Flamebait my ASS, motherfrakin' asshat. I'm commenting on my OWN comment's comment and you dare mark me flamebait. Fortunately for you, i am not omnipotent nor above the law. Otherwise....

To the one who modded me to flamebait, you seem to not realize that left unchecked, mshaft would be one of the most fucking dangerous companies on the planet. Maybe you're an ms shill. You surely cannot be impartial, especially when you can hide behind an undisclosed moderator shield. Moderators, are in effect, anonymous, and some are cowards. They get to be because by design slashdot doesn't require nor allows moderators to JUSTIFY their actions.

No, i had no misconceptions.... Apparently, some rabid moderators here doing the Lt Calley slash/burn don't understand tongue-in-cheek, so unlike you, by commenting, they run and nuke me from 0 to flamebait. Seems they need some upbraiding.

Installing parking meters in residential areas is on SF's mind:

Cashing in with more parking meters:
http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/City-could-cash-in-with-more-parking-meters-51363987.html

"Residential areas are packing in more people The City is projected to take in more than 150,000 new residents in the next three decades and the need to manage traffic and parking availability is becoming a key concern for transportation planners, according to a new study by the San Francisco County Transportation Authority."

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Exhaustive Parking Study
http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/07/21/sfcta-completes-exhaustive-parking-study-supervisors-delay-action/

"The study estimated there are more than 600,000 parking spaces in San Francisco, of which 320,000 are on-street and only 24,000 are regulated with parking meters. Residential parking permits (RPPs), as evidenced by the map above, have been added throughout the city in an ad-hoc fashion and in many areas are not synthesized with metered parking."

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Bilkable Meters:
http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/Electronic-city-parking-meters-are-easy-to-bilk-52402397.html

"The so-called e-parking meters installed in 2003 for around $25 million include features that are supposed to deter theft, according to manufacturer J.J. MacKay Canada.

But a trio of programmers and engineers say it took them only three days to create imposter cards that can offer free metered parking in The City.

Through computer code, the security researchers said they discovered how value is stored on the prepaid cards and were able to create fake cards valued at $999.99. They also found out how to create cards that wont deplete in value after being used."

... Will be buzzing, busy, DIZZY bees if they sip too much. Maybe a little MSG will give them the msg (message) to be sleepy...

msoft is involved with or actively and quietly coercing hardware manufacturers (especially consumer computers/laptops/cell phones/multipurpose devices capable of loading and usefully running Linux or non-windows apps/OSs), then i dare say that ms needs to be NUKED TO HELL by any and all means possible. I won't do it myself, but if an escrow account asking for money popped up, i would seriously consider donating a few dollars (unless the government turned me into a pussy wishing to avoid jail/prison time).

If they call it something like "Legal fund to put ms into restraints" (or, at least didn't use obvious terms that imply illegal plans to illegally depose ms once and for all), then i would imagine those in favor of crippling/knee-capping and skull-cracking ms the entity should be legally safe ... After all, there are all sorts of charities that are not under scrutiny (and some, for anti-terrorism reasons and banking irregularities/money laundering activities) in which a court might not find against an individual. I would imagine the perps would have to set up, operate, and account as a legitimate business... until the VERY END, when they hear that frackin' tune that switches Cylons on...

But, tell you what, I'd rather be a sleeper Cylon or turgid Hybrid water than yield to mshaft... If, only IF i had a magic wand with any wish available... of ALL the possible wishes, i'd even give up immortality to see a handful of companies pummel mshaft into permanent oblivion. It would force individuals, companies, and countries to pull ms' trunk out of their rear ends and take control of their computing landscape.

(Go ahead, mark me troll/flamebait/inflammatory/etc... At least this will get read.)

Tears running from my eyes...

"We keep our commitments."

Gods.... Like, did they keep commitments to deliver the vaporware they used to gas to death a slew of companies over the past 20+ years that offered an add-on to or superior product than ms' wares? That spokesperson must not have seriously studied ms' history, or is too enamored with the company to be honest about it.

I'm sure Chevy's "getting a charge" out of it somewhere downline... What will be the carrying capacity of the rolling electron?

Maybe you can tell me, but i cannot for the LIFE of me see how my above comment is flamebait. I think someone is going around back-modding me every time i wine about being screwed with. Somebody comes to my aid, reads my comment, points out a few things, or another comes along and neutralizes my score back to where it was before some jerk came along and slam-dunked it to hell. Then, ticked they see i'm monitoring my comments for feedback or scoring changes, the fraking childish ones go and screw with another comment. I wish slashdot had a monitoring system that looks out for these abuses and bans the ip or the user for a week, or longer.

Anyway...

I don't see anything in my commentary (and, it is my personal experience, and i don't see how anyone here is slashdot could refute or lambaste or critically pan my experience without accessing the email servers of openoffice.org from around 2000-2002...) that is flamebait.

I have in the past and even now will admit that Lotus and IBM are dropping the ball, but there have been and still are features in SmartSuite that beat the shocks off of oo.o. Unfortunately for S/S, the same is true. oo.o has a newer set of cleaned up code, less patent bullshit risks, and fresher eyes able to inspect the code to some greater degree than SmartSuite does. Also, i have in the past and concede now, too, that if Sun and IBM/Lotus put away their gauntlets/mauls/maces and merged the best features of their suites, they could then see what they and Google might do to pry msofts domineering, anti-competitive hands off the personal and office document suite software industry.

Kid gets beaten by asshole adults, beaten to death (not as if he tried to play superhero and fly from a cliff or such), and he gets mocked in a geek forum. I imagine slashdot's karma is taking some hits, too. There should be a moderation for "crass-assed humour"... I'd like to see each and every "funny" commentator and supporting moderator explain to the bereaved parents how they think this shit's funny. Imagine if one of YOUR kids or relatives got beaten to death, here in the US. You'd be out for blood. If *I* laughed, and poked fun at your pain, you'd (if endowed) hunt down every shred of info on me and begin a smear campaign, until the law caught up with you.

(Go ahead, mark it off-topic... I'm getting that lately...)

Fuck it. There is some SERIOUS assholery here. FUCK karma. I'm burning some, aiming flames whatever bast-itches targeting me.

George Washingtons and other people of the time...

Can i get a moderator (or rescuer) here? I am marked 0, redundant, and i cannot find a single post prior to 1136 that preceded my comment so as to make mine redundant.

Curious/Interestingly, there are TWO posts "kitty-porn" and neither is marked redundant.

Seems to me /. needs a tag for "report abuse". Seems i have been hit again by a foe.

Anyone care to remode me to just nothing instead of redundant? And, be on the lookout for abuses of others?

and you end up with a Pack-it (in) Storm.

I wonder if extreme latency, though will give longer TTL (time to live) for those shooting pics with TTL (thru the lens).

In any case, a barrage of packets would heap on "layers" of love.