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  1. People with no self-control are easily manipulated and a perfect fit for consumer culture. Who's the sucker? Why do you think popular society pushes perpetual childhood on adults.

  2. Re:Boys will be boys. on UploadVR Had a 'Kink Room,' Pressured Female Employees To 'Microdose,' Alleges Lawsuit (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's not masculine at all. Running around with no self control over what you say or do just makes you a child.

  3. I was like 15 when I figured out sex is just another body function, just like eating or going to the bathroom, and from the looks of the world population numbers a trivial one at that. It's just not an interesting topic.

  4. Re:Seriously simplify your life on UploadVR Had a 'Kink Room,' Pressured Female Employees To 'Microdose,' Alleges Lawsuit (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I am a man and wouldn't want to work there. I hate specious and or frivolous lawsuits but in this case hope they get maxed.

  5. Re:Don't talk like that to ANYONE on 'U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It's rather ironic that in trying to be persuasive, you use a writing style that is at odds with the OP. This is exactly why people write this way.

  6. damn it all on 38,000 People a Year Die Early Because of Diesel Emissions Testing Failures (theverge.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    https://www.nasa.gov/topics/ea...

    According to a new paper by Ott and Pickering in the Journal of Geophysical Research, each flash of lightning on average in the several mid-latitude and subtropical thunderstorms studied turned 7 kilograms (15.4 pounds) of nitrogen into chemically reactive NOx. "In other words, you could drive a new car across the United States more than 50 times and still produce less than half as much NOx as an average lightning flash," Ott estimated. The results were published July.

    When the researchers multiplied the number of lightning strokes worldwide by 7 kilograms, they found that the total amount of NOx produced by lightning per year is 8.6 terragrams, or 8.6 million metric tons. "That's somewhat high compared to previous estimates," said Pickering.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    One estimate is that 24,000 people are killed by lightning strikes around the world each year and about 240,000 are injured. Another estimate is that the annual global death toll is 6,000.

  7. Re:Don't talk like that to ANYONE on 'U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It should matter. When you go into an interview you are showing how you act with strangers. One day you may need to interact with customers or contractors or do job interviews.

  8. Re:Don't talk like that to ANYONE on 'U Can't Talk to Ur Professor Like This' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You are foolish to believe this. Showing professionalism is just a tool (of many) in your tool belt for getting things done. Sometimes it's the only one that will work.

  9. Re:Apple, Adobe, and Google on Google Owns the Classroom (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    The article doesn't mention education or the classroom even once. Why did you post that?

  10. You can come up with any scheme you want but the bottom line is if for some reason MS was supporting the software this way it would result in higher costs that would be paid for by consumers. Do I want to pay to have never ending support on OSs?

    No.

  11. Re:But regulations are evil. on Up To 1.4M More Fake Wells Fargo Accounts Possible (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    What good is regulation if they don't enforce existing laws? No banker gets sent to jail, so why bother.

  12. Re:Send them to Samsung on Fiat Chrysler Recalls 1.3 Million Ram Pickups For Fatal Software Problem (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know anything about the Pinto engineering team either, but you didn't mention that.

  13. Having a side airbag fire off inadvertently is probably much more unsafe than not at all.

  14. Send them to Samsung on Fiat Chrysler Recalls 1.3 Million Ram Pickups For Fatal Software Problem (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    Send the developers to work for Samsung- they can join the Ford Pinto engineers that worked on the Galaxy s7.

  15. I say make them sit in the comfy chair!!

  16. Also no way to render complete path on network mounted drives
    also search results often don't allow propagate new window
    FN crap!

  17. Re:Just dose everyone with ketamine on US To Ban Laptops in All Cabins of Flights From Europe (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 2

    Extra ketamine for the crew!

  18. It's not distracting on Microsoft's Emma Watch Is a Game-Changer For People With Parkinson's (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's base-lining. Laying in a sensory deprivation tanks causes hallucinations because there are no sensations to establish a mental baseline. This is the same thing but in a neuro-muscular sense.

  19. Re:What's a draft horse? on Draft Horses Are Helping Upgrade Cell Towers In Wisconsin (npr.org) · · Score: 3, Informative
    RTFA will set you free-

    Julian uses draft horses to do much of the work on his organic dairy farm and for a horse logging business during the winter. His Belgian Brabant are the type of working horses that were common on Wisconsin farms before motor vehicles took over much of their work.
    "They're short-backed, heavily muscled. They're easy keepers, very calm-minded, very easy horses to be around. Very easy horses to train," he says.

  20. Protective cases are dumb I use wallet/case I will never go back to having to worry about carrying a wallet and a phone separately.

  21. Re:OP claim we should want Windows 10 S to succeed on Opinion: Even if You Hate the Idea, Windows Users Should Want Windows 10 S To Succeed (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe because you don't want to have to administer computers for idiots? If you are handing out laptops to people to use on your behest it makes a ton of sense.

  22. Re:M$ not eating dogfood until VS is on Store on Opinion: Even if You Hate the Idea, Windows Users Should Want Windows 10 S To Succeed (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe because it will be used in an educational setting or where you don't want to have to worry about policy for you employees laptops?

  23. I'd like to be under the sea
    In an octopus's garden in the shade
    He'd let us in, knows where we've been
    In his octopus's garden in the shade

  24. work for yourself on Ask Slashdot: How To Improve At Work When You're Not Getting Feedback? · · Score: 1

    You should always be looking at ways to improve what you are doing without feedback. A good boss helping you along is a nice luxury but I think the expectation for most senior folks is that they do this for themselves.

  25. Probably something like what we have now but less resource efficient