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  1. Re:How did Bernie Sanders become wealthy? on Bernie Sanders Introduces 'Stop BEZOS' Bill To Tax Amazon For Underpaying Workers (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    His wife was involved in the collapse of Burlington College. Took out a loan to buy more land, and the school couldn't pay back the loan. After that I don't know what she did, except help with the campaign.

  2. Re:How did Bernie Sanders become wealthy? on Bernie Sanders Introduces 'Stop BEZOS' Bill To Tax Amazon For Underpaying Workers (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Ok, that does explain it.

  3. How did Bernie Sanders become wealthy? on Bernie Sanders Introduces 'Stop BEZOS' Bill To Tax Amazon For Underpaying Workers (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Can someone explain to me how this guy went from being a school teacher and carpenter to mayor to senator, and somehow became wealthy along the way? He has to have some money to buy that home complex on Grand Isle.

  4. News at 11

  5. Depends on how well it is organized on Ask Slashdot: Should We Hang Up on Conference Calls? (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    I call into quite a few each week. Some calls are well controlled, and stay on point. One I call into every other week annoys me. First, the important items that everyone wants to know are the first and last items. Therefore everyone has to listen to all the items in between even if they aren't involved. Both of the items everyone wants to know are fairly short, and they never have slides. The items in between can be very long with dozens of slides. On top of that, every time someone calls in, a loud beep is emitted. So when the meeting starts and the one important item is being discussed, they are often drown out by many people calling in late. That call would be so much better if they eliminated the beep and discussed both general topics at the beginning.

  6. They should ban drills on Russia Thinks Someone With a Drill Caused the Recent ISS Air Leak (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Drills don't cause air leaks, people do.

  7. Re:That's fine for Japanese on Japan To Test Mini 'Space Elevator' (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    N scale space elevator

  8. Responded to the wrong topic.

  9. Drills don't cause air leaks, people do.

  10. There's always a market. People still write new games for the Commodore 64.

  11. Re:Double Standard on Twitter Says Trump Not Immune From Getting Kicked Off (politico.com) · · Score: 2

    If people got kicked off Twitter for calling people names, 90% of them would be gone.

  12. Yes, but they would lose the revenue on Twitter Says Trump Not Immune From Getting Kicked Off (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    People read those posts, and Twitter can show ads.

  13. Probably part of the SCO-IBM case on Google Has Notified At Least Dozens of People Targeted by Secret FBI Investigation (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    It will never end.

  14. Re:Laugh all you want to... on The US Army is Building Drones That Never Need To Land (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    They both made lots of money. I say it worked out very well, at least for the people who made them.

  15. The F/A-18 was a mistake on Boeing Wins Bid To Build the Navy's Carrier-Launched Tanker Drone (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Navy wanted a dual purpose fighter-attack aircraft. To get it, the sacrificed range. The aircraft it replaced had far longer range, being designed for their task. Ever since, the Navy has been reliant on mid-air refueling to get anywhere. Planes launch with large bomb loads and nearly empty tanks, and have to mid-air refuel before they event start the mission.

  16. Re: Open source is winning. on Linus Torvalds No Longer Knows the Whole Linux Kernel and That's OK (eweek.com) · · Score: 1

    No, but there is a Palm OS.

  17. It was probably updating when the crash occurred.

  18. In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

  19. Intensive Porpoise

  20. Argh....

  21. For some reason, this reminds me of the title of the movie - Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

  22. i dON'T kNOW, iT sEEMS tO wORK bETTER tHIS wAY.

  23. 73264.1528@compuserve.com on Is Your Email Address Holding You Back? (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Try going back that far.

  24. Re:Problem is the US government on Google Made New Search Tools To Help Veterans Find Better Jobs (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I was involved in converting my Army unit medics to the new standard, and it isn't as easy as you think. There were a number of already qualified medics who struggled to get through the enhanced training required to upgrade to the 91W (Job code for the EMT level medic, now called 68W). Some of them had to transition to other job series because of it.

  25. That will give me something to listen to on NASA Releases Thousands of Hours of Apollo 11 Mission Audio (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    for the next 2 years straight.