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  1. Re:Your company sounds like a nightmare to me. on Who Owns Your Overtime? · · Score: 1

    He said nothing about forcing people to leave, just that those are the working hours for his developers.

  2. Re:In my experience it is impossible to explain... on Who Owns Your Overtime? · · Score: 1

    We enjoy work, too, but we also have lives outside of work, and expect any encroachment into those lives to be suitably compensated.

  3. Re:Phase out fossil-fueled power plants by midcent on The Presidential Candidate With a Plan To Run the US On 100% Clean Energy · · Score: 1

    And if those previous presidents caused problems which take longer than 8 years to fix, they shouldn't be fixed, or even talked about?

  4. Re:Phase out fossil-fueled power plants by midcent on The Presidential Candidate With a Plan To Run the US On 100% Clean Energy · · Score: 1

    You are either woefully ill-informed or are intentionally misrepresenting the situation. Pick one.

  5. Re:And so, what is wrong with this? on Controversial GCHQ Unit Engaged In Domestic Law Enforcement, Online Propaganda · · Score: 1

    So you don't understand the difference between Islam and Islamism. That's not really a surprise - you keep interchanging distinct terms as if they mean the same thing. You're not really doing yourself favours by showing the world you are clueless of something you purport to hate.

  6. Re:And so, what is wrong with this? on Controversial GCHQ Unit Engaged In Domestic Law Enforcement, Online Propaganda · · Score: 0

    Islam is a religion, not a culture. If you can't even get that right, why should anyone think you're right about anything else? Why do you think you're right if you are spouting demonstrable nonsense, and willing to judge 1.6 billion people on something you made up?

  7. Re:Why not go back to consumer sorting. on Recycling Is Dying · · Score: 1

    The quoted 99.9% is before it it sent for further processing. Those specialist processors will undoubtedly get the material to grade, otherwise they simply have no use for it.

  8. Re:Incineration on Recycling Is Dying · · Score: 2

    It seems you might want to do some reading, as you yourself are perpetrating a pervasive, incorrect narrative.

  9. Re:Incineration on Recycling Is Dying · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It all depends how you do it. Plenty of environmentalists applaud sensible refuse-burning power plants & community heating projects. If you just stick it in a field, cover it with gas, light it, and try to generate electricity from that, of course environmentalists would complain. You'd probably complain too if it was near you.

  10. Re:The problem is that landfills are too cheap on Recycling Is Dying · · Score: 1

    It's not a "social justice war" to not bandy about racial epithets when there are even more accurate, entirely non-offensive terms. Are you mad you get called a racist for calling people "nigger"? People don't like using "gypsy" because its definition has become corrupted over the decades by people using it to describe any traveller. If you want to talk about Roma people specifically, use the word Roma. That's why it's there.

  11. Re:Folding at Home on Ask Slashdot: Making Donations Count · · Score: 1

    Any excuse to not feel bad about not donating, huh? "More practical"? "Less of the donation is wasted"? Really? Wow.

  12. Re:No Organizations on Ask Slashdot: Making Donations Count · · Score: 1

    That's not true. Plenty of charities give 100% of your donation to their cause, as they also accept donations of infrastructure, manpower, and services which would normally come out of the donation.

  13. Re:How about on Ask Slashdot: Making Donations Count · · Score: 1

    Seeing as you seem to have a problem with civil liberties, it doesn't surprise me you don't support them.

  14. Re:Local and small on Ask Slashdot: Making Donations Count · · Score: 1

    The third pillar of Islam says Muslims must donate 2.5% of their wealth annually to needy people. It's done for two reasons - to help the needy, and to purify oneself from the love of wealth.

  15. Re:MongoDB? Thanks., I'll pass on MEAN Vs. LAMP: Finding the Right Fit For Your Next Project · · Score: 1

    Most probably nginx. It blows Apache out of the water, at least for what I've been using it for.

  16. Re:The Fuck? on MEAN Vs. LAMP: Finding the Right Fit For Your Next Project · · Score: 1

    You do realise that "almost certain to run the same way" and "almost certain to work" don't mean the same thing, right? At least I hope so! :)

  17. Re:You forgot about Y2K on June 30th Leap Second Could Trigger Unexpected Issues · · Score: 1

    You don't remember it because it was one of the largest mobilisations and tasking of programmers the world has ever seen. If nothing was done, there would have been massive problems throughout every computerised industry, as all kinds of bugs were identified and fixed. I was there - were you?

  18. Re:Well, there's no lack of on Jimmy Wales: London Is Better For Tech Than "Dreadful" Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    Yup - still vacuous. It will only ever tell you a tiny piece of the story, so to draw any kind of conclusions from that is rather similar to judging a book by its cover.

  19. Re:Depends on your perspective and tastes on Jimmy Wales: London Is Better For Tech Than "Dreadful" Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    That's your response? That's all you have? You can't explain your hatred?

  20. Re:Depends on your perspective and tastes on Jimmy Wales: London Is Better For Tech Than "Dreadful" Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    Poverty is entirely fixable. You are also assuming non-natives are poorer than Parisians, which is also clearly nonsense.

  21. Re:Depends on your perspective and tastes on Jimmy Wales: London Is Better For Tech Than "Dreadful" Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    Well, you've criticised Islam in the past (by confusing fundamentalist Islam with moderate Islam), and also talked highly disparagingly about Muslim people. That is where it crosses into xenophobia. The fact you can't even get your hate straight in your own head doesn't particularly paint you in a good light.

  22. Re:Depends on your perspective and tastes on Jimmy Wales: London Is Better For Tech Than "Dreadful" Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    The Data Protection Act stipulates it precisely is not in the private market - misuse of it is taken pretty seriously. But whatever - kneejerk reactions are waaay more fun!

  23. Re:Want tech? Go Africa, Latin America and Asia on Jimmy Wales: London Is Better For Tech Than "Dreadful" Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    The internet doesn't, but many startups create interfaces between the internet and the real world, and timezones matter a great deal in the real world. That's the thing. Maybe you don't get it, but plenty of others seem to be.

  24. Re:Does it matter? on Is the End of Government Acceptance of Homeopathy In Sight? · · Score: 1

    Which is great, but that doesn't instantly mean there should be a "placebo market" which attempts to pretend to be better than actual medicine, to the point where it tries to get people to only use it. That's bad. Let doctors prescribe placebos, not water-fondlers.

  25. Re:Who cares? on Security Oversights and Complacency Set the Stage For Killers' Escape · · Score: 1

    Yeah! Fuck due process!