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  1. Re:And the unions are pissed... on Khan Academy: the Teachers Strike Back · · Score: 0, Troll

    Like all the other seasonal jobs like wildland firefighters are paid for not working?

    Elementary Education, which is basically a bachelors degree in making cute cutouts and self esteem, is a joke. Most teachers I've known while doing IT in a school district lacked any real knowledge of any topic and could only teach by script.

    A teacher might not start out making great money, but with a few endorsements like ESL (which you don't actually have to speak another language to get), and a masters degree (which is just a few more easy classes) you will make more tax payer dollars than you can shake a stick at. And you can get intellectually lazy and morbidly obese, and the union and the district will protect YOU over the young up-and-coming sharp teachers that graduate every year because of "seniority" or tenure.

  2. Re:Each county. on Ask Slashdot: Resources For Identifying Telecom Right-of-Way Locations? · · Score: 1

    Right. And it all starts with some trips to the county assessor and recorders offices.

    You first have to go get the puzzle pieces.

  3. Each county. on Ask Slashdot: Resources For Identifying Telecom Right-of-Way Locations? · · Score: 2

    You'll have to talk to the county assessor and recorder to get the plat maps.

    Some counties have online systems to download the images, most you'll have to go in in person and ask.

  4. Re:GM crops are partially the answer on China Third Country To Be Hit By 'Brown Tide' · · Score: 1

    air supply

    You know what? I can't fight this feeling any more. It makes me feel like screaming.

    I'm all out of love for these GM companies. Ain't it a shame that a few powerful people will call all the shots?

    If it was up to them, they would stop the rain. Mother said, "hopefully this is the end of the line for them". I hope it's not too late.

  5. Re:First half of game will be slow on Activision Turning The Walking Dead Into a First-Person Shooter · · Score: 1

    Also, you will be afforded no opportunity to fortify your position or conduct any tactical priorities of work.

    Instead, players conduct interpersonal conflict resolution and flirtation with NPCs until you are over-run.

  6. Re:Slave owner ? on Thomas Jefferson: Scientist, Inventor, Gadgeteer · · Score: 1

    You live in the context of your time. As a head of household, inheriting an estate that included slave, you were not really free (even legally in some places) to manumit your slaves.

    Jefferson personally disliked the slavery, but recognized that it was an issue to hard to resolve at the time with the slave-holding states. He considered slavery an injustice, but couldn't risk dissolving the federal union to end slavery.

    "But, as it is, we have the wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other."

  7. Re:moron editors on Thomas Jefferson: Scientist, Inventor, Gadgeteer · · Score: 2

    Not sure if alluding to your penis as being the size of a sub-atomic particle is REALLY the way to go on this.

  8. Re:should have been free? on Seth MacFarlane Helps LOC Acquire Carl Sagan Papers · · Score: 1

    Sagan would have been thrilled

    And just think. SHE could have been the person that made that happen.

  9. Re:Imagine if somehow she was still alive on Robots To Search for Amelia Earhart's Lost Plane · · Score: 1

    Imagine her sense of betrayal.

    Survived a plane crash and forgotten, only to be hunted by robots.

  10. Re:False assumptions from gatekeepers on David Lowery On the Ethics of Music Piracy · · Score: 1

    Because humans are free in a state of nature, sovereign over their personal property, they have natural rights over the property they own. When the form governments, the join in a social contract. In the enlightenment / classical US model, the social contract are limited rights voluntarily surrendered to secure life, liberty, and property.

    Coming along later and declaring that music is property deserving of the same government protection is pretty much exactly an artificial right.

  11. Re:This Announcement Hot on Heels of Bilderbergers on Earth Approaching Tipping Point Say Scientists · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Except that the bottom 90% are having 2x as many babies as the rest.

    We could all be forced to "share", and in the end, the breeders will still ruin everything.

    Unless of course, the same benevolent dictator that "shares" our property back to us also dictates who has kids and when.

    Your "solution" doesn't sound all that appealing to me.

  12. uhh... on NASA, ASU Team Finds a New Test For Osteoporosis · · Score: 1

    ball peen hammer?

  13. raising awareness on WHMCS Data Compromised By Good Old Social Engineering · · Score: -1

    i really hate when people talk about "raising awareness", as though someone out there hasn't heard about cancer.

    however, this stunt ugnazis pulled got my attention, and got me to check out their tweets and websites.

    i never knew that UFC (really, Dana White) was supporting SOPA.

    Being a Jiu Jitsu purist, I already find UFC (and most MMA) to be a loud-mouth lowest-denominator of society. But now I have a reason to actively boycott their events.

    Thanks ugnazis! You raised my awareness!

  14. so? on Most CCTV Systems Come With Trivial Exploits · · Score: 4, Interesting

    preconfigured default accounts and passwords

    Really? This is supposed to be an issue?

    Most of the default user/pass settings are publicly available on manufacturers websites, documentation pamphlets, and 3rd party sites just for that purpose.

    Buffer overflow or sql injection? Ok...
    Default passwords are weak? So what?

  15. Re:"just think if you could" on Google's Grand Android Plan · · Score: 2

    The weirdest thing is trying to get a pager number ported to a cell.

    Very small carriers and pager carriers were exempt from the portability law.

    And it looks like if a company says they "can't" port a pager number, nothing in the world can get them to change their minds.

    It is as if the pager number is burned into the bios of their routing equipment, and changing that is a complete impossibility.

  16. Re:Wait, what? on Positive Bias Could Erode Public Trust In Science · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is a story about actual bias in scientists which is affecting the quality of their research.

    And you completely gloss over that to take issue with Fox, which is no more ore less biased than msnbc, et al...
    Look, people seek an echo chamber. "News" companies of all types just supply the demand.

    I suppose YOU don't see a problem with some news organizations taking biased scientific output and unquestioningly running with it as though it were the concrete truth for ever more.

  17. Re:Really? Pangolin? on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Out; Unity Gets a Second Chance · · Score: 1

    I was thinking of that baby from Eraserhead.

  18. allen wrench. on IKEA Announces Furniture With Integrated TV, Speakers, and Blu-ray · · Score: 3, Funny

    And it comes with a book of c code to run the device, that must be typed in manually with disposable keyboard (included).

  19. Re:Hey guys, STFU and build a rocket, would you? on Ex-NASA Employees Accuse Agency of 'Extreme Position' On Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Excellent. Even if Muslims do bad stuff, it's still the Christians' fault.

    You alright! I learned it by watching YOU!

    To be fair, what the Catholic Church at the time was doing had nothing to do with Jesus or Christianity and everything to do with power.

    You don't hear of Lutheranism by the Sword.

  20. Re:Hey guys, STFU and build a rocket, would you? on Ex-NASA Employees Accuse Agency of 'Extreme Position' On Climate Change · · Score: 2

    He wasn't a conservative, he was just more conservative than the alternative.

    2-party system and all...

  21. Re:Hey guys, STFU and build a rocket, would you? on Ex-NASA Employees Accuse Agency of 'Extreme Position' On Climate Change · · Score: 1

    historic contribution to science, math, and engineering

    which would be what, exactly?

    Algebra would be the last contribution of the Arabs, and that was pre-Islam.

  22. Jamaica.... on SKA Telescope Site Debate Not Over Yet · · Score: 2

    Jamaica wouldn't work.

    It's too hot.

  23. Re:Why aren't we already using bone made bones? on World's First Biodegradable Joint Implant Grows New Joints · · Score: 1

    Man, you are so full of shit.

    What they did was try to prevent tax dollars being used to harvest unborn babies.

    There are tons of companies doing stem cell research, maybe you heard of one in (*gasp* - Republican) Texas recently that was doing illegal treatments of patients.

    Turns out there are many better ways to make stem cells than from embryos. Necessity being a mother and all that.

  24. Re:Is this article some kind of a joke? on Wikileaks and Anonymous Join Forces Against US Intelligence Community · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, to be fair, there ARE some hot KBR girls out there.

    In sundresses with combat boots....

    And that hot blonde tall girl at the Camp Victory post office....

  25. Re:Examples on What The DHS Is Looking For In Your Posts · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is it too late to start calling them the DeHStapo?