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  1. Working for an employer you constantly seek to undermine is straight up bullshit. Either get out and berate them publicly, or work for the interests of who you are working for.

    As others have pointed out, White house officials are not Donal Trump's personal minions, they are employees of the US government.

    I would be interested in Henry Kissinger's on the matter. I'll just leave this here: https://www.wearethemighty.com...

  2. Consult "Uncle Bob" on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Teach 'Best Practices' For Programmers? · · Score: 1

    You could do a lot worse than getting them to watch any video (or read any book) by Robert C Martin.

  3. Mattel also owns "Thomas and Friends" on Barbie Will Be Used To Teach Kids To Code (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    They could introduce the Fat Model and Fat View to keep the Fat Controller company.

  4. A programmer was found dead in the shower... on Ask Slashdot: What's The Worst IT-Related Joke You've Ever Heard? · · Score: 1

    ...he was clutching a bottle labelled with the words "Lather. Rinse. Repeat."

  5. Relevant SMBC on Programmer Father Asks: What Gets Little Girls Interested In Science? · · Score: 1

    Parents often are complicit in this: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id... The recent "Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer" book farce is another good example.

  6. Re:Lego plural on The Large Hadron Collider Has Been Recreated In Lego · · Score: 2

    The plural of Lego is Legos.

    Well, if you're going to be picky, the singular of "Lego" is "LEGO" :-)

  7. This is valuable research on The Large Hadron Collider Has Been Recreated In Lego · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Higgs Boson is like that oddball tiny LEGO piece that always finds its way down to the bottom of the tub and wedges itself inside another piece.

  8. I'l bet... on Swede Arrested For Building Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 2

    ...it's that bloody boy scout, up to his old tricks again.

  9. Re:Notepad on Ask Slashdot: Web Site Editing Software For the Long Haul? · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Computers? on Osama's Hideout Gets 3 Out of 5 Stars on Google Maps · · Score: 1

    I'm wondering how Osama reconciled the use of computers with his anti-Western beliefs (which I assume includes Western technology).

    Same way he rationalised drinking Coke and Pepsi, I guess.

  11. Re:And with all that attention... on Osama's Hideout Gets 3 Out of 5 Stars on Google Maps · · Score: 1

    ...nobody in the media has noticed that Osama chose to hide out in a city named after a British colonial overlord.

    I thought it was named after an American comedian. I bet al Zawahiri won't be staying in Costelloabad much longer...

  12. Don't leave home without it on 'Death By GPS' Increasing In America's Wilderness · · Score: 1

    If you're going off the beaten track, then I have but one word (okay, acronym): EPIRB. As well as adequate, food, water, and fuel supplies, of course. And, if possible, tell someone at your destination when to expect you, so they can raise the alarm when you don't turn up.

  13. With all the publicity Wikileaks has had... on Assange Could Face Execution Or Guantanamo Bay · · Score: 1

    ... including numerous Fox News "analysts" declaring that he's guilty of every crime in the book and should be executed, I have to wonder: where will the USA find an impartial jury for the trial? Or are trials and juries niceties that are not being considered here?

  14. Re:Typecasting on Actor Leslie Nielsen Dies at 84 · · Score: 1

    ... Ask yourself why De Niro has never done a good comic part.

    Oh, I don't know... De Niro acquitted himself pretty well in Brazil

  15. As Douglas Adams would have said... on JooJoo Tablet Dies, Fusion Garage Continues On · · Score: 1

    ... it's a bit of a joojooflop situation.

  16. So Abstinence-only Sex-Ed doesn't work for snakes on Immaculate Conception In a Boa Constrictor · · Score: 1


    ...and the OP's title is incorrect: "Virgin Birth" !=== "Immaculate Conception". The latter is Catholic Church doctrine that Mary was born without the stain of "original sin", so Mary *is* the Immaculate Conception. (Actually, didn't the RC church dispose of the notion of original sin a few years ago? That would make the idea of Immaculate Conception redundant.)
    </pedant>

  17. So much for Abstinence-only sex education on Immaculate Conception In a Boa Constrictor · · Score: 1

    ...and the OP's title is incorrect: virgin birth (parthenogenesis) !== immaculate conception, the latter being the doctrine that Mary was born without the stain of "original sin". Which reminds me - didn't the Roman Catholic Church abandon the notion of original sin a few years ago? If so, did the immaculate conception doctrine go with it? </pedant>

  18. Creationist Wolfram Alpha? on The Advent of Religious Search Engines · · Score: 2, Funny

    I imagine that the Creationist version of Wolfram Alpha would be very easy to implement:

    Q: [anything, really]
    A: God did it.

  19. Re:Not true on Study Says Your Personality Doesn't Change After 1st Grade · · Score: 1

    I'm trying really hard not to be cynical here, but how does somebody spend $70K on personal growth?

    I know! I know! Scientology!

  20. Re:As someone totally ignorant in this stuff on Ham Radio Still Growing In the iStuff Age · · Score: 1

    The telephone never seems to die, perhaps because it's so simple (a twisted pair wire). I honestly can't remember ever losing telephone service.

    You're obviously not from Nebraska

  21. At last! on Piezo Crystals Harness Sound To Generate Hydrogen · · Score: 1

    A way to extract energy back out of sugar-crazed, ADHD children.