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  1. Re:Her teachers were aware of it and did nothing.. on 9 MA Cyberbullies Indicted For Causing Suicide · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "I'm astonished every time I hear about bullying in North America. "

    There was bullying in Mexico reported too?

    Ah, in Canada then?

    South Americans are Americans too.

    As are Central Americans.

    American, or North American is incorrectly used to designate a USA citizen in the Americas especially and it'll be mocked snidely. Sometimes even Latin Americans make the faux pas.

    I particularly love it when USA citizens refer to home as "the States." Syllables are cheap add a U-ni-ted why don't you. Not to mention the trite, beat to the death "on the other side of the pond." Gad, save words, just say "across the Atlantic," you're not cool just pedestrian in your language use.

    Eats shoot and leaves. You pander bear.

  2. Re:War on Open Source, Open Standards Under Attack In Europe · · Score: 1

    In accord to your sentiment: Why would any self-respecting European want to be beholden to a foreign mega corporation? One from the USA especially?

    I know, masochism.

    Analogous. I've always wondered why the ferocity of free marketeers? to protect northwest US old-forest loggers (a commodity business, who wants to be in that racket. Finite one at that, but, yet rail against the car makers, the steel makers and workers. Since the 1980s I've yet ever to see a rational lucid explanation of that one. Less you be facile, they all donated big bucks to Republicans, laissez faire types, at one time. mmm'k), an old tech industry.

    Relatively low market cap in relation, low number jobs creation in relation, exportation numbers low in relation.

    What is it the macho, frontiersman mystique. That would be my guess.

  3. Re:Not this again... on Will Your Answers To the Census Stay Private? · · Score: 1

    Michelle Malkin, darling of the wingnuts, FNC fave, of Phillipine background herself (and zero-generation at that, I think she fell off the boat as a child), DEFENDS on FNC the Japanese internment!

    She would not peddle this shtick unless someone, lots of someones in present day America, did not buy it.

    Self-hating ethnic? Do anything for money? Believe it wholeheartedly? Who cares.

    It's here today. There's nothing new under the sun. History will repeat itself. It's human nature. Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom. There, I covered it all for you.

  4. Re:Good for PF...but also...bad for PF? on EMI Cannot Unbundle Pink Floyd Songs · · Score: 1

    WTF! I thought a new version of pf(8) had come out. Rats. Acronym spouting ...

  5. Re:Easy way to stop this from happening on HTC Android Phones Found With Malware Pre-Installed · · Score: 1

    Cher Wang get off your ass and fix this! Or are you too busy basking in your fortune making skills and the ?fud? storm apple unleashed on you and how that fouled up your American, OEM business?

    Dazzle me.

  6. Re:Police is investigating it too on EU Says Google Street View Violates Privacy · · Score: 1

    I see, did they ask the Google to take down the photos and Google refused to comply or something?

    "Officer, any time I'm speeding, you just let me know and I'll stop doing it, OK? I'm happy to comply."

    Officer that pervert saw me naked!

    How did he sneak into your private quarters, broke a lock?

    No, sir, I was getting undresses in front of a window and the perv was looking at me.

    Buy some curtains! Move along, now!

  7. Re:What about Baidu? on Losing Google Would Hit Chinese Science Hard · · Score: 1

    ``Baidu has the majority of marketshare in China nationally, but is a minority among Chinese scientists.''

    The Times has reported that it is the "educated" chinese population that overwhelmingly use google.cn.

    Baidu has a leg up for various reasons (the press reports google as an also ran but looking at the numbers googgle has half of baidu's market share! how is that gad awful? oh well: baidu ~60%, ~google.cn 30% others 10%). Baidu were early to china, but they skyrocketed with warez and the all important mp3 results. The Chinese government preferentially-treats local businesses. Foreign corps cannot own >= %50 of a business, and typically must! reveal technology secrets to participate. Baidu is agile, no doubt, they throw in whatever the population wants, facebook clones, twitter shizzle, all that on their site (very Japanese that way). But because baidu is a mercantilist company, as well the chinese governemt is!, they Marcellus Wallace their customers. Fugg! Freedom, ethics, freak that! They are the children of Deng Xiaoping. They eagerly accept the Dengian bargain, make money but don't disobey the Party.

    Now baidu might face a dilemma. If google.cn leaves China, is it really true that they will? who knows, there will be no one of consequence to say no to the government, and baidu will have to stop drafting and face head on the buffeting winds of the chinese people's desires (you can have Communist Party vetted results or Communist Party vetted results - how long will that fly day after month after year). Will they endure it, or will they reach out for a lead pipe and some hard hitting niggas? Heady thoughts, but IOW, those uppity westerners were troublesome with their freedom silliness, but dangit the chinese might miss the A game competitors, the impetus to improve, the dumb gweilos, bakgweis eager to share tech in search (jaja) of any pot of gold. Whilst having their tech and ideas perennially used against them, via partnering, cracking, or espionage. Will the smarter expats reach a fed up point? Will it spread? Will the flying elephant fall in surprise?

    That is the dilemma. They might get what they want.

  8. You do as I say, I'll do as I want on EU Says Google Street View Violates Privacy · · Score: 1

    And don't you ever! EU ( nee EC ), Japanese citizens use StreetView to plan, sightsee, research the USA via Google Maps StreetView. That would be hypocrisy. Yeah right.

  9. Re:No, your kids did NOT love them. on The People vs. George Lucas To Premiere At SXSW · · Score: 1

    > and McHammer... who?

    Come on! That's above the pale. You can't touch this.

  10. Mutt It on Truth Or Dare — What Is the Best US Cell Company? · · Score: 1

    It's been said before: "All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less." -me, circa 1995

    All cellular carriers suck. Find the one that sucks less.

  11. Eat Me on Why Counter-Terrorism Is In Shambles · · Score: 1

    Oh, and we executed Japanese commanders for authorizing the waterboarding of POWs during WWII.

    Your ignorance is cramping my conversation. You're so cute with your moral equivalency shtick. Lookee here, pendejo. Did you know that the Japanese Imperial Army, its fucking order-following people, vivisected its EPWs---fuck, not even regular or irregulars, just the populace that made good cannon fodder for its depravity.

    explaining what it is like to cut open a 30-year-old man who is tied naked to a bed and dissect him alive, without anesthetic. "The fellow knew that it was over for him, and so he didn't struggle when they led him into the room and tied him down," recalled the 72-year-old farmer, then a medical assistant in a Japanese Army unit in China in World War II. "But when I picked up the scalpel, that's when he began screaming.

    Into the present, Japanese participants to the atrocity justify, en masse, the incalculable immorality as the moral, ethical equivalency of pedestrian war duty. They have you beat in the rationalizing department, but you make a good protege. Don't let make me catch you in my neck of the woods, I'll in vivo your ass.

  12. Re:Specs don't matter on Nexus One vs. Top 10 Phone Security Requirements · · Score: 1

    "User experience" is important for geeks too

    Reminds me of the the old pearl: newsreaders are for pussies, real men use telnet.

  13. licorice icecream on Google's Nexus One Phone Launches · · Score: 1

    to get around this stupid limitation an app would need to come with a loader that would then download the remaining data to the SD card

    I was going to rag on you for bitching about a surely temporary limitation from the maiden debut of a one-dot-zero product, but dang! 190 MBs?! WTF. Browser caches are bigger than that.

    A more important question is, why must it use 190 megs of its storage for applications?

  14. Re:How about some digital cash? on You Won't Recognize the Internet in 2020 · · Score: 1

    WTF, I don't know what happened to it but I had included a NY Times URL.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/19/business/smallbusiness/19edge.html?8dpc

  15. Re:How about some digital cash? on You Won't Recognize the Internet in 2020 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ha? You are talking about prepaid cash cards. They exist for a while now. A lot of places in the USA no less, like Walgreens (as Mom and pop as you get), sell them, and visa logoed cards too. slysoft uses it for their **aa averse customers for example.

  16. Re:Sorry on Bono Hopes Content Tracking Will Help Media Moguls · · Score: 1

    It is well-recognized now that "foreign aid" in the form of shipping food, medicine, etc. to starving populations has done little but exacerbate the problem

    Give the source for a thesis next time, will you. Or maybe you don't know where this bold idea originated/gained traction.

    Dambisa Moyo, African, black, female, western educated, prestigiously credentialed ``argues that foreign aid has harmed Africa and that it should be phased out.''

    Her book _Dead Aid_ ``offers proposals for developing countries to finance development, instead of relying on foreign aid. Moyo has stated that her arguments are based on those made by pro-market economists like Peter Bauer (to whom the book is dedicated)[22] and, later, William Easterly.[23] The Financial Times summarized the book's argument: "Limitless development assistance to African governments, she argues, has fostered dependency, encouraged corruption and ultimately perpetuated poor governance and poverty."[24] She argues that foreign aid helps perpetuate the cycle of poverty and hinders economic growth in Africa.''

  17. Re:crapola on SpamAssassin 2010 Bug · · Score: 2, Informative

    OpenBSD spamd(8) is wholly unrelated from spamassassin spamd. FYI.

    OpenBSD spamd(8) has no code from any other project. Its similarity in appellation is name deep.

    OpenBSD spamd(8) approach is different and was created by deraadt@.

  18. Clarfify, S'il vous plait on Google Nexus Rumored To Cost $530 Or $180 w/Plan · · Score: 1

    GSM people realized that CDMA > TDMA when they [GSM people?] got together to make WCDMA (also called UMTS). From a simple view, UMTS is CDMA, but using a 5 MHz frequency band, rather than the ~1.25 MHz band that CMDA uses.

    It's all good but can you clarify this point, please.

  19. Re:A case of the pundays on Happy Birthday, Linus · · Score: 1

    ``"It's not theft, it's copyright infringement," implying that it's not as bad. ''

    Your right to protest is your right to be shot in Tibet. Semantics matter dipshit.

  20. Re:How hard is it to have something like this in U on China Debuts the World's Fastest Train · · Score: 1

    but we spend BILLIONS annually on road transport, and less than 1% of that on rail transport

    Yeah, but can I park one in my garage.

  21. Nous avons nagé dans une piscine de merde on 50 Years of Domesticating Foxes For Science · · Score: 1

    the atomic bomb is only a bad thing if used on a massive global scale

    I've been to Hiroshima: You're full of shit.

    I've been to Pearl Harbor: You're full of shit.

    Your turn.

  22. Re:not quite that on Grigory Perelman and the Poincare Conjecture · · Score: 1

    I don't know why anyone is belaboring these guys. When this story broke years ago, and if you read that post now lazy asses, you'd see that those Chinese mathematicians are serial dot-the-i's cross-the-t's fame proof whores. End of story, Stop belaboring the point, bitches.

  23. Tiger Eats Kitty Balls on Firefox 3.5 Now the Most Popular Browser Worldwide · · Score: 1

    So you're saying this is a web bug, and we have a FF plugin for those: Ghostery.

  24. Michael R. Elkins on Google Attack On the Mobile Market Rumored · · Score: 1

    IOW, you're referencing the Mutt motto: All cellular carriers suck, but, this one (Google) would suck less. --Michael R. Elkins

  25. Nobel on Google Street View Wants You to Direct New Tricycle Imager · · Score: 1

    D00d!! That's brilliant. I get a feel for what you suggested by using Google sat view, but your idea is Nobel-winning good.