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  1. Re:Who promised? on Researchers Can ID Anonymous Twitterers · · Score: 2, Informative

    David.

  2. Re:Palin? on Is Your IM Buddy Really a Computer? · · Score: 1

    I wish, I've never seen a basement in California :( Plus then I'd not be stuck paying rent and other bills.

  3. Re:Or is your computer really an IM Buddy? on Is Your IM Buddy Really a Computer? · · Score: 1

    Until people online find out where a chatbot is and that they can make it respond based on what they've said earlier. Poor, poor santabot :(

  4. Re:Palin? on Is Your IM Buddy Really a Computer? · · Score: 1

    I have an ex girlfriend who said that. Politics is a big reason we're exes :P

  5. Re:Obama Policies Will Bankrupt USA Tsarkon Report on .CA Registrar Trying To Preempt Conficker · · Score: 2, Funny

    Got your tin foil hat ready, too? :D

  6. Hrm on .CA Registrar Trying To Preempt Conficker · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Am I the only one hoping this thing turns out HUGE? It'd be interesting to see what happens.

  7. Re:get shitcanned, its good for character on How Do You Deal With Pirated Programs At Work? · · Score: 0

    Why is this -1'ed? It's true.

  8. Hrm on Australia's Vast, Scattershot Censorship Blacklist Revealed · · Score: 1

    Now to add to my porn links.

  9. Re:after a nuclear war on 95M-Year-Old Octopus Fossils Discovered · · Score: 1

    Bane of my existence at work. At least it hasn't evolved yet to be able to withstand zapnotes and deleting C:\Program Files\Notes and the Userdata file.

  10. Re:Uh, no it's not. Never was. Never will be. on Computer Science Major Is Cool Again · · Score: 1

    Likewise for Hackers

  11. Re:Denver uninstalled their cameras on Cities View Red Light Cameras As Profit Centers · · Score: 1

    30 is a trip to work (which is in walking distance of the other job and the school) and back, and in a 97 civic you're not using a ton of gas. As for maintenance, I've already used packing tape on the side mirror that someone knocked off in a parking lot.

  12. Re:Denver uninstalled their cameras on Cities View Red Light Cameras As Profit Centers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, that's it. I'll just ignore the fact that I work until 12AM, and the buses stop running at 10. Whatever floats your boat though, I'm not in the mood to argue with idiots who stick to a "My way is best and everyone else should follow it!" ideology.

  13. Re:Denver uninstalled their cameras on Cities View Red Light Cameras As Profit Centers · · Score: 1

    Gas isn't 120 a month, it's at the most 30. Having a car is a necessity in parts of California to get anywhere like work and school, so it's either have a car or starve.

  14. Re:Denver uninstalled their cameras on Cities View Red Light Cameras As Profit Centers · · Score: 1

    Good idea, maybe I should just sign up for welfare and stop going to school since I can't get to work/class without insurance. Thanks!

  15. Re:Denver uninstalled their cameras on Cities View Red Light Cameras As Profit Centers · · Score: 1

    Meh, I've got no wrecks and no tickets, and the best rate I could get out here was 120/month on a 97 civic junker. That's still a huge chunk of cash when you're trying to pay your way through school and, you know, live (even when all you eat is ramen, pizza from work and water)

  16. Re:Stupid Idea as many uninsured motorists are bro on Cities View Red Light Cameras As Profit Centers · · Score: 1

    Rent -> 325/month with a roommate
    Utilities/Internet (yes, a necessity in college when all your teachers think homework should be turned in online) -> 150/month
    Food -> 100/month

    Just the basics brings you up to 575. Now take into account the cost of school without FAFSA (bullshit system with ridiculous requirements to declare yourself an independent) and there's no way you're going to get insurance at $25-30 when you're 20. Having income doesn't mean you have enough to pay the ungodly amounts they're asking for, especially when you're trying to get through school, even with working two jobs for 50 hours a week. Hell, if I lose my job with the state due to this however many billion deficit, or my job at a pizza place due to the lack of business from the economy, insurance is bound to be one of the first things cut because of how much it cost and isn't a necessity for actually living like eating is.

    In short: either you haven't been a broke student in a long time, or your parents wiped your ass for you when you were young and you never had to worry about money issues like that. Either way, your argument is flawed.

  17. Re:Stupid Idea as many uninsured motorists are bro on Cities View Red Light Cameras As Profit Centers · · Score: 1

    Problem is a lot of places don't have a bus system that's worth a damn. Fresno, CA for one is horrible. If the buses are even working and not broken down somewhere, they're never on time and it still takes three hours to get across town.

  18. Re:Denver uninstalled their cameras on Cities View Red Light Cameras As Profit Centers · · Score: 1

    Problem with your "If you can not afford insurance" line: some people need to have a car to get to work/school, but the insurance is ~120 for a college aged male on top of other bills. It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't type of thing. Lord knows I wish the damned bus system here was worth a damn, then I could forgo having to spend money on all this stupid shit just to live.

  19. Re:Paternity Leave on Women Skip Math/Science Careers To Have Families · · Score: 1

    Good god, 70-80? I definitely wish I knew this in High School, could have taken up a better second language and found my way there. And as for females getting higher grades in university, I'd tend to say this is because at a younger age guys tend to screw around a lot rather than focus on school. As a biology teacher I had always liked to point out, autism is caused by testosterone poisoning, and it's a hell of a strong poison.

  20. Re:Common developer problem on Public Bug Tracking and Open-Source Policy · · Score: 0, Troll

    I see "forking" and I think "spooning." I need to stay off 4chan :(

  21. Re:fp on Feds Demand Prison For Guns N' Roses Uploader · · Score: 1

    There we go . I had to paraphrase it because I didn't want to quote it wrong and was too lazy to open another tab and google it *sighs*

  22. Re:If you don't like it on Feds Demand Prison For Guns N' Roses Uploader · · Score: 1

    Don't forget your Guy Fawks masks *rolls eyes*

  23. Re:Gun Point? on Feds Demand Prison For Guns N' Roses Uploader · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If they do send him to jail, it makes me wonder what kind of prison he'd be in. Anything with violent criminals where he would be facing ass rape would be damn good grounds for a lot of people to say fuck the government and burn down a bunch of buildings iimo . "You can't fight city hall, but you sure can burn it down"

  24. Re:fp on Feds Demand Prison For Guns N' Roses Uploader · · Score: 4, Funny

    To paraphrase: No one ever won a war by dying for his country. They won the war by making the other poor sap die for his.

  25. Re:Why the 300GBx2 drives on What Does a $16,000+ PC Look Like, Anyway? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Super Star Destroyers?...*goes back to watching ESB*