willworkforbeer - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:totally untrue (Score 1) 1034

by willworkforbeer on Friday May 25, 2012 @06:17PM (#40114729) Attached to: Are Porn and Video Games Ruining a Generation?

Not so, you're just doing a headstand & pretending.

Comment: Works for me (Score 5, Funny) 52

by willworkforbeer on Monday May 14, 2012 @07:42PM (#40000837) Attached to: Wireless Implants Promise Superior Vision Restoration

Implants always cause my vision to suddenly improve.

Comment: Re:Poseurs (Score 1) 241

by willworkforbeer on Monday May 14, 2012 @11:09AM (#39994965) Attached to: Member Claims Anonymous "Might Well Be the Most Powerful Organization On Earth"

...like the best way for determining a guy is involved in a criminal enterprise is when he claims to be "a legitimate businessman".

Comment: I've seen every episode of Trek (Score 1) 140

by willworkforbeer on Sunday May 06, 2012 @07:48AM (#39907157) Attached to: How Romanian Fortune Tellers Used Google To Fleece Victims

And I don't recall the average Romulan ever being quite this sneaky. I'm betting she's Tal Shiar.

Comment: Re:Don't want to be targeted? (Score 1) 270

by willworkforbeer on Tuesday March 27, 2012 @12:48PM (#39486035) Attached to: Why Gay Men Are Worth So Much To Facebook

"worse" as in, "1000x more awesome"?

Comment: Re:Struggling with this in my household (Score 5, Interesting) 489

by willworkforbeer on Friday March 02, 2012 @04:13PM (#39224197) Attached to: Is Poor Numeracy Ruining Lives?

Am I the only one who feels the urge to raise a toast to someone who adopted not 1, but 5, children from foster care? Well done.

Comment: Re:DECtalk (Score 1) 146

by willworkforbeer on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @09:22AM (#38649820) Attached to: Glimpse of Stephen Hawking's Computer

It was supposed to be a Klatt for scale.

+ - Total cost of Chevy Volt is closer to $250,000-> 0

Submitted by willworkforbeer on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @11:41AM

willworkforbeer writes "The taxpayer subsidies for the Chevy Volt create the perception that while it may appear to run on batteries, the Volt ultimately runs on pork. http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/16192"
Link to Original Source

Comment: Re:It stands to reason that... (Score 1) 123

by willworkforbeer on Saturday December 17, 2011 @09:08AM (#38407994) Attached to: Technical Details Behind the LAN-Party Optimized House

No, he's using the wrong funnel.

Comment: If you work overtime, you're taking other's work (Score 1) 1167

by willworkforbeer on Friday December 02, 2011 @12:22PM (#38238626) Attached to: US Senator Proposes Bill To Eliminate Overtime For IT Workers

At least, I think that's the "rationale" You are taking more than your fair share of available work. This should discourage such greed.

Comment: Extra quotation marks do add interest... (Score 2) 59

by willworkforbeer on Sunday November 27, 2011 @09:26AM (#38181382) Attached to: 'Amateur' Astronomer Snaps Pic of Planet-Forming Disk

"Rolf Olsen" an "amateur" "astronomer" in "New Zealand" took an "amazing" photo of a "disk" of material around the "star" Beta Pictoris... making this a "milestone" for amateur "astronomy."

Comment: Suggested name (Score 1) 298

by willworkforbeer on Monday November 14, 2011 @10:08AM (#38047826) Attached to: Scientists Develop Super-Slippery Material

Politicium?

Comment: Re:The 1 Trillion number is incorrect (Score 1) 917

by willworkforbeer on Thursday October 20, 2011 @12:47PM (#37777526) Attached to: US Student Loans Exceed $1 Trillion

So the Obama Stimulus could have paid off every student loan in America with cash left over?

Comment: Re:REDUNDANT DEPARTMENTS? (Score 2) 2247

by willworkforbeer on Thursday October 20, 2011 @12:19PM (#37776720) Attached to: Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets)

(My 'insert state here' got dropped) We are already paying for a STATE Department of Education.

Comment: REDUNDANT DEPARTMENTS? (Score 1) 2247

by willworkforbeer on Thursday October 20, 2011 @12:17PM (#37776682) Attached to: Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets)

Why are we paying for a Federal Department of Education when we are already paying for a Department of Education?