Comment Re:Code Name is Offensive (Score 2, Funny) 366
I refuse to call a Mountain Lion a Puma.
Just don't call a Warthog a Puma. Sarge doesn't like that.
Comment Re:Funny how this always happens (Score 1) 260
Too bad they make more than 85% of the money, meaning they still don't even pay their fair share.
"In 2006, the top 1 percent of tax returns paid 39.9 percent of all federal individual income taxes and earned 22.1 percent of adjusted gross income..."
Comment Re:Duck! (Score 4, Informative) 557
Let me ask again. Is this server, 'rackable'? How many Us?
4 Mac Minis will fit on this $58 2U tray..
Comment Re:Legalization (Score 1) 647
And lets not forget about THC being schedule 3.
THC is in the Schedule 1 category.
Comment Re:How much is your time worth (Score 1) 837
I don't see anything 'round' about your distances of 1.8288222384784 and 3.0480370641307 metres.
Um, what? An inch is defined as exactly 0.0254 m, and a foot as exactly 12 inches. So that should be 1.8288 and 3.048 meters.
It's understandable, he's just using a Pentium 60.
Comment New Rights (Score 1) 408
... and depriving consumers of their fundamental right to have access to data of their own creation.
Why do we need to keep creating new rights? I thought we had a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I don't recall the founding documents mentioning healthcare, housing, or the interoperability of manufactured goods as fundamental rights.
... our duty to users everywhere to violate those bits of intellectual property at every possible opportunity until it becomes such a legal nightmare for these companies that they are forced to back down. Anything less would be uncivilized.
Another alternative is to petition your congressman/woman to change the laws to the same effect. I would imagine this to be a more civilized answer.
I know, I'm an idealist.
F-117A Stealth Fighter Retired 476
zonker writes "Nearly 30 years ago Lockheed Martin's elite Skunk Works team developed what would become the F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter. A few of their earlier projects include the SR-71 Blackbird and U2 Dragon Lady spy planes. Today is the last for the Stealth Fighter, which is being replaced by the F-22 Raptor (another Skunk Works project)."
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