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  1. Re:40 years old and flexible on At Google, You're Old and Gray At 40 · · Score: 1

    Got news for you.

    Most of us 40 year olds bend the rules all day long.

    Unfortunately, we also have to deal with clueless or jealous managers, so we make sure that no one knows we bent them.

    So the ones you do see are either:

    1. Not good at covering their tracks.
    2. Get labeled as an innovator/risk taker and get to do it out in the open.

    Somewhere in our 30's we learned to be sneaky...

  2. Re:What a tool on Cory Doctorow On For the Win, Gold Farming, and DRM · · Score: 1

    Is monkey COBOL for money?

    Or a Freudian slip?

  3. Re:this is goa7sEx on US Confirms Underwater Oil Plume · · Score: 1

    For once, that might be on topic...

  4. Re:Move elsewhere. on Where Will Your Next Gadget Be Made? · · Score: 1

    Bloody peasants!

  5. Re:Upstart monkeys on Hints of Life Found On Saturn's Moon Titan · · Score: 1

    Or over there. That spot, that spot right there? that spot is right out!

  6. Re:Broken? More like fixed. on J. P. Barlow — Internet Has Broken the Political System · · Score: 1

    Not the way it works as rights like anti-segregation are done at the Federal level because it applies to all citizens as stated in the Constitution (Equal rights under the law)
    (Have we always done that properly? Hell no, but this is now, not the past, does not mean

    Everything not explicitly spelled out is up to the states. Most of the important items are covered for rights.

    All the "details" should be left up to the individual states as to how to handle them.

  7. Re:Test too obvious on Students Show a Dramatic Drop In Empathy · · Score: 1

    And yet, that is a pretty good indicator. An empathetic person would be concerned about coming across empathetic.

    An narcissist does not care what you think, so long as you think about them.

  8. Re:Um, what? on Military Appoints General To Direct Cyber Warfare · · Score: 1

    That's nothing when you consider who developed the technology in the first place, it has been militarized from the very start!

  9. Re:We are looking to tone ours down on House Votes To Expand National DNA Arrest Database · · Score: 1

    No it says they will be "properly regulated".

    I hear the laughing of politicians right now if you bought that.

  10. Re:Halfalogue? Really! on Why Overheard Cell Phone Chats Are Annoying · · Score: 1

    My old Dodge Neon had a Semi-hemi...

  11. Re:We are looking to tone ours down on House Votes To Expand National DNA Arrest Database · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why do you need DNA databases with all the cameras to capture the event?

  12. Re:Huh? on Japanese Consortium Projects a Humanoid Robot On the Moon By 2015 · · Score: 1

    Makes sense because they can then examine it closely for issues/improvement for v1.1

    Not to mention the funding they could raise by sending that thing on a tour!

    Maybe the 4th or 5th one, they will leave up there.

  13. Re:Watch Out, saying bad things about the GOP gets on Woman Tells State Judiciary Committee, "DoD Implanted A Microchip Inside Me" · · Score: 1

    It was a tense situation, and I used the wrong one. =)

    "would ban"

    My point is that stupid legislation is the only thing bi-partisan in politcs.

  14. Re:Watch Out, saying bad things about the GOP gets on Woman Tells State Judiciary Committee, "DoD Implanted A Microchip Inside Me" · · Score: 1

    You know, it is crap like this that puts us in the same league as Democrats that ban salt in restaurant food preparation.

    Like to see you make a NY hot dog with out salt...

  15. Re:As a Canadian.. on The Pirate Party of Canada Is Official · · Score: 1

    Besides, the whole "Steal from who we want, when we want" thing is covered.

    Granted, Tax Laws are a bit less messy than boarding parties.

  16. Re:Show the kids some trust on What Advice For a Single Parent As Server Admin? · · Score: 1

    No, you don't trust kids.

    That is why they are kids.

    You do *show* them trust by giving them the opportunity and verifying the results. If they fail, you dust them off and help them understand where they went wrong and help them take the consequences like an adult.

    If you could trust them, they would be adults.

    And, as history as shown, you can't really trust adults either.

  17. Re:Show the kids some trust on What Advice For a Single Parent As Server Admin? · · Score: 1

    Doveryai, no proveryai

  18. Re:hardware? look at new Intel and AMD chips on Explaining Oracle's Sun Takeover — "For the Hardware" · · Score: 1

    Unless you have seen just how efficient the T5XXX series is with Java, I would not count the SPARC line out. Bad code is suddenly workable

    Oracle now has a mirror to what IBM has had: An application tier (Weblogic) designed to run on a specific chip for maximum performance.

    IBM has always had a DB to run on specific hardware, the Mainframe.

    Now, if the next generation of SPARC (VIII) optimizes Oracle DB proper, you have a killer application stack: Optimized JAVA engine and Optimized DBA stack.

  19. Re:Lemon ass on Beijing Sweetens Rubbish With Giant Deodorant Guns · · Score: 1

    Lemon ass is a common ingredient in their cuisine...

    Wait, that is lemon grass. Sorry.

  20. Re:6 years old on Sergey Brin On Google and China · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Kids absorb the cultural norms very quickly and will understand who is safe or not.

    Even if you say "dont talk about this or that" you are still talking politics with your kids. They learn that the "Man" is not your friend or to be trusted.

    They are certainly going to get the point if government goons are tossing the house on a regular basis.

     

  21. Re:6 years old on Sergey Brin On Google and China · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I could have modded, but I rather post on this one.

    My first wife was from Czechsolvakia. At 6, she definitely knew the impact of the Communist regime she lived under. (I found out later her father was an honest to god Nazi Youth during the occupation. That is in part why they were so prosecuted by the Party)

    I clearly remember the Nixon resignation which happened when I was 5, and the Carter administration/hyperinflation. (I can still recall hearing that at current rates bread would be $300 a loaf in 10 years, and I knew that was more than my parents mortgage)
    I remember discussing both at length with my uncle, who I still have long political discussions with on a regular basis.

    For some people, it is a integral part of our lives to pay attention to politics and social issues.

  22. It is not that it passed. on House Passes Massive Medical Insurance Bill, 219-212 · · Score: 1

    But how it passed.

    Tiberius Gracchus lives on in Obama, Pelosi and Reed.

    Now the question is, it took 150 years from when Gracchus broke the Roman Republic until Caesar, how long before our first Dictator?

  23. Re:In other news: on House Passes Massive Medical Insurance Bill, 219-212 · · Score: 1

    In other news...

    Chris Matthews died, apparently by a thrombosis initially reported as a "thrill running up his leg" when vote 216 was cast.

  24. Re:First off on Health Care Reform · · Score: 1

    Even the Speaker said "But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it"

    So how did you find out what is in it?

    Share the actual bill with me and I will discuss it with you.

    Using "deem and pass" they will never actually vote on the bill. They will vote on 150+ pages of amendments, then the baseline bill will ride on the coat tails.

    So we do not get to see the final bill until AFTER it passes.

    How is that for buying a pig in a poke?

  25. Re:All Forms of Salt on Bill To Ban All Salt In Restaurant Cooking · · Score: 1

    Proof Medical M has no negative side effects...