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  1. Re:fixing the parent posting on Mathematicians Use Mossberg 500 Pump-Action Shotgun To Calculate Pi · · Score: 2

    You are the best kind of correct.

    Technically correct.

  2. Re:see where your taxes go on IRS Misses XP Deadline, Pays Microsoft Millions For Patches · · Score: 1

    Personally, I find the IRS documents more straightforward and less confusing.

    Not surprising. They don't need to CYA to the same extent that private industry needs to due to the public being unable to sue them.

  3. Re:WTF? on Stephen Colbert To Be Letterman's Successor · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Oh give it up. There's this thing called context. It's a topic being discussed by Americans about an American involving American politics. It doesn't fucking matter if it offends your personal European opinion on what constitutes the Left because the Left in Europe doesn't fucking matter in this topic.

    I'd call you a damn turian, but at least then you would pull the stick out of your ass and use it to beat people up.

  4. Re:Why is this so difficult to believe? on Can the ObamaCare Enrollment Numbers Be Believed? · · Score: 1

    March is the perfect time to file taxes. Much more leisurely. There's basically no driving forces that push people to do taxes in March. January/February is full of the habitually early filers (and those attempting to get a check in before spring break). Everyone else pretty much forgets or waits until April.

  5. Re:What all is included? on Can the ObamaCare Enrollment Numbers Be Believed? · · Score: 1

    Which would be fine if they consistently reported the numbers. The only two logical answers I can think of to support such a sudden jump. The first is people getting their taxes done and being reminded or even told for the first time about it. The second is that they were previously only reporting the federal exchange and this time around the reported the federal + state exchanges.

    It's also not at all indicative of how many people have actually been covered.

  6. Re:Huh? on Ask Slashdot: How To Start With Linux In the Workplace? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There is some valuable information in here. The problem the submitter made was talking about the cost of the hardware and software and ignoring any support costs. His company doesn't want to spend money upgradeing hardware or moving to windows 7. Do you think the boss wants to spent money on someone to support linux? What's going to happen is the submitter is going to get stuck supporting it and probably not get a pay increase for doing so while starting to get bitched at for not getting his work done.

  7. Re:Discrimination of girls is bad and unethical on Google: Teach Girls Coding, Get $2,500; Teach Boys, Get $0 · · Score: 1

    Incentivizing only works if there isn't a finite resource that reasonably matters. As long as the number of boys and girls entering the program is less than what the program support, there's no issue. So soon as it exceeds it, it becomes an issue as boys will be discriminated against to place girls just for the sweet sweet dollars. That's completely ignoring any potential that girls would be pushed into the program, against their will, just for the money further depriving potential seats for people that want to learn the topic.

  8. Re:Let it die on How Cochlear Implants Are Being Blamed For Killing Deaf Culture · · Score: 1

    What? I'm looking outside right now and it's a mix of grey and orange. YOU CANNOT FORGET THE ORANGE!

  9. Re:"Low Cost" on Navy Debuts New Railgun That Launches Shells at Mach 7 · · Score: 1

    The big guns on battleships in WW2 had around a 20-25 mile range. Land based artillery guns cap out at just under 20 miles. Rockets are much longer though but they're not kinetic weaponry.

  10. Re:Shoot The Moon! on Navy Debuts New Railgun That Launches Shells at Mach 7 · · Score: 1

    Using the children?

  11. Re:Intercontinental ballistic railgun emplacements on Navy Debuts New Railgun That Launches Shells at Mach 7 · · Score: 1

    The range would need to be significantly upgraded to support intercontinental for America.

  12. Re:Incom.... on Navy Debuts New Railgun That Launches Shells at Mach 7 · · Score: 1

    The big guns on the Iowa were about a 25 mile range and were fired at just over 2,000mph. The projectile weighed between 1,900 and 2,700 pounds (compared to the 23 in the railgun).

  13. Re:diminished placebo effect on Australia Declares Homeopathy Nonsense, Urges Doctors to Inform Patients · · Score: 2

    I believe a carefully constructed mosaic of facepalm images to appear to be one giant facepalm is appropriate.

  14. Re:Just like Nuclear Fusion on Navy Creates Fuel From Seawater · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If it was widespread and viable it means the fuel is coming out of the ocean rather from underground. So the carbon being released into the air would be the very sort of carbon that is being trapped in the oceans rather than stuff that's been locked underground for millions of years.

  15. Re:Just like Nuclear Fusion on Navy Creates Fuel From Seawater · · Score: 1

    It shows up 20 years later and is a huge disappointment?

  16. Re:Just like Nuclear Fusion on Navy Creates Fuel From Seawater · · Score: 1

    I don't think this would be viable on a submarine. They don't carry planes and space on submarines is typically hard to come by. Now it might be interesting to engineer a submarine purpose built to create fuel but that seems needlessly complicated when all the recipients of said fuel are surface vessels.

  17. Re: yes on Smart Car Tipping Trending In San Francisco · · Score: 1

    Aging liberal hippy douche

  18. Re:The Million Dollar Question on Mystery MLB Team Moves To Supercomputing For Their Moneyball Analysis · · Score: 1

    They have curling instead.

  19. Re:I think this is bullshit on Brendan Eich Steps Down As Mozilla CEO · · Score: 1

    There was no intent to deprive liberty. Only an intent to deny privileges granted by the state.

  20. Re:I think this is bullshit on Brendan Eich Steps Down As Mozilla CEO · · Score: 1, Troll

    I would say that if you are Gay and would like to receive the government benefits associated with a marriage then giving $1,000 to stopping you would fall into the category of "Being a dick to you".

    Hey, thanks for at least calling them benefits instead of using the deeply flawed term "marriage rights".

  21. Re:Politcs vs. Science on NASA Halts Non-ISS Work With Russia Over Ukraine Crisis · · Score: 1

    You mean the vote that didn't contain an option for the status quo?

  22. Re:Lies on 60 Minutes Dubbed Engines Noise Over Tesla Model S · · Score: 1

    It's not fraud. Stop using hyperbole.

  23. Re:Politcs vs. Science on NASA Halts Non-ISS Work With Russia Over Ukraine Crisis · · Score: 1

    It's fairly clear cut that Russia is in the wrong. They violated a treaty they signed with Ukraine. Full stop. It doesn't matter if the eventual outcome may have matched the current status.

  24. Re:USA butchered TWO MILLION people in Iraq on NASA Halts Non-ISS Work With Russia Over Ukraine Crisis · · Score: 1

    Look no further than the fact that the Germans were trying to hold out in the end long enough to get their troops and people into Allied hands rather than Russian hands.

    The Eastern front was two monsters fighting each other.

  25. Re:Politcs vs. Science on NASA Halts Non-ISS Work With Russia Over Ukraine Crisis · · Score: 1

    What is happening with Russia and Crimea trends a lot closer to Germany annexing the Sudetenland or Japan invading Manchuria in the lead up to WW2 rather than anything involving WW1. WW1 happened because it was the final death throe of the balance of power concept of international relations.