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  1. Re:Middlemen: the official plague of the modern ag on Tesla Faces Tough Regulatory Hurdle From State Dealership Laws · · Score: 1

    You clearly know nothing o GP pay and costs.

    " not a great deal of intelligence."
    you will not make the 'slog' without a good deal of intelligence.

    "Your motives are probably also outside a desire to 'help people' "
    haha, no. I have worked with too many Doctors and I know that's not true for the vast majority of them. If that's what they wanted, they would have gone into finance and made MORE money.

  2. Re:Middlemen: the official plague of the modern ag on Tesla Faces Tough Regulatory Hurdle From State Dealership Laws · · Score: 1

    below average in a subgroup of above average intelligence, education, dedication and motivation.

    You peoples misuse of average makes Maths Hulk want to smash.

  3. Re:Middlemen: the official plague of the modern ag on Tesla Faces Tough Regulatory Hurdle From State Dealership Laws · · Score: 1

    Unless you are rich, yo wouldn't want to live in a solely capitalist driven economy. We did do that for a while, it went poorly for anyone who want' rich or willing to kill people.

  4. Re:Middlemen: the official plague of the modern ag on Tesla Faces Tough Regulatory Hurdle From State Dealership Laws · · Score: 2

    That's wrong.

    a) the show room is a value add regardless off who pays for it, and it's cheaper to the consumer for the manufacturer to do it. There is no middle many percentage on top.

    b)" you would have no choice on what dealer to go to, " Says who? That would only be the case if separate dealerships weren't allowed. and manufacturers still have to compete against other manufacturers.

    c)" consumers will go to what dealer provides the best value and service." as they would continue to do. again, you are making the the assumption that this would some how take away the option of having dealerships.

    "actually stifle your options."
    you mean like stifling my option to buy direct from the manufacturer?

  5. Re:complexity, or lack thereof, reveals understand on Dr. Dobb's Calls BS On Obsession With Simple Code · · Score: 1

    " Often such code came from self-educated software developers."
      think that's a bias, but I would love to see an actual study .
    The most overly complex code I have ever seen have been from MIT and Cal-Tech.
    The worst code I have ever scenes has been from self taught 'web masters' Worst in that they clearly didn't understand basic concepts of software.

  6. All complexity can be made simple on Dr. Dobb's Calls BS On Obsession With Simple Code · · Score: 1

    when broken into small parts as isolate from each other as reasonable.

    A car is complex, but you don't design it as one thing. You design each piece individually to be ut together withing a defined method for the vehicle.

  7. Re:Marriage is none of the government's business on Supreme Court Overturns Defense of Marriage Act · · Score: 1

    And when to demonstrably harms society?
    And I mean demonstrated at a scientific level, not some opinion based on some old book.

  8. Re:Stuff that matters. on Supreme Court Overturns Defense of Marriage Act · · Score: 1

    I an an advocate of gay rights. Have been for a long time. Family member swill no longer speak to me, unless they are telling me how I will burn in hell.
    I am Atheist, I have no religious dog in the show.

    I am not happy it's here. I prefer the news that mattes stick with nerd sub culture, not wide spread issues I can read anywhere else.

  9. Re:Justice Kennedy's statement on Supreme Court Overturns Defense of Marriage Act · · Score: 1

    "life, liberty, and property."
    and? and? come on it's in the constitution..

  10. Re:Shocking, antidisestablishmentarianism . on Supreme Court Overturns Defense of Marriage Act · · Score: 1

    Nope.

    There are a great many harms that come from polygamy. Real scientifically proven harms, not 'My religion doesn't like it their for it should not be allowed' harms.

  11. Re:Sorry on Supreme Court Overturns Defense of Marriage Act · · Score: 1

    Of course, but it isn't a Nerd subculture item.

  12. Re:Sorry on Supreme Court Overturns Defense of Marriage Act · · Score: 1

    Those of us from the beginning beg to differ.
    You could look at the archives..if you are brave enough look into the face of how wrong you are.

  13. Re:Sorry on Supreme Court Overturns Defense of Marriage Act · · Score: 1

    You are missing the point. Say stuff that matters as a generic excuse means slashdot might as well just run all news becasue some of it matters to someone.
    What it seemed to mean at the beginning was nerd specific culture news. New Star Wars, for example.

      Yes, there are gay nerds, but THIS issue isn't really a nerd culture item. Its an all cultural item, as opposed to s sub cultural item.
    Nerd where pants, clearly we should run articles on new pant styles . . .

  14. Re:So now that they can't use it as a weapon anymo on Supreme Court Overturns Defense of Marriage Act · · Score: 2

    Why blaspheme when you can buttblastpheme?

  15. Re:Funny results reporting on Supreme Court Overturns Defense of Marriage Act · · Score: 1

    I hate to break it to you, but it isn't equal.

    FOX twists and changes stories to fit their ultraconservative news base, a lot. Including taking a few lines from AP and then adding a bunch of quotes and anecdotes around it to make it seem different then what the story is saying.
    No other news MSM news outlet come close to what FOX does.

    The degree of Bias in most MSM isn't nearly as bad as you seem to think.. I don't expect everyone to spend months reviews stories to check for bias, but I do expect them to realize there are different degrees of bias.

  16. Re:Funny results reporting on Supreme Court Overturns Defense of Marriage Act · · Score: 2

    Because with their base, saying it that way riles them up. Telling them its a constitutional victory does not. Fox 'news' spine everything to make it look like the government is taking everything away, including FOXs LARGE religious viewership religion.

    This is, of course, bullshit. Many people see this as an attack on their religious beliefs.
    FOX is smart enough to set the stage and let their viewers and pundits take it from their.

    Yes I know it sounds tin foil hatty. I don't like that either, but when you compare what the AP writed and how FOX changes the story, I can't see any other conclusion.

  17. Re:What now? on Supreme Court Overturns Defense of Marriage Act · · Score: 1

    Nope.

    What it means is other states don't have to allow a New Jersey driver their state licenses without a test.
    If you have a legal New Jersey License and are just visiting or passing through, then you license is considered valid.

  18. Re:What now? on Supreme Court Overturns Defense of Marriage Act · · Score: 1

    What this means, in a nut shell, is that sate have to recognize you as married and all the benefits there in.

  19. Re:Good ... on Supreme Court Overturns Defense of Marriage Act · · Score: 1

    Since the Constitution SPECIFICALLY says it can be regulated, no.

    As ratified by the States and authenticated by Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State:
    A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

    The debate raged around the wording thta allowed people not tio serve the militia.
    When you look at in in context of the time, it is clear it was about a militia. i.e. loose, on call military Something the British tried to destroy at the beginning of the war.

  20. Re:Good ... on Supreme Court Overturns Defense of Marriage Act · · Score: 2

    "Rights are given by the government. "
    Now there is a fundamental misunderstanding of the US Constitution if there ever was one.

  21. Re:CoS is a cult ... on Former Scientologist: CoS Told Brin It Wanted Only "Good" Search Results · · Score: 1

    It may actually lead them to his door, and it would certainly cause down modding. That ain't magic friend, that's what they do.

  22. Re:Why were Brin and the EFF even meeting with the on Former Scientologist: CoS Told Brin It Wanted Only "Good" Search Results · · Score: 1

    You talk to people like this for the audience. You won't convince the deluded person talking to you about enrams*, but you might get people who are watching to think about how mind boggling stupid it is. That IF you are polite and dissect the argument.

    *At least not during the conversation. Hopefully it will add a grain of sand to getting those people to actually think.

  23. Re:Free Speech is not Propaganda. on Former Scientologist: CoS Told Brin It Wanted Only "Good" Search Results · · Score: 2

    Perfect is determine by the parameters set by the conversation.
    If I say a hinge moves 100 degrees, and it moves `100 degree it's perfect within the confines of the statement.
    Of course it has to be provable.

  24. The only good thing to come out of scientology on Former Scientologist: CoS Told Brin It Wanted Only "Good" Search Results · · Score: 3, Funny

    was last Sundays episode of Venture Bros.

  25. Re:Proof is already from 1929 on Proof Mooted For Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle · · Score: 1

    unknowable but nor unpredictable. If I know it's movement I can predict* it's location at a latter time of measurement. Of course at the later time I will not know the momentum at that particular time.

    *Probably :)