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  1. Re:Citation needed on IT Salaries and Hiring Are Up — But Just To 2008 Levels · · Score: 1

    How come none of the other recoveries took this long then?

    All that came before, it was blindingly obvious when things are getting better. With Obama, all of a sudden it impossible to fix.

    Maybe it's not the economy. Maybe it's him and his policies.

  2. Re:Immigrants on Immigrants Crucial To Innovation · · Score: 1

    Really.

    No difference between an immigrant that has been granted permanent stay by the country and one that enters illegally then?

    I'm tired of the argument being twisted like this. There's a difference. If you can't put your point across without changing the assertion, then you aren't arguing in good faith. You're trying to manipulate the audience into your view.

  3. Re:Having moved from NYC to Utah in 2011, let me s on Fires Sparked By Utah Target Shooters Prompt Evacuations · · Score: 1

    Wow, that's pretty judgmental of them...er...

    STOP . AMERICA . NOW

    That's your sig. Maybe they're actually judging you on the content of your character.

  4. Re:Dozens of fires on Fires Sparked By Utah Target Shooters Prompt Evacuations · · Score: 2

    Fire is a normal event in nature. What has made things far worse in Colorado is the government managing the beetle killed trees.

    Imagine a mountainside filled with 50% completely dead, stripped trees standing there baking in the sun.

    No efforts to remove them, just a big pile of firewood waiting to happen.

  5. Re:Greedy bastard on Taxes Lead Angry Birds Maker Rovio To Consider Move To Ireland · · Score: 1

    Wow. You "Give" taxes!?!?

    I choose not to be so generous anymore and stop giving.

  6. Re:I could see it on IT Positions Some of the Toughest Jobs To Fill In US · · Score: 1

    Then you're doing it wrong.

    If the process isn't working, well, stick with the process. amiright?

  7. Re:Bullshit! on IT Positions Some of the Toughest Jobs To Fill In US · · Score: 1

    Impressive. Opening up two huge cans of worms in four sentences.

  8. Re:I've seen this problem from both sides on IT Positions Some of the Toughest Jobs To Fill In US · · Score: 1

    Hm. It looks like your test is meant to find people just like you.

    Now I could be wrong, the programming environment may need that sort of thing. But perhaps a logic test might be more appropriate?

  9. Re:Time to start taking the Cloud seriously on IT Desktop Support To Be Wiped Out Thanks To Cloud Computing · · Score: 0

    I do desktop and software support, let me give you my real world reactions...

    Costs per CPU hour have dropped.
    We know! We haven't upgraded our computers since 2006, and we're still running everything under Windows XP.

    Internet access is incredibly pervasive.
    Why can't I connect to the server to fix it? Oh. You firewalled off all internet access.

    The "post-PC" era of tablets and smart phones are producing a huge demand for cloud-based storage and services.
    Tablets? We won't even get our employees cellphones!

    All I see with the cloud is having your software/data on servers no one is willing to be responsible for.

  10. Re:What about the jury? on SCOTUS Refuses To Hear Tenenbaum Appeal · · Score: 1

    Imagine being stuck on a Jury for 8 months.

    Now imagine that you're there that long SOLELY because the defendant was perjuring, lying to you.

    I can see why they awarded those charges.

  11. Re:Rise of the discount carriers on Verizon To Kill All Unlimited Data Plans · · Score: 1

    The Sprint plan was more expensive than Verizon. How do you figure they're "El Cheapo"?

    I assumed the OP was talking about Cricket.

  12. Re:The Avengers is a bad movie to pirate on The Avengers: Why Pirates Failed To Prevent a Box Office Record · · Score: 1

    Ok, first picture her totally naked. Now, half that.

  13. Re:Adam Smith on U.S. In Danger of Losing Earth-Observing Satellite Capability · · Score: 1

    Wow, you're going to have a nervous breakdown when our finance system hits the wall.

    We needed about a trillion dollars in cuts, got 3 billion.

    3 billion off of the hundreds of billions in NEW spending.

    A day will come, pretty soon now, where no one will lend us any more money.

    If it makes you feel better, you can blame the Tea Party for that too.

  14. Re:Vindication on 'Gaia' Scientist Admits Mispredicting Rate of Climate Change · · Score: 1

    "Perhaps a more positive approach would be an advocacy of climate stabilization."

    Yes. All you have to do is get all of humanity to agree upon what the climate should be.

    I think we need to improve the planet. We have vast swaths of barely habitable areas that we could turn into green zones.

  15. Re:Sounds like a psychedelic experience on Treating Depression With Electrodes Inside the Brain · · Score: 1

    Experimental procedure is experimental.

  16. Re:Sounds nice. on Treating Depression With Electrodes Inside the Brain · · Score: 1

    Have you considered paying for it in cash? You know, like you'd buy a car or a house or almost anything else in your life?

  17. Re:the bigger problem on Ask Slashdot: How To Feed Africa? · · Score: 1

    The number have been trending down, which is heartening. And if you go to the census, you can have them broken down by state.

    But without a comprehensive list of sex ed programs by area, I don't think you'd be able to get the information you're looking for.

    I'm completely pro-choice. I just find the amounts of abortions to be incredible, and a red flag. That either we're not understanding something important, or we see it and refuse to believe it.

  18. Re:the bigger problem on Ask Slashdot: How To Feed Africa? · · Score: 1

    I know what you mean. I didn't believe it at first either.

    Here's a list of births by year in the US: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005067.html

    Abortions by year:
    http://www.mccl.org/page.aspx?pid=400

    Looks like I was a little off. The numbers seem to be a closer to 1 out of 4 than 1 out of 3. Which is better, but still a staggering amount.

    I guess I should have kept my research links from the first time I did this.

  19. Re:the bigger problem on Ask Slashdot: How To Feed Africa? · · Score: 1

    But they're not rare, they're very common.

    Look up the statistics, out of every 3 conceptions, 1 ends in abortion.

  20. Re:It's not about the poor on Solar Power Is Booming — Why Do We Want To Kill It? · · Score: 1

    We're not going to run out of oil. Not ever.

    It's a very basic chemical that's easy to make, and all you need is sunlight, water, and some bacteria designed to produce it.

  21. Re:Whoa, back up a minute. on Boston Pays Out $170,000 To Man Arrested For Recording Police · · Score: 1

    It didn't take me very long to figure out.

    "If you're a public servant, being recorded doing your job should be legal."

    It's a weapon against corruption and abuse.

  22. Re:What insights will we gain from this? on Record-Setting 100+ T Magnetic Field Achieved At Los Alamos · · Score: 1

    Commercialized? It would be great if that was obvious. I'm trying to figure out what you can DO with 100T.

  23. Re:Should prices be lower anyway? on Domestic Drilling Doesn't Decrease Gasoline Prices · · Score: 1

    Think of fuel as a simple machine that allows you to do work. Cheaper fuel, you can do more work. Or the same amount and then put the money you saved into other ventures.

    The ability to get more work done in less effort makes life better for everyone.

  24. Re:About the only way this could work... on Michael Bay To Remake TMNT As Aliens · · Score: 1

    The ooze was from the Interdenominational Aliens.

    I forget if it was an end product or a byproduct of the company they were running though.

  25. Re:There's no sex in Ender's Game. on Teacher Suspended For Reading Ender's Game To Students · · Score: 1

    Enders Game was published in 1977. It's understandable that they didn't know how blogging would turn out.