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  1. Sounds like Debian Squeeze on Linux Mint 12 to Blend GNOMEs 2 & 3 · · Score: 1

    Well... untested Debian Squeeze that needs to be debugged from scratch.
    Why don't we quit mucking around and just go back to Debian? I finally figured that out.

  2. Maybe, but it's being misread on Are Power Users Too Cool For Ubuntu Unity? · · Score: 1

    There is going a lot more mobile computing in the years a ahead. Most people will still have their primary desk at home and work where they tend do most of their work. Same way many people tend to use the same chair at office and at home.

    Nothing about the space age or internet culture change desks very much. As long as people have a need for desks, there's going to be a need for desktop computers.

  3. Paper Ballots only possible clean voting answer. on Microsoft Proposes Fix For E-Voting Attack · · Score: 1

    Paper Ballots is the only voting system that could be made uncorruptible.

  4. Plasmons rule! on Hybrid Technology Could Bring 'Quantum Information Systems' · · Score: 1

    Simple electrons teH sUk!

  5. ACLU thrilled fighting for Bigfoot's free speech on NH Supreme Court To Rule On Bigfoot Video Shoot In Public Park · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ACLU has to get discouraged being stuck defending the rights of assholes like Fred Phelps and Westboro Baptist screaming hate at gay soldiers' funerals. Fighting for Bigfoot going to be like a fun frolic in the woods for them.

  6. Occupy Portland doing something similar on OccupySF IT Admins Using Pedal Power For Protest · · Score: 1

    I saw minutes of a meeting being typed on computer and projected on white sheet w/computer and projector getting power from an exercise bike rig

  7. Sitting a few feet from 600 mph objects not wise on James Gosling Report of Reno Air Crash · · Score: 1

    Maybe sitting a few feet from steel objects traveling roughly 600 mph wasn't very wise. Maybe sitting a few feet from steel object traveling 600 mph wasn't EVER very wise.
    I don't think we should continue to do something in the future that's stupid and reckless because we've been doing that stupid and reckless thing for a long time. We used to smoke and played football and hockey without helmets. We got a little less stupid and stopped.

  8. Check Sinking a Large Boat w/tank of rocket fuel on Amazon's Bezos Seeks Spacecraft Patents · · Score: 2

    Maybe the patent is under Method for "Sinking a large ship with a container of rocket fuel."
    Landing a rocket on a boat doesn't look like the wisest way to move rocket technology forward.
    How about landing the rocket in the water next to the boat.

  9. If our overlords are to record everything we do... on NSA Makes Contribution To Apache Hadoop Project · · Score: 1

    ...the least our overlords can do is pitch in on building the databases our overlords are going to store all that crap they recorded about us.

  10. Easier to evacuate Sat-Sun in late Aug. w/bad econ on When Did Irene Stop Being a Hurricane? · · Score: 1

    Late summer weekend with a crap economy? Little was lost economically by the shutdown

  11. Hurricane hunters found 949-951 mb pressure Sat. on When Did Irene Stop Being a Hurricane? · · Score: 1

    Irene had pressure that low across N. Carolina and into Virginia. Still a strong storm. High winds spread out over wider area.

    I was watching the reports at www.wunderground.com Tropical Weather page, and Dr. Jeff Masters blog there.

  12. Ongoing Southern tantrum since end of Civil War on Verizon Employees End Strike · · Score: 1, Troll

    Southerners have been throwing a tantrum since the end of the Civil War. They really, really liked that free labor. They've been scheming up way to keep getting labor for free. Every time you hear the term "Preserve Southern culture" translate that as "free labor for White Southern businessmen."

    The latest scheme to return free labor to white Southern businesses is "privatized prisons" These privivatized prisons sell prison labor.

  13. Try a couple months ago in Wisconsin on Verizon Employees End Strike · · Score: 3, Informative

    Gov. Scott Walker busted trying to plant fake goons among the student protesters at the WI State Capitol in Madison.

  14. Oh really... why aren't you a union electrician? on Verizon Employees End Strike · · Score: 1

    Because you DO NOT have the ability to pay the level of attention to detail all the time needed to work as an union electrician. Get distracted on that job and you can die.

    Don't feel bad. Lots of people can't. I can't. I'm scatter-brained as hell

  15. Most NYSE/NASDAQ CEOs don't deserve 7 figures on Verizon Employees End Strike · · Score: 1

    I'll grant top 5% of CEOs are worth 7 figures + a year.
    Bottom 95% should be making less than 7 figures a year
    Bottom half should be making less than the President.

  16. US only developed country without single payer on Verizon Employees End Strike · · Score: 1

    US is only developed country in the world where government doesn't pick up cost of health care. Single payer health care system costs half what we pay, and you get better health care.

    The only thing the US health insurance system adds is the cost of selling health insurance. Half of US heath care bill is sales staff and advertising cost.

  17. Sounded like a Verizon corporate press release on Verizon Employees End Strike · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nothing about the $252 million the top 5 Verison executives were paid the last 5 years. Nothing about Verison demanding cuts from workers when Verison profits were up.

  18. Thiel's so cheap might die in typhoon to avoid tax on Paypal Founder Helping Build Artificial Island Nations · · Score: 1

    Thiel such a cheap bastard, he might be deluded by these oil company paid global warming science denial specialists.

    Global climate change is gonna make all weather more extreme. That includes hurricanes/typhoons. Anyone who think they are going to ride out global warming charged weather is a fool.

    There might be some options later on sea floor where weather isn't an issue. That's another century of tech advancement away.

  19. My Bacon Number is 3. on Yahoo, Facebook Test "Six Degrees of Separation" · · Score: 1

    I was in high school plays with a young woman who went on to do well on Broadway. She's been nominated for a Tony. Veanne Cox now has like 40+ credits on IMDB.
    Veanne was the hardest working person I knew. She was taking 2 different forms of dance while she was in High School, ballet before school, jazz dance after school and show practices.

  20. Hmmm..."The Nebraska 11ers" ?? on Rare Earth Deposit Discovered In US · · Score: 1

    It doesn't exactly leap out at you, does it?

  21. Billionaires bloated w/ cash like Macy's balloon on SFPD Arrests Suspect In Airbnb Rental Trashing · · Score: 0

    The Billionaires a bloated with cash they've plunders the last two decades. All the money that was in real estate is cash now too.
    They are just flinging around money now.

  22. How'd 19 y.o. tweaker w/ warrent rent from AirBNB? on SFPD Arrests Suspect In Airbnb Rental Trashing · · Score: 1

    This isn't going to help make this any less of a PR nightmare for AirBNB.

    How did a tweaker with a warrant under 21 get approved by AirBNB to rent from them?

  23. University of Alabama - Huntsville study? Hmmmm... on New NASA Data Casts Doubt On Global Warming Models · · Score: 1

    I'm not going to throw aside 100% of Nobel Science Prize winners in agreement that global warming is a major threat because industry might have arranged to have some prof. in University of Alabama Huntsville went along with a rushed, less than throughout peer review process in an industry satellite hardware journal.

  24. I got "Get over Di already." on Queen Elizabeth Sets a Code-Breaking Challenge · · Score: 1

    "Move On."

  25. Ultra-capitalist's customer service looks Soviet on Customer Asks For Itemized Bill, Verizon Tells Her To Get a Subpoena · · Score: 1

    Verizon and Comcast customer service looks suspiciously similar to Soviet Union customer service.

    Go try turning in your cable box yourself at a Comcast customer service center. I dare you. (Don't plan on doing anything else that day)