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  1. Re:Proof of how long since I've watched FNC on Lawsuit: Fox News Group Hacked, Surveilled, and Stalked Ex-Host Andrea Tantaros (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Every man has dreams of 'fucking their way up the ladder'. But that's all about 'female privilege'.

    Perhaps if you found a gay boss, but still not likely, gay men are just too slutty.

  2. Re:So you are saying... on NASA Delays First Flight of New SLS Rocket Until 2019 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Play some KSP and learn about orbital mechanics.

  3. Re: 8 wasteful years on NASA Delays First Flight of New SLS Rocket Until 2019 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Neither one ever balanced the budget. Their was one _projected_ balanced budget, it went pop with the first dotcom bubble.

    That budget was only balanced if you believe that the SS trust fund is a valid source of revenue for the general fund.

  4. They needed a way to monetize it.

    Detect common commercials and insert your own over them.

    How do 'investors' get fired? Were they morons who got no control for their investment?

  5. You took the job. Clearly you needed some professional experience to get a better job. You sucked it up, just like everyone. Now quit whining and find another one (just like you were) to hire yourself. You will find that green programmers aren't as useful as they think and many require more time in support/training than the equivalent work hours they produce. To say nothing of the messes they make if not watched closely.

    The fact is unproven skills aren't worth much. You will only _ever_ get paid what you can get on the job market (unless you start your own business).

    Work is for mutual benefit. Nobody is doing anybody any 'favors'. Get over yourself.

  6. There are basically 3 kinds of CompSci programs, they can be identified by what school they are taught out of: Engineering, Math or Business (in general, in decreasing order of their quality).

    CompSci people that graduated out of a business based CS programs are about as useful as MBAs.

    Math based can be good if you're looking for a theoretician, but cut out the middleman and just get an applied math PhD. Go to the nearest university and shake a tree, watch out they don't hit you when they fall out.

  7. Technically true...his university didn't have an EE program. I bet his CS was taught out of the business school (spit).

  8. Jump up and down until your balls drop. Then get a better job.

  9. Are you still making that?

    First professional jobs suck, so what? I know a kid right now who's literally _wiping old person ass_ for a first job. It can be a lot worse than coding.

    Anybody who's been in the workforce, coding, for 5-10 years and only makes 60k, sucks. (exceptions might exist in deepest BFE or people slinging code for the 'Young Hot Nymphomaniacs Institute'.)

  10. WTF is residency if not an apprenticeship? IIRC the last year of Med school is also a rotation of practical experience in many specialties.

    I've been reading 'Amature Doctor' magazine for 25 years. That should make me a doctor by now...

  11. Re:There's a fine line between helping and enablin on Microsoft Co-founder Pledges $30 Million To House Seattle's Homeless (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    That first sentence is code for: 'For the _crazy_ homeless who split their time between parks, ERs and jails...'

    Note the mention of 'retained in housing'. That's someone who's batshit, a problem with no good solutions. Give the government the ability to lock up loonies and they have historically used it to lock up dissidents.

    This discussion is about families with kids though, usually much shorter term housing. A group of homeless that are actually fairly motivated (as such populations go, they do need an occasional 'boot to the head' or three).

  12. Re:why would you play video games in hawaii? on Gamers in Hawaii Can't Compete... Because of Latency (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    In for a treat then. I'm sure it's on YouTube.

  13. Re: Correcting myself on Oregon Fines Man For Writing a Complaint Email Stating 'I Am An Engineer' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    He said: 'I am an electronics engineer'

    Not 'traffic', not 'civil', not 'professional', not 'structural'. 'Electronics' means little more than 'software'. At many companies, people are promoted from 'electronics tech' to 'electronics engineer'. It's often just a title.

    His mistake was using the (qualified) title in a discussion of 'traffic engineering', where a ticket is required.

  14. Re: Correcting myself on Oregon Fines Man For Writing a Complaint Email Stating 'I Am An Engineer' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Since you got your information from a non-biased source...they have a goldmine waiting for them. I suggest they start with 'certs', nice collated list, most won't even be engineering school grads.

  15. Re: Yeah, go ahead, blame TRUMP! on Oregon Fines Man For Writing a Complaint Email Stating 'I Am An Engineer' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Do 'electronics engineer'(s) (his words) need a ticket in Oregon? As you say, the more mature branches have stricter rules.

    In any case he was spouting off outside his specialty, doesn't mean he was wrong.

    Engineering (Electrical) school grad, but 99% software, hence never took the EIT much less got a PE. There was no 'software engineer' PE exam until I had been working for decades.

  16. Re:why would you play video games in hawaii? on Gamers in Hawaii Can't Compete... Because of Latency (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Also note: Monty Python: Summarize Proust competition.

  17. Re:why would you play video games in hawaii? on Gamers in Hawaii Can't Compete... Because of Latency (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    To be fair to Proust. 'A half smart very serious young man wastes a bunch of time contemplating' is 12.9999 volumes of faking.

  18. Re:not for failure, for career-destroying mission on Marissa Mayer Will Make $186 Million on Yahoo's Sale To Verizon (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Way off. For boats, estimate 10% of cost per year in maintenance.

  19. Re:why would you play video games in hawaii? on Gamers in Hawaii Can't Compete... Because of Latency (theoutline.com) · · Score: 2

    Allow me to 'Summarize Proust' for you: A half-smart very serious young man wastes a bunch of time contemplating unanswerable questions before realizing that life was for living and goes out to get drunk and laid.

    Not bad, considering all I've ever read is other summaries. Not being completely insane, I'm not reading THAT.

  20. Re:So move to Chicago. on Gamers in Hawaii Can't Compete... Because of Latency (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    It would be gamed immediately. By entering a 'bog player' in the tournament and fucking with it's pings, depending on what you are doing. e.g. Somebody jumps you...frame rate suddenly drops, while you run a macro to jump out of the other player's crosshairs.

  21. Re:So move to Chicago. on Gamers in Hawaii Can't Compete... Because of Latency (theoutline.com) · · Score: 2

    That would inevitably produce a 'max lag' rule that would simply keep the slow connection people out.

    Back in the days of dialup, the first multiplayer games were as you describe. Calls of 'AOLer' on the chat would get players kicked (AOL dialup had notoriously bad pings, to say nothing of the fact they were all clueless morons.)

  22. Re:Easy math on Ontario Launches Universal Basic Income Pilot (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    The couples aren't living together, the roommates have one in the 'other room' or shift sleep. That's the story.

  23. Re:Easy math on Ontario Launches Universal Basic Income Pilot (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    So what? Easily gamed.

    College dorm method. Two men share a room, two women share a room. Abracadabra, two couples, just two of them get their mail in the next mailbox.

  24. Re: Ontario, largest subnational debtor on the pla on Ontario Launches Universal Basic Income Pilot (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Wealth is _not_ kept in cash. So other than being completely wrong, you have a point. Wear a hat and nobody will see it.

  25. I guess I was confused by your previous claims of 'no dead wood or slackers' in government contracting. This post pretty much directly contradicts that.