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  1. Re:Players do the same. on Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Buys the LA Clippers For $2 Billion · · Score: 1

    The people in charge, that make decisions about hiring and firing, need to be held to a higher standard.

  2. Re:Instead of a new TV I guess on Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Buys the LA Clippers For $2 Billion · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that he has other investors involved.

  3. Re:What a punishment on Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Buys the LA Clippers For $2 Billion · · Score: 1

    What legislation was involved in this story?

  4. Re:Only in America on Apple Confirms Purchase of Beats For $3 Billion · · Score: 1

    Pedantic rap fan-

    That song was actually written by Ice Cube when he was 15. Dr. Dre produced it, and played the role of the judge. He doesn't rap (he didn't really rap at all until Ice Cube quit the group) but he gets to say the great line "The jury has found you guilty of being a redneck, white bread, chickenshit motherfucker".

    A couple weeks ago Snoop Dogg quoted that line in reference to Donald Sterling.

  5. Re:No Way! on Curved TVs Nothing But a Gimmick · · Score: 1

    Have you seen a 4K screen displaying legit 4K content? They're amazing. I missed this past CES, but I saw a bunch of them at the 2013 show. Sharp was showing off an 8K screen and it was absolutely jaw dropping.

  6. Only in America on Apple Confirms Purchase of Beats For $3 Billion · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The DJ responsible for "Fuck Tha Police" just made a billion dollars. I love it.

  7. Re:Fuck you on Misogyny, Entitlement, and Nerds · · Score: 1

    The sense of entitlement stems from the attitude that they are perfect and that their lack of success in love must be because every woman is flawed.

    That was a core point of the story.

  8. Re:Cue the standard denials... on Misogyny, Entitlement, and Nerds · · Score: 1

    I came back after a 10 year hiatus when the IT department started blocking my regular sites. This site is a pathetic shadow of what it once was.

    And it's all yours now.

  9. Re:Fuck you on Misogyny, Entitlement, and Nerds · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So you've never heard "I can't believe that a great, nice guy like me can't get girls because they all go out with assholes" from a nerd before?

  10. Re:Cue the standard denials... on Misogyny, Entitlement, and Nerds · · Score: 0

    They're all at 5 and you're at 0. I would expect nothing less from the losers that now populate this site.

  11. Re:What the f*$# is wrong with us? on Misogyny, Entitlement, and Nerds · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is exactly the clueless response I expected when I saw the submission.

    The point. You have missed it. By a wide margin.

  12. Re:Mutants! on Dump World's Nuclear Waste In Australia, Says Ex-PM Hawke · · Score: 1

    Australian animals aren't dangerous, just scary. More Australians are killed in horseback riding accidents per year (~30) than are killed by wild animals (~10).

  13. Re:Told you that you were serfs on NSA Surveillance Reform Bill Passes House 303 Votes To 121 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Pointing out that a few people have experienced very lucrative social mobility is not evidence of the system as a whole being conducive to it.

    I specifically said it was difficult. But it is clearly possible. It was impossible for a serf.

  14. Re:Told you that you were serfs on NSA Surveillance Reform Bill Passes House 303 Votes To 121 · · Score: 1

    I didn't say the system is ok. I said that comparing us to medieval serfs is utterly ridiculous.

  15. Re:Told you that you were serfs on NSA Surveillance Reform Bill Passes House 303 Votes To 121 · · Score: 2

    This site has become such an embarrassment.

  16. Re:Told you that you were serfs on NSA Surveillance Reform Bill Passes House 303 Votes To 121 · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. Just because those rights were written on a piece of paper doesn't mean serfs actually saw any of those rights. If the Lord walked into your hut and raped your wife, what would you do? File a grievance with this advocate? Come on.

    "You have the right to an attorney, if you cannot afford one, one will be provided to you."

    Does that ring any bells with you?

  17. Re:Told you that you were serfs on NSA Surveillance Reform Bill Passes House 303 Votes To 121 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Your friend got shitty grades in those pre-renaissance Europe classes. The defining characteristic of the serf class was that people born serfs would live their entire lives as serfs and their children would too. There was no pathway to move up classes.

    It's difficult to move up in classes in modern America, but it's possible. Two of our last three Presidents were raised by poor single mothers. Dr. Dre grew up in Compton and just made a billion dollars.

    Actual serfs would have given anything for the rights, representation, and social mobility that we bitch about.

  18. Re:Xbox 360 controller from a pawn shop on It's Time For the Descent Games Return · · Score: 1

    I just use a wired XBox 360 controller. Yeah, I guess that would work fine. I just fondly remember my FlightStick Pro with those games.

    Joysticks were standard accessories in the mid 90s in the sense that everyone had one and game developers assumed you had one.

  19. Re:Descent? Give me X-Wing! on It's Time For the Descent Games Return · · Score: 1

    I would love doing the trench run with a Rift on. But like Descent, you really need a joystick to play it properly. Those used to be a standard accessory. Now they're not.

  20. Re:He's lucky on IT Pro Gets Prison Time For Sabotaging Ex-Employer's System · · Score: 1

    The article is useless. Previously they say he "tapped" into a computer, which makes no sense.

    He somehow found out that he was going to be fired. He hadn't been fired yet. It's possible that all of his accounts were still fully functional and he didn't have to circumvent any security measures- which is the trigger for those charges.

  21. He's lucky on IT Pro Gets Prison Time For Sabotaging Ex-Employer's System · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If he had hacked in from outside the company and done that much damage, he probably would have gotten more than 4 years.

  22. Re:It's a monster on The Brakes That Stop a 1,000 MPH Bloodhound SSC · · Score: 1

    Yes. Even getting the Saturn V from the assembly building to the launch pad was a massive engineering challenge.

    Let's not compare a government project with an unlimited budget to a group of hobbyists with corporate sponsorship.

  23. Re:It's a monster on The Brakes That Stop a 1,000 MPH Bloodhound SSC · · Score: 1

    Doh. I got the details from a 2009 article. They apparently changed it.

  24. Re:But, but, BUT! on White House Pressures Legislators Into Gutting USA FREEDOM Act · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because it doesn't make any sense. When has Obama had any influence over the Republican controlled House?

  25. It's a monster on The Brakes That Stop a 1,000 MPH Bloodhound SSC · · Score: 5, Interesting

    My favorite thing about the Bloodhound SSC is that it uses a 4.2L V12 engine producing 750bhp...to run its fuel pump.