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  1. Re:I think it's a good idea on Finland Begins To Shape Basic Income Proposal (yle.fi) · · Score: 3, Funny

    B-b-but Reagan said it would trickle down!

  2. Re:A good idea on Finland Begins To Shape Basic Income Proposal (yle.fi) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, long-term this is gonna be required. As automation takes over more and more jobs eventually it'll be nearly impossible to keep employment up.

  3. Re:Some pros and Cons on Finland Begins To Shape Basic Income Proposal (yle.fi) · · Score: 1

    >More property crime

    Why? If people don't need to steal to get money why would they risk going to jail? Do you think that theft is just random?

  4. Install Gentoo on Ask Slashdot: Securing a Journalist's Laptop Against a Police Search? · · Score: 1

    They won't be able to figure out how to make it work, so your data will be safe.

  5. Re:I'm conflicted about this on Report: Google To Fold Chrome OS Into Android (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    If this works it may be a death knell for AMD. They have no presence in the high-end now, so if ARM gobbles up the low-end then they lose their major market. We might not have AMD processors in 5 years.

  6. Re: On Monday on Junkyard Owner Saves Lunar Rover Prototype (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Visited a recycling center over the summer as part of my job, while I was there they found that someone had dropped off one of the red rolling toolchests. Worth about a grand. Nothing wrong with it except it smelled. They rolled it into their shop to use for themselves.

  7. Re:The old talent doesn't understand the new stuff on CIOs Say New Talent and Old Tech Don't Mix · · Score: 1

    Less necessary to anyone who uses search. Which is objectively faster in most cases. Tap the Windows key, type the first two letters of what you want and it'll probably be at the top of the list. You can have the program open before you'd even get the "All Programs" list open most of the time.

  8. Re:The old talent doesn't understand the new stuff on CIOs Say New Talent and Old Tech Don't Mix · · Score: 1

    Reduced functionality for a deprecated, less necessary component. Not nearly as big of a deal as was made of it.

  9. Re:The old talent doesn't understand the new stuff on CIOs Say New Talent and Old Tech Don't Mix · · Score: 1

    >Small
    >Concise

    IF you maintained it. If you didn't it was neither. It would rapidly become a sprawling, unruly pile of crap that could take several minutes to find what you were looking for. Hopefully you remember the publisher of the software you're looking for, because there's a good chance that's the sub-folder it's under.

  10. Re:The old talent doesn't understand the new stuff on CIOs Say New Talent and Old Tech Don't Mix · · Score: 1

    And you can still browse, albeit in a less appealing format.

  11. Re:The old talent doesn't understand the new stuff on CIOs Say New Talent and Old Tech Don't Mix · · Score: 1

    It's less "Hah, you fuckers don't deserve a start menu because we elite assholes don't think you should have one" and more "Wait, what? People are still using that? WTF? Well...I guess they can learn to use search right? What do you mean they're refusing to use search?"

  12. Well if we just deregulate everything the Invisible Hand will make everything you could ever want cost pennies!

  13. It's that we feel it is not the federal governments role.

    With the end result that a lot of people can't afford quality healthcare. LOTS of people actually don't pay much of anything in taxes once all their refunds are accounted for, but still don't make enough money to afford getting sick.

  14. Re:The old talent doesn't understand the new stuff on CIOs Say New Talent and Old Tech Don't Mix · · Score: 1

    That's why you search for "hand". Most likely "ha" will have your desired response at the top.

  15. Re:The old talent doesn't understand the new stuff on CIOs Say New Talent and Old Tech Don't Mix · · Score: 1

    No start menu because it's not needed. Search is faster than poking through the start menu in most cases. That's my understanding of why it was removed, MS engineers haven't used it themselves since Vista.

  16. I would join that party.

  17. Libertarians don't want people taken care of though. No healthcare, no secondary education or things like that.

  18. Re: Censoring speech... on National Coalition Calls for Campus Censorship of "Offensive" Speech (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0

    There's over 2 million refugees overall. That would gain them roughly 3%.

  19. Re:Zoning is key... on The Chicago Suburb That's Trying To Kill the Car (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    You'd probably need to own a car either way, unless you live in a location where getting to your job is practical without one, which is not easy for most people.

  20. Re:Welcome to Europe on The Chicago Suburb That's Trying To Kill the Car (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you have numbers on the total dead in Europe from cars? Tossing around big numbers doesn't mean much when we're the 3rd most populous country in the world.

  21. Re:What we need on Pentagon Picks Northrop Grumman For Next Gen Bomber (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Thankfully I don't NEED to convince you.

  22. Re:We've already got TWO on Pentagon Picks Northrop Grumman For Next Gen Bomber (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Neither the B-1 or the B-2 are in production. We got far fewer of the B-2s than we wanted due to the end of the Cold War. Our B-52s are crumbling and the B-1s paid dearly for abilities that are no longer relevant. The B-1 actually gets a LOT of use, we just don't hear about it as much as the B-52 for some reason. Both of them likely cost more in maintenance and per flight hour than we'd like to pay, though the question of whether or not the LRS-B will be cheaper to operate is an open one.

  23. Re:Imagine the American reaction... on Pentagon Picks Northrop Grumman For Next Gen Bomber (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    They're, uh, kinda doing that. The Russians and Chinese both have stealth planes in the works.

  24. Re:Evade air defense? on Pentagon Picks Northrop Grumman For Next Gen Bomber (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Not really. Very low wavelength radar can "defeat" stealth, but can't be used to guide missiles, chances are good the new plane will have some new trick to help with that as well.

  25. Re:What we need on Pentagon Picks Northrop Grumman For Next Gen Bomber (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you being serious? The Osprey and the Apache are entirely different, the Osprey is a people-hauler and the Apache is a gunship, so cancelling the Osprey gets nothing really. Cruise missiles can't replace bombers for any serious conflict since they cost a million or so per shot, while a bomber can carry hundreds of smart bombs that can be targeted on the fly and cost only a few tens of thousands a piece.