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  1. Re:Good Advice on Boston Declares Health Emergency Due To Massive Flu Outbreak · · Score: 1

    Someone doesn't understand the concept of sick days.

  2. Re:Good Advice on Boston Declares Health Emergency Due To Massive Flu Outbreak · · Score: 5, Insightful

    5 sick days? Jeeebus.

    Granted, I'm a small business, but I'll give any employee whatever time they damn well need to not look like shit in my office and probably make the problem worse by infecting others.

    Hell, even for lower grade stuff, I'd still rather you got some rest for a day or two instead a week spent int he office delivering subpar work.

    It's more cost effective for me in the long run to provide sane sick leave instead squeezing the ju-uice. Being a boss with a shred of humanity is just icing on the cake.

  3. Re:Content free campaigning on The Billion Dollar Startup: Inside Obama's Campaign Tech · · Score: 1

    Whatever happened to checks and balances?

    The Constitution of the US. Lots of checks, light on the balance.

  4. Re:huge amount of money is pretty key on The Billion Dollar Startup: Inside Obama's Campaign Tech · · Score: 1

    But they don't have nearly the same budgets

    Well yeah. When you take 5 weeks instead of 18 months to perform a general election, it's usually going to be a lot cheaper.

  5. Re:NO on Is Safe, Green Thorium Power Finally Ready For Prime Time? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah, Global Warming and Peak Energy are going to fuck NIMBY in the ass soon.

    You'd be surprised what people will put up with when basic survival is on the line.

  6. Re:Fuck those greedy bastards. on Tesla Motors Sued By Car Dealers · · Score: 1, Insightful

    This is why us dirty liberals refer to Clinton as the best Republican president of the modern age.

  7. Re:Must he be the father? on Richard Branson 'Determined To Start a Population On Mars' · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hey, if serial killers can get groupies and girlfriends, anyone can.

    Wait! Except slahsdotters of course....

  8. Re:Wrong. on Nearly 150 Companies Show Interest in the Tech Love Boat · · Score: 1

    Wrong. In a truly dog-eat-dog world, any dog that gets too far ahead gets eaten by the pack.

    Spoken like someone who's never owned more than one dog.

    Fun fact: The dog that gets out in front is the pack leader. Might want to try a different metaphor.

    Unless you really believe that a near-monpoly in a libertarian universe could ever get taken down by a bunch of scrappy startups...

  9. Re:War On Climate on Panetta Labels Climate Change a National Security Threat · · Score: 4, Funny

    2. Green subsidies will be moved to the defense budget.

    Gawd, I hope so. So many heads asploding.

  10. Re:Imperfection entered humankind through Adam on Researchers Identify Genetic Systems Disrupted In Autistic Brain · · Score: 0

    Imperfection entered humankind through Eve.

    FTFY. Cocks don't cause problems, vaginas do.

  11. Re:Good luck on Phoronix Confirms GNU/Linux Steam and Source Engine Clients · · Score: 1

    lets lay off the "best games ever made" rhetoric.

    Half Life
    Half Life 2, etc.
    Portal
    Portal 2

    I think you can cut GP some slack. He's not totally off his rocker.

  12. Re:Bad Slashdot on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 2

    Tinfoil Hats! Getcher Tinfoil Hats right here, ladies and gents! Step Right Up! Only $9.99! Buy 2 get 1 free!

  13. Re:sure it is on Chevy Volt To Resume Production One Week Early Following Record Sales · · Score: 5, Insightful

    it's perceived as a poor value because it takes longer than the life of a normal car to gain back the premium price you paid.

    Well, as long as gas prices stay static during that same period...which I sure as shit wouldn't put any money on.

  14. Re:well... on US Puts Tariff On Chinese Solar Panels · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    What do you mean or? It's already happened. Face facts, the current model of capitalism only works with supplies of actual, or near-slaves. Once all the people of the world have decent living wages guaranteed, you'll see then end of huge profits and the end of business as we currently know it.

  15. Re:I Don't Agree with You or Jaffe on Twisted Metal Designer Rails Against Storytelling Games · · Score: 1

    Your motivation for getting to the next rock is the fact that you paid $$$ for the purposes of being entertained and challenged.

    Next silly question.

  16. Re:Badly needed on Texas Supercomputer Upgrading the Hurricane Forecast · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Which is more intense?

    No one cares. Honestly. Because anyone who lives in hurricane zones is already well acquainted with quadrants and which side of the hurricane they'd rather be on when it passes by.

    As long as this is an overall step up quantifying and predicting hurricanes, those little details like that will only matter to the specialists and parsers such as yourself. Everybody on the ground will just be happy that things got a little more refined and predictable.

  17. Re:french military victories on India Turns Down American Fighter Jets, Buys From France · · Score: 5, Interesting

    someone in the india ministry of defense should google "french military victories"

    Thanks for the recommendation. I found this, which was interesting:

    http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=7061&IBLOCK_ID=35

  18. Re:I'm glad I support the Republicans on How the GOP (and the Tea Party) Helped Kill SOPA · · Score: 1

    Well yeah. Keep calling one party 'traitors' and 'hippies' long enough, and they'll bend over backwards to kill brown people.

    Also, Empires behave imperially. News at 11.

  19. Re:Convergence on Sensor Networks In San Francisco Finds Parking Spots · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can see the owner of the system making additional income by only showing parking places to the highest bidder, so places would show to the guy who bid $50, but not to the guy who bid $20 until all the higher bidders are off the system.

    No, this is a municipal agency as far as I can tell, which actually makes this another liberal fascist policy telling us where we can park. Another freedom lost...

  20. Re:The first Slashdot troll post investigation on Pirate Bay Founders Lose Final Appeal · · Score: 2

    Oh look, copypasta from fuck knows how many years ago. Slashdot isn't dead, the art of trolling is.

  21. Re:Who Cares? on Apple Announces Most Profitable Quarter in History · · Score: 1

    Apple's demise for reasons that plainly make no sense and exhibit the continued misunderstanding of the market as a whole.

    I know, right? Time was, a man could make a decent wage in the Apple-bashing biz. Hell, back in the mid-90s it literally was this simple:

    "Apple is doomed! Just break it up and sell it already!"
    *Cashes Cheque*

    But with all these record profits, the Apple hating market is just totally dead, a shell of its former self.

    Honestly, that's the real story here.

  22. Re:This is why we don't need regulation on DOJ Investigates Google, Apple, and Others For 'No Poaching' Agreement · · Score: 1, Informative

    Enforcement =/= control. Thanks for playing!

  23. Re:pandemic == marketing hype on Flu + La Nina = Pandemic? · · Score: 0

    Shit, when did Jenny McCarthy start posting on Slashdot?

  24. Re:The nice thing about our bloated legal system.. on Righthaven's Lawyers Target of State Bar Investigation · · Score: 2

    You ever get dizzy riding that high horse?

  25. Re:The nice thing about our bloated legal system.. on Righthaven's Lawyers Target of State Bar Investigation · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, this is slashdot. All lawyers are evil. Get with the times man.