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  1. Re:Brain drain, ver 0.1 on Hawking Searching For Africa's Einsteins · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'd hop on the first chance at a big corporate job in some other country. In my village in Northern India, more and more people are moving back to the village, after going to universities in Canada, the USA and England, and having become (relatively) rich. My dad is a first generation immigrant to Canada from India, and we are a middle class family, my dad drives a taxi (I know, stereotypical,) and my mom works in a bank. My dad just went back to India last month to build 4 3 story houses in our village, one for him (when he goes back) and 3 for his brothers and their families. A little money goes a long way in these impoverished regions, and not only does this stimulate the local economy with all the construction, but when I went there my dad paid for a year of broadband internet for the local school, and I am saving up for a dozen or so cheap desktop computers to bring there next time I go.
    The point is that when people go back to the poor areas where they or their ancestors grew up, the feel a duty to improve the quality of life for the residents there.
    The lucky few that get out, generally will try and make it easier for others to get out, and as time goes on the quality of life can only get better.
  2. Re:Liquid Nitrogen cheaper than beer on SMS 4x More Expensive Than Data From Hubble · · Score: 1

    Old English malt liquor got 0.72/5 on rate beer
    Read the comments, it tastes horrible, but it has a relatively high alcohol content, 8% I believe, and teenagers buy it in 40 oz bottles, which fucks you up. At $8 at the local liquor store, it's about the price of a cheap six pack, and if you smoke a joint first, it goes down fine.

  3. impaired decision making on Government Efficiency and Network Theory · · Score: 1

    decision-making is severely impaired in committees of more than 20 people. Not if they all agree with each other.
  4. Re:Liquid Nitrogen cheaper than beer on SMS 4x More Expensive Than Data From Hubble · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And liquid Nitrogen is cheaper to buy than beer. You're obviously drinking way too expensive beer, try a 40 of old english malt liquor, sure it tastes nasty, but it's better than liquid nitrogen. (Or solid/gaseous nitrogen for that matter.)
  5. here in canada...... on SMS 4x More Expensive Than Data From Hubble · · Score: 0

    I pay $3 a month here in Canada for 100 text messages a month, additional text messages are $0.15. I have a 140 character limit, which is more than enough for the typical "cant talk sup" message. Furthermore, at least here you can send text messages from the internet to cellphones for free, but if the recipient as a prepaid phone they get charged $0.15 per message received.
    I'm not sure how the message leaves the tubes and reaches the cellphone, but I think it has something to do with wifi.

  6. your wife was not amused? on DataStorm V1.0, a Full-Auto Floppy Disk Cannon · · Score: 5, Funny

    It was constructed of scrap metal, a kid's bike...
    Your kid won't be amused either.
  7. Re:You have a choice to make on BioShock Movie To Be Made By Universal · · Score: 1

    Having worked at a large movie theater for 8 months last year, I can honestly say that us "clerks" have a reason to be incompetent and take unreasonably long time to serve you with food/tickets.
    1. We make minimum wage
    2. At least at my theater we got 1 free movie a week (with a guest) but only if the movie was not too busy, so I couldn't watch any popular movies on opening nights/weekends>br> 3. It smells like popcorn
    4. We are forced to upsell, and if we don't suggest at least 2 items, we can get reprimanded and possibly fired, I've seen it happen.
    5. The turnover is very high, so the chances of really getting to know people and make friends is very low, and they don't hire good friends of people who are already "cast members."
    6. Because we are making minimum wage, coworkers are normally morons, who can only make minimum wage.
    7. If somebody does complain to a manager or supervisor, they almost always get a free medium popcorn or a free pass to a future movie, the the employee gets taken to the back and yelled at.
    Because there is a certain social stigma associated with working for minimum wage, I have decided to post as an AC.
    The next time you miss the previews of the movie you're watching, don't get mad at the clerk for trying to upsell, that's his job, and he's getting a pittance for his hard work, and it's shitty work. Working till 2 am on (high) school nights, not a recipe for success. I just realised, that this is my longest post ever!

  8. Re:oldest code in existence on What Is the Oldest Code Written Still Running? · · Score: 1

    I know this now, but all the "programming" I know was taught in a grade 10 infotech class, where i just played Imperial Conflict, so I realise that in hindsight, it should have been
    10 print testing
    20 goto 10

  9. oldest code in existence on What Is the Oldest Code Written Still Running? · · Score: 2, Funny

    10 testing
    20 goto 10

  10. Re:I miss the days on UK Uses CCTV, Terrorism Laws, Against Pooping Dogs · · Score: 1

    I have never seen a "pro-bush" comment by anyone other than an AC...just something to think about.

  11. uh oh on Estimated World Population to Pass 6,666,666,666 Today · · Score: 1

    people are living too long. It's as simple as that (well not really but.....)

  12. Re:Population Control & Modern Views on Estimated World Population to Pass 6,666,666,666 Today · · Score: 1

    So, now they have a few million males that will never be able to marry.
    To find a sense of belonging, join the army!
    As a male of Indian descent, I see the effects of sexism in my community on many occasions. One is Lohri, which is a festival that celebrates the birth of baby boys, not girls. Women are pressured to keep having children until they have a boy, even my aunt who has a Masters degree in physics (pretty well educated) had 4 girls, and each time the old people hoped for boys.
    Another reason to not have a girl is that you don't need to give a dowry when she marries, she can work on the farm etc. and she keeps the family name going, very important in my culture.
    On a rather disturbing note, I cannot think of a female only child of Indian descent, but many male only children. And I know a lot of brown people (I live in Surrey, BC, which has the largest concentration of Indians in North America, about 60%.)
  13. Re:Here's your warning: on London Lawyers Demand £600 For One Game · · Score: 1

    or move to Canada w00t.

  14. Re:Learning on Introducing Classical Guitar Hero · · Score: 1

    That's what teachers/instructors/the internet/books/articles/friends/videos are for. Guitar hero is meant to let you have some fun with friends, and lets nerds actually be better at a relatively social videogame than the average person.

  15. Re:To all the "Guitar Heros" out there.... on Introducing Classical Guitar Hero · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I fucked a mom I met on xbox live playing Halo 3. No fucking joke. She wasn't very attractive, but I fucked her anyways just to prove that sometimes, staying home and playing video games can get you laid.

  16. download is about 50mb on Folding@Home 2.0 - An Online Protein Folding Game · · Score: 1

    A better game that is sort of similar involves folding eggs around cars, and the protein damages the paint!

  17. you missed the point. on Retrieving Data From Old Amstrad Floppies? · · Score: 1

    Back in 1987, when I was a teenager in high school still, I spent most evenings, nights and weekends working with my 3' floppy
    Fixed that for ya.
  18. Re:Could be worse on Comcast Floats a 250GB Monthly Bandwidth Limit · · Score: 1

    I pay $35/month approx. for a 30gb limit with about 150kb down and 40 up maximum here in Vancouver, Canada. However, I almost always go over the limit, I have hit 120gb in one month, and my isp hasn't had any problems. It all depends on if these bandwidth caps are enforced, and based on the comments about comcasts throttling/proposed caps etc, it seems like it will be enforced harshly. So I would not be okay with it. Should my isp throttle my already pretty shitty speeds, then I would switch (because i have the luxury of doing so) or start jacking wifi...i dunno,

  19. invented bungee jumping eh? on NASA Builds a Cheap Standardized Space Probe · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If you check the wikipedia page on bungee jumping, (sorry don't know how to provide the link to the page) there is no mention of Weston. Instead, it says some young men from some random island in Vanuatu used to jump off of cliffs with vines tied to their ankles to show that they are courageous.

    Wait, was that like a joke or something?

  20. Re:1M per $500 of gas??? on DOE Pumps $126.6 Million Into Carbon Sequestration · · Score: 1

    I disagree with your calculations, even though I don't really follow...at all. I seriously doubt that they are that "frigging nuts".

  21. waaait a second on MPAA is Awarded $110 Million In TorrentSpy Case · · Score: 1

    Valence Media can retain possession of the site, however is barred from indexing copyrighted works in the future.
    This implies that they were allowed to index copyrighted works before...
    Clarification please?
  22. Re:*shrug* on MPAA is Awarded $110 Million In TorrentSpy Case · · Score: 1

    Sealand? www.wikipedia.org/sealand
    sorry don't know how to link it.

  23. Re:wow on US State Dept. Loses Anti-Terrorist Program Laptops · · Score: 1

    Total opposite. I'm Canadian, dad was a communist rebel in India, and I drive a 20 year old civic with a plastic bumber, so the aforementioned "magnetic ribbon" wouldn't stick. Also, I just think the government is too inefficient, spending $3000 per laptop? Ludacris.

  24. wow on US State Dept. Loses Anti-Terrorist Program Laptops · · Score: 1

    Yet another reason not to pay taxes.

  25. Re:Spelled: Finjan on "Crimeserver" Full of Personal/Business Data Found · · Score: 1

    since we're getting technical, I am assuming you mean, in which they brew their coffee.