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Comment: Lotus Notes!!! (Score 1) 332

by xQx (#38853511) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Money-Making Home-Based Tech Skills?
BUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Lotus Notes?!!!?! ... Your post almost seemed coherent, but then you ended it with ... LOTUS NOTES!?!!

Speaking of pretending we are still living in the 90's... why don't you plug that first-rate, extendible, user-friendly email software into your brand new Novel network, and ask to be paid more money than your boss!

While you're programming in Notes, why don't you brush up on your COBOL skills to make sure you're employable well into the future!

Comment: Surprise them with a pop-up cube card (Score 1) 399

by xQx (#38847497) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Techie Wedding Invitation Ideas?
I did this for my wedding, everyone loved it.

I must warn you though, it's not easy and you will be bloody sick of it by the time you've made 80 of them.

See the finished result here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgJbxDYSZX8

And how to make it here: http://extremecards.blogspot.com/2009/11/rubber-band-pop-up-cube.html

Comment: Boo frickin' hoo. (Score 1) 913

by xQx (#36572478) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: CS Degree Without Gen-Ed Requirements?

"I've been a nerd since I was 13 and I want a uni degree but I won't want to have to learn about stuff that doesn't relate to my narrow field of interest"

University isn't about giving you skills to be a better computer programmer. The gen-ed courses are the most important - they force you to learn about how the rest of the world works, and how nobody in the real world gives a rats arse about the differences between .NET and perl.

If you want to be a computer programmer for the rest of your life, why are you going to uni in the first place? Just go and hit the job market until you find someone who will employ you on your programming skills.

Look on the bright side - Those annoying gen-ed classes (especially the ones in the art faculty) are likely to have some girls in `em. And as any uni-grad will tell you - THAT is what university is really about.

Comment: The rich are not _SUPPOSED_ to pay taxes! (Score 1) 1193

by xQx (#33980558) Attached to: How Google Avoided Paying $60 Billion In Taxes
Even back in the days of kingdoms the rich tycoons didn't pay taxes.

Taxes are a way for the king (now government) to get income back from the individuals in the kingdom who don't naturally contribute (on balance) to the kingdom.

The likes of Microsoft, Google, Warren Buffett and Donald Trump don't have to pay taxes and shouldn't pay taxes because their contribution to society is giving others thousands of others jobs - and those thousands of others pay taxes - in essence they don't have to pay tax themselves because they have _CREATED_ wealth for the kingdom.

Company taxes are immoral and sneaky, because it is a double tax - shareholders and employees pay taxes when they selfishly earn income that they have a tendency to not share with others (by saving).

The moral to the story is stop bitching about the fact that you are paying taxes, and do something for society and try to become one of the people who employs thousands of others - and thus deserves the right not to pay taxes, rather than sitting on a wage, saving every penny you can, and bitching that the government is forcibly taking 30% of that to pay for services that you have otherwise done nothing to fund.

These loopholes are just a modern day incarnation of what used to be a gentlemen's agreement with the king.
Medicine

Doctor Invents 'Zero Gravity' Radiation Suit 83

Posted by samzenpus
from the baron-harkonnen-approved dept.
DrFrasierCrane writes "You think you feel weighed down when your dentist lays that lead apron on you to take X-rays: how about the doctors who deal with radiation treatments and have to wear those aprons all day long? A Dallas, Texas, doctor has created a 'zero gravity' radiation suit for just that problem. From the article: 'Physicians are supposed to wear a lead apron during those procedures. It is back-breakingly heavy and doesn't cover the body completely. The zero gravity suit eliminates the weight and the exposed openings.'"

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