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  1. What is the difference between Qwest and NSA ? on Americans Not Bothered by NSA Spying · · Score: 1

    Corporations already have this info. Corporations run this country.

    Hell, Exxon declared war on Iraq.

  2. Unions suck on Tech Workers of the World Unite? · · Score: 1

    Think IT jobs are fleeing the U.S. at a fast rate now? Unionize. Then you'll really see them go!

  3. Meanwhile... on MPAA training Dogs to Sniff Out DVDs · · Score: 1

    ...a bunch of religious fanatics from the middle of an arbitrarily designated direction are packing a dirty bomb into a crate that they plan to ship to DC via FedEx which will slide by the dogs undetected.... ...OK fine. I admit it I have been drinking. Alot.

  4. Those cunts at Cox are screwing us! on Cox May replace its own DVRs with TiVos · · Score: 1

    I guess it is only to be expected....

  5. Re:My history with VIM on Vim 7 Released · · Score: 1


    Well, compared to ed vi(m) is extemely user friendly.

    Ah, but this is 25 years later, and surely "we" can come up with something better you may retort... and you would be correct. Sort of.

    Thing about vi is that once you do actually master the admittedly arcane keystrokes and escape sequences... you end up with a very powerful *code* editor.

    I would ahte to write a book using vi (but people have BION), but of coding... well let me just say that MS is missing the boat by not bundling a vi keystoke option with Visual C++.

  6. Re:Viewing the space shuttle on U.S. Considers Anti-Satellite Laser · · Score: 1

    Because they weren't looking at Columbia.

  7. Re:Classic Cylons? on New Battlestar Galactica Spin-off Series Announced · · Score: 1

    I never saw the T-100 with the fake skin (that I can recall). I meant the T-1's that looked like battlebots with chainguns.

    Oh well.

  8. Re:We eat cheese doodles and wash it down w/ coke on Americans Are Seriously Sick · · Score: 1

    You might try fucking off.... any try eating something that was at one time alive for a change.

  9. We eat cheese doodles and wash it down w/ coke on Americans Are Seriously Sick · · Score: 1

    Well, alot of American's do anyway. Sometimes punctuated by pizza and beer. Exersize? Right. So is this really a suprise?

    I refuse to allow such "food" into my home. Well, beer every now and again. It really appalls me when I look at the diet of many of my fellow Americans. I am by no means a strident vegan, and I generally keep my views about diet to myself - however I do note that I am in shape, rarely sick, and according to my doctor in great health. I just maintain a healthy and varied diet of lean meats and veggies. I eat one portion per meal, no seconds. No snacks after 8 PM. Work out three times a week. That is it.

    I find that my wife and I are exceptional this way.

    As has probably been noted - Europeans walk much more - to the train, to work, to the store. Americans drive. I don't know of their diet is better over there - they certainly have alot of the same junk foods on the shelves in London. Maybe they just eat two or three Oreos at a sitting rather than quaffing the hole damn package.

  10. Primitive state of software on FOSS Is Not Free if It's Not Free From Complexity · · Score: 1

    Sorry, software is still a primitive art. We humans tend to do things the hard way first, it seems to be the nature of our thought process.

    But don't fear... it will get simpler. It already has to a great degree.

  11. Re:No threat on Are National ID Cards a Good Idea? · · Score: 1

    Actually, there is no "US system" for identification.

    The Social Security number, was never meant to evolve into a de facto identification number - it was simply meant to reference an individual for one government agency - the Social Security Administration (which predominantly dispenses monthly living expense checks to retired and disabled citizens).

    The fact that it is now used as such (but in a competely arbitary and random manner) is totally screwed up. The SSA years ago once even asked organizations - both gov't and private - to stop this practice

  12. So much easier and cheaper than, say.... on Store Your Own Juice · · Score: 1

    ...running your dishwasher and laundry machines at night, turning off lights, using low wattage bulbs, turning off the A/C while you are at work, and not letting your TV blare inane push marketing to an empty room.

    Hell I could probably beat the savings this thing provides simply by throwing away my toaster.

    In the workplace... along with some of the above ideas: have employees power down their PC's at night, turn off their lights, and lower the shades on sunny sides of the building during the day.

  13. Re:Classic Cylons? on New Battlestar Galactica Spin-off Series Announced · · Score: 1

    Maybe the orignal Cylons won't look like the original series Cylons (aka the T-1 terminiators in Terminator 3 were not remotely Arnold looking).

    And BTW as well as OT, who played the OTHER Terminator in the original Terminator movie? (The one that infiltrated the base?)

  14. Motorcycles are generally only dangerous... on Low Emission Cars Continue to Gain Popularity · · Score: 1

    ..to their riders.

    Unlike your basic Ford Excursion, which would probably double quite well as a tank.

    Seems to me that if someone wants to take the chance on a motorcycle then that is their perogative, because they are (for the most part) only going to hurt themselves.

    That said I am sure there are numerous examples of pedestrians/bystanders/ect killed by motorcycles.

  15. Re:American fuel prices are not high. on Low Emission Cars Continue to Gain Popularity · · Score: 1

    More precisely, you should state "American fuel is not taxed heavily."

    Of course this is Bush's fault. After all we weren't driving cars at all before he took office.

  16. The clear choice on Blu-Ray/HD-DVD Talks End · · Score: 1

    The one *I* don't buy in to.

    Let's check my track record, shall we....?

    BetaMax
    X2
    PS/2
    MemoryStick
    FreeBSD and OS/2

  17. Would you say that the.... on On World of Warcraft's Network Issues · · Score: 1

    ....network was ganked? hawhawhawhawhawhawhaw

    Oh well.

  18. Re:Job growth =! Entry-level job growth on The Continuing American Decline in CS · · Score: 1

    Washington DC and Boston, for two. I have heard prospects are pretty bright in Denver.

    Hey, there is noting wrong with San Diego - but to each their own.

  19. Re:My experience on Porting to 64-bit Linux · · Score: 1

    That's great... for HelloWorld.c.

    Now... get it to actually work, be backwards compatible with your 32 bit compiler, and do something even slightly nontrivial. Say, pack a struct into a datagram on your 64 bit host, send it to a 32 bit host, and unpack it into a struct with the same byte alignment (using the same code on both hosts).

  20. Maybe they are trapped by... on Virtual World, Real Money · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... the inability to take a shower, hit the gym, and subsequently get laid.

  21. I am a gank farmer on Virtual World, Real Money · · Score: 0

    Yes. Also, I will gil you the first chance I get. Prepare to have your dog gibbed.

  22. Re:80 hours vacation? on Leaving Early May Cost You Time · · Score: 1

    It is true - here in the US the situation with regard to time off is deplorable. Generally there are 10 paid holidays, and I'd wildy guess an average of 15 paid days off a year. This all depends on the employer, and there are many permutations of sick and personal time off policies.

    Maternity leave is even worse. Basically your job will be held for 12 weeks, and they make you burn all of your accued vacation and sick time, then any short term disability (which amounts to 6 weeks of fractional pay). Again, this policy varies by employer, but that is basically it.

    People can argue the merits of both systems, but I persoanlly thing the American system sucks. I'd be willing to take time off without pay for a couple of extra weeks a year if it were available, but most often this is not an option.

  23. Re:I simply don't believe in 747 shark laser. on Sci-Fi Weapons to Join US Arsenal? · · Score: 1

    Well the ABL (and US missile defense system in general), is not intended to counter a Russian or Chinese attack... but let's assume for the moment that it is.

    Regardless of flight path, the mauevering Russian reentry vehicle will not be able to manuever nearly fast enough to elude a guided energy weapon. It would be detected, targeted, engaged, and destroyed in milliseconds. Kill assesment would be instantaneous - if they miss they can reengage again - all in under a second.

    Also, you speak as if the RV will be a perfect spheroid of some (nonexistant) reflective material. It will not be. It will have control surfaces, imperfections, and thrust nozzles, all of which will be vunerable to the delieered energy.

    Assuming the missile survies long enough to get out of the atmosphere at all, which it probably won't as ascent phase defenses will have already engaged it.

  24. Re:Discrimination is discrimination is wrong on Sandals and Ponytails Behind Slow Linux Adoption · · Score: 1

    Hot chicks with huge tits rule.

  25. Briggs and Stratton on The Man Who Said No to Wal-Mart · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A lawn mower is for the most part, an engine. B&S makes engines for most of the mowers out there (Snapper included). B&S engines are also on Murrays - the $138 mower sold at Walmart.

    I bought one of these mowers 5 years ago... and it still runs fine.

    Briggs and Stratton is the real variable here, not Snapper.