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  1. Crass on Tech Workers of the World Unite? · · Score: 1

    While I value the display of emotion, your post lacks a certain charisma. The expression of emotion is ever under attack, and when I am making a case for it, people are constantly pointing at examples like yours, and characterizing me as the same.

  2. Re:Compete on Tech Workers of the World Unite? · · Score: 1

    Oh, and how do you propose helping them become more competitive. More and more people are finding themselves unable to compete. These people are called losers. However, they retain a strong will to continue fighting. Winners of a battle will eventually decline in power and become losers, and then those 'losers' will cultivate a new leader.

  3. Re:Anger management counseling on Tech Workers of the World Unite? · · Score: 1

    "Anger management counseling" is one of the bigger lies out there at the moment, having experienced it first hand myself and discovered that they were pushing me to be even worse off than I am now!

  4. Re:High School on Tech Workers of the World Unite? · · Score: 1

    The thing is that the people out here now are already out of high school and there is no attempt to make up for the education they should have gotten there.

  5. Re:Family Responsibilities on Tech Workers of the World Unite? · · Score: 1

    Which is why I felt it was important to attack the accusation that I was "avoiding reponsibility" by pointing out that there are other responsibilities besides family responsibilities! Family responsibility can't dwarf other responsibilities if you don't have any family responsibilities.

  6. Re:"All others will be gone" on Tech Workers of the World Unite? · · Score: 1

    Except you can communicate your teachings and customs to those already among us without the overhead of raising a child. Besides, I hope to have my DNA corrected. I strive for correction in all things first.

  7. Definition Re:"make your own"? on Tech Workers of the World Unite? · · Score: 1

    Your definition of make is clearly different than my own. "Make" all you want, if you don't bargain with others, you won't be around much longer to "make" anything.

  8. Defection Re:Communism on Tech Workers of the World Unite? · · Score: 1

    They could always defect.

  9. Family responsibility on Tech Workers of the World Unite? · · Score: 1

    If I were to marry the first woman who'd have me and we set about pumping out kids, then I'd have family responsibilities with no way of meeting them. If living in a way that makes that not happen is "avoiding responsibility" then so be it, but I call it "being responsible".

  10. Re:"All others will be gone" on Tech Workers of the World Unite? · · Score: 1

    If you are alive, then the others will not be gone. If you are dead, then that one will be gone too.

  11. Re:Family Responsibilities on Tech Workers of the World Unite? · · Score: 1

    I think responsibility to oneself outweighs joining a family for the sake of having family responsibilities.

  12. Re:Communism on Tech Workers of the World Unite? · · Score: 1

    In the same way that it was the population of USSR that made it communistic. In this scenario, the shareholders are akin to the population of USSR, and the board is akin to the highest government officials, and the people working at the company are akin to lower government functionaries.

  13. Re:Counting (explaining) on Tech Workers of the World Unite? · · Score: 1

    First you assign each of your fingers a power of 2. Then you set finger down as a 0 in that power of 2, and up as a 1 in that position, or vice versa.

  14. "make your own"? on Tech Workers of the World Unite? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No you don't make your own, you have to bargain for it, and that's where collective bargaining comes in.

  15. Re:Communism on Tech Workers of the World Unite? · · Score: 1

    The real definition of communism aside, don't you think the company being owned by shareholders is at least as communistic as a labor union? Do you own stock? What opportunity are you choosing? The opportunity to choose which communistic corporation to work for? And how would you give that up by joining a union? Union workers have the same freedom to change employers.

  16. Re:"Avoiding responsibilities" on Tech Workers of the World Unite? · · Score: 1

    As if family responsibilites were the only responsibilities that exist.

  17. Re:Taken serously. on Microsoft Sides With Nintendo Against Sony · · Score: 1

    That's okay, I wasn't being taken seriously before. In fact the whole point of avoiding emotions is to keep people from being taken seriously. Congratulations, you just made my foes list, but counter to slashdot designs, my foes aren't the people I want to ignore.

  18. Me, I prefer emotions... on Microsoft Sides With Nintendo Against Sony · · Score: 1

    Off with you to Vulcan or somewhere similar. However there are different emotional levels, but phrases like immoral and unethical are currently being used to skirt around emotion.

  19. Re:Disenfranchised on Microsoft Sides With Nintendo Against Sony · · Score: 1

    Disenfranchised: Deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote

    Have they disenfranchised an entire population...

    To some extent, yes, yes they have. Also, Evil isn't solely as evil does, but what evil wants to do, or would do if it could.

  20. For a few doubts more... on Miniature Tags Track Dragonflies · · Score: 1

    Well the fact that these dragonflies are having to search for warmer climates are a sure sign that global warming is not happening!

  21. Clocking sweet spots on A 4.1 GHz Dual Core at $130? · · Score: 1

    I keep wondering if there aren't clocking sweet spots where the chip runs cooler than at both lower and higher frequencies, and if you've found it at one frequency and then double it, there's a sweet spot at the doubled frequency but spread over a smaller range of frequencies, then doubled again at an even smaller range...keep doing it again and again up to a point, constantly tuning for the center of the sweet spot at each doubling.

  22. Re:Trust (was Re:Plane OS) on Torvalds on the Microkernel Debate · · Score: 1

    If we accept the premise that even a very narrow definition of God in which (he, she, it) exists, then why would it not well within his ability to provide a way for a person to know what it is God wants that person to do? People themselves are capable in varying degrees of communicating to others what they want in an imprecise manner. For one person to work towards what God wants him to do, it does not require that he know all of God's motives, just the ones that involve that person. It seems to me that I do much more than take my own motives and pretend that they're God's, I take a look at what motives I could take as my own and figure out whether or not they are from God. I also start with the premise that God wants to drive out evil, and then look for what will drive out evil, wherever it lies, in me, in another person, or in something else altogether. Once evil is driven out, what remains is of God.

  23. Re:"Uncanny Valley" on Korea Unveils World's Second Android · · Score: 1

    Yeah, well, I got hungry and ate your turing test.

  24. "Released"? on GameTap Claims Uru, Sam and Max · · Score: 1

    If it died in beta would it be accurate to say that it had been released?

  25. Quite... on Korea Unveils World's Second Android · · Score: 1

    Why yes, I would expect very much so.