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  1. So much to really consider on Oregon Testing Pay-Per-Mile Driving Fee To Replace Gas Tax · · Score: 1

    A per mile fee doesn't take into account the loading a particular vehicle puts on the road surface. Tolls discriminate for access. I say forget fees, forget tolls, institute trolls! Just have them eat the Hummers and other such offenders! It's just another great spin on the highly regarded "eat the rich" strategy.

  2. So, what do you think would be the result ... on The Demographic Future of America's Political Parties · · Score: 1

    ... of giving free Alzheimer's tests at Tea Party conventions?

  3. The only thing you can do ... on Ask Slashdot: Moving To an Offshore-Proof Career? · · Score: 2

    ... is become one of the 1-percent. Otherwise, if your job isn't offshored, you'll be replaced by a robot. Basically, you have to own the robots to win.

  4. In its day ... on Bill Gates Owes His Career To Steven Spielberg's Dad; You May, Too · · Score: 1

    ... BASIC was the Esperanto of computer languages. Today, BASIC is the Esperanto of computer languages.

  5. Progress against global warming will start ... on Pope Attacked By Climate Change Skeptics · · Score: 2

    ... the day you make it illegal for billionaires to use air conditioning.

  6. Re:Historical perspective on Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work That Immigrants Won't Do · · Score: 1

    Actually, a kid who worked hard could make decent money, for an unskilled worker. The threat of being sent to work in the fields also inspired many a more enterprising youth to find alternative employment.

    My hardest manual labor job, between years of college, was in an adobe brickyard. It was not unusual to move ten tons of bricks in a day, though that usually meant about 4 or so hours of work, after which one was spent. Stacking bricks, it was common to have fingertips mashed between bricks, which was remarkably painful. The back, of course, was constantly fatigued. While I wouldn't wish it on anyone as a career, it was a valuable learning experience many would benefit from.

  7. The classroom itself is archaic on The Future Deconstruction of the K-12 Teacher · · Score: 1

    Although it acquired a function of social education and its own social hierarchy, the classroom was primarily created as a nexus for knowledge dissemination. Greek youths would congregate at the foot of such as Plato to learn from a master. As education became more popular, schoolhouses served as focal points where knowledge could be disseminated from a learned individual to a multitude of pupils. At that point, children were sent to school for enrichment, but their labor was still valued and necessary on the family farm. Today, however, schools are warehouses for youth, as yet insufficiently skilled to be constructive in the workforce, yet an inconvenience to their working parents. Amidst this large-scale warehousing, all manner of social malignancy has evolved. Gangs, bullying, drugs are just a few of the problems that taint the academic environment. With the ability of the technology to provide access to instruction without the warehousing and its ills. will the classroom persist?

  8. Historical perspective on Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work That Immigrants Won't Do · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Oregon is a major producer of strawberries in the U.S. Sixty years ago, most of the strawberries here were picked by local youths, as their summer jobs. In the decades that followed, the tradition of kids having manual-labor jobs fell victim to increasing affluence, changing social values, and an influx of migrant workers. A new generation of parents no longer felt it important to teach their kids the work ethic through hard, manual work. Some might argue that, if the strawberries are spoiling in the fields, it started decades ago with the spoiling of our kids.

  9. It will be interesting to see ... on Comcast Officially Gives Up On TWC Merger · · Score: 1

    ... how the shareholders react, and whether any C-level heads roll over this apparent institutional overreach.

  10. Re:Let's put science to work ... on William Shatner Proposes $30 Billion Water Pipeline To California · · Score: 1

    Oh, and at the same time they can work on modifying Shatner's brain to be capable of rational thought.

  11. Let's put science to work ... on William Shatner Proposes $30 Billion Water Pipeline To California · · Score: 1

    ... and genetically modify Californians' kidneys so that they can consume seawater.

  12. Re:stop with the pipes already. on William Shatner Proposes $30 Billion Water Pipeline To California · · Score: 2

    Beer takes about a third as much water to make as milk and about half that of wine.

  13. Don't be too quick on Columbia University Doctors Ask For Dr. Mehmet Oz's Dismissal · · Score: 1

    While there may well be merit to the criticisms of Oz, it should be noted that the doctors behind this initiative are not without their own conflicts of interest: http://america.aljazeera.com/blogs/scrutineer/2015/4/17/doctors-behind-anti-oz-letter-have-own-conflicts-of-interest.html

  14. A minor technical note on Gyro-Copter Lands On West Lawn of US Capitol, Pilot Arrested · · Score: 1

    The downdraft of any reasonably large helicopter would have forced him down in short order.

  15. Re:This is nothing new. on How the Pentagon Wasted $10 Billion On Military Projects · · Score: 1

    Let the Farce be with you.

  16. Re:Can there be any question ... on Hugo Awards Turn (Even More) Political · · Score: 1

    Ah, yes, the Middle East and Africa; no polarization there.

  17. This is nothing new. on How the Pentagon Wasted $10 Billion On Military Projects · · Score: 2

    Look to the Reagan administration's "Star Wars" project. In fact, that was just the tip of the iceberg of funds misspent by that regime. After concocting outlandish scenarios of a Soviet arms buildup, admin wonks tasked the CIA with finding proof of such. The CIA came back with the observation that there was no such evidence. The administration successfully spun this as "proof" the Soviets were up to much worse than even the wonks' wildest claims, and allocated tens of billions of dollars to wasteful, unnecessary defence spending. The fall of the Soviet Union, and the release of Soviet documents, revealed the arms buildup to be a Reagan administration fantasy.

  18. It would seem ... on Carly Fiorina Calls Apple's Tim Cook a 'Hypocrite' On Gay Rights · · Score: 1

    ... she is arguing against globalization, which is usually the darling of the 1-percent set. Curious, indeed.

  19. Can there be any question ... on Hugo Awards Turn (Even More) Political · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... that polarized, no-compromise, take-no-prisoners politics will be the downfall of Western Civilization?

  20. Gentlemen, start your engines ... on Powdered Alcohol Banned In Six States · · Score: 1

    ... and let the black market begin.

  21. It remains to be seen ... on Ankle Exoskeleton Takes a Load Off Calf Muscles To Boost Walking Efficiency · · Score: 1

    ... the physiological consequences of having a stride that is stronger than you are, particularly after the devices come off. Might be a good time to get that degree in podiatry.

  22. Revolution in their thinking? on Microsoft Engineer: Open Source Windows Is 'Definitely Possible' · · Score: 1

    Or the usual smoke and mirrors? Look at some of their current "open source" licenses and terms, then you be the judge.

  23. Four words: on Secret Service Plans New Fence, Full Scale White House Replica, But No Moat · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "Ring of rose bushes." In fact, such was a common element in medieval fortifications, perhaps just as much as moats.

  24. Re:When scores ... on Why the Final Moments Inside a Cockpit Are Heard But Not Seen · · Score: 1

    Personal privacy is sacrosanct, privacy in the workplace is not. A pilot on an 8-seater is under constant view by everyone on the plane. Why shouldn't a pilot of a larger plane have at least someone watching?

  25. When scores ... on Why the Final Moments Inside a Cockpit Are Heard But Not Seen · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... even hundreds of people's lives are in your hands, you have no right to an expectation of privacy regarding your actions that directly affect those lives.