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  1. Re:False Falg? on North Korea Denies Responsibility for Sony Attack, Warns Against Retaliation · · Score: 1
    And this precludes there being other demands how?

    Also how could you or I know whether there have been other demands or not?

    The North Koreans have publically made demands with respect to this movie both before and after the hack. It's been in the news for awhile.

  2. Re:Question on Clarificiation on the IP Address Security in Dropbox Case · · Score: 1

    "What would Bennett Haselton do?"

  3. Re:No. on Zuckerberg: Most of Facebook Will Be Video Within Five Years · · Score: 1
    You have him confused with that other chap, "I kan spell".

    At least kuzb can write their username, unlike you! You can use a video facebook to hide your illiteracy, i kan reed!

  4. Re:Obvious for some, but... on Despite Push From Tech Giants, AP CS Exam Counts Don't Budge Much In Most States · · Score: 1
    Is it?

    AP == advanced placement

  5. Re:America = snowball on Diners Tend To Eat More If Their Companions Are Overweight · · Score: 1

    It's clear something went wrong between the seventies and the eighties. What ?

    The coddling, enabling, reactionary post world war two generation started taking over.

  6. Re:America = snowball on Diners Tend To Eat More If Their Companions Are Overweight · · Score: 1
    Or a human.

    Unless you're a porn star or an athlete, there's just no money in physical activity.

  7. Re: The cure for obesity! on Diners Tend To Eat More If Their Companions Are Overweight · · Score: 0

    I had a beer with god at pub on tuesday, and he said he doesn't know either. He did say that when he sees a fatty loading up at the buffet, he loes his appetite for the rest of the day. I had to agree with him on the last one. Plus, the bartender always keeps your glass full when you're chilling with god.

    He said it, so it's true.

    And has god knows what chemicals that cause cancer and god knows what else and also screw with your metabolism, nullifying any advantage diet soda has.

    Skip the soda bro, diet or not.

  8. Re:Inevitable on Russian Military Forces Have Now Invaded Ukraine · · Score: 1

    When the US finally became the world police, drawn into the conflict by the Japanese, and won the war for the allies, and took over the bulk of the military responsibilities of European allies, *that's* when UK citizens living standards went up.

    USA! USA! USA!

  9. Re:Really? on Murder Suspect Asked Siri Where To Hide a Dead Body · · Score: 1
    Did Peter predict that Siri would "deliberately forget" where to hide a body?

    EVERYONE has asked Siri this question. It went viral in the first days of Siri. Even my 14 year old daughter has done it and the image is passed around to everyone.

  10. Re:The article is BS on Diet Drugs Work: Why Won't Doctors Prescribe Them? · · Score: 1

    Undoing moderation.

  11. Pedantic Bitch on Greenland Repeals Radioactive Mining Ban · · Score: 2
    Sorry, no stagger. Where I come from a staggeringy close vote is something like 14.6-14.4.

    Yesterday's parliamentary vote passed the decision by a staggeringly close 15-14 votes.

  12. Re:What a great idea! on Dead Drops P2P File Sharing Spreads Around Globe · · Score: 1
    Which one?

    The technological equivalent of having unprotected sex through a glory hole at a Quebec truckstop.

  13. Re:blame equality on Former DHS Official Blames Privacy Advocates For TSA's Aggressive Procedures · · Score: 1

    Your post is so full of fail, I don't have it in me to count the ways.

    What you want to do when you're searching for "KKK/Aryan Brotherhood/Skinheads" is to suspend constitional rights of all white people, and search and detain any white people you encounter. It's the only way to be safe, really. Best to do it before any crime is committed so we all can be safe and secure.

    Absurdism; it's what's for breakfast.

    So you're saying that if one is searching for KKK/Aryan Brotherhood/Skinheads, that one has to spend time/resources to stop/question/search blacks or it's a "horrible crime"? Or if searching for NBPP members, one has to stop/question/search whites?

    Suspects are typically described by appearance, such as "white male, mid-30s, approx. 6 ft tall, wearing jeans and red T-shirt" as an example. Do you think including "white male" in the description is a "horrible crime"?

    Strat

  14. Re:More Linus buying his own story. on Linus Responds To RdRand Petition With Scorn · · Score: 0

    Linus is the word for God on the lips and hearts of Linux users.

    Seriously, guy gets adulated, now believes he's God.

    What's new?

  15. Re:no ghettos pre-internet? on Could Technology Create Modern-Day 'Leper Colonies'? · · Score: 1
    Sometimes, you don't even need to ask.

    I never ask people how good they did in school... I asked what the experience of school was like. It's a much more reliable indicator.

  16. Re:Prior 'WORKING' Art on Wanted: Special-Ops Battle Suit With Cooling, Computers, Radios, and Sensors · · Score: 1

    Yo Dawg, I heard you like Halo, so I got you a suit to play Halo while you play Halo.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Ballistics_Suit_of_Armor

  17. Re:Too little too late on Windows 8.1 RTM Trickling Out, With Start Menu and Boot-to-Desktop · · Score: 1

    What is the 'minimum effort' way for a mac or linux user to access programs when they sit down in front of a win8.x system?

    The 'minimum effort' way to access programs, control panel snap-ins, etc hasn't changed since Vista: press the start key on your keyboard, type the first, occasionally second (and possibly third, for lesser-used programs) characters of the name, then hit enter. If you using the hunt-around-some-menus technique you might experience a slight speed-up or slow-down when going from start menu to start screen, depending on how organised you are (or how resistant to change you are), but for anyone using windows in a sane manner the difference is nonexistant.

  18. Re:Usage Enforcer Time on All-in-Ones Finally Grow Up, With Fast Graphics, SSDs, and CPUs · · Score: 1
    You's trollin.

    As for not correcting homework, the point isn't to get the write answer, the point is to learn how to think.

  19. Re:Well.. on Report: Britain Has a Secret Middle East Web Surveillance Base · · Score: 1

    He was Irish.

    Reminds me of an old post on newsgropus:

    "spying, great British hobby, second only to gardening".

    Wasn't 007 a British by any chance?

  20. Re:Why? on Don't Fly During Ramadan · · Score: 1

    Inquiring minds need to know:

    What is your point?

    What is to be done?

    What is your final solution?

    The big difference is that the Quran says to be violent, while the New Testament says to be peaceful. It's obvious that the typical Muslim, like the typical Christian, is not a murderous loon, but a to-the-letter Quran follower would be violent, while a to-the-letter Bible follower would be peaceful. To put it another way, a peaceful Muslim is as hypocritical as a hateful or violent Christian.

  21. Re:SPOILERS on Don't Fly During Ramadan · · Score: 1

    I can empathize with this poor, tired soul. This happens to me all the time.

    ...an explosive swab test on his pants which came back positive for some unknown reason, and everything snowballed from there...

  22. Re: A simple law on A New Spate of Deaths In the Wireless Industry · · Score: 1
    Thank you for your post. I wanted to say much the same thing, but I got too frustrated to use my words. I will remove words two through eleven when I plagiarize it.

    If a job stands an actuarial risk of being deadly and you contract / subcontract /subsubcontract it out, you have just hired *all* those in harms way as full time employees with all the inherent responsibilities and liabilities on your head until the contract is fully and completely fulfilled. No more firewalls, corporate assholes.

  23. Re:Blaming the victim... on A New Spate of Deaths In the Wireless Industry · · Score: 1
    50k is 9.81 an hour if you're doing 16 hour days. Righteous bucks.

    That's all the effort you get, as I'm afraid that interacting too much with you might give me cancer. It will most certainly make me stupider.

    Since when is 50k a year underpaid? And if 50k is the median, then half of all installers are making over that. For a job that does not require a college degree that is what most people consider an amazing salary. 50k is $26 an hour. If they get time and a half, overtime would be $39 an hour. Those extra 4 hours a day gets you an extra $150. Hell, I would work 16 hours a day too if it meant I made $350 for the whole day. 3 days would cover my apartment, cable, and utilities, leaving the other 17 days for that month as profit. Maybe (just maybe) they work a lot of overtime because they make so much money doing it. Where I live, in a major suburban area, a single person can live off half that. Living downtown takes about 30k. 50k a year might be hard to raise a family on single-income, but then you are assuming they are a single-income family. If you assume the workers spouse makes 30k (easily attainable for someone without a degree), that brings the family income up to 80k. You can easily raise a family off of that. I have a hard time buying your argument that these guys are underpaid.

  24. Re:More gov't intrusion then on A New Spate of Deaths In the Wireless Industry · · Score: 1
    Pop quiz. I haven't taken one of these in years.

    You think a welfare state, taxing, redistribution, regulating helps or prevents employment?

    I'm gonna say... helps, with the caveat that I don't give a shit whether it helps or not. The employer in question can do business in somewherefuckinelse-istan if doesn't like the rules.

    If the companies need more workers because the ones on the job are overworked, why do you think companies don't hire more people?

    Because they don't wanna, and nobody makes them respect any sane hours of work rules? And people who are making low hourly wages are incentivized to work those hours because they need the money?

    Counter-hypothetical: All hours over 40 per week or 10 a day are paid at double rate. Would that help or prevent employment?

    It's the costs associated with employing more people. It's not just salaries, it's all the costs added not by any market forces but only by government meddling, this of-course also factors in the cost of the economy that is hurting from inflation, which prevents real capital formation and real economy from restarting.

    Hiring people costs money; film at eleven. If the employer can't do the work safely because they bid too low, well then, that's the kind of management behaviour that sooner or later, will cost you your company (and/or flatten a town: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac-M%C3%A9gantic_derailment ).

    If the tower can't be built and maintained safely, then there shouldn't be a tower. AT&T will either pay to have the work done safely, or they will have to figure out a way to magically create one somehow. They can change their name to Antarctic Telecom and Telecommunication and FRO if they don't like it. (I'm not American, and I don't presume how you run your country, but that's my attitude for any business they want to do in my country.)

    You're an economist, aren't you? I am going to assume you are an American, and like a holier-than-thou eurocommie, I'm going to offer you a clue, and this may not sound nice. Here's what you need to do: Build your society and make your laws for ALL the people and in the interest of ALL the people first and foremost, not just the 1%, or the 47%, or the 53%, or even the 99%. If the wealth creators and the job creators and the %1 don't like it, the world's a big place with many other places for them to live and do their business. Perhaps they would be happier in a Randian paradise on the moon.

    Consider alternatives.

    Don't be scurred, homie. The 1% can't exist without the 99%.

    The greatest Canadian: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Douglas

    I'm not going to apologize either. Unless I hurt your feelings, in which case, I'm sorry. Go Leafs!

  25. Four out of five John Lennons recommend human cloning for all your messianic needs

    Pretty sure john lennon would frown on copying people...