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  1. Re:Yes, End the Insane Spending on Congressman Introduces Bill To Ban Minting of Trillion-Dollar Coin · · Score: 0

    And tell the Republicans who are looking for things to cut to keep their fucking hands off social security, medicare/medicaid, and other social programs that people have come to rely on the last few years. People pay into SS their whole working lives, so how dare the Republicans consider it to be an "entitlement"?

  2. Re:Roman Empire on America's Real Criminal Element: Lead · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Romans were advanced. They had indoor plumbing, flush toilets (of a sort) and aquaducts that could transport water for hundreds of miles (most stretches of the aquaducts were enclosed in water mains similar to what we have today) The Romans were capable of performing complicated surgery/repair (much like the new-world cultures) and Roman public baths and enclosed sewage systems helped to maintain public health in crowded urban areas. When the legions were not fighting, they could build nearly any type of infrastructure. Roman roads and bridges have lasted for over 2000 years and are still usable today. That is very impressive considering that the parts of Europe not colonized by the Greeks or Romans were still in the tribal stage of civilization at the time.

  3. Re:Roman Empire on America's Real Criminal Element: Lead · · Score: 5, Informative

    Lead(II) Acetate was actually used as a sweetening agent. They also had lots of lead water mains too. The Romans were highly advanced for the time, but the massive quantities of lead the average Roman was exposed to certainly didn't help matters.

  4. Re:duh on What's In Steve Ballmer's Inbox? · · Score: 1

    Ikea is fine for them.

    You mean, it's fine if you like shitty pseudo-furniture. If you want good stuff, go antiquing or bring odds and ends home from yard sales and restore them.

  5. Re:It's not dead. on Windows 8 Even Less Popular Than Vista · · Score: 1

    I would be surprised if they even bother to recompile Notepad between Windows versions. It's practically unchanged from the Windows 95 days.

  6. Re:And this too shall pass away. on The U.S. Careens Over the Fiscal Cliff, Reaching Only Half of a Deal · · Score: 1

    IIRC you have to file even if you make as little as $900 per year.

  7. Re:Go, blasphemy, go on Pakistan Lifts YouTube Ban For 3 Minutes, Finds More Blasphemy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The way to kill religion is to laugh and ridicule it to death. Violence just strengthens it.

  8. Re:Cooling is the issue on Cree Introduces 200 Lumen/Watt Production Power LEDs · · Score: 1

    You're talking about those floodlight-shaped CFLs, right? Those damn things take forever to warm up (the light starts near the base and takes a few seconds to reach the tip) but I've found putting regular instant-on CFLS in those fixtures works just as well. Regular CFLS usually start >50% brightness and warm up much faster.

  9. Re:Cooling is the issue on Cree Introduces 200 Lumen/Watt Production Power LEDs · · Score: 1

    that, plus any type of gas-discharge lamp gets way too hot to safely use indoors (outside of specially designed enclosures). Even the big high-bay lights with an open bulb have metal heat shields.

  10. Re:Cooling is the issue on Cree Introduces 200 Lumen/Watt Production Power LEDs · · Score: 1

    The only lamps I know of that can put out that much light are metal halide and HPS (neither of which are really designed for indoor use unless you have a big warehouse or box store to light up).

  11. Re:Cooling is the issue on Cree Introduces 200 Lumen/Watt Production Power LEDs · · Score: 1

    For me, CFLs have worked fine for years but I wish they would make giant LEDs you could screw in like regular light bulbs. Maybe LED technology doesn't work if you scale it up that much, I don't know for sure b/c it isn't my area of expertise. At least they have warmer color temperatures for white LEDs now.

  12. Re:SSN? on Michigan Makes It Illegal To Ask For Employees' Facebook Logins · · Score: 1

    Jesus. If a headhunter actually charges money then they better damn well guarantee (in writing!) that they will find you a GOOD job in your field or give you your money back.

  13. Re:Same tired argument from the 2%... on Going Off the Fiscal Cliff Could Mean Missing the Next Hurricane Sandy · · Score: 1

    Give us more tax breaks or we will wreck the economy again.

    FTFY.

  14. Re:However.... on Michigan Makes It Illegal To Ask For Employees' Facebook Logins · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Don't you Americans have any basic right to privacy?

    Nope. We have a bunch of fucking sociopaths running the corporate world these days. Another 10 years of this shit and we're all going to be stuck in some neo-dickensian nightmare. The only "people" who have rights anymore are the corporations. The rest of us are just cattle unless you happen to have a high-enough net worth.

  15. Re:Why sex is deemed not "pristine"? on Child Gets Nintendo 3DS Full of Porn For Christmas · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Mod++ (if I had the points).

    I swear, there's a bunch of goddamn prudes in this country (yet violence is ok for some reason). Sex is the most natural thing ever and nothing to be ashamed of.

  16. Re:A Mature Local Machine Product vs Immature Clou on Google Docs Vs. Microsoft Word: an Even Matchup? · · Score: 1

    Off the top of my head I know there's at least one Vim port for Windows (I forget what it's called but I had it installed years ago). If you're complaining that Windows doesn't give you anything comparable out of the box then you have a point.

  17. Re:A Mature Local Machine Product vs Immature Clou on Google Docs Vs. Microsoft Word: an Even Matchup? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wordpad is a very stripped-down word processor, not a text editor (as unix/linux veterans understand the term). Have you ever opened a source file in Wordpad? It treats code like a regular document and the results are absolutely dreadful. Meanwhile, Notepad is god-awful as far as plain text editors go--it doesn't even understand Unix-style line breaks. If you want a decent text editor for Windows, I recommend Notepad++.

  18. Re:A Mature Local Machine Product vs Immature Clou on Google Docs Vs. Microsoft Word: an Even Matchup? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Perhaps this would be too steep if you are a grandmother with limited resources who only wants to create a single page note about a missing cat and print it for her nearest neighbors. As a business, you want to be as sure as it ever gets that the important proposal that you are writing will be correctly opened by the soliciting party. (In many cases editable Word documents are requested, not a PDF.)

    This. Google docs and OpenOffice/Libreoffice are low-to-midrange tools. They are WAY better than *nothing* and much better than that stripped-down Wordpad tool that Windows gives you out of the box. I got through college just fine using OpenOffice and I still recommend it to people (if it's appropriate for their needs), but when something just has to work without problems I get the big tools out. MSOffice is professional grade and is what you use when nothing else will do.

  19. Re:HR will be HR on The Trials and Tribulations of a Would-Be Facebook Employee · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I even take issue with the term Human Resources. Resources in an office context are computers, filing cabinets, copiers, etc. I'm a person, not a fucking resource! If management places people in the same category as furniture, then no wonder these companies are such god-awful places to work.

  20. Re:Congrats on After 12 years of Development, E17 Is Out · · Score: 2

    Yes, I did notice. That's where I looked first. Unfortunately, those of us who use Debian Stable have no other option than to build from source, at least for the moment.

  21. Re:Congrats on After 12 years of Development, E17 Is Out · · Score: 2

    I don't blame you. E17 looks promising but building it has been a real pain in the ass so far. First, I neeeded to d/l, build, and install the dependencies/core libraries (and their dependencies). Even when that part was done and I got through a successful ./configure for the main E17, I still ran into errors during the build (most recently, "No rule to make target `illume-keyboard/e-module-illume-keyboard.edj").

    *sigh*

  22. Re:Welcome to the Vault on Vivos Founder Builds an Underground City Where You Can Ride Out the Apocalypse · · Score: 1

    "Big Iron" and "Heartache by the Numbers" were pretty good too. However, that "Lets Ride into the Sunset Together " song was damn depressing when you're walking around in a hopeless post-apocalyptic wasteland.

  23. Not exactly--organized religion tells you that you have a problem and then offers the "solution" to it.

  24. Re:Your own vault on Vivos Founder Builds an Underground City Where You Can Ride Out the Apocalypse · · Score: 1

    As long as I get to be Overseer (assuming it's not in Vault 11).

  25. Re:Awesome on Qt 5.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I'm still using 4.7.4 and I intend to do so for a long time. My main reason is to keep pace with the Debian repositories (4.7 support was recently added to testing, stable still has 4.6). For the past year I've been working on an app that won't build on 4.6 b/c of new features added to 4.7, meaning support in Debian Stable was out unless you roll your own Qt. Anything I write for Qt 4.7 will probably compile fine with Qt5 (if necessary) or run under Qt5 libs so I see no reason to upgrade.