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  1. Re:I don't know a good rate... on Reasonable Salary for Entry Level Programmers? · · Score: 1

    you can IRA up to ~10% of your income with a cap of ~5K which allows you to protect it from tax until withdrawal which allows you to keep the taxes down to a more manageable rate. and yes a million dollars won't be a fortune in 40 years but 200K in 40 years won't be enough to retire on.

  2. Re:Missing a few obvious faults on OS Independent Games? · · Score: 1

    I believe that Dosbox will play most PS/2 games... or did you mean PS2?

  3. Re:Bush administration on IT Workers Not Eligible for Overtime in New Rules · · Score: 1

    Then go to central GA or central PA and tell those people making 20k that they are poor.

  4. Re:Needed: expanded moderation choices on Few Takers For Microsoft's Settlement Cash · · Score: 1

    Jesse James, Is that you??

  5. Re:In other news, thinking skills in short supply. on LUG Pres Resigns Over Military Linux Use · · Score: 1

    One minor nitpick on number 2. Guerrillas select military targets Terrorists select civilian targets.

  6. Re:Don't blame the military. on LUG Pres Resigns Over Military Linux Use · · Score: 1

    And those documents paint a very comfusing picture but ultimately point to an honorable discharge and an individual who served the required number of days for that discharge.

  7. Re:GPL & the Military on LUG Pres Resigns Over Military Linux Use · · Score: 1

    Actually, in MOST instances the work is done by a team comprised in equal parts military, DoD CIvilian and "large defense contractors".

  8. Re:Blaming the tool again... on LUG Pres Resigns Over Military Linux Use · · Score: 1

    And you can categorically state which OS they are using for missile guidance system design?

  9. Re:Blaming the tool again... on LUG Pres Resigns Over Military Linux Use · · Score: 1

    It's called eminent domain and its why everyone makes asprin these days and why we have airplanes from boeing instead of wright aircraft.

  10. Re:Blaming the tool again... on LUG Pres Resigns Over Military Linux Use · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    < argument > Well you see they had the wrong dates< /argument >

    < response > Actually the dates were in the correct format for the region they were submitting the vote from and the idiot evaluating the vote was a typical american who believes that the rest of the world follows our lead(I am an American) YOu know, the sort of person who thinks there must be something wrong with 1.000.324.000,00 < /response >

  11. Re:I don't know a good rate... on Reasonable Salary for Entry Level Programmers? · · Score: 1

    If you are making a long term investment at 5% interest, you might as well shoot yourself. you need to average between 10-12 IOW match the stock market.and then you will have ~$1M

  12. Re:yawn yawn - same old violence debate on California Violent Gaming Bills Fail To Advance · · Score: 1

    You realize that the gun laws in the peoples republic of California are almost as restrictive as In Great Britain.

  13. Re:Is it really about "skillz"? on Hackers: Under The Hood · · Score: 2, Interesting

    But if you lose your keys and you don't have a backup set stashed anywhere, your next step will be to call a professional thief^H^H^H^H^HLocksmith to break into your house and re-key those locks for you.

  14. Re:Is it really about "skillz"? on Hackers: Under The Hood · · Score: 1

    Actually Security professional is the new catch phrase for hacker. It can't be twisted into meaning criminal because these individuals learn, practice and use their skillset on closed systems or on systems they are paid to penetrate.

  15. Re:Silly fundies, brains are for thinking! on Wonkette and the Ethics of Online Journalism · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately talk.origins is about the worst place to go but you probably knew that.

    The powers that be at talk.origins are evangelistic athiests and rabid evolutionists and claim that anyone who disagrees must be some kind of drooling idiot or liar.

  16. Re:Fundamentalists vs. Evolution on Wonkette and the Ethics of Online Journalism · · Score: 1

    Ok, once more with feeling

    Just because you can breed flies to change their eye color over several generations, or breed two big black dogs over several generations to produce small white dogs doesn't mean that over BILLIONS and BILLIONS of years you can turn flies into fish and dogs into sheep. Its not testable, its not falsifiable it isn't even very logical.

  17. Re:Fundamentalists vs. Evolution on Wonkette and the Ethics of Online Journalism · · Score: 1

    According to the Torah(considered holy writ by all orthodox monotheists: Jews Christians Moslems) The light which existed prior to the sun came straight from the creator to demonstrate that HE was the source of all life.

  18. Re:You can't walk on the highway. on Schneier on National ID Cards, Key Escrow Locks, E-voting · · Score: 1

    The world I live in gives recourse for such actions... perhaps you live in a different world, or country. I thought we were talking about the US. And I've never had a bad experience with the Latin Kings either... guess you just have bad luck.

  19. Re:Fundamentalists vs. Evolution on Wonkette and the Ethics of Online Journalism · · Score: 2, Insightful

    1900-3000 years ago.

    The evidence doesn't clearly support either position... And ultimately an honest review will bear this out. SO the question must be IMO which world view is more healthy... and that one is yet to be evaluated, but if school shootings and declining educational standards are the measure then I make my choice.

    of course I've already made my choice by faith, but I'm no fool and I will fairly examine all evidence As far as my biases will allow and I will take my biases into account.

  20. Re:Old media get a free pass as well... on Wonkette and the Ethics of Online Journalism · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Today show, not the daily show.

  21. Re:Fundamentalists vs. Evolution on Wonkette and the Ethics of Online Journalism · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And of course the evolutionists world view has no bearing on their position and IF the facts(whatever that means for something that happened outside of recorded history) came down on the fundamentalist side they would all automagically believe in the higher power?

  22. Re:Funny on Wonkette and the Ethics of Online Journalism · · Score: 1

    As much as I agree with you, there is just too much happening for the networks(tv/radio) to give you "everything", there has to be some degree of filtering...

    the benefit of print/internet vs tv is that print/internet can have page 25 stuff for those that want to read that deep and front page for the rest of the genpop. But TV news has to do it in 15 minute chunks because the neilsens(sp) say that that is all the viewer is willing to wait for... which is why fox/cnn/msnbc/cnbc/etc repeat every 15 minutes...

  23. Re:TCO? on Free Optimizing C++ Compiler from Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Well because the output "t o" isn't particularly funny.

  24. No news is news on Wonkette and the Ethics of Online Journalism · · Score: 3, Funny

    Let's see, fired from her previous employer, spreading completely unsubstantiated rumor as fact, and talking nonsense in general...

    sounds like she's looking for a job at the Enquirer, Times or Star.

  25. Re:math in real life on Making Science and Math Kid Friendly? · · Score: 1

    .02 cents/oz. Of course if they don't have the price per oz, then I bust out the calculator to get that...since in 15 seconds figuring out how many cents per oz 2.35/16oz is non-trivial.