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  1. Re:Eww on Software Firm Looking To Hire Naked Coders · · Score: 3, Funny

    Guess Red Bull would be safer than a steaming cup of coffee.

  2. Soon on Inducement To Piracy, Adobe Style · · Score: 4, Insightful

    income in the states will will be a fraction what is was. Who is going to pay Adobe then?

  3. Re:the tax is too low to pay for smoker health car on Arizona Governor Proposes Flab Tax · · Score: 1

    In Canada smokes went up again. Almost $15 per 25 pack. You guys in the States get everything cheaper and taxed less. Stop complaining.

  4. Re:What did they spend the $40-50 million on? on NYT Paywall Cost $40 Million: How? · · Score: 1

    A consulting fee is simply a legal way to give your buddy lots of money for not doing any work. Worse consultants have no real responsibility or liability of any kind.

  5. Re:Its easy on NYT Paywall Cost $40 Million: How? · · Score: 1

    Yet with your own business it is very hard to make $50/hr for the same job done by a large company (50 - 75 employees) billing $200 -$250. In my experience I'm usually lucky when I pull in $25 - $35 /hr but such is the price to be at home with the kids every night so no really complaints other than why should one guy and myself do a job for 25% of the cost compared to the large company that needs 7 employees to do the same job with lower quality. And for a real kick in the teeth I was offered a job by one of the managers of this large company to manage a team of 8 people for $15.75 for out of town work with an unpaid 3-4 hr of driving daily (from not to the office) as they were not going to pay for hotels. I almost had a heart attack, shit my pants, and punched him in the face, that is a third of what the job is worth as a payroll employee. But somehow the cute blond 20 year old receptionist can afford to drive a fancy Escalade with $4000 rims and every piece of chrome imaginable.

  6. Binoculars are so much cooler. on Man Creates "Creepy" Stalking App · · Score: 2

    And you can even stalk people who don't use twitter etc.

  7. Re:Firefighters are usually wet. on Fighting Fires With Beams of Electricity · · Score: 1

    Sorry wrong device looks similar but our have greater volume of aerosol but I can't remember the brand we just call it the grenade.

  8. Re:Firefighters are usually wet. on Fighting Fires With Beams of Electricity · · Score: 1

    We have the AGS-5 Red Grenade. In our area the insurance companies are now replacing the device for us if we deploy it simply because the insurance companies want as little water damage as possible. (These devices cost a little over a thousand dollars) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfVzfxD1iPY

  9. Firefighters are usually wet. on Fighting Fires With Beams of Electricity · · Score: 2

    Water dripping off you, down your neck, sliding around in foam and soaked to the skin kind of wet. You could pee your pants and know one would even know, except for the funny coffee smell, kind of wet. The fist thing that happens is utilities disconnect the gas and power meter before anyone enters the structure (power and water don't mix). Never mind the Scott packs. Now water around your feet and a battery strapped to your back where do you put your Scott pack? Also your gear already weighs about 60 pounds with Scot pack. This is stupid we already have a grenade like device that will snuff out a fully engulfed house for 12 minutes the only side effect is a fine white powder on everything.

  10. stricter rules? on Americans Favor Moratorium On New Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 1

    You mean like in Canada with the Chalk River reactor? Ask Linda Keen how she liked losing her job over shutting down the reactor. There were rules Stephen Harper didn't care. (Look at the US government, what have rules and laws ever stopped them from doing whatever they want?) http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2009/01/27/8159396-sun.html

  11. Re:Still no justice for... on White House Wants New Copyright Law Crackdown · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Madoff went to jail for screwing the rich. Nobody went to jail for screwing poor people.

  12. Re:Paying back those Hollywood donors on White House Wants New Copyright Law Crackdown · · Score: 2

    Hey MPAA and RIAA douche-bag don't make me watch 20 minutes of previews to watch a movie. I even stream movies I own because it is quicker and easier than popping in a DVD. I want to be compensated for those twenty minutes, I earn on average $50 an hr. Where is my compensation bitches? Remember when DVD's were advertised as being able to FF the previews at the beginning? Also if I hear any of that shitty music you produce whether it be on the radio or blasting from someones car I want to be compensated for my ears being assaulted. Now please go and do something unmentionable to yourselves.

  13. To the moon. on Cocaine Found At Kennedy Space Center · · Score: 1

    Looks like someone was trying to fly to the moon.

  14. Re:What is wrong with this picture? on First Brit Prosecuted Over Twitter Libel · · Score: 2
  15. Re:Victory for photographers on Court Rules It's Ok To Tag Pics On Facebook Without Permission · · Score: 1

    Actually would this not set a precedent that it is legal to photograph anyone without their permission in private places? Meaning I should be able to walk into the police station and photograph whatever/whoever I want and then post the pictures on the internet identifying officers?

  16. Re:Bamboo bicycles are just as strong on EADS Bicycle Made of Steel-Strength Nylon · · Score: 1

    In Canada even our Varathane is now water-borne. Surprised the hell out of me when when I went to the paint store they gave me a can of what looked like milk. You still need a respirator or you get a sore thought but it saved on gallons of lacquer thinner. (I use a commercial paint pump so cleaning it and a gun and 50 - 100 feet of hose makes lots of toxic waste.
    As for polyurethane I can no longer get (within the last year) some of the industrial coating I used to use because they are deemed to toxic as well as contain lead.

  17. Re:Nice to have deep pockets on Microsoft, Google Sue Troll Who Sued 397 Companies · · Score: 2

    Just like the criminal justice system. It helps the rich, screws the poor.

  18. Re:Two things ... on Microsoft, Google Sue Troll Who Sued 397 Companies · · Score: 3, Funny

    I say let Mexico have Texas. Half the Mexicans are there anyway.

  19. Pot calling the kettle black. on Microsoft, Google Sue Troll Who Sued 397 Companies · · Score: 1

    I would agree with this if Google and Microsoft lose all of their patents. Otherwise they should shut the hell up and accept that what goes around comes around.

  20. Re:No sympathy here, sorry on Bradley Manning Charged With Aiding the Enemy · · Score: 1
  21. Re:No sympathy here, sorry on Bradley Manning Charged With Aiding the Enemy · · Score: 1

    Yes secretes are necessary because people would revolt if they know exactly how corrupt their governments are. It's like the illusion of democracy ie voting along party lines. My MLA that I voted for is really representing me when he is told how to vote in the house of commons or they kick him out. No it's not rigged.(/sarcasm) My MLA voted the exact opposite of the way he promised the people who voted him in because he didn't want to lose his position with the conservative government. So why did I bother to vote? To give some lying asshole a cushy job and and then fail to do what he promised? Now shouldn't he be on his way to jail?

  22. Re:No sympathy here, sorry on Bradley Manning Charged With Aiding the Enemy · · Score: 1

    I disagree with you because rules are sometime wrong and our governments are fucking everyone over all the time.
    Hitler made rules, was it right to follow Hitler's rules? Funny how people are still going to trial for following Hitler's rules. "2) disagreeing with a law morally entitles somebody to break it." So if you disagree with killing Jews you have no moral right to disobey Hitler because rules are made for a reason.

  23. For that matter on Vatican Bans IOS Confession App · · Score: 0

    Where does it say in the Bible to confess to the priest? Oh yah it doesn't, its something they made up, probably has something to do with money and having control over the population. It is easier to get whatever it is you want if you can blackmail everyone.

  24. They just want to know on DARPA Wants To Know How Stories Influence People · · Score: 1

    what stories in the new are going to piss you off so they can do an even better job censoring the news in the future.
    But on a serious note if you tell some one a bad story they get upset, happy story and they get happy. Duh it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out just a government employee.

  25. Its the guards on Prison Cell Phone Smuggling Out of Control · · Score: 1

    A few years ago I got arrested because I didn't have ID on me it was in my truck, a few feet away, I told the cops "my ID is in my truck". She says "get in the back of my car". I said "why"? She proceeded to punch me several times in the stomach then another much larger cop bent me backwards over the roof of the car and then punched me in the face several times. I then demanded identification. Didn't get any but I got punched a few more times and forced into the back of the car. In the end I was charged with caring a concealed weapon it was a small knife with a belt clip clipped on the outside of my pocket. BTW I was on my way to my truck because I lost a contact and was going to get my glasses.
    Being a Friday evening I was sent to the Remand centre to wait for a justice of the peace on Monday. While there my cell mate got cocaine from a guard btw the guard was clearly intoxicated on gin. My cell mate explained to me that their were more drugs inside of jail than out. And other than an odd occasion where someone got away with sticking drugs up their ass (the known drug user are probed by a guy with blue rubber gloves) the drugs come from the guards.
    In the end the prosecutor would not take the case to trial after 8 months and 6 court appearances later due to the fact he had no case as I had done nothing wrong. But it did cost me $4000 for a lawyer.