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  1. In a universe with a God on Former Goldman Sachs Programmer Arrested and Charged Again For Code Theft · · Score: 1

    they'd call it the "illegal market rigging secret sauce."

    Aleynikov should have folk songs written about him.

  2. Re:Intolerable! on Big Brother In the Home Office · · Score: 1

    The sad thing is that they're willing to pay a whole extra fucking person to sit and monitor remote employees. I bet that doesn't eat into the cost savings realized by making people afraid to goof off for a few minutes.

  3. Re:Webcams too on Big Brother In the Home Office · · Score: 1

    Management consultant: Someone that knows 100 ways to make love, but doesn't know any women.

    After the end of the Mayan calendar, I'm hoping it's the middle managers groveling while people with actual skills are finally able to enjoy their lives.

  4. Re:So... on Big Brother In the Home Office · · Score: 1

    You are 100 percent correct in everything you said.

  5. Re:You are at work... on Big Brother In the Home Office · · Score: 1

    One thing I learned when dealing with a former employer that had me on as contract labor is that if they're not paying your payroll taxes, they don't have much say over when and how you work. I'm sure there are provisions for those doing, for example, tech support, that they have to be there at certain times and so on; but one of the qualifiers for contractors is that the "employer" is really not supposed to be setting hours and micromanaging. If you're billing by the hour, of course, you should be able to demonstrate that you did put in those hours, even if they were at night after you goofed off all day.

  6. Re:The case is a bit different... on Bloggers Not Journalists, Federal Judge Rules · · Score: 1

    The piece WAS done for a "broadcast network."

    It's called the Internet.

  7. Re:It's Not ALL Bloggers on Bloggers Not Journalists, Federal Judge Rules · · Score: 1

    The blogger was stripped of her right to freedom of the press.

  8. The thing is... on Bloggers Not Journalists, Federal Judge Rules · · Score: 2

    ...FOXNEWS has already been sued for deliberately being dishonest in its reporting.

    FOXNEWS won that case.

  9. Re:Excellent! on Reverse Robocall Turns Tables On Politicians · · Score: 1

    Oh, piss up a pole. It's not the legitimacy of the callers that matters, but the legitimacy of the representatives...

  10. Often... on Helping the FBI Track You · · Score: 1

    ...it's easier to hide in the light than in the darkness.

  11. Re:Waste of everyone's time on The White House Responds To We the People Petition · · Score: 1

    I'll be growing a truckload of it at my house and selling it to people that don't know how to grow their own.

    Like tomatoes.

  12. Ding ding ding ding! on The White House Responds To We the People Petition · · Score: 1

    We have a winner.

  13. Re:Poor answer on The White House Responds To We the People Petition · · Score: 1

    Incorrect.

    There is an enormous amount of taxpayer money spent on this "fight." There are billions of good reasons to make pot just as legal as other potentially harmful substances like alcohol and cigarettes.

  14. Re:they ignore us. on The White House Responds To We the People Petition · · Score: 1

    If by "citizens" you mean large corporate interests, then I suppose you may be right.

  15. Re:Translation: on The White House Responds To We the People Petition · · Score: 1

    I call bullshit on that. I'm sure the shit that surfer pulled out of his surfboard in Rainbow Bridge was more potent than anything I've ever smoked.

  16. Re:I stopped reading the responses after... on The White House Responds To We the People Petition · · Score: 1

    Horse. Shit.

    Tell it to Abraham Lincoln.

  17. Re:I stopped reading the responses after... on The White House Responds To We the People Petition · · Score: 1

    300,000 visits to the ER for what?? I've been pretty high at times in my life, but I've never considered the ER a necessary option.

    What are these people doing, smoking a bowl and then using a chainsaw or something?

  18. Re:It's not at all addictive on The White House Responds To We the People Petition · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the anecdotes.

  19. Re:I stopped reading the responses after... on The White House Responds To We the People Petition · · Score: 1

    Yeah...totally disingenuous.

    Not only that, but the claim is that "well, it's not good for you, so we shouldn't be legalizing it.

    But there are other, legal drugs that aren't particularly good for you that are legal. The question is whether or not it's worth the cost to pursue the ridiculous avenue of outlawing a weed that can be smoked with relatively harmless impact and with, I'd assert, medicinal value for some.

    The response letter, from a former chief of police, no less, was a joke, and if it was meant to be the final word from the Obama administration, it can kiss my ass instead of asking for my vote.

  20. Re:Which speed of light on CERN Experiment Indicates Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos · · Score: 1

    Visible spectrum, or all light?

  21. Consciousness... on CERN Experiment Indicates Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos · · Score: 1

    ...creates reality. I like it.

  22. I love the Senate demand for an explanation... on SEC Hit With Data Destruction Complaint · · Score: 1

    "Explanation: We're doing what we've been instructed to do by Big Money interests in government for the last 30 years."

  23. Re:DUPE! on Steve Jobs Resigns As Apple CEO · · Score: 1

    That's because Apple, at that time, was run by the kind of people that would fire Steve Jobs.

  24. Re:Wait until the boys get home from the war. on NH Man Arrested For Videotaping Police.. Again · · Score: 1

    "You don't give them enough credit and your apparent fear of them being so potentially bad is rather unkind and frankly I think unmerited."

    Horseshit.

    I live in a town with a large Air Force Base and have had several former friends do tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. I say "former friends" because when they got back, they were unrecognizable from a personality perspective. Distant, scary, intense. These were people without a lot of options, largely, in the first place and when they're not deployed, even the AF guys around town are often insufferable assholes.

    When 100,000 of these guys get back, a solid percentage of them are going to be ticking time-bombs of insanity. We're going to have big problems on our hands, I fear.

  25. JSTOR?? on Aaron Swartz Indicted in Attempted Piracy of Four Million Documents · · Score: 1

    How many academic articles does one need, anyway?

    I mean, I've wanted a way to grab two or three in my lifetime without going through the University, but really? Stealing academic articles?

    Fascinating.