Comment: Re:Please change the name! (Score 1) 340
What is with this reaction of Americans to the French/Latin word "libre"?
Because the frogs are all about accepting words based in non French?
Comment: Re:Good story, but a little long (Score 1) 84
I dunno. I kinda liked the bit about going down to Morganville with an onion tied to his belt.
Well, you're new around here, and probably a kid (judging by your UID), but I can assure you, that was the fashion at the time.
Comment: Re:Yes, but can you cut down a tree with... (Score 1) 214
a HERRING!
179 responses, and this is the best Monty Python reference we can get? Not a single mention of skipping and jumping or pressing wildflowers.
Slashdot is truly dying.
Comment: Re:Far Side... (Sqore:200, Insiteful) (Score 1) 24
The headline was supposed to read "Dark Side of the Moon", but Floyd
threatened to sue; Far Side has a far weaker legal team, it appears...
CAP = 'paralyze'
Gary Larson disagrees.
Comment: Re:They're just avoiding liability (Score 1) 330
Do I look all rancid and clotted? You look at me, Jack. Eh? Look, eh? And I drink a lot of water, you know. I'm what you might call a water man, Jack - that's what I am. And I can swear to you, my boy, swear to you, that there's nothing wrong with my bodily fluids. Not a thing, Jackie.
Comment: Re:Shareholders profits? (Score 1) 146
I am not used to shareholders able to foresee what can happen beyond 3 minutes.
FTFY.
And yeah, it's odd, but I can't think of any other explanation.
Comment: Re:A win? (Score 1) 327
UK.
I ask because we just had this tax passed last year for implementation this year. I thought our brand of insanity was unique. Guess not.
Comment: Re:A really slow news day (Score 1) 307
what's next? researchers use beads to do arithmetic?
Never heard of an abacus?
Comment: Re:Ukraine's borders were changed by use of force (Score 1) 304
Honestly I don't get the stance of some ppl from the US against Russia.
Russia is the best friend and has been the most loyal, the strongest and the most valuable ally for the USA. Really. At times of apocalyptic events Russians and Americans stood together. It was before and it may be again when we have to save the Earth itself. Nobody can help the US but Russia when things get hot. Alienating Russians is what make things worse.
Those things are called movies. The space aliens didn't really invade Earth.
Idiot, he was referring to the documentary about the asteroid that they blew up with the nuke. You know, when Daredevil makes out with Arwen.
Comment: Re:Shareholders profits? (Score 1) 146
Replying to myself: I assumed they would cut expenses to feed the shareholders but I was wrong. TFA explains:
Amazon generated a whopping $74.45 billion in revenue for its financial year to 31 December 2013, but just $274 million in net income, a margin of roughly 0.3 percent. It sells Kindles at cost.
Compare this with Google, which saw net income of $12.9 billion on revenues of $59.8 billion for the year to 31 December 2013, a margin on 21.6 percent; or to Microsoft, which posted revenue of $77.9 billion for the year to 30 June, with a net income $21.9 billion, a margin of 28.1 percent
Question is: how do they manage to make shareholders accept that?
I'm guessing the investors expect Amazon to become and stay the Walmart of the internet (or perhaps the Sears and Roebuck from catalog days) and be be able to either ramp up margins or pay them at that level for a LONG time.
Comment: Re:base it around my OS (Score 1) 386
IIRC, the standard deduction this year was $6900 for single payers. Pretty easy to top that via mortgage interest.
Comment: Re:A win? (Score 1) 327
Here, there's a fee to pay for the rain that lands on your property. It's a drainage fee - you have to pay the company that operates the storm drains to take it away.
Fellow MD resident?
Comment: Re:Seriously (Score 1) 327
Looks like the rest of your comment was truncated. Let me help:
"Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. "
Comment: Re:Think of all those poor accountants! (Score 1) 421
"Then candidate Bush referred to this as what? Something d-o-o economics. Anyone? Anyone?"
Comment: Re:Why is this crap on the internet (Score 1) 95
It was actually wishful thinking rather than faith. I've seen the same things you describe. I've also seen where things like this are swept under the rug forever. Then, the root cause analysis comes back and people flip shit because nothing was done about it in the past. Well, nothing other than ignore the recomendations of us morlocks...