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  1. Correct: (Man-Caused)Global Warming Only a Theory on Global Warming Only a Theory, Says School Board · · Score: 0

    Ahhhh.... better.

    Zealots: Please disprove.

    Waiting.....

  2. Honorary citizen? Why not actual? on Pirate Bay to Purchase Sealand? · · Score: 0

    You pay your money, you get your (dual) citizenship.

    No different from Belize, only costs less.

  3. Great, a survey for sheep by wolves on Study Claims Offshoring Doesn't Cost US Jobs · · Score: 0

    The people who benefit from offshoring and H-1Bs were surveyed to see if they thought it was fair to US citizens?

    Great. Allow me to heap scorn on the idea.

    The survey is 100% brainrinse.

    BWilde

  4. Nothing new in the entire discussion here.... on What Makes Software Development So Hard? · · Score: 0

    ...it has already been thrashed out with the same old comments.

    Waste of time to re-hash the same-old same-old.

    BWilde

  5. bestia: Ever heard of civil discourse? on How ExxonMobil Funded Global Warming Skeptics · · Score: 0

    Well, have you?

    Even if you were 100% right in your views, I'd hate to live in a world where people like you were in control. You sure reverted to ranting and foaming pretty quickly. Hmmmm...

    Also, My ancestors bravely protected the Jews in Holland before and during WWII, and my grandson is black.

    So... it makes me wonder who the real racist is here...

    You, buddy, are a coward, since you're obviously devoid of *real* ideas.

    So why don't you go back to picking on your little sister and torturing the cat? .... we're all done here.

    BWilde.

  6. "Communism is long dead"??? on How ExxonMobil Funded Global Warming Skeptics · · Score: 0

    Not really.... it's progenitor, a little thing called Marxism, lives on....

    It has never worked, and can't work, because it's completely contrary to human nature: The will to improve your life using property you own.

    It is always imposed on people, usually with deadly results.

    Check into this guy named Joe Stalin, and how many people he "had" to kill to get his ideas adopted.

    BWilde

  7. The "almost-Hitler" comment on How ExxonMobil Funded Global Warming Skeptics · · Score: 0

    Wow, you came pretty close to invoking Hitler!

    If you had, the debate would be completely over.

    Got anything better than ad-hominem attacks?

    Go ahead, your turn....

    BWilde

  8. Say what????? on How ExxonMobil Funded Global Warming Skeptics · · Score: -1, Troll

    "... environmentalists interests are for the general welfare of the planet and its inhabitants".

    Oh yeah?

    Why not ask the co-founder of Greenpeace what he thinks of that.

    Many enviros are simply Marxists that found a willing home.

    They're "watermelons": green on the outside, red on the inside.

    BWilde
    (former enviro nut)

  9. Well said!!!!! on How ExxonMobil Funded Global Warming Skeptics · · Score: 0

    "...we are facing litigation and the question of which status corporations should have".

    Very, very well said. Cuts right to the core issue.

    I'll bet you'd put "fiat money" up there near the top of our problems, too.

    BWilde

  10. What do you EXPECT Exxon to do? on How ExxonMobil Funded Global Warming Skeptics · · Score: 0

    When Exxon is attacked by the application of what's LARGELY junk science (the *man-made* global warming part), what do you expect them to do?

    Lie down and die?

    No way.

    They're going to TRY to explain that there is actually a DEBATE that needs to happen.

    Are you against debate? Are you against getting to the TRUTH, no matter where it lies?

    Or do you actually prefer being a sheeple, unable to think for yourself?

    BWilde

  11. Insightful? on Novel OS Drives the '$100 laptop' · · Score: 0

    THAT'S what passes for insightful here?

    Gack. Ick. Urk.

  12. Microsoft approach to robotics...includes SOAP???? on Bill Gates on Robots · · Score: 0

    Are you KIDDING me?

    That's FUGLY.

  13. Who gives a firk... on Bill Gates on Robots · · Score: 0

    ...what bilge (er, billg) says?

    Jeez....

  14. A simple screen capture defeats this on HTML Encoded Captchas · · Score: 0

    A simple screen capture defeats this, since everything is ultimately a map of bits (a bitmap!) on the screen that can easily be converted to a file.

  15. "I for one, am happy to be a European right now".. on 2006's Bill of Wrongs · · Score: -1, Troll

    Good for ya, then!

    So you won't be crowding our shores anytime soon? Promise????

  16. "Harmful" methane gas on 100 Things We Didn't Know Last Year · · Score: 0

    "Harmful methane gas"?

    What, no proof of that statement?

    Rejected as pure conjecture.

    BWilde

  17. And this is in Slashdot because.... on Former President Gerald Ford Dead at 93 · · Score: 0

    ...[why?]

    Sure, he was a politician. But his death ain't politics today as we know it.

    Besides, it was covered universally elsewhere, you couldn't miss this unless you lived under a rock and only had Slashdot access....

    Uh... wait a minute.... that covers 21% of Slashdot readers... sorry... never mind.

    BWilde

  18. Subject - verb agreement on Broadcast Radio Turns 100 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "Fessenden's work... represents", not represent.

    See how easy it that was? Leave out the middle part, and it's obvious.

  19. No reply from ATA yet.... on The Battle Over AT&T's Fiber Rollout · · Score: 1

    I wrote ATA (see article) early today asking if they accepted money from AT&T (they claim to be a grassroots advocacy group, "anti-cable").

    No answer.

    Hmmmmm.....

    (The article was EXCELLENT, btw)
    BWilde

  20. Stupid article.... no mention of session cookies.. on The Dangers of Improper Cookie Use · · Score: 1

    ...outdated

  21. Lame-ass editing allowed this... on PostgreSQL vs. MySQL comparison · · Score: 1

    ...antique article to appear.

  22. PC board driller... on What's the Coolest Thing You've Ever Built? · · Score: 1

    ...that drilled holes correctly on random PC boards, no a priori knowledge of the layout required (1976)

    Kidney (dialysis) machine, using Hospal's "artificial kidney", using 8048 w/2K of code (1977).

    Demand controller for home electric power, dial in your desired power bill each month, using a COP402 4-bit processor, no interrupts (1979).

    Requirements capture and aspect viewer, now owned by Rational/IBM (1996)

    Lots of others, but these were coolest because they seemed "impossible".

    BWilde

  23. Re:Baffled on Health Insurance for the Self-Employed? · · Score: 1

    Dunbal-

    It's worth it. Consider the alternative: death.

    I consider myself lucky to have the option you denigrate.

  24. The conspiracy to create flimsy devices.... on Why Do Gadgets Break? · · Score: 1

    ...is just not there. No proof, no references in TFA.

    We don't sit in meetings and say "What should we make breakable?". Ludicrous.

    BWilde

  25. Maybe go worry about something IMPORTANT on The Death of the "Cell Phone" · · Score: 1

    Maybe go worry about something IMPORTANT