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  1. Re:Really bad jobs on Does Amazon's Clickworker Platform Exploit Its Workers? (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    Not every job is meant to be, or as a practical matter capable of being, a primary source of income to live on.

    But yours is, right?

  2. For the same reason people talk about open-source coffee tables and crowdfunded cardigans.

  3. Re:What's to stop.. on Londoners Tests A Self-Driving Beer Tap And An AI-Assisted Brewery (gizmodo.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I'm finding it hard to find anything that goes worse with beer than mint.

    I'm limiting my pool to things that are actually edible, but some things that aren't (wood, perspex, cement) would still taste better.

  4. Sun created Java because they wanted to boost hardware (SPARC systems) sales. So, Java was not technically free.

    If my local supermarket offers a free croissant to anyone who walks in the door, hoping that once they're there they'll buy something else, the croissant isn't technically free?

  5. Don't forget to pay your $6,999,999 licensing fee, you cock-smoking teabaggers!

  6. Londoners Tests

    They does?

  7. Re: Meh. on The UN Will Consider Banning Killer Robots (hrw.org) · · Score: 1

    There was a comedy skit years back of Perez de Cuellar along the lines of "We assure you that the innocent will be UNprotected, the guilty will be UNpunished and the problem will be UNsolved. Please don't kill each other"

  8. Re:Exploitative by design? on Does Amazon's Clickworker Platform Exploit Its Workers? (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    The gig economy, zero-hours contracts - it's all pushing the casualisation of the workforce.

  9. Re:Streamlined Outsourcing on Are Remote Offices Becoming The New Normal? (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    I was once replaced by two people, which I assume cost them more. Nothing to do with management by spreadsheet - my face didn't fit.

  10. Re:It's awesome on Are Remote Offices Becoming The New Normal? (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Would you consider something like the UK's NHS as a single payer system?

  11. Re:Oracle on Oracle Begins Aggressively Pursuing Java Licensing Fees (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Many believe that Larry is a Sith Lord. If he is indeed a Sith Master, then who is his apprentice?

    The clue is in the question.

  12. Re:/|\ DeVry MBA on Germany Threatens To Fine Facebook Over Hate Speech (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do you think putting "internet" in front of something grants exemptions from laws?

  13. Re:US Car "Standards" on U.S. Proposes Car-To-Car Data Sharing Standards (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Luckily, there aren't any roads that cross the international date line.

  14. Re:Price in privacy far exceeds $350 on U.S. Proposes Car-To-Car Data Sharing Standards (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Why? It can say "Hey, I'm three inches behind you and ten to the right" without saying who you are.

  15. Re:automated tracking on U.S. Proposes Car-To-Car Data Sharing Standards (networkworld.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just let Microsoft do it. What could possibly go wrong?

  16. Frosty on RIP Dr. Henry Heimlich, Inventor of the Heimlich Maneuver (bbc.com) · · Score: 0, Redundant

    *cough* *splutter* psot!

  17. They probably built it in the first place.

  18. /|\ Trump-U J.D. on Pentagon: Chinese Ship Captures US Underwater Drone Fom Sea (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Double bullshit, you totally do.

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

  19. Re:Some helpful context: on Pentagon: Chinese Ship Captures US Underwater Drone Fom Sea (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    That leaves the illogical legal stance that you can have territory that has no waters at all.

    I agree. Switzerland is totally illogical, as are the Central African Republic and Nepal.

  20. Re:Time for war on Pentagon: Chinese Ship Captures US Underwater Drone Fom Sea (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    By definition the Soviet Union couldn't be a third world country.

    FTFY.

  21. Re:Germany has way more problems than Facebook on Germany Threatens To Fine Facebook Over Hate Speech (go.com) · · Score: 1

    For the benefit of any other Trump-U math grads:

    Multiply zero by ten. Is one more than that?

  22. Re:Germany has way more problems than Facebook on Germany Threatens To Fine Facebook Over Hate Speech (go.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    overall refugees are not more criminal than established residents in Germany.

    1) They don't know the law.
    2) Even if they did, many of them don't agree with it because infidels are wrong.
    3) They contain a disproportionate number of military age men. It's a fact the world over that they are much more likely to commit crimes, especially violent ones.
    4) Many of them owe money to traffickers, which means they will resort to anything to pay it back. Alternatively, they can be coerced.

    I'd say your assertion is very likely to be untrue.

  23. Re:And soon the predators will become the prey. on Researchers Find Roads Shatter the Earth's Surface Into 600,000 Fragments (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Excellent. Though I did read "prickle of excitement" as "trickle of excrement" on the first pass.

  24. Re:Double standards on Germany Threatens To Fine Facebook Over Hate Speech (go.com) · · Score: 1

    That's different. VW are an old economy company. Facezuck are disruptive unicorns, and they have apps!

  25. Re:Almost seems destiny on Pentagon: Chinese Ship Captures US Underwater Drone Fom Sea (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    You can win by not playing. Before your time? Never mind.

    Have you seen these stories about ghost cities that pop up from time to time? I suspect they might be dispersal zones.