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  1. Re:Administrators on Teaching College Is No Longer a Middle Class Job · · Score: 1

    you point out how they are the same. The differences are simple. In capitalism you get to choose what layers of management are steeling from you. In leftism, you're stuck with a single source of theft.

  2. Re:English is fun on Teaching Creationism As Science Now Banned In Britain's Schools · · Score: 2

    Three more and it can be Shatnered...

    "Teaching, Creationism, As Science, Now Banned, In Britain's Schools"

  3. Re:Occulus Rift on 4K Monitors: Not Now, But Soon · · Score: 1

    Strapping something on your face may get old, but today it is better than the helmet you had to wear prior and the fixed device prior to that, the current trend is smaller faster lighter. How long before the VR solution is only slightly more uncomfortable than a pair of glasses?

  4. Re:Massive conspiracy on IRS Lost Emails of 6 More Employees Under Investigation · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I think it's ok because it's against the nutjob tea baggers. They should just take their freedom elsewhere. This is the USSA!!

  5. Re:Massive conspiracy on IRS Lost Emails of 6 More Employees Under Investigation · · Score: 1

    There is more than just supernatural threats, there are legal ones involved as well.

  6. Re:This is what we've warned you about on Bitcoin Security Endangered By Powerful Mining Pool · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is it? I kept away from Bitcoin and the literally millions of dollars I could have made and this is the big fizzle that I was warned about. Fuck you! Fuck you and your fear mongering.

  7. Re:The more they know about you... on Google Fit To Curate Steps, Calories, Heart Rate, Other Biometric Data · · Score: 1

    Exactly, they can offer me things I actually want rather than the garbage advertisements I don't want. I can't wait until the day I only see advertisements that are things I want, when I want them.

  8. Re:What is docker? Docker is... on Docker 1.0 Released · · Score: 2

    You can almost think of it as a new compiler system that outputs a self contained application that needs to know almost nothing about the underlying system. Similar to a virtual machine appliance, but designed to be the way it is and not an addition to platform.

    You can compile software and create a container that includes everything needed to run that app as part of your continuous delivery environment then deploy the docker artifact to integration testing, qa testing and then to production as the exact same object.

  9. Re:Government fails again on Why NASA's Budget "Victory" Is Anything But · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Government is always good when choice is bad.

    Corporations are always good when choice is good.

    Some may try to argue that choice is always good, but it isn't. Five competing roads with 20 different owners that I have to use to get to work would not be a good thing. A single government planned road is not the best but it is better than the alternative. Many things can compare to this, usually where it requires stepping on property rights, such as running power/water/gas lines, building roads, and similar. Otherwise keep the government out of it.

  10. Re:Frosty on Botched Executions Put Lethal Injections Under New Scrutiny · · Score: 1

    wealthy well-connected persons usually get sentenced to death without trial.

  11. Re:Coined the term 'bug' on Grace Hopper, UNIVAC, and the First Programming Language · · Score: 1

    Not to mention all the work she did for Kung Fu.

    "When you snatch the pebble from my had you will be ready Grace Hopper."

  12. Re:Thats a good name on Let's Call It 'Climate Disruption,' White House Science Adviser Suggests (Again) · · Score: 1

    You don't understand Imagery and Hyperbole are the only ways you can really get grant money. As they say around the global disruption research facilities "If it's not the end of the world it is the end of the budget."

  13. Re:Buggy whips? on The Koch Brothers Attack On Solar Energy · · Score: 1

    Does money buy political power, or does political prowess get you money?

    My guess a bit of both, but leaning more on the prowess.

  14. Re:use hearing protection now on Implant Injects DNA Into Ear, Improves Hearing · · Score: 1

    Speaking form experience causes hearing loss now? Don't experience so loud then.

  15. Re:Verizon FiOS on Netflix Plans To Raise Prices By "$1 or $2 a Month" · · Score: 1

    It's just like how you might buy 110V AC current from the Power company, except that during heavy usage hours that drops to 55V and during peak it sometimes even drops below 20V, stutters or even stalls out for long periods of time.

  16. Re:So - who's in love with the government again? on Beer Price Crisis On the Horizon · · Score: 1

    Or better yet leave the resources in the hands of the people that earned them to begin with.

  17. Re:Betteridge's Law sez "Nope." on Will This Flying Car Get Crowdfunded? · · Score: 1

    But, but, but the poster behind the laptop has an AT-AT on it. Maybe they could build one of those instead?

  18. Re:What if we overcorrect? on Climate Scientist: Climate Engineering Might Be the Answer To Warming · · Score: 1

    Hmm, I look at the temperature outside, then I feel the temperature inside. When we're trying I'd say it works pretty good.

  19. Re:Useless outside of the USA on Amazon's Fire TV: Is It Worth Game Developers' Time? · · Score: 1

    Yea, but you can get that 20% of the content like 10 times faster than the USA.

  20. Re:I miss the old days... on Subversion Project Migrates To Git · · Score: 1

    Now it seems every post on any day is an unfunny joke.

  21. Re:Um, right. on Don't Help Your Kids With Their Homework · · Score: 1

    Interestingly I was never taught to do addition/subtraction like that but have always done it that way. It helps me to quickly get to something close when estimating and also get more precise by thinking a little more through the steps.

    It's all about limiting the number of steps you have to memorize and being able to break a problem up into a few easier smaller problems.

  22. Re:Subjects suck. on Docker Turns 1: What's the Future For Open Source Container Tech? · · Score: 1

    I haven't used it but the jist I get is that your build system, rather than just outputting an application package that then has to be installed on an OS outputs a complete container that can then be run with zero other dependencies in all your QA/test environments right up until deployed to production.

  23. Re:Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? on Church Committee Members Say New Group Needed To Watch NSA · · Score: 1

    The answer to too much government is more government to watch it.

  24. Re:Don't be too sure of yourself. on The Billionaires Privatizing American Science · · Score: 1

    They made that money by exchanging it for goods and services that others thought of as more valuable than the money they handed over. Society has already shared in the profit.

  25. Re:How can the situation be improved? on Why Is US Broadband So Slow? · · Score: 1

    "Perhaps it could feature democratically elected managers."

    Because a popularity contest is the best way to chose technical positions.