Surely, the news of a video driver that "works fine if you don't care about performance or are fine with running hardware that's a few generations old" is the awesome secret magic that the masses have been waiting for. And it's free as in beer! As long as you don't care about your mug of beer being poured from 20 mugs of swill. The only thing holding my nana back from ditching windows is lack of an apk-approved HOSTS file for the ooboontooo.

Instead of misusing words like 'homophobia' and 'hypocrisy', how about you actually explain in essay form, what is homophobic, and what is hypocritical? Correct answers must also explain why someone who is so pissed off at this article appearing on slashdot is so engaged in the comment thread.

While I realize that the GOP is adamant in its opposition of funding public education -- despite the long-term ramifications such a policy has toward global competitiveness -- surely, your coloring books depicting Jesus Riding Dinosaurs taught you that when citing primary sources, you should make sure that they support your argument?

Operation-Hilarity-Failed-Yet-It-Succeeded

So let me get this straight, in your world, the chances of "the one candidate who has a chance against Obama" is such a weak candidate that a small number of Democratic voters in Michigan is able to futz with his ability to secure the GOP nomination? Wow. I knew Republicans were shitting bricks, but I didn't realize that they were shitting so many bricks that they could build a Romney-sized mansion out of them, complete with a Romney car-elevator.

Somehow you've confused Santorum's homophobia -- homophobia that as a Senator, he sought to have inscribed into the letter of the law of the United States; homophobia that as a Presidential candidate, he sought to have executed by the powers of the office -- with a successful, embarrassing-to-said-homophobe re-definition of his surname.

I don't understand your outrage. You should praise the beauty that is the living language we call English.

The second part of your point (respectfully bolded for your genius):

Contradicts the first part of the point that you thought you were making:

Given the above,

Regardless of your clear genius, the political direction of the US Congress, Presidency (and judiciary that they put into power) directs the crafting and execution of legislation that applies to geeks. If your head wasn't preoccupied with spelunking the deeper regions of your colon, you'd be aware of such geek-centric topics as net neutrality, copyright, and piracy, and how US policy is deeply intertwined with global policy.

That is, people who view Mormanism as an anti-Christian cult, and thus, distrust Romney. Romney's pledge to "Say whatever it takes to agree with the crowd I am currently speaking in front of" has only fueled this distrust.

That is to say...

...is an idiotic belief* not grounded in any sense of history or reality.

* In other words, 'the belief of an idiot'.

To my dearest Thomas,
The results of elections affect the entire world. Please instruct your ignorance to go fuck itself, and please take time out of your day to send Mr. Frothy-Mix a letter asking him how he thinks people without insurance deal with the hospitalization of a 3-year-old.

Yours,

yours.

FTFA:

The farthest point on Earth from me is in the middle of the fucking ocean, and I don't feel the need to exclaim to my wife "Honey! I've discovered the best place on Earth where we can fuck like animals while I teach you the superiority of a properly-configured HOSTS file vs. antimalware software!"

It's so expensive!

You are only visible to people when they need you. If you're not available when they need you, they assume that you're always unavailable. You think people are thinking about YOU when they're asleep at 2AM? And when they -are- in distress at 2AM and you answer a call, you think the pressing thought in their mind is that you were there, and not the problem they're experiencing that's freaking them the fuck out at 2AfuckingM? Why would they be impressed that you're doing the job that you're being paid to do -- afterall, if they're calling you at 2AM, they're in the middle of doing their own job; you want special kudos? People are self-centered, and Information Technology is thankless; it's not going to change, and you'll be happier if you just accept it, even if it's not fair.

How in the fuck were the Apple II or the original Mac "leaps forward" of the competition? You're busting our balls, right? As much as I loved Oregon Trail, the Turtle program, and Odell motherfucking Lake, Apple produced overpriced pieces of shit (and seriously, I only pay a nickel-per-log for regular pieces of shit, and that's when I'm desperate), until they created the iPod.

It is a known fact that burglars skip over houses that have dogs in them in favor of houses without dogs. The same should hold for your scooter. As an added benefit, if you pick the right breed, the coolness of the dog will balance-out the total uncoolness of the scooter and you might still have a chance at getting laid.

-- if it doesn't succeed in protecting your data, it'll make your wife die trying.

to the articles he posts.

I am aware that he doesn't even read the content of the submissions he posts.

I am 100% aware of this.

I am an atheist.

And yet I pray, I pray to the fucking universe, to the space-time continuum, and to faster-than-light neutrons, that Timothy reads this comment and enrolls himself in a goddamned fucking community college Writing 101 course.

coondoggie writes "Cerf says he profoundly feels the advent of cameras everywhere and the ability to post video and photos online can be hugely disconcerting

Who the fuck is "Cerf" Timothy? How can you possibly not realize what a poor summary that is? What exactly does it feel like to fail upward? Does it feel like floating? Is that why you don't give a shit about your one and only job here: goddamned fucking editing?