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  1. Am I the only one on HR 5252 Bill Dies · · Score: 1

    that read that as "death of Sen. Ted" and got hopeful? I thought some tubes had fallen on him or something.

  2. Slayer DOA on What Live CDs Do You Carry Around? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Slayer's Decade of Aggression Live two CD set.

  3. Re:How black is it? on Laser Turns All Metals Black · · Score: 1

    More of a pastel black really.

  4. Re:Both; neither. on Students Put UCLA Taser Video On YouTube · · Score: 1

    Private Protective Service firms are regulated by State and Federal State Departments. Basically, if they carry a gun, they have the authority to use it. That blur is sharper than you think. How do I know this? Because at one point in time, I carried a gun.

  5. Re:God on Scott Adams Suggests Bill Gates For President · · Score: 1

    Yep, sounds like hell to me, being stuck forever with a bunch of people that rely on lists to do everything.

  6. Re:Self-congratulatory dehumanization. on Scott Adams Suggests Bill Gates For President · · Score: 1

    It might be because Buddhism strictly speaking isn't a religion. And they don't go shoving their theories of self improvement around in everybody's face.

  7. Re:God on Scott Adams Suggests Bill Gates For President · · Score: 1

    So the atheists are going to burn because Jesus said not to be sheep and they didn't while his people bastardized everything he said and they are somehow better off?

  8. Re:God on Scott Adams Suggests Bill Gates For President · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Noting more pathetic than when an adult fails to ever self actualize. I think it rather bad-joke-and-groaning-about-it that someone determines North on their moral compass from some imaginary man in the sky, but thinks it impossible for someone to come up with their own rules seemingly from out of thin air.

  9. Re:Babylon 5's time... on Babylon 5 Direct-To-DVD Project In Production · · Score: 1

    ...and wave at it like this. [waves mockingly]

    Mod parent up.

  10. Re:Beyond publicity, is there a point? on Blu-ray Laser Gadget · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sucker frequency: 1.67x10^-2Hz

  11. Re:Modern Eugenics, Neanderthal & Asperger Syn on Did Humans Get Their Big Brains From Neanderthals? · · Score: 1

    Uhhh, success in modern society is based off the same thing that made early humans successful. And that's ability to take risks. That coupled with literally deadly competition got us where we are today, the top of the food chain. Organization did play a role, but it was hardly primary. CEO's and the ilk may not be smashing rocks on 'lesser' members of society, but if they can get a leg up by stepping on someone, they will.

  12. Re:competition? on Did Humans Get Their Big Brains From Neanderthals? · · Score: 1

    Everybody knows that it's surface area where all the grey matter is that matters, not the overall size. Think of it this way. You could have a 10 inch dick half an inch across and a girl would laugh at you. OR you could have one 6 inches long, two inches wide and she'd be pleased.

  13. Re:Point, counter-point on Did Humans Get Their Big Brains From Neanderthals? · · Score: 1

    Neanderthals weren't subspecies of homo sapiens. They were a different branch of evolution. And while the split of a species from a main branch or otherwise divergent evolution may be thought of as distinct separation, the time involved and the interaction between species makes the 'tree' rather un-tree-like in having many small diverging and converging 'twigs' forming much larger branches.

  14. Re:Not really on What Would Google Decide? · · Score: 1

    I don't think results should be published or released until all votes are in. This helps get rid of strategic voting and more accurately reflects the publics wishes.

  15. Re:Why no counter requests? on Spammer Can't Have Accuser's Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Alternatively, he could check his mail from a good number of different machines. Then he could request clarification as to which hard drive, some of which he doesn't own, he has to clone and submit. He could also bring up things like dumb terminals, the afore mentioned knoppix live CD, terminal services, etc.

  16. I'm left to wonder if on Novell Gets $348 Million From Microsoft · · Score: 1

    this has anything to do with Microsoft's SCO involvement.

  17. Re:It's not what you signed up for, that's for sur on CEO Nabbed for Identity Theft From Own Employees · · Score: 1

    This reminds me of an ATM tech years ago. ATM as in Automated Teller Machine. He borrowed several thousands of dollars to bankroll his cocaine business. He had a deal go bad and lost all the money he was going to put back into the machine. Was he rewarded for his risk taking venture? If you count restitution, parole (yeah, no jail time as long as he made restitution payments), unemployment.

  18. WOW, GHz? on How Many Windows? · · Score: 1

    I'm on one of the better PIII machines, 666MHz. My idle process runs as high as 87% but averages about 84% with outlook and two ie windows. They did get in a shipment of P4's but someone took half the memory out of them.

  19. Re:Depends on the computer / other things on How Many Windows? · · Score: 1

    Eight to 10 on your work computer?
    Most machines at work can't handle more than four at a time. Part of that limitation is all the corporate spyware they install on every machine. I think someone in IT even said 256MB of RAM is plenty to run WinXP. It is, until you try to run other things.

  20. Re:Come out of the closet, Jack Thompson. on Jack Thompson To Face Contempt Charge · · Score: 1

    Trimed the hedge?

    I like this game.

  21. Re:How much is it worth? on Reporting on Your Employees' Internet Access? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I get the feeling that you are wrong for the wrong reasons.

    Firstly, I think there should be an expressed expectation of privacy, or level thereof. I expect that my employer wouldn't put a camera in the bathrooms. I think what keeps some from doing so is the letter of the law and the blanket coverage of all employees, including those responsible for the cameras. But I'm not going to bother to find and quote any decisions. My employer has a stated computer useage requirements. It is intentionally vague, but not beyond most people's comprehension. For instance, it doesn't identify the web filtering in place, but specifically prohibits circumventive behavior. I'm not happy about this as I don't agree with the filtering of sites like the wikipedia as personal pages. But I hardly find it reason enough to find other work.

    But the expectation of entitlement to anything not compensated for is rediculous. The idea that only the educated have bargaining power is rather ignorant. Your assertion that companies will lose out on the best employees seems to imply that because it decided to settle for less than the best that it will fail. My employer is a prime example of the contrary. This may be true when applied to entities of different sizes, say an accounting office with ten people might have greater friction and turnover over something as simple as web filtering. But even it would not instantly go out of business due to restictive uses.

    The only variable that ultimately affects any business is money. People will put up with a lot of unnecessary shit for the right price. That is the double edge sword of getting what you pay for. Pay peanuts, expect elephants.

  22. Old Employer 8 years ago on Does Your Employer Still Use SSNs? · · Score: 2, Funny

    We were required to give the last four digits of our SSN to get in the gate. Their verification was someone sitting on the otherside of the gate call box with a list of everyone's SSN. I expressed some concerns to my supervisor at the time because I didn't really trust my coworkers. Stupid bitch ran and told our manager that I was going to refuse to give it. She came back and told me that I could be fired for not following the procedure.
    That said, Larry Wise's last four SSN numbers are 2795.

  23. Re:This surprises me not one bit. on A Quantitative Analysis of Online Dating · · Score: 1

    I'd tend to agree. On okcupid I got replies and even one offer of anal sex. She wanted to try a threesome with two guys. I decided against that. And while nothing has really transpired otherwise, partly due to a lack of desireable women, I did have better luck.

  24. Re:Religion and Smoking on A Quantitative Analysis of Online Dating · · Score: 1

    His point is that most Christians are more willing to discout his atheism as cynicism instead of disbelief in gods. By shear numbers, more theists dicount people's beliefs than the grandparent does by calling Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus and others beliefs magical feiry tales. And I can relate. I've had numerous people literally say, "Yes you do believe in god." Or that I'm going through a phase or rebelling. I keep my mouth shut because I don't really want the situation to explode over quite literally nothing. While I want to say that an all powerful, all knowing god is the silliest thing I've ever heard of, I'd prefer to respect another invidiual's right to believe what they want to believe, respect that is rarely extended to me. So while I can see your point in supporting your agnosticism, you fall into that same trap as the theists and discout another's viewpoint and exchange yours as the correct view of the world.

  25. Re:They Are the Same, Essentially on Ten Most Used BitTorrent Sites Compared · · Score: 1

    You took the subtle insult out of my fingers.