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test to see if I am hellbanned. Edit: Yep, hellban+slowban 828 days old account, positive karma. Must have annoyed PG I guess?

As long as unemployment stays at a reasonable level, even people with some mental/addiction issues will be able to hang on. But as unemployment stays high they will slowly be weede…

Your freedoms don't extend to your employment (never has). Regarding your employment you've willfully signed away most of those rights (freedom of expression etc) when you signed y…

In case drapetomania doesn't tickle your fancy, try hysteria. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_hysteria

You're missing the point. Seat belt laws are weird when compared to motorcycles, because the purpose of the law is to limit personal injury during an accident. Which would make sen…

There's more ways of doing it. I might be sitting across the street from you right now, doing 35 hour work weeks for a fortune 500 company, riding the SV income bubble and pulling …

And we had a couple more around Paris a few years back as well.

isnt this how you launder money?

Ok.. Let's see if this one gets a front page ban as well.. I'm curious now.

That's what Louis CK did with his web release right?

Assuming the person has the ability to learn from his mistake. Unfortunately this is not a quality everyone possesses.

No it doesn't. Source: Living in CA, had several Background checks (CA allows the subject to receive a copy of the background check).

Yeah. I feel so blessed. One kid, costs me $25k in day care a year and I get a massive $900 tax break. Awesome. Thanks buddy for covering for me!

Worst case scenario, all the websites I visit sell my data and it ends up (either directly purchased or through mergers/cooperations between data owners) into a single DB, which th…

A culture of fear only works on people that are unable straighten their finances out. No threat of being laid of has any meaning if you have 5 years of salary stashed away in cash …

"Fueled by Doritos and RedBull among other things". Does this imply what I think it implies? I'm curious about how widespread drug use is during these hackatons. I've visited one o…

Switch to Esata with a $30 Esata docking station. I backup with bare drives (cheaper, no usb enclosure needed) at on average 90MB/s (2TB drives, 3Gb/s sata controller).

I don't want a strap, they restrict my movement and require lubrication to work. I want a wearable 24/7 solution that's unobtrusive. The suggestion here is that you can attach the …

Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

You were taught a lesson, it wasn't supposed to be pleasant. I hope you learned it well.

Don't make me invoke Godwin's law on you and your "I'm just doing my job" clause.

Same thing.

I've seen very little FBI activity in Antarctica lately.

Hackers seem to be becoming the new terrorists AGAIN. Second time for me that they turned the cassette over. Makes me wonder how many times this has happened since Gutenberg starte…