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  1. Needs another standard of measurement on No One Knows How Long the US Coastline Is (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    Like the average human stride length, so it would be measured "as if you were walking the entire course on foot" For example: The coastline is 1,000,000,321 "strides" in length.

  2. Re: Now they only need electricity and security... on Ghana's Windows Blackboard Teacher And His Students Have a Rewarding Outcome (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the reality check!

  3. Now they only need electricity and security... on Ghana's Windows Blackboard Teacher And His Students Have a Rewarding Outcome (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    ...or the law of unintended consequences will take effect #TheGodsMustBeCrazy

  4. Re: Pull Him Out of Public School on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Explain Copyright To My Kids? · · Score: 1

    There is no âoepublicâ any longer, only special interest groups

  5. Re: Just Take Ownership Of Being A God Damn Man on 'I See Things Differently': James Damore on his Autism and the Google Memo (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Ironic his autistically objective assesment of himself is again miscontrued by another

  6. 160 Million spent on a good, but failed, cause on America Wasted $160 Million Trying To Get Afghanistan To Use E-Payments (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Unlike the billions spent on consistently failed causes without even the good premise this one had #drugwar #factoryeducation #TtrillionUnaccountedPentagonSpending

  7. A Commodore 64 on Ask Slashdot: What Was Your First Home Computer? · · Score: 1

    Purchased from Hoshing-Kwong, a chinese kid who moved to my hometown of 5000 when he was 15. I went to his house to buy it. His bedroom was full of monitors, computers and computer parts on shelves on all four walls. His reality was far different than mine. One if my friends once asked how he always finished his schoolwork... With a straight face and broken English he said "I cover my face with toothpaste and put a drop of water on each eyelid". If his eyes closed, the water drops would hit his face and activate the burning sensation of the toothpaste. I always wondered what happened to that guy. And the computer? I played Zelda on the Commodore. It was fun.

  8. But... the Universe is 100% a simulation on No, We Probably Don't Live in a Computer Simulation, Says Physicist (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Whether it is stimulated in our own minds, or otherwise, is the real question.

  9. Re: Too secure for insecure? on Hillary Clinton Used BleachBit To Wipe Emails (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    How this was upvoted, I don't know. The security and lack of it was done in two completely different contexts, but you've wrapped them up into a single strawman and cried foul. Whether ignorant, naive, or deliberate lying, but definitely not 5 stars.

  10. Re: "What Difference Does It Make?!?!?!" on 'DNC Hacker' Unmasked: He Really Works for Russia, Researchers Say (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Didn't see anything shocking there at all. Much ado about NUTHIN

  11. I was in 6th grade remedial reading on 30 Years Since The Challenger Disaster: Where Were You? (space.com) · · Score: 1

    Somehow I had gone from this to AP Literature in high school. Through this, I learned that student assessments are highly subjective. Anyway... Mrs. Morrissey said that there was going to be a rescue mission save the astronauts. She was just parroting the news. Then she turned on the television perched in an upper corner of the classroom. Just as with the towers of 911, we all watched in horror. No one was going to be saved. Mrs. Morrissey cried. It was Christa McAuliffe's last ride. Within a week jokes were already circulating: "How do we know that the teacher had dandruff?" The joke went. "Because her head and shoulders was found on the beach ." Oh, childhood... So innocent. So sociopathic.

  12. Re: Limited power to change working situation... on Regular Exercise Not Enough To Make Up For Sitting All Day · · Score: 1

    I don't think the problem is lack of a solution but lack of a creative solution on your part. You simply need to increase the blood flow into your legs and body. You can do nonmoving static isometric exercises while sitting at your desk: flexing your muscles against each other, wall sitting, taking bathroom breaks and doing lunge or pushup type exercises in the stall. Are used to work in a factory for 12 hours a day and I could induce myself sweat just while sitting up slighly from my chair, supporting myself with my quads. "But people just don't do those things" you might say. That's what lack of creativity is.

  13. Randall Carlson is smarter than you. on UN Climate Change Panel: It's Happening, and It's Almost Entirely Man's Fault · · Score: 1

    Ask Randall: Climate Change *Editors note: For an succinct overview of Randallâ(TM)s research regarding âoeclimate changeâ you can view the video of his interview with RealitySandwich.com entitled,âoeClimate Change: A Catastrophistâ(TM)s Perspectiveâ for a better understanding of his perspective. Hello Elizabeth. I am responding to the question you raised regarding my opinion of the New York Times article on the recent work of physicist Richard Muller on climate change. You asked: âoeCan you look at his data and still maintain our recent temperature increases are just an anomaly?â My first impression is that you have not understood my position on this issue. To clarify that position, I would state that I do not consider the present warming of the climate to be an anomaly, rather I believe that the present scale and rate of climate change is well within the range of natural variability, and is, therefore, not anomalous at all. This opinion is based upon nearly three decades of in-depth study into the matter of climate change over multiple time scales. What has become apparent, from an ever growing body of evidence, from many diverse sources, is that the climate of the past has constantly changed, with a range of variability far exceeding anything experienced within recent history, say for example, since the inception of the Industrial Revolution. Certainly you must be aware that our planet has undergone a series of glacial-interglacial ages, with the most recent great Ice Age ending only 10,000 years ago. The termination of that ice age was truly a global warming event. From a variety of proxies, most especially isotopic studies of ice cores extracted from glacial ice in Antarctica, Greenland and numerous mountain glaciers, it has become apparent that the warming that accompanied the shift out of the most recent ice age was extreme in its severity and catastrophically fast, perhaps as much as 15 to 20 degrees C in less than a decade. This is many times more intense than the .8 C degree warming of the last two centuries. In fact there were two catastrophic warming episodes at the close of the ice age separated by a 1400 year, equally fast, return to full glacial cold. As of this writing there is no agreed upon explanation for this climate change event. I will not at this point digress into the subject of what that warming did to the 6 million cubic miles of glacial ice piled up over the North American and European continents, nor the consequences of a very rapid, 400 foot sea level rise (!!) resulting from the melting of that glacial ice, except to say that the ensuing floods could only be described as biblical in scale, causing environmental havoc on a scale almost impossible to visualize. I will add that very few scientists are yet to be truly aware of the extraordinarily catastrophic nature of the events accompanying the planetary shift out of the last Ice Age. Coming to grips with natural climate changes of a scale and intensity of that most recent glacial termination, constitutes, in my opinion, the paramount unresolved scientific question of our time. It may, in fact, have led to the near extermination of the human race. Additionally, ongoing studies of the palaeoclimate record are revealing numerous other extreme climate changes occurring over multiple time scales, none of which can be blamed on anthropogenic consumption of fossil fuels. Throughout the 10,000 years of the Holocene (the current geological epoch in which we find ourselves) the natural variability of the global temperature appears to have ranged from about 2 to 4 degrees C over time scales ranging from decades to centuries. From the ice core records it is apparent that at no time has there been any significant period of stable climate, rather it has been in a constant state of flux; and, human societies have frequently been the victims of the planetsâ(TM) natural climate variability. In regards to recent history, I would like to remind you that between roughly the mid

  14. Re: Behind the curve on Seattle Approves $15 Per Hour Minimum Wage · · Score: 1

    This is not what you think it is. This is an experiment in guaranteed income for when all of us will be obsolete in the near future as AI encroaches upon our jobs. You had better like this sort of experimentation. Your Grandfather's economy that you base your reasoning on is on it's way out. And so are you.

  15. I think he means *live* stock on Rand Paul Suggests Backing Bitcoin With Stocks · · Score: 1

    Cows, sheep, goats. That sort of thing.

  16. Re: Where did that money go? on Shutdown Cost the US Economy $24 Billion · · Score: 1

    Many contractors are paid exclusively through government contracts. As well, investors no longer make investments in governments and companies with poor long term prospects. Money lost.

  17. A tape reel does not have a forested area in the c on A Peek At Apple's Planned $5B HQ · · Score: 1

    Hey the earth looks like a basketball, what a foolish idea!