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  1. Re:Sure, sounds like fun. on White House Correspondent Tweets His Heart Attack · · Score: 1

    The cognitive dissonance between your post and sig must be deafening.

  2. Re:Paying the Cost to Be the Boss on China Plans To Mine the Yellow Sea Floor · · Score: 1

    Make them live under the Kyoto standards.

  3. Re:I Call Straw Man on Just Where Is The Lincoln Memorial, Anyhow? · · Score: 1

    But the federal government is not reforming the health care system...they are reforming the health insurance system. A subtle, yet critical distinction.

  4. Re:Recycling is Bullshit on Smart Trash Carts Tell If You Haven't Been Recycling · · Score: 1

    Yes, because we all know criminals obey gun laws.

  5. Translation on ISPs Lie About Broadband "Up To" Speeds · · Score: 1

    When you hear "up to" just mentally translate it to "less than". Solves many problems...

  6. Re:Just one question: on 400 Turns of Civilization V · · Score: 1

    They're not even a real country, anyway,,,

  7. Re:AT&T - No Thanks on Hands On With the BlackBerry Torch 9800 · · Score: 1

    ...if you can call what AT&T and Verizon do 'service'...

    I dunno, from reading around here they seem to "service" (definition 12) their customers quite well...

  8. Re:Community norms... on Officials Use Google Earth To Find Unlicensed Pools · · Score: 1

    I sit corrected, sir. I wish the county I lived in worked that way...

  9. Re:Community norms... on Officials Use Google Earth To Find Unlicensed Pools · · Score: 1

    Now, because of these pools, total ratables is 100,050,000. Tax rate is slightly lower -- so I pay $1,995 or something, because the people with pools are paying their fair share.

    Let me know how that works out for you.

  10. Re:Should have got planning permission on Officials Use Google Earth To Find Unlicensed Pools · · Score: 1

    Hey! I'm a libertarian douchenozzle, and although I find the idea of a mosque at the site of a terrorist attack to be a little...strange... if they want to build it, and the people that live nearby don't mind, they should be able to.

    So am I less libertarian, or less douchenozzle-y?

  11. Re:It is killing retail too on $200B Lost To Counterfeiting? Back It Up · · Score: 1

    TRWTF is a $400 skirt. I think this is God's way of telling you, you have too much money.

  12. "Radioactive Boar" on Radioactive Boar On the Rise In Germany · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Radioactive Boar" would be an awesome name for a heavy metal band...

  13. Re:Duh?! on Justice Department Joins Fraud Lawsuit Against Oracle · · Score: 1

    My general assumption is that businesses at some level tend to operate in "reality" where you are either profitable or you die (go out of business). Government units even with good management just are not exposed to the environment.

    That's exactly it. Private businesses have to watch the books or go out of business. The government...well, if they run out of money, they just initiate more "deficit spending". Wish my checkbook worked that way... "Oh, I'm out of money already? Guess I'll just write more checks."

  14. As the saying goes... on Justice Department Joins Fraud Lawsuit Against Oracle · · Score: 1

    Don't steal, the government hates competition...

  15. Lawrence Summers, eh? on Obama To Nearly Double the Available Broadband Wireless Spectrum · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I suppose he's cool with it so long as no women try to use it.

  16. Re:Interested to know... on iOS Update May Tackle iPhone 4's Antenna Problems · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Standards aren't Variables don't.

  17. Re:Crime Pays on For-Profit, Illegal Movie Download Sites Threaten MPAA · · Score: 1

    Not all amphetamines are the same as Meth. Clearly, the stimulants we give pilots or children must be okie-dokie.

    What's really interesting...is that they give amphetamines to military pilots, but because I took Ritalin 20 years ago as a child, I had to go through a battery of phychological tests before the FAA would give me medical clearance to get a private pilot's license. Weird.

  18. Re:Lower fees? on California Wants To Put E-Ads On License Plates · · Score: 2, Insightful

    When has the government *ever* lowered fees?

  19. Re:A lot of the waste is a matter of opportunity on Employee Monitoring · · Score: 1

    OK, so people on the technical side of the business are an obvious exception. How about this:

    I work at a bank. On every one of our tellers' thin client desktops is an IE icon. Why again does a bank teller need internet access to do their job?

  20. Alternate Headline on IEEE Working Group Considers Kinder, Gentler DRM · · Score: 1

    Sexual predators consider kinder, gentler rape.

  21. Re:Oh boy on Steak-Scented Billboard Entices Drivers · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wonder what Viagra smells like? You know it's coming...

    Looks like you just answered your own question.

  22. Re:Oncoming Traffic Re:For serious? on Pedestrian Follows Google Map, Gets Run Over, Sues · · Score: 1

    If you are a bicyclist going 15 mph and you suffer a collision with a motor vehicle going 35 mph, there is a very significant difference in the amount of force exerted by the impact depending on whether you are going against traffic (50 mph) or with traffic (20 mph).

      Actually, no. But thanks for playing.

  23. Re:it's more complicated on Intelligence Density and the Creative Class · · Score: 1

    Yeah because California and New York are the poster children for "Economic Life". How far in debt is the state of CA, again?

  24. Re:Old news on Open Source Guacamole Puts VNC On the Web · · Score: 1

    Bomgar. Based on VNC and has never failed, so long as the end user has internet access.

    Now, this costs real-world money, so that may knock it out of consideration.

  25. Embrace, extend, extinguish on Apple To Shut Down Lala On May 31 · · Score: 1

    It's not just for Microsoft anymore!