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  1. Re:Papa John on Papa John's Sued For Unwanted Pizza-Related Texts · · Score: 2

    How much money should a pizza delivery driver make?

    Anyways, they make the bulk of their money on tips which they don't report so they don't have to pay taxes on them. You really have no idea how much they make.

    My wife worked at a car wash for 3 years. The detailers made 5.15 an hour. They made an unreported extra hundred in tips daily.

    Basic pay depends on the location. I don't have precise figures, but I can say straight off that there's a serious problem if someone is earning approximately fifty dollars gross a day with an additional hundred in undeclared earnings. Why isn't the job creator getting a cut of this, and paying taxes? The employees will probably blow that money on short-term goals, like food. The job creator will invest in their business to further enhance their business. Better that than the black economy you describe.

    By poorly paid I consider the overall renumeration package. The employees will tend to be part-timers, generally meaning that benefits due to full-timers wouldn't apply. Well done Papa John's for using this wheeze to save money. If people get sick, for chronic conditions they have Medicare. For non-chronic conditions they can go to emergency rooms or use their tips to purchase medical insurance. The IRS probably won't think it a bit odd that someone earning a declared gross income of 100-200 dollars a week is frittering away a substantial chunk of that on medical cover and other health-related costs.

  2. Re:Papa John on Papa John's Sued For Unwanted Pizza-Related Texts · · Score: 4, Funny

    Because it's a job creator taking a brave stand against Comrade Obama. A job creator, cutting jobs and pay of already poorly paid employees, is an admirable stand against the communism that is causing the EU and Canada to descend in to governmental Orwellian surveillance, economic ruination, soccer, no freedoms and a whole bunch of stupid national anthems and incomprehensible languages.

    I salute Papa John's financially successful and well educated Facebook fans. Fight for the job creators, not the White House Politburo!

  3. Re:Enterprise resource planning? on US Air Force Scraps ERP Project After $1 Billion Spent · · Score: 1

    A new concept to sell to the cloud savvy vertical integrators?

    Consultants - Assemble!

  4. Re:Simple solution on Airlines Face Acute Pilot Shortage · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wish the TSA would go ahead with the plan to place an agent in every home. Got up last night to fetch a glass of water, and having an agent waiting in the hallway to grab my balls could have provided much needed warmth and a feeling of security against the threat of copyright infringing terrorists.

  5. Re:Gift horse = Mouth on Oracle Makes Red Hat Kernel Changes Available As Broken-Out Patches · · Score: 2

    Ulterior in the sense that shooting someone 30 times suggests murder as an ulterior motive.

  6. Re:Resignation Genius on Director General of BBC Resigns Over "Poor Journalism" · · Score: 2

    Yeah, definitely falling ong is golden sword. Knowing how this thing tends to work, it would be more accurate to rework the headline: "Director General offers to resign if paid £1.3 million and allowed to stuff his pockets full with paper clips and post-it note pads."

  7. Re:After 5 years' Linux usage, I'm switching to Ma on GNOME 3.8 To Scrap Fallback Mode · · Score: 1

    Cheers. Yeah, my troll/curmudgeon radar was on the fritz.

    I wish there was something equivalent to AppleScript on the OSS desktops. It's pretty much the deal breaker for me, since bring able to script as I do saves me upwards of one week of work every 2 months. That's a combination of little helpers written for small tasks that add up, and reporting scripts that do in 20 minutes what would manually take a day. That's my configurability, and I'd be very happy to see the same become possible in other systems/desktops.

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

    Relax. With the elections out of the way the parties can return to constructively working together to do their level best for Americans. Sure there'll be divisions along ideological grounds, but they'll never fight and disagree for reasons of party affiliation.

    As before, all disagreements will be ernest efforts to hold their fellow representatives to account, and ultimately to serve the best interests of the country.

  9. Re:After 5 years' Linux usage, I'm switching to Ma on GNOME 3.8 To Scrap Fallback Mode · · Score: 1

    Christ, I don't know why I bothered explaining this to someone clearly with an axe to grind and an Masters in disenguous point making. Yeah, it's all about saying my needs are the norm, despite my acknowledging that needs vary and that personal needs would be the basis of my whole fucking point. And yes, it's entirely about what Apple wants. Did you also notice that I think Asians shouldn't be alowed to use GIMP? I didn't, but I'm sure you can somehow find that in my posts.

  10. Re:After 5 years' Linux usage, I'm switching to Ma on GNOME 3.8 To Scrap Fallback Mode · · Score: 1

    It's not a case of wanting it to be more configurable. It is configurable to my needs, and I'm a 20 odd years veteren of Macs and various Unix-likes and flavours of Unix. Is KDE more configurable than the Finder? Generally yes. Could I script applications on KDE the way I do on Macs? Definitely not. They simply don't have the same standardized hooks to facilitate the workflows that the Apple Events model provides. Do most Mac users do this? No, because it comes down to personal needs and workflows. One man's configurability is another Man's trivia, or unnecessary complication. I'll just have to get by sans one dollar.

  11. Re:After 5 years' Linux usage, I'm switching to Ma on GNOME 3.8 To Scrap Fallback Mode · · Score: 1

    It is a fact that the OSX interface is less capable and less configurable than the typical competition on Linux. You cannot argue this point without being wrong. Stop it.

    Depends on needs. I personally have a very customized UI through the use of AppleScript (via folder actions, regular scripts and services. The existence of a (mostly) standard way to script all GUI applications is a killer feature I've not found in Windows or Linux.

  12. Re:But stone tools are much older on Discovery of Early Human Tools Hint at Earlier Start · · Score: 1

    The advanced part is in recognizing the utility of the process and repeating it. Ideally not repeating the process that left Gragg with fewer fingers than most people have legs.

  13. Re:Mmmmnnn... on Discovery of Early Human Tools Hint at Earlier Start · · Score: 2

    In the case of Yahweh it's more traditionally turtles all the way down. This complicated universe of ours required a creator, but its far more complex creator has always existed. Thus sayeth Hovind during prison visiting hours.

  14. Re:Einstein on Religion on JPL Employee's Firing Wasn't Due To Intelligent Design Advocacy, Says Judge · · Score: 1

    I'm not arguing. I'm pointing out that words and their meanings matter to anyone interested in having a real discussion. The ability to make assertions without responses from others is within your grasp. Start a blog, with comments disabled. Simple, no?

  15. Re:Lacking clarity on Sharp Warns That It Might Collapse · · Score: 1, Funny

    Joking, thankfully. Just pleasantly entertained by the crowd who think their DVDs will become 1080 HD if they use Monster HDMI cables, lovingly crafted under the first full moon of Autumn and electrically insulated by braiding the hair of virgins (female) with yeti pubic hair.

  16. Re:Lacking clarity on Sharp Warns That It Might Collapse · · Score: 5, Funny

    Without Monster Cables, the other displays are going to be cubic but far less rounded, the contrast less warm, and the colours markedly less spatial. I'm no expert, but even my unprofessional eye can spot these differences if I'm told up-front that Monster cables are being used.

  17. Re:Einstein on Religion on JPL Employee's Firing Wasn't Due To Intelligent Design Advocacy, Says Judge · · Score: 1

    However, it's customary for people to agree upon the definitions of words that they use when discussing the concepts underlying those words. I try to stick to the definitions in the dictionary so that we all have a reference that we agree upon.

    Sure, but I'd advise you to do this il front, and to be aware that the first definition you find isn't necessarily the only one.

    http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/atheism

    We're you not aware that there are other dictionaries and that atheism, simply based on its etymology, can mean a lack of belief?

  18. Re:Cast in a negative light, obviously on European Central Bank Casts Wary Eye Toward Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    This loan... Did you get your TV and wedding ring returned on completion of the final payment?

  19. Re:Einstein on Religion on JPL Employee's Firing Wasn't Due To Intelligent Design Advocacy, Says Judge · · Score: 1

    Agreed. Makes way more sense to read the citations, and quote the original sources.

  20. Re:Einstein on Religion on JPL Employee's Firing Wasn't Due To Intelligent Design Advocacy, Says Judge · · Score: 1

    Atheists believe that there is no god. Agnostics believe that whether or not "god" (whatever that means) exists is unknowable.

    Having been first an agnostic and am now an atheist, I'm well aware of what the terms mean.

    It's more nuanced than that. Atheism has a few meanings. The most popular take I've observed is more about disbelief than belief. I'm an atheist in the sense that I disbelieve god claims, but I don't say for certain that there are no such things as gods.

    I can however take a stronger anti-theist stance concerning attributes of a god that are inconsistent or contradicted by observance of the material world. i.e. a single being cannot be omniscient and capable of being surprised. Some believers assert that lightning is God's wrath, sent to punish sinners, yet I observe that lightning seldom comes on days of clear blue skies, and tends to choose targets based on their ability to conduct electricity to ground - not their sinfulness.

    Even this is kind of pointless though when believers can wriggle around to explain away these issues. Yahweh is all loving, yet in the Old Testament he behaves like a egomaniacal attention starved psycho. Well, that's because it was appropriate at the time, and anyway the Old Testament was swept away when Judaism got rebooted by Jesus! Or how about this is just part of God's big ol' plan which we cannot possible understand? He's not sending anyone to Hell - it's us who send ourselves there through our sinful nature. Doesn't matter that this sin came about thousands of years before we were even born, or that some of us just cannot honestly believe in Yahweh no matter how much we "open our hearts".

    I'm agnostic in the sense that I don't know if gods, unicorns, ghostly pirates and pixies exist. I'm atheist in that I reject claims to the contrary until someone can show me some credible evidence.

  21. Re:Two Felonies! on Verizon Worker Arrested For Copying Customer's Nude Pictures · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't you have added the "IANAL" prefix. You know, just in case people mistake your post for professional legal advice?

  22. Re:Like the podcast app? on Apple Delays Simpler and Cleaner iTunes 'to Get It Right' · · Score: 1

    As a sound engineer for The Arthur Askey Show, I found the reel to reel tape interface to be both intuitive and familiar. Shame running it on a 3GS is like running WoW (with mid to high level video settings) on the minimum hardware spec.

  23. Re:Watson - not for vets! on Watson Goes To Medical School · · Score: 1

    Sure, and I could get a team to spend a week performing analysis to determine appropriate staffing levels - dealing with tens of thousands of data points, with data at all sites varying on an hourly basis. Alternatively I could have a learning system that keeps far better track of these things than humans would, and presents its working for review before implementation.

  24. Re:AMD? on ARM Announces 64-Bit Cortex-A50 Architecture · · Score: 1

    Amen. And we'd still be running IE 6 with an annual coat of paint slapped on it. Seen the same bullshit in state protected monopolies and cartels, such as telecoms and banking. Airlines as well before low cost carriers came in and changed the game.

    AMD though have a tough fight. Intel's manufacturing alone puts them way ahead of the game. Doesn't mean though that AMD can't grab a segment.

  25. Re:Still dont get it on Windows Browser Ballot Glitch Cost Firefox 6-9 Million Downloads · · Score: 1

    Just like capitalism/free markets, when done correctly it's great and absolutely vital to the welfare of the nation. It's when things are taken too far that we have problems.

    Sorry, I don't understand. Would you be so kind as to provide an analogy in which slightest traces of either approach will be conflated with the worst excesses of either Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia (or both)? I think I'm not the only one requiring this service.