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  1. Re:Morons. on NY Attorney General Subpoenas Craigslist For Post-Sandy Price Gougers · · Score: -1

    Greed is the mother of stupidity and violence. Need is the mother of invention. Greed says, you don't need to invent something to have it, you just need to kill the inventor and claim it as yours.

  2. Re:Look at who they appoint to the SCOTUS. on Barack Obama Retains US Presidency · · Score: 1

    Smoking weed is cheap, hell growing your own is easy. In fact that is the problem with it, it is too cheap. Can't have the sheeple chasing the carrot they can never quite reach, if they are cruising in a hammock letting the world drift by, not cleaning the toilets of the rich and greedy or dying in the wars of the rich and greedy or slaving in the sweat shops of the rich and greedy. Compared to the prize of fancy marketed booze there is just not comparison, legalised weed could cost you in one whole year what you could spend in a weekend on booze.

  3. Re:A hundred billion! on Study: the Universe Has Almost Stopped Making New Stars · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it'll be sooner, thinks always calm down right up until the next mega-black hole inverts and then the whole things kicks over again. Depending on how close or far we are, we could get plenty of notice of the end coming, not much notice at all or get a safe but distant seat to the event, if it has already happened ;).

  4. Re:Sorry.. can't agree. on EFF Sues to Block New Internet Sex-Offender Law · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If they can not be trusted than keep them in prison, end of story. None of this bullshit about trying to turn the whole country into a prison. It'll be one crime after another, for the non-rich, until traffic offenders end up being monitored. If the crime warrants life time monitoring then keep them in prison for a lifetime where they belong.

  5. Re:Time for Apple to go for the jugular on Sharp Warns That It Might Collapse · · Score: 1

    The share market lives on profit margins, that's just the way it is, end of story. Companies routinely dump less profitable portions of the business empire to increase profitability and share prices.

  6. Re:MPG testing - just to add on Hyundai Overstated MPG On Over 1 Million Cars · · Score: 1

    Tuning and tyre choice are everything. You get better mileage with fabric reinforced somewhat over inflated tyres on light weight rims. Hyundai likely got busted with testing on far better and more expensive tyres and rims than they sold the cars on and likely a more fuel efficient focused engine tuning, than tweaking for performance for the American power focused market.

  7. Re:Let's hear it for the beancounters on Apple Pays Only 2% Corporate Tax Outside US · · Score: 1

    It's called spirit of the law. Obviously this is tax evasion with regards to spirit of the law and what normal everyday regular folk pay in tax. This highlights corruption and criminal bias in the tax system and specifically breaks 'all are equal under law' principal of law. People need to go to jail for a very, very long time and upon a massive scale, end of story and everything else is a straight up lie.

  8. Re:Time for Apple to go for the jugular on Sharp Warns That It Might Collapse · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Apple can not buy sharp because Apple's profit margins are way to high, buying Sharp will kill those margins and Apples share price along with it. The problem with Sharp is it kept narrowing down their product base and made itself very vulnerable to fluctuations in sales in it's remaining markets, hence the current problem. It will likely be fine in a few years, still no where near profitable enough for Apple to buy.

    Basically they have put themselves up for sale for their manufacturing facilities as a merger with a more solvent and complete electronics company. Optimum partner would be of course Panasonic who invested heavily in unmarketable plasma screens and needs to shift to LCD.

  9. What you do is cheat. In terms of hosting all that counts is where the parent company is based in tax terms, want you data going to the US, make sure you are an American company that off shores it's hosting and it's sales force is US naturally enough. Same goes all over. For access to government contracts, infrastructure access and to fulfill legislative requirements you always set up the appearance of the tax base and headquarters being local to the sales point, you need to manage that sales staff any how. Then you fiddle beyond that. Host your data in the safest geological, weather and political location, create profit dumps in tax havens ie fake cost centres, then shift marginal income back to each sales location to gain access to those government contracts and infrastructure. All the basis of psychopathic corporate management loyal to no one and nothing ever.

  10. Re:Illegal on Building the Ultimate Safe House · · Score: 1

    For every honest centre moderate builder, there will be two tea bagger builders who will do it cheaper and I mean cheaper, not thats the reality, which is exactly why tea baggers are always screaming 'NO REGULATION' they know they are going to lie, cheat and steal, it's the Ayn Rand Objectivist way.

  11. Re:Illegal on Building the Ultimate Safe House · · Score: 2

    A fortified home or a fortified illusion. Just a new exercise in marketing targeted at the gullible. They'll pay extra to live in an unsafe zone and the profits will pour in. Guess what happens when there is a major hurricane and those fortified properties get flattened, the developers declares bankruptcy and moves to the Bahamas and lives off that grossly inflated salary they earned while building those 'fortified illusions' and they'll be screaming about the taxes they have to pay for those free loaders who lost everything when their fortified homes were destroyed by the storm surge. Want to be hurricane safe move to some where without hurricanes, now that's just plain common sense.

  12. Re:In the mean time, we are moving to drones on China's Stealth Fighter Flight Test Successful · · Score: 1

    More likely China paid attention how illusionary weapon systems created by the US were able to drive the Soviet Union spending itself into bankruptcy trying to match them. Now it can target the US in the same manner knowing full well that the US military industrial complex driven by greed will be their willing partners in their bankrupting of the US. Lots of talk of new laser weapons, anti-satellite weapons, anti-aircraft carrier weapons, etc. etc, anything to drive up spending fully supported by US corporations driven by greed to act in a treasonous manner. WAR WAR WAR = MONEY MONEY MONEY.

  13. Re:Imagine that.... on JPL Employee's Firing Wasn't Due To Intelligent Design Advocacy, Says Judge · · Score: 1

    More likely a self reinforcing psychological disturbance. The individual felt that their performance was not good enough, they were falling behind everyone else and they needed to create something to blame other then themselves. So advocacy of unpopular ideas became the persons focus so they could blame the advocacy of the ideas rather than their own personal failings. It also allows the delusion that they a special in promoting those ideas, that they personally have been selected by a greater power. So a narcissist who found themselves in a competitive and highly competent environment and was not quite equal to that task, seeking fault in others in order to shift the failure and to present themselves as a victim. So the real question is whether or not the individual is actually entitled to workman's compensation for a psychological breakdown due to employment stresses.

  14. Re:Can you see me now? on Verizon Worker Arrested For Copying Customer's Nude Pictures · · Score: 1, Interesting

    He also set up Verizon for an expensive law suit. I mean he really, really did set them up for an expensive law suit. Copies nude pictures of an unknown stranger, this stranger willing to live them on her phone knowing it is about to end up in some one else's hands but felt they were to valuable to play safe and delete. The person who copies those nude pictures then shows them to another completely unknown stranger, why, here customer number 2 see what kind of criminals and dicks we are copying customers data. This second stranger just happens to be friends with the first stranger. I would be interesting to see the comparison of the value of the civil suit versus the fine to be paid.

  15. There is also Australia, with the new national fibre optic broadband network, the government is bound to play nice to fill it. The whole southern half is nice and stable, politically, geologically and weather wise. A lot of good regional towns to park your data in from Adelaide to Melbourne, take your pick.

  16. Re:Question: on Massachusetts May Soon Change How the Nation Dies · · Score: 1

    Which will be the launch for a new bout of Republican schizophrenia.

    a) You are poor so you should just die and no longer be a burden on tax payer dollars.
    b) Suicide is a sin and you should live for as long as possible except.
    c) If your oppose Christianity you should die.
    d) Liberal death panels at work.

    The real problem will always be with greedy impatient inheritors and the rich and greedy feeling threatened by their own families. This will become messy and a great point of political distraction.

  17. Re:Explanation on Why Does a Voting Machine Need Calibration? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Unknown number of candidates. Basically every time it comes down to this, want to fix it, then go back to paper ballots and pencils with hand counts watched over by independent and political observers. Keep it simple stupid but no in the US lobbyists wanted to make sure their corporate funders needed to make extra profit and when it comes to cheating on election electronic voting machines and vote counting machines are in reality the only way to do it.

  18. Re:Agree 100% on Linus Torvalds Advocates For 2560x1600 Standard Laptop Displays · · Score: 0

    Apple does not design CPU (apart from pretending by cobbling together other CPUs), it does not design memory chips, it does not design computer screens, it does not design drives of any description. Lets be honest if Apple designed any components, as they are quite simply the biggest douche arse holes in business, they would attempt to shut down the rest of the computer industry and try to gain a monopoly. Even now it is surprising that they haven't bought out one of the core patent companies that actually design computer stuff and use those patents to attempt to shut down every other computer company.

  19. Re:Oblig on Empathy Represses Analytic Thought, and Vice Versa · · Score: 1

    If that were true dipstick you wouldn't be typing anything and no one would be reading anything, that is shared knowledge. That is us not me. You are a physically pathetic short haired crested rock throwing monkey and on your own you are nothing but prey.

  20. Re:Why d'you have to be so negative all the time? on UK Court of Appeal Reprimands Apple Over Mandated Samsung Statement · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the judge and the court they control might feel that Apple management responsible for producing and publishing the apology might be more acceptably creative cooling their collective heels in a jail cell whilst being in contempt of court. Let's see how the cool Apple hipster consumer monkeys handle that, no cafe latter triple mocha with cinnamon there ;D.

  21. Re:At last an offer. on To Mollify Google on Moto Patents, Apple Proposes $1/Device Fee · · Score: 1

    Now is that a couple of hundred millions devices going forward or is that a shrinking market. Apple carried on like a bunch of dicks blocking products, not just demanding money. Motorola should beat them over the head with a big stick until they pay up the billions demanded.

  22. Re:Yes on Ask Slashdot: The Search For the Ultimate Engineer's Pen · · Score: 1

    Neither was I but a sprung tip comes in handy for marking on rough surfaces, wood, various types of plastic etc. Basically any type of surface that will abrade the tip being able to drop from HB to B with a thicker tip extends the number of surfaces that can be marked. So at any angle, most surfaces including many types of metal, the mechanical pencil is the easiest way to go. Want to know about marker flexibility than ask a builders, they have to mark every kind of surface imaginable.

  23. Re:Did the cop got fired? on Supreme Court Hearing Case On Drug-Sniffing Dog "Fishing Expeditions" · · Score: 1

    Well it's the whole idea of the validity of their actions, that they are adhering to the law and are independent witnesses and for example are not filling quotas or fulfilling personal revenge or in any way tainted the validity of the case. They declared drugs, no whose drugs where they, who placed them there and where did the police actually originally discover them. They say they found them there but if they broke one part of due process and the law how many other parts were they willing to break for what ever reason they wanted to. The whole idea of due process and trial before your peers and everything associated with the proper application of justice is to protect citizens from their government not to facilitate the governments persecution of it's citizens.

  24. Re:Also Unclear Where the Cameras Were Installed on Federal Judge Approves Warrantless, Covert Video Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Effects is pretty clear, covering everything that is of the person's possession and it was added to houses for that reason, otherwise dicks would be looking for ways around looking in through windows and key holes, requiring under law that people not be allowed to use blinds or curtains, or mandating that now sound limitation device be incorporated in house design. The whole idea of using a term as broad as 'effects' was to make the clause dick proof but obviously it is failing in that regard.

  25. Re:Yes on Ask Slashdot: The Search For the Ultimate Engineer's Pen · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sorry but those technical pens are as fussy as all hell, go a bit hard a burr the needle and the pen is dead, definitely not the optimum. Definitely go for the mechanical pencil and not a disposable one. Make sure it has a sprung tip, to take the extra load without snapping the lead when you are stressed, something like Paper Mate Flexgrip Elite. Of course if you can get used to the odd sharpening and used to rolling the pen when using it nothing beats the flexibility of http://www.staedtler.com/Mars_technico_780_C_gb.Staedtler lead holder, being able to very line thickness on the fly and shading make it ideal for the skilled user. Have an eraser handy and you'll see why a pencil is better than ink every time. I carry a mechanical pencil and a lead holder as well as a disposable biro but given the choice of one only it was the lead holder but then I have experience using it and can make use of the flexibility it provides, second choice is mechanical pencil. For exams et al two mechanical pencils and an eraser, when it counts the most. When it can only be ink, seriously who is kidding who, type it and print it.