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  1. support contract. on Ask Slashdot: How Long Should Devs Support Software Written For Clients? · · Score: 2

    Every piece of software I have seen in the medical field is 1 year support and maintenance and a maintenence and support contract for a fee after that. If they drop support let them know that if they pick it up again in the future then there is a retroactive re-up fee. This covers your costs of having to relearn dead projects. There is no company in the world that supports software infinitely however I've never seen a 2 month span either.

    Sorry for typos, slash dot on an android sucks.

  2. Re:Water as a by-product on Boeing Hydrogen Powered Drone First Flight · · Score: 2

    450 lbs of bombs... are you on something brain inhibiting?

  3. shoot the tv on The Poor Waste More Time On Digital Entertainment · · Score: 1

    Dave Ramsey has said for a long time that if you want to get ahead and out of debt to shoot your TV first thing. He's right and we all know it.

  4. Re:Am i just too stupid to understand kickstarter? on Star Trek Luminaries Behind the Fastest Funded Film Project On Kickstarter · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yea I got the same idiot responses when I called people buying overpriced property pre bubble bust suckers. You also have a long history of douchebag responses which is why I set you to red years ago.

  5. Re:Am i just too stupid to understand kickstarter? on Star Trek Luminaries Behind the Fastest Funded Film Project On Kickstarter · · Score: 1

    But the project is still getting the 30,000 but because they are possibly stealing from 3000 people instead of one they get away from the fiduciary obligations of a direct investment. I'm a capitalist and I don't see any problems as long as the contract is well defined whatever the amount raised. I don't think its for me, but I guess if someone was wanting a product in the market that didn't exist this might be a good way to show market demand.

  6. Am i just too stupid to understand kickstarter? on Star Trek Luminaries Behind the Fastest Funded Film Project On Kickstarter · · Score: 1

    I don't understand kick starter. If you fund a project you don't get any shares and don't get to share in the profit, and if the person leading the project blows all the dough on ale and wenches you can't interject any authority right?

    Sounds like its for suckers sorry. Why not find a bright young person and partner with them to try and get something great done? Is it just because kick starter is easier to fire and forget some cash on?

  7. Re:Mobile will destroy Google? on Dark Days Ahead For Facebook and Google? · · Score: 1

    With that being said I don't show my Ada on Google mobile. They appear to mainly be misclicks on that platform.

  8. Re:Last minute pullout on Falcon 9 Launch Aborted At Last Minute · · Score: 1

    Or an internal explosion which leads to unexpected consequences.. had har har

  9. Anyone else thinking about shorting FB on monday? on Facebook Privacy Suit Seeks $15 Billion · · Score: 1

    The stock was obviously only kept up by the bankers because they didn't want egg on their face for a first day stock drop. One has to wonder how much stomach they will have for propping the stock up before it sinks to a more sane value. The smart money should be pulling out because they know this.

  10. fuck CBS. on Falcon 9 Launch Aborted At Last Minute · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "It's a setback for NASA's plan to have private companies take over much of what's been an exclusively government enterprise. "

    Not really, the thing intelligently averted a possible problem. Look at the reams of government rockets that blew up on the pad or feet off the ground. Are folks set back? Maybe a little, but if it had blown up it would have been more of a learning experience than a setback. Rocketry is almost nothing but constant failure. The fact that they didn't lose the hardware is an amazing success in my book. Typical CBS trying to paint private enterprises as being unable to compete with the government. Sure private companies can't force citizens to pay for their goods, so are forced to maintain costs to a greater degree, but an amazing set of engineers working anywhere can do amazing things, and are only limited by the bureaucracies they work inside of corporate or government.

  11. Re:Why do leftists love waste so much? on From MIT Inventor To Tea Party Leader · · Score: 1

    The whole racist thing is a bait trap anyways. Some things are actually cultural problems, or cultural quirks that if even mentioned by a white person is called racism. Fuck that, some of the most racist people I know are black and Hispanic. I shit you not I have heard some of the craziest racist stuff that just makes me drop my jaw and it's always from people that are other races than white. Of course I don't have a lot of white friends that are backwoods sloths, so I can't speak for what you can find crawling out from rocks in the sticks if you look hard enough.

    That pisses me off too, when some reporter wants to paint a picture of racist america they go find some toothless all white neighborhood witless moron to interview. If they want to paint a picture of black people bad they go to some run down all black project and interview the first person they can find with track marks on their arm. If they wanted a real picture of America they could go to a family reunion like mine with hispanics, whites, blacks, and asians all raising kids and trying to pay the bills the best they can.

    Most of the racism crap is just drummed up bullshit in order to smear another race, or an individuals character, and often the one doing the smearing is the real racist in the room. People that don't give a shit about color are the ones who are more easily drawn into a trap to say something incendiary because they aren't thinking in racial terms.

  12. Re:Why do leftists love waste so much? on From MIT Inventor To Tea Party Leader · · Score: 1

    "pro-tip there is no hate speech legislation on the books"

    You mean except for obscenity, defamation, incitement to riot, and fighting words right?

    I like retarded people, in general they try their hardest to push the boundaries of the limits nature has placed upon them, and sometimes to amazing ends.

    What is your excuse?

  13. Re:Oklahoma to ban all deep sea fishing, news at 1 on Vermont Bans Fracking · · Score: 1

    Sorry my cell phone thinks fracking is cracking :)

  14. Oklahoma to ban all deep sea fishing, news at 11. on Vermont Bans Fracking · · Score: 1

    http://www.anr.state.vt.us/dec/geo/oilandgas.htm

    Vermont doesn't fucking have anything worth cracking, unless it's water Wells. What douchebag politicians. My dad has been cracking wells since I was a baby and it has never polluted anything. OK I get hating energy production, but hating fracking is moronic.

  15. Why do leftists love waste so much? on From MIT Inventor To Tea Party Leader · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "But things have not gone smoothly for Massie in office—and that’s just how he wants it. “When you’re stalking waste within a government office, it’s like every rock that you turn over has a snake under it,” he says. Massie has been targeting waste, fraud, and abuse, starting with questioning electric bills, phone bills, contracts, and fees for things that don’t apply anymore. Like the county being charged rental fees for property that had long been sold, paying for phone lines that had been disconnected for years, or buying stuff from a magistrate’s store. He has upset a lot of entrenched powers, but has gained support from the masses for it. And he says that in his first nine months in office, he cut enough waste to pay his own salary for three years."

    Why does this sort of stuff just plain piss the left leaning person off? I mean, even if you are a dedicated communist shouldn't you still wish to find corruption, overspending, and waste, and squash it? Shouldn't that be something anyone from any party would rally behind?

    But no, unfortunately when someone says limited government they immediately get called a right wing racist teabagger.

  16. Re:Why is that paper even still in business? on US Journalists Targeted By Pentagon Propaganda Contractors · · Score: 1

    Because all the copies left at every hotel room count as a sub. Readership of that crap rag is very little.

  17. Re:Good luck with that fair trial thing on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 1, Interesting

    And how exactly do you know this? The confrontation wasn't over at the back entrance. His claim is that he did stop following him, and was walking to a street sign to get the street name for the operator, something they did ask for, and then was confronted. And where did the operator say "stalking"? Is following someone with the intent to provide information to police, or to question them an aggressive act?

    If Martin was being stalked why didn't he use his cell phone to call the police?

  18. Re:Z fscked up on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    Yea, unless he had different council, that probably fucked him. You don't EVER talk to the cops. EVER EVER EVER. Especially if you are innocent. The police can legally lie to you, and ask you leading questions to get you to admit guilt even if there is none, then use that in court. Even things said in error, or if you are scared into saying them will be used against you. That's why his lawyers quit, they knew he probably hung himself in an unsupervised call, even if he was innocent. In fact there's a chance that he woudln't have been charged till he talked with them, and they baited evidence out of him enough to try for a conviction.

  19. Re:where is the evidence? on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    To go look at the street sign to tell the operator his location, which she asked. His biggest stupidity here was not having a smart phone with google maps.

    Exactly how does a vehicle have anything to do with the stand your ground law? Would it also apply if I was in a golf cart, or four wheeler? How about a scooter, or a motorcycle. Can I only expect to not get the crap beat out of me if I'm on wheels?

  20. Re:Good luck with that fair trial thing on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    Which is why when my son who is a dark Hispanic decided to start wearing baggy pants I went into his room and replaced them all with proper fitting pants. Then I told him that if he wants to be a slum rat he can do it after he supports himself. Until then he can dress like someone who might be worth something. That was the end of that. But many parents are too lazy or scared to have even this SMALL confrontation with their kid. This is why black fathers have -got- to step it up for their kids. Kids need a dad to tell them how its gonna be till they are self supporting.

    Of course I may have gone too far. Now my son is dressing like Tosh and parroting "high fashion" lol.

  21. Re:Good luck with that fair trial thing on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    So if someone follows you and you confront them and ask if they want trouble and they say no and walk away is cool to jump on them then and start beating their head against the pavement? Is it cool to kill them at that point? Do you think if trevan hadn't escalated to physical violence he would have been shot? If someone jumped on you because they thought you were following them and broke your nose and bashed in your head, then got up and turned around to come back and beat you some more would you think that was cool?

  22. Re:Good luck with that fair trial thing on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    Really? A fact ? You have talked to the eyewitnesses then? Zimmerman's claim is that he lost sight of the guy and walked to a street corner to get the location for the police, something they did ask him for when trevan who was physically superior to Zimmerman jumped him and started beating the shit out of him. This is backed up by several eyewitness.
    Getting second degree will be tough here unless there is evidence NOT ALREADY IN THE PUBLIC REALM. They might have had a shot at manslaughter.
    You do have a constitutional right to fight for self survival and use arms as the means, so unless a jury thinks that Zimmerman with a busted nose and head was in no danger of being killed or further injured through physical means or with his own legally carried sidearm it will be a steep hill for the prosecution.

  23. Re:Canada Here I Come on Supreme Court Approves Strip Searches For Any Arrestable Offense · · Score: 1

    So you think it's a great idea for someone who is incarcerated to not be searched? So it's ok for weapons en masse being brought into a prison so other people who may or may not be guilty are left to be stabbed to death, poisoned, by the random perp brought in for a minor violation who is concealing a deadly weapon they just used to kill someone that the police haven't found?

    The whole "but they strip searched a NUN" argument is complete bullshit. I mean if we follow that logic then really what's the difference in a burka? What's the difference in huge baggy jeans?

    That guy may have been humiliated that he got strip searched, but if others weren't strip searched then it's more possible he'd be dead. These rules aren't designed to humiliate or punish, they are to create a safer environment.

  24. Re:Business Cards and Calling Cards on Business Cards the Latest Internet Casualty · · Score: 1

    In the real world nobody uses bump. Sounds great and I used to attempt it but would almost.always end up having to troubleshoot the other persons configuration, bluetooth setting, etc. Easier to just get their card and scan it with cam card and import it to the company contacts account. I send my contact info in text messages to people after i give them my card. This creates a double impression, and avoids my card being lost and with it a sale. Ive had clients call me back after weeks when they dug through their text messages for my contact info.

  25. Facebook just needs to donate more... on US Congressmen: Facebook Evading Privacy Questions · · Score: 0