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  1. Re:Good way to cut healthcare taxes. on California City May Tax Sugary Drinks Like Cigarettes · · Score: 1

    I agree. Why should I have to pay for it?

    Similarly why should I have to pay for unemployment for people who didn't study hard in school?

    In seriousness, two cents won't do Jackvs Sqvattvs. It's just another new tax that they can then spend decades ratcheting up bit by bit. Just say no.

    Also sugar and sugar pop as culprit of obesity is probaby less the issue than calories in general, which is probably more to do with bread and dough in every damned thing you eat, covered with ladels of fat.

    I have obesity issues and haven't touched a sugar drink in20 years.

  2. Re:MS are fully into change-for-its-own-sake mode on Microsoft Ignores Usability With All-Caps Menu in Visual Studio · · Score: 2

    They make change for change's sake, like car companies. I still hate the icon-based Office 2010.
    The pictures are meaningless for user "discovery", AKA the process where people figure out what is where. So it offers nothing over purely text-based menus and just uses up valuable screen real estate. I love having all those fat bars taking up a grand total of almost 50% of the screen space, crowding out the actual data.

    "Oh! You can reduce them! Just go into blah blah blah cmd prompt tar -xvf..."

  3. Re:Helpful Explanation and Anecdote on CryptoCat Developer Questioned At US-Canadian Border · · Score: 1

    Canadian officials harrassed me and some coworkers several times coming in.

    They labor under 18th century notions of work. We were a multinational with engineering facilities in US, Canada, Japan, China, India, and Germany.

    The product was being developed in the US, Canada, and Germany, and we would go visit Germany or Canada as appropriate, or have their engineers come here.

    Immigration thinks you are stealing jobs when you are going to Canada to pull the Canadian engineers' ass out of the fire to save the multinational project.

    Lose Canadian jobe by having visiting workers in a multinational?

  4. 24 year C/C++ guy here on Why Do Programming Languages Succeed Or Fail? · · Score: 1

    Doesn't include LISP, which is, of course, the correct answer for everything except serious number crunching.

    And the serious number crunching could probably be faster piloted in LISP, at that.

    I can't count the number of times the need for solutions to "intractable" problems comes up. Let's whip up a fuzzy blackboard system. Whuuuh?

  5. What do you have to hide, anyway? on Could Cops Use Google As Pre-Cogs? · · Score: 1

    Here's he biggest reason it won't happen: Google stock will collapse as people flee to other search engines that don't report to police like something from 1984.

  6. Ok then! on John Carmack Is Building a Virtual Reality Headset · · Score: 2

    It's about time. This should have been done 10 years ago, and was but never made it past the novelty stage.

    Instead 3D card makers and game makers kept stressing capabilities, making things as pretty as possible at 30fps, whatever that level of complexity was.

    Screw that! I want 3D for a game I spend hours "inside" every day.

  7. Re:Yeah, yeah, racist rants, again ! on China Secretly Clones Austrian Village · · Score: 1

    Europe has been patting "lesser" cultures on the head for centuries. It's about time someone viewed them as cute and quaint.

  8. Re:I'd rather he dancer from Galaxies... on Star Wars: 1313, a 'Darker, Grittier' Star Wars Game · · Score: 1

    FYI I just bought that festering turd SW:The Old Republic MMORPG, where Jedi wield wiffle bats as neutered tanks, unlike Star Wars but exactly like MMO design dictates, and I'm pissed.

  9. I'd rather he dancer from Galaxies... on Star Wars: 1313, a 'Darker, Grittier' Star Wars Game · · Score: 0

    > You take on the role of a Bounty Hunter...

    And...I will see Star Wars later at whatever is even further down the road.

  10. Re:Seems like a pattern on Oracle Sues Lodsys For Patent Trolling · · Score: 1

    When Apple, or Oracle in this case, licensed the patents, didn't it include derivitive products of its customers?

    How could giant, patent-experienced companies be so stupid?

  11. Re:confused on Oracle Sues Lodsys For Patent Trolling · · Score: 1

    Lois: It doesn't have to end this way.

    Diane: Oh but it does.

    Lois winces, waiting.

    BLAM!

    Diane falls into the ocean.

    Lois, looking aound: Hello? Whoever you are, thank you.

    Camera pulls back and zoms in on a smoking barrel. Pulls back and...

    Stewie: If anyone's going to take that bitch out, it's going to be me.

  12. Re:confused on Oracle Sues Lodsys For Patent Trolling · · Score: 1

    What's this "finally" stuff?

  13. Re:Helps when you have the OS companies helping on Antivirus Firms Out of Their League With Stuxnet, Flame · · Score: 1

    Intelligence agencies are motivated and find good people. Fraudulent botnets and scams in near-failed states are motivated highly. Antivirus companies have incompetent managers who rub their chins and hire some random, poorly-motivated programmers and call it a night.

    It's the difference betwen government lawyers and the OJ defense team.

  14. Re:More articles like this one on What Struck Earth in 775? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    > I enjoy articles like this one. Please bring more like it.

    You want more articles about huge things hitting the Earth?!?!??

    I'd just as soon there be not much to write about.

  15. Re:SCOTUS on Whose Cameras Are Watching New York Roads? · · Score: 1

    I don't know if I'd rely on the liberal wing to "save you". A few years ago the SC ruled IR scanning devices could not be used to "see" inside a building without a warrant, even though they were just passive scanners. The majority and dissent were a mixture of liberal and conservatives, confounding the usual analysis.

    Conservatives often stand up for fundamental rights when liberals do not, and vice versa in other things.

  16. Re:google for "open basque" on Basque Country Gov't Decrees State-Produced Software Should Be Open Sourced · · Score: 1

    Note: 'merica gave you the choice to "opt in", and you took it.

    You've nobody to blame but yourself, as per American freedom design.

  17. And don't get me started on World of Warcraft! on Fox News Ties 'Flame' Malware To Angry Birds · · Score: 1

    So they "tied" it to something popular to get millions of peeps on ads.

    What's the beef? A few years back CNN ran an article soon after the huge tsunami in Asia that sea rises due to global warming "would be like the tsunami zomg!!!" In the fine print a scientist said there could be a 30 foot sea rise, the same height as the tsunami wave, over the course of 100-300 years.

    Ad people are jackasses.

  18. Huh? on Smaller SIM Format Standardized · · Score: 1

    "Prepared to license the patents?"

    Why is any patent licensing required to build to a standard? The standard group should say, "If you want it considered, you will give up royalties for any related patents."

    Also, how is "smaller but more of the same" even patentable?

  19. Re:So.... on Venezuela Bans the Commercial Sale of Firearms and Ammunition · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Irrelevant to this discussion.

    This is about dictatorships outlawing guns to make it harder for people to shuck off their oppressors, which is exactly why it was enshrined in the US constitution.

    It's not about home safety or hunting rights, or the statistical vagaries thereto.

    Mr. Dictator no want lose cush job.

    And, by the way, loss of a nation's freedom exceeds all prosaic gun violence over the decades as a major disaster by light years.

  20. Re:Not a problem on What Should We Do About Wikipedia's Porn Problem? · · Score: 1

    Fair enough, but why should this be different from any other Wiki data issue -- just let page/picture page editors flip a bit and leave it up to the review process?

  21. Re:UN takeover must be stopped? on UN Takeover of Internet Must Be Stopped, US Warns · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You mean like tax it?

    Like require all content providers to screen things that are posted to pre-approve them?

    Like they control the phones? Or newspapers? Or TV?

    Nah. I'm sure it'll be fine.

  22. Re:Get a refill.. on Soda Ban May Hit the Big Apple · · Score: 1

    I've been asking for lighr on the ice at drive-thrus for 20 years.

  23. WWKKT? What would Kim K. think? on Milky Way's Black Hole Wasn't Always Such a Wimp · · Score: 1

    Is anyone else disturbed that such an incredibly major change happened only 20,000 years ago?

    This could be worse than an ice age.

  24. ...and I still would have banged her! on Everything You Need To Know About the June 5/6 Venus Transit · · Score: 1

    > how to observe this (most likely) last-in-a-lifetime event.

    2117 is the next one.

    Claire from Six Feet Under lived to 102 and she missed it by 30 years!

  25. God help them with the Christmas Special on Cost of Pre-Screening All YouTube Content: US$37 Billion · · Score: 2

    Oh, poor Google -- Imagine the long-term disability costs of inssane asylums for unfortunate employees when asses start deliberately uploading Jar Jar scenes.