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Comment selective listening (Score 1) 936

So it seems from the article when she was told by the store manager on *Friday* to leave she understood that. Yet when she is asked by the manager on *Monday* to leave the store all of a sudden she doesn't understand english ? Pah-leese.

I hate this culture of victim-hood where instead of owing up to doing something wrong the wrong-doer becomes the focus of grievence theater and every *else* is to blame.

And yeah, unless there is a Lexus parked outside or a mortgage banker waiting for a down payment (assuming it was legal to search her purse and ask) I would be very curious to know what she was doing with 16k in her purse on a plain old monday morning when she had bought phones *online*

Submission + - Up to 10 Years for Ex-Goldman Programmer (nytimes.com)

TTL0 writes: Prosecutors are asking a federal judge to sentence a former Goldman Sachs computer programmer who stole proprietary code to up to 10 years in prison, according to a filing.

The programmer, Sergey Aleynikov, was convicted in December of stealing proprietary code, which generated some $300 million dollars for Goldman in 2009 by executing ultra-fast trades using computer algorithms that catch tiny price discrepancies in stock prices.

Comment James Madison Said It First (Score 2, Interesting) 178

"Measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.

Alert to the dangers of majoritarian tyranny, the Constitution's framers inserted several anti-majority rules.
http://www.capitalismmagazine.com/politics/democracy/5496-Abhorrence-Democracy-and-Mob-Rule.html

Comment Re:Apparently Obama knows not Grigsby & Cohen (Score 1) 763

Sure we can cancel H1-b but then the liberal media would be full of all sorts of sympathy stories about how america is actually deporting all these people and stirring up comparisons to the nazis add that w/ a few pictures of their kids being forced to leave P.S 139 and find a republican scapegoat and you have enough for MSNBC and CNN to keep the their front pages full for weeks !

Comment she must have lots of self esteem (Score 0, Flamebait) 929

What is it about the self esteem generation that makes kids so stupid ?!?

Tell you what ms. sussman, why dont you fly back home via Mexico and cross into the US via the El Paso/Juárez border wearing a bong hits for jesus t-shirt and a back pack full of Cheech and Chong dvds and let us know how that works out.

Comment Re:OH yes.. (Score 1) 324

Alternatively, "Ballmer's lack of reply is most likely due to the fact when he clicked on the reply button he got a message like 'you must upgrade to IE7 to reply to this message'"

of course if he said the OL crashed or that he had to stick in his original office cd to install the reply function i would believe that too.

NASA

An Early Look at the NASA MMO 208

Big Download is running an article with details and screenshots from the MMO under development by NASA. The game makes use of Unreal Engine 3, and it's titled Astronaut: Moon, Mars and Beyond. A demo is planned for later this year, and in 2010 they expect "the first episodic installment of the game" to come out. Jerry Heneghan, founder and CEO of Virtual Heroes, described it thus: "This game is going to be a fresh look at the future circa about 2035. ... The core of the gameplay is going to be people building up their characters and as you move forward, you will have more options unlock with new places to go, new equipment to use and new things to do. We are not so much focused on interstellar flight and all that entails... the gameplay is actually about being in a habitat on a planetary surface and doing things like mining Helium-3 for fuel, operating a hydroponics facility to grow plants and create oxygen and operating robots and vehicles."

Comment obama - right on track (Score 1) 1489

he ran left for the primaries and is moving center for the general election. sounds like a plan to me.

so his message to all of you who think that obama realy embraced the ideals of moveon.org and the daily kos is "thanx for hitch - I'll call you when i get to washington"
or better "so long and thanks for all the fish"

better luck next time.

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