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  1. Re:Why is it redundant? on Digital Generation Rediscovers Analog Wristwatches · · Score: 1

    My last watch cost me 30 bucks for a nice auto-winding jeweled movement (Russian made, but I'm not particular). So far I've had it for three years. Being that I actually work and have a life, I probably have to check it at least twenty times a day. You do the math.

  2. Easy on Hacker Exposes Florida's Voting Database — Again · · Score: 1

    He was hoping that he could get away with his spewing without being called on it.

  3. Why is it redundant? on Digital Generation Rediscovers Analog Wristwatches · · Score: 1

    My cell is in a holder on my belt with the screen blacked out most of the time. My watch is on my wrist where I can check the time in about a second. It probably takes me at least ten times that long to pull out my phone, turn on the screen, check the time, and put the thing away.

  4. I'll bet your daddy... on EU Proposal: Shift Farming Subsidies To Science · · Score: 1

    is one of them teabagging idiots who decry all that government spending while driving down the federal highway to pick up his government handout. Obesity is the problem in this country, not starvation. Tell your father that if he can't make a living farming to do something else. Nobody is entitled to have everyone else pay for their existence.

  5. Re:Really? on Office 365: Suffer 18 Days' Outage, Still Pay Half Price · · Score: 1

    Most of the issues have been random outages and issues with their login program. I've never encountered any of the login issues myself, so it's hard to tell it the problems are Microsoft's or user error. When we do have issues, their tech support is fairly responsive and does not seem to be stuck on a script. All said, it's a pretty good deal, I'm just concerned that the connectivity problems seem to have gone from random issues that occurred for a few of our users for a few minutes, to company wide problems taking hours to clear up.

  6. Re:Really? on Office 365: Suffer 18 Days' Outage, Still Pay Half Price · · Score: 1

    We are using BPOS. Since we are a small group we can't really afford dedicated resources for only email. We wanted to go with gmail, but our new owners insisted on a Microsoft solution. Other than the outages, the service isn't all that bad. It's just rather hard to have redundant email systems for incoming email. When our dealers don't get a response, they tend to resend orders. this makes it a real mess when things start back up, as we have to figure out which orders are duplicates. that might not be an issue for most online stores, but we deal with a smaller number of high priced items, and out dealers are not very technically savvy.

  7. Citation needed on Climate Skeptic Funded By Oil and Coal Companies · · Score: 1

    but not expected.

  8. Re:and in other news on Climate Skeptic Funded By Oil and Coal Companies · · Score: 1

    I really don't think your xenophobic scapegoating takes precedence over real science anywhere but in your very small mind.

  9. Just because you say on Climate Skeptic Funded By Oil and Coal Companies · · Score: 1

    something is obviously wrong does not make it so. While it's hard for people of more limited intelligence to comprehend, there are a lot of things that can be researched. If research subject number one doesn't pan out you can always go to numbers two through 568 million.

  10. Really? on Office 365: Suffer 18 Days' Outage, Still Pay Half Price · · Score: 5, Interesting

    We use Microsoft's current online offering, and we've had both a 25% and a 50% refund in the last year and a half. the refund doesn't even begin to make up for the sales losses and confusion when our dealers can't get their orders through to us.

  11. Which makes little sense on World's Best Chess Engine Outlawed and Disqualified · · Score: 1

    because he is claiming that rather than lose to a machine, he lost to another human. Just how many human chess players out there are good enough to beat him?

  12. I don't let my children on Nebraska Nuclear Plant Flood Defenses Tested · · Score: 1

    get away with changing the subject in order to avoid answering embarrassing questions. why should I let a supposed adult do the same?

  13. just because on Nebraska Nuclear Plant Flood Defenses Tested · · Score: 1, Insightful

    you don't want to hear the truth doesn't mean the rest of us want to make it easy for you to stick your head into the sand. We are still busy trying to clean up from the last few "perfectly safe" disasters

  14. Re:Ring ring ring on "Do Not Eat iPod Shuffle": 30 Dumb Warning Labels · · Score: 1

    I was working on a phone line under a desk once when it rang. I don't know what hurt worse, the shock or my head hitting the desk. I had actually disconnected the line before I started working on it, but someone came into the office, noticed it was disconnected and plugged it back in.

  15. No on LulzSec Posts First Secret Document Dump · · Score: 1

    We are afraid of the 90 percent who are racist who make the rest look bad. After all, they are in Arizona, and as you have shown, they are a pretty pathetic bunch.

  16. Do you really think... on LulzSec Posts First Secret Document Dump · · Score: 1

    that the rest of us are ignorant enough to believe that they won't? I personally find your insinuation as to our gullibility to be rather insulting and think you should apologist.

  17. So acording to you on LulzSec Posts First Secret Document Dump · · Score: 1

    the problem is that we aren't fascist enough. Unfortunately for you, we know how to take care of your type. We did it before, and we'll do it again.

  18. Only if everyone is into that type of porn on Fired IT Worker Replaces CEO's Presentation With Porn · · Score: 1

    that's all

  19. Spoken like a true pointy hair on Fired IT Worker Replaces CEO's Presentation With Porn · · Score: 1

    When the idiots on to decide that it's not worth spending time to document, update, repair, patch, anything because it's just a waste of time, not only will shit break, but it will take long enough for an replacement cog to come up to speed that they might as well close their doors and take a long vacation. I had the luxury of watching a crash and burn like this. The boss had too much ego involved to ask us to come back and dig him out. I helped one of my old coworkers out to lessen his pain a little, but waited until they had their going out of business sale before I actually want back. I still have my old office chair that I managed to pick up for about $15.

  20. Well on Weather Satellites Lose Funding · · Score: 1

    We've already determined that you are not capable of rational thought, so who really cares what you believe.

  21. Funny on Weather Satellites Lose Funding · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that the handouts to the rich which caused the recent problems were not done by a Democrat. then again, I wouldn't expect a neocon to ever man up to the truth when there are corporations and their profits to whore for.

  22. Huh? on Weather Satellites Lose Funding · · Score: 1, Informative

    Before they are born they aren't children. Of course, reality is too complicated for someone who actually believe in invisible spooks in the sky.

  23. Um... on US Senate Votes For Repeal of Ethanol Subsidies · · Score: 1

    the plural of anecdote is not data.

  24. Re:Physics: an alternative political spectrum on US Senate Votes For Repeal of Ethanol Subsidies · · Score: 1

    Ethanol also tends to clean up "gunk" in the fuel system. It could be that the parent poster's car already had a leak that was plugged by this stuff. Adding the ethanol cleaned things up enough to expose the leak

  25. If that's the case on US Senate Votes For Repeal of Ethanol Subsidies · · Score: 1

    then why were they unable to eliminate the oil subsidies "feel free to call them handouts if it makes you feel any better" a few months ago? If they had depreciation just like any other industry, then why would there be any special rules that only applied to them?