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  1. Re:This will not end well. on The Impact of Immigrant Innovators · · Score: 0, Troll

    So you open with anecdotal evidence, toss a few non sequiturs in the middle, and end with an appeal to emotion, all the while avoiding any sort of substantiated claims or logical conclusions.

    I hope you look back at your post and are embarrassed to have written it.

  2. Re:Who, and what reasons? on The Impact of Immigrant Innovators · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There's an interesting point the article implicitly makes: Who's doing the complaining about lack of skilled workers? Businesses.

    Our econonmy hasn't collapsed yet, so I would say that there are enough skilled workers to meet the needs of business employment. Businesses want more of such skilled workers simply so the market will be flooded, and they can pay their workers less, demand more from them (You want to keep your job, don't you?), and overall make it an employer's market.

    This is pure self-serving bullshit, not concern for the US economy.

  3. Re:This will not end well. on The Impact of Immigrant Innovators · · Score: 1

    Well if it's a myth, it's one with some serious backing. You have any sources to refute the claims of the Center for Immigration Studies?

  4. This will not end well. on The Impact of Immigrant Innovators · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm tired of people not addressing the distinction between skilled workers trying to immigrate and improve their lives while also boosting our economy, and the people who hop the fence illegally just to take advantage of health care they won't have to pay for and a lack of responsibility for income taxes.

    Immigration is great. It strengthens America as a whole. Illegal immigration sucks money from the economy and stresses our entire infrastructure. I would say these statistics have near nothing to do with recent discussions in congress, but then again, what do I know? I'm a bear! I suck the heads off fish!

  5. Not posting on slashdot. on Resolutions for 2007? · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...shit

  6. Leakage. on IBM's New Processors To Exceed 5Ghz · · Score: 1

    Any EE care to chime in with how IBM might have gone about solving their power consumption issues?

    It's seemed that IBM, Intel, and AMD have all had issues dealing with leakage moving to the 65nm process, but Intel and IBM have now apparently solved the issue. As a mere hobbyist, I don't even approach the knowledge level necessary to speculate on such things, but I STILL WANT TO KNOW.

  7. Re:The question on every /.er's mind: on Flash Memory HDD for Notebooks Launched · · Score: 1

    Are you trying to tell me strippers are vampires who would go up in flames were they to be exposed to UV radiation?

    You might be on to something.

  8. The question on every /.er's mind: on Flash Memory HDD for Notebooks Launched · · Score: 2, Funny

    When can we get flash memory for strippers? We're already paying out the ass to see their tits. I'd like to remember the experience a little longer.

  9. Simple answer: on Why Bother With Episodic Games? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Don't.

    Don't reward publishers for getting even lazier about creating games. Just sit on your cash while they realize there wasn't anything wrong with releasing a complete product in the first go around (Not that EA was doing this in the first place), and that paying $60 or more for the length of one $40 game you'll play through once before moving on the multiplayer aspects isn't going to fly.

  10. Re:Melinda Messenger on When Celebrities Speak on Science · · Score: 1

    "Scientists" also say things like genetically engineered foods are safe; As safe or safer than breast implants.

    Yet she takes their word for it when putting silicone in her body permanently, and finds the idea of eating some corn that was modified to do nothing but resist infection laughable.

    Her hypocrisy is undeniable.

  11. Good going, France! on UFOs In the News · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Why worry about relevant issues to their national security like an invading mob of Muslim youths waging war on their infrastructure (and winning) when they can declassify documents about unsubstantiated crap and temporarily distract their citizens and the world from their rapidly approaching destruction?

    Brilliant!

  12. OLPC on OLPC's UI To Be Kid-Tested In February · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Kid tested, and might be mother approved had she not died of AIDS years ago.

  13. Re:Sounds pretty slow. on Technology Vs. E.coli Outbreaks · · Score: 1

    Yeah... my post was a joke.

  14. Sounds pretty slow. on Technology Vs. E.coli Outbreaks · · Score: 3, Funny

    Seems it would take a while for the DNA to grow enough to supply fingerprints.

  15. Signing in. on New iPod Owner Onslaught Overwhelms iTunes · · Score: 2, Funny

    I was gifted with an iPod shuffle for Christmas, and haven't even bothered to try out the iTunes store yet.

    This post is about as useful as an alligator both on fire and LSD.

  16. Ad blockers. on Judge Rules Against Deep-Linking of Content · · Score: 1

    What implications does this have for ad blockers? If "denying profit by not viewing ads" is now illegal, isn't any software that blocks advertisements going to soon be illegalish?

  17. The best part... on A History of Game Consoles, As Seen on TV · · Score: -1, Troll

    is that I'm reading their article SANS advertisements, and I have a feeling many other slashdotters are as well, keeping them from making much ad revenue with this pathetic slashvertisement.

    Zonk should consider widening his field of view, and maybe approving not quite as many pointless videogame related articles.

    But then I guess that's like asking Ed Gein to leave that pretty girl's face on the pretty girl.

  18. God damnit. on Sex Offenders to Register Emails in Virginia · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Our lawmakers are idiots.

    Either the sex offender has served his time, or he hasn't. If you're worried about their recidivism rate, UP THE TIME SPENT OUT OF SOCIETY, DO NOT SEND THEM BACK OUT THERE IF WE'RE SO SURE THEY'RE JUST GOING TO REPEAT OFFEND.

    Seems simple, so why do these guys make it so complex?

  19. Re:Not just true for humans on Richest 2% Own Half the World's Wealth · · Score: 0, Troll

    And as an American, I automatically hate anyone who practices geographical prejudice like you do.

    So one American troll on slashdot is why people hate us? Fine. You're more than enough reason to hate self-loathing residents of first-world countries who seem think we deserve to all be living in a third-world shithole only because others also do.

  20. So the original authors get what they want! on Australia Backs Down on Draconian Copyright Laws · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ask for something insane. "Compromise" down to what you wanted in the first place. Everyone is happy.

    Good God, some strategies are so old and obvious I'd be amazed that they still work if I didn't know most people are idiots.

  21. Re:A question I have about the poisoning? on UK Lab Traces Polonium To Russian Nuclear Plant · · Score: 1

    I am not a scientist of any sort, but the way I understand it, any alpha emitter (of sufficient radioactivity) isn't something you want making its way through your digestive tract.

    While alpha particles may be very easy to stop by our skin on the outside, once in you, there's enough of the little bastards to really rearrange your DNA in the cells that come in close contact to the source.

  22. Better than $800. on Gran Turismo HD Becomes Free Download · · Score: 1

    But kind of slim pickings. In all this time all they ever managed to finish were 10 cars and a few tracks?

    You'd think at the very least they could just take their models and tracks from GT4, give the textures some high res treatment, maybe up the polygons in a few places, and at least hand out a more thorough product.

  23. Re:Exempt from all this of course on New Email Rules Effective Friday · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Our government fears transparency because we'd see the damage done to its lungs after years of surviving on tobacco taxes.

  24. Re:It failed... on Google Answers Closing Up Shop · · Score: 1, Troll

    I would love to know how this got moderated as a troll 3 times in a row.

    Doesn't trolling generally seek to elicit a negative response, or somehow misrepresent facts and lie to incense the audience?

    I referenced a few common slashdot trolls and running jokes in a tongue-in-cheek manner. Christ.

  25. It failed... on Google Answers Closing Up Shop · · Score: 4, Funny

    because of the obviously superior and free competing product Slashdot offers.

    Got a question?

    Chances are if Soviet Russian gay nigger overlords aren't the answer, fish posters and licensing trolls are.

    And God bless every one of them.