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  1. Re:The Dutch have no great lessons to teach us on EU Finance Ministers Line Up Behind $21B Tax Ruling Against Apple (herald-dispatch.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    So? I'm from Germany, but my passport says Canada. IKEA may well be "from" Sweden, but they're as Swedish as Swedish Chef on Muppet Show.

  2. The Dutch have no great lessons to teach us on EU Finance Ministers Line Up Behind $21B Tax Ruling Against Apple (herald-dispatch.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ever read about how IKEA is organized? Clean that shit up, you tulip-growing windmill lovers.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  3. Re:could != would on Floating Solar Device Boils Water Without Mirrors (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Happenstance of where you were born in a technologically uneven world really has nothing to do with your fitness as an individual.

  4. Re:5 years old news ? on Canon Unveils EOS 5D Mark IV DSLR (canonrumors.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Boy am I glad to read that. I'm not a photographer, but I've never been impressed with any Canon hardware, be it a camera, or a scanner, or a printer. Either the pictures are always out of focus, the stabilizer sucks, the software is shit, you name it. I don't see the appeal of Canon. Garbage hardware, garbage software, expensive.

  5. Let me save you the trouble on LinkedIn Suffers Huge Bot Attack That Steals Members' Personal Data (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 0

    My present employment sucks and the pay is shit.

  6. Re:Got my start with Terrapin Logo on an Apple ][ on Seymour Papert, Creator of the Logo Language, Dies At 88 (mit.edu) · · Score: 1

    Heh, we learned it on IBM XTs in high school. My first crack was LOGO for the Commodore 64, someone lent me their original disk and I cleverly managed to figure out the very simple protection. Why I was interested in LOGO when I was able to crack disks? Well, the BASIC on the 64 was bare-bones, and I liked making drawings without pages of BASIC POKEs and weird math.

  7. Re:Does anyone know which parts? on Texas Man Who Acted As Russian Agent Gets 10 Years' Prison (go.com) · · Score: 1

    GaN transistors, Gunn diodes, RTDs?

  8. Re:As a non-US citizen, I'd like to know ... on Hostess Saves Twinkies By Automating, Fires 94% Of Their Workforce (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Those. Look. AWESOME. I hope they can be imported to Canada, they look like Whippets with an attitude.
    http://www.darefoods.com/ca_en...

  9. Yes, of course on Ask Slashdot: Is It Ever OK To Quit Without Giving Notice? · · Score: 1

    There's no loyalty the other way, employers fought long and hard to make sure it works that way; why do you owe them anything?

  10. Re:"I'm a loser." on Big Tech Squashes New York's 'Right To Repair' Bill (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    "adults" are some of the most delusional people I've met.

  11. Re:Am I the only one... on The Biggest Maker of Raspberry Pis Has Been Acquired For $871 Million (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    I would love something like that or a Data General NOVA, too bad they're unobtainium.

  12. Re:Slow them with real traffic on Weary Homeowners Wage War On Waze · · Score: 2

    Way to poke fun at me.

  13. Re:Slow them with real traffic on Weary Homeowners Wage War On Waze · · Score: 2

    You've peaked my interest with your comment.

  14. Re:Finally! on Sorry, There's Nothing Magical About Breakfast (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    What? I drink my breakfast smoothie right after my routine...

  15. Finally! on Sorry, There's Nothing Magical About Breakfast (nytimes.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've been working out on an empty stomach in the mornings for years, only to be criticized by armchair specialists about how bad or impossible this is... There's plenty of reserve energy floating around the human body and there's nothing miraculous about physical activity on an empty stomach.
    You think our ancestors woke up to a fully stocked refrigerator every morning?

  16. Re:Yep, the *REAL* minimum wage is *ZERO* on Wendy's Plans To Automate 6,000 Restaurants With Self-Service Ordering Kiosks (investors.com) · · Score: 1

    No, just the massive amount of technology and resources we have. Why are you still thinking like we're in the jungle? Your brain didn't evolve past that?

    You mean the corporations ran away with the people's money? Yeah.

  17. Re:How about replacing the CEO with a machine on Wendy's Plans To Automate 6,000 Restaurants With Self-Service Ordering Kiosks (investors.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Then I guess you have no right to tell others to not have basic income too, right?

  18. It's even richer to assume I'm American.

    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...

    You use "horror" in a weird way all the time.

  19. " I don't know how to deal with them,"

    You do, you just don't like the "how", because human beings at the core are miserable, selfish, misanthropic horror creatures.

    * Did I use "horror" in the bizarre yet correct for the UK way? Why do you guys say "horror" instead of "horrible"?

  20. Re: Of course they don't cause cancer.. on Cellphones Do Not Cause Brain Cancer, Says 29-Year Study (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Or I need to move to Australia. I guarantee that in Canada among the pot-bellied, yak means to talk.

  21. Re: Of course they don't cause cancer.. on Cellphones Do Not Cause Brain Cancer, Says 29-Year Study (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    In my nearly half-century on this planet, I have *never* heard that interpretation of "yak". When it's not the animal, it's always meant talking.

    Oh god, maybe it's an age thing, and no one talks like I used to anymore. No one says "daddy-o" anymore, do they???

  22. Wrong. I mean they were called an ICEBOX for a reason. They cut ice from rivers and lakes and kept it in warehouses and delivered it to your home. That's why the first electric refrigerators had the compressor on top; so it looked like an icebox.
    Then there's the paradoxical propane refrigerator that uses fire to cool.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Then there's the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  23. Wait, I thought it was Montreal's on Engineers Plan The Most Expensive Object Ever Built (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Olympic Stadium?

  24. Re:back to work ? on First Successful Gene Therapy Against Human Aging? (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    We weren't mature enough for mechanization and nuclear bombs either.

  25. Re:Medical Devices?!? on Hearing Aid Business Under Pressure From Consumer Electronics · · Score: 3

    You mean the government that protects you from snakeoil salesmen, or the government that's bought off by crony capitalists?