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

    Walmart is the 900-kb gorilla

    Note: THERE IS NO WALMART IN SEATTLE. The closest ones are in Bellevue.

    We do have two Costcos however. They pay a decent wage.

  2. Should have been $27 on Seattle Approves $15 Per Hour Minimum Wage · · Score: 1

    It should have been $27 an hour, to keep up with changes since the 1960s.

    Or the original compromise of $15 in 2015 and $22 in 2022.

    I blame the Mayor.

  3. In a box with a fox on Ask Slashdot: Where's the Most Unusual Place You've Written a Program From? · · Score: 1

    1. What is the most unusual location you have written a program from? 2. What is the most unusual circumstance under which you have written a program? 3. What is the most unusual computing platform that you wrote a program from? 4. What is the most unusual application program that you wrote?"

    1. In an electronically shielded windowless room. Also, in a telephone switching room (different place)
    2. The telephone switching room.
    3. CP/M on a TEMPEST machine. Think of what you saw in the last episode of The Americans. That.
    4. The above. You're not cleared to know that.

  4. I used that logo in the 70s on Zazzle.com Thinks Depictions of Pi Are Protected Intellectual Property · · Score: 1

    That thief owes me money!

    Seriously, this patent thing is getting way out of hand.

  5. First, he's a Patriot on In First American TV Interview, Snowden Talks Accountability and Patriotism · · Score: 5, Insightful

    First, I'd like to say that he's a Patriot.

    There were a lot of things he could have told you that he hasn't.

    Second, if the US government would just follow the Constitution, specifically the Bill of Rights, and stop spying on American citizens in America without individual court orders for individual American citizens, and instead focus on the actual sources of terrorism that we all know are the source: Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Pakistan, and to a lesser extent Afghanistan, this would all go away.

    That said, I look forward to him being granted Amnesty by a free and independent 100 percent green energy Scotland soon.

  6. Re:WOW on No, HealthCare.gov Doesn't Require 500 Million Lines of Code · · Score: 2

    First, the cost of both wars was less than $2 trillion, making the 's' on the word "Trillion" misleading and dishonest.

    Next, we have a government run, single payer, health care system now. It's called VA. How's that working out?

    You forgot to include lifetime costs for VA health care for surviving vets, who tend to have fairly difficult to treat injuries that would have killed people in prior wars.

    This is why there's such a backlog in the VA.

    The costs are as I state, not the low ball "cost" you've been told.

  7. Re:WOW on No, HealthCare.gov Doesn't Require 500 Million Lines of Code · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Exactly. Should have just implemented Canada's Single Payer National Healthcare for 1/20th the cost.

    The resulting health improvement in the US would have saved Trillions that we could have wasted in IraqIranAfghaniPakistan.

  8. I blame Anonymous Cowards on Misogyny, Entitlement, and Nerds · · Score: 1

    When we can all post online as AC and have TV shows like Tosh.0 and other animated shows where all the adult males are jerks and misogynistic, it's unrealistic to expect young men to think they aren't supposed to be the same.

    That and the societal breakdown created by the Entitled Techies and their CEO golf buddies.

  9. All this is fine until some kid dies on Google Unveils Self-Driving Car With No Steering Wheel · · Score: 1

    And the resulting firestorm of protests, lawsuits, outraged elected representatives, and people who hate machines will result int all automatic cars being banned.

    Human behavior is fairly predictable.

    The fact the Google engineers are unaware of it, is also fairly predictable.

  10. First Rule of Teh Romans on Why Snowden Did Right · · Score: 1

    Teh First Rule of Teh Romans: All Is Slaves

    Teh Seconds Rule of Teh Romans: Scotland is Free and Snowden Has Refuge There

    There is no Third Rule

  11. Sounds fair to me on German Court Rules That You Can't Keep Compromising Photos After a Break-Up · · Score: 1

    Isn't it funny that Germans have more rights than Americans?

  12. Easy solution: local DNS file on Torrentz.eu Domain Name Suspended · · Score: 1

    Seriously, you do know that it's just a table lookup for routing, right?

    DNS - Directory Name Service.

  13. Re:Can we send Justin Beiber as his ambassador? on Iran Court Summons Mark Zuckerberg For Facebook Privacy Violations · · Score: 1

    This might be a solution for Facebook.ca but not for Facebook in Iran, which is an offshoot of the al-Qaeda hating country.

    That said, maybe he could just attest that all the Iranian apps are Taoists.

  14. I am fairly certain that apps have no religion on Iran Court Summons Mark Zuckerberg For Facebook Privacy Violations · · Score: 1

    There is no core system but 4LL4H

  15. We have always been at War with East Asia on Why Snowden Did Right · · Score: 1

    And questioning this threatens the natural order where the top 0.01 percent get 50 percent of the GDP gain while the rest is divided amongst the upper classes.

    Not sure what happens to workers. Big Brother will take care of them.

  16. Re:Told you that you were serfs on NSA Surveillance Reform Bill Passes House 303 Votes To 121 · · Score: 0

    you're still "entitled" to less than a serf's legal rights.

    and at the end of the day, that means a serf had more rights than you do

  17. Re:Told you that you were serfs on NSA Surveillance Reform Bill Passes House 303 Votes To 121 · · Score: 1

    But you don't have the right to an attorney.

    The NSA can Unconstitutionally collect information on you without a court order or the right to have an advocate rebut any secret court orders to collect information on your American citizen self in the USA.

    Think about that.

    You "think" you have a right.

    But you don't ACTUALLY have that right.

    Serfs had that right.

  18. Re:Told you that you were serfs on NSA Surveillance Reform Bill Passes House 303 Votes To 121 · · Score: 1

    try using a dictionary and look up advocate.

    then go ask a lawyer what it means.

    you're welcome.

  19. Re:Told you that you were serfs on NSA Surveillance Reform Bill Passes House 303 Votes To 121 · · Score: 1

    Serfs had the right to have an advocate present.

    American citizens don't.

    Serfs could not be killed without judicial order.

    American citizens can.

    Comprende?

  20. Told you that you were serfs on NSA Surveillance Reform Bill Passes House 303 Votes To 121 · · Score: 2

    Wait.

    Even serfs had the right to have their own advocate.

    You're not serfs.

  21. Re:Experts versus Idiots on Japanese Court Rules Against Restarting Ohi Reactors · · Score: 1

    And yet the sun and the wind work in Japan as well as anywhere else.

  22. Invisible Hand says kill Coal Oil Gas subsidies on US Officials Cut Estimate of Recoverable Monterey Shale Oil By 96% · · Score: 1

    To have the marketplace function efficiently, you need to end all subsidies and tax exemptions for coal, oil, and natural gas.

    This includes cheap land and sea leases.

    Fix that and stop exporting fossil fuels to China.

    There: fixed.

  23. Define beaten on U.S. Drone Attack Strategy Against Al-Qaeda May Be Wrong · · Score: 1

    Look, the problem is we know where the terrorists are from.

    Saudi Arabia

    Yemen

    Pakistan

    and to a lesser extent Afghanistan and NW China

    They become terrorists because they're losing.

    Fight that.

    Bombs don't work.

    (caveat - I have done counter-terrorism ops and other related things - this is only my opinion)

  24. Ha Ha Ha Snort Ha Ha Ha Giggle Ha Ha Ha Ha ... on With the Surface Pro, Microsoft Is Trying To Recreate the PC Market · · Score: 1

    No.

    Zune city.

    Hit the restart button, cause it ain't flying in the real world.

  25. Just place solar and wind farms in the rad zone on Japanese Court Rules Against Restarting Ohi Reactors · · Score: 1

    Godzilla only want prime nuclear energy.