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  1. LMGIFY on Where To Start In DIY Electronics? · · Score: -1, Troll
  2. Re:Why Not? on Should Kids Be Bribed To Do Well In School? · · Score: 1

    'The richest corporations' would be harmed quite a bit in a hyper-inflation scenario,

    - sure, but not the richest people, those who matter. Like CITI group's Robert Rubin, Chuck Prince and 3 more executives, making together about 150 million dollars while CITI was collapsing.

    There are no owners, these people are not owners, their interest is short and only they are important, everyone else is dirt. They get the bailouts and diamond parachutes with golden straps. To these people it does not matter that stockholders and other low level company workers are getting screwed, so while hyper-inflation is not good for the most of us, the top richest people will be just fine, transferring their money into other global currencies, stocks and commodities.

    In this environment paying taxes seems like a really raw deal.

  3. Imagine this headline in Soviet Russia on MIT Researchers Harness Viruses To Split Water · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia Viruses Harness MIT Researchers To Split Water.

    I don't know why, I must be really sleepy to go for the old 'Soviet Russia' gig and not with a better suitable naked and petrified Natalie Portman is pouring hot water splitting Viruses down MIT Researchers Pants.

    Oh .... this is bad.

  4. Re:Hopefully they aren't too effective.. on MIT Researchers Harness Viruses To Split Water · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, I think you are approximately 90% FUD and 10% skin.

  5. Re:Short Stories on Hollywood's Growing Obsession With Philip K. Dick · · Score: 1

    I am writing down your comments right now:
    1. Dick.
    2. Short stories.

    Ok, so this is good stuff: Short Dick stories. What else?

  6. silent HTPC and silent site on How Neuros Built Their Nearly Silent HTPC · · Score: 4, Funny

    Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 12058624) (tried to allocate 35 bytes) in /var/www/open.neurostechnology.com/includes/menu.inc on line 1224 ...
    Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 1048576) (tried to allocate 4864 bytes) in /var/www/open.neurostechnology.com/includes/theme.inc on line 890 ...

    - it's so silent, nobody can hear it scream.

  7. pf on What Advice For a Single Parent As Server Admin? · · Score: 1

    OpenBSD with packet filter + djbdns for dns caching and resolution.

    packet filter allows rules to control local NAT and redirection of connections to/from external addresses. But this does not control clients for all of the other functions you are asking, that probably can be done with PCAnywhere or some other VNC.

    However it is not a simple task, from 0 to everything works it may take many many days if you have never done it before.

  8. Re:Why Not? on Should Kids Be Bribed To Do Well In School? · · Score: 1

    Our society is built upon the investment of past generations. Every generation has to make a certain contribution just to maintain our society, our standard of living, much less increase it.

    - what about the previous generations that are leaving the new ones in USA with an insurmountable pile of debt, that you can't even pay interest on, forget about paying out the principal? Do the new generations still owe it to the old ones? I think not. I think the new generations would be better served doing nothing for the old ones. Forget about paying taxes, the social system is over, the social security has been spent, the medicare will get worse now, the unemployment insurance has been spent, it's all about printing money now.

    So when the richest get the money that are newly printed just now and the poorest have to subsidize the richest corporations by having their funds slashed with every new printed dollar, the society is no longer functioning. It is everybody's duty to stop paying taxes, let the government default or print itself into hyper inflation.

  9. Re:Why Not? on Should Kids Be Bribed To Do Well In School? · · Score: 1

    So because you want to live to 80 and you are saying you'll need a doctor, everybody has to care?

  10. Re:tired of this crap on Larry Sanger Tells FBI Wikipedia Distributes "Child Pornography" · · Score: 1

    No, your anonymous cowardly reasons not obvious.

  11. Re:tired of this crap on Larry Sanger Tells FBI Wikipedia Distributes "Child Pornography" · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I am thinking of the children and the question is: should they be subjected to this level or retardation in the world?

    Should the children be forced to grow up in this dark fucking place surrounded by these mentally ill, retarded, brainless idiots? What did they do to get this punishment?

  12. tired of this crap on Larry Sanger Tells FBI Wikipedia Distributes "Child Pornography" · · Score: 0, Troll

    That's it, if I ever was against real child pornography before, I am done. I am all for it now. I know how to fight this insanity - with insanity.

    The world needs to be FLOODED in child pornography. It must be put everywhere, so that there is not a single place, not a single site, not a single freaking lamppost that does not have a picture or a video of some child fucking.

    Fuck the fucking children but most of all, fuck the fucking grown up idiots.

    One thing makes me happy: everybody will die. Death, that's the fucking cure to idiocy.

  13. Re:a better question on Should Kids Be Bribed To Do Well In School? · · Score: 1

    I suggest to stop being lazy, set up a corporation in a tax friendly location (some place taxes are very very low) and work through that corporation. Do not pay yourself a large salary, use the corporate account to buy whatever you need and use creative accounting techniques to write the expenses against taxes. I suggest learning about hedging and leveraging derivative bets, in fact it would be best to have more than 1 corporation 'work' with each other to set up the system of derivative bets that are highly leveraged - this is lucrative, because on the books it can be declared that the company has either debt or equity as needed to minimize taxes and maybe even to get into a more interesting are: getting subsidies for situations set up by the government for such cases.

    Stop being a tool, do not pay taxes, make the society your personal infinite banker, who would sponsor whatever shady deals that you are running. Take everything you can and give nothing back.

  14. Re:Why Not? on Should Kids Be Bribed To Do Well In School? · · Score: 1

    Who the hell expects to live that long or even wants to?

  15. Hate both, Adobe and Apple on Adobe Evangelist Lashes Out Over Apple's "Original Language" Policy · · Score: 1

    Dear Adobe and dear Apple, I hope your rotten carcasses end up stinking up the tall bloody walls of HELL.

    Adobe, you and your Flash is the same as Apple and its iCrap products.

    Apple, you and your iCrap products are really just as useful to me as Adobe and their Flash.

    PS: This is a totally personal note, I am not speaking for anybody else, except myself. If there was a way to put Adobe and Apple into a single line (file), eyes of one looking into the back of the head of the other, I would do that and shoot right through their left eye with a 30mm cannon shell.

    Thank you.

  16. Re:How elastic? on Scientists Turn T-Shirts Into Body Armor · · Score: 1

    I hope he took it like a man.

  17. Re:Why Not? on Should Kids Be Bribed To Do Well In School? · · Score: 1

    Damn you must have had a shitty childhood.

    - not much worse than most other people.

    My kids aren't "forced" to go to school. They love it. They love learning. They take on learning tasks all by themselves, without financial incentives.

    - so they fit just fine into the curriculum that is set up for them, good anecdote, now are you saying everybody must fit because your kids do?

    I disagree with paying kids for good grades because it incetivizes cheating, and it removes the main reason for learning: it's fun.

    - again, are you saying that everybody must love and enjoy what is being pushed onto them at school?

    Think about this. Do you learn a new programming language because you are forced to? Because your boss pays you more? Or because it's fun?

    - it's not 'fun', it's useful if you are doing something that requires you to learn that language. After you go through the first 3-5, the rest is regurgitation of the same concepts in different syntax. Yeah, that's 'fun', however it may be useful.

    Heck, if people expected to get paid for learning, then linux would not exist. It's built by people who love learning new things.

    - as in Linux the kernel or GNU the tools? While the kernel might have been done 'for fun' at first (not for the last 10 years though), the tools were not done for fun, mostly they were created out of necessity.

    With your post you are not showing how the school curriculum is supposed to be fun and exciting and a reward in itself to learn. Programming and Linux and GNU has nothing to do with those things that ARE forced by schools.

  18. Re:Why Not? on Should Kids Be Bribed To Do Well In School? · · Score: 1

    I see that you are disagreeing. I'll tell you this: when I was a child the question of 'why was I forced into this world' popped into my mind when I was around eight years old. It took me a couple of years to formulate it in a precise manner and ask my mother. She was shocked.

  19. Re:Behaviorism run amok on Should Kids Be Bribed To Do Well In School? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Do you know what these intrinsic motivators are?

    I'll tell you:

    1. Thirst.
    2. Hunger.
    3. Fear (of death, of pain...)
    4. Sex drive.
    and much much further than this is
    X. Curiosity.

    In most people natural curiosity does not lie within the defined boundaries of what is required from them at schools.

    Most schools and most classes do not promote curiosity and most people cannot be curious about most things that are required from them at school.

    How do you suggest making everyone have the same intrinsic motivators to do some insane work defined by some insane curriculum, most of which is really only directed at creating an obedient working unit and like it?

  20. Re:Why Not? on Should Kids Be Bribed To Do Well In School? · · Score: 1

    social contract, what a one sided 'agreement' that is.

  21. Re:Why Not? on Should Kids Be Bribed To Do Well In School? · · Score: 1

    I am sure plenty end up that way.

  22. Re:Why Not? on Should Kids Be Bribed To Do Well In School? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've never met a kid who said he'd rather never have been born altogether.

    - nice to meet you then.

  23. Re:No on Should Kids Be Bribed To Do Well In School? · · Score: 1

    Well, realize there has to be some motivation to go to school, nobody asked the kids before they were born: do you want to exist? Do you want to go to school? Do you want to have to work?

    No, nobody asked anything, they forced the kids into this world, forced them to school, forced them to work, forced them to buy garbage they don't need, forced them into all kinds of things, sometimes forcing them into wars and to die also for causes that are beyond their own reasons.

    Should people be always rewarded? If the learning in itself is not a big enough reward, then what is wrong with extra incentive? Nothing. If someone does not want to learn for the sake of learning, if someone does not want to know more for the sake of knowing more or even for some ephemeral future, which may come but also may not come in the expected shape based on any knowledge or education... Basically if they don't want to learn for any reason that you consider to be important, then there really is not much left but give direct incentive.

    That, or you may hit them. You can hit them and yell at them and force them that way, just to avoid punishment. Do you think that would be more useful?

  24. Re:Why Not? on Should Kids Be Bribed To Do Well In School? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Kids. Kids didn't ask their parents to be born. Their parents didn't ask the kids: do you want to be born and go through this? None of that happened. Kids are forced to be born, forced to do whatever the grownups tell them, forced to learn all of this nonsense, forced to become 'productive members of society' and by the society they are often forced to have their own offspring just so that there will be the next generation of 'productive members of society' ready to pay for the mistakes of the former ones.

    Sure kids need motivation to go to school. There has to be some motivation and if all other motivations fail, money just may be the last resort.

  25. Re:Firefox lite. on Why Mozilla Needs To Go Into Survival Mode · · Score: 1

    It's true, I am an idiot like that, an absolute moron of that, if you will :)