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  1. Re:A fucking waste on AMD Bulldozer Will Bring Socket Shift To PCs · · Score: 1

    s I'm not bald I couldn't care less

    I'm bald you insensitive clod...

    shave my head every week or two, face every day or two (alot of indian blood cuts down on the facial hair)

  2. Re:Waiting for Superman on Requiring Algebra II In High School Gains Momentum · · Score: 2

    People harp on tenure all the time. I'm not entirely sure it exists in the way most people seem to think it does in most states. Anyway, the problem is really a management issue. If administrators didn't hold onto people who "might" work out those people would never get "tenure". I see it all the time in private industry or anywhere else. There are plenty of people who are terrible at their job, and people are either to lazy to fire them, or to non-confrontational. When I go somewhere as a temp and have people telling me to slow down, there is a problem.

  3. Re:But it's a good idea... on US Open Government Sites To Close · · Score: 1

    You are better off donating on a local level:
    http://www.ehow.com/how_4457323_donate-supplies-local-teachers.html
    http://www.donorschoose.org/
    http://volunteerguide.org/volunteer/fewhours/school-supplies.htm


    Schools are happy to accept your donations, sometimes you can even get a letter or some great cards from the children who benefit from your donations. There are also plenty of organizations dedicated to helping specific communities. I would rather not filter my donation through the federal government.

    I believe my local Target has a board in front with letters from schools they have made donations to.

  4. Re:But it's a good idea... on US Open Government Sites To Close · · Score: 2

    Parents who want to drink, smoke, or shoot-up the money their kids need for food will do so whether the kids get free food or not. I've seen it, but by all means, show these kids that the world is a callous place and they should look only at cost and benefit (for themselves). Most crime has excellent cost benefit ratios. There is also a substantial public interest in people working within the system. Starving people or people who never have a hope of getting ahead do very dangerous things, and they don't look to the future (or avoid pregnancies).

    From a budget perspective, these programs appear to account for 14% of the budget, money well spent IMHO. There are some child health care costs rolled up in the 21% on that page for medicaid, but 25% of the 21% is spent in the last year of life. So the spending on older Americans who may or may not need a social program dwarfs the spending on children.

    Children are a national treasure.

  5. Re:Every day should be world backup day on It's World Backup Day · · Score: 1

    I will answer questions for free, via email and phone (don't abuse the privilege), I will give you discs with OSS recovery tools. I will not touch your computer for free, unless you are a select few, or I offer explicitly. I charge an hourly rate because I would rather be spending time with my children or working on my own projects.

  6. Re:So... what? on University Switches To DC Workstations · · Score: 1

    Come clean, are you Wozniak or Allen?

  7. Re:Why do we need more efficiency on A Look At the World's Dwindling Food Supply · · Score: 0

    Every child deserves a sibling and parents get better with multiple children. Only children are usually the ones that irritate people, but the poor things are just lonely.

  8. Re:$39 BILLION!? on Why the AT&T and T-Mobile Merger Is Bad For Consumers · · Score: 1

    that's cute, you think they will support t-mobile's handsets...

  9. Re:$39 BILLION!? on Why the AT&T and T-Mobile Merger Is Bad For Consumers · · Score: 1

    It was sitting in the bank while the dollars rolled in...
    (outlandishly expensive service) + (Apple worshipers) = $$$$$$$$$$

  10. Re:Linux NAS + Symlinks on Ask Slashdot: Huge Digital Media Libraries · · Score: 1

    throw some blank disks in and rsync backups periodically, this data probably doesn't change often, so monthly or quarterly backups, even if you only do selected important folders would work.

    Do it now, or wish you did it later...

  11. Re:+1 informative from me on Ask Slashdot: Setting Up Wireless Voting For Students? · · Score: 1

    why isn't your opinion humble...
    IMHO that is rude

  12. Re:Childrens book, but maybe not a tech book on The 'Adventure' In Self-Publishing an IT Book · · Score: 1

    Did you just say I look like a douche?

    My kids loved it when I would break out the laptop and read books online there are many children books online, my local library gives me access to tumble books.

  13. Re:Uhm... on Canadian Researchers Develop Permanent Anti-Fog Coating · · Score: 1

    In my experience, these wipe on products work great, until they stop working and need to be reapplied, then the windshield gets very "smeary" in the rain.

  14. Re:sure... on Canadian Researchers Develop Permanent Anti-Fog Coating · · Score: 1

    I use the old HAAAAAA .... wipe with shirt, other lens HAAAAA ... wipe with shirt. No noticeable scratches, maybe small ones I don't notices. Anti-reflective coating seems fine and although I can grease up a lens like crazy (oily skin) this seems to work well if I apply enough pressure while wiping with said shirt. Lenses are expensive and high power.

    Now if I could just find someone who still offers cable temple glasses for adults.

  15. Re:Just to be clear.... on Sex Offender Claims Police Entrapped Him With Animated Emoticons · · Score: 1

    If you have a 13 year old soliciting sex, you probably have a 13 year old who has been molested or at the very least suffered from psychological abuse and neglect. As an adult, you should feel compassion, not lust.

  16. Re:Ah.. no on Sex Offender Claims Police Entrapped Him With Animated Emoticons · · Score: 1

    I've been "profiled" in the past as an angry looking non-white male. Pulled over "to see why you are driving around here" after dropping off my girlfriend in a nice part of town driving a beater car. I've been told my car could be impounded because they can surely find a broken headlight or something if they want to.

    I've also dealt with excellent cops who go out of their way to help people.

    I can't imagine that someone like you would have problems when addressed by authority figures....

    I was always taught don't fight or argue with cops, make your arguments to the judge. It has served me well.

  17. Re:why would I pay for news? on NYTimes Unveils Online Subscription Plan · · Score: 1

    with bad credit it can be difficult to get a used car loan, you are often forced to get a new car loan, seems backwards, but it is what it is...

  18. Re:why would I pay for news? on NYTimes Unveils Online Subscription Plan · · Score: 1

    very insightful, I maintain my cars (probably not as well as I should), but anything short of major engine, transmission, or body work is way south of $4k. I might spend $1k in maintenance in any given year. I have a 2006 Chevy Uplander (POS, but all I could afford unless I want with a much older higher mileage import) w/ about 70k miles still under extended warranty and a '96 Mercury Villager (Mercury is Ford, but this model is sister to the Nissan quest).

    My 15 year old car gets me back and forth to work and I might hesitate to drive it cross country without some minor work that I have put off (if I know what is causing the problem and have a good idea of how long it takes to get worse, I ignore it), but I would drive it across the state without thinking twice.

  19. Re:DST == Get Your Ass Out Of Bed Earlier on Is Daylight Saving Time Bad For You? · · Score: 1

    If only I could still say this too...

    lives in Indiana...

  20. Re:SLES/openSuse installs are everywhere on OpenSUSE 11.4 Released · · Score: 1

    IMHO, the beauty of Yast is you can run it from the command line and get the same thing as running it from the GUI. There is a web version also, so it works much better for headless servers.

    ------------
    On Ubuntu...
    When you look up directions for doing anything on Ubuntu, it is 9/10ths of the time, someone showing you how to do it via the GUI, useless for headless servers. And while the ubuntu user base is kind to help each other, you can often tell the people writing the tutorials know less then you do, they sprinkle chmod 777's liberally and do alot of other things they don't seem to understand, but seem to work.

    This problem exists to some degree for all distros...

    My headless server now runs NX, so it has a gui, but it's still nice to ssh in and do things quickly.

  21. Re:DOA? on OpenSUSE 11.4 Released · · Score: 1

    Less chance for scope creep after capital punishment. If you have prisoners lying around, things are going to expand and change. Change is the real problem for conservatives.

    What is this small government party you talk about...? I don't think we have one of those anymore. :-(

  22. Re:Not anytime soon on Ask Slashdot: Data-Only Phone, Voice Over WiFi? · · Score: 1

    $10 dollar cable, HAHAHAHAHA.......

    That's rich...

  23. Re:Use aliases. on Ask Slashdot: Privacy Paranoia · · Score: 1

    We can back it up for you if you upload it to my SFTP server (secure).

  24. Re:Sure... keep telling yourself that. on Contemplating Financial Trading At Picosecond Resolution · · Score: 1

    He doesn't want lollipops and gumdrops, he wants us to admit that most of our markets are run con men and find a way to change this.

  25. Re:This is gonna be very rant like on Is Software Driving a Falling Demand For Brains? · · Score: 1

    Glad to see this point brought up. If you value your culture, you should have some children and raise them to value it, otherwise you can let immigrants bring their children, who value their culture. The USA is far from having a population problem and we cannot solve the rest of the worlds population problem by erasing ourselves, or allowing ourselves to be erased via assimilation.