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  1. Re:Code in high-level on Cliff Click's Crash Course In Modern Hardware · · Score: -1, Troll

    Have you considered taking an English class? Your classes WERE Java-centric.

  2. Re:Why would you even let them in the door? on Recession Turning Software Auditors Into Greedy Traffic Cops · · Score: 1

    Investigators (insurance, police, etc) aren't stupid. They spend a lot of time being lied to, and they know a lot more about it than most.

  3. Re:Before you click! on HTTP Intermediary Layer From Google Could Dramatically Speed Up the Web · · Score: 1

    This depends on where you're from.

    Nah, it depends on where you're at.

  4. Re:Alfred Nobel anyone? on The Medical Benefits of Carbon Monoxide · · Score: 1

    He didn't discover nitroglycerine, you dolt. He mass marketed it in stable form.

  5. Re:Cigarettes on The Medical Benefits of Carbon Monoxide · · Score: 1

    So you claim that most heroin addicts die of overdose? Wrong. Overdose is rare, most often occurring in relapsed addicts who take more than they can handle now that their tolerance has dropped. The other common cases are very new users, or users getting a cut that's purer than usual, and misjudging quantity.

  6. Re:Bah! on Marge Simpson Poses For Playboy · · Score: 1

    Good homage. But you don't occur wrath, you incur it.

  7. Re:Hrm... Polyphasic sleep... on Alzheimer's Disease Possibly Linked To Sleep Deprivation · · Score: 1

    I worked a six hour on, six hour off shift for a few months (no days off) and absolutely loved it.

  8. Re:Maybe dumb.. certainly smarter criminals. on Burglar Logs Into Facebook On Victim's Computer · · Score: 1

    Just because young people make terrible decisions while driving automobiles is a wonderful reason to protect the rest of us from their stupidity. The most lethal commonly available implement in the US is an automobile.

  9. Re:Left the Computer? on Burglar Logs Into Facebook On Victim's Computer · · Score: 1

    How much is crack? Heroin? If it can be sold for 10-40 dollars, someone will steal it. I've seen thousands of dollars worth of window glass, framing, and patio furniture destroyed so a purse could be stolen.

  10. Re:and all I can think on A Tour of Taser HQ · · Score: 1

    Imagine the person being "made compliant" isn't a peaceful slashdotter, but is instead someone who just beat a girl at an ATM, stole her wallet, and is now trying to drag a motorist at a stoplight out of the car in order to steal it. There are situations that call for violent intervention.

  11. Re:Dear Pranknet on The Outing of Pranknet · · Score: 1

    They're all underfunded and have no way to even come close to meeting the demand.

    Really? Show me the wasted corpses of Americans dead of starvation.

  12. Re:Or why people still take ... on Ten Things We Still Don't Understand About Humans · · Score: 1

    What do you all read instead?

    Slashdot.

  13. Re:Poor Title on F-22 Raptor Cancelled · · Score: 1

    No U.S. soldier has been killed by an enemy aircraft since 1951.

    August 23 1967, 14:00. Another US raid against the capital of North Vietnam is in proccess.

    Due to the size of the American formation (40 aircraft, including Thunderchiefs carrying bombs, F-105Fs ready to supress the SAM radars, and escorting Phantoms) the crew of one of those F-4Ds, Charles R. Tyler (pilot) and Ronald M. Sittner (WSO), of the 555th TFS/8th TFW, felt overconfident. They did not expect any MiGs, which had been inactive after several bloody defeats dealt them by the Phantoms of the 8th TFW in late May and early June.

    Suddenly, Tyler heard on the radio an F-105D pilot (Elmo Baker) announcing that he had been hit by a MiG-21 and was ejecting. As Tyler looked for the unexpected bandit, a tremendous explosion shook his plane, and Tyler lost control of his aircraft, and bailed out. Hanging in his parachute he saw his F-4D falling in flames to the jungle, but he did not see his WSO eject; Sittner had been killed instantly by the missile hit.

    So, no.

  14. Re:heresy on Repulsive Force Discovered In Light · · Score: 1

    I can't decide.

    You don't get to.

  15. Re:It is astounding .... on Steve Jobs Had a Liver Transplant Two Months Ago · · Score: 1

    It's the very definition of fair - you have a medical condition that is costly to treat. So treating it is expensive.

  16. Re:This topic is too hot to handle. on The Coder Behind the Mortgage Meltdown · · Score: 1

    "Hear Hear"
    And while I'm at it, it's. It Is.

    For fuck's sake.

    Carry on.

  17. Re:That wasn't MS on Office 2007SP2 ODF Interoperability Very Bad · · Score: 1

    Are you ignorant or stupid? Being in the right place at the right time, with the ability to execute, took a lot of time, money, and effort. It isn't like MS was a name in an IBM executive's fortune cookie. If you want to be accurate, Gary didn't miss the meeting on accident.

  18. Re:Some, not all... on Old-School Coding Techniques You May Not Miss · · Score: 1

    Underpin. God damn it, words mean things. Or are you asserting that because I knew what you meant, what you wrote is good enough?

  19. Re:So I got a new sink..... on Should Network Cables Be Replaced? · · Score: 1

    911 training tapes. I know someone who was a dispatcher, and he says those are harrowing.

  20. Re:A Republic... if you can keep it. FAIL! on California May Reduce Carbon Emissions By Banning Black Cars · · Score: 1

    Prescribed. Good God, c'mon.

  21. Re:They hold my hand when I cross the street too? on California May Reduce Carbon Emissions By Banning Black Cars · · Score: 1

    Psst...time to update your sig. And I signed the recall petition, and I voted for Morris.

  22. Re: Don't work for a company that won't look close on Repairing / Establishing Online Reputation? · · Score: 1

    Apparently, if the grand jury accepts a case, but the D.A. throws it out without you ever going to trial, that still shows up as an arrest in an extensive background check.

    There's a good reason for that. It's because you were arrested.

  23. Re:guns on Halo 3 Criticized In Murder Conviction · · Score: 1

    This was not written by the cited author. It was written by Marko Kloos.

  24. Re:Even his examples are wrong ... on 30th Anniversary of the (No Good) Spreadsheet · · Score: 1

    According to the Discovery Channel show on corrosion, the old days had cars being replaced every 4-6 years, and now cars are replaced about every 10 years.

  25. Re:bad analogy - think crank on 30th Anniversary of the (No Good) Spreadsheet · · Score: 1

    Because it's their data. IT owns wires, not bits.