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  1. Re:Over for you maybe. on Generation Wrecked · · Score: 1

    I live an apartment right now, and look at my poor father slaving away with the yard, making repairs... Its horrendous. My father just put a $3000 new pump into the well. I live in Brooklyn and thats over three months of my monthly rent just for a pump.

    People may condemn renting, but I know how much my living expenses are all the time. The landlord is reponsible for everything but electricity. There are no unknown expenses. This makes it much easier for me to plan for the future I think, at least it lets me plan for the immediate future. right now, I can make very accurate projections about my prospects of future income. I don't have to worry about not being able to pay the rent, it is low enough I could afford it driving a cab.

  2. Re: No damages = Impossibility of civil action on Blind User Sues Southwest Over Web Site, Cites ADA · · Score: 2, Informative

    I would love to see your reference to the code on that one.

    The law excludes PUNITIVE damages, but not damages. The entire purpose of the civil justice system is damages, the idea that one party was wronged by another, and to make him whole by collecting damages. What also follows is that the loser pays the winner's attorney fees.

    Punitive damages are damages that are above and beyond what is necessary to make the plaintiff whole. They are punitive, in they are intended to discourage others from behaving in a similar manner. These are not allowed under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

    If damages were disallowed, one could not file suit. There are many examples of these kinds of laws. Instead of filing a civil suit, you make a complaint to an administrative board, and they hear your case.

  3. Re:Try FireWire(Then why does Apple use IDE?) on IDE to SCSI Converters? · · Score: 1

    Too bad Apple still uses IDE hard drives. FireWire is not nor was it ever intended to be a device interconnect for high speed storage drives.

    You will note Serial ATA is 150 MBps, not Mbps. B = bytes. b = bits. Hard drives are much faster than anything an extral bus can provide, thus the reason it is not used to primary hard disks. There are eight bits in a byte remember. Serial ATA is 1200 Mbps while Firewire is 400. Serial ATA also scales to even faster speeds much more easily with 300 megabytes per second around the corner.

    And CompactFlash? PCMCIA? What planet are you living on? I use CompactFlash on my PDA. When the guy said Hot Swappable, he wasn't talking about removing a compact flash card, he was talking about swapping out a defective drive in a RAID array...

    I also absolutely guarantee that when Serial ATA is fully available, Apple we be amongst the first companies to use it. They have been waiting for this ever since SCSI's demise as a desktop product. They use IDE crap because they have no choice if they want to make a profit. Apple also did not invent Firewire, it was a standard ratified by the IEEE. Thus, the reason it is called IEEE 1394. It is also completely unrelated to SCSI in every way, and not intended to serve as a replacement for it.

    Apple people really ARE dumb.

  4. Re: Lawyers and Teachers are the problem on Careers After Tech? · · Score: 1
    As for what I'm turning to, teaching. I'm going back to school for my teaching certificate so I can teach graphic design and adobe apps to high school kids. Maybe a little down tha line, a law degree or my own (non-design) business.


    There we go. The problem is, he is not a creative person. What does he want to do? Teach or become a lawyer. It is the art of bullshitting. Those who can, do those who can't teach or go to law school.

    Please, try and CONTRIBUTE something to society. Anyone who is a true geek did not learn a damn thing from school. You are just going to be part of the problem. Hindering young children's minds with your own impotence or abusing the system of justice to feed off your laziness is simply disgusting. I mean come on, can anyone honestly say they learned anything about Photoshop from a teacher??? Sheesh. Photoshop is the quintessential program you need to sit down and LEARN by experimentation, like everything else in this world.
  5. Re: Cooked Protein, Wheat, and Dairy are the cause on Why Laughter Is The Best Medicine · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is not entirely accurate.

    Allergies are the result of two things:

    1)When cooked protein is cooked, new substances originated. Many of the resulting amino acids are not completely decomposed, and their foreign structure cannot be decomposed by digestive enzymes. These free amino acids are still somewhat chemically similar to their natural counterparts and are incorporated into the body. The human immune system targets these foreign proteins and attempts to destroy them. Auto-immune allergies are the result. An example of allergic inflammation such as this would be arthritis and acne.

    2) The immune system works just like vaccines do obviously. Raising a child in a sterile environment will diminish immune response in time.

    As far as asthma, asthma is POSITIVELY not at all related to allergies. Asthma is caused by one thing, and one thing alone, kappa-opiod receptor agonists. The great lie is only the poppy contains opiod peptides. Wheat contains glutomorphine molecules 100x as powerful as those found in the poppy. Further, milk contains opiod peptides to create an addictive bond between mother and child and to calm the child. MSG, monosodium glutamate, also influences glutamate receptors in the brain, which seem to affect opiod receptors.

    Junk food, and many processed foods, contain Whey, Glutan, and MSG. Whey and Glutan are chemically protected against digestion, so that they decompose into opiod peptides during the digestive process. Heat induces these chemical reactions. When milk and wheat glutan are treated and heated in a special way, very pure opiod peptides result. These substances are added to junk food to induce an addictive craving, and to make you eat more. The reason so many people are fat is due to these substances.

    These opiods have the same physiological effects as morphine. They induce respiratory suppression, constipation, and apathy. Naltrexone, a narcotic antagonist, will eliminate constipation and asthma in 99% of people who suffer from those disorders.

    These substances are allowed by governments because they induce apathy, and make people easier to control. The roman emperors weren't stupid when the only food they gave away was bread. That was the only way they could keep control of the people.

  6. Re: Socialists are a farce on Patents Choking Off Medical Research · · Score: 1

    He admits in the same sentence that government is meddling in the vaccine business and yet condemns the free market. How can people be this stupid.

    Its like morons in Manhattan claiming its the landlords fault there is no new housing. They are just being greedy. No one will bother building a new apartment building when the government dictates the maximum price for which they can rent their apartments. Note, I am well aware that rent stabalization has been repealed for new buildings, but from 1971 until 1999 it was in place. Thus, few apartment buildings constructed during that time period. And NO, I am not talking about the rent control imposed during WWII and reissued by the city council every year. There is a difference, read up on it.

    When government dictates prices, people stop playing the game. If the government had NOT been involved with the vaccine game, and let people do it themselves, the market would have provided the best possible price. Especially considering all vaccines are too old to be patented, anyone could start selling them if he or she chose.

    Maybe the poster should go learn some biochemistry and start his own damn business. All vaccines are fairly easy to produce. Actually, better yet, he should move to a country that practices socialized medicine. There is a REASON narcotics are over the counter. You need SOMETHING to dull the pain while you wait in line for your rationed medicine...

    THINK people.

  7. Re:searching for a job in a different city. on Resume Tips For Jobs · · Score: 1

    Five hours? Of course you are going to be ignored. If you are planning on moving there however, you can say that. Or, get a cell phone with a phone number local to that area or use a fake address. Most companies are very much focused on local people, they don't want to deal with the hassle of you moving let alone having an employee who cannot sleep more than five hours a night.

  8. Re:How To (yeah no shit!) on The First Automotive Easter Egg? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    A piece of shit BMW for $141,000. Not only is it america's shittiest car and wet dream of materialistic ghetto twats the nation over, its so cheap relatively that its owners must lie about its cost!

    I drove from NYC to Washington DC this past weekend, and so no fewer than FIVE wrecked BMW 3's of various types, all owned by ghetto thugs. Its been a long time since I have done anything in Maryland but take the train through it, but what a shit state.

    It should be renamed the BMW state.

    BTW, I *DID* however see more BMW 3's on the road intact, than wrecked on the road.

  9. Re:Via C3 CPU -- WHERE?!? on AOL's new Linux PC · · Score: 1

    Go to walmart and you will get the whole damn machine, for $199.

  10. Re:What a Joke on Ready, Steady, Evolve · · Score: 1

    Yeah, God makes a beetle with an explosive means of self defense, but makes my neighbor so goddamn fat he can't even walk 20 feet to his mailbox. Excellent designer, this foul humans... Beetles have built in explosive chemicals, humans should have been designed with adrenaline levels that rise in proportion to weight, so you never get fat.

    btw the structural similarities between adrenalin and amphetamine are apparent even to the person with no knowledge of chemistry. check Chem Finder.com and search for both.

  11. Re:37 not quite... + Desqview on 37 Operating Systems, 1 PC · · Score: 1

    Come on. You have Windows 1.0 but not Desqview???

  12. Re: Religion is the problem on Violent Games Good for Kids · · Score: 1

    We have to remember that the primary reason children have a difficult time distinguishing reality from fiction is so many are taught to suppress this innate human instinct in order to properly conform with their parent's religious dogma of choice.

    Nevermind the fact the world's bibles contain material far more sadistic than the average video game, is it any wonder people have problems accepting reality for what it is? Remember, little Johnny is taught video games are bad, but it is ok for God to flood the entire world and kill everyone save a few because a couple folks didn't show him enough deference. Genocide is ok, simulated violence is not.

    Until children are taught rational empiricism from the very beginning, we will have crazy violent people. 9/11 was a direct result of some poor folks thinking some fictional being wanted them to act as they did.

  13. More Chestnuts? on Microsoft's Vision Of Future Workplaces · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The article mentions few details. Yes, surround sound is a little bit ridiculous. But, the pen copy and paste from computer to computer is interesting. Biometrics for access control? That is already possible with Windows. What else is the big news? Microsoft has some great plans to revolutionize the office? This has been their grand dream since the released their wonderful product "office". Of course, we are all well aware how well that plan worked...

    This is a pointless article.

  14. Re:What do I think? on Engineer in a Box? · · Score: 1

    Yeah no kidding, these shitty wood frame houses they have been building since the 50's really suck. I miss solid masonry.

  15. Re:Rez on PCs Losing Out as a Gaming Platform? · · Score: 1

    All I can say is I hope they use Underworld's single Rez in the game.

  16. Re:Misleading? on Lindows 2.0.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Of course, the better windows than windows required two to three times the memory of windows itself back in the days memory was expensive as fuck. When I was running OS/2 2.0 on a 486 DX 33 with 8 1 meg 30 pin simms in there, people thought I had a goddamn monster. Each one of those simms was like $120 as I recall.

  17. Re:Big deal on Australia Taps More Phones Than Entire U.S. · · Score: 1

    Yeah, not only that, I can walk into Washington Square and get black market cigarettes free of the new $5.00 cigarette tax as well as a nice dime bag of weed or a $20 bag of heroin no problem.

  18. Re:The Will to Power on Talk To a Convicted Warez Guy · · Score: 1

    Software piracy, the quest to be elite, is just one way of fullfilling our will to power. We all want to be elite, to be better than others, to be unique in some way. Whether you want to be a pirate, get on the VIP list at some dance club, or become a karma whore on slashdot, we all have our own unique way of striving for power and superiority over everyone else.

  19. Re:Stealing? on Talk To a Convicted Warez Guy · · Score: 1

    Wow, this is a newbie question. All these damn post internet linux kiddies. DoD has been around for YEARS. I would get their files all the time back when I was running Oblivion/2 under OS/2 2.1

    Their piracy didn't rely on FTP sites exclusively, but were distributed throughout the international piracy community, which until 1996 or so, was largely based on BBS systems. Even after that, it was still exclusive to a select group, and was eventually traded down. I am sure FTP sites which were operated by DoD and their affiliates were restricted to a select group, maybe 200 users max.

  20. Re:The Rare OS/2(STARDOCK PROCESS COMMANDER!!!) on Apache 2.0 r00ted on NetWare, Windows, OS/2 · · Score: 1

    Yes, remember Stardock's Process Commander or the freeware program WatchCat? I was actually one of perhaps 1000 people that purchased Process Commander, but it actually worked. Stardock wrote a completely new keyboard driver that did not have the limitations of IBM's... Watchcat let you trigger it through a serial port and a switch, which I believe you had to make with help from your local Radio Shack.

  21. Re:Fearful symmetry on Bamboozled at the Revolution · · Score: 1

    This is ridiculous. Banks were not allowed to be involved with any kind of financial industry other than money lending until the banking deregulation ins the mid 90's. As a long time user of the Chase Manhattan Bank, I assure you JP Morgan was an independent entity as recently as 1996.

    Hell, look at the Citibank building. I am sure some fellow new yorkers get sick of that stupid Traveller's insurance umbrella that graces that great bank.

    Every time I look down town, I think to myself,I hope Traveller's goes under.

    At any rate, anyone who thinks banking deregulation took place in the 80's is nuts. Get a grip on reality bubba.

  22. Re:Windows 3.1 to the rescue! on OSes and Applications for Aging Machines? · · Score: 1

    Sheesh, I ran OS/2 2.1 for years on a 486 DX/2 66 with 12 megs of ram and a 360 meg hard drive. Not only that, I frequently ran Wordperfect 6.1 fir Windows 3.1 emulated as well, with no problems.

    Come to think of it, I still have that machine here and boot it up for kicks. My next machine was a Pentium 100 that I didn't retire until four years ago. What the hell is this? Its not like we are talking about a 386 DX 40 with 4 megs of ram.

  23. Re: Obesity results from addictive shit in foods on Many Hackers Too Fat For The FBI · · Score: 1

    People who are obese are unable to control cravings for addictive substances in foods.

    Carbohydrates are NOT the cause. Have you ever seen someone stuff their face with strawberries or any other fruit even though they are absolutely delicious?

    Opioid peptides are the primary culprit. While it is commonly thought only the opium poppy produces opioid peptides that is not the case. All grains and all dairy products contain them. Grains contain them for the same reason the poppy does, to ward of insects that would eat them. Mammals produce opioid peptides to calm baby mammals and make them addicted to the mother.

    When people are addicted to cookies, cake, and any other snack food, it is not the SUGAR that is addicting, but the opiod peptides. THe surest way to tell is to put that cupcake in front of your face and then a nice apple. If you want to eat the cupcake but no the apple you are NOT hungry, but craving the opioid peptides in the foods.

    Almost ALL cases of asthma and constipation are caused by opioid peptides in foods. Abstaining from foods containing them will let you breath easier. Many people can't work out well because their respiration is so surpressed by the opioid peptides. this is also why so many athletes abuse amphetamines, they don't really help them except by reversing respiratory suppression. Also, constipation is not physically possible unless you consume some kind of opioid.

    Wheat Gluten is the worst offender, it is found in pasta. Gluten is also added to tons of prepackaged food. Gluten is decomposed into several glucomorphine molecules, one of which is 100x as powerful as the morphine molecule found in the poppy. Next is Whey, which is mostly casein, a protein which is decomposed into powerful opioid peptides. You will find Whey and Gluten in the most ridiculous places, like spiced meat. It is there not for flavor, but for the addictive high.

    Many of the heterocyclic amines which are carcinogenic and addictive in tobacco are found in cooked foods. Heating protein to extreme structures has unpredictable results, but always breaks them down into simpler amines. Some of these are beta-carbolides, which influence benzodiazepine receptors in the brain, just like valium does. Cooked meat contains these subtances, as well as cooked grains, nuts and legumes which are also rich in protein. Raw meat does not.

    Basically, eat just raw fruits, nuts, and raw fish and you will be set. You will lose weight fast, breath easier, and overcome many other health problems I haven't even touched on here.

    Remember, Emperor Nero said all the people need to keep quiet is bread and games. The SYSTEM wants you to consume opioid peptides because they make you apathetic and could care less about your life. Caffeine is the legal stimulant because it partially overcomes the sedative effects of a grain based diet, but it doesn't give you back your will like amphetamine and cocaine does. The government and the powers that be want you to eat these foods because you wont give a shit how they are running the country, or keeping you a prisoner of your own lifestyle. A lazy fat ass is also someone extremely unlikely and UNABLE To resist the will of the man. Wheat is and always has been a tool of control, to keep slaves from rebelling. Think about that the next time you eat that Twinkie.

  24. Re:I'm Seen it on Campus on Do Cell Phones Make Us Stupid? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I remember seeing stuff like that when I was an undergrad in Chicago. There, it wasn't a rule, but all the business students just couldn't wait to play dress up. I always found it quite amusing.

    That is until I was outside having a smoke a saw one of them get mowed down by a mack truck. Sad day that was. Fortunately, I had a fresh pack so I could enjoy the scene for its entire duration. Even skipped class.

    Ahh, the memories

  25. Re:peer review has outlived its utility on Peer-Reviewed Research Over The Web · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah, this is the most brilliant troll I have ever read in my life. This beats the Troll Polka hands down.

    If only there was a goatse.cx link in there.

    Seriously however, this is an excellent point that the current system of peer review is closely tied to the marxist notions common in academia today. The reality is there is an entirely seperate system of thought going on today. Universities are becoming increasingly irrelevant in this modern society, being unable to really contribute anything of any value. With the ivy league turning out marxist teachers who turn to astrology to solve their problems, the rest of the world just thinks "whats the point?"

    Academic journals ARE irrelevant, but it is not unique to the sciences. No matter what the study, teachers simply try to obfuscate the issue to their own advantage, to make us more dependent upon them. These journals are simply part of the fraud of education. People still learn, people still discover, people still create. They do this because it is the essence of humanity, we cannot do anything less. The only question is what will happen to the nations largest industry when the educational system completely collapses due to its irrelevancy? All those marxists teachers might actually back their words up with some mass protests! ooooh!!!