It is the same fucktards who spend $100,000+ on a watch. Hell, even spending $10,000 on a Rolex are idiots -- Who knew the price of vanity was so high!

> To anyone about to say real estate is an investment, go look at his electric bill, cleaning bill, and property taxes.

Spot on!

If it costs you money it is a liability
If it makes you money, it is an investment.

People who buy watches over $5,000 only prove that they have more money then brains.

I have seven children. We almost never had to let a child cry themselves to sleep, but I do suspect that may have to do with our kids' individual wiring and that crying to sleep might be the best solution in other situations. Most of our infant sleep problems were resolved when we realized our kids were much hungrier than experts predicted and started feeding them a lot more! Giving the baby another bottle turned out to be the number one way to get our babies to fall asleep with less fuss. When they get a little older (around 3-4 years) there are occasional times when a temper tantrum goes right into sleep.

I applaud any attempt to bring neuroscience and other scientific insights to bear on childrearing, but I question the idea that somebody who is an expert in one of these sub-issues would also be an expert in the others. Sounds like we are committing the logical fallacy of assuming that because one person is an expert in one field they are an expert in all. Maybe these are all related, but it just seems to me that neuroscience is complex enough that an answer to one of these questions doesn't have a lot of bearing on the answer to others.

I'm a father of seven, and I do a lot of work with my kids that could be called timeout, although I don't know if it fits anyone else's idea of what timeouts are. I make my children follow the same rule I was given for myself from a clinical psychologist: when you are angry or upset, don't say or do anything until you relax, because everything you are thinking of saying or doing is a bad idea. Over time you build up the habit of relaxing in the face of frustration, and when you do your brain stops putting so much energy into angry outbursts and starts putting it into actually solving your problem. Also you are a lot less likely to whack somebody that you want to be friends with for the rest of your life. I have a hard time believing that neuroscience would yield any results that say this is a bad idea for child rearing, but maybe they mean something different by "timeout."

I used to work systems security at a bigcorp. If a member of our team walked away with his workstation unlocked, someone would immediately jump on it and change his public status message. The standard was: "Don't worry, I'm insecurity!"

Well... to download spell checkers, for one.

LOL, that's great. Classic "pot calling the kettle black".

I've had many calls from those miserable sons of bitches. The first thing they say is "This is Windows Technical Support. Your computer has a virus." They persist even if I tell them I am running Linux. I've tried telling them to prove it by telling me what my IP address is, and they ignore that too and plow on with their script. When I ask them for their name and phone number so I can call them back is when they usually hang up on me.

What I find strangest is that, given how relatively expensive it is to run a boiler room, it is somehow still profitable to try ths. Adding computers to zombie networks just doesn't seem worth that much trouble, isn't valuable enough to warrant trying to do it on an individual basis over the phone. So, they must be after something more lucrative, like information for commmitting credit card fraud and identity theft.

Who let the dogs out? The 3D printer did.

If this is true (I'll take your word for it), it says more about the meaning of stock market valuations than about Yahoo per se. On one hand we have an established but declining internet advertising company. On the other - all the public companies of a large, heavily industrialized, nuclear armed, multi-continental nation. Really?

1. Board sez: "Increase profits!"
2. ?????
3. Profit!

Consider: cryptome.org has long refused on principle to support HTTPS. Their reasoning seems to be that it is better for users to know they have zero privacy, than to believe they do have some privacy. Just something to think about.

Oppressors complaining the oppressed are oppressing them. Fun fun fun!

One amusing difference: The A-Team were fugitives from "justice". Whereas many self-described "social justice warriors" are apologists for the police state.

Your privilege is not my privilege, you filthy capitalist bigot.

Who's bitching? We like being called pirates. Everyone is a pirate. Sadly, some people are still ashamed of it, or afraid of copyright enforcement, but that will change. Sharing was the old normal, and will be, or already is, the new normal.

Everyone will eventually realize that the copyright extremists were controlling, tyrannical, hypocritical, propagandizing, rent-seeking scum. They twist meanings to equate copying with theft, and moralize to us about theft while they commit the very "thefts" they complain we do. They will take their place in history as bad guys akin to the Inquisition.