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  1. Re:Think about the future on Choosing Your Next Programming Job — Perl Or .NET? · · Score: 1

    In five years, there will still be a need for perl programmers. For dotnet programmers, the only jobs will be maintanence or porting to vistacomdotorg or whatever Microsoft calls it.

  2. Re:What do you mean, "suitable for Linux"? on Sun Open Sources Java Under GPL · · Score: 1

    Thank goodness dpkg is so much better than rpm!

  3. Re:How was she linked? on UK Woman Charged As Terrorist For Computer Files · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The author of the story you saw wants to convince you that the British government is bad and the terrorists they arrested are good. Do you think their opinion might have affected the way the story was written, and for the weak minded, how the incident is interpreted?

  4. Sounds like on Microsoft Interested In More Linux Deals · · Score: 0

    Microsoft knows they've got something to sue about.

  5. Re:Nice book report on Core Python Programming · · Score: 0

    You are confusing "review" with "critique".

  6. The python command shell on Core Python Programming · · Score: 0

    The python command shell (and irb) is great. But it'd be nice to be able to edit multi-line commands when you make a typo and then be able to separate execution from core commands. If they would just add a line numbering scheme and some simple commands like 'RUN' and 'LIST', you'd have a truly modern work environment.

  7. Re:Sure, and smoking's good for you, too. on Global Warming Debunked? · · Score: 0

    You don't need to be a part of the elite cabal. You just need to be a Californian who moved out a few years ago to a nice area and found the lovely acreage surrounding your once cheap home (with low taxes) filled with other Californians. Or a family of four who can no longer afford a trip to Hawaii, whose best beaches are all off-limits resorts now anyway. Or a small city commuter spending more time in traffic with people who drive worse. It doens't take much to be an environmentalist looking for a reason to kill off some of the population... and that feeds right into the cabal's evil designs.

  8. Re:Sure, and smoking's good for you, too. on Global Warming Debunked? · · Score: 0

    Bio-deisel, hybrid electric cars, solar panels, expensive raw grains (and an electric grinder), hemp necklaces, cow-leather & cork tree bark sandals... sounds like your a victim of rampant consumerism. The Mo-Jones advertising crowd is pulling your strings like a puppet with a checkbook.

  9. Re:I presume you are not a scientist ... on Global Warming Debunked? · · Score: 0

    Darwin's a good example of extremely limited observation extrapolated beyond all reason to support a pre-determined belief. He wanted to say God doesn't exist, he looked at a few finches and said "Men descended from Apes, and there is no God" Galileo looked at a lot of data, saw an explantion for it that didn't look right (Copernicus' circular model), and corrected the model with actual data.

  10. Re:you'll get answers on Global Warming Debunked? · · Score: 0

    The pope is always right. The sun goes around the earth. Some sources are always right, other are always wrong. Your science is impeccable.

  11. Redhat must really be sweating on Upgrading to Ubuntu Edgy Eft a "Nightmare" · · Score: 0, Troll

    Redhat must really be sweating to keep putting out these press releases about Ubuntu "nightmares", "debacles", etc. I've never used it myself, but alot of folks recommend it.

  12. Re:Lack of ethics on How to Hack the Vote and Steal the Election · · Score: 1

    You do notice that what you describe can't be done by homosexual couples?

  13. Re:Cultural Closeness on How to Hack the Vote and Steal the Election · · Score: 1

    Actually, there weren't any Muslims to speak of in the area. Not until NATO psychotherapists and Saudi arms dealers converted them. Their grandparents were Christian, and their parents were atheist. Only a small minority of rulers and courtiers in the Balkans under Ottoman rule were ever Muslim.

  14. Re:Lack of ethics on How to Hack the Vote and Steal the Election · · Score: 1

    even el Jefe agrees by now...Castro toeing the communist party line? Remarkable!

  15. Re:Cultural Closeness on How to Hack the Vote and Steal the Election · · Score: 1

    No, Darfur isn't anything like Rwanda. It's Muslim Arabs backed by Communist Chinese killing for control of oil. The USA is tied up in another war with Muslim Arabs, but has it's hands ties due to opposition to the war both at home and worldwide. I'm not saying that the Sudanese are directly involved with al Qaeda and Iraq, but the "popular opinion" is not fine grained enough to distinguish, and hence there is insufficient support for intervention in Darfur. Also, opposition elements of the US government desire Darfur to continue in order to the situation it as a point of criticism

  16. Re:Lack of ethics on How to Hack the Vote and Steal the Election · · Score: 1

    Or maybe it would have happened twice.

  17. Re:greater or lesser evil on Google Under Fire Over Racist Blogs · · Score: 1

    The only thing that makes "gray areas" interesting is the potentiality that a closer inspection can yield areas of black and white at a higher resolution, thus increasing accuracy. If there truely is no "answer" then there is no benefit at looking closely at the "gray area"

  18. Re:greater or lesser evil on Google Under Fire Over Racist Blogs · · Score: 1

    The answer in your case to the question "Are you alive?" is "It doesn't matter" because you are unable to make decisions and cannot deduce meaning out of any situation. The questions that you are unable to answer due to circumstances have definite answers, even under the circumstances that you pretend. But the only question you can think has a definite answer is meaningless in the situation you portray and supposedly exemplify.

  19. Re:greater or lesser evil on Google Under Fire Over Racist Blogs · · Score: 1

    I, too, agree with both of you 100%.

  20. Re:What a load of sensationalist FUD! on Will Stallman Kill the "Linux Revolution?" · · Score: 1

    Newsflash: Corporations *want* consumers to be rich. So that they can "consume" more. You're thinking of communists who want everyone to be poor, so they can be "controlled."

  21. Re:Cut Out the Middleman on RentACoder Losing Street Cred? · · Score: 1

    Your sig: "Make install not war"

    As much as I'd love to use perl, most of my webapps are written in java. I really have no choice at work.

    Praise the Gosling and pass the ammunition.

  22. Re:Eh... on RentACoder Losing Street Cred? · · Score: 1

    How does an unnamed travel site get customers? "Dude, check out 172.24.16.101, they've got a great deal on packages to Cancun!"

  23. Re:Which begs the question on RentACoder Losing Street Cred? · · Score: 1

    Begging the question is assuming and requiring the truth of the argument in the proof of that argument. Why they call it that I have no idea. "They" call it that because they are wrong. They don't know the origin of the phrase, but they heard an incorrect usage once from someone they thought was cool (despite parading around in public wearing nothing but a crown) and defend that incorrect usage. Like dorks who talk about the planet "yerinus" because that's how Tom Brokaw mis-pronounced it once, or claim the operating sytem "leenooks" is pronounced "linnix" not "line-ux"

  24. 15 percent!!! on RentACoder Losing Street Cred? · · Score: 1

    Every contract "employer" I have had takes more than that. 25-30 percent is typical for headhunters /contract agencies.

  25. Re:I'm no expert, but... on A New Spin on Open Source Business Models · · Score: 1

    But then you're leaving out step 1) Get a bunch of people... That's the part that Open Source is good at.