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  1. Re:Global warming fads on Scientific American Gives Up · · Score: 1
    Before even considering your method of verification, statistical sampling problems, or the propsed rate of temperature increase by global-warming advocates, I have to ask you this:

    You don't have $5000 now, nor do you expect to have $5000 is 10 years? Pretty pathetic.

    The present value of $100 in 2015 for me is nearly $0 - certainly not big enough to justify any effort for contract writing nor enough to satisfy the "put you money where your mouth is" aspect of this bet.

  2. Re:Global warming fads on Scientific American Gives Up · · Score: 0
    Let's make a wager. In 10 years, April 1, 2015, if the evidence for global warming is as strong or stronger as it is today, you pay me $5000. If not, I pay you $5000. In 20 years, April 1, 2025, if the evidence for global warming is as strong or stronger as it is today, you pay me $10000. If not, I pay you $10000.

    Interested? If so, give me your address and I'll draw up a contract.

  3. Re:Yeeah, I don't buy it. on How Much Respect Do You Get? · · Score: 0, Redundant
    You must be new here.

  4. Re:Who Cares? on Gnome Removed From Slackware · · Score: 1

    Amen brother! I would also choose that every US citizen give me $0.01 a year. Fucking anti-choice country.

  5. Re:KDE 3.4 on Gnome Removed From Slackware · · Score: 1

    Answer the question. Why did you choose the option of being presented with many more choices (select individual packages) and then come on slashdot and bitch about "too much choice"?

  6. Re:KDE 3.4 on Gnome Removed From Slackware · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why did you bother selecting individual packages? You could have just selected desktop or server or workstation or whatever the choices are. One can only conclude that you are a moron.

  7. Re:sane error messages when using templates on GCC 4.0 Preview · · Score: 1

    Is that the suicide solution?

  8. Re:41% sounds low, especially for CompUSA on FTC Tells CompUSA to Pay Up QPS Rebates · · Score: 1

    The whole rebate scam seems like a great piece for one of those sensationalist TV investigative journalism shows to do - they have the resources to buy lots of shit, document everything, follup, then make every American scared. Anyone know if it has been done?

  9. Re:USPS does not suck on FTC Tells CompUSA to Pay Up QPS Rebates · · Score: 1

    While I don't think the USPS is that bad considering the task they do when you stop and think about it, you've probably just never noticed anything lost in the mail. Based on the number of wrongly delivered items I get at my house (at least 1 a week), I conclude that 100% delivery is not achieved. Direct evidence is hard on this one. I send these miss-delived items back to the mail-carrier, but I'm sure many people open them or throw them away.

  10. Re:Just ban rebates on FTC Tells CompUSA to Pay Up QPS Rebates · · Score: 1

    LOL - no kidding - who the fuck has a $2000 limit on their credit card? This guy must work for a felon or something.

  11. Re:Can be harder in C++ on Optimizations - Programmer vs. Compiler? · · Score: 1

    Did you test it with a not trivial iterator class? One that doesn't compile down to a pointer like the std::vector::iterator will? One that has non trivial (and potentially expensive) construct and copy?

  12. Re:MONO is a disaster. on Miguel de Icaza Talks About Mono · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Pareent post is not a troll.

  13. Re:misinformation? on Where Does NetBSD Fit In? · · Score: 1
    If by "stable" you mean "lack of crashes", maybe. I've never seen Linux crash without bad hardware on any kernel so I don't know.

    Which of these apply:

    • you haven't been using linux very long
    • you don't use linux very much, or not for long periods of time
    • you're extremely lucky
    • you're full of shit

    ?

  14. Re:Phew! on Gosling Claims Huge Security Hole in .NET · · Score: 1

    If you need overflow checking, write a trivial checked integer class. The language makes it easy. Since your definition of "do something sensible" is sure to differ from mine, custom classes are basically required for things like this. This is a good exercise for someone trying to learn policy based design and template programming.

  15. Re:actively involved in conversation? on Cellphone Drivers Drive Like Drunks · · Score: 1

    Also, make sure your passengers have more than 8kHz of bandwidth in their voice, their voices don't break up randomly, have body language and other non-verbal language boosters, and are aware of the environment and can adapt the pacing of their conversation to it.

  16. Re:turn SOME drivers on Cellphone Drivers Drive Like Drunks · · Score: 1
    ANYONE with a .08 BAC is going to drive poorly,

    Not true, of course. Alcohol is just like everything else - the effects of it varies among individuals. I don't know what the solution is, but based on what I've seen on the roads, people aren't responsible to make the right decisions on their own with respect to cell phone use. Just like with drinking and driving.

    If you're at the wheel of a machine with lethal force, maybe you should put the bus down. Take the bus if you need to socialize while you drive.

  17. Re:Reminds me of several Stephen Baxter novels on Escape from the Universe · · Score: 1

    Baxter, not Egan.

  18. Re:Something to think about... on Escape from the Universe · · Score: 1

    Depends on what you're smoking in the laboratory.

  19. Re:2 Years On, On LCD on Monitor Basics - LCD vs. CRT · · Score: 1

    Just don't use aquafresh.

  20. Re:This is only a 20% difference on Are Extensible Programming Languages Coming? · · Score: 1

    Not really. You could emulate virtual methods correctly in C, but it takes a lot more work than what you describe. Lot's of people do virtual inheritence and OO like stuff in C. Seems like if it's such a common feature to implement, you might want language support for these things rather than inventing them yourself.

  21. Re:KDE 4.0... on KDE 3.4 goes Beta · · Score: 1

    I looked at it - hardly seems like a worthy feature list to jump major versions with.

  22. Re:On 'taste' on Disney Plans Tron Remake · · Score: 1
    I thought the saying went something like:

    "Opinions are like assholes. Everyone has one, but the goatse guy has the biggest one around."

  23. Re:...hm on Disney Plans Tron Remake · · Score: 1

    Who is John-Henri Holmberg? His objection seems weak and illogical to me.

  24. Re:...hm on Disney Plans Tron Remake · · Score: 1
    "Opinions vary."

    "Opions vary" == "Road House"? You obviously have no taste.

  25. Re:So confused on Disney Plans Tron Remake · · Score: 1

    What about the Gripping Hand?