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  1. Re:More doller coins and add 2 doller coins on Should the US Change Metal Coins? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It was lunch time (the girls that get stuck with lunch shifts work harder for their money). I worked next door. They let me back in the next day.

  2. Re:VAX is back? on Gardasil Cleared of Anti-Vax Nonsense (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Not only that. By running large, low priority tasks with specially designed memory images, you can make important tasks jumping from system to system visible on the front panel LEDs.

    It's more then 15 years later and I haven't seen an OS that can do this. Even LEDs mapped to buffer memory are uncommon.

  3. Re: We Need To Add To US Surveillance Programs? on Marco Rubio: We Need To Add To US Surveillance Programs (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Tell us what you really think of Dianne Fienstein.

  4. Re:Bring back eagles. on Should the US Change Metal Coins? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Making change with a vagina is a skill. Few strippers in the first world bother learning for $.25. Hence I am in favor of large value coins being in common circulation. We cannot allow a vaginal coin handling gap...

  5. Re:More doller coins and add 2 doller coins on Should the US Change Metal Coins? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I was once asked to leave a strip club after I dropped a couple of dollars worth of ice cold change down the front of a strippers panties.

  6. Re:Law Enforcement Doesn't want the Technology on The US Gov't Could Become the Biggest Customer for Smart Guns (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    After 500 rounds? I doubt ether would go a full mag without jamming once 'broken in'.

  7. Re:There is only one goal on The US Gov't Could Become the Biggest Customer for Smart Guns (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Just for the record. I do WANT a mini-gun. But the ammo costs would kill my budget.

  8. Re:Obama, Champion of the Firearms Industry on The US Gov't Could Become the Biggest Customer for Smart Guns (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Ammo tax is a stealth attempt to castrate the 22 LR and it's affect.

    $0.05 is 20% increase on pistol ammo, less for a 223, 30-06 etc, but what is it for a 22? +200%.

    What gun was it that you did all your plinking with as a kid? I'd have to guess close to half the ammo I've shot in my life has been 22. Just because I shot so much back in the day.

  9. Re:Aaaaand.. on IBM Union Calls It Quits (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    What makes you think they were 'good ideas'?

    I've known a few people with 'good ideas'. I threatened one of them in comments that if they ever checked in another 'good idea' I'd break all their fingers (and toes, so they couldn't code with their feet).

    'Then we have to support it' sounds like someone trying to tell you nicely that you have a very very bad idea.

  10. Re:Whining on Oculus Rift Pre-orders Begin At $600 (oculus.com) · · Score: 1

    My gaming PC is a 66MHz Pentium. Still runs Doom at 30+ FPS.

    Your computer is too weak to play modern games at decent video settings. Which makes it a normal PC.

  11. Re: Just wait until they can deliver it on North Korea Claims It Detonated Its First Hydrogen Bomb (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    No. Only nations with nukes and their own currency are truly sovereign.

    The rest are all minor countries.

  12. Re:Why not lost wax? on The 3D Printers of CES: Extruders, Nozzles, and Metal Medium (hackaday.com) · · Score: 2

    Charcoal, a hair dryer, a crucible and in insulated chimney are all you need to melt aluminum for casting.

  13. Re:Doesn't work locally on Dutch City To Experiment With Paying Citizens a "Basic Income" (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    They are registered, 5 times under different names. You knew that, but for some reason think playing stupid is a plan.

  14. Re:Nobody mentioned the main danger of "basic inco on Dutch City To Experiment With Paying Citizens a "Basic Income" (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Government tit suckers also include 'workers' and contractors dependent on crooked procurement processes.

  15. Re:I'll bite when the games and controls are there on Oculus Rift Pre-orders Begin At $600 (oculus.com) · · Score: 1

    Falcon 3 worked on VR headsets 20 years ago. All major air combat sims I'm aware of support the DK2.

    Elite dangerous. Done.

    Asseto Corsa or iRacing. Done.

    Descent. Support planned. But based on my play of Descent 2 in VR 20 years ago, it will make you puke.

    Controls? As good as they get. Force feedback wheels are easy for driving, but for some reason FF joysticks aren't made anymore.

  16. Re: very resillient for a labor organization. on IBM Union Calls It Quits (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    He expropriated the operations of overseas companies first thing. e.g. IBM and Ford Germany.

    They got back their factories after the war. Sometimes slightly dented.

  17. Re:Just wait until they can deliver it on North Korea Claims It Detonated Its First Hydrogen Bomb (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    N Korean missiles are currently liquid fueled. It does take a while to lite them off. At which time N Korea is guaranteed of one thing. American air superiority.

    Sure the 'panties in a bunch' crowd would be upset, so what?

  18. Re: Just wait until they can deliver it on North Korea Claims It Detonated Its First Hydrogen Bomb (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    What is the ratio of the sizes of their economies?

    N Korea doesn't stand a chance in a war. But it would be ugly for a week or two.

  19. Re: Just wait until they can deliver it on North Korea Claims It Detonated Its First Hydrogen Bomb (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    If our votes affect you that much than you do live in a 'minor' country. Sucks to be you.

  20. Re:Why are South Korean youth so silent? on North Korea Claims It Detonated Its First Hydrogen Bomb (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It should also be noted that independence was never granted to the Japanese backed rebels fighting in India during WWII.

  21. Re:Why are South Korean youth so silent? on North Korea Claims It Detonated Its First Hydrogen Bomb (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Because the Soviet propaganda ministry was better at doing it's job in west Germany than the N Korean propaganda ministry is at doing it's job in S Korea.

    Those German's kids are glad their parents protests failed.

  22. WTF?

    We don't want of have any allies in the 'Arab world'. Our desired 'endgame' is military stalemate (see the Iran/Iraq wars of the '80s) between the Sunnis and Shia until their remaining oil is irrelevant.

    The Saudis have never been our ally. Both sides have just been smiling at each other while we try to fuck each other over. We know they are at the heart of the ongoing attempted war of Muslim conquest.

    We will own all their grand children's minds via 'MTV middle east'. They will behave in ways that would make the gayest emo kid blush.

  23. They are ironically showing just how shitty voice commands are.

    Would you rather 'tap, tap, tap' or say 'yes'...'Yes'...'YES GODDAMIT'....'no'...'proceed'.

  24. Re:very resillient for a labor organization. on IBM Union Calls It Quits (computerworld.com) · · Score: 0

    Nazi's aren't the best example.

    Those corporations had a very simple choice. Cooperate or we nationalize/expropriate you.

  25. Re:Breakin' the law, breakin' the law on Drone Ban Extends 30 Miles Around DC, Per FAA (wusa9.com) · · Score: 1

    It's 10 years federal just for possessing an unlicensed machine gun. Criminals, as a rule, know better.

    It is not easy to modify a semi into a select fire full. What is easy is to break it so it slam fires (empties the clip when you close the bolt. Shut the fuck up...I own a M1, so clip is correct).