of OS, their choice of Software with full open protocols. you pick the cellular board (arduino type cellular board, someone out there has an LTE type that has a full open control, data, and audio channels) and interface it to your hardware.

    and honestly with some of the arduino high power quad core clones out there, it's possible to make it smallish. will it be a tiny paper thin thing? nope, but it will be better than anything your non techie friends will ever own.

  16. Browser plugins needed... on Google Blurring Distinction Between Ads and Organic Search Results · · Score: 1

    To detect the AD and color it's background blood RED. 90% of the ad's when you search for a program's name are scumware that pollute the users computer. Google knows this and they refuse to fix it because they make money off of it.

    I really hope that someone finds a way to identify the ad's so adblock can strip them, or we can at least warn people away from them.

  17. Re:This could be good news... on Ubuntu's Mir Gets Delayed Again · · Score: 1

    Desktop_effects... those are highly important to getting work done.

    This is the problem nothing is being done for real performance... it's all for glitter and oooh shiny.

  18. Re:This could be good news... on Ubuntu's Mir Gets Delayed Again · · Score: 1, Troll

    In it's time? Solaris is still available and WIDELY USED in industrial and scientific worlds.

    Where are you getting your Unix information because it seems to be pretty messed up.

  19. Re:Who's behind that back-door ? on Replicant Hackers Find and Close Samsung Galaxy Back-door · · Score: 1

    Sorry but AT&T is far more evil than the NSA.

  20. Re:Typical government stupidity on Mars Rover Opportunity Faces New Threat: Budget Ax · · Score: 3, Insightful

    then they can pay for their own fricking stadiums.

  21. Re:Typical government stupidity on Mars Rover Opportunity Faces New Threat: Budget Ax · · Score: 1

    and we should give them 20 billion, then 24, 28,32,36....

    Science is far more important than killing people.... yet we give 80% of our taxes to the department of killing things.

  22. Re:Typical government stupidity on Mars Rover Opportunity Faces New Threat: Budget Ax · · Score: 1

    Mars? launch a very large rover for the moon and another to Venus. why the hell are we only looking at one planet?

  23. Re:That's what killed skylab on Mars Rover Opportunity Faces New Threat: Budget Ax · · Score: 1

    Skylab did it's mission, HAve you been in Skylab II? I have, it's sitting there at space camp in Huntsville, AL. I was able to get past the glass and walk around. it was incredibly small and not much science could get done in it. mostly it was to make sure that humans did not get space madness after extended stays in low gravity.

  24. Re:Send some terrists to Mars on Mars Rover Opportunity Faces New Threat: Budget Ax · · Score: 1

    to republican leaders? science has zero value.
    Pork bellies is where it's at!

  25. Re:90 day budget on Mars Rover Opportunity Faces New Threat: Budget Ax · · Score: 1

    And you forgot the fact that the A-10 is a better combat platform than the F-35 will ever be. Will the F-35 be able to fly home with most of it's wings and tail section missing? I doubt it. the A-10 does it all the time.