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  1. As Bette Midler once said... on A Software Project Full of "Male Anatomy" Jokes Causes Controversy · · Score: 1

    "Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke."

    -jcr

  2. Re:enterprise use is still 7 and most drivers are on For Boot Camp Users, New Macs Require Windows 8 Or Newer · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Back when Apple switched to x86, it only took a month or so before the people I know who had to go to meetings at Intel were telling me that they were seeing mostly MacBooks at the Intel campus.

    -jcr

  3. Re:freedom on Obama: Maybe It's Time For Mandatory Voting In US · · Score: 1

    you'd have been calling him a traitor,

    Don't put words in my mouth, sunshine. Not everyone fits into one of the two boxes in your tiny little mind.

    -jcr

  4. Re:freedom on Obama: Maybe It's Time For Mandatory Voting In US · · Score: 0

    Amazing how YOU forget that the current teleprompter-in-chief signed an extension to the PATRIOT act during his first term. That makes it his fault too, dumbass.

    -jcr

  5. Maybe it's time for Obama to to fuck himself. on Obama: Maybe It's Time For Mandatory Voting In US · · Score: 0

    President Choom needs to disabuse himself of the notion that we are his to command.

    -jcr

  6. Re:With Uber at least there is tracking and identi on Taxi Companies Sue Uber For False Advertising On Safety · · Score: 1

    I can tell you that in some countries, standing on the street corner and hailing a cab is just plain STUPID.

    Yeah, I've heard horror stories about Mexico. Never had any problem with cabs there myself, but I always got them from the front of my hotel.

    -jcr

  7. Re:With Uber at least there is tracking and identi on Taxi Companies Sue Uber For False Advertising On Safety · · Score: 1

    I hope an uber driver rapes and kills you you sub human piece of shit. ..and I see that the cab cartel's PR firm has sent a minion to comment on this story.

    Sorry about your shitty industry, sparky. Uber, Lyft and Sidecar are eating your lunch because cabs SUCK.

    -jcr

  8. Eagerly anticipating the counter-suit. on Taxi Companies Sue Uber For False Advertising On Safety · · Score: 1

    I'm sure Uber's lawyers are ready to smack the cartels down. Frivolous litigation, defamation, etc.

    -jcr

  9. I thought Uber was always more expensive. on Data Research Reveals When Taking a Yellow Cab Is Cheaper Than an Uber · · Score: 1

    I use Uber for the superior quality of service. If you call Uber, you get picked up when they say you will. If you call a cab, you can wait an hour before you even KNOW if they're going to show up at all. Add to that, the fact that the Uber cars are clean and the drivers are polite, and I'm sold.

    -jcr

  10. Window dressing. on Judicial Committee Approves FBI Plan To Expand Hacking Powers · · Score: 2

    We already know that the FBI routinely violates the fourth and fifth amendments for their own convenience, and there's no reason to believe that they'll comply with any other laws or regulations.

    The only way to solve the FBI/NSA/CIA problem is to abolish them, bar any of their current minions from ever being employed by the government again, and start from scratch with people who understand that they can end up in jail for violating our civil rights.

    -jcr

  11. The WSJ really went to shit. on Why There Is No Such Thing as 'Proper English' · · Score: 2

    I blame Murdoch.

    -jcr

  12. Re:hmmm on Wikipedia Entries On NYPD Violence Get Some Edits From Headquarters · · Score: 1

    I dont see a problem with changing "choke hold" to "arm bar" is that is what the police call the move

    They strangled an innocent man to death. Letting them play little propaganda games like this allows them to pretend that they didn't murder him.

    An arm bar is a wrestling move that immobilizes someone by applying force to his arm. A choke hold is not an arm bar.

    -jcr

  13. Re:NYPD on Wikipedia Entries On NYPD Violence Get Some Edits From Headquarters · · Score: 1

    Because the government doesn't want to punish its own minions.

    -jcr

  14. This is the asshole we need to fire. on California Looking To Make All Bitcoin Businesses Illegal · · Score: 1

    The power-grabbing motherfucker who proposed this bill is:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

    No info on who put him up to it, but this scumbag's got to go.

    -jcr

  15. Re:"line up in sacramento first" on California Looking To Make All Bitcoin Businesses Illegal · · Score: 1

    Or just don't tell the fuckers anything that they have no way of knowing.

    -jcr

  16. Re:depends upon what you're making on Was Linus Torvalds Right About C++ Being So Wrong? · · Score: 1

    Out of curiosity, what is in that subset?

    As I recall, they don't allow you to use multiple inheritance, templates, or C++ exceptions. You can find the full details in Apple's IOKit documentation.

    -jcr

  17. Re:Clinton followed a Presidential trend... on Clinton Regrets, But Defends, Use of Family Email Server · · Score: 1

    Nixon suffered consequences over what he did.

    Not hardly. He got to walk away without doing a day in jail, he still got his government pension, and he was paid a shitload of money to brag about his crimes to David Frost.

    Gerry Ford was an asshole.

    -jcr

  18. Re:In other news on Clinton Regrets, But Defends, Use of Family Email Server · · Score: 1

    the destruction of government records is a felony.

    Yeah, she'd be in deep shit if this country had a functioning Department of Justice, but since that agency is lousy with Ruling Party operatives, she's probably going to get off scot-free.

    -jcr

  19. Re:The moan of sour grapes on Reactions to the New MacBook and Apple Watch · · Score: 1

    I haven't looked at the WatchKit APIs yet to see what internal time representation they're using,

    NSDate represents time as a double-precision floating point value with the epoch set at the beginning of January 1, 2001, GMT.

    -jcr

  20. Re:Enlighten me please on Reactions to the New MacBook and Apple Watch · · Score: 1

    more ports might not be needed by Apple's customers.

    Bingo. Give the man the prize.

    Apple has stats on how their users machines are configured, which are gathered every time a user sends them a crash report. They know how many people use all the ports on a MacBook Pro, and how many people only ever use one port on their MacBook Air.

    For people who want a laptop to act as a portable video editing station, the MacBook Pro is still offered.

    -jcr

  21. Re:depends upon what you're making on Was Linus Torvalds Right About C++ Being So Wrong? · · Score: 4, Informative

    The only major kernel written in C++ that I know of is Windows NT,

    Apple uses a subset of C++ known as "kernel C++" for drivers in OS X and iOS. Back in the NeXTSTEP days we used Kernel Obj-C, and it's very sorely missed.

    -jcr
     

  22. Re:The Big News on CIA Tried To Crack Security of Apple Devices · · Score: 1

    As despised as the IRS is, it performs according to it's charter and the constitution (for the most part).

    Nope. They routinely violate the fourth and fifth amendments.

    -jcr

  23. Re:The Big News on CIA Tried To Crack Security of Apple Devices · · Score: 1

    The NSA is no more the enemy than the IRS or any other government agency that will keep information on us.

    So, you're defending the NSA by comparing it to the IRS.

    Want to come back when you have a better argument to make?

    -jcr

  24. Sure, but he's not wrong. on Was Linus Torvalds Right About C++ Being So Wrong? · · Score: 2

    C++ is indeed a horrible language, and it attracts people who develop great pride in their memorization of needless complexity.

    -jcr

  25. Re:$500 markup on New MacBook on Apple's "Spring Forward" Event Debuts Apple Watch and More · · Score: 1

    Apple's marketing machine has somehow convinced you that their product is worth $500 more... and competitors are flimsy knock-offs.

    See, that would seem to be a cogent point, if I'd never gotten my hands on the flimsy knock-offs we're talking about. The thing is, I have: If you pick up any of those wannabe Macs from the Dells and Acers of the world by a corner, they FLEX. When I say flimsy, I mean that quite literally.

    -jcr