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  1. Getting a little ahead of ourselves here... on Do Robots Need Passports? Should They? · · Score: 1

    aren't we?

  2. Re:"blurs the lines between programs and documents on A Technical Look Inside TempleOS · · Score: 2

    LISP 1.5 too!

  3. Re:Technology is but a tool... on Technology Won't Fix America's Neediest Schools -- It Makes Bad Education Worse · · Score: 1

    Using a fixed width font is useful for source code as the indentations line up nicely. For everything else it interferes with the train of though one is trying to inspire in the reader.

  4. Re:You Mean...? on Features That Windows 10 Will Deprecate · · Score: 1

    They are called Chinks.

  5. Re:It is topics like this... on There Is a Finite Limit On How Long Intelligence Can Exist In Our Universe · · Score: 1

    Machines have yet to "make themselves" do anything whatsoever.

  6. It is topics like this... on There Is a Finite Limit On How Long Intelligence Can Exist In Our Universe · · Score: 1

    and the entirely asinine "singularity" comments that are the reason I don't read /. much anymore.

  7. "semi-analytically designed" on Stanford Researchers Make Photonic Components Faster, With Algorithmic Design · · Score: 1

    Exactly WTF is that supposed to mean?

  8. Re:Only Two Futures? on The Demographic Future of America's Political Parties · · Score: 1

    Look up the tax rates. I'm certainly not going to do clerical work for people too lazy to to do their own work.

  9. The COBOL argument on The Reason For Java's Staying Power: It's Easy To Read · · Score: 1

    "It's Easy To Read"

    Ah yes, the old COBOL justification. It was BS then and it is BS now when applied to Java. The hacks at Oracle would have been better off sticking to "write once, run anywhere."

  10. Re:Only Two Futures? on The Demographic Future of America's Political Parties · · Score: 1

    The gut feelings are his arbitrary single dimension rating system and definition of "liberal" and "conservative."

    My criteria are based on hard numbers such as the lower tax rates and bigger military spending he voted for. Plus unlike you I was actually there to hear his speeches and debates with Nixon when he ran for president and heard his war-mongering about the "missile gap" with the Russians.

    Post your blather on Daily Kos not here.

  11. Re:Only Two Futures? on The Demographic Future of America's Political Parties · · Score: 1

    WTF does Ayn Rand have to do with JFK's economic and military policies?

  12. Re:One Assumption on The Demographic Future of America's Political Parties · · Score: 1

    'the total number of "white folks" is decreasing'

    ??? According to the U.S. Census Bureau the non-hispanic white population numbers are thus:

    1990 - 188,128,296
    2012 - 197,243,423

  13. Re:Gerrymandering on The Demographic Future of America's Political Parties · · Score: 1

    I certainly wouldn't advise going into those precincts after dark!

  14. Re:The basics on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Skills Do HS Students Need To Know Now? · · Score: 1

    I learned writing longhand with an ink pen via the Palmer method myself.

  15. Re:So, when has this not been true? on The Demographic Future of America's Political Parties · · Score: 1

    Plenty of Wall Street money goes to Republicans, defense contractors too. Agribusiness goes to both also. They all hedge their bets.

    Most large corporations support both. 2/3rds to the incumbent party or candidate and â..." to those out of power.

    About the only big organizations that exclusively support Democrats are the teacher's and government workers unions.

  16. Re:Fox News on The Demographic Future of America's Political Parties · · Score: 1

    For a different perspective from the Republicrats of the corporate media I like to watch Amy Goodman & Juan González on "Democracy Now!"

  17. Re:So, when has this not been true? on The Demographic Future of America's Political Parties · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Both parties use irrelevant and settled red flag social issues like abortion and gun control to energize their supporters to vote for the exact same corporate interests.

  18. Re:Gerrymandering on The Demographic Future of America's Political Parties · · Score: 1

    "Democrats have consistently won the "popular" vote for the house"

    In the 2014 Congressional election the total Republican vote was 40,081,282, the Democrat vote was 35,624,357.

  19. Re:One Assumption on The Demographic Future of America's Political Parties · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    With every election the percentage of white folks who vote Republican increases. That's why Obama keeps importing illegal aliens. He is trying to replace the white race in America.

  20. Re:Only Two Futures? on The Demographic Future of America's Political Parties · · Score: 2

    Totally manipulated figures that are not consistent with his actual tax-cutting, big military spending actions.

  21. Re:What? on Learning About Constitutional Law With Star Wars · · Score: 1

    Only because we supplied them with the war materiel to do so. 2,000 locomotives, 600,000 trucks, untold tons of food and medicine etc. etc. etc.

    The Russians *started* WWII when they and their Nazi allies invaded Poland.

  22. Re:.357 magnum... on Ask Slashdot: What's On Your Keychain? · · Score: 1

    I am a senior citizen and do indeed need the help; and when it comes to edged weapons I prefer the tomahawk.

  23. Re:.357 magnum... on Ask Slashdot: What's On Your Keychain? · · Score: 1

    Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on the target.

  24. .357 magnum... on Ask Slashdot: What's On Your Keychain? · · Score: 1

    Smith & Wesson model 640 in front pants pocket holster.

  25. Re:Good luck with that... on Ask Slashdot: Moving To an Offshore-Proof Career? · · Score: 1

    Utter rubbish. A majority of law school grads never practice. It is extremely difficult to get full time work as a lawyer since the supply far exceeds the demand.