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  1. Re:Smart move, loser. on FAA Shuts Down Search-and-Rescue Drones · · Score: 1

    But jailing the leaders and organizers is enough.

  2. Re:Fuck the FAA on FAA Shuts Down Search-and-Rescue Drones · · Score: 1

    The entire concept of freedom in the US is that we are free to do whatever unless a law stops us or we encroach on others freedoms. It is not that we have to look to some government authority for permission when they have nothing banning or barring it.

    Where's can I buy a bus ticket to your fantasy land?

    In the real world, they'll fuck you even after they've given you permission. Because fuck you, that's why.

  3. I want everyone to remember, why they need us! on FAA Shuts Down Search-and-Rescue Drones · · Score: 1

    Because we won't *allow* you do for yourselves, as you might start getting ideas and feeling uppity.

    Why? Because fuck you, that's why.

    The Tax Ranchers' message to the Tax Livestock

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  4. Ah, the joys of getting old on UN: Renewables, Nuclear Must Triple To Save Climate · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Any other old geezers remember just *who* it was that put the kibosh on the general use of nuclear power in the US?

    Are we ever going to get an "oopsie, so sorry" from all the environmentalists who squashed the US nuclear power industry? Who have fought fracking tooth and nail, while it has been the prime enabler of decreasing US carbon emissions?

  5. Gotta board this train soon on UN: Renewables, Nuclear Must Triple To Save Climate · · Score: 0, Troll

    Because if Gaia continues to refuse to cooperate with climate models, the gig will be up and we'll never be able to squash the little economic freedom people have left.

  6. Re:Sex discrimination. on Google: Teach Girls Coding, Get $2,500; Teach Boys, Get $0 · · Score: 1

    Note that no *advantage* was cited for white males, only a disparate outcome.

  7. Re: Protected Classes on Google: Teach Girls Coding, Get $2,500; Teach Boys, Get $0 · · Score: 1

    You were looking at the wrong list. Look at the list of evil oppressor overlords.

  8. Re:Not really on Mozilla CEO Firestorm Likely Violated California Law · · Score: 1

    There is a substantive difference between not having the legal privileges of being married, and being lynched.

    You are a nitwit.

  9. Re:Depends on Should Microsoft Be Required To Extend Support For Windows XP? · · Score: 1

    Let them be let off the requirement to support (excepting for other contractual arrangements) when they relinquish copyright.

  10. Re:I'll wait and see on The Verge: Google Is Working on a TV Box Of Its Own · · Score: 1

    I like the sticks too. Hate the "media devices" limited to piping in movies. Why not the full android stack too?

    I wish google would make their own full android stick. Why make crippled media devices? At least give me a full browsing experience.

  11. Software stack for encrypted comm? on CryptoPhone Sales Jump To 100,000+, Even at $3500 · · Score: 1

    Isn't there a software stack for encrypted comm?

  12. Re:Translation on London Council Dumping Windows For Chromebooks To Save £400,000 · · Score: 1

    Which is largely Google's business model anyway - choke off the profits of it's competitors.

  13. Re:This is still poking sticks at the brain... on Electric 'Thinking Cap' Controls Learning Speed · · Score: 1

    But even this child's play get results. Lots of low hanging fruit.

  14. Whose rights does the NSA protect? on Spinoffs From Spyland: How Some NSA Technology Is Making Its Way Into Industry · · Score: 1

    " 'A lot of the technology we put [in] is to protect rights," says Fuchs.

    Yeah, their right to read our data, and their right to control *who* gets to read our data.

    Anyone else notice the typo in their spokesman's name, Fuchs Yu?

  15. correlation and causation? on Don't Help Your Kids With Their Homework · · Score: 1

    Did they take into account that they were engaged in an *observational* study?

    The treatments students received weren't likely independent of how well the students were doing in the first place - i.e. when your kid does poorly, this prompts you to help him, so that this would increase positive correlation for receiving help from your parent and doing poorly.

  16. Re:anonymous coward on The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage · · Score: 1

    The shortage is in a workforce that provides opportunity for slush funds and kickbacks.

    Contract work with H1Bs maximizes the middle men, minimizes the employee's power, and makes the corporate honcho's decision of which body shop to contract with a hugely important one, with millions of dollars riding on it, going to companies that exist solely to help circumvent both the law and fiduciary obligations.

  17. Burn the Blasphemers! on Getting Misogyny, Racism and Homophobia Out of Gaming · · Score: 1

    BURN THEM!

  18. Re:Second page of TFA on Ex-Head of Troubled Health Insurance Site May Sue, Citing 'Cover-Up' · · Score: 1

    Yep, corporate scapegoat for hire.

  19. Re:Inadequate experience? on Ex-Head of Troubled Health Insurance Site May Sue, Citing 'Cover-Up' · · Score: 1

    The usual client has no understanding of what they need, demands what they don't need be created yesterday, and changes their minds 5 times before today. The account execs of the contracting firm say "yeah, we can do that, and we'll throw in free pina coladas on fridays", and they'll sign a contract with the client full of nonsensical gibberish that has nothing to do with what needs to be done, and is for the most part ambiguous bs designed to evade precise commitment on either side.

    Everyone gets head count, and all the important people get raises and move on to new project before the shit hits the fan.

  20. Re:As an enterprise user of oracle based systems on Ex-Head of Troubled Health Insurance Site May Sue, Citing 'Cover-Up' · · Score: 1

    > I have a suspision that the process was built around the concept of give the outside contractor 100 million dollars so they can be blamed instead of us state employees.

    That's just one of the reasons - contractors are corporate scapegoats for hire. But they're also hired so that they can grease the decision makers with kickbacks.

  21. Re:Government contracts on Ex-Head of Troubled Health Insurance Site May Sue, Citing 'Cover-Up' · · Score: 1

    That's not just CYA, that's communicating.

    It's better to do it *in the meeting*, where once you get it down where everyone can see it simultaneously, you can find out if they really agree, and correct it on the spot if they don't.

    Hint - no group over 1 person ever agrees the first time it is written down.

  22. Re:Did Fluke request this? on $30K Worth of Multimeters Must Be Destroyed Because They're Yellow · · Score: 1

    If they don't use the trademark, selling a relox is just fine with me.

    Protecting "the look and style of their products" means preventing me from throwing paint on them. *Their* products look however they look *regardless* of how any other product looks.

    Yes, make a knockoff of anything. Manufacturers are should be allowed a symbol or set of symbols to identify their brand, not colors of paint that look similar.

  23. Re:Did Fluke request this? on $30K Worth of Multimeters Must Be Destroyed Because They're Yellow · · Score: 1

    Lawyers are expensive.

  24. Re:Did Fluke request this? on $30K Worth of Multimeters Must Be Destroyed Because They're Yellow · · Score: 1

    They should try plaid.

  25. We don't need no steenkin Mavericks... on Scientists Publish Letter Saying, "We Need More Scientific Mavericks" · · Score: 0

    The science is settled!