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  1. Re:FFS. on Amazon Hiring More Than a 100 Who Can Get Top Secret Clearances · · Score: 1

    From the Oxford English Dictionary.

    hundred
    number (plural hundreds or (with numeral or quantifying word) hundred)
      (a/one hundred)
      the number equivalent to the product of ten and ten; ten more than ninety; 100
    a hundred yards away
    there are just a hundred of us here

    The only possible argument for bad usage is for "a a hundred job openings" which is tenuous at best or that they used the numeric expression instead of the written expression. Regardless, 100 = one hundred = hundred = one tenth of a thousand. Those terms are all identical.

  2. Re:FFS. on Amazon Hiring More Than a 100 Who Can Get Top Secret Clearances · · Score: 1

    100 can mean two phrases "one hundred" or "hundred". The sentence is only bad if it is written as "a one hundred" not "a hundred".

  3. Re:No shocker there on What Works In Education: Scientific Evidence Gets Ignored · · Score: 1

    It's just a symptom of the great problem which is the problem of condensing things down into the smallest unit possible for shorthand. The problem of this is that unless you deal with these things on a regular basis, the short hand name provide little indication of the what it's describing thus making them useless for relating a topic to the public at large.

  4. Re:This needs to be taken out of their hands on Japanese Ice Wall To Stop Reactor Leaks · · Score: 1

    He needs to save face under the assumption Syria used the chemical weapons.

    Given that back in September of 2012 we had word direct from Leon Panetta that Syrian rebels had taken control of a Syrian base that had chemical weapons and they lost track of said weapons, I would caution to suggest that who used the chemical weapons is a very reasonable question. However, we've been running full throttle with the assertion that Assad used them when the only evidence offered so far is that weapons were used.

  5. Re:Here we go... on US Forces Ready To Strike Syria If Ordered · · Score: 1

    It is worse.

    With Syria we're suggesting aggressive use of force based on the unsubstantiated claim that Assad's regime used chemical weapons.
    With Iraq we had Congress authorize the use of force based on potentitally falsified claims or unsubstantiated claims that Sadam had WMDs.

  6. Re:Another war is stupid and unnecessary on US Forces Ready To Strike Syria If Ordered · · Score: 1

    3rd time's the charm and action is being taken based on he said she said. I vastly prefer the method of Iraq of using false evidence rather than no evidence.

  7. Re:Another war is stupid and unnecessary on US Forces Ready To Strike Syria If Ordered · · Score: 1

    For not being the person named George W. Bush who was the 43rd President of the United States.

  8. Re:Blame the IT guy on Goldman Suspends 4 Senior Tech Specialists After Trading Glitch · · Score: 1

    Our self scans can handle self-bagged veggies. There's 6 self-checkouts maintained by a single human, who is there mostly for liquor sales or if there's the odd problem. It's still frustrating to see people use them and take longer than if they had gone through a regular checkout.

    Seriously. I can have a whole cart of groceries (say around 30 items) and be in and out faster than some people with 5 items.

  9. Re:Where Wall Street meets IT on Goldman Suspends 4 Senior Tech Specialists After Trading Glitch · · Score: 1

    Because that has absolutely nothing do with the fact that some flour begins to ferment after left exposed and that by doing so you started to create a health hazard? That couldn't possibly be the answer. Nope. Not at all.

  10. Re:Special water? on Wildfire Threatens Water and Power To San Francisco · · Score: 1

    Because 4x4's value as a driving feature is not related to snow.

  11. There is nothing natural about government. It is an artificial construct.

  12. Re:fair use on Comcast Threatens TorrentFreak For Posting Public Court Document · · Score: 1

    I've seen way too many James Camerson, bar, South Park reference today. What's going on?

  13. Re:I disagree on Predictors of Suicidal Behavior Found In Blood · · Score: 1

    He/him is a good starting point. Replace who/whom with he/him. If he makes more sense you who if him makes more sense use whom.

    Simple.

  14. Re:CAN you write code for it? on Write Windows Phone Apps, No Code Required · · Score: 2

    I have to occassionally maintain some of those applications..... I go home and drink myself drunk on those days.

  15. Re:Okay, I can't hold it in anymore. on The Secret Effort To Clean Up a Former Soviet Nuclear Test Site · · Score: 0

    ah. I see he doesn't back you're medieval babrbic belief, their for he's a 'joke'?
    The problem, my friend, is you.

    Take your barbaric spelling back to the medieval ages where it belongs.

  16. Re:Don't steal instruments from MOD files. on Can There Be Open Source Music? · · Score: 1

    The human voice is a remarkable instrument. Most intruments make a single sound with varying pitches. The human voice can alter sound and pitch. Hence acapella.

  17. Re: How old are you? on The Death of the American Drive-in · · Score: 1

    She's asking why you wouldn't.

  18. Re:False documents on Area 51 No Longer (Officially) a Secret · · Score: 1

    It's not surprising. It did happen under Eisenhower's stewardship and he saw a significant reduction in deficits. Given certain other views he expressed...

  19. Re:My wish list... on Amazon Selects Their Favorite Fake Customer Reviews · · Score: 2

    Why would you say "Don't buy me these things." People will buy them for you.

    So the question is.... why do you want a 55 gallon drum of lube?

  20. Re:Griefers on How Gamers Could Save the (Real) World · · Score: 1

    I don't think it even takes griefers to make this system back fire. Once the gamers learn that you get the same result no matter the option they'll just select the same answer, or the default one over and over.

  21. Re:Rock and a hard place on Microsoft: Xbox One Won't Require Kinect To Function · · Score: 2

    Microsoft is setting themselves up to be able to offer an XBox One console without the Kinect for $399-$449 rather than the bundled version for $499. This lets them compete better against the PS4's $399 pricing. The problem, of course, was that Microsoft was selling the platform to developers on the premise that everyone would have a kinect to get better buy in.

  22. Re:Sugar Beet on Looking Beyond Corn and Sugarcane For Cost-Effective Biofuels · · Score: 1

    Bulldoze Detroit after we get a good movie from it using Fallout IP.

  23. Re:From the summary: on Nvidia CEO: We Are Working On Next Generation Surface · · Score: 1

    Which is why I think this is a smart move on MS's part. I can see companies moving to Surface over iPad just because of the Outlook feature. The gravy would be to place a view-only version of the big Office apps so that Outlook can preview spreadsheets and other documents inside. That would, in my opinion, make the surface a very good enterprise tablet.

  24. Re:From the summary: on Nvidia CEO: We Are Working On Next Generation Surface · · Score: 1

    How the fuck can something be slightly discontinued. That's a binary state.

  25. Re:Better idea, shut it down - it's illegal.... on Obama on Surveillance: "We Can and Must Be More Transparent" · · Score: 1

    Slight correction. Bill Clinton did get impeached and it was over perjury and obstruction of justice not for having his dick sucked.