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  1. Re:End fiat currency! End THE FEDERAL RESERVE!!! on Is It Time For the US To Ditch the Dollar Bill? · · Score: 1

    Citation needed.

  2. Re:End fiat currency! End THE FEDERAL RESERVE!!! on Is It Time For the US To Ditch the Dollar Bill? · · Score: 2, Informative

    They also killed the Liberty Dollar, which was backed by silver and gold, calling its founder a "domestic terrorist". Seriously.

  3. Re:Sigh on The Internet Has Transformed Modern Divorce · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I'm sad my parents didn't divorce sooner. Heck, I wish my mother had had the sense to get away from my abusive father within the first year of her marriage.

    Does that mean you were born by then, or do you just really, really love your mom?

  4. Re:Stop renting DVD's on Ask Slashdot: How To Make a DVD-Rental Store More Relevant? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm happy to stipulate that any executive who accepts a pay raise the same year their workers get a cut is a scumbag. But ultimately it was union negotiators who allowed the company to go under. Maybe they thought having no job is better than a having a shitty job working for assholes, and that killing off a company that can't or won't take care of its employees is a message worth sending. If so I'd actually respect that, but I haven't seen that's how this is being reported.

  5. Re:Stop renting DVD's on Ask Slashdot: How To Make a DVD-Rental Store More Relevant? · · Score: 1, Troll

    Judging by what happened to Hostess, anyone who actually wants to keep that job.

  6. Re:Or even older on It's Hard For Techies Over 40 To Stay Relevant, Says SAP Lab Director · · Score: 1

    Fair enough, although companies spent a lot of money to update that software rather than replace it. Surely there are analogous situations that apply to forty-one year olds.

  7. Or even older on It's Hard For Techies Over 40 To Stay Relevant, Says SAP Lab Director · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm still in my 30's, but I'm old enough to remember that they had to farm a lot of Y2K work out to retired guys in nursing homes because they were the best ones to figure out all the COBOL that had to be updated. Ignore the value of experience at your peril.

  8. Re:*different* scores for *standardized* tests on With NCLB Waiver, Virginia Sorts Kids' Scores By Race · · Score: 1

    What are you going to do if someones culture really does have a significant measurable impact on their learning performance? Tell them that their culture sucks?

    That, or just let fed up people from within that culture do it.

  9. Re:First post on NASA DTN Protocol: How Interplanetary Internet Works · · Score: 2, Funny

    Were you measuring light speed in American units instead of metric ones?

  10. Re:Off topic, sort of... on Massachusetts May Soon Change How the Nation Dies · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be nicer to be asphixiated with nitrous oxide? Remember kids, just say N2O!

  11. Re:Eyes show emotion on D&D Monster Study Proves Eyes Have It · · Score: 1

    Often in martial arts the lesson is to avoid fighting whenever possible, but when that's not possible, win.

  12. Re:A terraforming genome would make more sense on Craig Venter Wants To Rebuild Martian Life In Earth Lab · · Score: 1

    Terraforming is that it would be expensive now but only offer a potential return after millenia have passed. Who thinks that long term nowadays?

  13. Re:Makes you wonder on Craig Venter Wants To Rebuild Martian Life In Earth Lab · · Score: 1

    Relax, since nothing is worse than Prometheus, your shit fuck is safe.

  14. Re:Terms of service? on AOL's New Alto Client Is Visual Email, and You Don't Need a New Address · · Score: 1

    If they did, I would occasionally use it, and would see their ads. But alas, they don't support this.

  15. Re:Of course not on Libertarian Candidate Excluded From Debate For Refusing Corporate Donations · · Score: 1

    Let's assume that's actually an accurate description of the guy who submitted the article. It's still completely ridiculousto take what he does, and extrapolate that out to all members of the entire group. It would be like me saying that all people who aren't libertarian are puerile and illogical just because publiclurker is, when that's obviously not the case.

  16. Re:Of course not on Libertarian Candidate Excluded From Debate For Refusing Corporate Donations · · Score: 2

    In other words, you don't agree with us, so you say ridiculous things about us and hope that no one will point out how vacuous they are.

  17. Re:Interesting contradiction on Prince of Sealand Dies At 91 · · Score: 1

    The point is that society can't work that way. Everyone pays in some money so that services can be available when people need them. The only real argument/adjustment to make is who pays in how much.

    Investors pay in whatever's necessary, and in that way the goods and services are available as needed. That's how gorcery stores work, for example, and that's why food is available 24/7 from an array of competing providers.

  18. Re:Clueless Algebra Teacher Controlled the Lab on Ask Slashdot: What Were You Taught About Computers In High School? · · Score: 1

    Not really, since an integral part of how literacy tests were used during Jim Crow was to exempt illiterate whites from being similarly restricted.

  19. Re:Clueless Algebra Teacher Controlled the Lab on Ask Slashdot: What Were You Taught About Computers In High School? · · Score: 1

    If only elections were run similarly....

  20. Re:Don't waste your time with GNOME 3.6 on GNOME 3.6 Released · · Score: 1

    Fair enough, it's entirely possible Gnome Panel is no different for me than Gnome 2 because my workflow differs from yours. So far I've been able to route around Ubuntu's changes fairly easily, but if I couldn't then I too would be pretty frustrated.

  21. Re:Don't waste your time with GNOME 3.6 on GNOME 3.6 Released · · Score: 1

    I'd have thought someone who's used Linux for seventeen years would know one can use other desktops with Ubuntu. I'm an Ubuntu user who uses it with Gnome Panel, and it's so much like Gnome 2 that I see no meaningful difference.

  22. Re:And they name it... on Japanese Scientists Produce Element 113 · · Score: 2

    As opposed to Romnium, which many people think is a different element from this, but which is really just an isotope.

  23. Re:Did you try GNOME Classic? on Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed · · Score: 2

    One family member likes Unity, I and the others do not and use gnome-panel. It just wasn't that big a deal.

  24. Re:"powered glide flights" on SpaceShip Two, XCOR Lynx Prepare For Powered Flights · · Score: 1

    Actually: <headdesk count="3" />

    (Unless you were actually just trying to goad the AC.)

  25. Re:To what end? on Richard Branson 'Determined To Start a Population On Mars' · · Score: 1

    What are those people going to be doing on mars that will justify the enormous expense of keeping them alive? Ultimately this is the problem with most Mars or Moonbase plans: there needs to be a compelling reason to be there. Something you can't do on Earth or in Earth orbit. It's going to be hard to be productive when most of your energy is going to just keeping people alive.

    Probably similar things to what they do in Antarctica. That's another place where people need expensive outside support to stay, yet there's a town and various assorted outposts that have been there for decades.