Comment CO2? (Score 2) 414
I wonder how much CO2 a burning hybrid produces?
Comment Create a merit-based scholarship (Score 1) 263
I would create a merit based scholarship for a local high school senior or a local university for a student or student entering a STEM or even a CS program.
Why merit based? The geek culture is one of self-starters and self-motivation. You want to target someone who has worked hard and whose grades are important to them. So many scholarships are need-based, and having personally had my first child enter college and searching for scholarships, I can personally attest that the quantity of need-based far exceed merit based.
The other benefit is your organization gets the publicity of having a scholarship named after them.
Why merit based? The geek culture is one of self-starters and self-motivation. You want to target someone who has worked hard and whose grades are important to them. So many scholarships are need-based, and having personally had my first child enter college and searching for scholarships, I can personally attest that the quantity of need-based far exceed merit based.
The other benefit is your organization gets the publicity of having a scholarship named after them.
Comment The Davidson Institute (Score 1) 659
Check out the Davidson Institute. Their goal is to assist profoundly gifted kids. They've been a wonderful resource for my son.
Comment Re:That was a quick about face... (Score 1) 56
Re:That was a quick about face..."
I see what you did there
Comment Re:Credit card numbers WERE taken too (Score 3, Informative) 645
I received fradulent charges the day after this occured. My bank called me and I had to cancel my card.
Comment Did you see the home page? (Score 3, Funny) 111
They model this thing in a glass house as though that's where you'd take a dump - right next to the window.
People in glass houses shouldn't show thrones.
People in glass houses shouldn't show thrones.
Comment Z-axiz rotation (Score 1) 87
Could it tell me how long it took me to twist up this fattie?
Comment I'm married (Score 1) 615
So guess which tool of mine is no longer of use :(
Comment Re:This happened because of taxaphobia (Score 1) 1505
I agree with you. In addition, I would have liked to see the following low-cost solutions tried:
1. Allow insurers to compete across state lines
2. Tort reform.
1. Allow insurers to compete across state lines
2. Tort reform.
Comment I flew a few days ago (Score 1) 681
Talk about te Law of Unintended Consequences. As I looked at the immense queue of people waiting to get through security I thought, "what a great place for a suicide bomber to detonate himself". You don't have to bring down an airlplane to create terror of flying.
Fucking TSA morons.
Comment Re:!rodents (Score 2, Informative) 278
I didn't know that. Thanks. I looked up lagomorphs on wikipedia and found that one of the differentiating characteristics bewteen lagomorphs and rodents is that lagomorphs have their scrotum in front of their penis.
I guess that helps with hopping :)
Comment Re:Air Jordan 1 shoes (Score 1) 104
Are you suggesting I relocate my data center to a pair of Air Jordan shoes?
I think that'd be getting off on the wrong foot.
Comment Re:Pre-Fallen? (Score 1) 308
He's a fucking Quake god.
Comment Re:Stop Working for Content Mills (Good Luck...) (Score 1) 569
I think you're absolutely wrong. I've increased my use of the word "niggardly"because I refuse to succumb to the ignorant and ill-informed masses who lack an adequate vocabulary and may be offended, There are also those who would like us to watch our thoughts and actions so we can be "politically correct". Don't be niggardly when expressing your freedom of speech.
Girl Claims Price Scanner Gave Her Tourette's Syndrome 558
Attorneys for Dominica Juliano claim that she was burned and developed psychological problems after a store clerk aimed a hand-held price scanner at her face. Store attorneys say their scanners uses a harmless LED light and that the girl had serious health problems before she was scanned. From the article: "Dominica Juliano was 12 when she and her grandmother entered the Country Fair store in Erie in June 2004. A clerk allegedly called the girl 'grumpy' before flashing his hand-held bar code scanner over her face and telling her to smile. Attorneys for Ms. Juliano and her guardian say the girl was sensitive to light and burned, and later developed post-traumatic stress and Tourette's syndrome."
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