Slashdot Mirror


User: Richy_T

Richy_T's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
4,801
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 4,801

  1. Re:News For Nerds on A Look at the Koch Brothers Dark-Money Network · · Score: 1

    See, this is where you go wrong. The aim of libertarianism is not peace and harmony and an ideal world, it's just that we believe there'd be a lot less misery than your fucked up left-wing roads-to-Utopia end up providing.

  2. Re:News For Nerds on A Look at the Koch Brothers Dark-Money Network · · Score: 1

    But that is the plot for next year's summer teen movie.

  3. Re:News For Nerds on A Look at the Koch Brothers Dark-Money Network · · Score: 1

    When has any Tea Party claimed to be libertarian? Sure, their platform may attract more since there's an overlap but they are people centered around a shared concern, not an overriding political philosophy (albeit there has been an effort from the Republican party to co-opt the cause).

  4. Re:News For Nerds on A Look at the Koch Brothers Dark-Money Network · · Score: 1

    The different Nobels are rewarded by different panels. The sciences tend to be pretty clean but Peace is awarded by a mostly left-leaning panel. Economics is also a mess but is not, in fact, a real Nobel anyway.

    But to go back a point, sure the universities produce Nobels. But that's orthogonal to the political outlooks. A scientist will typically be more interested in the science than where the money is coming from to fund it. But that source will affect their worldview. It's hardly surprising that someone would support a system that allows them to continue what they're doing, particularly if they are not deep political thinkers in the first place.

  5. Re:News For Nerds on A Look at the Koch Brothers Dark-Money Network · · Score: 1

    The true test becomes not with how you feel about your own personal rights but in how you apply those rights to others.

    You may not care about being taxed but that doesn't mean that it's right to apply that standard to others.

  6. Re:envy on Japan Refused To Help NSA Tap Asia's Internet · · Score: 2

    Of course, the robots write that as "like you need humans when you have robots"/

  7. Re:That's the simple answer on France Moves To Protect Independent Booksellers From Amazon · · Score: 1

    Except Chairman Mao had his "barrel of a gun" and Amazon has... one click shipping...

  8. Re:Wutend on German Report: Obama Aware of Merkel Spying Since 2010 · · Score: 2

    Of course they don't listen. What is this, the stone age? A computer analyzes and transcribes.

  9. Re:About what on German Report: Obama Aware of Merkel Spying Since 2010 · · Score: 1

    Like a blind dog wearing a blindfold in a dark room couldn't have seen that coming...

  10. Re:At what speed? on Google: Our Robot Cars Are Better Drivers Than You · · Score: 1

    True for timed lights. It's an entirely different game with sensor lights however. I know lights where arriving a second earlier at the red will make the difference between whether you get an arrow this cycle or not. Also ones where dawdling and leaving too big a gap with the car in front will mean that those behind you get inconvenienced rather than being able to follow on through.

  11. Re:At what speed? on Google: Our Robot Cars Are Better Drivers Than You · · Score: 1

    There is no fast lane. It is the passing lane or lanes. I have tried going the speed limit, I got fed up having trucks come up on me 10mph faster, overtaking then slowing down going up hills. Also getting boxed in by people on cruise control is no picnic.

  12. Re:At what speed? on Google: Our Robot Cars Are Better Drivers Than You · · Score: 1

    He drives in the left lane. He only finds himself passed on the right.

  13. Re:Show time on Google: Our Robot Cars Are Better Drivers Than You · · Score: 1

    Very much true.

  14. Re:Show time on Google: Our Robot Cars Are Better Drivers Than You · · Score: 1

    Yeah. But they have to wait for the police to get there to make sure no one steals the wheels off the ambulance.

  15. Re:Show time on Google: Our Robot Cars Are Better Drivers Than You · · Score: 1

    Government websites... The epitome of reputability at the moment...

  16. Re:where drivers tend to travel on 8 US States Pushing For 3.3 Million Electric Cars · · Score: 2

    And I'm sure the owners tend to travel where there are charging stations.

  17. Re:Apollo 1 on Jeffrey Zients Appointed To Fix Healthcare.gov · · Score: 2

    It's early days yet.

  18. Re:At least it's not CFL on NYC's 250,000 Street Lights To Be Replaced With LEDs By 2017 · · Score: 1

    There are now some decent LEDs out there. You'll pay for them though.

    Haven't found a CFL worth a damn though. I think I have one left still working from the time I decided to go on a CFL-installing spree.

  19. Re:why? on NYC's 250,000 Street Lights To Be Replaced With LEDs By 2017 · · Score: 1

    It's actually a somewhat more complex statistical problem and will include, at the very least, the profile of how bulbs wear out.

    I would imagine it would be best to replace one-at a time to somewhere near (or possibly beyond) the mean lifetime and then replace all at once (and even then, you may or may not want to replace ones that have already been replaced recently).

  20. Good job he wasn't holding a table leg

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

  21. Re:smug retribution on UK Police Seize 3D-Printed 'Gun Parts,' Which Are Actually Spare Printer Parts · · Score: 1

    I'd rather not live in a society that is so petrified of itself that it doesn't trust its members with handguns.

    So I don't anymore.

  22. Re:SIX ... LONG YEARS to stop the program on NSA Monitored Calls of 35 World Leaders · · Score: 1

    Whilst completely true and comparably despicable, they were not promising the most transparent administration ever in their electioneering.

  23. Re:Please read the following ... on NSA Monitored Calls of 35 World Leaders · · Score: 1

    It depends what the meaning of "is" is

    Apparently.

  24. Re:Um... on TSA Airport Screenings Now Start Before You Arrive At the Airport · · Score: 1

    Gah, you're right, of course. I meant both houses and the presidency.

  25. Re:.sucks on First New Top-Level Domains Added To the Root Zone · · Score: 0

    roflmao.lol