Comment: Re:Nice. (Score 1) 194
And by useful, that means whichever language group has girls you think are the hottest, learn that one.
Klingon? Dothraki?
Comment: Re:Won't do much good (Score 1) 194
Well it is a step in the right direction. If you look at a globe Australia south of Far East Asia. Sure they can do business with the Yanks and the Brits, but they are missing their closest neighbors.
No it's ok - we talk English in New Zealand too.
Comment: Re:This is the entire fucking point (Score 1) 430
This is pretty much the same argument against requiring gun safes. If someone is too stupid to teach their kids what to do with the guns in the house then they're probably too stupid to have guns (or kids, for that matter) in the house.
Fortunately mother nature prevents stupid people from having children. Oh, wait...
+ - Apple under scrutiny for massive tax avoidance->
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Kittenman writes "Tweaktown are carrying news reported elsewhere; that Apple are under scrutiny for escaping some US$44billion (that's a billion, as per Carl Sagan) of taxes, between 2009 and 2012. CEO Tim Cook appeared/will appear before a Senate investigation on Tuesday.
Apple's testimony states that Apple 'pays all it's required taxes, both in this country and abroad' and that they do no use 'tax gimmicks'.
The case continues..."
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Apple's testimony states that Apple 'pays all it's required taxes, both in this country and abroad' and that they do no use 'tax gimmicks'.
The case continues..."
Link to Original Source
Comment: What did the Romans ever do for us? (Score 1) 201
Someone had to start it up.
Comment: Re:I've seen them in the wild twice: Chilling Effe (Score 2) 315
Of course, if people really want to record you clandestinely, they just use any of the dozens of tiny camera form factors that you don't even notice.
Totally agree. BTW, nice shirt.
Comment: 4GLs - language of choice, sometimes (Score 1) 256
I'm aware of two 4GLs that themselves write code in COBOL - so you'd write the code in LDL+, and press a button/turn a handle and it spits out COBOL (and ALGOL, and C I think... who cares). It's rare when us folk used to get down to the COBOL level.
Comment: Re:Relation to Ida? (Score 1) 25
This is very interesting - I just finished reading The Link by Colin Tudge, et al (You can get it here. I definitely recommend reading it
FWIW - thank for the link.
Comment: Re:Companies think they own my machine (Score 2) 512
I wish that people would have an OS that has a simple sandbox keeping software installation tools from installing whatever they want.
Hear that sound? It's a thousand LINUX users struggling to type fast enough on the keyboard.
Comment: When do we get the ... (Score 3, Interesting) 195
tit-for-tat expulsions that usually follow someone (innocent or guilty) getting nabbed? How long before the CIA nab a Russian agent in Washington DC?
Comment: Re:must... protect.... god... (Score 1) 294
I've got to change my default font, I first read that as "SMITE HIM WITH LLAMAS!" which was of course incorrect...
I would pay good money to see someone smited (smitten?) with llamas.
Not me. It's alpacas or nothing.
Comment: Re:Half the battle (Score 1) 112
I will now go for a drive, and crank the stereo.
It will be a real world test to see if becoming an anti-social jerk causes me to become black and enlarges my genetalia.
I'm proudly hispanic, but I'd trade the racial identity for an even bigger penis.
Let me know if if also helps develop a sense of rhythm. I play the tenor sax (badly) and can't dance.
Comment: Re:I figured out the problem (Score 1) 91
If a meter is not equal to a metre, where are we going ? A liter not being equal to a litre ? A ton not being equal to a tonne ? A gallon not being equal to a gallon ?
A ton isn't equal to a tonne. One's non-metric, the other is metric - and the weights (or masses, if you prefer) are different. And a gallon may not be equal to a gallon: there's a US gallon and an imperial gallon. Litres and metres are ok, barring quantum physics...
Comment: Re:This is just a symptom of a larger problem (Score 1) 668
Our country is devolving into an oligarchy. If you're not upper crust, your opinion is irrelevant. Our politicians cater to the fat cats
Forgive me, isn't that a plutocracy? Oligarchy is government by the few. Plutocracy is government by the rich. Sorry to split a hair but I thought it worth splitting.
Comment: It's a cultural thing (Score 1) 272
I lived in Rome for two years. We often saw young kids (4-8 or so) on the streets with family around midnight. Our 4-year-old was tucked up and snoring. Heck, I should have been tucked up and snoring...
Rule for life: Don't impose your viewpoints on others. This also applies to wanting the schools to start later to suit the kids who go to bed late. (Maybe start a different class with the same stuff, staggered by two hours... hey, there's in money in this... I hold the copyright, remember).
Rule for life: Don't impose your viewpoints on others. This also applies to wanting the schools to start later to suit the kids who go to bed late. (Maybe start a different class with the same stuff, staggered by two hours... hey, there's in money in this... I hold the copyright, remember).