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  1. coutless hours on the internet on First American Internet Addiction Treatment Center · · Score: 1

    I have never once come across "internet addiction" I know it simply does not exist. NOW LEAVE ME ALONE! STOP STANDING BEHIND ME...GOD!

  2. Where do I get my Multipass? on NASA Wants To Fund Space Taxis · · Score: 1

    My friend Leloo needs one.

  3. Add laser auto-focus on Adjustable-Focus Glasses Can Replace Bifocals · · Score: 1

    Seems like an easy next step...that and getting Dolce and Gabbana for styling and extra bling.

  4. Missed reason why they are disliked. on A Hypothesis On Segway Hate · · Score: 1

    People appear at a distance to be gliding hell spawn. People look freakin' creepy. When has any gliding person ever done anything good what examples do we have say from cinema? Gliding happy moms with candy...??? No in every movie a gliding thing is some sort of creature that wants to rip your face off.

  5. Toss the whole mess.... on Tech Or Management Beyond Age 39? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Look for something completely different. Tech managers now have to force techies to do what the business units want rather than plan and provide technology solutions. The business makes the calls, which are typically crazy, ignorant requests that make little technical sense. The result is techs become the zombie implementers of a "git 'er done" 1/4ly profit management philosophy.

    Makers of enterprise level applications are now faced with a staff comprised mostly of sales people, marketers and managers. Support, development and engineering are really no longer needed and all development and support is contracted on a "as needed" basis. So going the manager route will no doubt put you in the situation of deploying applications and solutions with few resources, no training and no time. The discipline of software development has been tossed out the door long ago.

    I suggest get into teaching, open a bait shop, garden or greenhouse supply store, solar panel installing, sales or management.

    The best answer is to let it go and let someone else beat the dead horse. Apply your tech skills in a way that builds something lasting for the community. The rest will end up in the dust heap anyway.

  6. Ironic... on Daily Sex Helps Improve Fertility · · Score: 1

    Socks and bath towels aren't the best choice for procreation.

  7. Reverse Vampire Airlines on Solar Plane To Make Public Debut · · Score: 1

    "We only fly during the day."

  8. IT is measured by middle manager politics on Ideal, and Actual, IT Performance Metrics? · · Score: 1

    The more CYA, finger pointing (FP) and douche-baggery (DBAG) done between IT managers the better we must be doing. [br] [br] All metrics are just a bastard-child of inter-management dynamics and are in themselves political tools used in executing CYA, FP and DBAG [br] Most metrics are completely divorced from the real accomplishments that IT support people achieve everyday. Nobody cares that the average time to resolution goal was exceeded by 38%. What needs to be recognized is when IT saves the business money and increases user productivity due to the individual actions of IT pros in the trenches. [br] But that simply is not possible when the accomplishments rollup to a managment that is about reports, charts and projections and arcane metric tracking.

  9. Palin Home Destroyed by Transformer on DIY 18-ft.-High Robotic Exoskeleton · · Score: 1

    Future headline....

  10. Please pass the... on Space Station Crew Drinks Recycled Urine · · Score: 1

    "So on Wednesday, the crew took their recycled urine and said "cheers" together and toasted the researches and scientists that made the Urine Recycler possible."

    Later that day NASA announced it would no longer include asparagus on space flight menus.

  11. Great Reporting on Astronauts Begin Final Spacewalk To Repair Hubble · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Reporter - "Those battery packs look heavy. How much do they weigh?"

    Astronaut floating in shuttle "Ahhh they are pretty light up here."

  12. Apple already won over the girls. on Does Dell Know What Women Want In a Laptop? · · Score: 1

    And all the femmy guys, and trans folk and gay folk... Tim Taylor types can have the military grade dell.

  13. you did it...then. It is your fault....too on The Coder Behind the Mortgage Meltdown · · Score: 1

    Thanks. Stand up and take credit for being an enabler of the elite economic ruling class to drive our nation into the ditch.

  14. Get in touch with your feminie side.... on Reliable Male Contraceptive In the Works · · Score: 1

    Growing a some perky A cups, fat redistribution to female patterns, softer skin, are some of the unmentioned side effects...and my favorite the irresistible urge to watch LifeTime Movie Network...you always were sort of femmy anyway. Might as well give in.

  15. What is the largest perfect square? on Wolfram Alpha vs. Google — Results Vary · · Score: 1

    "Headshot!"

  16. :cough: ahhhremm :cough: AHHH CHOOO! on New Study Finds Flu Virus "Paralyzes" Immune System · · Score: 1

    These comments have been infected with Virtual Swine Flu.

  17. Another "DUH" moment... on Ballmer, IBM Surprised By Oracle-Sun Deal · · Score: 1

    Oracle RDBMS and Sun has long been a solid platform combo. Typical of Microsoft's "Windows" on the world viewpoint. While they were building mice, gaming platforms and the paper clip dude, Oracle and Sun were working together to create a bullet proof enterprise Java enabled database platform. I was not surprised in the least at Oracle snapping up Sun.

  18. Jr.Vice President ....ready for all hands on deck on Microsoft Asks Open Source Not to Focus On Price · · Score: 1

    confab...ducks lined up ready to fire.

  19. Synergies and Value Add Branding... on Microsoft Asks Open Source Not to Focus On Price · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...are more important. As is leveraging a new paradigm

  20. So that means Bush planned this economic crisis... on Chimps Have a Built-In GPS · · Score: 1

    Amazing.

  21. Cartesian products are GONE!!! YAYYYYY...... on "Slacker DBs" vs. Old-Guard DBs · · Score: 1

    What is a Cartesian?....is that the water in Olympia Beer?

  22. I'll use that in my flying car.... on Intel Envisions Shape-Shifting Smartphones · · Score: 1

    What you don't have your flying car and wrist video phone?

  23. If they make Pluto a planet.... on Illinois Declares Pluto a Planet · · Score: 1

    Then they can keep using those B&W scientific films from the 50-60s.....

  24. Giant space goat. coming, Earth doomed. on Earth Under Threat From Dark Comets · · Score: 1

    Quick sign up for your place on Ark Ship B.

  25. destruction is relative on Black Holes From the LHC Could Last For Minutes · · Score: 1

    A the destructive influence of a black holes in the vastness of the universe is pretty small.

    If one in Switzerland started growing from microscopic size it might seem like sort of a big deal. But if they take a billion years to grow then what is the problem? Put a SEP field around it and call it a done deal.