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  1. Re:Out with the old on Stanford's New Alcohol Policy Isn't Based On Much Research (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    They do, and within a couple of years the prohibitionist busy-bodies ban their new, unclassified drugs.

  2. Re:Culture on Stanford's New Alcohol Policy Isn't Based On Much Research (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean they shouldn't be going to school then? My house is 7 miles from the nearest school so going to school would require "driving or other forms of transportation".

    The whole world is not some damn city where everything you'd ever want or need to do is a few blocks away.

  3. You think that's rhetorical, but I guess we'll find out this year.

  4. Re:unpasteurised milk is way better on Scientists Find Chemical-Free Way To Extend Milk's Shelf Life For Up To 3 Weeks (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Pasteurization is required mostly because industrial dairy farming is incapable of maintaining the cleanliness level necessary to go without it. They can't keep dirt and manure out of the milk.

  5. Re:Not going to help... on Farmers Demand Right To Fix Their Own Dang Tractors (modernfarmer.com) · · Score: 1

    The guys with this problem don't grow my food, they grow my food's food. These farmers do huge corn and soy bean fields. Most of their production goes into cattle, hog, and chicken feed. Some of it goes into fuel ethanol production.

  6. Re:The good news is that on Farmers Demand Right To Fix Their Own Dang Tractors (modernfarmer.com) · · Score: 1

    Great thing about one of those is it requires no license or registration!

  7. Re:Serious Answer on Farmers Demand Right To Fix Their Own Dang Tractors (modernfarmer.com) · · Score: 1

    It's even cheaper than that. I bought a bluetooth OBDII scanner on Amazon for $12 which I connect to with an app on my phone.

  8. Re:Arguing over the subjective on Linus Torvalds In Sweary Rant About Punctuation In Kernel Comments (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about? That tutorial you linked to is crappy. The correct code there is

    int main()
    {
            ofstream myfile( "example.txt" );
            myfile << "Writing this to a file.\n";
            return 0;
    }

    The ofstream constructor opens the file for writing and the destructor takes care of flushing and closing the file.

  9. Re:Arguing over the subjective on Linus Torvalds In Sweary Rant About Punctuation In Kernel Comments (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You obviously have no working knowledge of C++. RAII is the answer which you are obviously ignorant of. "goto fail" is full of fail.

  10. Re:A bit much for parody? on NRA Complaint Takes Down 38,000 Websites (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Except that the NRA doesn't make any money from gun sales, not a single penny. Most of their money comes from membership dues-- you know, money that people pay to be part of the club, to vote for board members, to pay for the NRA being their (our) voice in the political process.

    The NRA says what it says and "buys congresscritters" because I and nearly 6 million other dues paying members pay our dues for them to do so. Unlike, I will add, ANY anti-gun organization, each of which gets the entirety of their funding from leftist foundations and billionaires like Mike Bloomberg.

  11. That's been my experience too. I've worked with quite a few women programmers, but almost everyone of them was Indian or Chinese. It's not women in general that have a problem in the tech industry, it's just American women that have a problem in the tech industry.

  12. Yes, because having a home, transportation, entertainment, and food (and don't forget full access to the check book!) provided to you in exchange for being the primary administrator of that home is being "unpaid". What a sick point of view you have.

    It's supposed to be a partnership, where two people work together to make a nice life.

  13. Re:A bit much for parody? on NRA Complaint Takes Down 38,000 Websites (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    " it will strike fear in the heart of NRA supporters."

    Colion Noir begs to differ

  14. Re:A bit much for parody? on NRA Complaint Takes Down 38,000 Websites (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    I think the Yes Men are likely to be 'hoist by their own petard' on this one. This is not an uncomfortable topic AT ALL for the NRA. It was at the root of McDonald v. Chicago! If it really does draw attention to it, it will highlight the blatantly racist nature of gun control and who has historically driven that racism (democrats).

  15. Worth it if you're on Win8 on Ask Slashdot: Would You Recommend Updating To Windows 10? · · Score: 1

    I had an Asus netbook I'd bought for my daughter that had Windows 8 on it. It was so slow it was hardly usable. I upgraded it to Win10 and it became pleasantly usable. The UI is responsive and HD video runs fine.

    If you're on Win7, it may not be compelling, but for the travesty that Win8 was, it's definitely better.

  16. Re:Idiocracy was prophetic on 2016 Hugo Awards Shortlist Dominated By Rightwing Campaign (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    That's like saying "Huckleberry Finn" was racist because it depicted slavery and used the N-word. Only morons who can't see the point would think so.

  17. Most Gen-Xers would not have seen Star Wars in the theatres.

    Uh, no. I was 4 in `77 and I saw it in the theater. Everyone I went to school with had seen it. If you're gen X and didn't see it in a theater, it's likely because you were born after it left theaters.

  18. Re:You've already accepted a roll-back on TSA: Gun Discoveries In Baggage Up 20% In 2015 Over 2014 (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    taking hull piercing devices into the hull of an easily pierceable thing like a passenger plane

    I see you learn your physics from James Bond movies. Airplane fuselages already have a lot of holes in them. Firing a gun in a plane will not cause the sudden catastrophic depressurization depicted in the movies.

  19. Re:FTFY... on Twitter Bans 'Hateful Conduct' (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Just because the minority who thinks being a SJW is a good thing is very loud, louder than the rest of the world, that doesn't make them a majority.

  20. Re:Should have everyone do it at the same time on NY Attorney General Wants Public To Report Broadband Speeds (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    This is the problem I'm having. Off peak usage hours, I get 70% of what I'm paying for according to speedtest.net. During peak usage hours in the evening and on Sundays, I have been getting about 3Kbps-- totally unusable. It's very obviously a lack of provisioning for the number of subscribers they have.

  21. Re:Is It My Imagination on Air Asia Pilot Response Leads To Plane Crashing (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    In the "Software Engineering" class I took in college in the early `90s we talked a lot about Airbus planes falling out of the sky because of software problems. It may be just perception, but Airbus planes do seem to crash more than others, and the news stories seem to always mention computer issues. Wikipedia has a list! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  22. Re:Even for men it's too cold on Researchers: The Thermostat In Your Office May Be Sexist · · Score: 1

    That's probably because you spend all of your time in temperature controlled buildings adjusted for that. I'm most comfortable around 30C/86F in the summer, lower in the winter, but it's largely based on ambient outside temperature.

  23. Re:Proposed solution is more sexist on Researchers: The Thermostat In Your Office May Be Sexist · · Score: 1

    Is it really fair to call a walk-in refrigerator an "office"?

  24. Re:Peh on Researchers: The Thermostat In Your Office May Be Sexist · · Score: 1

    Not only that, there are plenty of men in these offices, not wearing a suit coat and tie, who are freezing too! There's nothing sexist about it.

  25. Re:What's the "per capita" term based on? on Iowa Makes a Bold Admission: We Need Fewer Roads · · Score: 2

    It's not just people from major metro areas that measure road trips in time. I've lived most of my life in rural areas and every body I know does that.