Regular Guy: My employer doesn't embrace open source and took away our free sodas every friday.

Slashdot/Internet: OMFG! Don't put up with that shit! You are obligated by morality to dump that job and find another!

NSA Guy: Everyone is mad at me for participating in violating the constitutional and every inherent right of the entire American public and our biggest cheerleader won't even come visit us and make us feel better about what we do!

Slashdot/Internet: Oh, you poor baby. That is awful. Clearly you have no choice but to work there and it isn't your fault that you are participating in something so fucking hideous and heinous as this.

Except "terrorism" is the least thing it is being used for and, as per the president's own speeches, it is being used for things like "protecting America's economic advantage".

They've been upset for a long time, about doing secret, unapproved missions. It's a snowden LEAK that make their discontent ... public knowledge.

Meh. I disagree - I think most NSA employees love that they get to do something really james-bond-ish, get a blank-check budget, and have essentially unlimited power over everyone else. There is no doubt a strong voyeuristic angle to the whole thing. They're also, by and large, getting paid obscene amounts of money.

I've met a number of people who work government jobs with clearances and they all act so goddamn smug about it, I've wanted to punch them in the mouth.

I think they were all quite happy nobody knew the power they had; they were "getting away with it." Now that we do, they're demoralized because they don't get to lord over us with the mystique. Plus, robbing the cookie jar isn't fun when everyone sees you do it.

Fuck 'em. I hope the place becomes a miserable place to work and the whole thing falls apart at the seams.

You work at a sad sad place. Discussions where I work circle around the next motorcycle release from BMW, What the one LeMons racing team next year is going to do (Yes we have our own team) and how bad the latest release of the Compilers and IDE are and how we really should revert back to the less buggy version and just not tell management.

but legit purchases come with tech support! That is what makes actually buying their software so worth it!

Why again? get "the last ripper" and keep those last FM tracks forever and ever and ever.

http://code.google.com/p/thelastripper/

Apple DOES let you do that, get the camera kit like you are supposed to, back when I had a starter DSLR that only shot 10 megapixels I did it all the time.

Now my new DSLR, I did not even try because why in the world would I want to load up my tiny 64gig of storage space with 24megapixel photos when I have 5 32gig memory cards on me. and 32gig cards are dirt cheap.

Oh and please tell me WHAT android tablet has a standard USB A plug on it for your camera, you seem to be making things up about your complaints. Every single android tablet I have owned, Nexus 7, Nexus10, you have to do major hacks to get the micro USB to act as a host, certianly out of reach for 99% of tablet users.

Lastly please tell me what this fetish is with the newbie photographers wanting their DSLR connect to the tablet? there is no good reason at all for it. Slow usb2.0 transfers take forever and a day if you think you will be showing a "client" the photo. if you really are desperate to look like inspector gadget, buy EyeFi cards and transfer them wirelessly, that way you can shoot RAW+JPEG and have the jpegs go to the tablet and have the RAW files for real processing later. If I really need to show a client a photo, I simply pull the 15" laptop out of my camera bag and show them. But I highly discourage this as those are raw photos and breaks the flow. They can see the proofs later when we meet and I have had time to deal with them properly.

Every single old person with bad eyesight I have talked to LOVES IOS 7 because it's higher contrast and easier to read.

How did you come to your discovery? how many people did you talk to that used ios 6 and then used ios 7? Because my sample pool is about 20 people.

He said CHEAP. Nexus 10 is the same price as the base ipad.

the ONLY reason to use itunes is that you own an iDevice or want to buy from the Apple store. If you are not doing that, why the hell are you using itunes?

Yes. people go to their concerts or buy the songs from them, musicians rely on radio and streaming stations to get their music known and wanted by the public. If a station is making RECORD profits, then they must share that profit with the artists. nonprofits get to play all music for free as much as they want.

Wrong.

In medicine it is fully understood that you can pretty much bleed any patient's wallet dry.

Exactly.

Step1 - Stop going to ANY restaurant or delivered food. All of it is utter crap, stop eating it.
Step2 - Buy only foods that are from the fresh food section and meat section. Veggies+Meat and only dark brown breads with whole wheat/grains
Step3 - download and install myfitness pal and do it religiously.
Step4 - repeat.

The biggest is to abandon restaurants completely. Every place from McDonalds to a 5 star bistro only make low grade dog food. Stop eating that crap. This step alone will make a HUGE difference.

They already have that, It's called gastric bypass and liposuction. you dont even have to wait to lose the weight.

Most doctors education is lacking, Once the leave med school I don't see them going back for more education. My family doctor of 45 years graduated med school and became a GP in 1955, he even delivered me when I was born, and I saw him regularly until he died this past year. I know his education in medicine was way out of date but he was smart enough to refer me to a different doctor or specialist when It was needed. GP's need to do the same and refer patients to specialists that have more recent education that know about the treatments.

I know my doctor was the exception, he did house calls and worked until he died. I know he charged people what they could pay and refused to abide by the "minimum pricing racket" that the insurance companies and feds require. He became a doctor to help people, not to become wealthy. And he helped people all the way to the moment he died.

And yes the last 2 decades I drove all the way back to that small town to visit him as my doctor. Because I wanted a doctor that cared about people, not his Porsche. (He drove a Chevy btw...)