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  1. Re:Fuck that on When No One Retires (hbr.org) · · Score: 2

    Game the system. In tech it's pretty easy to find a good full time job where you really work less than half the time, if that. Already over 60 and on a busy week I work maybe 20 hrs. I could keep this up until I'm 75 or so and probably will. Then I'll be the Walmart greeter with the Aston Martin in the lot ;)

  2. Re:Merry Christmas to all atheists! on 36,744 People Are Watching Overwatch's Jeff Kaplan Sit Motionless With A Yule Log (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    Atheist here. I believe in Jesus (as in there was a carpenter's son named Jesus about 2k years ago), just not in any religions or God. Happy Holidays!

  3. I said this very thing.. on Stephen Hawking: We Might Have 1,000 Years Left on Earth (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    I said this very thing back in 2015. I bet 10, no... $20US that we Terraform Mars in the next thousand years or so. We need to spread our wings and get of this rock, and leap-frog to the next rock.

  4. Chain of Custody on Should Journalists Ignore Some Leaked Emails? (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    In many ways I support these hacked / stolen electronic documents, however, they are not hard evidence. The data can easily be manipulated, even just a bit, to give whatever slant is desired. In concert with other evidence, hacked documents can be persuasive, but by themselves, not much above hearsay.

  5. It's my understanding that many Republicans inside the beltline are open to the idea of UBI due in large part to all the overhead the dizzying array of social programs. All those departments, and their associated costs, legislation, etc. all go away. They look at all that savings. No more forms, case reviewers, appeals, etc.

  6. Friend's teenage daughter did this.. on Robot Babies Not Effective Birth Control, Australian Study Finds (sky.com) · · Score: 2

    I think she was about 15 yo when this was assigned as homework in public school (in N Carolina, USA). She's from an affluent household and always said, I'll never have kids. After? Now she is looking forward to having children, someday. She's a Sr in H.S. now and picking her universities for next year. An all around great young lady.

  7. Don't worry, be happy on Earth's Resources Used Up at Quickest Rate Ever in 2016 (france24.com) · · Score: 1

    A large comet or asteroid will likely be the game changer. For the truly paranoid there's always Zombies, AI and angry aliens thrown into the mix.

  8. Most of these are corporations, and I don't know how you would make a corporation take a pee test.

  9. The secret to happiness is low expectations on Is Too Much Choice Stressing Us Out? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    This was my Mantra even before I was married, 30+ years ago. Take holidays. My wife has this Disney-esque image of how it will be. Mine is more like a bad, indie short. I am never disappointed or surprised.

  10. Re:I fully support this on G7 Vows To Phase Out Fossil Fuels By 2100 · · Score: 1

    I promise that my great-great grandchildren will be unable to obtain fossil fuels legally.

  11. Re:instead of space race on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Urges America To Challenge China To a Space Race · · Score: 1

    Not to pick on this post, or AC, but are their any Communist countries left? Even N Korea can't be called Communist in anything more than rhetoric. I guess you could call Cuba the last country that really tried to be Communist; or am I just ignorant?

  12. Re:The correct answer should be "none". on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With User Resignation From an IT Perspective? · · Score: 1

    It's also good planning, everything should be documented in a shared space or where someone has access to it. Employees can have accidents while going to lunch.

  13. Re:Could be but, on LAPD Police Claim Helicopters Stop Crimes Before They Happen · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Drones could broadcast helicopter sounds.

  14. Mechanical Adding Machines on Ask Slashdot: Sounds We Don't Hear Any More? · · Score: 1

    Shorter span then the typewriter I believe. My dad had one up to the 1960's.

  15. Isn't the Hubble past end-of-life? (per specs) Simply amazing. The Hubble telescope is like my old Jeep. Old technology, not much to look at, lots of dented/squeaky bits, but it just keeps ticking without much maintenance.

  16. next gen batteries on Multiple Manufacturers Push Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars, But Can They Catch Tesla? · · Score: 1

    I believe next generation batteries will be able to charge much faster; a 5-10 minute full charge seems to be achievable.

  17. There's a throwback 1950's movie idea on NASA's HI-SEAS Project Results Suggests a Women-Only Mars Crew · · Score: 5, Funny

    First spaceship to Mars; one male captain and a crew of women!

  18. Do I see..? on Indian Mars Mission Beams Back First Photographs · · Score: 1

    Is that Curiosity? I can't tell if it's waving..or giving the finger?

  19. Re:Of course it does. on Solar System's Water Is Older Than the Sun · · Score: 2

    I agree, not being an astrophysicists, but it just makes common sense.

  20. Re:Public access on Boeing To Take Space Tourists On Its CST-100 Spacecraft To the ISS · · Score: 1

    Am I missing something? Won't NASA pay (Boeing, or whomever) for uplifts aboard the CST-100? Or is NASA buying CST-100's, like the next shuttle.

  21. Re:Do We Want Our Gov't to regulate the drones? on Drone-Based Businesses: Growing In Canada, Grounded In the US · · Score: 1

    What bothers me more is how the FAA didn't see this coming. Really? Seems more like "we need to let all the lobbyist voice ($) their opinions so we know what regulations to make".

  22. Re:Simple answer on Autonomous Car Ethics: If a Crash Is Unavoidable, What Does It Hit? · · Score: 1

    Another vote for this being the correct answer.

  23. I thought it was a piece of comet on Russian Meteor Largest In a Century · · Score: 2

    I thought it was a piece of comet that exploded over Siberia's Tunguska river in 1908 - I also thought it was common knowledge - go figure.

  24. IBM on In a Symbolic Shift, IBM's India Workforce Likely Exceeds That In US · · Score: 5, Funny

    India Business Machines!

  25. Re:If we survive, sun-expansion is laughable. on Astronomers Watch Star Devouring Planet · · Score: 1

    pfff I bet $20 we crack the 4th dimension in, say.. 500 million years. After that, none of this really matters.