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  1. Re:Needless cruelty on Why Scott Adams Wished Death On His Dad · · Score: 1

    Parents usually have power of attorney over their children until they are adults. That means that the parent may issue a DNR for the child.

  2. Re:Should be legal, with caveat on Why Scott Adams Wished Death On His Dad · · Score: 1

    Power of Attorney is what matters. If you are unable to communicate then whoever hold the PoA gets to make these decisions. Even if assisted suicide were legal, Adams would still have to stand by as his father's estate (the holder of the PoA) kept his father alive.

  3. Re:Wagging the dog. on Only 25% of Yahoo Staff "Eat Their Own Dog Food" · · Score: 1

    The OEM car manufacturers certainly do offer a discount and it's not just to their employees. They also offer it to a number of their suppliers and customers.

    The better question is why would I buy a new car with the OEM discount when I could just get a 1 year old used car that's cheaper than what I would get a new one for?

    The best part is how employees who, for example, drive a Ford to work at GM get treated as second class citizens by union members.

  4. Re:Harry Reid probably supports this. on Geeks For Monarchy: The Rise of the Neoreactionaries · · Score: 1

    In this case it was appointing judges to a court circuit that has the lowest case load of any circuit and also happens to be the one that hears a majority of cases being brought against actions being taken by Obama. The situation reeks of court packing.

  5. Re:Fixed-point arithmetic on Ask Slashdot: How Reproducible Is Arithmetic In the Cloud? · · Score: 0

    Here's a sentence from the link.

    "The term floating-point number will be used to mean a real number that can be exactly represented in the format under discussion."

    Many of those words do not have a lot of letters.

  6. Re:Meatless sunday, monday, tuesday.... on Norway's Army Battles Global Warming By Going Vegetarian · · Score: 1

    Lunches for a week
    Monday: Chicken day
    Tuesday: Pork or Chicken day
    Wednesday: Soup day, usually with meat
    Thursday: Pork or Chicken day
    Friday: Fish day
    Saturday: Veal day
    Sunday: Pork day

  7. Re:Debian?? on MATE To Make It Into Debian Repositories · · Score: 1

    So I won?

  8. Re:Sorry, but... on HIV Tracking Technology Could Pinpoint Who's Infecting Who · · Score: 1

    The sentence 'him is infecting he' makes perfect sense to some people.

  9. Re:Debian?? on MATE To Make It Into Debian Repositories · · Score: 4, Funny

    How many times will they check MATE before it's done?

  10. Re:Sorry, but... on HIV Tracking Technology Could Pinpoint Who's Infecting Who · · Score: 0

    Yep.

    Who's infecting whom.

  11. Re:To what end? on Galileo Navigation System Gets Go-Ahead From EU Parliament · · Score: 1

    Because we don't trust the Americans, basically. They have a tendency to temporarily switch off GPS in areas of conflict and only share the encrypted military signal with allies that are fighting with them (not neutrals, etc.).

    This tends to fuck up shipping in the areas around it, and lots of other problems.

    So you want to ship product through an area that is known to have an ongoing armed conflict? How is that even sane?

  12. Re:To what end? on Galileo Navigation System Gets Go-Ahead From EU Parliament · · Score: 1

    We had this problem repeatedly in Iraq and Afghanistan. European allies would frequently be a liability because they weren't communicating or coordinating properly.

    Look... do as you please and my point is not to be mean here. I'm just saying... we are you allies and this move isn't actually helpful either to you or to us. It just creates complication to no purpose. But whatever. In the end it doesn't really matter.

    This isn't anything new. It's been going on since WW2.

  13. Re:Let me guess on How Munich Abandoned Microsoft for Open Source · · Score: 1

    I know. It's like my company over over 2000 users isn't going through and migrating to Exchange 2010 and Office 2010. It's not like we had constant problems with receiving emails with winmail.dat files until we upgraded from Thunderbird to Outlook. It's not like our customers and vendors are constantly sending us .docx files.

    Hell the entire sector my company is involved with must be ass backwards.

  14. Re:How unsurprising on How Perl and R Reveal the United States' Isolation In the TPP Negotiations · · Score: 1

    Fundamentally skewed or it indicates that they drafted the original proposal for the treaty. The original proposal was heavily skewed towards the US-Japan in a fashion that it was known that the other countries would object. The lack of oppositions from the US-Japan is probably also indicative of them giving up certain parts of the proposal for other concessions from the remaining parties. The big thing to look at would be exactly what they're opposing.

  15. Re:Easily dealt with. on US Wary of Allowing Russian Electronic Monitoring Stations Inside US · · Score: 1

    The Israelis will simply annex all the land your spying on whilst your busy watching the Russians

    So Israel will annex Russia?

  16. Re:^Mod down! on US Wary of Allowing Russian Electronic Monitoring Stations Inside US · · Score: 1

    Because Obama has damage credibility. Therefore, he's looking to make a concession to the Russians in order to improve his standing.

  17. Re:Corporations dodge tax. on Italy Investigates Apple For Alleged Tax Fraud · · Score: 1

    What about Goomipplezon?

  18. Re:They're ALL on crack. on SnapChat Turns Down $3 Billion Offer From Facebook · · Score: 1

    Facebooks acquisitions are going to be based on market share or the threat that a company presents to facebook's product. I think Snapchat satisfies both of these requirements. It has a decently large market share that can be exploited. Additionally, the very model of snapchat is entirely contradictory to what facebook sells (tons of information about you). By buying up Snapchat they prevent another organization from possibly using it agains them in an effort to break facebook's social media grasp.

  19. Re:Corporations dodge tax. on Italy Investigates Apple For Alleged Tax Fraud · · Score: 1

    Goomapplezon?

  20. Re:And the bubble grows larger on SnapChat Turns Down $3 Billion Offer From Facebook · · Score: 1

    Precisely. Snapchat is everything Facebook doesn't want. It's in Facebook's interest to buy it up and shelve it.

  21. Re:Character development on Thor: The Dark World — What Did You Think? · · Score: 1

    The aether is different from the convergence. No one understood the aether because Bor had it sealed away to be forgotten. The Asgard never understood it beyond it being dangerous and unable to destroy it. The only one who knew anything about the Aether was Odin while most Asgardians thought the dark elves were a fairy tale (as evidenced by Thor). What Erik did was study the convergence, which was well understood by the Asgard. Heimdall could see the convergence and Thor explained it to Jane using their hands. It was Erik's tools to suppress the effects of the convergence which was put to use in winning against the aether.

  22. Re:Who paid the price. on World War II's Last Surviving Doolittle Raiders Make Their Final Toast · · Score: 0

    Doolittle's raid had strategic value in hindsight. I don't think anyone ever anticipated Japan responding and undercommiting forces for Midway which would lead to a turnaround. The purpose of the Doolittle raid was purely PR. It was to show the American people that we weren't going to sit by and let Japan run rampant in light of the setback in the Philippines. We were commited to war on two fronts and in no position to do anything for months if not a year out. Doolittle Raid (April 1942) and Operation Torch (November 1942) were our first punches to show commitment.

  23. Re:Imagine Japan doing the same on World War II's Last Surviving Doolittle Raiders Make Their Final Toast · · Score: 1

    Churchill was the one fighting against the eventual Soviet hegemony but he was pretty powerless in lieu of America contributing the bulk of manpower on the allied front combined with American politics and it being an election year in 1944. Britain was at its limits. During Overlord they were scraping personel from other military services to find about 40,000 men to fill in for the losses caused during that invasion. Britain had it's bargaining power before 1944 but after it was all in America's court.

  24. Re:Embargo, not blockade on World War II's Last Surviving Doolittle Raiders Make Their Final Toast · · Score: 1

    There was an embargo and Japan was concerned that attacking British, Dutch, and French holdings would drag the US into the war. There are two questions. The first is whether Japan had intents on the Philippines or whether dislodging the US forces there was a necessary step in combination with the attack on Pearl Harbor in order to open up the way towards Australia without leaving a hostile garrison at their backs. The second is whether the US might have gone to war with Japan gobbling up the British, Dutch, and French holdings over concerns that Japan would attack US holdings.

  25. Re:IMO, it is not going to work on Why Project Flare Might Just End the Console War · · Score: 1

    MAG for the PS3 supports 256 players in a single match.

    BF3, at least for the PC, was experimented with and could easily support up to 256 players. The thing is that BF3 made the decision to limit it to 64 players max as going much above that wasn't desired or improve the experience.