Your taxes go to pay for things we ALL need. Like roads, and firemen and teachers. When someone cheats on their taxes, they're cheating ALL of us!

Ahh ha ha! Why do you guys make me read this shit? They know we're just going to tax the crap out of them to pay for hooker and cocaine parties for Washington lobbyists! Why LIE to them? !#%!WA

Yup. The lawyers will get $30 million, and the users will get a $10 gift certificate to Hot Topic. Which they also don't have in Canada! Damn you, Bell Mobility!

Too bad the scientific method is no match for the stick-your-fingers-in-your-ears-and-yell-la-la-la-la-la method.

It can probably check your birthday on your facebook page. That information is probably also encoded on the magstripe or 3D bar-code on your driver's license.

I'll get right on that...

AWW! I accidentally COPIED it! God damn it! Hang on...

AWW! Now there are FOUR copies! And one of them's on xtube! Oh well, at least all the waving penises in the ads will distract you from the content of the video. What kind of idiot tries to DELETE things from the INTERNET anyway? Every time you try, THIS is what happens!

Those shiny geegaws might do well on the consumer side but there's always going to be some bank or some company that's going to need a batch processor running mainframe assembly running somewhere. There's plenty of room to work in things you don't think suck. I'm seeing more opportunities to do development work on Linux platforms lately, not fewer.

You have to solve your problems, though. If you think all GUI libraries currently suck, you could just write your own. You don't have to be satisfied with existing software, if you can just make your own.

I've been burned so many times by AMD's hardware in the past that I won't even consider buying anything of theirs anymore, no matter how awesome it is. They could make a hand job robot with perfect Linux drivers, don't care, wouldn't buy it.

AMD could get back on my list by NOT SUCKING for, oh, about a decade, but I don't see it happening. Say what you will about Nvidia, I've never had to spend two days fixing a system after upgrading THEIR drivers.

For once Microsoft actually gave users something they'd actually want. I'm actually starting to avoid youtube because of how obnoxious it's becoming. If youtube were my killer app, Microsoft's implementation would completely eliminate all the suck that's been introduced to youtube over the past year, and then-some! That'd be enough for me to buy their device. I'll give them props when they deserve it (They occasionally do.)

Since Google's inevitably going to shoot them down, I'm going to have to start looking for someplace else to upload my videos from now on. Maybe xtube. They're not pornographic, but at least there all you have to deal with is a browser full of waving penises while you watch your video. It's like a forest of penises, gently waving in the breeze...

Could you use it to drive clicks for ads on a web page? Is there any URL it'd be interesting for Microsoft to be clicking on a lot? livegoatporn.com maybe?

Yeah, but you're selecting for bystanders who can dodge bullets! That's what he's on about! Give everyone a gun! (300M guns in the USA we're pretty much already there!) If you survive you must be pretty reasonably good at dodging bullets! By the fourth or fifth generation we'll have kids who can dodge bullets like Neo! Then to win any war we just drop one guy with 2 handguns and a black duster onto the battlefield and he just stalks through the place picking off bad guys and calmly dodging anything they shoot at him!

Seems like defamation and extortion to me, but I'm not a lawyer. If they keep this up, they won't be either.

I wish I could. You don't have to go far to find some stupid shit on TV, apparently. It'd be a problem if I had kids, because I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want cable in that case, and I also wouldn't want them being exposed to it by their friends. "Tell me you're not going over there to watch TV, son. Oh, you're just playing violent video games? Well that's OK then!"

Dude on another forum I read was talking about hanging out in Malysia or somewhere and getting barbecued tarantula. I'd give that a shot. I eat crawly things out of the ocean on a pretty regular basis, don't see as how it's all that much different.

I find it vaguely ironic how many of my fellow US citizens wouldn't just eat anything that's put in front of them.

By golly, this is terrible! You know, I think I'm going to get elected and fix it! Hmm, that means I'm going to need a campaign and... how much money... eew... yeah... Some donors. A LOT of donors. Of course, I look out for my friends! Any of my donors want to be "Minister of Calenders"? I can totally do that if I get elected! Oh... my god... what have I become! Ok, effective immediately, I feel I must step down from my campaign, having been corrupted by campaign donations!

Hmm. I wandered over to the dropzone after work to get a skydive in. In the tandem waiting area, they have 3 TVs up, one of which has sound. The screen with sound has recently been tuned to a reality TV network which yesterday was featuring a segment of people getting hit in the nuts. Today it was some cops thing. I can't wait there too long, I feel my brain cells killing themselves one by one. They survived all that tequila, and now this. Terrible way to go.

In this media wasteland, you could do worse than a show with reasonably good writing that's not violent or cynical. The show is not a 20 minute cereal commercial, is not likely to cause epileptic seizures, and isn't so infantile that an adult can't sit through it. In other words, I approve of it, and I don't approve of... anything, really.

It was a good jump. There are two benches in the King Air which you straddle on the ride up. I was going out first, so I got the end seat, on the floor by the door. It was hot on the plane, so I opened it from 2000 to 6000 feet. It got a bit chilly at that point, so I closed it again. At 12000 feet, I exited the vehicle and went tracking for about half a mile before deploying my parachute. I'm... so not their target demographic. I'm also not the kind of person to be ashamed to admit that I like something I like. I'm also not the kind of person to snap to a judgment about an entire group of people, possibly after being exposed to their lunatic fringe. So... ha-ha! Feel the wrath of my frown of disapproval! :-/