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  1. If you've been employed before on Job Chances for Older Coders? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    you obviously have some other skill and experience to boot. That's your edge over the younger crowd. If you're looking for a menial 9-to-5 position, that's not going to be worth squat. If you're looking for something a little higher up the ladder, you're far better off.

    If all else fails, kill yourself.

  2. To hell with beer. on Michael Robertson of Lindows Responds · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'd let him fuck my ass like a donkey on crack.

  3. For the umpteenth time. on E-mail Tax As Way Of Preventing Spam · · Score: 1

    You cannot tax e-mail. It's technically infeasible and nobody will ever support it.

  4. Re:Quality of Chart Music? on MTV Music Generator Helped Create Chart Music · · Score: 1

    You have no idea what techno/electronica is. Pick any major pop act from the last two decades and I can almost guarantee that the "band" consists mostly of synths. This one is no different, and is really best described as rock or something.

  5. Re:Interesting... on No ID Cards in the Future · · Score: 1

    One catch: The company has to get your private unrandomized data first. There's no guarantee that they'll randomize/encypt/protect it in any way.

  6. Re:If this turns out to be true ... on Could Doom 3 be a Xbox Exclusive? · · Score: 1

    Please learn how to spell 'jest' before ever replying to one of messages again.

  7. If this turns out to be true ... on Could Doom 3 be a Xbox Exclusive? · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... I will personally assassinate Bill Gates and firebomb the entire campus at One Microsoft Way.

  8. Artists? Musicians? Writers? on LGP Announces Game Development Team · · Score: 1

    Games are more than code. This team seems unbalanced.

  9. Wow? on Manage Packages Using Stow · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This has about as much flexibility as distributing binaries in a tarball. You can't include installation/uninstallation scripts (what if my application needs to install a cron job?). Everything is forced into /usr/local/stow/PACKAGEDIR and a mess of symbolic links are used to bump everything into the corresponding bin, lib, include, whatever directories. While it may be easier for the software to manage, it creates countless unnecessary files on your drive.

    I don't see the benefit.

  10. working on something you believe in on Can Game Developer Unrest Lead to Revolution? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This isn't exclusive to the gaming industry. Reality is that you can't always enjoy what you do to earn a living. People simply aren't willing to pay for that.

  11. Re:automated sign up? no thanks on U.S. National Do-Not-Call Registry is Law · · Score: 1

    Don't forget that if you're getting telemarketing calls during dinner, you've probably already been signed up for things you didn't ask for.

  12. Re:What about autodialers? on U.S. National Do-Not-Call Registry is Law · · Score: 1

    Autodialers are illegal under U.S. law and have been for years. I don't know how to fight them.

  13. Re:modchips? on IsoNews Ostensibly Shut Down By The DOJ · · Score: 1

    I'm also a massive loser with no friends and no future.

  14. modchips? on IsoNews Ostensibly Shut Down By The DOJ · · Score: 2, Informative

    I used to be a regular on isonews back in 98-99. krazy8 was making bucketloads of cash off banner ads. The trick was that you never actually saw them -- the ads were in invisible frames that automatically refreshed every so often. It's sad that he's had to resort to making money by selling actual product.

  15. Re:Support your local retailer on Bookseller Purges Records to Avoid PATRIOT Act · · Score: 1

    I've tried this. The prices aren't competitive. The selection was dismal. And there was no customer service to speak of.

  16. This looks retarded. on League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Trailer · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Totally trying to capitalize on the x-men franchise.

  17. Re:Graphics not that amazing. on Snowboarding Soul Ride Engine Goes GPL · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That's all fine and dandy, but the game is still ugly.

  18. Re:One gratuitous incompatibility in GNOME 2.x on Slashback: Cooperation, Gravity, Petite · · Score: 1

    God forbid they actually force you to read the buttons before you go clicking around blindly.

  19. that's nothing on Check Traffic Congestion Online · · Score: 2

    The Gary-Chicago-Milwaukee corridor has had real-time reporting for years now. It covers the major interstates in and around Chicago.

  20. Re:Filthy Machine Sympathizers! on 1st Episode Of Animatrix Released · · Score: 1

    The humans may have brought it on themselves then, but that's no reason future generations should suffer for the actions of their ancestors.

  21. unspoken ... on Microsoft's Home Of Tomorrow Has No Bathroom · · Score: 1

    ... because it isn't there? Does everything Microsoft have to be Big Brother?

  22. Re:The many faces of ascii on Appreciation For All Things ASCII · · Score: 2, Informative

    You didn't even mention TheDraw. Goodness!

  23. Government Funding on America's Army on Linux · · Score: -1, Troll

    Awesome. I consider America's Army to be one of the best things my government has funded within recent history.

    You go to hell. I want my tax money back.

  24. Re:"show me your tits" on Ask a LinuxWorld Exhibitor · · Score: 1

    Show me your tits.

  25. "show me your tits" on Ask a LinuxWorld Exhibitor · · Score: 3, Funny

    be sure to take a camera.