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Comment Yep... (Score 1) 224

by Kazoo the Clown (#47994505) Attached to: Where Whistleblowers End Up Working
Terrorism, the universal justification for pretty much every imaginable government abuse. Far better than blaming a conspiracy of an ethnic group like the previous generation fascists chose, terrorism is better because it can apply to anyone, regardless of ethnic makeup. Plus, it never ends, there will no doubt always be terrorists, or at least always someone that can be accused of it. Anyone you don't like can be accused of "helping the terrorists." When in actual fact, blaming terrorists itself helps the terrorists. See? We can all play that game.

Comment Climate has got the 1% attention... (Score 1) 200

Yep, the 1% sees their assets at risk. So it gets news coverage. Try protesting against Citizen's United or the banking abuses, and it would take far more people than 400,000 to get any kind of coverage. As far as I am concerned, SCREW THEM. Let their mansions get washed out to sea. If they can't address the complete corruption of money in politics, I don't give a damn about climate change. Bring it on.

Comment Re:Only cost them 25 percent of customer bills? (Score 3, Insightful) 249

by Kazoo the Clown (#47962867) Attached to: Small Restaurant Out-Maneuvers Yelp In Reviews War

It's worse than that! The company I work for has one negative review on Yelp, but several positive reviews "pending" that they won't publish unless we pay them! And the negative review was over the fact that they didn't yet have a quote from us for custom work for which they hadn't provided us the requested details. Looking at the page now, it does look like they published two of the positive reviews, but there are still a handful held in limbo. How long between the authoring and publishing of the negative review, though? No time at all.

This is enough reason right here to distrust EVERY review on Yelp. So what are the best anti-yelp sites? Has Yelp bought YelpSucks.com yet?

Comment Re:The reason why you're told to cut salt for high (Score 1) 291

by Kazoo the Clown (#47881697) Attached to: Link Between Salt and High Blood Pressure 'Overstated'

My physiology professor explained it to me years ago. There's two reasons. First, we're told to cut salt not because salt is bad, but because we eat shitty food filled with salt. Telling people to avoid salt is easier than telling them to avoid bad foods.

Yeah, that's what I did. Avoided salt and went for the carbs instead. Now I've both high blood pressure AND am type 2. Worked great. Protein, often high in salt, or carbs. Choose your poison.

Comment Lisp, Forth, APL, J, Prolog, PostScript (Score 1) 387

by Kazoo the Clown (#47862549) Attached to: Unpopular Programming Languages That Are Still Lucrative
And of course x86 or RISC Assembler...

old languages never die, the programmers just start charging a prohibitive amount of money to code in them. Forth is only justifiable doing embedded programming when you don't have an OS. APL and J are only justifiable if you don't have a popular OS, AND you're stuck with a low speed printing terminal.

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