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Comment: you guys will fight about anything (Score 1) 186

by Thud457 on Friday April 18, 2014 @09:25AM (#46786897) Attached to: Click Like? You May Have Given Up the Right To Sue

All Froot Loops flavors are NOT the same!

Comment: Who shot Mr Burns? (Score 1) 165

by Thud457 on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @05:19PM (#46773691) Attached to: 'Thermoelectrics' Could One Day Power Cars

you guys just really don't get it, do you?

Global warming is a non-issue. Elon Musk is going to put up a orbital sunshade and hold the world ransom to turn the lights back on.
And there's NOTHING you can do to stop him.

Comment: not trolling, really. well, maybe a little.. (Score 1) 351

by Thud457 on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @03:14PM (#46771877) Attached to: Kids Can Swipe a Screen But Can't Use LEGOs

Q: What's the most useless lego piece ?

Comment: waaaayyyy back in episode 1F13... (Score 1) 98

by Thud457 on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @10:45AM (#46767549) Attached to: Google Looked Into Space Elevator, Hoverboards, and Teleportation

all hail inanimate carbon rod^W tube!
Truly the chronicles of Homer are the fount of all wisdom.

Comment: I thought we all hated Canonical now (Score 1) 568

by Thud457 on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @04:48PM (#46760835) Attached to: Microsoft Confirms It Is Dropping Windows 8.1 Support

wow, it's 2014, and we're still hatin' on gentoo ricers?

Comment: tell 'em Chesty Puller said "hi"! (Score 1) 135

by Thud457 on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @04:39PM (#46760753) Attached to: U.S. Biomedical Research 'Unsustainable' Prominent Researchers Warn

Ike was a fuckin' pinko, right up there with Teddy Roosevelt.

Comment: fix the tax code for the 99.9% (Score 0) 383

by Thud457 on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @11:26AM (#46757009) Attached to: Slashdot Asks: How Do You Pay Your Taxes?

The average person shouldn't need to buy some complicated piece of software or hire a witchdoctor to determine their financial obligations to the state. The system is a pitiful mess, and vested interests are working hard to keep it that way. When you appoint me emperor, you can bet I'll fix that up right good.

Comment: WHOSE technical problems? (Score 5, Informative) 71

by Thud457 on Monday April 14, 2014 @11:28AM (#46747815) Attached to: NASA To Send SpaceX Resupply Capsule To ISS Despite Technical Problems

please note, the technical problems are on the ISS and have noting to do with any Space X equipment.

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Comment: WHO's the REAL threat? hmmmmmm?! (Score 1) 111

by Thud457 on Friday April 11, 2014 @05:40PM (#46729615) Attached to: $250K Reward Offered In California Power Grid Attack

I think he's saying a lazy, greedy, corporation is more dangerous than 1000 imaginary terrerists.

Comment: moderns EDUCATED STUPID on equality (Score 3, Interesting) 578

by Thud457 on Friday April 11, 2014 @12:17PM (#46726321) Attached to: Michael Bloomberg: You Can't Teach a Coal Miner To Code

It seems like some of the less deep thinkers these days get confused by our societal value of equality.
When the founding fathers said said "all men are created equal", they meant that the government should treat everybody the same out of general fairness.
They didn't mean that Dr J and Albert Einstein have the same attributes.

Anyhow, you most likely won't be successful retraining most coal miners to write code.
But it's not much of a stretch for most coders, particularly brogrammers like Marky Z, to learn to shovel shit.

Comment: what's cable, grandpa? (Score 0) 133

by Thud457 on Friday April 11, 2014 @09:50AM (#46724571) Attached to: Comcast PAC Gave Money To Every Senator Examining Time Warner Cable Merger

who the hell still pays for cable? cavemen?!
All the smart kids just stream games of throne on their smartphones. HA! You thought you had me there, but see, I didn't say on their itermanets!

The ONLY thing cable has to offer is live events (S P O R T S), and face it, this is slashdot.