Geez, is the idiot running this the same one who was going to have a Koran burning?

How 'bout I have a Bible burning? How would any of you feel about that (ok, I see the guns coming out, that answers that).

Wonder how fast I could burn a Bible... maybe add liquid O2?

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Or maybe I'll pirate views of them. Give Disney money for screwing the US?

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... to come in on their side. I resent having to pay for a ton of channels that I will NEVER, EVER watch.

                      mark "interest in sports approaches zero as a limit"

These are Aggies, if not the ones at Bryan/College Station. I believe the professor.

Relevant points of information: when I relocated there in the late eighties, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that every sexist, racist, nationalistic, religious and every other kind of insulting joke was suddenly an Aggie joke. For example,
Q: How can you tell when an Aggie's doing word processing?
A: White-out all over the monitor.

And it goes downhill from there.....

                              mark "but then, what's led to the decline of the US is the MBA degree...."

That's really what this sounds like - you go to your lecture class, along with 200-400+ other students, get the lecture from the prof, phat chance to actually sit and talk to him, even in his "office hours", and go to your classes with the t/a.

This works *so* well in huge colleges, let's do it for kids and little kids.

Instead, say, of massively increasing funding for schools, and ensure NO CLASS IN THE COUNTRY in k-12 is over 24 kids.

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Moon? Oh, the convicted and served time in prison foreign agent? The one who thinks he is the Second Coming?

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Funny, where I work these days, and the contracts I had before, it was Dell, with a rare HP, and some Macs. I will note that I've only dealt with *enterprise* grade PCs and workstations, not "consumer" grade; certainly, Dell's enterprise support beats everyone else hands down. (And one that shall remain nameless, but who's retiring honcho owns a Hawaiian island and a fighter jet, is below "none of the above", and equal to "self-abuse".)

And it *did* say "PC", not "laptop", or anything else, or I'd have mentioned Lenovo.

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the search algorithms at google are so much worse than they were even five years ago. These days, the noise-to-signal ratio is *terrible* - I frequently do searches, and put a phrase, or couple of words in quotes, and put a + in front... and I see a para for a "hit", 2 or 3 down, and there's part of the phrase, without the rest, bolded. They're not even getting good hits for advertisers - it's anything that can vaguely be construed as related to your search.

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Why is this a report on slashdot? NewsMaxx is an extreme right-wing flakes and kooks site, for folks who think Faux News is liberal.

                            mark "Boomer, and I'd be happy to shake Snowdon's hand in appreciation for what he did".

Ah, yes, non-readable logs, because they're Poettering's brilliant idea of binary logfiles that require a special tool to read....

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I mean, energy deregulation and the "free market" worked *so* well in California a dozen years ago. (This assumes that slashdotters reading this are old enough to remember that, or are at least willing to read the news stories about the criminals selling the energy....)

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Google is far worse than it used to be, signal-to-noise ratio. Part of the time, it does not appear to respect quoted search terms, even with a "+" in front. I now frequently see part of a word that was quoted, bolded in the non-sponsored results.

It also refuses to allow explicit literal searches: I have an artist friend who uses a period as part of her name - google says "nope, not gonna look for name. lastname, I'll ignore it and look only at name lastname".

Finally, I've found too many times in the last year that one of my search terms isn't even mentioned on the page from the results.

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and most slashdotters, like most of the media, don't want to look.

However, tell me another way to get national attention to a protest if you're not Rupert Murdoch, or one of the Koch Bros. "Money equals free speech" means that if you ain''t a multimillionaire, and don' t have the right friends, your "free speech rights" are utterly meaningless.

Let me also note that the 22yr old who committed suicide on the Capitol steps was also protesting, asking Congress to tax the 1%.

Maybe these guys are doing it wrong. Maybe they needed to go to the Capitol steps, go into full lotus position, and burn themselves to death, and maybe *then* their protest would get attention. It certainly did during 'Nam, when the Buddhist monks did it....

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Riight. More UIs designed by managers who Know How It Should Go, and wouldn't dream of letting a designer or (heaven forfend!) a programmer from talking to end users to find out how they need to *use* the software....

Been there, dealt with that. The Scummy Mortgage* co, of Austin, TX, had software for its collection dept written that in in the late eighties, and the staff avoided using it as much as they possibly could.

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* Actual name of co available upon request.

And if you do, too, then I have this *great* little moneymaker for sale, I just can't move right now, but there's this bridge that you can set a tollbooth up on, in a northeastern city.....

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