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  1. Re:And? on Chinese Firm Wins Bid For US-Backed Battery Maker · · Score: 0

    And the current home of the GNFAA

  2. Re:And? on Chinese Firm Wins Bid For US-Backed Battery Maker · · Score: 1

    People with low income pay SS and Medicare taxes, state and local taxes, personal property tax, and sales tax.

    And that makes it right?

  3. Re:And? on Chinese Firm Wins Bid For US-Backed Battery Maker · · Score: 2

    If you look around and everyone else is an asshole, what does that suggest......

    That suggests I'm standing on a battlefield. There is half on one side and half on the other. We'll see how this century ends up.

  4. Re:Republicans hate the UN on US House Votes 397-0 To Oppose UN Control of the Internet · · Score: 1

    It's not doing fine! The economic activity of the net hasn't been hampered by taxes and regulation, the poor haven't had traffic redirected to their sites from more successful domains, and it has no governing body to hamstring it and enact all of this much-needed legislation. The market is working, and that is just not cool.

  5. Re:Was this libel? on Virginia Woman Is Sued For $750,000 After Writing Scathing Yelp Review · · Score: 1

    Even if it is true you still have to prove it. Not true in court unless you can prove your statements. So, even if your opinion is that he sucks and ripped you off, you better damn well have solid proof that substantiates those claims or you will have a judgement against you.

  6. Re:Did Zuckerberg ever have to get past HR? on Just Say No To College · · Score: 1

    You have the luxury of thinking your degree did you no good because that lack of one never jumped in the way of opportunity. So, by getting a degree you have no way at all to tell how not getting one would have stifled your career. No one ever got hurt by a college education. Does it cost too much now? Yes. Are curriculum aligned with business needs? No. College course work usually helps everyone.

  7. Re:It's math on Study Finds Similar Structures In the Universe, Internet, and Brain · · Score: 1

    Logic trumps everything.

  8. Re:It's math on Study Finds Similar Structures In the Universe, Internet, and Brain · · Score: 1

    This is like that

    This is a metaphor which, while allowing us to grasp concepts, is subtly deceptive in itself. It happens that most people jump from metaphor to metaphor to understand the meaning of anything and glaring inconsistencies and errors creep in while one thinks or feels they understand.

  9. Re:Anthropic Principle on Study Finds Similar Structures In the Universe, Internet, and Brain · · Score: 1

    Stuff to ponder under a starry sky...

    Or while watching 200 episodes of Stargate

  10. Re:Anthropic Principle on Study Finds Similar Structures In the Universe, Internet, and Brain · · Score: 1

    Pockets of air will never spring up in the vacuum for our benefit.

    But they did you dumb-ass.

  11. Re:A bit of Zen on Study Finds Similar Structures In the Universe, Internet, and Brain · · Score: 1

    Obligatory response: Grass is green, sky is blue....

  12. Re:Even if this was true... on Is Intel Planning To Kill Enthusiast PCs? · · Score: 1

    go to AMD?!....I just puked in my mouth.

  13. Re:Even if this was true... on Is Intel Planning To Kill Enthusiast PCs? · · Score: 1

    All the MB MFGs would do is mount CPUs to modular sockets allowing the enthusiast to swap them at will. Hell, I don't mind soldering the damn thing myself, but yeah, this story is crap.

  14. Re:What company on Ask Slashdot: Troubling Trend For Open Source Company · · Score: 1

    Name two or three....

  15. Re:But still not the point on Parent Questions Mandatory High School Chemistry · · Score: 1

    a technical college looks for other qualities

    Here are the qualities they look for:

    1. Breathing
    2. Money

  16. Re:Translation on Parent Questions Mandatory High School Chemistry · · Score: 1

    Then again, I never stepped foot in a high-school.

  17. Re:Translation on Parent Questions Mandatory High School Chemistry · · Score: 1

    Not knowing what you want to do at age 15 is a direct result of the problem we are discussing. Well educated children know what they will be doing the rest of their lives at that age. I had it nailed down at age 12.

  18. Re:Translation on Parent Questions Mandatory High School Chemistry · · Score: 1

    Yeah, we don't have our kids solder in replacement parts because it's fun to watch.

  19. Re:Translation on Parent Questions Mandatory High School Chemistry · · Score: 1

    I think teaching kids would work much better if you showed them something they're interested in, then explained it works because...

    But then who would work in the factories, in the fields, and who would join the military? Seriously man, you need to think things through before making such suggestions.

  20. Re:Translation on Parent Questions Mandatory High School Chemistry · · Score: 1

    ...and biology is more chemistry than anything so...? You jumped the pedantry shark today.

  21. Re:Yes. on Is Microsoft's Price Model For the Surface Justifiable? · · Score: 1

    the adoption is actually much easier because the individual changes are smaller and cost less.

    Things stop working when Apple releases an update. This is VERY expensive. Still waiting on Symantec Endpoint to start working again.

    Apple changes/updates to benefit themselves with an eccentric disregard for what happens to people's software assets in the wild.

  22. Re:Yes. on Is Microsoft's Price Model For the Surface Justifiable? · · Score: 1

    Seriously, Apple is not powering the world's businesses. If they were responsible for maintaining an ecosystem of developers and literally hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of software packages written to their API they would not be able to flip their bits so easily. Comparing the two is rather ridiculous.

  23. Re:Yes. on Is Microsoft's Price Model For the Surface Justifiable? · · Score: 1

    But, just about everyone I know with a Mac upgrades it when the new version comes out.

    They have to. After having been burnt by Apple's radical feature changes and lack of support for previous versions you learn to pay the yearly $40 pretty quick. No worries, Microsoft is moving to the same model.

  24. Re:why is this new? on Dolphins Can Sleep One-half of Their Brain At a Time Say Researchers · · Score: 1

    I have co-workers with this same ability.

  25. Re:how about on Replacing Windows 8's Missing Start Menu · · Score: 1

    As a side note, I have had applications crash twice under Windows 8. First time was notepad after typing a magnificient paragraph, and the second was Word 2010 after my wife had typed a paper for school (yes, the whole thing was lost). I haven't had Word crash in at least five years and never notepad. I have Classic Shell installed, but I don't know how that could have affected those applications.