Keep all the little, boring projects that the public doesn't care about in the budget and then threaten that unless you get more money, then you won't be able to do the big, visible ones.
It's one of the oldest budgeting tricks in the book and somebody should be handing NASA's chief his ass for pulling such a stunt.
Shhhh... Since when has making sense had anything to do with raising money from VC's? Especially when you can use the word crowdsourcing in your pitch.
Have you ever stopped to think that if you have fantastic technical skills and nobody will hire you, perhaps it isn't your technical skills that need work?
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Sad. Definitely sad.
Flickr is a company, not a government. You have no constitutional right of free speech on Flickr.
Sucks, I know, but that's the way it is.
capitalization is especially important - consider the sentence:
i helped my uncle jack off a horse
thank you for correcting the .org/gov - too hasty in posting
No competent tech startup would pay $18 million for recovery.org
Keep all the little, boring projects that the public doesn't care about in the budget and then threaten that unless you get more money, then you won't be able to do the big, visible ones.
It's one of the oldest budgeting tricks in the book and somebody should be handing NASA's chief his ass for pulling such a stunt.
You mean overpay by an order of magnitude or more? No thanks!
Then why did Linus check in a patch today to fix it?
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-08/0174.html
In 2000, I think the thing that killed an online store selling CD's wasn't a bad online rep.
Think back. What was all the rage in 2000? Napster.
Shhhh... Since when has making sense had anything to do with raising money from VC's? Especially when you can use the word crowdsourcing in your pitch.
I get one return for NaCl on Bing and nothing about miniskirts.
Cue the conspiracy theorists.
We have no idea who is behind this or what they intend to do so we will continue with wild-ass speculation in order to keep our companies in the news.
Sorry, the box you opened and its contents have been copyrighted by Pandora.
Videogames weren't popular in 1982? Let me guess: in 1982, you were still a
Hershey bar in your dad's back pocket.
One word: Pacman
Anybody who hasn't figured that out by now needs to pay closer attention.
He saved up?
128 Places Where You Have Zero Chance of Getting Laid
I can say that Firefox is quite fast on my i7 with 12GB RAM and an Intel X25 Extrem SSD ;-)
Sorry to hear that about your penis.
Have you ever stopped to think that if you have fantastic technical skills and nobody will hire you, perhaps it isn't your technical skills that need work?
Doesn't New Hampster also touch Canadia?
Try it.
The excuse of "I work too much to stay in shape" is just an excuse to not work out.
The process may be noisy, but a stable Internet is what has come out of ICANN.
Oh yeah. I mean, where would we be without ICANN? All of that wealth created by domain tasting & cybersquatting would never have been created.
Thank you ICANN. Thank you.
s/Thank/Fuck/g
too long. How about Hernium?
I'm sure lots of slashdotters were hoping CL would fight this one. Without easy access to hookers, many slashdotters would never get laid.
16 years is more than enough time for this stuff to happen.
That's what they said about ubiquitous jetpacks and flying cars back in the 1960's.