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  1. FUD versus Disruptive Technologies on OLPC and the "Innovator's Opportunity" · · Score: 1
  2. Re:STOP THE PRESSES! on Canadian Minister Lies On Net Surveillance Claims · · Score: 1

    So if you do something bad, but do it a lot, it becomes normal and acceptable?

    YES as per Nike.

  3. Re:huh? on Has the Glory Gone Out of Working In IT? · · Score: 1

    "You are a product of your environment." --Clement Stone

  4. Re:Uhh, Who's Gonna Pay?!? on How To Save $1 Trillion a Year With Open Source · · Score: 1
  5. Re:LINUX INSIDE! on Net Radio Exec Says "Don't Mention Linux" · · Score: 1

    Programmers think in terms of RIGHT or WRONG and MBAs think in terms of PRIORITIES.

  6. Re:From My Simpleton Point of View on Why Developers Get Fired · · Score: 1

    Bingo. PHBs prefer to hire Highly Qualified Wage Slaves

  7. Liar's poker on Incorporating Human Behavior Into Wall Street Mathematical Models · · Score: 1

    Wall Street Mathematical Models are a variant of Liar's poker, a bar game that combines statistical reasoning with bluffing.

  8. Value based management on Incorporating Human Behavior Into Wall Street Mathematical Models · · Score: 1
  9. Traditionally on Why Users Drop Open Source Apps For Proprietary Alternatives · · Score: 1
    Open source apps priorities have been
    1. Features
    2. Performance
    3. Usability

    And closed source apps priorities have been

    1. Usability
    2. Features
    3. Performance
  10. Re:In related news... on James Murdoch Criticizes BBC For Providing "Free News" · · Score: 1
  11. Re:Wtf BBC? Seriously? on Communication Lost With Indian Moon Satellite · · Score: 1

    "A country is not made of land; a country is made of its people." -- G.A.Rao

  12. Re:And the solution...? on IBM, Other Multinationals "Detaching" From the US · · Score: 1

    "If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you." --Oscar Wilde

  13. And on A Broken Heart Really Does Hurt, Scientists Claim · · Score: 1

    social rejection massively reduces the intelligence and injects aggressiveness in children.
    http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2051

  14. Re:M*U*L*T*I*N*A*T*I*O*N*A*L*S on IBM, Other Multinationals "Detaching" From the US · · Score: 1

    "Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." --George Bernard Shaw

  15. Re:And the solution...? on IBM, Other Multinationals "Detaching" From the US · · Score: 1

    "A country is not made of land; a country is made of its people." --G.A.Rao

  16. Re:Apparently the reply was - on Apple Allegedly Sought Non-Poaching Deal With Palm · · Score: 1

    "Behind every great fortune there is a crime." --Honore de Balzac

  17. Google FTW on Irish ISP To Block Access To Pirate Bay · · Score: 1
  18. What does Ubuntu mean? on The Myth of the Isolated Kernel Hacker · · Score: 1

    Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'Humanity to others', or 'I am what I am because of who we all are'. The Ubuntu distribution brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the software world.
    http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu

  19. Re:You know what company is shamefully absent? on The Myth of the Isolated Kernel Hacker · · Score: 1

    "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." --Rick Cook

  20. Re:USA vs Europe on US Life Expectancy May Have Peaked · · Score: 1
  21. Re:USA! USA! USA! on US Life Expectancy May Have Peaked · · Score: 1

    "You are a product of your environment." --Clement Stone

  22. Re:P.T. Barnum Had it Right on First American Internet Addiction Treatment Center · · Score: 1
  23. Re:money on First American Internet Addiction Treatment Center · · Score: 1

    "Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life." --Andrew Brown

  24. Re:"What color m&ms do you prefer?" on What Questions Should a Prospective Employee Ask? · · Score: 1

    "Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace." --Frederick W. Taylor

  25. Re:I don't know, but... on Is Typing Ruining Your Ability To Spell? · · Score: 1

    "Nothing you can't spell will ever work." --Will Rogers