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  1. 10 years young: crowd funded on Get Ready For a Streaming Music Die-Off · · Score: 1
  2. Re:banksters - CORRECTION on Canonical Developer Warns About Banking With Linux Mint · · Score: 1

    The banksters have AT LEAST ten times your money. It's the law and they are doing God's work, so don't ask questions.

  3. Okay, you got it! on Has the Apache Software Foundation Lost Its Way? · · Score: 2

    I am hardly a 'power' user of office software. I use it at home for some spreadsheats and word processing. The current Libre Office version in my Ubuntu 12.04... release freezes up my whole machine in ways OpenOffice never did.

    There you have it. Anectodal evidence, but it is one data point. I could care less which one I'm using, but OpenOffice did work much better for me.

  4. Re:stupid on Campaign To Kill CAPTCHA Kicks Off · · Score: 1

    They've gotten too good. I cannot read them!

  5. Re:Huh? on A Circular New York City Subway Map To Straighten Things Out · · Score: 2, Informative

    The map is not worth much without the streets on it. You usually need a map if you don't know where you are going.

    I look for the nearest street to the address I want to go to and then find the nearest subway station. The current map has worked for me for at least 30 years without any problems.

  6. Re:Knowledge and the ocean. on Hallibuton Pleads Guilty To Destroying Simulation Data From 2010 Gulf Oil Spill · · Score: -1, Troll

    "Climate change is man made."

    Sooooooo...., the climate didn't change on earth before man appeared here. REALLY?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq4Bc2WCsdE

  7. I can't believe it! on The Link Between Genius and Insanity · · Score: 1

    I searched the page for the text "Stallman" and got a goose egg.

    So much proof, so close to /home.

  8. Re:anyone surprised? on Whistleblower: NSA Has All of Your Email · · Score: 1

    Well, duh. After the TSA "Fusion Centers" (fusing domestic spying and anal probes) got established all over the US with no public outcry, who can be surprised?

    "We are spying on you. If we suspect you of something, we can do anything we want for as long as we want and if you talk back you are a proven enemy."

    Are there people that read this site that also believe the television movie called The News played each night to get the group think going? Maybe I'd be more sympathetic if I watched TV... Where is that quote about fitting into a sick society...?

  9. Re:Ads included? on Google Earns $2 Per Handset; Apple, $575 · · Score: 1

    And here I am wondering what is worse: You giving such a detailed moronic reason for modding someone, some else giving a shit about it, or me spending 30 secs to respond... *sigh*

  10. Give yourself a gold star... on In the EU, Water Doesn't (Officially) Prevent Dehydration · · Score: 1

    If you were able to read the entire parent post. You deserve it!

  11. Me too on Droughts Linked To Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Mmmmm.... doughnuts!

    If doughnuts are wrong, then I don't want to be right.

  12. 70 pct of GDP is consumer spending on United States Loses S&P AAA Credit Rating · · Score: 1

    That is the most "down the rabbit hole" definition of "production" that I have ever heard of. What BS.

  13. It's still early for me... on Microsoft Dilutes Open Source, Coins 'Open Surface' · · Score: 1

    I really thought this was a fairly decent April 1st post....

  14. Re:GPL is the problem on Apple Remove Samba From OS X 10.7 Because of GPLv3 · · Score: 1

    "...it is concerned about the absolute freedom of the software, not the user or developer."

    If that is what it means, y'all need a better way of saying it. Say what you mean and mean what you say.

    "Information" (e.g. software) does not have wants and desires. It is confusing as hell to keep saying "Information wants..." or "freedom of the software". I have no idea WTF that means and I don't think everybody interprets it the same way as you. So as far as a communication goes, it is an epic fail.

  15. Re:This one again. on Prehistoric Garbage Piles Created "Tree Islands" · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Just replace the word "information" with "porn" on Why Paywalls Are Good, But NYT's Is Flawed · · Score: 1

    If that is what it means, y'all need a better way of saying it. Say what you mean and mean what you say.

    "Information" does not have wants and desires. It is confusing as hell to keep saying "Information wants..." I have no idea WTF that means and I don't think everybody interprets it the same way as you, so as far as a communication goes, it is an epic fail.

  17. Re:I've been saying this all week on 1948 Mayor To MIT: Use Flamethrowers To Melt Snow? · · Score: 1

    Concrete is great at STORING heat. It is slow to change temperature, like water.

    It actually kinda sucks as an insulator (pun intended)

    http://www.coloradoenergy.org/procorner/stuff/r-values.htm

  18. Re:Best story ever. [citation needed] on Spam Text Prematurely Blows Up Suicide Bomber · · Score: 1

    "...where is your evidence that suicide bombers are unstable?"

    You are kidding, no? They are SUICIDAL!
    QED

  19. Re:First sale doctrine on First-Sale Doctrine Lost Overseas · · Score: 1

    Ah, but only counterfeit money. Real money is illegal.

    My brain hurts, too....

  20. Re:Change we can believe in on White House Pressuring Registrars To Block Sites · · Score: 1

    We have had a central banking "system" since 1913 consisting of a group of privately owned banks. It controls the price and supply of money, just like in the Soviet Union. Corporate Socialism is still socialism. Social Security is the definition of a Ponzi scheme, so I don't know if that qualifies as socialism. Medicare and Medicaid are already socialized medicine. The tax laws giving people "entitlements" is socialism (do you think there is free market capitalism in the US? That's funny, but a little sad too.). The income tax is theft in the name of socialism, because people in Washington will do better with it than the market would have done on it's own. Right or wrong, it certainly isn't a free market...

  21. Re:Faster than a speeding on Superman Comic Saves Family Home From Foreclosure · · Score: 1

    "Demand for rentals is THROUGH THE ROOF right now..."

    in some places this is true. In other places, like the Detroit area, they are thinking of turning city space into fields and meadows. Kinda overly simplistic, dontcha think?

  22. And a thread about Flash and Adobe on Adobe Calls Out Apple With Ads In NY Times, WSJ · · Score: 1

    becomes a flame war between the iPhone and Android in 3...2...1...

    All in all, I guess I love both Apple and Adobe, because the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

  23. You lost your right to your "money" on Senators Tell Facebook To Quit Sharing Users' Info · · Score: 1

    ...a long time ago. It all THEIR paper now or it is a crime.

  24. I gave up cigarettes for my New Year's resolution on Apple Just Says Yes To iPhone Smoking Game · · Score: 1

    But I didn't give up SMOKING!

    Where is my Fedora when I need it?

  25. Re:Article Contents on Serious New Java Flaw Affects All Browsers · · Score: 1

    "The user only CARES about THEIR STUFF! Okay? Who gives a rat's fart if the system is fine if all your stuff is completely hosed? NOBODY, that's who!"

    This is just plain wrong. Of the people's computers I've gone to repair (reinstall Windows), half of them have said "nothing" when I ask them if there is anything on it they need to save. So, while I can't say 100% don't care, your quote about 100% caring about "their stuff" is just plain bullshit. Half the people just want to surf the web and check their web mail.