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  1. Re:BS on USPTO Awards LOL Patent To IBM · · Score: 1

    ahh mucho gracias, everything I came up with wasnt rated as pg

  2. Re:If it's not broken, why are you fixing it? on Russia Plans To Divert Asteroid · · Score: 1
    Well... if you want to get technical considering how many different lotteries their are, its probably safe to say someone somewhere wins a lottery daily. Don't get me wrong your indignation at the idiot is well founded, due to the fact that we only have one planet so we only have one ticket to this particular lottery.

    On a side note, does anyone else feel stupid when after typing a post firefox has covered the screen in red squiggles?

  3. Re:Too bad we don't have rules to deal with this on Midwest Seeing Red Over 'Green' Traffic Lights · · Score: 1

    Do you have a source showing they cant get grants if they use a heated led type instead of a led, I would assume that the energy savings are almost as much, and it should retain all of the other led benefits. How do you know that the highway administrations would prefer the incandescent?

  4. Re:Too bad we don't have rules to deal with this on Midwest Seeing Red Over 'Green' Traffic Lights · · Score: 1

    Hurricanes have a bad habit of not even leaving the house itself.

  5. Re:BS on USPTO Awards LOL Patent To IBM · · Score: 1

    I was doing good till I hit afcps

  6. Re:This is not going to end well on Nokia Claims Patent Violations in Most Apple Products · · Score: 1

    Legal moot in this case, but this case has far reaching consequences which Xest pointed out. Frankly I think you both have valid points.

  7. Re:Note the lack of mentioning all the other taxes on NY Times, LA Times Want Amazon To Collect More State Taxes · · Score: 1

    Yes there probably would be, the same teachers who have been teaching forever, and have multiple degrees under their belts. You want to get rid of said highly experienced teacher beacuse why you think they make too much money?

  8. Re:Yeah, it's accelerating, just look at these dat on North Magnetic Pole Moving East Due To Core Flux · · Score: 1

    Ahh ok, that does explain alot.

  9. Re:Yeah, it's accelerating, just look at these dat on North Magnetic Pole Moving East Due To Core Flux · · Score: 2, Informative

    It started at 9 miles per year. Source: TFS OR TFA

  10. Re:Turning Progressive Upside Down on NY Times, LA Times Want Amazon To Collect More State Taxes · · Score: 1

    You create a single payer medical system and ill pay any copyright tax you want.

  11. Re:See, technology is like beer. on Anti-Technology Themes in James Cameron's Avatar · · Score: 1

    I thought i was gonna learn a new word, so i run off to the dictionary and find this "No dictionary definitions were found for: deplicant in English" so at risk of sounding stupid my reply is huh?

  12. Re: on NY Times, LA Times Want Amazon To Collect More State Taxes · · Score: 1
    Just because they do property taxes one way, which I NEVER said I agreed with, doesnt mean all the sudden they can tax any and every thing this way.

    Should programs which no revenue is derived from be taxed? Unlike property source code does not appreciate it depreciates. How much does dos cost nowadays?

    When do you tax these programs youve written? They are automatically your intellectual property the second they are written, so do you have to imediately submit every line of code for your tax pourposes? DO you have to wait till you save and then submit, can you do it when the program is done being written? Or can you wait till after youve compiled the source code. When does programs become taxable? Who will decided they are taxable, and how will you enforce this?

    Admit it this is just a petty swipe at liberals and linux. Your still an idiot.

  13. Re:Asleep at the Switch on One Expert Pegs Yearly Cost of IT Failure At $6.2 Trillion · · Score: 1

    Yea but you just cant play the coulda woulda shoulda game, it didn't work when I was 5, and its not gonna work when corporations do it now. How about this "Don't put all your eggs in one basket" or "Don't count your chickens before they hatch". You cannot budget money you don't have yet, not reliably. Sometimes money thats supposed to show up doesn't for whatever reason, and blaming it on IT workers, and selling your service as an IT expert smacks of selfless, shameless self promotion. And that makes it bunk.

  14. Re:Only amazon? on NY Times, LA Times Want Amazon To Collect More State Taxes · · Score: 1

    No I assumed they were run by GPS tracking nanites. Cant take a joke today? Anyways the "people" running those companies (note the correct spelling of companies) are often looking out for the best way to stuff more dollars in their pockets, their morals go out the window shortly after. So most companies do not have morals.

  15. Re:Let the liberal media pay taxes for once. on NY Times, LA Times Want Amazon To Collect More State Taxes · · Score: 1
    Yes but that still makes you an idiot for trying to tax something, i assume yearly, that can never be sold (Linux). Are you going to have Program assessors look at your source code and tell you to pay money? If I write a program for personal use, and then release it should I be taxed?

    Did the builders have their blueprints taxed?

  16. Re:Only amazon? on NY Times, LA Times Want Amazon To Collect More State Taxes · · Score: 1

    Wait.. Wha? Corporations have morals now? haha good one.

  17. Re:How do you think it works in the EU ? on NY Times, LA Times Want Amazon To Collect More State Taxes · · Score: 4, Informative

    * I think Cook County may be the only county in the country that is legally permitted to levy its own sales tax, but I'm not sure.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_taxes_in_the_United_States. I know for a fact that counties in georgia also levy sales taxes, theres more listed here.. trust me cook county isnt the only one, and to assume so showed you have never left home.

    "Georgia has a 4% state sales tax rate. Groceries are exempt from the state sales tax, but still subject to tax by the local sales tax rate. Counties may impose local sales tax of 1%, 2%, or 3%, consisting of up to three 1% local-option sales taxes (out of a set of five) as permitted by Georgia law."

    MANY MANY MANY counties have sales taxes across the country.

  18. Re:They're very useful... on Microbes That Keep Us Healthy Starting To Die Off · · Score: 2, Funny

    Lol you just equated Macs and Linux to harmful microbes, id hunker down and wait for the down modding from mac and linux mods, but you may just recieve positive mod points from the windows fanboys. On a side note, can you kill windows with antibiotics?

  19. Re:Easy solution on Microbes That Keep Us Healthy Starting To Die Off · · Score: 1

    What about non GPS trackable nanites? Are you solely anti nanite, or anti govrnment tracking?

  20. Re:History on 50 Years of Domesticating Foxes For Science · · Score: 1

    He is saying humans didnt go in and specifically modify the animals genes, selective breeding for certain traits, isnt modifing genes, its encouraging already present traits to be dominant. The animals already had those traits, ergo no gene modification.

  21. Re:the human heart on Priest Tells Poor To Shoplift · · Score: 1
    Who ever said that only hungry people shoplift jackass.

    ALl those items you listed hungry people could care less about.. Does your grocery store sell iPods, and DVDs? (Im specifically count walmart as NOT a grocery store, they have some nasty produce.. ugg, but i digress) lots of grocery stores, also lock up Cigarettes, and razor blades and booze at the customer service counter. and who steals batteries, you cant eat them, you cant pawn them, and they arnt that expensive..

    Personal items like wallets and purses, all i can say is, anyone anywhere can steal that shit from you, not just poor hungry people.

  22. Re:the human heart on Priest Tells Poor To Shoplift · · Score: 1

    I still have a hard time equating stealing food with stealing anything else, or with communism. Seems like straw man arguments... I mean if you were starving, and you had an opportunity to steal a loaf of bread or wahtever to eat, would you do it? I would. I would rather be a thief then dead.

  23. Re:BBC on BBC's Plan To Kick Open Source Out of UK TV · · Score: 1

    Disabled vet going back to school, The government pays my for my healthcare, school, and disability. The fact that I was disabled in Iraq, while I was serving OUR country, means that I feel NO shame in the government helping to get me to where I would most likely be if I hadn't of served. So you can add healthcare, military, and gov employee benefits back on your list there, cause without people like me, you might as well be living in a third world country.

  24. Re:Vastly more important question on BBC's Plan To Kick Open Source Out of UK TV · · Score: 1

    Im not fond of the BBC news, although im not fond of Fox, MSNBC, or CNN either so... YMMV.

    I do have to say the BBC has some beautiful documentaries, and other informational type shows, but then so does the History channel, Discovery Channel, and our other documentary channels, so The BBC does have good stuff, but ive seen great stuff from our documnetary channels.

    I have no experience with their other programing, I think they do some sitcoms or other such stuff, annh not my cup of tea.

  25. Re:Strange question on BBC's Plan To Kick Open Source Out of UK TV · · Score: 1

    What if I dont have a credit card, and I purchase with cash?

    What kind of security and privacy policy are they gonna offer?

    And do you work for Google or the MPAA/RIAA ? Cause I think theyd love to have a running list of who owns what videos/music, imagine the advertising they could cater to you then. No one has a right to know every thing I own.