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  1. Re:Easy answer on Hiring Smokers Banned In South Florida City · · Score: 1

    So you are in favor of forcing people to hire people they don't want to hire? Where is there freedom?

  2. Re:Make it illegal on Hiring Smokers Banned In South Florida City · · Score: 1

    This isn't stopping people from smoking, it just means that companies have the flexibility to hire who they want. If you don't like it, work someplace else. No one owes you a living.

  3. Re:Make it illegal on Hiring Smokers Banned In South Florida City · · Score: 1

    And I'm sure you are going to tell us how they didn't land on the moon either.

  4. Re:So you won't mind living in a fascist state? on Hiring Smokers Banned In South Florida City · · Score: 1

    This happening because the populist right has voted for 40 years to give corporations more power and lower taxes. In nations with state administered health care and pensions, smoking is not attacked as much because it is a wash – the higher medical bills are off set by the pension savings. Since corporations have ended any liability for most retirement, they have every reason to save on current medical bills and insurance. This is the market in action. If you don't like it, move to someplace with socialized medicine.

  5. Re:Easy answer on Hiring Smokers Banned In South Florida City · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You have the freedom to smoke, and the have the freedom not to hire you.

  6. Re:Aha! on Shakedowns To Fix Negative Online Reviews · · Score: 1

    MS doesn't care what you think.

  7. Re:It's improductive on Microsoft Co-founder Dings Windows 8 As 'Puzzling, Confusing' · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Can /. also post some possitive Win8 articles? on Microsoft Co-founder Dings Windows 8 As 'Puzzling, Confusing' · · Score: 1
    The comments are informative, even to MS supporters the best part about Windows* for productivity is that you can turn it off.

    The best part for MS is they can turn it off.

  9. Re:Can /. also post some possitive Win8 articles? on Microsoft Co-founder Dings Windows 8 As 'Puzzling, Confusing' · · Score: 1

    "A" "The". I'm positive those are articles, and can be applied to Windows8.

  10. Try setting to your native language on Microsoft Co-founder Dings Windows 8 As 'Puzzling, Confusing' · · Score: 1
    In English : "I have installed the RTM and I was out at a customers today that just got their first iMac and saying how different and confusing it was." has conflicting tenses but parses as you were out at a customer site and you said how different and confusing the customer's first iMac was.

    Also, in English, we use the apostrophe character to mark the genitive case in most instances, so either you were out with plural customers who had collectively just bought an iMac, in which case "a" conflicts in number with "customers," or the customer is singular, and you meant "customers."

    In one of the more confusing aspects of English it's does mean the genitive case of it, but instead it is a contraction for "it is." Thus, in English, "its confusing" is a gerund that belongs, to either WinXP or osx, your reference is vague, but presumably OSX. One could say "Not wrong, its confusing" followed by a dative or genitive phrase, e.g. "confusing to the users."

    Hope that clears up some of the confusion. Next week, why self-serving self-inconsistent anecdotes are weak support for a thesis.

  11. Re:That's not ALL he said :P on Microsoft Co-founder Dings Windows 8 As 'Puzzling, Confusing' · · Score: 1

    In MS Speak innovate means box out the competition.

  12. Re:It's improductive on Microsoft Co-founder Dings Windows 8 As 'Puzzling, Confusing' · · Score: 1

    Which boils down to "pay alot of money for a service pack to Windows 7 which also prevents you from running other OSes that don't pay the Redmond tax."

  13. Re:Obligatory memes.... on Why Are We So Rude Online? · · Score: 4, Insightful
    2. About Cars

    See Jeremy Clarkson of Top Rear.

  14. Correlation does not imply causation on The History of 'Correlation Does Not Imply Causation' · · Score: 1

    But it gets the best odds in Vegas.

  15. Re:What about backflow? on Jeff Bates On Niche Communities and Why Partisan News Is Normal · · Score: 1

    An excellent question.

  16. Re:Why is this here? on Jeff Bates On Niche Communities and Why Partisan News Is Normal · · Score: 2

    It is where they put most of when we have succeeded in accomplishing a sufficiency of our assigned work units.

  17. Re:Totally obvious and reminds me of an old joke. on Jeff Bates On Niche Communities and Why Partisan News Is Normal · · Score: 2

    Bias isn't binary.

  18. You can have your cat on Jeff Bates On Niche Communities and Why Partisan News Is Normal · · Score: 3, Interesting
    and eat it too on the internet.

    These are warmed over observations people, a little thought as to why capital concentration makes physical concentration of certain kinds of people a contributing factor to distributed virtual communities would go a little way to re-establishing this as site with people who think as opposed to memers who spam.

    Thinking rather than just rearranging prejudices.

  19. The market for confirmation is larger on Jeff Bates On Niche Communities and Why Partisan News Is Normal · · Score: 2

    than the market for information, because most people are either capital illiquid or seeking low probability low feedback payouts.

  20. There are two kinds of IT department on Ask Slashdot: Best Incentives For IT Workers? · · Score: 1

    Those that like to get things done.
    Those that want to stay employed.

  21. Re:"Everyone is replaceable" on How Noah Kagan Got Fired From Facebook and Lost $100 Million · · Score: 1

    You have a "boat anchor." You are invaluable until the day the company decides to move, then you are a liability.

  22. I can hear it now on A Suicide Goes Viral On the Internet · · Score: 1

    "You idiots, we could have teased this!"

  23. Americans who don't fly. on Appeals Court Caves To TSA Over Nude Body Scanners · · Score: 1

    Support the TSA.

  24. Re:Devil's Advocate, At Your Service on FTC And PC Rental Companies Settle In Spying On Users Case · · Score: 1

    People who run stores in the path of the coming riots shouldn't engage in business practices liable to encourage them. It's a bad risk profile.

  25. Re:click-through EULAs are invalid and unethical on FTC And PC Rental Companies Settle In Spying On Users Case · · Score: 1
    There is, still, and just barely, a notion of an unconscionable contract. All contracts that depend on the legal force of society to maintain, goes this old notion, cannot be so unfair as to shock the conscience.

    I know, back in the day when we were the people, rather than the billing units.