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  1. Re:First! on Energy Firm Wants To Be First To Mine the Moon · · Score: 2

    In related news, the United States Federal government has created a business license class for lunar activities. The licensing fee is 2 billion dollars per year.

  2. Re:Wont someone think of on Teenager Builds $300 Open Source Eye-Tracking System · · Score: 1

    There is something that you are missing in all this.

    Corporate execs have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders. This responsibility practically requires that decisions be made that are beneficial in the short term, in order to drive up stock prices.

    Failure to do so can result in dismissal or litigation.

    Want to fix the country? Dissolve corporations. You have 3 choices, bub: sole proprietorship, partnership, or nothing.

  3. Re:Disagree. on Has Apple Made Programmers Cool? · · Score: 1

    Bill Gates's money made him more interesting to hookers. And also mooches. Don't forget the mooches.

  4. Re:No, they haven't on Has Apple Made Programmers Cool? · · Score: 1

    Are there many COBOL programmers out whoring for mortgage companies? /me is confused.

  5. Re:Overlooking the most important finding. on Study Finds Frequent Gaming Changes Your Brain · · Score: 1

    And their combined weight was OVER NINE THOOOOOUUUUUSSSSSSAAAAAAANNNNNDDDDDDDDDD!!!

    Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
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  6. Re:How about for paramedics? on Device Detects Drug Use Via Fingerprints · · Score: 1

    Cathartic loser.

  7. Re:Slashdot's new anti-Microsoft position on Barnes & Noble Names Microsoft's Disputed Android Patents · · Score: 1

    You don't have to be a lawyer to file a complaint.

    Why can't some well-meaning Fawkes mask owner(s) stage "Operation Toilet Clog" and clog up the judicial system with bogus complaints?

    Serious lulz off that one, aye?

  8. Re:Wow, I first read that as "*isn't* a crime" on DOJ: Violating a Site's ToS Is a Crime · · Score: 1

    Man goes into a restaurant, asks for a menu.

    Waiter brings menu.

    Menu only has 2 entries: "Republican Shepherd Pie" and Democrat Shepherd Pie".

    Man asks what is the difference between the two.

    Waiter replies "There is really no difference, but we want you to feel like you have options."

  9. Re:Experience on Oxford City Council Mandates CCTV Cameras In Taxies by 2015 · · Score: 1

    Your use of "a right not to be killed" implies that you would certainly be killed in the absence of a camera.

    That is a logical fallacy.

    What you meant to say was "a driver's wish not to be killed".

    Carry on.

  10. Re:America is NOT a democracy on The Privatization of Copyright Lawmaking · · Score: 0

    A Moose once bit my sister...

  11. Re:Recovered? on A Job Fair For Jobs In India — In California · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Sea of Opportunity"?

    More like "Sea of Things I Don't Have Antibodies For".

  12. Re:Mafia on Zynga To Employees: Surrender Pre-IPO Shares Or You're Fired · · Score: 1

    Trust can exist only up to the point at which trust is questioned.

    It then becomes an exercise in risk management.

  13. Re:How about for paramedics? on Device Detects Drug Use Via Fingerprints · · Score: 4, Funny

    Land of the Flea, Home of the Slave?

    To the tune of Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the U.S.A.":

    I was born in America,
    Where I'm often told I'm free.

    I voted for the piece of shit
    who told that lie to me.

    And I'll gladly stand up next to you
    At the all-you-can-eat buffet.

    I can't afford
    To move abroad...

    Trapped in the U.S.A.

    I can't afford
    To move abroad...

    Trapped in the U.S.A.

  14. Re:Fourth Amendment down the drain on Judge Rules Twitter Data Fair Game In Wikileaks Investigation · · Score: 1

    Speaking as a U.S. citizen, I can honestly tell you...

    We are totally fucked.

  15. Re:hard to watch on No Charges For Child-Whipping Judge Caught On YouTube · · Score: 1

    Apparently the law does allow unwarranted physical violence.

    Else the judge would be serving time.

  16. Re:When do we get compression? on Fedora Aims To Simplify Linux Filesystem · · Score: 1

    All config in /etc, all binaries in /usr/bin and /usr/sbin, all libs in /usr/lib.

    That is completely made of win.

  17. Re:Land of the free on DHS Stonewalls On Public Comment About Body Scanners · · Score: 1

    Yall sound like one 'em Commonists yourself.

    I bet you even named all your kids Conrad, didn't you?

    And they all walk around a-goin' "Hey Conrad, how's it goin' Conrad?"

    Commonists make me sick.

  18. Re:Interesting... on They Might Be Giants Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Do they ever listen to Bad Religion?

  19. Re:Support them from your own money on How Can I Justify Using Red Hat When CentOS Exists? · · Score: 1

    Debian "stable" is a good bet for reliability.

    If you stay one release behind "stable" you are in even better shape. (assuming that you do not require the newest version of various libraries or software packages)

  20. Re:Support them from your own money on How Can I Justify Using Red Hat When CentOS Exists? · · Score: 1

    Why run a RedHat distro at all?

    Think "Debian".

  21. Re:Depends on why I'm referring to my profession on Career Advice: Don't Call Yourself a Programmer · · Score: 1

    "Programmer" among the non-computer-literate is a general term meaning "the person who can make my VCR stop flashing 12:00".

  22. Re:Overengineering on Is That an Android On Your Wrist? · · Score: 1

    I want a sleeve-tablet. Something that I can strap to my forearm with a decent screen (7x3 inches?) and a fold-out qwerty keyboard. Also wifi and USB for use with a wireless connectivity dongle and at least 8 hours of battery life.

    I am willing to pay $100 for one of these, with a 12 month warranty.

    C'mon, Chinese people. I know you bitches can cough it up. Get crackin'. Chop chop.

  23. Re:1% on When Having the US Debt Paid Off Was a Problem · · Score: 2

    Social situation in the US is not yet bad enough to hijack the so-far-peaceful protests and spin enough hatred against some fictional threat with propaganda to start a war.

    I thought that already happened in late 2001?

    The whole "airplane/missile/drone-and-two-tall-buildings-Reichstag-fire" thing followed by war against people of different religion, culminating in mall cops grabbing my junk because I want to get on a commercial airliner... ?

  24. Re:Urban unrest on Weaponizable Police UAV Now Operational In Texas · · Score: 1

    When (if?) this comes to pass, remember that a length of cord is portable, fairly silent, and can be fashioned from a wide variety of materials.

    After you remove an armed adversary, you can equip yourself from his/her possessions.

    "I don't need no damned Marines, or air support or M-16s. Give me a cord, give me a knife, show me a man. I'll take his life."

  25. Re:What the hell is wrong with this country? on Weaponizable Police UAV Now Operational In Texas · · Score: 2

    When a "good cop" covers up the actions of a "bad cop", for whatever reason, the line between "good cop" and "bad cop" becomes blurred.