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  1. Re:So what? on VA Supreme Court: Michael Mann Needn't Turn Over All His Email · · Score: 1

    Global warming is a hypothesis...rife for questioning.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...

  2. Re:So what? on VA Supreme Court: Michael Mann Needn't Turn Over All His Email · · Score: 1

    . Mann said he hopes the ruling "can serve as a precedent in other states confronting this same public assault on universities and their faculty."

    There...fixed that for ya.

  3. Re:Personal Drones on Americans Uncomfortable With Possibility of Ubiquitous Drones, Designer Babies · · Score: 1

    You shut your pie hole! I just learned how to build websites from a government training program and....

  4. Re:Personal Drones on Americans Uncomfortable With Possibility of Ubiquitous Drones, Designer Babies · · Score: 1

    Total Burn.

  5. Re:Personal Drones on Americans Uncomfortable With Possibility of Ubiquitous Drones, Designer Babies · · Score: 0

    and a lower rate of economic success...draw all the conclusion you want but until everyone starts crapping golden eggs like your average above average American citizen then shut your yap. Did I just hear a toilet flush? Insert tail between legs.

  6. Re:Personal Drones on Americans Uncomfortable With Possibility of Ubiquitous Drones, Designer Babies · · Score: 1

    Indeed...if you haven't developed heel-toe shifting naturally or you do not know what it is then you are most likely a danger to other drivers--barely competent.

  7. Re:Personal Drones on Americans Uncomfortable With Possibility of Ubiquitous Drones, Designer Babies · · Score: 1

    I agree. Freedom is largely dangerous--and scary. We should seriously work to abolish it. Let's start by whittling away at family ties by associating government with fundamental welfare of individuals....then we can move on to legislating the minute details of people's lives and parlay that into an attack on education by nullifying personal responsibility. I have a website....whitehouse.gov

  8. Re:this shit is infuriating on Hewlett-Packard Admits To International Bribery and Money Laundering Schemes · · Score: 1

    This has been going on for a long time. GE contaminated numerous sites which were declared superfund sites--to be cleaned up with tax payer money. they were fined...butthe fine was a fraction of their revenue and profit...a small fraction. the government's enforcement only promoted more failures.

  9. Re:$108 million penalty on Hewlett-Packard Admits To International Bribery and Money Laundering Schemes · · Score: 1

    so HP income will be 4.9 billion this year

  10. Re:Posts like these on Born To RUN: Dartmouth Throwing BASIC a 50th B-Day Party · · Score: 1

    you sir, are an asshole. I had a LOT of fun doing that stuff.

  11. Re:Memories on Born To RUN: Dartmouth Throwing BASIC a 50th B-Day Party · · Score: 1

    There is no shame in VBA. If you use object oriented programming and comments it is maintainable. I have a fairly complex application that I built to automate statistical assessments using VBA in Excel. I initially wrote it as a big blob and it proved to be such a nightmare that the first time I had to modify it for changing requirements I had to rewrite it. After rebuilding it with objects I have had to modify it several times and it has proven clean and easy to do so.

  12. Re:Amusing? sentence before the redaction: on Emails Reveal Battle Over Employee Poaching Between Google and Facebook · · Score: 1

    Same exact thing...but I experienced this working in a community college.

  13. Re:Welcome back, Brendan on JavaScript Inventor Brendan Eich Named New CEO of Mozilla · · Score: 1

    The only people that have experienced confusion from the Javascript name do not matter...but yeah, the language is insane, and I would apologize if I was the inventor.

  14. Re:Practical application is the only way on Ask Slashdot: Can an Old Programmer Learn New Tricks? · · Score: 1

    whoosh....this is not a real person....it is a snippet from the "get traffic/comments" archive

  15. Re:That's capitalism. on Prominent GitHub Engineer Julie Ann Horvath Quits Citing Harrassment · · Score: 1

    Agreed...her employment prospects are going to be lame from here on out....she should have shut her mouth and got another job. Having formulated this clear statement it is apparent to me now that she probably could not have done that (tech skill deficiency) and she jumped the gun by launching an emotionally charged public diatribe. The hula hoop incident didn't really appear to have anything to do with anything...she was emotionally rattled from the boss' phsyco wife and HR and couldn't deal with or interpret the emotions from the "hula hoop incident" appropriately.

  16. Re:That's capitalism. on Prominent GitHub Engineer Julie Ann Horvath Quits Citing Harrassment · · Score: 1

    Anyone else want to see her O face?

  17. Re:And the US could turn Russia into vapor on Russian State TV Anchor: Russia Could Turn US To "Radioactive Ash" · · Score: 1

    I get the feeling that Obama would jump at the chance. Probably a bit of hyperbole but true nonetheless.

  18. Re:Higher SAT scores, etc on The Poor Neglected Gifted Child · · Score: 1

    No. Despite the requirements of the institutions (state schools) that I attended I engaged my own curriculum to learn what I wanted. Later I just completely ignored the school work and pursued what I want to pursue. Horrible grades...great education.

  19. Re:Higher SAT scores, etc on The Poor Neglected Gifted Child · · Score: 1

    Confirmed...this is happening in Ohio as well, and everywhere else. It fits the neoliberal-hippie fartbrain attitude that if they seem to have trouble then just spoon feed them or back off the challenge.

  20. Re:Higher SAT scores, etc on The Poor Neglected Gifted Child · · Score: 1

    Congratulations...you won because you wanted to and where willing to do the work. If others can't or won't...then who cares.

  21. Re:Higher SAT scores, etc on The Poor Neglected Gifted Child · · Score: 1

    Equality is in reference to rights...not opportunity, wealth, good looks, intelligence, or education. Are we that fucked up that we are trying to specialty and smarty everyone? I hate, no loath, the attitude of people who think they can help people who are stupid and lazy. It's like saying, "you know, these people are not good looking enough, we need to do something about this!" "The government should..."

    We already have equal rights. The job is done. Everything else is ambition.

  22. Re:Pretty ridiculous on Facebook To Pay City $200K-a-Year For a Neighborhood Cop · · Score: 1

    I think it has more to do with the court seeing the officer every day--they are work mates. When a co-worker does something against the interests of the company I'm very leery of calling them on it and bringing it to the attention of our boss, even though that is what I *should* do.

  23. Re:Wow... on Facebook To Pay City $200K-a-Year For a Neighborhood Cop · · Score: 1

    A police cruiser is at least $125k dude.

  24. Re:Wow... on Facebook To Pay City $200K-a-Year For a Neighborhood Cop · · Score: 1

    $10k on equipment? You have obviously never shopped for line-of-duty grade tactical gear.

  25. Re:As Frontalot says on Ask Slashdot: Do You Still Trust Bitcoin? · · Score: 1

    The problem is, markets are a function of government. There are no markets in nature. They only exist when there is someone to enforce contracts and guard transactions.

    Complete bullshit. Markets are raw economics in action and economics is another word for nature. You should really consider having some books delivered to your mom's basement. What do people want? What are they willing to do to get it? ---economics

    Big dog standing over meat and bones that every other dog wants. Other dogs see big dog and make a decision to go for the meat or not based on the costs and benefits. The economics part lies in the decisions of the dogs who do not posses the meat they need.

    We as humans trade for the meat....that is a market.