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  1. Re:You make it... on Teacher Tenure Laws Ruled Unconstitutional In California · · Score: 1

    THEN QUIT!
    Recall that you were looking for a job when you found that one.
    If you believe the garbage they tell you and their car-sales-like rational (the fear), then you will live it.
    On the other hand,having a chat with your lawyer will show that work-at-will laws still dont leave you dangling unprotected from horseshit.
    Then you can continue to work as you shop for a new job and let your employer feel the weight. Consider that IT may not be the field you want, anyway.
    The average career change happens every 6 years or so now anyway. Stick it in their ass, not the dirt. If you have any value at all, realize it and tell your boss his wife gives great head, he should try it out sometime....

  2. Re:Somewhere in my mind... on Cisco Opposes Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Its not surprising Cisco says things like these, but, then again, it wouldnt surprise me to find Cisco eats babies and tortures puppies.

  3. Re:You make it... on Teacher Tenure Laws Ruled Unconstitutional In California · · Score: 1

    I hear ya, fire at will laws have made workplaces competitive. You actually have to do your job well in order to keep it. It boosts moral to go to work and see that everyone else has to do their jobs, do them right, take responsibility for their actions, show up every day on time, etc. Although union workers still have to put up with lazy-asses riding the union for security, I think unions days are numbered like tenure. What a break for all our bank accounts! Inflation will drop like a rock once you remove the HUGE amount of overhead it causes to goods and service industries. The long history of public abuse shows that some protection is needed for them.

  4. Re:You make it... on Teacher Tenure Laws Ruled Unconstitutional In California · · Score: 1

    Hey, its great news for higher education as well! Now you dont have to feel quite like that loan you took out is being frittered away by carnies. Maybe a little.

    The same could be said of unions; the reasons that necessitated them are gone. We could get rid of unions and take a LARGE chunk of inflation out of consumer goods and services. Hell, you might even be able to use the money to pay off previously mentioned loans, buy groceries and afford gasoline.

  5. Re:The Golden Age Spectre Archives on Recommendations For Classic Superhero Comic Collections? · · Score: 1

    If they want Golden Age heroes, they should read golden age comics. First, mortgage the house for everything over principle. Then, run down to the comics shop and drop the wad on all the double bagged stuff behind the counter they don't usually drag out for anyone. Don't for the love of God, read any of them. Just leave them in their bags,hang them on the wall in frames and just soak up the golden ageness of it all. There, worth it, wasn't it?
    Golden age comics have their place, not in your grubby mitts. They're old, they fall apart, they tear, the staples chew through, the addresses of the ads are outdated.
    Just hold your investment and realize, the reason no one reads these and most of these heroes aren't around anymore is; they're boring. They were drawn in an age of different moral standards and attitudes toward violence and sex.( yeah that comics code worked about as good as music industry warnings on albums, lol) Flash was arguably slower, Superman dorkier, Batman had less cool stuff, Capt.Marvel was ambiguously gay, etc.
    Give up on this idea, roll a blunt and read a stack of underground comics.

  6. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on MIT Working On Robotic Limbs That Attach To Shoulders, Waist · · Score: 1

    Did someone say SRL? http://www.srl.org/
    I figured they might have something to do with this.

  7. Re:How can I not be a Cynic... on Inside Ford's 3D Printing Center Where More Than 20K Parts Are Made Each Year · · Score: 1

    Id be more impressed if it werent CV or Universal joints being printed....
    The damned oil burners probably been printing piston rings....

  8. Re:Physics on a stick on Ear Grown From Van Gogh DNA On Display · · Score: 2

    The estate of John Holmes has been tossing around the idea of cloned penii to be used for transplant and are furiously sampling DNA from amongst the family.
    If you have a right foot and a left foot, it only makes sense to have a foot hanging between them. Be the life of the party! Impress girls! Quit stuffing potatoes down your shorts and get the real thing!

  9. Re:Van Gogh on Ear Grown From Van Gogh DNA On Display · · Score: 2

    It is perfectly alright to have toads in your hat , so long as they are not soaked in Cadmium and mineral spirits.
    Cadmium, is bad shit, slowly absorbed by fondling your paint rag then running your fingers through your hair, picking your nose, eating without washing and even scrubbing the pigment off your hands with mineral spirits which carry it into the bloodstream. Starry Night was a hallucinatory painting indicative of the damage being suffered.
    Not to worry though, painters, real Cadmium hasnt been used in decades for ANY paint, they merely call it cadmium red or yellow. Still plenty of unwholesome shit in paint, just not Cadmium .... or lead.

  10. Re:Behind the curve on Seattle Approves $15 Per Hour Minimum Wage · · Score: 1

    This is Kansas.

    25k a year is pretty average for the average non union person.
    As for housing costs, averages are always exaggerated compared to reality. 120 - 150k seems to be the average in most places. Personally I sit on an acre in a split level @ 70k. I pay $150 mo. for car and around 150 a week on food.
    Statistics are sales propaganda and NEVER reflect anything close to reality. Who doesnt know that? There are other equally poor uses of statistics and you can find it anywhere. Usually has something to do with jogging numbers, cooking books and reports and anything else that NEEDS an excuse for funding/action/acquisition/liquidation .

  11. Re:Behind the curve on Seattle Approves $15 Per Hour Minimum Wage · · Score: 1

    I could see a lot of construction/ mfg./ warehouse/ fishing/delivery sort of physical jobs for unskilled labor leaving town for friendlier counties.

  12. Re: Behind the curve on Seattle Approves $15 Per Hour Minimum Wage · · Score: 1

    I dunno, when your overhead surges, so do your prices. I could see the price of an oil change going up several bucks as well as the price of a meal. Businesses dont lose money, consumers do.
    I actually had pictured mfg./fishing/distribution jobs moving out of town. Aircraft will remain unaffected as it is infected by union anyway.

  13. Re:Behind the curve on Seattle Approves $15 Per Hour Minimum Wage · · Score: 1

    Depends on where you live. $15 hr around here is enough to pay mortgage, car payment and raise a family. But, then, the cost of living is one of the lowest here.
    I can see this sucking some jobs out of Seattle into surrounding areas w/o the minimum wage law. It could be a good thing for other than intended reasons.

  14. Re:failure of scope... on NSA Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images · · Score: 1

    War is like that. No point in pointing it out as being not typical or being particularly hard on the military about it. People die in war; this has been proven throughout the ages. Non military personnel get in the way all the time. Call it accidental or call it Darwin. It just is. Accept it.

  15. Re:Ellsberg got a fair trial on Daniel Ellsberg: Snowden Would Not Get a Fair Trial – and Kerry Is Wrong · · Score: 1

    Well.....fuck the law!

  16. Re:Ellsberg got a fair trial on Daniel Ellsberg: Snowden Would Not Get a Fair Trial – and Kerry Is Wrong · · Score: 1

    In this case the prosecutor would be more likely to cater to the government; if nothing else to help them save face. Kerrys writers have been helping him strap on some testicles lately; so naturally this and since Omama has been embarrassed, they would HAVE to lay it on as heavy as possible. Remember the government IS going to show how RIGHTEOUS they are in regards to the LAW, even if the objective is payback. If what the people thought really mattered, there would be no Democrat or Republican party, no one with any brains would want them running anyones business.

  17. Re:Still not a StarCraft reference... on Terran Computational Calendar Introduces Minimonths, Year Bases, and Datemods · · Score: 1

    acceptance.

  18. Re:Still not a StarCraft reference... on Terran Computational Calendar Introduces Minimonths, Year Bases, and Datemods · · Score: 1

    This concept is not entirely new, in fact it is very old. Is this not what we have Rabbis for?
    This software probably has it all arbitrarily wrong. Maybe not, was this written by a Rabbi? Many of them are off too. This has been a point of some discussion over the years, but the calendar remains, perhaps not the seconds in all cases, but it is not unheard of.
    Now there is a secular calendar having a crack at it, good luck with that, let me know how it all turns out. Starting with the solstice is going to be a popular FAIL and the wrong foot to get off on. The REAL challenge is to straighten out the Hebrew Calendar, sync it with the weather service and dept. of agriculture to predict when a 13 month (leap month) should fall.

  19. Re:Good on UK Ballistics Scientists: 3D-Printed Guns Are 'of No Use To Anyone' · · Score: 2

    Leave the gun equalization to Col. Colt.
    Think of cabbage as humanitys great equalizer. It is on every continent, every culture eats it. Agitating people makes them gassy.
    Conduct yourself peacefully in the world or smell the consequences.

  20. Re:Good on UK Ballistics Scientists: 3D-Printed Guns Are 'of No Use To Anyone' · · Score: 1

    Gunsmithing really needs to go back to the machine shop realm. Every material has a purpose. Plastic is good for annoying people. I think printers could actually help spud guns. Steel is for when you need a tool.

  21. Re:In addition to rolling out... on Cox Promises National Gigabit Rollout; Starting With Phoenix, Las Vegas, Omaha · · Score: 1

    I suggested to Cox that they eat sh*t; as the last thing I said to their billing dept about 8 years ago.
    Disconnected my cable AND internet from them and havent looked back since.
    Gigabit or not, Id use sneakernet before I EVER use COX again.

    Everywhere Ive ever seen socialism, it is in undesirable living conditions, under complete assholes. That would indicate a major FAIL for all those splitting red hairs out there... nuff said.

  22. Re:Use confiscated drugs on Botched Executions Put Lethal Injections Under New Scrutiny · · Score: 1

    I personally believe that a sharper blade reduces shock that might rob the brain of a last few moments of consciousness upon separation.
    If it is the last thing on earth people might want to verify; the burning question of: Do these pants make my ass look fat could be a precious priceless boon.
    I recall tales of a guillotined head being held aloft with the eyes looking about conscious-like before they faded. Perhaps a head could be turned around to see its spurting, wiggly carcass for a bit of closure pre-doom. Closure is important when there is death, why not extend it to the executed? Perhaps this is the kindest method of all.

  23. Re:Artillery on Google Overtakes Apple As the World's Most Valuable Brand · · Score: 1

    Suddenly, I picture spud guns firing D-cells.

  24. Re:Sic transit gloria mundi. on Google Overtakes Apple As the World's Most Valuable Brand · · Score: 1

    I would have figured at this point in history and mans progress, that a battery company would hold the throne. Go figure....

  25. Re:Let me know when you win that war on drugs? on FBI Need Potheads To Fight Cybercrime · · Score: 1

    If it were garbage, I would post as Anonymous Coward. hmmmmm