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  1. Re:This is ridiculous. on Rockstar Employees Badly Overworked, Say Wives · · Score: 1

    A honest question:
    Are yo a masochist?

    Only if masochist is a synonym for karma whore.

  2. Re:No saving? Here's why... on A Practical LCD Writing Tablet · · Score: 1

    No you couldn't, as there's no computing hardware in this device to read the display to save it to a flash drive. It's just a puddle of liquid crystals that you displace with the pen, and then get zapped back into position when you press the 'clear' button. It would need a lot more stuff to save the screen to memory.

  3. Re:Fixed the wrong thing entirely on Rockstar Employees Badly Overworked, Say Wives · · Score: 1

    Sure, as far as you or I are concerned. But management will never believe you or me, that is my point.

  4. Re:Escape before they go Enron crazy! on Larry & Sergey To Cash In $5.5B of Google Chips · · Score: 1

    No, I'm not suggesting anything. I'm saying quite explicitly they cannot buy themselves ANYTHING on the company dime, unless they like wearing orange.

    Sure, some probably do it anyway and get away with it, but some people commit murder and get away with it too (roughly 50% of murders--for that matter less than 10% of burglaries are solved). Doesn't make it any less illegal.

  5. Re:Escape before they go Enron crazy! on Larry & Sergey To Cash In $5.5B of Google Chips · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why don't we get real for a minute? If these guys were forced to live like they only earned $1 I would agree with you completely. They own the company you moron! They can pay themselves whatever they want without selling the stock. They can also buy anything they want in the name of Google and not pay any taxes on it.

    I want to live in your fantasy world. Its 10-25 in federal resort prison for what you just described.

  6. Re:Why do I care about Google contributing to SS? on Larry & Sergey To Cash In $5.5B of Google Chips · · Score: 1

    Given the inability of Congress to fix social security, neither will anyone else.

  7. Re:Why do I care about Google contributing to SS? on Larry & Sergey To Cash In $5.5B of Google Chips · · Score: 1

    Which is why we should have a VAT, rather than an income tax. A VAT actually taxes wealth.

  8. Re:no sound = no sound barrier on Skydiver To Break Sound Barrier During Free-Fall · · Score: 1

    Yes. Because the balloon does not propel him. That's what 'aid' means in this context. Propulsion.

  9. Re:The real question is ... on Skydiver To Break Sound Barrier During Free-Fall · · Score: 1

    We're hoping more for a 'rends him limb from limb' kind of spin....you know, like being blended.

  10. Re:This is ridiculous. on Rockstar Employees Badly Overworked, Say Wives · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's NEVER management's fault. If they hire the wrong person, hire an incompetent or (as you say) simply fail to hire a necessary person THAT PERSON's still responsible. That's why they get the big bucks and the stock options, and the rank-and-file are lucky to get health benefits.

    FTFY

  11. Re:Wait there pardner on Asus Says Netbook Is Dead, Hello Wearable Computers · · Score: 1

    Anyone who isn't already part of the grey goo, I'd wager.

  12. Re:That's all? on New Study Shows Youth Plugged In Most of the Day · · Score: 4, Funny

    I even keep a netbook by my bed in case something comes up I'd like to check *while trying to fall asleep*...

    I see I'm not the only one who needs porn to fall asleep.

  13. Re:A non-story. on An Artist's View of the Modern Music Biz · · Score: 1
  14. Re:Did we just break heisenberg's principle? on Nano-Scale Robot Arm Moves Atoms With 100% Accuracy · · Score: 1

    Uh...no. It's for everything. From your the macro (your hand) to the micro (your junk). It's just that the uncertainty minimum is only significantly large for very small things. But it applies to everything.

  15. Re:There's a positive side on Nano-Scale Robot Arm Moves Atoms With 100% Accuracy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just because she calls it nano doesn't mean....aw.

  16. Re:Send in the clowns... on What Clown On a Unicycle? · · Score: 1

    American paranoia. Most of us don't shit ourselves every time there's a clown around. A guy shouting Allahu Akbar, AK-47 or no, will get noticed.

  17. Re:Alternative hypothesis : didn't care on What Clown On a Unicycle? · · Score: 1

    no one walks in LA

    Yeah, its abnormal to walk more than a mile total in your entire day in LA (excluding treadmill time at the gym).

  18. Re:Spin on In UK, Oink Admin Cleared of Fraud · · Score: 1

    No, no its not. Demand at the zero price point is NOT demand at any price point. If a poor kid borrows books from a library those are not lost sales--the kid didn't have money for the books anyway. No sales are lost.

  19. Re:LOL, ROFLMAO, ha-ha, but... on Tower Switch-Off Embarrasses Electrosensitives · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Salem Witch trials. Not that hard to imagine at all really. These people are the modern day equivalent of those who think they're persecuted by witches.

  20. Re:Ha. on Tower Switch-Off Embarrasses Electrosensitives · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wtiches. That's al these lunatics are, the modern day equivalent of people who think they're being cursed by witches.

  21. Re:American youth have it easy. on US Youth Have Serious Mental Health Issues · · Score: 1

    Which the article already linked to agrees with (well, last major famine in 1947), and doesn't negate that millions of people died of starvation in the USSR. Was it pre-war? Well, mostly, but also during and immediately after WWII as well. Point is, millions did die from famine in the USSR.

    Were you trying to add to the conversation, or just going for Funny mods like I was? If the latter, you're even worse at this than I am.

  22. Re:Why fear terrorists... on Obama Appointee Sunstein Favors Infiltrating Online Groups · · Score: 1

    Identify the Enemies in question. Enemies implies entities--identify them.

    Unconstitutional? Possibly (though I can think of two or three ways SCOTUS could justify it as constitutional). Adhering to their Enemies? Not as far as I can see.

  23. Re:Why fear terrorists... on Obama Appointee Sunstein Favors Infiltrating Online Groups · · Score: 1

    You haven't studied enough British history if you think that is a new development. In the English language, that has ALWAYS been the meaning of 'treason,' back to at least the 12th century.

  24. Re:Why fear terrorists... on Obama Appointee Sunstein Favors Infiltrating Online Groups · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sorry

    I thought the end of the world wasn't for another 3 years?

  25. Re:Well that is /.'d on Cliff Click's Crash Course In Modern Hardware · · Score: 1

    Try waiting for it to full buffer?