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  1. Art imatates Life on Jobs Wanted To Destroy Android · · Score: 1

    Steve Jobs:
    "We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas."
    "Good artists copy; great artists steal."

    Daniel Plainview:
    "Drainage!!"

    I always felt His Steveness was one of the central influences in developing this character.

  2. Sounds like the right number on Paywalled NYT Now Has 300,000 Online Subscribers · · Score: 1

    to cover the 1%, doesn't it?

  3. One man, one vote on Reuters Reports Death of Gaddafi In Libyan City of Sirte · · Score: 1

    One time. THAT is Islam, period. Again; without religions (ANY of them), we'd be flying amongst the stars by now, instead of killing each other over imaginary horseshit.

  4. Mint on Ubuntu Turns 7 · · Score: 1

    there was an announcement they will also go with Gnome 3 (aka OSX Wannabe). To me (holding at Intrepid Ibex) about the only Debian-based choice left is Debian itself.

  5. Make only SOME education free on US Student Loans Exceed $1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    Make NEEDED secondary education free. Engineering and Computing Sciences of all stripes; Math, Physics, Biosciences definitely.

    The degrees that shouldn't be free? non-General Practitioner medical degreees. We need family doctors (especially in rural areas), not another Vagainal Reconstructionist to the Stars.

    And the most expensive degrees of all? Accountants and MBAs. Given that these have turned out to be society-destroying licenses to steal, they should be as pricey as possible to help offset the inevitable damage and theft.

    Law degrees should be awarded as freely as nuclear power plant operating licenses.

  6. The high-bar income of home schooling on Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets) · · Score: 1

    For all practical purposes, one if not both of the parental units has to be home enough to at least meet state-required minimum teaching hours. This means single-parent households and paycheck to paycheck two income households (the vast US majority) can literally not afford this luxury. So home schoolers fall into one of two categories: religious psychopaths, or members of the Upper-Upper Middle Class. Both are enclaves and neither really help sustain a free, rational, multi-cultural society.

  7. It has started already on Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets) · · Score: 1

    In my state at least, the USGS water monitoring stations have dropped measuring precipitation. Their suggestion was to use the storm / hourly totals provided by NOAA radar stations; hardly point-source accurate.

  8. Half is bad on New Vaccine Halves Malaria Risk · · Score: 1

    Knocking out the weaklings and leaving the all-stars; how is this just not a fast-track to even more resistant malaria strains? This could end up as yet another unintended consequence wreaked on Africa by (this time) well-meaning Westerners.

  9. Re:Name one non-rapator that uses flapping for spe on Winged Robots Hint At the Origins of Flight · · Score: 1

    Unless we have examples of non-rapture creatures

    Tim Lehay is in charge of that project.

  10. Re:HTTPS Everywhere on Google Switching to SSL By Default For Logged-In Users · · Score: 1

    HTTPS Everywhere seems to slow things down more than it should, though.

  11. Music for Airports on "World's Most Relaxing Music" Composed · · Score: 1

    Pretty damn relaxing.

  12. Great! except... on Feds Shy Away From Raiding Email Without Warrant · · Score: 1

    they'll just get it from the traffic cops phone-sucking machines after they pull over the perp for a non-existent traffic violation.

  13. Thanks, Mint on Linux Mint Will Adopt Gnome 3 · · Score: 1

    I was trying to decide what to replace my Ubuntu with (now that they have fully lost their MonoMac-lovin' mind). Now I know: Debian!

  14. Here, here! on Installing Android On an HP TouchPad · · Score: 1

    If HP were run by humans instead of destructive MBAbots, they'd open source WebOS and have a thousand flowers bloom - possibly all over Androids' grave.

  15. Executive Summary on EU Court Rules Against Exclusive TV Licensing Deal · · Score: 1

    Regardless of location or type, organised sport is by definition, corrupt.

  16. Nope on The Genetics of Happiness · · Score: 1

    "Black Americans" genes are much more homogeneous since they were drawn from a limited pool.

    Not after two or three generations of 'Massa' creeping out for some action in the slave quarters (and occasionally dying of pneumonia during Virginia winter visits, ahem).

  17. Re:They take profit from successful books on Amazon Bypassing Publishers By Signing Authors Directly · · Score: 1

    most booksellers have better things to do than wade through self-published crap

    Such as taking discounts, promotional materials, and shelf placement deals that for all practical purposes are payola.

  18. They might think so on Original Content Coming To YouTube? · · Score: 1

    but I couldn't possibly comment.

  19. Greybeard, you are high on Occupy Wall Street Protests Go Global · · Score: 1

    no one gets installed into office who wasn't voted in

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._presidential_election,_2000#Florida_recount

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier_Election_Solutions#Diebold_and_Kenneth_Blackwell.27s_conflict_of_interest

  20. Man... on Throwable 36-Camera Ball Takes Spherical Panoramas · · Score: 1

    I miss Stargate Universe.

  21. State level on IRS Auditing Google · · Score: 1

    If you lower it and remove all "loopholes" and exclusions, then everybody pays it. It's pretty simple, really.

    Essentially meaningless if states are still allowed to keep offering bribes in the form of zero taxes for the first x years, fueling a race to the bottom in the form of devastated state budgets and slave-wages.

  22. Animal House on Air Force Comments On Drone Malware · · Score: 1

    "Remain calm, all is well."

  23. Mono Infection on Ubuntu 11.10 ('Oneiric Ocelot') Released · · Score: 0

    That's the real question we now have to ask: how much Mono trojan code has to be stripped out and is it still possible to do so?

    If / when I do upgrade my Linux box, it will probably be either Mint or straight Debian. Ubuntu (read: Shuttleworth) still can't decide if it wants to be Windows or OSX, but has decided it no longer wants to be Linux.

  24. Re:Wyden not Ryden on NYTimes Sues US Gov't To Know How It Interprets the PATRIOT Act · · Score: 2

    Hey, that's my senator's name you're mangling there! Ron Wyden of Oregon.

    Sowwy.

  25. I've seen old news befre on Behind the Scenes: How Conflict Photographs Come To Be · · Score: 1

    but going all the way back to the US Civil War and Mathew Brady is really pushing the envelope of staleness.