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  1. Re:Maybe on Is Amazon's AWS Hiring 'Demolishing The Cult Of Youth'? (redmonk.com) · · Score: 1

    We had a strip joint that served 'free lunch'.

    Common discussion in the halls: 'Free lunch today?'...'Can't afford it.'

    A year later, one of the lesbians figured out what we were talking about.

  2. Re: Never understood bias against the olds on Is Amazon's AWS Hiring 'Demolishing The Cult Of Youth'? (redmonk.com) · · Score: 1

    They can code like I can dance ballet...very very badly.

  3. Re:Before you get too horny... on Researchers Found Perfect Contraceptives In Traditional Chinese Medicine (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    I believe it was a half a lemon peel filled with crocodile shit as a diaphragm.

    That had to make for an...interesting smell.

  4. Re:Maybe on Is Amazon's AWS Hiring 'Demolishing The Cult Of Youth'? (redmonk.com) · · Score: 1

    Nonsense. I'm 53, still outwork kids and love a drink. The trick is not to be an idiotic, drunken sot OR a self righteous idiotic thumper.

  5. Re:How did Sears outlast them? on With Nothing Left To Sell, RadioShack Is Selling Itself To People (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree. I'm amazed the anti-fun police haven't dropped on him. Just for his sense of humor. (e.g. 'I can't find the hole, it's not surrounded by fur...', 'We're drilling like when the wife comes home from book club loaded on red wine' etc etc)

  6. Re:Digikey kicks their butt on With Nothing Left To Sell, RadioShack Is Selling Itself To People (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    What? RS sold their own computer. The Trash-80, never sold Crapples.

  7. Re:Folks just don't get it. on With Nothing Left To Sell, RadioShack Is Selling Itself To People (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    High end audio...1930s...what? Have you ever even tuned a radio from the 1930s?

  8. I just want to be the dude selling you garage door openers...chump.

  9. I'm sure the Brits have the equivalent of family trusts. Nobody that plans, pays inheritance taxes.

  10. Mom ran a preschool for decades. You'd be amazed how many little shits are still biting each other at 4. It's a progression. Not 100% socializing, even at that young age, but it's a big part.

  11. Firearms aren't more dangerous than cars, many tools etc etc.

    Drunk, hell no. But 0.08 ISN'T DRUNK, 'under the influence' is a bunch of weasel words. You judgement goes to hell at 0.15.

    If you sober enough to wheel (in the woods where cops are a non-issue) you are sober enough to take some target practice.

  12. Re:Coffee breaks? on 83 Percent Of Security Staff Waste Time Fixing Other IT Problems (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Excuse yourself, something bad you ate. Don't come back. If they ask, tell them the paint was peeling in the bathroom/your office. They will thank you and you can get actual work done.

    If they bug you about it, next time, the night before, hard boiled eggs, KimChi and cheap beer...

  13. Re: Cord-cutters are ruining TV on Cord-Cutters Are Ditching Their Cable Packages At the Fastest Rate Ever (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    MLB lost me to a baseball strike. I went on 'fan strike', in my 3rd decade. Lost a sport/decade sense.

    But fans are often 'fanatic'. How would you fully monetize fanatics? How do fans 'work around' the bastards?

    I'm inside the Raiders non-sellout exclusion area. Tower and antenna gets me Chico TV. I used to charge Raiders fans a 12 pack to watch, but eventually got tired of hanging with such riff-raff, though a few are my friends. I'd also stream the audio from their opponent's market, just to piss them off.

  14. No shooting while _shitfaced_. But just like practicing martial arts with a buzz...when are you most likely to get into a fight?

  15. Re:Avoiding USA on US International Tourism Market Share Is Falling Under Trump (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    O'Hare is terrible now. But you won't usually go through it, as the tickets have scarcity pricing issues. If you shop on price and aren't going to Chicago, you flights will usually connect elsewhere.

  16. Re:Trump and high USD on US International Tourism Market Share Is Falling Under Trump (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Come to Canada and see? Snow? Moose? Rednecks? Tundra? Grizzlies? Bad beer?

    I don't get it. Canada's got nothing we don't also have.

  17. Re: Well, when you cause as much political turmoil on US International Tourism Market Share Is Falling Under Trump (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    'Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.'

    Constitutionally limited government is at least as important as democracy.

  18. Re:Off topic nonsense. on US International Tourism Market Share Is Falling Under Trump (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    The parts of the USA that had slavery were the poor parts. Hence the south lost.

    Slaves are _lousy_ workers. Just a historic fact.

  19. It's Canada, go once. You see one moose, you've seen them all.

    The beer is terrible, worse than American can beer, just 1% higher in alcohol.

  20. Your 'wife' is a white guy?

  21. Not the same, Clinton was far more dangerous.

  22. Cargo is usually in containers. But baggage is just thrown into the hold (after being dropped/lost/found/kicked/opened officially/opened by thieving baggage handlers/run over by baggage transport cart/lost again).

  23. The FBI has always been a political force.

    We will _never_ know why Comey gave Hillary a pass in the first place (What was he up to? Getting a lever on the next pres?), why he reopened the investigation publicly (What was he up to?) or why they leaked the wire tapped information about Trump's campaign staff (What was he up to).

    But you can bet it had a lot to do with the FBI wanting to get back to the glory days of J Edgar. Files full of dirt on EVERYONE with any power.

    Bureaucracies always end up serving themselves. When they also collect information on powerful people they themselves collect power. Power corrupts.

    Which isn't to say there is only one power pole in the FBI, there is no doubt substantial infighting. To say nothing of the fights between the various three letter agencies.

  24. Re: Your coronations were thankfully denied. on US International Tourism Market Share Is Falling Under Trump (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    It's as significant as the popular vote in American presidential politics. Not at all.

  25. Would have happened _differently_.

    Until the US built nukes, Europe went to war about every 50 years. Nukes were the only thing that stopped Stalin from starting WWIII.