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  1. Re:Bastards made piece with the Cylons on Battlestar Galactica Hosted At the UN · · Score: 1

    Tigh wasn't a cylon, he was human, an Earthting to be precise, he even helped to make the hated skin-jobs than his conscienceless was reincarnated into.

  2. Re:amatures on Battlestar Galactica Hosted At the UN · · Score: 1

    I am using IE6 on Windows XP and it is frakin' ugly.

    These pages render real crap under IE7 and Firefox.

    there's your problem

  3. Re:Precious Snowflakes on Narcissistic College Graduates In the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    Be careful here, Everyone has some Narcissistic traits, is can be strong in tweens and moderates with maturity. Some people just stop maturing but this isn't the same as full-blown clinical diagnosable NPD.

  4. Re:Precious Snowflakes on Narcissistic College Graduates In the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    who cares, what everyone who isn't, is supposed to do with one is what I'd like to know

  5. Re:Precious Snowflakes on Narcissistic College Graduates In the Workplace? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I stand corrected.
      It's much easier to pretend to agree with a narcissist than to argue with them.

  6. Re:Sounds about right... on Narcissistic College Graduates In the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    your right, I had considered them, but in a pressurized vessel the corners would be a stress riser

  7. Re:Sounds about right... on Narcissistic College Graduates In the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    Why are manhole covers round? Only the ones that are designed to be removable from the same side of the opening that they are set into are round, the one that go through the hole when removed are ovoid.

  8. Re:anecdotal evidence on Narcissistic College Graduates In the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    I suspect that your view point might be a little skewed as well, most students don't see physics as a skate course to fulfill their laboratory science requirement. Narcissism is extremely hard to quantify, they will invariably tell you what they think you want to hear.

  9. Re:It isn't their fault. on Narcissistic College Graduates In the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    Ross was a paleontologist working in a museum at expectedly middle-class wages, Joey was an actor/waiter, Monica was a chef, Phoebe, I don't know what she did for money but was a folk singer on the side and Rachel the only thing i remember about her was her breasts were a different size every episode.

  10. Re:Education fads on Narcissistic College Graduates In the Workplace? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The idea, is that kids get praised all the time as a means of positive reinforcement
    The problem is we told the kids that they are special and the kids heard they are special and everyone else isn't.

  11. Re:Precious Snowflakes on Narcissistic College Graduates In the Workplace? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You have to pay your dues like everyone else.

    You don't understand Narcissistic people at all

    1. They don't have any self-esteem at all, they are self-loathing, they always present an artificial grandiose public face to garner external-esteem.
    2. They will only want to work on the flashiest projects to reinforce their grandiose image
    3. Any contribution they make will be worth ten times any equivalent contribution by someone else.
    4. They are habitual liars and exaggerators, the only person they will lie to more than you is themselves.
    5. If you buy into their grandiose public image, they know you believed the lie and you have earned their disdain for being gullible.
    6. Narcissism is very probably incurable, but it can be managed through reward and punishment, the only effective reward is praise and attention, the only effective punishment is unemotional in-attention; the cost will probably be not worth the effort.
    7. Narcissitic people don't care what you think about them as long as you allways think about them.

    Only common people pay their dues, treating a Narcissist as common would be seen as a personal attack by them.

  12. Re:Bigger Issue on Hope For FOSS In Electronic Health Records · · Score: 1

    I finally refused the shots, the medic said he'd charge me for refusing a direct order, I countered by telling him I'd counter charge him with dereliction of duty for failing to properly record the shots he had given me last month in my health records properly; he solved the problem in two minuted.

  13. Re:Anti-FOSS? on Hope For FOSS In Electronic Health Records · · Score: 1

    Sounds like we need a welfare program for FOSS apps to be able to play in the big leagues. How do you think CCHIT gets their operating budget? Through fees I would expect.

    Sounds to me like this organization should be getting funded a better way. It's pretty commonly accepted that certification groups that get their budget from fees have a pretty significant conflict of interest wrt. properly executing their duties.

    Well lets see

    The Certification Commission is a private nonprofit organization with the sole public mission of accelerating the adoption of robust, interoperable health information technology by creating a credible, efficient certification process. Certification Commission

    Well it seems to me that the authority of the CCHIT is self-assumed, they are a private organization, not a public one; being non-profit simply means they have to spend all their money each year, not that they are good or charitable or even that they are anything more than a "good "ol' boys" network protecting their own pork-barrel.

  14. Re:Get out of your mother's basement on Hope For FOSS In Electronic Health Records · · Score: 1

    Medical applications cost a lot of money, if you are a facility that decides to try and save some money on the front end and go with the cheap option, don't be surprised when you find yourself in a hole because suddenly you don't meet some federal or state standard. When this happens the cost to change over to something that is compliant is going to cost you more than just spending a couple dollars more and getting one from a company that realizes the value of being certified in the first place. The cost of maintaining these systems to these standards is very expensive.

    From what I've seen most of these vendors don't maintain to the standards with the rigor that I'd assume would be required from reading the standards, and I assume it's because of the expense. Furthermore a lot of these companies either tank from trying or get bought-out by a company that only does a half-assed job for a few months, then forces an "upgrade" to less capable system and you lose half your data in the conversion. At least with an open standard, your data wouldn't be held hostage to one company.

  15. Re:Invisible my foot on US Pentagon Plans For a Spy Blimp · · Score: 1

    Right now the "bad guys" pretty much know when the spy satellites will be over head and just hide from them a couple hours twice a day and operate a lot at night; this thing will put a real crimp in their operations, they'll be under scrutiny continuously when it's deployed.

  16. Re:The heck with SAM/long range missles... on US Pentagon Plans For a Spy Blimp · · Score: 1

    It's been quite a while since there has been a war between belligerents who were both technological advanced enough to either field such a sensor platform or attack it. Right now the powers that could do it aren't directly engaged and nobody that could provide the technology doesn't deploy that technology to their proxies. I would think that the Israelis would have an all day woody if they got it from us or developed it on their own.

  17. Re:He should go to prison, but not for... on Feds Demand Prison For Guns N' Roses Uploader · · Score: 1

    Those "Corporate Guys" get knocked around too it's just not physically, imagine getting used to having billions under your control then all of your property gets ceased and sold at auction, your accounts get frozen while the feds track down every penny you owned.

  18. Re:Who's really to blame? on Feds Demand Prison For Guns N' Roses Uploader · · Score: 1

    it seems that this Kevin Cogill guy is a blogger and music critic, the label probably sent him a pre-release CD for review and is likely to be an insider leak.

  19. Re:Gun Point? on Feds Demand Prison For Guns N' Roses Uploader · · Score: 1

    1. he'll probably serve his time in a jail rather than a prison.
    2. prisoners are psychologically assessed and incarcerated with prisoners with similar psychological profiles.

  20. Re:Gun Point? on Feds Demand Prison For Guns N' Roses Uploader · · Score: 1

    He isn't allowed soap on a rope there, but if he pisses off the wrong people he might get some soap in a sock up side his head.

  21. Re:He should go to prison, but not for... on Feds Demand Prison For Guns N' Roses Uploader · · Score: 1

    It's like they talked about on that movie, on COPS (tv show) they'll have 3 cops chasing a guy down the street and beat him to the ground because he just stole $85. But some corporate criminal that steals $85,000,000.00 and well they treat him with kid gloves.

    Some people need a reality check.

    Yup it's called don't resist arrest and get the shit beaten out of you for a 40hr community service rap.

  22. Re:How Do Militaries Treat Their Nerds? on How Do Militaries Treat Their Nerds? · · Score: 1

    I used to spend a good half day wondering around shooting the shit with people in other units while sent out for stuff like batteries for sound powered telephone or liquid level for the mortar sights.

  23. Re:Coming soon, on Powering Restaurants WIth Deep Fried Fuel · · Score: 1

    I used to work at a McDonalds in High School, anything that comes out of there kitchen has beef fat on it, my face used to feel gritty after work from the beef fat splatter. A Hindu going into a bugger Joint and just eating french fries is like a Baptists going into a whore house and just talking.

  24. Re:Just one problem on Powering Restaurants WIth Deep Fried Fuel · · Score: 1

    No it doesn't cause trans-fats, what does happen is the oil breaks down and releases the fatty acid and glycerin portions, both are bad for taste and in diesel engines. If you're making biodiesel and the oil has too much FFA (Free Fatty Acids) and your using the base catalyzed trans-esterifaction process you end up with a barrel of soap instead of fuel.

  25. Re:Just one problem on Powering Restaurants WIth Deep Fried Fuel · · Score: 1

    I think the point is to use the vegetable oil after it is no longer useful for cooking food in, what will go up is animal feed and soap, which the used fat is used for commercially. Currently restaurants pay to have this valuable material removed.