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  1. Re:Ok, they got ONE right... on Internet Sales Tax Bill Dead In Congress · · Score: 1

    Except it isn't right.

  2. Re:Meh on Internet Sales Tax Bill Dead In Congress · · Score: 1

    Not if it's a use tax. Like every state that has a sales tax also has.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U...

  3. Re:Lol. on US School Installs 'Shooter Detection' System · · Score: 1

    I suspect when you where a kid was prior to 2001.

  4. Re:Dumb idea ... Lots of assumptions .... on US School Installs 'Shooter Detection' System · · Score: 1

    Correction:
    Average response time of emergency personnel: 10 minutes.
    However the response time off people at the emergency is much, much higher. If they know where a shooter is, it could be very helpful.

    I don't believe in the generic 'hide in the class room' response.
    Sometimes that's good, but if the shooter is on the other side of a school, the best thing to do is for the kids to flee as fast as possible.
    The school my wife works at has the generic 'hide in place' policy, even though many of the schools have a second door the leads outside. The kids running out that door would save more lives.
    OF course it's harder for the police to control once they get there, but I don't really care about that.

  5. Re:The other Colorado high school shooting on US School Installs 'Shooter Detection' System · · Score: 1

    Yes, but what where they doing, if anything, and why did it fail?

  6. Re:Dumb idea ... Lots of assumptions .... on US School Installs 'Shooter Detection' System · · Score: 1

    You're logic is bad, and you should feel bad for using it.

    a recent comparison of aggression and hostility occurring during treatment with fluoxetine to placebo in children and adolescents found that no significant difference between the fluoxetine group and a placebo group.[62] There is also evidence that higher rates of SSRI prescriptions are associated with lower rates of suicide in children, though since the evidence is correlational, the true nature of the relationship is unclear.[63]

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
    http://online.liebertpub.com/d...
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...

  7. Re:Dumb idea ... Lots of assumptions .... on US School Installs 'Shooter Detection' System · · Score: 1

    "Many shooters use stolen wepons.[sic]"

    Not true. Some do, most do not.

  8. Re:Dumb idea ... Lots of assumptions .... on US School Installs 'Shooter Detection' System · · Score: 1

    or reach out to people who have a higher risk of going on a shooting rampage?

    Schools need to be places that are safe. This is why it's more important than helping random people. Kids anxiety can be high enough.

    Seriously, schools need to deal with kids who feel like they are out casts better.

  9. Re:Wonderful idea. on US School Installs 'Shooter Detection' System · · Score: 2

    22 lr is ~145 db.

    It's sharp enough to stand out from other noise, including dropping a book.

  10. Re:It's the new punk on The Math Behind the Hipster Effect · · Score: 1

    Desired by men?

    oh, I see you just another internet tough guy.

    Grow up.

  11. Re:It's the new punk on The Math Behind the Hipster Effect · · Score: 1

    "passive-aggressive punk culture"
    nonsense.
    If it's passive aggressive, it isn't punk.

  12. Re:There are some problems with the story on The Disgruntled Guys Who Babysit Our Aging Nuclear Missiles · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I was in in FE Warren SAC in the early 80's. I was no in the hole, I was support.
    Moral was crap then, and they where short staffed(Thanks Reagan!)
    I worked many 72-100 shifts with no sleep.

  13. Re:Scale down the land based forces on The Disgruntled Guys Who Babysit Our Aging Nuclear Missiles · · Score: 2

    ICBM have a range of Anywhere On The Globe.
    SLBM have a range of about 4300 miles.

  14. Re:Scale down the land based forces on The Disgruntled Guys Who Babysit Our Aging Nuclear Missiles · · Score: 2

    Yes, they do.
    We can put an ICBM anywhere in the world within 29 minutes. Neither bombers or sub can do that.
    Bombers an Subs can more easily have the comms disrupted
    Bomber and Sub will hve an active defense targeting them.
    Bombers and sub are tracked by other actors the various theaters.

    .

  15. Re:Great! More hipster hate. on The Math Behind the Hipster Effect · · Score: 2

    It has ALWAYS been cool to hate hipsters.

  16. Re:Great! More hipster hate. on The Math Behind the Hipster Effect · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, lets take advice on cool form someone on /.

  17. Now that they figured that out on The Math Behind the Hipster Effect · · Score: 2

    maybe we can get a vaccine.

  18. Re:Just cheating themselves on The Students Who Feel They Have the Right To Cheat · · Score: 1

    A - It may be a lot of harm

    "..you're just an idiot who knows nothing, when you cheat."
    Irrelevant when you change jobs, like as a consultant.

    A cheater hurts the entire industry.

  19. Re:Old Saying. on The Students Who Feel They Have the Right To Cheat · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But if you need a degree to get a job, and the rich are cheating their way into straight A's.
    For all practical reason's, they are in a Hobson's Choice:
    Choose to cheat, or don't get an education.

    As usual, a simple statement 'Two wrong's don't make a right' completely ignores the problem, remove the person saying it's cognitive function from the conversation, and it completely wrong.

  20. Re:Worthless degrees on The Students Who Feel They Have the Right To Cheat · · Score: 1

    "private university would have a strong incentive to catch and remove cheaters s"
    yes, they would kick out people paying them lots of money to get in. There certainly is no incentive in a pure capitalist university to keep rich well paying people enrolled.

    "confer meaningful degrees would obviously place graduates more ably and thus command higher tuition"
    nope. That would imply that the university would also be honest.

    Did you know that in America most private schools are worse at educating students than public schools?

  21. Re:Coming soon to a theater near you on Scientists Discover a Virus That Changes the Brain To "Make Humans More Stupid" · · Score: 1

    Too bad for most of their features, MS had it first.

  22. Re:Chemtrails anyone? on Scientists Discover a Virus That Changes the Brain To "Make Humans More Stupid" · · Score: 2

    only if 'on to something' means 'ignorant of even the most basic science', then yes.

  23. Re:At last: an explanation! on Scientists Discover a Virus That Changes the Brain To "Make Humans More Stupid" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, it's a bit more then that.
    MIllion is, techncally correct in that it's more then 1 million. But it very few show that break 2 million viewer. And many of those viewers are the saem ones that watch other reality shows.

    Reality shows are cheap. This is why you have a lot of them, you need very few viewers to make a profit.

    More people watched the lowest rated episode of the Beverly hillbillys then watched the highest rated reality TV.

    "s have a lower intellect"
    Why would it be lower, as opposed to the same?

  24. Re:At last: an explanation! on Scientists Discover a Virus That Changes the Brain To "Make Humans More Stupid" · · Score: 1

    Please explain

  25. Re:i love parasites on Scientists Discover a Virus That Changes the Brain To "Make Humans More Stupid" · · Score: 1

    That is incorrect. Get some actual information.
    http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/t...

    And cats might be the path way to a cure from AIDS(HIV)
    http://www.medicalnewstoday.co...