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  1. Re:Questions: on Fear of Death Makes People Into Believers (of Science) · · Score: 1

    You caught me red-commented. I was using absurdity to make a point, and you re-stated it admirably.

  2. Re:Great start but on Microsoft, FBI Takedown Citadel Botnet · · Score: 1

    Why would I leap the Luger? The barrel rolls as it will.

  3. Re:Questions: on Fear of Death Makes People Into Believers (of Science) · · Score: 2

    Furthermore, irrespective of all this theoretical panty-bunching: You. Behave. As. Though. Conscious. And. Possessing. Free. Will.
    All of you hyper-materialistic piles of atoms should back up your nonsense by evenly distribute your time between barking, shrieking, silence, and speaking, since you are so busily claiming that it's all meaningless, and therefore all equivalent.
    Lord have mercy on you knobs.

  4. Re:Great start but on Microsoft, FBI Takedown Citadel Botnet · · Score: 1

    Wait another five.

  5. Re:Great start but on Microsoft, FBI Takedown Citadel Botnet · · Score: 1

    In defense of those bankers, it costs an awful lot to keep those politicians bought.
    Face it: the kind of abuse we've come to expect from our Progressive Overlords doesn't come cheap.

  6. Re:Shaving Claims on U.N. Realizes Internet Surveillance Chills Free Speech · · Score: 2

    But can your weiner win a mayoral seat in NYC? That's the question, Anthony.

  7. Shaving Claims on U.N. Realizes Internet Surveillance Chills Free Speech · · Score: 1, Funny

    Claiming to shave ya,
    They decapitate.
    Liberty will save ya,
    When wonks defenestrate.
    Burma Shave

  8. Windows on the hoof on A Serious Proposal To Fix Windows 8 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    American beer at the lab,
    Produced results rather drab.
    The report: "Suggest you shoot these
    Horses; they've got diabetes."
    Burma Shave

  9. Re:Tell me it's a source of strength for my... on With Sales Down, Whale Meat Flogged As Source of Strength · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Flogged" being a synonym for "beat", there seems to be some hint of autoeroticism about this one. . .

  10. Re:It is truly sad... on Activist Admits To Bugging US Senate Minority Leader · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Oh, they have a clue. You can't even use the 'B' word without being labelled a 'hack', irrespective of any reality.
    Benghazi!
    Benghazi!
    Benghazi!
    Benghazi!
    Benghazi!
    Just a little recreation there. It's relatively clear, given the first 3.5 years of #OccupyResoluteDesk, that no amount of perfidy his part could begin to make Harry "the Cadaver" Reid begin to consider doing his job.

  11. Re:It is truly sad... on Activist Admits To Bugging US Senate Minority Leader · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Back in those days politicians got away with far more than they do today.

    I got four dead guys in Benghazi who'd probably argue with you, if they could.

  12. Re:The Spin was Awesome! on White House: Use Metric If You Want, We Don't Care · · Score: 1

    Having studied both, the point is to avoid taking either too literally.

  13. Re:Energy a bit more important than Beer on German Brewers Warn Fracking Could Hurt Beer · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If only there were some. . .other. . .source of water for the brewers than their existing wells.
    Or if only there was a way to filter the water (they don't already filter it?).
    Or if only you could take hydrogen and oxygen gasses and do anything useful with them.
    But I guess this wouldn't be much of a story, then, would it?

  14. Re:If you have to ask /. on Ask slashdot: Which 100+ User Virtualization Solution Should I Use? · · Score: 2

    I 90% agree with you.
    But the force of the 10% disagreement is 9 times that of the agreement, leaving me stymied.

  15. Re:Sills will be all over this. on Java Developer Says He Built, Launched Basic Open Source Office Suite In 30 Days · · Score: 1

    Fair enough. I've tried to configure it, and it thrashed me, like my virgin outing with Slackware 15 years ago.
    I even see there is some YouTube-age, for which I'd never looked.
    As for the 'personality' of the code, one has to like systems where one constantly calls methods like Activate() and Select() for the motivational LOC involved in keeping all of pointers tidy.

  16. Re:Sills will be all over this. on Java Developer Says He Built, Launched Basic Open Source Office Suite In 30 Days · · Score: 1

    I can sit down and blend Word, Excel, Access, even PowerPointless, using VBA. I have yet to enjoy success doing any macro coding with OO or ilk. And, yeah, I could hack the Java straight away, but, ugh.

  17. Re:The Spin was Awesome! on White House: Use Metric If You Want, We Don't Care · · Score: 1

    Help me here: I'm not supposed to believe in God, but I'm supposed to buy-off on whatever psycho-piffle people want to sell me? Thanks!

  18. Somewhere in the U.S. on Med Students Unaware of Their Bias Against Obese Patients · · Score: 0

    Is a homosexual, minority, disabled vet with PTSD person, with massive food allergies, who is an unemployed whole lotta Rosie.
    This benighted person is on the receiving end of more bias, bigotry, and prejudice than anyone else.
    I must publicly scourge myself, as penance for my direct and indirect contributions to her hypothetical plight.
    Because I am bad, and she is a victim.
    [weeps]

  19. Re:The Spin was Awesome! on White House: Use Metric If You Want, We Don't Care · · Score: 1

    No, look: BHO was the most oversold thing since XML. You cannot have the media equating him with some epiphany FOR YEARS and then fail to own it.
    There are high school volleyball captains with more leadership chops than BHO, whom I like to call #OccupyResoluteDesk over on Twitter.
    However, I will allow some amusement in watching the apologists oscillate between praising his Super Genius and attempting to explain that, well, he's really the Queen of England. Thanks!

  20. Re:The Spin was Awesome! on White House: Use Metric If You Want, We Don't Care · · Score: 1

    I don't carry jack, boss. But I do note attempts at guilt dispersal as a means of separating friend from foe.

  21. Re:The Spin was Awesome! on White House: Use Metric If You Want, We Don't Care · · Score: 2, Funny
    Well, given that this administration is about campaigning, not governance, it's clear that metric proponents need to recast themselves as a victim group, and start delivering some votes.
    Strong possibilities include:
    • Tying traditional measurements to Tradition, which is evil in the face of Holy Progress
    • Pointing out that 'feet', 'yards', and 'miles' are associated with patriarchal oppression structures.
    • And don't neglect the race card. Those units were implemented by white males, and are thus tinged with the scourge of slavery.

    I'm having the vague feeling that I can't tell if I'm trolling here, or drafting notes for a Progressive strategy session.

  22. Re:good Ole Days on Ethernet Turns 40 · · Score: 1

    I was all on 32-pin cables with cannon plugs going into my UYK-7. 80MB removable disk packs the diameter of LPs. Good times.

  23. Re:What is it I am supposed to learn? on What Professors Can Learn From "Hard Core" MOOC Students · · Score: 1

    Of course anything even remotely resembling a union is "communist", so we can rule that option right out.

    Private sector unions are a perfectly reasonable expression of the right to assemble.
    It's when they distort the market and drive jobs away that achieve that full "solution in search of a problem" state.
    Public sector unions, like mutinies and rabid dogs, need to be put down.

  24. Re:Basic html and css on Ad Exec: Learn To Code Or You're Dead To Me · · Score: 1

    That'd be greaaaaat.

  25. Re:Basic html and css on Ad Exec: Learn To Code Or You're Dead To Me · · Score: 1