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  1. Re:An offer you can't refuse. on Verizon Employees End Strike · · Score: 2

    ... no Veteran's Day off for the grunts in the trenches that make these obscene profits possible. That's just greed.

    They are replacing two holidays with two personal days. This allows the associate to observe any day that they deem to be a holiday as a holiday.

    Including veteran's day.

  2. Re:Don't you understand things change? on Verizon Employees End Strike · · Score: 2

    And the associates are rewarded by that profit directly in two ways.

    First, if they contribute to their 401K, the company match is in Verizon stock equivalent. Once each quarter, the dividend is paid directly to the associate's 401K as additional Verizon stock equivalent.

    Secondly, each spring, every associate received a corporate profit sharing award.

    Affording, has zero to do with it.

  3. Re:Largest Nuclear Disaster? on What Chernobyl Looks Like In 2010 · · Score: 1

    I'm not saying it was a good thing, but obviously it was because the surrender was not forthcoming. As for the idea of detonating bombs for demonstration purposes, there was barely enough material for the two bombs they did use..

    Didn't they test one bomb in US? Would that not make the count 3?

  4. Re:What bankers? on ID Thief Tries To Get Witnesses Whacked · · Score: 1

    How about the companies that were rating bonds as AAA, when they clearly were not.

  5. Re:Crazy talk man... on iPhone Gaming Continues To Grow · · Score: 1

    Interesting enough, I clicked the link to your homepage. I notice at the bottom web page there is a copyright notice.

    Why should I respect your notice?

    The cost to you for me downloading your images and reusing them are zero.

  6. Re:Inductive sensors on National Car Tracking System Proposed For US · · Score: 1

    The loop in the ground is a coil.

    It is often referred to as an induction loop. It is a continuous wire that is placed in the saw cut and looped around 3 or 4 times (usually).

    In essence, it is a metal detector. Uses the same principals as a hand held metal detector, such as the type used by hobbyists (coil is smaller and has more turns) and police (coil is very smaller and has a ton more turns)

    Want it to not work anymore? Drive a ten penny nail into it. If you nick just one of the wires, it will ring a false positive.

    Ever notice how at some traffic lights, the left arrow comes on with no car on the loop? That is because the electronics fail to indicate a car is present.

    Also, if you want it to work for motorcycles, aim for one of the corners, the signal is strongest there.

  7. Re:Consider the do it yourself way... on Parent-Friendly Wireless Bridge To Span 500 Meters? · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think you might be working too hard.

    Cable is considered low voltage, so in some states it does not have to be buried 18 inches. Also why would you dig a trench 8 inches wide? Rent a small trencher, it make about trench about 3-4 inches wide. Use a trench shovel to clear out the trench.

    Also, if you are using PVC, if you pull the line through as you are gluing the conduit together, you stand a great chance of gluing your pull string in place. Best thing to do is to shoot a mouse through the pipe (a mouse is a special plug that almost exactly fits a conduit that you attach a very light weight pull string to. On the other end you use a shop-vac to suck it out).

    I would also have a pull box installed every 100 meters. 500 meters would be one heck of a pull.

  8. Re:So... on Maryland To Tax Custom Programming and Computer Services · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maryland state motto...

    If you can dream it, we can tax it

  9. Re:Nonsense on The Soldier of the Future · · Score: 0, Troll
    The abortionist doctor at least has a chance to dodge the bullet.

    The 'biomass' that the doctor is removing has no such chance.

  10. Re:Sigh on MySpace Age Verification - for Parents · · Score: 1

    BUMP

  11. Re:well on British Traffic Wardens Issued CCTV Head Cameras · · Score: 1

    I wonder if the reverse would work just as well? What if I were to start taking pictures or video, from say a public park, of police coming in and out of the police station?

    What if I was to post the raw videos on the internet?

    Do you think that there would be some concerns from the police about privacy?

  12. Re:This is going nowhere on Couple Who Catch Cop Speeding Could Face Charges · · Score: 1

    I could swear the articles stated that they purchased $1200 worth of equipment. No where did I read that the equipment was purchased solely to catch this one particular officer.

  13. Re:What's a "progressive Christian"? on Wal-Mart Asked to Drop Christian Video Game · · Score: 1

    So only your 'group think' works right?

  14. Re:What's a "progressive Christian"? on Wal-Mart Asked to Drop Christian Video Game · · Score: 1

    Murder is a sin

  15. Re:It Will Not Be Long on EMI Experiments With DRM-free MP3's · · Score: 1

    Did you have no idea that you would be unable to play your purchased music on your cell phone when you purchased the music?

    Somewhere you clicked through a license, saying that you did acknowledge that you would not be able to play the purchased songs except on authorized devices.

    Yet you chose to purchase the music anyways. Now you want to change the contract you agreed to.

  16. Re:Don't do what china does on Judge Says U.S. Money Violates Rights of the Blind · · Score: 0
    Hence most other currencies uses different colours for each note.
    Doesn't this discriminate against color blind people?
  17. Re:LOL, Can you imagine it.. on An Indian On the Moon By 2020 · · Score: 1
    you useless call center dwelling curry muncher
    I can't stop giggling.
  18. Re:Web Myth: WinNT caused Navy ship to fail on Does Offshoring Threaten Combat Software? · · Score: 1
    The _Yorktown_ returned to port using two FFG-7 emergency control units
    If they would have been towed back to port, it would have been a faster voyage. They did NOT return to port under normal power, they used emergency control units. My speculation is that they also did not use the Microsoft software controlled system to get them back to port either.
  19. Re:Hooray! on The Hubble Lives On · · Score: 1

    I have reread this comment 5 times trying to find the 'funny' part. I give up.

  20. Yeah Yeah Yeah... heard it before on Apple Should Get Out of Hardware? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Apple... going out of business since 1976.

  21. Re:Unfortunately the ACLU is part of the problem on Blogging All the Way to Jail · · Score: 1

    I could consider donating money to the ACLU, if and only if they started protecting all of our rights protecting by the Constitution.

    (Ever see the ACLU defend a 2nd amendment case?)

  22. Re:But what about the Games!? on Apple's Device Model Beats the PC Way · · Score: 1

    It is true that the games that are published for the Mac usually lag behind their Windows counterparts by months or years. But I like to think of the Windows gaming community as a big filter; only the best of the Windows gaming world make it to the Mac.

    Side note: my first post (very long time lurker)