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  1. Darwin award on Texas Ebola Patient Dies · · Score: 1

    So without any further details, here's how I imagine it went down.
    "Oh crap, there's an ebola outbreak and my family is affected! I better fly out there immediately and touch bodily fluids."
    Definitely Darwin Award winner here, folks. Plus, lying about it to fly back to the US and putting the entire country at risk should be an executable offense.

  2. They're both wrong on Complain About Comcast, Get Fired From Your Job · · Score: 1

    Comcast hires a bunch of angry, vindictive, evil employees who can and will act like an asshole 8 hours a day. But did anyone else read this as some asshole lawyer throws his firm's name around to try and scare people with thinly veiled lawsuit threats and then gets fired for it? He ABSOLUTELY deserved it. Last time some lawyer threatened to sue me, I told him where he can shove his lawsuit and nothing came of it. I should have called up his company and tell them what he was doing. Next time I will.

  3. the real problem on Former Infosys Recruiter Says He Was Told Not To Hire US Workers · · Score: 1

    Hiring departments don't know shit! HR people and managers are idiots! I ran into so many people saying they cannot hire me because I had two 2-year degrees instead of one 4 year degree. A 4 year IT degree is either outdated by the time you graduate or 2 years of general eds followed by my exact education. Then they end up with some idiot they they fire after he screws everything up.

    Now you're probably thinking, they should have given me a proficiency or knowledge test. THEY DID! Tek Systems gave me theirs and I beat 80-90% of their worldwide programmers. A grand total of zero hiring departments gave a shit. THAT is why companies are screwing up. They're hiring rich families' kids who could afford a 4 year degree instead of the smartest, best applicant.

  4. uh oh on Belkin Router Owners Suffering Massive Outages · · Score: 1

    Oh boy, they're going to hire at least double the amount of astroturphers now to make up for the negative reviews. (they got caught doing that before).

  5. truly amazing on 2014 Nobel Prize In Physics Awarded To the Inventors of the Blue LED · · Score: 1

    If you know how photons are generated at the atomic level, it is actually very difficult to get an electrical circuit to turn into a full spectrum of all visible colors that make up white light.

  6. a better idea on Former Department of Defense Chief Expects "30 Year War" · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sometimes you just have to ignore the vegetarian, hippie, anti-war, pro-peace, unrealistic, drug-using, unemployed protestor dumbfucks to shup and and stay in Iraq. Too bad Obama felt like he had to live up to that ridiculously undeserved Nobel peace prize. He now caused the biggest, longest, worst war in the last couple decades. Can they take away Nobel peace prizes?

  7. You screw with someone's project, even as a legit security researcher,. and you'll find out that a lot of volunteers in the projects are petty, angry, antisocial morons who do stupid shit like this. Then there's the irrational MS haters who make Apple fanboys look calm by comparison. Then there's the normal, stable, polite programmers like me that stay the hell away from open source because of the afore mentioned assholes.

  8. I solved the mystery on Maps Suggest Marco Polo May Have "Discovered" America · · Score: 4, Funny

    Actually, there is strong evidence that the Native Americans discovered America.

  9. Re:simple on Is an Octopus Too Smart For Us To Eat? · · Score: 1

    No, only humans can do that and only on Monday mornings.

  10. awesome! on US Navy Develops Robot Boat Swarm To Overwhelm Enemies · · Score: 2

    If they dropped the 50 cal, made the microwave more traditional, and kept the flashing lights those would be AWESOME at a rave!

  11. boat anchor on HP Is Planning To Split Into Two Separate Businesses, Sources Say · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So they're dropping their company's boat anchor (the lowest quality PCs, laptops, and printers in existence) and expecting it to float? Good luck with that.

  12. simple on Is an Octopus Too Smart For Us To Eat? · · Score: 1

    Dolphins, great apes, and humans can identify themselves in a mirror. Everything else doesn't know that itself is a thing so it's basically a really complicated set of reactive algorithms with no true consciousness.

  13. wait a minute on Downtown Project Suicides Shock High Tech Community · · Score: 1

    I think I see what's wrong here. There's a severe water shortage around Vegas and they're trying to start up high tech companies in the middle of it in new towns. What could possibly go wrong? Talk about a short-sighted pipe dream. You can't just look at property values and taxes and say yep, that's where we should build. The air conditioning costs alone kill server farms. I mean who thought any of this was a good idea?!

  14. good for us on Fortune.com: Blame Tech Diversity On Culture, Not Pipeline · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm proud to work at a place where the last few women that quit did so because, as they put it, we're disorganized beyond words and the way we handle customers is unacceptable and the entire workflow is a gigantic shitstorm, not sexism or a manly working environment.

  15. do it again on GlaxoSmithKline Released 45 Liters of Live Polio Virus · · Score: 1

    They should do that in the US to kill off all the anti-vax-tards.

  16. I have an idea on Facebook Ready To Get Into Healthcare · · Score: 2

    The mental health section should just be a page that says "get off Facebook."

  17. Re:Kinda torn on this one on After Dallas Ebola Diagnosis, CDC Raises Estimate of Patient's Possible Contacts · · Score: 1

    OH HELL YES! I worked at a hospital. If someone has an illness and you don't know what, the gloves and masks go on! Otherwise it's your own damn fault. You also aren't supposed to juggle used hypodermic needles to impress children in the children's ward.

  18. Re:I feel like we are living in an 'outbreak' movi on After Dallas Ebola Diagnosis, CDC Raises Estimate of Patient's Possible Contacts · · Score: 1

    What actually stopped the H1N1 virus? Vaccines? Summer? I seriously don't remember them mentioning why it just sort of went away.

  19. Re:Kinda torn on this one on After Dallas Ebola Diagnosis, CDC Raises Estimate of Patient's Possible Contacts · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You're forgetting that anyone who gets it now is an idiot because they had direct contact with an infected person's bodily fluids. People who are idiots tend to accidentally kill themselves in a variety of ways so curing them from ebola wouldn't solve the problem. You'd need to cure them from being stupid and that hasn't been invented yet.

  20. fun on UK Government Tax Disc Renewal Website Buckles Under Pressure · · Score: 1

    They should do that in America. DMV: now with arts and crafts! Cut out your own documents and licenses.

  21. catering to the mentally ill on Facebook Apologizes To Drag Queens Over "Real Name" Rule · · Score: -1, Troll

    Seriously, that's all they're doing. Someone who wants to put on the opposite gender's clothing, make up a fake name, and act like a giant stereotype of that gender with a fake name and made up personality needs mental help, not bent Facebook rules. Did you know that every study ever has found that 80-90% of drag queen, transsexuals, etc were abused as children?

  22. Uh oh on Earth Gets Another Quasi-Moon · · Score: 1

    So in other words...aliens.

  23. Re:Fristy Pawst! on Ebola Has Made It To the United States · · Score: 1

    I'm glad I'm not the only one who realized the truth. If Africans would grow the fuck up and stop lying, cheating, and stealing from each other they'd have an actual society.

  24. Re:Completely Contained? on Ebola Has Made It To the United States · · Score: 1

    Ah, but you're forgetting...everyone on the plane is infected with being a fucking idiot for going to West Africa and then traveling.

  25. Re:WHY WHY WHY GO TO WEST AFRICA???? on Ebola Has Made It To the United States · · Score: 1

    And why the fuck did he touch the bodily fluids of someone who was infected?