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  1. Life north of 49 on Corporate Work in the US vs. Canada? · · Score: 1

    lower wages

    colder weather

    better beer

    affordable healthcare

    fewer people

    better manners

    government just as frustrating as anywhere else

  2. How timely! on Mac Trojan Horse Disguised as Word 2004 · · Score: 1

    Hector would be proud!

  3. Re: quiet train cars on Why Mobile Phones Are Annoying · · Score: 1
    People usually follow these rules - so there is no need for a jammer!
    It's been my experience (uniquely?) that whenever such rules (no smoking, speed limit, etc.) are established, there's always some asshole who assumes that the restrictions don't apply to him/her and goes right ahead with the offending behaviour, regardless.
  4. Re:Transporters on How Will We Get Around Near-Future Earth? · · Score: 1

    Ok, Scotty - very funny! Now go on back to the Enterprise where you guys left it cloaked, and leave the nice people of Earth to discover teleportation for themselves a few millenia from now!

  5. Two words: on Microsoft-Funded Linux Studies Benefit ... Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Mydoom / Novarg

  6. Ultimately ... on IBM Patents Method For Paying Open Source Workers · · Score: 1

    ... IBM will be getting a patent on getting patents on ... (recurse ad infinitum)

  7. Re:Tech support. on The Absolute Worst Working Environment? · · Score: 1
    Being the only tech support rep, and having no authority. For four years. No holidays or weekends.

    Beat that. I was every customer's verbal-abuse toy.
    Perhaps if you worked for someone other than Microsoft ...?
  8. Re:A Trend? Moron... on Warning: Exploding Batteries · · Score: 1

    Yellow sticky notes can kill you?!?!

  9. Re:Yeah But We WON on The Best and Worst Technologies of 2003? · · Score: 1
    Of *course* we found Saddam! We're the United States! Were we expecting not to find Saddam? Thinking that maybe one man would somehow elude the grasp of the most powerful nation on earth???
    Uh huh. Where's Osama now?

    (Go ahead, mod me down. I AM totally off-topic. It was worth it!)
  10. If wishes were fishes ... on Online! The Book · · Score: 3, Funny
    If only John C. Dvorak and Chris Pirillo (with Wendy Taylor) had been able to deliver. If only they had not strewn the book with error, verbiage and irrelavancy.
    If only I had run a spell-checker before posting ... (it's irrelevancy).
  11. Re:So what exactly is it good for in the office? on IM Usage & Awareness Services · · Score: 1
    Right now I'm doing a project where part of the team is offshore in India. We couldn't really miss IM.
    Huh??? I'm mystified; do you mean you wouldn't really miss IM, or do you mean you couldn't do without IM?
  12. Re:PR Newswire: "No Free Lunch - Or Free Linux" on IBM Puts Pressure On SCO · · Score: 1
    "The Internet created -- and creatively destroyed -- great wealth. It also created a culture legitimizing intellectual property theft," said McBride.
    Isn't THAT the truth? Now this, boys and girls, is irony!
  13. Re:Since when? on Millions Delete ALL Music Files? · · Score: 1

    Does the name Jayson Blair ring any bells?

  14. Trouble is ... on E-Voting Done Right - In Australia · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... the fact that you can read "the" source code doesn't guarantee that's the version of the software -- or even the software itself -- actually being run on the machine. Is there some audit procedure for the compile/link/install process?

  15. Re:Nine weeks more work? That's good! on Take Back Your Time! · · Score: 1
    Ref: This study by New Scientist. Note that Denmark is one of the happiest countries in the world despite having a substantially lower "standard of living" than the US.
    I know. Have you ever seen Danish girls? Man, I'd be happier there too!
  16. Re:Hmm... on Canada Immune From RIAA? · · Score: 1

    Ummm, not so strange ... it's snowing here in Calgary today as I write this (that's right -- in summer!)

  17. Re:Bad dog! Play dead. on SBC Fights RIAA Over DMCA Subpoenas · · Score: 1

    The English tax on tea shipped into Boston harbour was ensconced in legislation too.

  18. Re:SCO and other Software companies on My Visit to SCO · · Score: 1

    If I understand you correctly, you're saying paying customers are fat???