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  1. Re:Open Source [Re:What's The Problem?] on It's Time For Academics To Take Back Control Of Research Journals (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    It doesn't need to be endorsed by a university, a learned society is sufficient. My highest cited papers have been published in the open access 'Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics' which is run by the European Geophysical Union, its nowhere near nature or science in impact factor, but it is a respectable mid tier journal. The writer pays up front for hosting/typesetting etc the cost of which you put into your grant.

    Its much more open than a traditional journal. They publish the initial submission, the reviewer comments the response to reviewer comments and the final paper. In addition, members of the scientific community can add comments in the same way as the reviewers, albeit not anonymously.

  2. Re:If the bees disappeared... on US Beekeepers Fear For Livelihoods As Anti-Zika Toxin Kills 2.5M Bees (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Albert Einsten the famous botanist? There are no stable crops that are pollinated by bees.

  3. Re:False dichotomy of the guilty conscience on Twilight of the Bomb · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry I did only address the first boming, with regards to the second: There were three separate coup attempts and the cabinet were still debating what to do, so a significant proportion of the army and navy leadership were willing to continue the war anyway, I think there was also some debate as to whether the americans only had one bomb. The second bombing removed any ambiguity as to what the allies could do and what they were willing to do. If we have 250000 deaths/month in the empire and the 2nd bombing only brought forward the cabinets inevitable decision to surrender by a week, it would still be death neutral, and its far from certain that decision was inevitable. The co-propersity sphere was a vast area of the earth, the soviets had only invaded Mancuria in northeast China. It would have had little impact on the divisions in southern China, Burma, south east asia, the east indies, the pacific etc.

  4. Re:False dichotomy of the guilty conscience on Twilight of the Bomb · · Score: 1

    Every month the war was continued hundreds of thousands of civilians died across the greater east asia co-properity sphere. So if you didn't nuke or invade immediately you still end up with loads of dead civilians.

  5. Re:Whatever means necessary? on Google, Apple, and Others Remove Content Related To the Confederate Flag · · Score: 1

    This is utter bullshit.

  6. Re:Social mobility was killed, but not this way on Writer: "Why I Defaulted On My Student Loans" · · Score: 1

    Its probably closer to one tenure-track job out there for every hundred PhD holders, Philosophy or otherwise.

  7. In academia we called those people 'professors'.

  8. Re:writer doesn't get jeopardy, or much of anythin on Alva Noe: Don't Worry About the Singularity, We Can't Even Copy an Amoeba · · Score: 1

    You're thinking of the event horizon. The singularity refers to the point where the laws of physics as we currently understand them won't give a meaningful answer i.e. the gravitational field becomes infinite.

  9. Re:Bretons are the last vestiges of ancient Briton on David Cameron Says Brits Should Be Taught Imperial Measures · · Score: 1

    That's what they want you to think.

  10. Re:Bretons are the last vestiges of ancient Briton on David Cameron Says Brits Should Be Taught Imperial Measures · · Score: 1

    ...or the Welsh. or the Cornish. or infact most people from England excluding the anglo-saxon hotbeds of Yorkshire and Norfolk.

  11. Re:FP? on David Cameron Says Brits Should Be Taught Imperial Measures · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Royal Navy essetially stamped out the slave trade throught the world. And the empire abolished slavery at least a generation before the US. And it has never been legal in England so go fuck yourself you ignorant bastard.

  12. Re:Title IX on College Offers Athletic Scholarships To Gamers · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure half the population of Poland are males, and I'm sure they like dancing too.

  13. Re:It's hopeless. on Ask Slashdot: Can Star Wars Episode VII Be Saved? · · Score: 1

    That's alright, I think 33 is still "early 20s".

  14. Re:women are stalkers too on As Domestic Abuse Goes Digital, Shelters Turn To Counter-surveillance With Tor · · Score: 2

    The women that founded women's refuge in the UK was demonised and started receiving death threats for suggesting that much domestic violence was reciprocal and that some women sought out abusive relationships. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...

  15. Re:Pointless on Former US Test Site Sues Nuclear Nations For Disarmament Failure · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The battle of New Orleans was after the peace treaty was signed. Britain wasn't trying to reconqueror the colonies, it was trying to stop its Candian provinces from being conquered by an aggressive expansionist empire while at the same time trying to win a world war against a genocidal miltary despot. I think it suceeded quite well.

  16. Re:Good to be back on Russian Civil Law Changed By Wikimedia · · Score: 1

    You seriously think the Russian navy could have stopped Britain or France?

  17. Re:Shame on them on Clam That Was Killed Determining Its Age Was Over 100 Years Older Than Estimated · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, the scientists were very shellfish.

  18. Re:"Day of remembrance"? on Anonymous Clashes With D.C. Police During Million Mask March · · Score: 1

    Who was trying for independence?

  19. Re:Liberal strategy on Slashdot Asks: How Does the US Gov't Budget Crunch Affect You? · · Score: 2

    Firstly, there is no queen of England. Secondly it would have been the queen of Australia that did it.

  20. Re:Stereotypes on A Climate of Violence? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but what about Scotland?

  21. Re:Scotland on Glasgow To Be UK's First 'Smart City' · · Score: 1

    I think you mean the newly independent Orkney Islands' oil.

  22. Re:A wormhole into a can of worms? on What Alfred Russel Wallace Really Thought About Darwin · · Score: 1

    Well, No. Because he's not German.

  23. Re:There's a reason for that. on Beer Is Cheaper In the US Than Anywhere Else In the World · · Score: 1

    Its far less strict than the 1936 purity laws.

    Too soon?

  24. Re:In the UK you pay for the right to watch TV ? on BBC Criticized For Snooping Under RIPA Powers · · Score: 1

    Downton Abbey was ITV.

  25. Re:Go to Cambodia on Ask Slashdot: What Would Your 'I've Got To Disappear' Plan Look Like? · · Score: 1

    Although its just a good idea generally to tell people you're Canadian.