Comment: Re:Seems a bit late to post this! (Score 1) 175
Seems odd to post this *after* normal work hours in the UK. Did someone actually complain about this?
If they posted it before we would have had a great excuse not to turn out
Comment: Re:As we move into Memorial Day and Americans reme (Score 1) 181
You racist fucker!
You have just proved that you don't know what you are talking about. I am certainly not racially prejudiced, to be so I would have to be prejudiced against members of my own family. Many Muslim terrorists are white, I judge by actions and intentions not race.
Comment: Re:As we move into Memorial Day and Americans reme (Score -1, Flamebait) 181
Besides, the holiday has become nothing more than a day to fill young minds with propaganda about how EVERYONE is a hero no matter what, just for BEING IN the military. That way, we collectively put anyone joining the military on a pedestal. That way, we keep the machine fed so dumb young people are brainwashed by the rest of us into sacrificing themselves
That's pretty cynical. I do have great admiration for anyone who joins the military, for the simple reason they are putting their lives on the line. Granted not everything they are asked to do is worthwhile, but you can't argue that a country could do without a military. Without that we'd be an Islamic state by now - the Muslims have no qualms about attacking the undefended or wasting lives.
Comment: Re:Its an EU directive (Score 1) 192
While the British government might have implemented, the law comes from the EU.
It will be interesting to know if there was much gold plating though.
Comment: Re:A Very New Petition (Score 3, Funny) 202
"He who shall not be named"?
I'm assuming you're talking about Obama?
No, he is "He who should not be middle-named".
Comment: Re:To stop being sexist, stop being sexist (Score 1) 593
Affirmative action isn't intended to fix discrimination. Affirmative action is intended to fix the income gap caused by past discrimination. Fix that, and neighborhoods will integrate because the only way left to legally discriminate against anyone is via wealth. With integrated neighborhoods and (mostly) integrated schools and playmates, discrimination will (mostly) die away for that generation.
I don't see that happening much where I live. There are "rich black" neighbourhoods, where doctors, lawyers, and entrepreneurs live. There are rich Asian neighbourhoods, same thing. There are rich predominantly-white neighbourhoods, who do have one or two rich blacks or Asians, often very Westernised ones live.
Comment: Re:To stop being sexist, stop being sexist (Score 1) 593
But institutional racism and sexism still exist.
Does institutional sexism really exist? In most companies IT companies I have worked in the proportion of women at management level is much higher than the proportion of developers, analysts, and subject experts. Its almost as if being a woman guarantees promotion to management.
Comment: Re:Either way! (Score 1) 593
Why? Women are lazy and greedy. Alice doesn't want Betty to become successful, she just wants some other random chick to lose the contract to her so she can make money on the backs of Betty, Carl, Doug and Ed. Though Betty won't really do much anyway, because she'll just be chatting with Alice while the other three finish the work.
Unlike all the hard-working men who are getting on with their jobs rather than surfing slashdot.... oh.
Comment: Re:Oh come on... (Score 1) 593
Historically, boys, rather than girls, were encouraged to play with computers in the, "let's take it apart and upgrade it," sense.
must have been nice for you then. All I remember is getting my ass beat when I took something apart and that's a hell of a funny definition of "encouragement". I didn't own a computer until I was old enough to work and buy one at which point, I was free to take it apart as much as I wanted.
I'll second that. The trouble I got into for dismantling the heater next to my desk in history class was hardly "encouragement".
Comment: Re:..came on.. (Score 1) 517
Even with these weapons the US could still take out the entire countries infrastructure in about 3 - 5 days.
The trick that Iran will pull is the typical Muslim strategy of "attack us and we attack Israel/Civilian populations/Foreign nationals". These weapons are not designed to attack the USA but to make the USA think of what they could do to other countries.
Comment: Re:The Winter of our Disconnect (Score 0, Troll) 526
Germany has a long term plan to eliminate the long winter problem:
Global Warming.
Germany has a history of long term planning. Remember the "thousand year reich".
Comment: but... (Score 1) 67
"People who are outgoing, optimistic, easygoing, and have a good sense of humor and a large social network are likely to live longer than others who don't possess these personality traits
But I'm a computer nerd you insensitive clod
Comment: Re:Wait, what now? (Score 1) 441
Well, I use it for multi-platform C++ development and IMHO it is the best IDE for that language out there.
Is that Microsoft Multi-platform, like Windows 7, Windows server, and Windows mobile by any chance?
Comment: Re:No! (Score -1, Troll) 213
A few years ago I was in the Whitehouse and things were going bad. The economy was flopping, support was going, and even Michelle wasn't satisfied. Then I came across MyCleanPC, and things turned better. Michelle was happy, supporters rallying, the economy improving, and Michelle was getting what she wanted. Unfortunately I tried the advanced configuration options of MyCleanPC, and things got switched round. Michelle was growing instead of the economy and the country was well and truly fucked.
Comment: only if ... (Score 1) 213
It "turns out" that they have already independently developed their own browser.