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  1. Re:Great video, but will it help... on Tech Leaders Encourage Teaching Schoolkids How To Code · · Score: 1

    No one complains about the usage of appropriate words except biggots like you.

  2. Re:Really? on Plans Unveiled For Full Scale Replica of the Titanic · · Score: 1

    Maybe.

  3. Re:Sounds great on Software Lets Scientists Assemble DNA · · Score: 1

    Programming language: The computer executes a sequence of commands.

    That only covers the imperative paradigm.

  4. Re:So -- the terrorists win in the end on Software Lets Scientists Assemble DNA · · Score: 1

    People need to be educated to use this..

  5. Re:Really? on Plans Unveiled For Full Scale Replica of the Titanic · · Score: 1

    Romantism.

  6. Re:Great video, but will it help... on Tech Leaders Encourage Teaching Schoolkids How To Code · · Score: 1

    Holland is a region that is part of the Netherlands.
    If you want a list of alternative names for US citizens, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_for_United_States_citizens

    You may also want to learn how to use a search engine so that you can acquire knowledge by yourself.

    By the way, I lived in South America for a couple of years and never once heard this ridiculous term.

    Of course, they speak Spanish or Portuguese.
    Americano, which means American, refers to people from South America. Surely you can see the problem. Estadounidense means Usian, Norteamericano means North-american.

    In any case I'm not interested in pursuing this fruitless debate any more than this.

  7. Re:Great video, but will it help... on Tech Leaders Encourage Teaching Schoolkids How To Code · · Score: 1

    I don't know what kind of crazy word usian is supposed to be.

    It's a way to refer to citizens of the USA without stigmatizing citizens of other American countries.
    Of course, it's mostly used by Europeans and a few communities from South America which use English on a regular basis.

    Usians themselves are too self-centric to refer to themselves by another word than American.

  8. Re:Fear of robots is a red herring on Human Rights Watch: Petition Against Robots On the Battle Field · · Score: 1

    Nothing revolutionary has been found in the field of AI since the 50s.

  9. Re:Sure! on Tech Leaders Encourage Teaching Schoolkids How To Code · · Score: 1

    A decent company will pay your plane ticket for the interview even if no telecommuting is involved.

  10. Re:Great video, but will it help... on Tech Leaders Encourage Teaching Schoolkids How To Code · · Score: 1

    I don't think playing a sport is cool.
    I haven't, however, been exposed to the crazy usian high school system where, if TV series are to be believed, sport players seem to hold some kind of important social status.

  11. Re:Cool is implied, not forced on Tech Leaders Encourage Teaching Schoolkids How To Code · · Score: 1

    The message is that coding is empowering, not that it is cool.

  12. Re:Sure! on Tech Leaders Encourage Teaching Schoolkids How To Code · · Score: 1

    You'd have to either suck or be unwilling to relocate to be unemployed.

  13. Re:my whole class was taught to program in high sc on Tech Leaders Encourage Teaching Schoolkids How To Code · · Score: 1

    The same is true for every subject already taught at school: math, physics, chemistry, biology, history, and whatever other subjects they teach there.

  14. Re:Bullshit on Tech Leaders Encourage Teaching Schoolkids How To Code · · Score: 1

    They've hired quite a few big shots (just like Apple or Google).
    It's just that they're only willing to give a lot of money for the very best.

  15. Re:Great video, but will it help... on Tech Leaders Encourage Teaching Schoolkids How To Code · · Score: 1

    They don't pretend it's cool.

  16. Re:Fear of robots is a red herring on Human Rights Watch: Petition Against Robots On the Battle Field · · Score: 1

    Who's to say it can't?

    Anyone that remotely knows what our AI technology is like.

  17. If indistinguishable, no point in distinguishing on How Million-Dollar Frauds Turned Photo Conservation Into a Mature Science · · Score: 1

    If the copy is just like the original, just treat it the same way you would the original.
    There is no point going into forensics to find something that you cannot see.

  18. Re:More like 7-8 centuries on Islamists In Bangladesh Demand Murder of More Bloggers · · Score: 1

    Christianity didn't grow up, it went extinct.
    Christians did grow up though. They grew out of it.

  19. Re:Mythbusting time! on Intel Announces Clover Trail+ Atom Platform For Smartphones and Tablets · · Score: 1

    You're implying that Android games are relevant.
    You're a funny guy, aren't you.

  20. Re:Fear of robots is a red herring on Human Rights Watch: Petition Against Robots On the Battle Field · · Score: 1

    That's the normal behaviour you'd expect of a military commander. He's supposed to be detached from such concerns.

  21. Re:Fear of robots is a red herring on Human Rights Watch: Petition Against Robots On the Battle Field · · Score: 1

    Your brain can be hacked just like software.
    War is meaningless whatever weapon you use.
    Our robot technology cannot become self-aware.

  22. Re:Nothing new in this generation on Is the Wii U Already Dead? · · Score: 1

    It uses an off-the-shelf AMD x86 processor.
    Nothing like the Cell they spent years of R&D work on.

  23. Nothing new in this generation on Is the Wii U Already Dead? · · Score: 2

    It's likely the PS4 and Xbox 720 won't sell that well either.
    The manufacturers are aware of this, which is why their new consoles aren't as costly as the previous ones.

    Make revolutionary games, and people will come. But what's left to revolutionize anymore?

  24. Captain Obvious on We Aren't the World: Why Americans Make Bad Study Subjects · · Score: 1

    Captain Obvious is telling us social studies are useless.
    As if we didn't already know that!

  25. Re:Is Linux really that... on We Aren't the World: Why Americans Make Bad Study Subjects · · Score: 2

    It's more widely used outside the US.