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  1. Re:I'm not even a fan, but on Orson Scott Card's Superman Story Shelved After Homophobia Controversy · · Score: 1

    Kessel sounds a little bigoted. Basically the equivalent of the nuts who rant about how horrible the Hary Potter books are for children to read.

  2. Re:I'm not even a fan, but on Orson Scott Card's Superman Story Shelved After Homophobia Controversy · · Score: 1

    Did you know that the term "asshole" originates as a homophobic slur?

  3. Re:I'm not even a fan, but on Orson Scott Card's Superman Story Shelved After Homophobia Controversy · · Score: 1

    The marriage of Obama's parents would STILL be illegal, because Obama's father was already married to another woman at the time.

  4. Re:Exaggerations on Tesla Motors Loses Appeal Against BBC's Top Gear · · Score: 1

    That's because generally, people make up reasons to go on motorcycle trips. Generally they don't decide to go somewhere at the spur of the moment and take the motorcycle as an afterthought. If you can't understand why that would be an issue with a car, maybe we're talking about a hobby device, not practical transportation.

  5. Re:Language Barrier on UC Davis Study Concludes H-1B Workers Neither Best Nor Brightest · · Score: 0

    'Converting truth into software' and referring to the customer as 'laymen' makes it sound like you think of yourself as a priest.

    That's scary. You're an engineer. At the highest level you're the dude that lays out the cubicles. At the lowest level, you're one of the grunts that builds the cubicles. That's it. You're a grunt, just like the rest of us.

    And that toner in the LJ4 on third floor isn't changing itself while you sit here and pontificate. chop chop.

  6. Re:Nothing says 'I'm over 40!" like apple products on Apple's iWatch Could Come With IOS, Earn $6 Billion a Year · · Score: 1

    My 12 year old niece carries an iPhone. One of the things I relish is the fact that people in that age category virulently reject what they had and were a few years later. Anything Apple will be sooo uncool for her age demographic in a few years.

  7. Re:What kind of astrotrash is this? on Apple's iWatch Could Come With IOS, Earn $6 Billion a Year · · Score: 1

    I remember when Apple was a litigation company, and their computers were seemingly mostly intended to facilitate suing other companies.

    But then, I remenber a smug fuck called S Jobs at the press conference introducing the Mac boasting it was a hacker-proof sealed box. Lots of us, including probably a critical mass of us nerd/geek/freak types took offense and from that day started hating Apple.

  8. Re:"totally new like the ipod" on Apple's iWatch Could Come With IOS, Earn $6 Billion a Year · · Score: 0

    Nobody has Firewire, though. Except the people already saturated with the Koolaide. I can't imagine being one of the sorry fucks who was a Mac user back when the iPod emerged. Most of "the rest of us" can't. Granted, people outside a cult seldom understand the cult members.

  9. Re:Great, but what does it *DO*? on Apple's iWatch Could Come With IOS, Earn $6 Billion a Year · · Score: 1

    If it's like the Iphone, it will be a shitty watch but most people brandished one won't really care. It's about fashion, don't you know?

  10. Re:nice efficiency there on Bradley Manning Pleads Guilty To 10 Charges · · Score: 1

    And actually, the rule counting the slaves as 3/5 was supported by the North and opposed by the South. Because it kept the South from being apportioned as much power in congress as they would have if the slaves had been counted as 1/1. It had nothing to do with votes, and everything to do with how many representatives came from each state and thus how much power each state had in the Legislature.

  11. The fact that it's on an embedded processor means it's hardware partitioned completely away from any third-party software. Why are you worrying about what type of processor is in use? The embedded processor in question might even be an x86 processor for all we know.

  12. Re:Aaron Swartz wasn't a snitch on Hector Xavier Monsegur, Aka Sabu, Dodges Sentencing Again · · Score: 1

    He did it because he fucking grew up and realized the adventurism was about to start having consequences.

    Only a very, very few get to graduate up into being a Stalin or a Lenin. All the other 'revolutionaries' get killed, or imprisoned, or plowed under, or they fucking grow up.

  13. Re:He's a pathetic snitch who will have no friends on Hector Xavier Monsegur, Aka Sabu, Dodges Sentencing Again · · Score: -1

    'Activism' isn't a profession. It's something kids do in their 20's.

    Mostly upper-middle-class kids who can afford to be adventurists for a few years.

  14. Re:The system isn't new. on Hector Xavier Monsegur, Aka Sabu, Dodges Sentencing Again · · Score: 0

    We have The Internet now. And that means nobody is accountable to anybody, anywhere, for anything.

    And we're proud of it.

  15. Re:Because vi sucks, that's why. on Full Review of the Color TI-84 Plus · · Score: 1

    HP split off the 'gold standard' part of the company to became Agilent, and they retained the shit part of the company as HP. The Corvalis Division (group that made the HP calculators, the HP95-100-200 Palmtops and the very first generation Omnibook) somehow just got lost in the shuffle. One can hope it didn't get subsumed into the shit part of HP that remains.

    I own a really weird RPN calculator that TI actually produced. It is RPN but only 8 digit floating point without scientific notation. It's a quaint collector's item.

    My calculator of choice is the HP-11C.

  16. Re:That's funny.... on Are Plastic Bag Bans Making People Sick? · · Score: 1

    Absolutely nothing! Clearly everything they assert can be instantly dismissed.

    Life is so easy when you have an ideology to guide you.

    What's that?

  17. Re:Fuck yeah on French Officials Say EU Will Sanction Google Over Privacy · · Score: 1

    Indeed. I use an Android tablet a lot these days. But I almost excessively run Firefox these days. Every once in a while I load YouTube to make sure FF is still not logged into the Googleplex.

  18. Re:Wrong question on Tax Peculiarities Mean Facebook Paid No Net Taxes For 2012 · · Score: 1

    What makes you think I am upset with Mexicans? Mostly they contribute to our economy. And if they emigrate legally they are welcome.

  19. Re:Wrong question on Tax Peculiarities Mean Facebook Paid No Net Taxes For 2012 · · Score: 1

    I know what we should do! Let's get a lot of big boats, fill them with unskilled Mexicans, and sail them over to Sweden. They are doing so well that they should be willing to "spread the wealth" by absorbing, say, 10-15% of their current population in unskilled immigrants. We can call it a stress test of their socialism.

  20. Re:A real-name policy is GOOD for privacy on Facebook Can Keep Real Name Policy, German Court Rules · · Score: 0

    Yeah, but claiming to be autistic is a big deal for a lot of people. It gives them a feeling of entitlement. Everyone wants to belong. It's much more self-validating than simply being shy.

  21. Re:But there are so many fake accounts. on Facebook Can Keep Real Name Policy, German Court Rules · · Score: 1

    But did you use a real sounding made up name, or an obvious false name? It makes a big difference. Heavily salting FB with a massive number of plausible soundings fake people is how we can take the zucking leviathan down.

  22. Re:Money where your mouth is on Tim Cook Never Wanted To Sue Samsung · · Score: 1

    OS/2 2.0 had a dock on it ages earlier.

  23. Re:I thought it was creepy, yeah... on Google Store Sends User Information To App Developers · · Score: 1

    But not everybody is a paid shill for one 'side' in the eternal conflict.

    Or Holy War, if you insist.

  24. Re:"Flaw"? on Google Store Sends User Information To App Developers · · Score: 0

    A lot of us suspect that with Apple, you're the employee.

    Shill.

  25. Re:"Flaw"? on Google Store Sends User Information To App Developers · · Score: 1

    Speaking as an Android (and also an iOS) user, I've never been spammed by the many vendors I've bought software for my Galaxy Tab from.