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  1. Re:How is this news for nerds? on Supreme Court Ruling Supports Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 1

    10%? Are you suggesting that Slashdot has a population of homosexuals that exceeds the general population ratio of 1.6-3%? Additionally, are you suggesting that this higher than average population of Slashdot users are all seeking to get married?

  2. Re:St. Helena on France Could Offer Asylum To Assange, Snowden · · Score: 1

    Corsica is the common source of troublesome political figures with French ties.

    Exiling is best done using Elba Island or St. Helena.

  3. Re:fully half baked on Students Win Prize For Color-Changing Condoms That Detect STDs · · Score: 1

    You can ask that guy I quoted but condoms do serve more purposes than just protecting from STDs.

  4. Re:fully half baked on Students Win Prize For Color-Changing Condoms That Detect STDs · · Score: 1

    Really, your post gives the impression that you don't know much about how sexual relations work.

    If you know someone is clean, you don't need to be dealing with condoms in the first place.

  5. Re:what is interesting is not that it won on Supreme Court Upholds Key Obamacare Subsidies · · Score: 1

    I still believe the worst SCOTUS decision was Wickard v. Filburn.

  6. Re:Prime Scalia - "Words no longer having meaning" on Supreme Court Upholds Key Obamacare Subsidies · · Score: 2

    Wickard vs Filburn.

    There ya go.

  7. Re:dirt cheap rocket launches on Elon Musk Probably Won't Be the First Martian · · Score: 1

    I could not find a colonist to ask. There appears to have been a 100% fatality rate among colonists of the New World.

  8. Re: Sad, isn't it? on The Town That Banned Wi-Fi · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's organic, non-GMO, gluten free, free range EM.

  9. Re:that's funny... on Taylor Swift: Apple's Disdain For Royalties Is 'Shocking, Disappointing' · · Score: 1

    The width of one's vocal range is meaningful only to answer the question on whether one can sing a particular piece of music. Beyond that it's relatively pointless.

  10. Re:Anyone figure out why on E3 2015: A Lot of Nostalgia For Old Games · · Score: 1

    It's a money thing. They've been remaking FF games with better graphics for a couple years now but they had been targeting the earlier games that didn't get as wide of a release or had the same presence. FF7 would be a more expensive remake than a game like FF3 or FF4 and you're going to need capital for that. SE was in a bad way for cash after the FF14 fiasco but Yoshida managed to turn that around with Realm Reborn and with Heavensward it looks like SE is going to have a reliable cash flow for a good amount of time. That's going to make a higher cost/risk remake like FF7 a lot easier to pursue.

    Still, I wish FF6 would get a remake.

  11. Re:Fallout 4 on E3 2015: A Lot of Nostalgia For Old Games · · Score: 1

    Bethesda is that abusive husband that the wife always keeps going back to.

  12. Re:The tapes were re-used on Russian Official Calls For "International Investigation" of the Apollo Program · · Score: 1

    Didn't you hear? We're going to a moon of an asteroid now.

  13. Re:Effect of nukes on NEOs on Should Nuclear Devices Be Kept On Hand To Protect Against Near Earth Objects? · · Score: 1

    Only if space madness is a factor and Bruce Willis leads the team. Otherwise we're proper fucked.

  14. Re:It's not a recruiting problem on USAF Cuts Drone Flights As Stress Drives Off Operators · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They knew about the effects of stress on soldiers who flew on combat missions into a combat zone and returned to a safe place after each mission. There's plenty of evidence for this if you look psychological assessments of the US Eight Air Force back in WW2. It looks like the lesson they drew from those experiences was that it was the exposure to combat that was the culprit and not necessarily stresses caused by participating in combat.

    What needs to be identified is whether the primary contributor to stress is being able to go home each day or simply being able to go to safety after the mission. If it's the latter, which I'd be more inclined to suspect, then restricting the guys to base isn't going to help the problem and in fact may make the problem worse since the comforts they were once provided are no longer available.

  15. Re:Comparing apples to miniature oranges on CDC: Americans Getting Heavier, Average Woman Weighs As Much As 1960s Man · · Score: 1

    Weight loss will help reduce bra size average.

  16. Re:Trifling on Restaurateur Loses Copyright Suit To BMI · · Score: 1

    Not all songwriters are singers and not all singers are songwriters. As long as that difference exists the middleman will exist to match them up.

  17. Re:Not seeing past one's nose on Restaurateur Loses Copyright Suit To BMI · · Score: 1

    The restaurants I go to I think may have music but it's soft enough that I don't notice it when I'm reading and these places are fairly empty, I typically go on off times on weekends. I find the far more distracting element to holding a conversation in a restaurant is the other patrons.

  18. Re:Surprise! on Restaurateur Loses Copyright Suit To BMI · · Score: 1

    You might get a bit of sympathy if you told us which highly enlightened nation your father lives in.

    V2 targets were Belgium, United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, and even a few in Germany. The latter three nations suffered together just over 100 V2s while the former two suffered an average of 1,500 each. We can safely assume the Germans never invaded Germany and likewise we know the Germans never invaded the United Kingdom. We also know that allied bombing was never directed at the United Kingdom. That would make Belgium the likely target but over 95% of the V2s fired at Belgium were targeted at Antwerp after the allies had occupied it. Additionally, I don't recall there being massive destruction from the invasion by the Germans.

  19. Re:Wanderlust on Why Our Brains Can't Process the Gravest Threats To Humanity · · Score: 1

    I suspect it has something to do with the fact that breeding populations of Coyotes exist all over the cape except on Martha's Vineyard.

  20. Re:Good For Future Training on San Francisco Public Schools To Require Computer Science For Preschoolers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    These kids will be the new H-1B replacements. They're making the skill ubiquitous and thus increasing the amount of supply side talent which will help depress wages.

  21. Re:Money pit. on SpaceX Wants Permission To Test Satellite Internet · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I doubt Musk is looking to create a satellite based Internet service. I think it more likely that he's using this network to serve as a testbed for an interplanetary network that covers Earth Mars. The global Internet service just provides him a way to monetize the project to fund its furthered development.

  22. Re: im not sure what to make of this on The Real Scars of Korean Gaming · · Score: 1

    I guess that really depends on whether speed or endurance is the chief feature.

  23. Re:range OK, bearing off? on Watch the US Navy Test Its Electromagnetic Jet Fighter Catapult · · Score: 1

    As long as said capital ship's main armament is aircraft or turrets with close to 300 degrees of fire.

  24. Re:Piss-poor situation on Rare 9-way Kidney Swap a Success · · Score: 1

    Does you idea include skin donations for grafts and burn victims?

  25. Re:Poor animals on American Pharoah Overcomes Biology To Win Triple Crown · · Score: 1

    Precisely.

    The money owners make on the races themselves are laughably small compared to the money of breeding rights. The purpose of the races is to establish the horse as good breeding stock so that they can stud the horse out and Triple Crown horses will command the highest prices.