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  1. Re:Not anti-intellectualism on Is There a New Geek Anti-Intellectualism? · · Score: 2

    I guess the question is more "What do you want do with your life?"

    If your answer is live comfortably then that is good, and I hope you have a wonderful life. This does not mean you aren't smart or maybe even a genius, nor that you don't enjoy learning.

    If your answer is to learn, then congrats, you're an intellectual.

    Academia (Which is usually characterized as University) is really a place where many intellectuals tend to gather, and there you are most likely be to be able to both learn and make a living at learning. And more importantly this is true even if what your learning isn't of any immediate or practical use to others.

  2. Re:Better job than humans on Just Months After Jeopardy!, Watson Wows Doctors · · Score: 1

    Actually it is procedural screw ups ARE medical malpractice. They are a major cause of death which is why there is a growing movement of getting hospitals to follow check lists during procedures.

  3. Re:Hard to say on Nintendo Announces New Console: Wii U · · Score: 1

    Sacrificed on the alter of cartridge games.

  4. Re:Interesting Concept on Harnessing the Energy of Galloping Gertie · · Score: 1

    I think this is supposed to be more of a "power remote villages in the mountains" thing than a "power our cities" thing.

  5. Re:Catastrophic failure? on Harnessing the Energy of Galloping Gertie · · Score: 1

    This is serious business people!!!

  6. Re:Hahahahaahah on Tennessee Makes it Illegal To Share Your Netflix Password · · Score: 1

    That was the point I was attempting to illustrate. It is my opinion that actual structure and function of power really hasn't changed in a very long time. The clock still looks and works like a clock even if it is digital instead of analog.

  7. Re:Greed on Chinese Boy Sells Kidney For iPad2 · · Score: 2

    Yeah, and what's with those damn pedestrians too?!! I mean, those legs are death traps, they don't absorb the impact of a car at all. Compounded with the fact that pedestrians don't even wear safety equipment half the time, it's like they're asking to be hit by cars, trucks and buses.

  8. Re:you know on Sony Compromised, Again · · Score: 2

    Now...we dance!

  9. Re:Very well written on School Super Asks Governor To Make His School District a Prison · · Score: 1

    I'm not being obtuse, I was just admitting that I don't have any detailed knowledge of voucher systems. But thank you for explaining it, even if you did think I was being purposefully confused.

  10. Re:Very well written on School Super Asks Governor To Make His School District a Prison · · Score: 1

    I don't understand...

    It sounds like you're saying vouchers will create a greater separation between the rich people who go to private schools and the poor people who go to public schools.

    But can't the wealthy people afford private schools already? Won't giving the vouchers to the poor allow poorer students to attend the rich schools? Or are vouchers supposed to be given to the rich?

  11. Re:Success, not failure on School Super Asks Governor To Make His School District a Prison · · Score: 1

    Maybe the recession in the early 80's?
    Maybe the fall of the Soviet Union had some effect?
    Maybe the gradual easing of ethnic tensions in the inner cities?

    There could be many explanations.

  12. Re:Hahahahaahah on Tennessee Makes it Illegal To Share Your Netflix Password · · Score: 1

    Please read all you can about Venice from the Ninth to the Twelfth centuries.

  13. Re:Hahahahaahah on Tennessee Makes it Illegal To Share Your Netflix Password · · Score: 1

    Wait...you're telling me that despite all their rage, they are still just rats in a cage?

  14. Re:five years for 10 viewings? on Embed a Video, Go To Jail? · · Score: 1

    I'd say that 1,489 years (at the time of the revolution as compared to the last recorded use of a Brazen Bull) would be considered a far off time.

    I would recommend mentioning inquisition torture devices as your unusual punishments rather than torture devices from the classical era.

  15. Re:they don't need to reboot, they need to end it on DC Reboots Universe · · Score: 1

    You know, for all the reading of this thread, I never once thought that DC would be rebooting their Vertigo line, and for a moment there you made me worry about that. Shame on you. (Good recommendations btw)

  16. Re:Old fans on DC Reboots Universe · · Score: 1

    It's been done. Maybe not with Superman, but it's been done in comics many, many, many times.

  17. Re:spolier:The sonic screwdriver seems to be gone on Daleks To Be Given 'A Rest' From Dr. Who · · Score: 1

    You might try, but you'd be stuck in your bathroom because your locks will work. (Your keys not so much)

  18. Re:Manning is a hero. on PBS Web Sites and Databases Hacked · · Score: 1

    I would like to thank you for your part in one of the most calm, mature and reasoned discussions I have ever seen on Slashdot.

  19. Re:Streisand Effect on PBS Web Sites and Databases Hacked · · Score: 1

    OH MY GOD!!! 2001?!

    Did you warn them?! About 9/11, the Gujarat earthquake, the 2003 European heat wave, Hurricane Jeanne, the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, Katrina, the Myanmar cyclone, the 2008 China earthquake, the Haiti earthquake, Chile earthquake, the Queensland floods, the Christchurch earthquake, and the Japan earthquake and tsunami?

  20. Re:Lighten the hell up. on PBS Web Sites and Databases Hacked · · Score: 1

    And yet, somehow I can find the willpower not to walk into strangers homes and go through their stuff, even if they leave their doors open.

  21. Re:Attacked pbs? on PBS Web Sites and Databases Hacked · · Score: 1

    You didn't have to watch PBS scrubbing itself raw in the shower all night.

  22. Re:Sorry, but this is wrong on Activists Destroy Scientific GMO Experiment · · Score: 1

    if goverment would do all GMO research, you would still be protesting, right?

    And since in this particular case it was Belgian government funded research that was destroyed, I'd say your prediction is 100% accurate.

  23. Re:Stopping Science = Stopping Thought. GL,HF on Activists Destroy Scientific GMO Experiment · · Score: 1

    Thank you. I was confused for a bit there because QQ was always previously a reference to signing out of a MUD.

  24. Re:Stopping Science = Stopping Thought. GL,HF on Activists Destroy Scientific GMO Experiment · · Score: 1

    The country of Belgium is an EvilCorp?

  25. Re:RTFA on Activists Destroy Scientific GMO Experiment · · Score: 1

    Always...well, except for mules. For some reason life never saw fit to allow a mule to reproduce.