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Comment It's not me... (Score 1) 623

Hi, IT here. You and I have been getting along pretty good at first, but now things have changed. You used to get excited about working with me. You used to stay late and do things with me because you wanted to. Sometimes you'd even take me home and play with me a bit there too.

Now you just see me 40 hours a week, and sometimes less. You don't touch me the same way; you're just going through the motions. You work with me just enough to get the job done.

Well I'm sick of it. There are a lot of developers out there that still find me exciting. A lot of developers still see the glory of working with me. Hey, let's face it, I'm pretty fucking awesome.

So, anonymous reader, it's over. I'm leaving you. It's not me, it's you. You're the reason you don't find me attractive anymore. I'm just as awesome as ever.

Comment Does this kind of program even work? (Score 5, Insightful) 248

Every time I read about this kind of thing... more surveillance, finger printing, suspicionless checkpoints, etc, etc...

I think two things:

1. WTF. I'm not a crimial, and the majority of people aren't either and yet we're all subjected to this kind of BS.

2. Does it even work? Why are countries making all of these efforts and the citizens are the last to hear about it.

Will biometrics really make a difference at the borders? The first thing I think of are ways that a person could get around this .. and you know the US border is still pretty open.

By water or land people cross the borders all the time.

This all started with 9/11 by people who were in the country legally... so ya, this just doesn't make any sense to me and makes me more frustrated with our governments.
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Teacher Laid Off For Telling the Truth About Santa 26

Pfhorrest writes "The Times Online reports, "A supply teacher has been told not to return to one primary school after she told a class of seven-year-olds that Santa Claus did not exist. Children at Blackshaw Lane Primary School in Oldham were talking about Christmas when the teacher came out with the news. Father Christmas was not responsible for delivering their presents on Christmas Eve, the pupils were taught. The teacher, who had been drafted in for just the day, has now been told not to come back. Parents complained to the school after their children returned home to recount what they had learned in lessons that day." With all the contention about teaching religion (or the lack thereof) in schools these days, what do you all think about similar issues regarding more frivolous popular folklore like Santa Claus?" And what about Cthulhu? Should a 7-year-old be forewarned that he will eventually exist in a world of sublime madness at the whim of the ancient ones?

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