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  1. Re:Didn't we all take loyalty oaths? on The Data Crunching Prowess of Barack Obama · · Score: 1

    If you don't know why one group is being watched more than the others, t'is you who are obtuse.

  2. Re:Thank god on Richard Stallman's Dissenting View of Steve Jobs · · Score: 1

    "Christianity, Islam and Judaism are all about the forced conversion or extermination of the heretics and non-believers."

    It is not 400AD. The only one of those three groups practicing what you just claimed are the Islamists. You may not include fringe elements unless you also take responsibility for fringe elements of your belief structure.

  3. Re:Stallman and FOSS on Richard Stallman's Dissenting View of Steve Jobs · · Score: 1

    What a friggin' dump. There are no rights to restrict others' freedoms. Your subsequent pedantry is necessary because your logic is missing.

  4. Re:Stallman and FOSS on Richard Stallman's Dissenting View of Steve Jobs · · Score: 1

    Apache. Don't be a total douche.

  5. Re:Coding "is" a game on The Games Programmers Play · · Score: 1

    Please climb down off the horse before you fall. There's nothing special about programming. It neither makes you a superior person nor transforms you into a loathsome geek.

    The overall goal of a puzzle is enjoying the finding of the solution, not the resolution itself.

  6. Re:for the retarded... on Is the Creative Class Engine Sputtering? · · Score: 1

    Anonymous Coward..... "personally aware"... "I'm not saying who".....

    Sure! I'll believe you!

  7. Re:Defenses and motivations on Civil Suit Filed, Involving the Time Zone Database · · Score: 1

    "Those US government pockets are deep are about as deep as they get."

    Yes they are. They are also pockets that can also simply say "Piss off", so counting on that win is bad planning.

  8. Re:Didn't Sound Optimistic to Me! on Does Italian Demo Show Cold Fusion, or Snake Oil? · · Score: 1

    Mine went for "Rossie-device-powed-electronical-or-mechanical-devices".

  9. Re:Didn't Sound Optimistic to Me! on Does Italian Demo Show Cold Fusion, or Snake Oil? · · Score: 1

    It's more annoying to be bothered by the kook.

    That and fifty-thousand other letters from kooks were ignored and with damned good reason. *You* may have had the time to kill, but he doesn't. Just reading the kook mail has to take thirty seconds each. That's a chunk of kook change at the end of the day.

    Besides, the proper response to kook mail *is* to laugh and toss it in the trash.

  10. Re:Possible to manufacture ozone and seed? on Severe Arctic Ozone Loss · · Score: 1

    What a moronic comparison, traces of O3 to an earth-killer.

  11. Re:Yes. on Should Science Be King In Politics? · · Score: 2

    "They have displayed an unabashed tendency not only to lie, but to omit important truths and to cover up after they've been caught lying."

    You understand you just described all of the media, right?

  12. Re:It's also easier to test... on OCaml For the Masses · · Score: 1

    "Also, the reason why, you, ... is because you don't understand ...."

    So, if I find a programmer making more money than TFA author, his language of choice is perforce better than OCaml and Haskell?

  13. Re:So like my oldest on Children Helped Decorate Prehistoric Caves of France · · Score: 2

    Why, you puppies (62 here) don't remember what it was like when all walls had textures. You didn't have to get into traffic and drive down to the texture museum, you had real plaster walls right at home.

    It was glorious.

    My grandpa used to regale me with stories of wattle.

  14. Re:Come on, Jake, it's Wisconsin on Theater Professor's Firefly Poster Declared Threatening · · Score: 1

    Whoever you are, you're misrepresenting what happened.

    The bill wasn't even read before the Dems voted it into law. That was a huge issue, in the papers, on TV, everything. There weren't any compromises because the Republicans weren't allowed to see it.

  15. Re:Blame it on Liberals and Communists on Theater Professor's Firefly Poster Declared Threatening · · Score: 1

    "A conservative, in proper definition, cares about conserving the status quo,"

    So the teachers, union members, students and imported radicals that protested the change in WI budget were conservatives? They kind of destroyed that argument for you.

  16. Re:Come on, Jake, it's Wisconsin on Theater Professor's Firefly Poster Declared Threatening · · Score: 1

    1, 2, 3 - no punishment.
    Poster on office door in back hall of university building - punishment.

    I don't see your point.

  17. Re:Come on, Jake, it's Wisconsin on Theater Professor's Firefly Poster Declared Threatening · · Score: 2

    Well AC (fitting), that sounded social sciency and all but it's horseshit.

    As the bulk of humanity has this capability and psychopaths are by definition uncommon at least, this is horseshit.

    Add to this the fact that you cannot in any meaningful or intelligent manner correlate the occurrence of a reduced amygdala and someone's ability to not be emotionally distraught by a perceived insult (yet another layer of uncertainty) and you're pulling this one out of your ass.

  18. Re:In reality... on Estimating Age With Kinect's 3D Camera To Filter Content · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately replaced by the psuedo-technical user who harasses you to tweak your system.

  19. Re:The replacement(s) will be shitty, too. on How Adobe Flash Lost Its Way · · Score: 1

    Sorry I left my textbooks at the office. Could you refresh my memory? What the specificity of "shitty"?

  20. Re:And they called it... on An Operating System For Cities · · Score: 1

    Under central robotic authority, making the mobile robots its sensors.

    They have WiFi.

    All hail The Imperious Leader.

  21. Re:Short vs. long documents on SlideShare Ditches Flash, Rebuilds Site In HTML5 · · Score: 1

    A single "document" can never have multiple "versions" with different content available at the same time, like you propose. What you describe are actually two separate documents, and thus each should have its own unique URI.

    Only true if you insist on seeing the document as a textual replacement and not a dynamic entity.

  22. Re:Questions on SlideShare Ditches Flash, Rebuilds Site In HTML5 · · Score: 1

    "Old folks are often reticent to change their ways from what they learnt when they were a nipper, even if something better comes along."

    Heh. Young folks often believe that because it justifies their apparent belief in new ideas that aren't really new, but tried before and discarded. ;)

  23. Re:Frankly, that's cool on A Few Million Virtual Monkeys Randomly Recreate Shakespeare · · Score: 5, Informative

    Beyond that, it didn't even accomplish it's goal. The idea is not that a hundred or more monkeys can hammer out nine character chunks that could be assembled *by man* into the complete work, it is that a hundred monkeys could hammer at typewriters for some undetermined length of time and one of them would randomly produce the complete work *alone*.

    That didn't happen.

  24. Re:Context on Accent Monitoring: Innovation Or Rights Violation? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, no and no. Having an instructor with an accent so thick you can't understand them is a waste of every resource imaginable.

    The friggin' job of a teacher is to impart knowledge through communication. It is therefore incumbent on the teacher not the student to facilitate the communication.

    I love accents. I can do many and do frequently. Yet I have had a physics professor with a Hindi accent so thick that 100% of his class was failing. That is his fault and his alone.

  25. Re:Oh the irony... on Steam Translation Community Slaving Away · · Score: 1

    "So yeah, there ain't nobody forcing these people into freely giving their labor to Valve."

    End of empirical part. Although linguistically incorrect, I assume you meant "isn't anybody". "Ain't nobody" actually means someone is.

    "But that doesn't make Valve any less scummy for encouraging it, much less simply taking it when, if the tables were reversed, they would never do such a thing themselves."

    "Scummy" is such an evidentiary term, isn't it? Someone accepting donations is scummy how? This assumes, of course, that Valve doesn't donate things.