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  1. Re:One small problem on What To Say When the Police Tell You To Stop Filming Them · · Score: 1

    "personal inconvenience" = lost job, thousands of dollars in legal fee's, jail time, being placed on various watch lists, possibly being physically assaulted up to and including being killed both by the cops and by others while in jail

    Minor stuff like that. I can't believe everyone doesn't stand up for their rights all the time.

  2. Re:Have it your way! on Woman Alerts Police of Hostage Situation Through Pizza Hut App · · Score: 2

    that's cheesy.

  3. Re:Which is why we disguise cell towers on Police Can Obtain Cellphone Location Records Without a Warrant · · Score: 1

    Are you kidding me? We are at the soap-box stage. What meaningful attempt has been made to vote in people who won't let this go on?

  4. Re:Good for EM simulation on Intel Launches Xeon E7-8800 and E7-4800 V3 Processor Families · · Score: 1

    pay-per-cpu-cycle

  5. Re:Lives be damned on Recent Paper Shows Fracking Chemicals In Drinking Water, Industry Attacks It · · Score: 1

    We're already screwing them over by charging them more for clothing with less material and are flimsier than men's clothing. Course, they are bedazzled...

  6. Re:God bless and keep you, Yeoman Rand on Actress Grace Lee Whitney, Star Trek's Yeoman Janice Rand, Has Died · · Score: 1

    Red-shirts can hide for a while, but death always catches up to them!

  7. Re:First post!!!! on Statues of Assange, Snowden and Manning Go Up In Berlin · · Score: 1

    It's "resistors".

    And they were already outed. You can easily tell what and how strong they are by their colored bands.

  8. He's 15, so clearly he must be convicted and sentenced as an adult. That way, he can be rehabilitated, instead of just coddled in juvenile detention.

  9. Re:Damn you on How an Open Standard API Could Revolutionize Banking · · Score: 1

    beta really annoyed a lot of people.

  10. Re:Infosys, Really? on White House Outsources K-12 CS Education To Infosys Charity · · Score: 1

    They just have poor english skills. They think that you want to hire a team with 8 man-years of experience with MS 2010.

    And between the people making up the 100 person team, they do.

  11. Re:The good news is... on Yes, You Can Blame Your Pointy-Haired Boss On the Peter Principle · · Score: 3, Funny

    But it doesn't seem like he's a psychopath, so he definitely is not fit for upper management.

  12. Re:I certainly hope not on Can Riots Be Predicted By Social Media? · · Score: 1

    BZZT. Implies the fuckup was not planned.

    Why do you think it's so easy for any police force to have SWAT teams and a wide assortment of military gear? Riots like these have made it a really easy 'sell'.

  13. Re:King Frosty The First on Microsoft Integrates Autodesk's 3D Printing Platform Spark Into Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    There are some Golden Girls around here somewhere looking for you, so they can go down on you.

  14. Re:Venus is the hottest planet on Messenger's Mercury Trip Ends With a Bang, and Silence · · Score: 0

    Chick's are generally hotter than dude's. At least for me.

  15. Re:The problem isn't the FBI ... on FBI Slammed On Capitol Hill For "Stupid" Ideas About Encryption · · Score: 1

    First, it's "a legislator". Singular.

    Second, there are more than enough elected dolts to vote "yes" to this proposal, just because it uses the phrase "back door".

  16. Re:be a basketball on Disney Replaces Longtime IT Staff With H-1B Workers · · Score: 1

    whoosh.

  17. renamed to get away from the stink of "Internet Explorer"

  18. Re:be a basketball on Disney Replaces Longtime IT Staff With H-1B Workers · · Score: 0

    Wow. You must really like Mike Tyson. He does have a great tattoo on his face.

  19. Re:It is awesome. on US Successfully Tests Self-Steering Bullets · · Score: 1

    It's not really a bullet, but more of a guided missile. to get long range sensors, you need to upgrade to a larger model.

  20. Re:uh... on Verizon Tells Customer He Needs 75Mbps For Smoother Netflix Video · · Score: 1

    That's why we have guns.

    Rattle of a few warning shots, and you have no more bandwidth problems.

  21. Re:Does it really matter... on The Power of Backroom Lobbying: How the Music Industry Got a Copyright Extension · · Score: 2

    When you go to hell, you get to listen to it forever, and Satan doesn't have to pay any royalties...

  22. They probably also just happened to have a draft of how the legislation should be written, and just happened to be in the room with the minister and his deputies as they discussed when to roll it out.

  23. Re:Yeah.... on Massachusetts Governor Introduces Bill To Regulate Uber, Lyft · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's sharing a taxi.

    The pre-Uber general characterization of ride-sharing is person 1 is going from A to B, and offers/finds/solicits someone else (Person 2) from around A (or along the path from A to B) and drives with Person 2 further along the path to B or around B, drops off person 2, then Person 1 continues on to B.

    Person 2 may give person 1 money and/or sex in exchange for the ride.

    It's predicated on Person 1 already wanting to go from A to B.

    Uber and Lyft have completely perverted the phrase, using it to refer to taxi rides arranged over the internet, at random prices, while ignoring any taxi regulations.

  24. Re:But why? on How To Increase the Number of Female Engineers · · Score: 1

    wtf is the article talking about?

    "if the content of the work itself is made more societally meaningful, women will enroll in droves"
    "It may be about reframing the goals of engineering research and curriculums to be more relevant to societal needs. It is not just about gender equity — it is about doing better engineering for us all."

    designing a building/safe roads/pipeline system that is safe isn't?
    design of a sewage treatment plant isn't?
    designing/creating software for the healthcare system isn't?

    or is it that men have already done all the good stuff, and all that's left for the women are the stupid edge cases?

    There are tons of things that could have a huge beneficial effect on society [not just in the West, but globally].

    Or is it that all these things haven't been clearly explained to women?
    And it also implies that guys don't care about societal benefits [because if it doesn't, that means guys can see how all this stuff works together, and then go into STEM, but women can't, so they don't, which I don't think they want to imply].

  25. Re:Old Idea on New Sampling Device Promises To Make Blood Tests Needle-Free · · Score: 1

    You won't believe where they originally wanted you to put the 'ping-pong ball' sized object...