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  1. Re:39%? Yikes! on The SEC Is About To Make Crowdfunding More Expensive · · Score: 1

    And that is going to be taxable income, too.

    No it's not. You think when you buy shares in a company the company pays tax on that money?

  2. Re:Overreach on The SEC Is About To Make Crowdfunding More Expensive · · Score: 1

    A normal person would think "This is nothing like my experience, maybe they are discussing something else."

    That's not normal at all. It's exceptional. A normal person stays with his initial assumption and blindly ignores or dismisses any contradicting evidence.

  3. Re:Space suits? on 100-Year-Old Photo Negatives Discovered In Antarctica · · Score: 5, Funny

    In space there is one thing that makes space suits usable at all. That thing is lack of gravity.

    Oh man you'e just asking for a flock of pedants to jump on you about a "lack of gravity." Right after they explain to me that pedants do not come in flocks. (I believe the proper group name is an Annoyance.)

  4. Re:Digital camera on 100-Year-Old Photo Negatives Discovered In Antarctica · · Score: 2

    Why would they have to be shot?

    You can't trust those remote servers. It's better to shoot them first and ask questions later.

  5. Re:He should be in jail on Iowa State AIDS Researcher Admits To Falsifying Findings · · Score: 1

    The person with results is the criminal but the other one is not?

    If you can guarantee a result it's not research.

  6. Re:What an idiot. on Convicted Spammer Jeffrey Kilbride Flees Prison · · Score: 1

    He will learn what we all have learned: opting out doesn't work.

    This is the winning post. No need for further discussion.

  7. Re:Get Off My Lawn on Researchers Claim Facebook Is 'Dead and Buried' To Many Young Users · · Score: 2

    just in time for them to create profitable exits for their founders and ultimately fuck over their retail investors when the userbase shifts to the next cool thing.

    So far their retail investors have been "fucked over" to the tune of a pretty sweet profit. It's now up to the investors to determine if they should hold or get out. There's no long-term requirement, they can sell when the want. So nobody getting is fucked over. If people are investing in a business they don't understand then it's their own damn fault.

  8. Re: Arthur Conan Doyle was Scottish on Sherlock Holmes Finally In the Public Domain In the US · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Have you *heard* bagpipes played? Badly?

    Is there any other way?

  9. Re:$11,530.54 on What Would It Cost To Build a Windows Version of the Pricey New Mac Pro? · · Score: 1

    Yes, all cases and power supplies are equal, so why not just buy the cheapest?

  10. Re: Easy solution on E-Books That Read You · · Score: 1

    ou realize even the Amazon Kindle (supposedly the most evil device) does none of those things, right?

    Who said the Kindle is "the most evil"? I've not seen that. In what ways is it supposedly an evil device?

  11. Re:Stop blaming autocorrect! on First Hard Evidence for the Process of Cat Domestication · · Score: 5, Funny

    And Muphry's law still applies

    I see waht you did there.

  12. Re:Worth it. on Code.org Stats: 507MM LOC, 6.8MM Kids, 2K YouTube Views · · Score: 1

    How many of the kids, being fledgling programmers, do you think would realize that 500M is not 10 times more than 50M? Worded that way it's a classic off-by-one error.

  13. Re:NSA/CIA Chilling effects, billion lost. on Investor Lawsuit Blames NSA For $12B Loss In IBM Value · · Score: 5, Funny

    About 40 people I was going to hire to start this business won't see the light of day.

    Vampire-based businesses traditionally don't do well anyway. Employee retention is difficult because when you tell them you're going to give them a stake in the "business" they misunderstand and flee.

  14. Re:get used to the monthly payment on Why Cloud Infrastructure Pricing Is Absurd · · Score: 1

    There is simply no free lunch. The guy you are outsourcing to is in it for the money. He will make sure he makes his money off of you.

    If he can do it more efficiently then can't he make a profit while still making it cheaper for me?

  15. Re:No idea what that means on Simulations Back Up Theory That Universe Is a Hologram · · Score: 1

    Michael, Jermaine, Tito, & that other one no one remembers

    Duh. Zeppo.

  16. Re:Are they the only one ? on This Whole Bitcoin Thing Could Be Big, Says Bank of America · · Score: 1

    BoA, Wells Fargo, and Chase are the douche banks. Most banks will do better but not much, but some are pretty good.

    I switched from Wells Fargo to Chase for my routine banking and unlike with WF I've been very happy, bordering on delighted. I've never paid a fee for anything. They've even waived wire transfer fees for me. The manager at the local branch is the most helpful banker I've ever encountered, so maybe it's actually more him than Chase, but I'm happy.

  17. Re:Whites evolved from blacks... on Oldest Human DNA Contains Clues To Mysterious Species · · Score: 1

    Look at that. An actual example of begging the question.

  18. Re:underground cave... on Oldest Human DNA Contains Clues To Mysterious Species · · Score: 1

    The key being that if there is ground above you, you are underground.

    That also explains why this coffee tastes like mud today. Turns out it was ground this morning.

  19. Re:Not if you have tinnitus? on The Quietest Place On Earth Will Cause You To Hallucinate In 45 Minutes · · Score: 5, Interesting

    With this condition you will always be exposed to some other forms of sound - would this prevent the hallucinations?

    I have mild tinnitus. In normal environments I'm not aware of it, but when the room is quiet I notice it. In this chamber it'd probably drive me crazy, hallucinations or no.
    FWIW, mine started after a severe cold and has never diminished in the seven years since.

  20. Re:Sounds great! on Google Wants To Write Your Social Media Responses For You · · Score: 1

    Does it also detect Slashdot dupes?

    It sounds like it would help create them.

  21. Re:The interesting question on Study Suggests Link Between Dread Pirate Roberts and Satoshi Nakamoto · · Score: 2

    We still do not surely know who is Satoshi Nakamoto.

    Clearly he's Jean-Baptiste Mardelle.

  22. Re:Probably Apple on Intel Opens Doors To Rivals, Maybe · · Score: 1

    When taking over big companies, a 25%-50% premium is standard.

    Motorola had a market cap of about $6B when Google bought it for 12.5B. Admittedly, Google got suckered big time by Icahn and the boys.

  23. Re:Just great... on Bionic Eye Implant Available In US Next Month · · Score: 1

    You know, I really hate lmgtfy. It implies that there are such things as stupid questions

    I don't take it that way. To me it means there are questions that now one can easily be answered by search rather than asking someone else. "How tall is the Eiffel Tower" is not a stupid question, but posting it online instead of looking it up is a bit rude.

  24. Re:I wonder what Elon's rebuttal to this will be.. on NHTSA Tells Tesla To Stop Exaggerating Model S Safety Rating · · Score: 2

    Bought ~6000 shares at $17/share, sold most of it at ~$190, bought it all back at $130.

    So you're claiming you put up $100k early on, sat back and let it run well past a million without taking profits, then miraculously sold at the very top.
    Maybe that's what happened but it's difficult to believe. How about posting a transaction statement or two?

  25. Re:The old Chair-man is gone on Microsoft Kills Stack Ranking · · Score: 1

    Microsoft ME? "Microsoft Microsoft Edition"?

    Or maybe Microsoft Microsoft Etc.