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  1. I surprised what the NewYorkCountryLawyer says on BusinessWeek Takes On the RIAA · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    and not get into trouble.

    I wonder if he can say that the RIAA lawyers and the RIAA are a bunch of needle pricked mother fuckers who'd sell their own mother into prostitution.

    Or, the NewYorkCountryLawyer thought of working for the RIAA one time but his parents were married and they turned him down because of it.

    By the way, is there a lawyer(s) that have the same zeal towards our Government's intrusion on our Civil Liberties. Yeah, the EFF and ACLU are doing things, but not quite on NYCL's level.

  2. Thank F'n God! It's about time! on Competition In the Free Textbook Market · · Score: 3, Informative
    What irritated me most in College and especially 'B' school was that these textbooks would run for $80-$130 a piece (and many were soft cover!) and the exact same material was available in some layman's book for under $50. AND, the next Semester rolls around and guess what? Yep, the instructor is using the "new" edition and you have to buy the "new" edition. It was usually a new cover and higher price...that's about it.

    Now, someone once argued with me that information changes and you need to have the latest info. Well, I replied, there's several years lead time from writing to publishing a text and therefore, it's out of date before it's published. And besides, tell me what advances in business that are occurring that requires those in B-school to have the "latest" info? Hmmm? (Even in the group psychology class where you'd think with the social sciences improving there'd would be a need for up to date info. Nope. I had to buy a $120 paperback that told us about Myers-Briggs and when you had a problem with an employee, the correct answer for everything was send him to "sensitivity training". I'm not fucking kidding.) If you have to teach the latest info, then you shouldn't use textbooks.

  3. I want a job there. on Boss Waterboards Employee in Team Building Exercise · · Score: 1
    ...pinning the young sales rep down while their supervisor poured water from a gallon jug over his nose and mouth...

    Water boarding sales reps?!? I want a job there!

  4. Changing Idenity on Companies To Be Liable For Deals With Online Criminals · · Score: 2, Interesting

    .. but what happens if I Jason Smith am not a criminal and there happens to be a Jason Smith criminal out there that isn't me. Also who in their right mind uses their real name on the internet?

    Aaaaaannnnnd, changing identity is easy. It's nothing to create a corporate entity - and that's a real one. Fake ones? Ha! So, while they're checking their all seeing database of criminals, the crooks are changing their identity.

    It's even done by legal, although unethical, businesses. Get too many complaints to the Better Business Bureau just change your business' name.

  5. Re:It was a dumb concept on Goodbye To the SPOT Watch · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It was a pay service for your watch when one's cell phone does most those features and more.

    Which touches on another thing: watches as a time keeping device are in decline. People are using other devices for time. And considering that just about everything these days has a clock on it, what's the point of a watch other than as jewelry.

  6. I wish you weren't AC... on Are C and C++ Losing Ground? · · Score: 1

    Thanks to this idiocracy, we now teach people not programming, but how to use Microsoft & Sun products in college for CS101, and to find any worthwhile thinking in a candidate I need to look for people from a foreign country.

    I agree with just about everything you've said. I question the above, though. Is it really that bad?

  7. Arrrg, i wanted to say.... on Bill Prohibiting Genetic Discrimination Moves Forward · · Score: 1
    The Insurance Industry really wants this because it will eventually keep from being destroyed, IMHO.

    God, I hate editing in these text boxes!

  8. The Insurance Industry really wants this... on Bill Prohibiting Genetic Discrimination Moves Forward · · Score: 3

    Mark A. Rothstein, ... GINA did not cover life insurance and long-term care insurance and that there already were legal ways for prospective employers to gain a job candidateâ(TM)s health information.

    The Insurance Industry really wants this because it will eventually destroy them, IMHO.

    Let's say the insurance industry has free reign for genetic testing. First, they deny all the people that has "pre-existing" conditions. Now, the folks who are accepted know that they're free and clear and do not buy the insurance (OK, they'll buy the accidental death stuff). Therefore, the insurance industry loses all those folks as customers. Of course, I'm over simplifying but I think you get the idea.

  9. Re:The slope, she be slippery! on Google Turns Over Data on Suspected Pedophiles In Brazil · · Score: 1
    Or, how many of us fantasized about robbing a bank, taking over a small country, or even, as Bush himself admitted, being Dictator of America? Would that make us a bank robber or a traitor?

    Any writer of crime fiction could be considered a criminal. Or a Tom Clancy type of writer who writes about plots to assassinate the President. Does the SS investigate them?

  10. Proven guilty? Excuse me? on Google Turns Over Data on Suspected Pedophiles In Brazil · · Score: 5, Insightful
    ...need to be denied suspects until their innocence is proven,...

    Interesting slip there.

    You are innocent until proven guilty; at least, in theory, in America.

  11. Re:And in these games... on US Spies Use Custom Video Games for Training · · Score: 1

    It gets confusing because they all pretend to be medics.

    Ah! I should have tried that. I kept getting booted off because I kept saying, "Kill'em all and let God sort them out!"

  12. Complex? on US Spies Use Custom Video Games for Training · · Score: 0, Troll
    The goal is to quickly train the next generation of spies to analyze complex issues like Islamic fundamentalism

    Complex? Like all fundamentalists, if you don't believe the way they do, you should convert or die.

  13. How to advertise.... on Vuze Study Exposes P2P Throttling By Canadian ISP Cogeco · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How do you adverstise such a thing when less than 10% of your customer base understand the concept behind it? Why would you advertise limited Internet access? I can see the ads

    "Tired of the internet pig next door downloading illegal movies next door and bringing YOUR service to a crawl?

    Working from home and your work just sits there because the guy next door is sharing all of his music with the rest of the world?

    The sex addict down the street is sucking up your internet - BUY FROM US!

    We don't feed the internet pigs!

    Sign up with us and get your work done!

    (in mice type) we throttle P2P, bitorrent, etc...."

    See, no probelm.

  14. Finacing method. on FBI Renews Push for ISP Data Retention Laws · · Score: 1

    They could finance the storage by selling the list of all the porn sites they'll be collecting.

  15. More blind people coming. on Next-Generation CAPTCHA Exploits the Semantic Gap · · Score: 1
    ...more blind and hard-of-sight people will be using the Internet...

    And don't forget all the sighted people who will become blind from "looking" at all that porn!

  16. Re:To mess with the conspiracy theorists... on How Duct Tape Saved Apollo 17's Moon Buggy · · Score: 1

    Or say something like the adhesive on the tape couldn't possibly stand up to the radiation of the sun.

    Oh, sweet!

    I'm getting some great material here. I may have to write a book and donate the proceeds to the EFF.

  17. To mess with the conspiracy theorists... on How Duct Tape Saved Apollo 17's Moon Buggy · · Score: 1
    I really want to go to those conspiracy sites pointing to this picture and say, "See! The Apollo Moon Landings WERE faked! Duck tape ONLY works when there's Oxygen!"

    Oh, pleeeeeeaaaase ?!?! Let me!

  18. So, it's really "duck" tape. on How Duct Tape Saved Apollo 17's Moon Buggy · · Score: 1

    Sealing ammo cans with cloth tape. Though the origin of the name is a controversy, the term is originally "Duck Tape" because water is repelled by the outside surface, thus making it good for ammo cans. You can get the can wet, pull it out of the wet, and since the water rolled off, open the can right away without getting much water in the can. Or, so the story goes. This guy says the same thing...assuming it's not your site :-)

    And, it looks like it really should be called "duck" tape then.

  19. Duct tape great for everything BUT ducts. on How Duct Tape Saved Apollo 17's Moon Buggy · · Score: 1
    Duct Tape developed during WWII.

    Helped the Apollo 13 guys too.

    BUT, what's better for actually using on ducts is foil tape. Duct tape sucks for ducts and will fall off eventually. I'm trying to find why it's named "duct tape" to begin with when it appears to be invented for other things....

    Looking....

  20. Re:Wow on How To Build a $188M Submarine Cable System · · Score: 3, Funny

    Did you know to send mailo overseas countries they use heavier then air flying machines? Isn't that amazing!

    Thank you very little! Now my religion that worships the Tin Sky God has to be disbanded and now I'm out of a job - again!

    Well, there's always that plastic lever god. You move it up or down, as the case may be, and your lights come on!

  21. Histroy uncovered? on How To Build a $188M Submarine Cable System · · Score: 2, Interesting
    How many of you saw the article and the photo and hope that the undersea survey produces more pictures of sunken WWII stuff?

    Or has that area been completely mapped and photographed?

  22. Re:Fuel leaking SR-71's on F-117A Stealth Fighter Retired · · Score: 1

    They still can't outrun a SAM, though.

  23. Re:Hopefully this will work out better on US Government to Have Only 50 Gateways · · Score: 2, Funny
    hundreds of powerful computers at the Department of Defense

    So THAT explains all of the 'enlarge your gun' spam!

  24. Re:From lots of little contracts to BIG CONTRACTS! on US Government to Have Only 50 Gateways · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I wonder what 'Loyal Bushie Companies' are being paid back with the contracts for this work? Considering the questionable way contracts have been awarded by the Government over the last several years, the parent's comment is more "Insightful" than "Troll".

    And, as a taxpayer, is a legitimate question that should be addressed by our Government. Especially, when, not if, it comes to light that the project runs over budget by millions of dollars which they inevitably do. Disgustingly, fleecing of the taxpayer has become de rigeur.

  25. Re:Familiar situation on Tesla's High-Tech Lawsuits in Silicon Valley War · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've never been in that situation but I understand that if you start missing deliverables, the VCs usually have some sort of clause that enables them to throw you out on your ass. You lose everything.