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  1. Re:NIMBY's on MythBusters Bust House · · Score: 1

    Areas near busy airports are usually pretty poor. No-one who can afford to lives there, so the area turns into a slum.

  2. Re:Its not their problem on MythBusters Bust House · · Score: 1

    Yeah, what town wouldn't want some idiots of the TV shooting at them?

  3. Re:Remember on MythBusters Bust House · · Score: 1

    What would a bomb squad know about cannons? America must be the only country in the world where someone could fire a cannon at a residential area, and not only are the perps not arrested, a whole host of people crawl out of the woodwork to defend them.

    I know you have the second amendment, but this is ridiculous.

    If they had any actual outside experts, they could have told them how far the cannonball could travel, and that it could bounce.

  4. Re:Not to be too pedantic on MythBusters Bust House · · Score: 1

    Careful? They aimed a cannon at a residential area, and fired it. On purpose. The problem is, America is a very corrupt country, and as they had police cooperation they'll probably get away with it.

  5. Re:Ageism on Half Life of a Tech Worker: 15 Years · · Score: 1

    Why would I hire some old guy who's going to miss days and only work 9-5 because he has sick kids, baseball games, piano recitals, etc?

    I wonder if people who think like you, are the same ones who complain about people having kids they can't afford. If no-one in work can have kids because their shitty managers want them to work 80 hours a week, then only people on welfare will be able to breed. Or the species just dies out.

    Maybe you're just an idiot.

  6. Re:The invisible benefits of Apple on Why America Doesn't Need More Tech Giants Like Apple · · Score: 1

    How would an iphone store bring in revenue? The whole point of retail is that it takes the money of the locals and sends it away. You get rich off production, not consumption.

  7. Re:Renewable or infinite? on The Myth of Renewable Energy · · Score: 0

    Of course because coal stations and oil refineries are made out of rainbows and unicorn shit. More right-wing Luddite shit from America.

  8. Re:Only 24? on Swedish Pirate Party Member To Be EU's Youngest MP · · Score: 1

    Yeah, people who never had a real job or a had to pay real taxes. That's why Europe is all screwed up - you can't have kids running the show either, they'll just vote for more toys and less work every time, they don't care where the stuff comes from.

    Yeah this is obviously why Sweden is riddled with crime, poverty, inequality, ignorance, debt and decay. No wait that's America, run by senile old millionaires.

  9. Re:"The sexualisation of the lead characters" on Doctor Who To Become Hollywood Feature Film · · Score: 1

    Rose? Are you really saying you'd take a smoking hot blonde who has never been hardened by working in the sex industry

    You haven't seen secret diary of a call girl have you?

  10. Re:Yes but on Researchers Locate Flaw In Bitcoin Protocol · · Score: 1

    It's nothing to do with supply and demand, it's about control.

    Finance jobs make money because they control the flow of money, and can cream off as much as they can get away with. Managers make more than workers because it's the managers who decide who makes what.

    You can't talk about supply and demand when most people never get the chance to be managers or stockbrokers and show whether they can do it or not.

  11. Re:Not finished on Minecraft Is Finished · · Score: 1

    They actually pronounce it 'bayder'. I think they just have problems with t and d.

  12. Re:in other news, on Belgium To Give Up Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    I thought he was all about reducing government spending? That sounds like a pretty expensive policy.

  13. Re:Interesting on Australia's Biggest Airline Grounds Its Entire Fleet · · Score: 1

    Yes, everyone should be part of the richest 1%, employing a few dozen people, that's a totally sensible and realistic suggestion. Or you could, you know, reconfigure the economy so everyone prospers, like a social democracy or something.

    It's funny how many Americans support policies which only benefit the rich at the expense of the majority, thinking that they themselves will become part of that elite. In reality, social mobility in America is amongst the lowest in the developed world, and these people are deluded.

  14. Re:There's no good guys here on Australia's Biggest Airline Grounds Its Entire Fleet · · Score: 1

    If they're losing money, and the wage bill is too high to compete, how the hell can they afford to pay millions of dollars to a single employee, and a manager at that?

  15. Re:Apples and Oranges on Bill Gates On What Business Can Teach Schools · · Score: 1

    Are you sure? The last stats I saw said that graduates make around a hundred grand extra over their careers.

  16. Re:Apples and Oranges on Bill Gates On What Business Can Teach Schools · · Score: 1

    How would schools compete? Most of them are already at capacity, even if they attracted pupils from other schools there'd be no rooms to put them in, and no teachers to teach them. Meanwhile the failing schools would lose even more money, and wouldn't even be able to maintain the buildings.

    So you get rid of the unions, decent pay, good job security, and that's supposed to attract good teachers? More than likely, the best ones will think 'fuck that' and go to private industry where they can make more money and not have idiots like you and the politicians you vote for fucking them about.

    A totally stupid idea put forward by market ideologues, why not simply look at more successful education systems, like the one in Finland?

  17. Re:Not all schools are equal on A Silicon Valley School That Doesn't Use Computers · · Score: 1

    What exactly is the relevance of that report, after half a century of economic and demographic changes?

    If resources don't make much difference, it's a wonder why private schools spend so much money on fancy buildings and small class sizes.

  18. Re:Still a grind on Blizzard Announces New WoW Expansion: Mists of Pandaria · · Score: 1

    I have button timers, and press whatever's about to expire. Most of my abilities have cast-times so the GCD isn't that important.

  19. Re:Still a grind on Blizzard Announces New WoW Expansion: Mists of Pandaria · · Score: 1

    How do you even get the gear to raid on such a tight schedule? Considering how many dungeons you'd have to run to get the gear to even be allowed into a raid, on one night a week it would surely take the best part of a year to get the gear.

    Let's assume it takes 30 minutes in the queue to get a dungeon, that the dungeon takes an hour to complete, and fifty percent of the take the group collapses and you're back in the queue. If you're lucky you'll get one dungeon done a week. Would that give you enough points to get a full set within a few weeks?

    That's not even counting time doing daily quests to fund repair bills, or to learn the raids.

  20. Re:Still a grind on Blizzard Announces New WoW Expansion: Mists of Pandaria · · Score: 1

    How exactly do you get 10+kdps in quest gear? I have all the right glyphs, do the rotation prescribed in EJ, and struggle to break 6-7k on bosses. I even do that stupid thing where you start with the felguard and switch to the felhunter. If I'm lucky enough to have the doomguard off cooldown I can get 9k. I can't think of anything else to do other than get more gear.

  21. Re:all the better to rebuild plantation economies on Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets) · · Score: 1

    Or you could just, you know, do the total opposite, and not allow local idiots to run the education system like it's their toy. Like they do in the entire rest of the civilised fucking world, where none of this religious bullshit comes up because we're not totally fucking retarded.

  22. Re:What's the alternative? on Occupy Wall Street Protests Go Global · · Score: 1

    I dunno, France had a revolution, and it seems a damn site better place to be than Britain, which is still ruled by a thousand year old aristocracy, no doubt because of people like you scaremongering about communism so the oppressed plebs gratefully go back to their servitude.

    In fact, when you look at the countries which have slaughtered their overlords, they're generally much better off than the countries where people like you still bow and scrape before the elite.

  23. Re:Uh... on OccupySF IT Admins Using Pedal Power For Protest · · Score: 1

    What I'm wondering is why all these lickspittles defending the rich all post anonymously. It's almost as if they don't want to be called on their bullshit at a later date.

  24. Re:Rent-a-cop oversteps his bounds in shock horror on Theater Professor's Firefly Poster Declared Threatening · · Score: 1

    In what sort of dystopia does a university have a police force?

  25. Re:Or perhaps we could sell things to asia ... on Are Folding Containers the Future of Shipping? · · Score: 1

    So how would that explain English-speaking Christian Americans trying to get away from English-speaking Christian Americans?