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  1. Recruit me! on Trolling Al Qaeda... For Peace? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Ask not what your country can do for you, but what fuck Islam lololol.

  2. Re:Nasty stuff on Army Reviews Controversial Drug After Afghan Massacre · · Score: 1

    Had a classmate who was an Army veteran, it's only what he told me, but he said after taking the drug he became enraged and broke windows in his house, tore siding off, punched holes in walls for a good 3 hours. I figured there were probably others that reacted similarly to him on the drug, or who reacted poorly to it in some other way.

  3. Re:Full service on Ebert: I'll Tell You Why Movie Revenue Is Dropping · · Score: 1

    Thanks for this post, it reminded me of something.

    When I visited a friend in Texas he took us to a very cool theater called The Movie Tavern which is somewhat similar to what you described.

    There is a bar table in front of each row of seats, along with waitresses, good food, and alcohol to enjoy the movies with. I always thought there should be something like that here in Colorado, and according to the Alamo Drafthouse website (Which Qzukk posted in reply to you) it looks like there is one coming soon to Littleton, CO.

  4. Re:Clear Explaination on MIT's New Camera Can Take 1 Trillion Frames Per Second · · Score: 1

    Most clear explanation I've heard so far, wish I had mod points today.

  5. Re:Netflix on USPS Ending Overnight First-Class Letter Service · · Score: 1

    As an apartment dweller, whenever I see the option of using USPS for an order I will use them over UPS or Fedex. Although I only have one overly negative experience with UPS, the small frustrations of missing a delivery because I wasn't there to receive it happen nearly every time. Since I live in an apartment complex, they refuse to leave packages on my doorstep, which is fine because I've had a package stolen when the UPS man left a box in front of my door before. But, I inevitably have to have the package held for will-call at the nearest UPS center so that I can pick it up myself. Otherwise, you can bet they will attempt to deliver and fail at around the same time the next day since you will probably still not be home.

    As far as USPS is concerned, if I think that the package I'm ordering will fit in my mailbox or in the larger package mailboxes, I'll pick USPS every time. If I lived in a house (in a good neighborhood) I would not be as biased towards them, because I've seen where Fedex and UPS commonly leave packages tucked away near the door somewhere unless it requires a signature.

  6. Re:spy satellite calibration targets on Giant Chinese Desert Mystery Structure Solved · · Score: 1, Funny

    Just got off the phone with him, he says you're full of shit and also that your mom says "Hi."

  7. Re:Happy Holidays from the Golden Girls! on Boeing Delivers Massive Ordnance Penetrator · · Score: 1

    Thank you for being a friend
    Traveled down the road and back again
    Your heart is true, you're a pal and a cosmonaut.

    There you have it, you're not a true friend unless you're Russian and have been in space.

  8. Re:Lost Channels on Failures Mark First National Test of Emergency Alert System · · Score: 1

    Really, there isn't? I gather from this post that you're a pedantic fool, don't bother replying with more useless garbage.

  9. Re:Lost Channels on Failures Mark First National Test of Emergency Alert System · · Score: 1

    Where in his post did he mention murdering people? Anti-gun much?

  10. Re:Just remember on Google Acquires Zagat · · Score: 1

    Wait a minute, I am the product?!

    THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING!

  11. Re:Actually... on Amazon Folds In California Sales Tax Deal · · Score: 1

    The wealthiest people hire the most expensive people to do their taxes and handle their finances, that's why we see them getting out of paying their fair share of taxes. The middle class is just about the only portion of the population who ends up paying their share of the taxes as intended, since people in low enough tax brackets either get money back or pay a very small amount when it comes to income taxes. No one is proposing any kind of populist tax movement in order to benefit the wealthy and hurt everyone else, not even the wealthy since they weasel their way out of it regardless. It has very little to do with the system of taxation, more to do with the proper enforcement.

  12. Re:Actually... on Amazon Folds In California Sales Tax Deal · · Score: 1

    Sales tax is the most regressive form of taxation in the United States. If sales tax is 30%, that means the poorest of the poor are paying an effective tax rate of 30%, because they need to spend every penny they make in order to survive. Meanwhile, if you look at someone who makes $30 million a year, spends $2 million on taxable goods, and invests or saves the other $28 million, they end up paying an effective 2% tax rate.

    It's obviously not "fair" to tax each person the same dollar amount. Why do people think it's "fair" to tax each person the same percentage? I'd call it most fair to impose the same financial burden on each person through taxes, which means that we're able to take a much, much larger percentage of a very rich person's income before they're seriously inconvenienced by it.

    On the other hand, the poorer person may spend most of their money on food and items which may not be taxed while the wealthier will be taxed on non-essential purchases.

  13. Re:Amzon isnt dodging anything on Amazon Folds In California Sales Tax Deal · · Score: 1

    It's not just Amazon, either, what about all the 3rd party vendors who sell through Amazon? Although the argument for taxation here is obvious, I see a lot of vendors moving away from Cali because they'll be competing against vendors who are in states where they don't charge sales tax.

  14. Re:It's our own damn fault on What If Aliens Came To Save the Galaxy From Mankind? · · Score: 1

    I assume you're talking about Colombia. Somehow I don't see drug cartels firing rocket launchers at Helicopters in Columbia.

  15. Re:Inefficient on Use Your Car To Power Your House · · Score: 2

    Personally, I just leave them in there. It's like having having a personal food assistant, because they know where everything is. Just last night he handed me some frozen steaks from the bottom of the chest that I forgot I even had.

  16. Re:No More on Massachusetts Plans To Keep Track of Where Your Car Has Been · · Score: 1

    "Trained to fight?" No, most police are not trained to "fight".

    Yes, they're trained to fight. I guess they would get beaten by a hardened thug. I guess they would also get beaten by a trained MMA fighter, or a combat vet with a lot more training time. But don't let those ridiculous comparisons stop you from trying to push your anti-cop agenda. We're not talking about either of those, we're talking about a skinny nerd with a paintball gun who is considering whether or not to shot the camera on a police car.

  17. Re:And this is on /. why? on Terror Attack On Norwegian Government · · Score: 1

    Quit your whining, GooberToo, you're not fooling anyone posting as AC. Everyone seems to think they have been moderated unjustly when they actually just have shit posts, in fact your posts here were shit and the moderation system tends to correct any poor moderation within hours of a post.

  18. Re:Have they nothing better to legislate for on Tennessee Makes it Illegal To Share Your Netflix Password · · Score: 1

    Ever seen the FBI warning at the beginning of a rented movie? It's exactly the same here in the U.S.

  19. Re:more importantly on Google To Offer Chrome OS Notebooks For $20/month · · Score: 1

    My mind is blown at the number of logical and grammatical problems with this.

  20. Re:What is your definition of reputable? on Amazon Named the "Most Reputable Company" · · Score: 1

    Amazon actually does a substantial amount of retailing on their own in addition to acting as the middle man for 3rd party distributors. They own huge distribution centers for their own merchandise, I can't comment on what percentage of stuff on their site is sold by them vs. by 3rd parties though.

  21. Re:is there anybody here... on Afghanistan Called First "Robotic War" · · Score: 1

    Dave Ramsey would be so proud.

  22. Re:And for Diesel? on Europe Plans To Ban Petrol Cars From Cities By 2050 · · Score: 1

    Stop trying to nitpick, obviously any ban would apply to both diesel and petrol vehicles.

    He's not nitpicking, it is very common to differentiate between petrol and diesel cars in the UK. TFA, on the other hand, specifically mentions that the ban would affect all internal combustion vehicles, fyi.

  23. Re:So what's a "real" microcontroller? on Book Review: Arduino: a Quick-Start Guide · · Score: 1

    I used a couple different Arduino boards for several projects during the course of getting my CE (Not exactly EE, but very close), and also played around with them for a few personal projects as well. The CE and EE majors all had to learn the 68hc11 for the actual embedded micro-controllers course, but only a few chose that platform for use when a project actually called for a microcontroller later on for their senior projects.

    If you think that an AVR would be a great fit to accomplish what you are trying to do, then Arduino would be a great choice within that category. If you need more beefy memory or processing, an AVR would not be a good choice. You can program it in C, C++, or assembly language, which made it super easy for me to pick up and get going on some fairly complicated projects with a tight timeline.

    BTW, I used an Arduino Mega board for my senior project, which was an automated aquarium system. It monitored and controlled all of the aspects of keeping an aquarium running and safe for the fish. It also had an LCD display and keypad for user I/O, and I think that was a great learning experience figuring out how to make a good user friendly I/O. Both the project mentor and the dean of engineering thought that the Arduino was a perfect fit and implemented well, this project did not need a super powerful controller, nor could it have done so simply with just electrical hardware.

  24. Re:Dangerous book w/ incomplete instructions on FBI Releases File On the Anarchist Cookbook · · Score: 1

    It's funny, I see many, many people here arguing pro gun and only one person who is anti-gun, copying and pasting the same reply to every post. That person is you, circletimessquare.

  25. Re:... for movie special effects on Cheap 3D Motion Sensing System Developed At MIT · · Score: 1

    Amen! We should all be suffering! What is wrong with all these people with their fun games and entertainment, don't they know we're in a recession?