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  1. Re:How is this News for Nerds? on Hundreds of Walmart Employees Say They've Been Punished For Taking Sick Days (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Edit box changed what I typed. It is in the HTML TITLE tag of the home page.

  2. Re:How is this News for Nerds? on Hundreds of Walmart Employees Say They've Been Punished For Taking Sick Days (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    The tagline is in the html tag of the home page so will appear in the title bar (tab in Chrome).

  3. Re:When Hillary criticized Trump in the debate on Trump Is Pulling US Out of Paris Climate Deal: Sources (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder what percent of registered voters know enough about the agreement to make an informed decision one way or the other. Probably pretty low. Most voters can't even find their home state on a globe.

  4. Re:Who has money on his resignation / impeachment? on Trump Is Pulling US Out of Paris Climate Deal: Sources (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    The president doing the things you mention is not a constitutional crises because there is a constitutional remedy: impeachment and removal from office. A constitutional crises would be if the president and all successors listed in the Presidential Succession Act were to die simultaneously.

  5. Re:Who has money on his resignation / impeachment? on Trump Is Pulling US Out of Paris Climate Deal: Sources (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    A president resigning or being impeached and removed from office would not be a constitutional crisis. A constitutional crisis would be when something happens that a solution isn't provided for.

  6. Old Kernel on Privacy-Focused Debian-Based Tails 3.0 Reaches RC Status (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    The prior story on Slashdot is about Kernel 4.10 being EOL and here they are going with 4.9 which presumably is much older.

  7. Re:The ice age had 12 times more CO2, fucking idio on China Successfully Mines Gas From Methane Hydrate In Production Run (oilprice.com) · · Score: 1

    Most television reporters are lucky to get through a newscast without mispronouncing common words or town names. They have no clue about the issue.

  8. George Takei took some time off to be in the John Wayne movie The Green Berets so they brought in the Checkov character. When George returned, NBC was too cheap to pay for dialog to be written for both characters so they had to split their lines.

  9. Re:I reject the question on Ask Slashdot: What Should Be the Attributes of an Ideal Programming Language If Computers Were Infinitely Fast? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Also stupid is getting rid of garbage collection. If it happens automatically at infinite speed, removing it would have no effect on your coding productivity.

  10. Re: Never fly in the USA. on Support For a Universal Basic Income Is Inching Up In Europe (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    No, they had been getting welfare checks for doing nothing. Making them put in 20 hours a month was not a burden.

  11. Re:Never fly in the USA. on Support For a Universal Basic Income Is Inching Up In Europe (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    In Maine they added a welfare requirement to work/volunteer 20 hours per month. A large percent of the people dropped out. There are people that are too lazy to work.

  12. It was to get there first for bragging rights not to fight them there.

  13. Kennedy really had no interest in space at all. The only reason he wanted a moon landing was to beat the Russians.

  14. Re:Will they also launch weaponized satellites on SpaceX Successfully Launches Its First Spy Satellite (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    So you are proposing that a business refuse to service a customer because they don't support their lifestyle.

  15. Re: Huh? What? on Diet Sodas May Be Tied To Stroke, Dementia Risk (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Diet Dr Pepper, it's the sweet one!

  16. Scott Adams (Dilbert) has seen some of his tweets about Trump go invisible to his followers so he has been instead using the word "Kittens" in tweets that link to his blog entries about Trump. There also is some evidence of Twitter dropping peoples followers in order to keep them under certain thresholds.

  17. Re:Not an overbooking incident on Why Do Airlines Overbook? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The way I heard it: First they offered $400 and a flight credit, no takers. Then they offered $800 and a flight credit, still no takers. Then they announced the computer would be picking 4 people at random. Three people took the offer. The fourth passenger was forcibly removed at random.

  18. Re: The wage gap myth continues... on NYC Poised to Ban Firms From Asking Job Candidates About Pay (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because they aren't breaking it down by job. Hispanic women are paid half of white men because of the types of jobs they are working. I have read that when broken down by job/experience levels that the difference is around 3% and that in certain jobs women actually make more. The largest gaps are in Hollywood and Silicon Valley, two of the most liberal job markets in the country.

  19. I wonder how Harrison Ford would do attempting to land.

  20. All about Trump on Stephen Hawking Will Travel To Space (skynews.com.au) · · Score: 1

    That was a badly written story, most of it was about how Hawking hates Trump. Not much about his upcoming space flight. It should have had some information about when VG expects to be able to launch the first trip with paying customers. For all we know, Hawking will be long dead by then.

  21. Re:if it were cheaper, yes. on What If You Could Eat Chicken Without Killing a Chicken? (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Most people would agree Climate Change is real. The biggest question is what percent is due to humans and what percent is due to natural cycles. The other big question is how much of the human contribution is from CO2 and how much is from other human causes like deforestation. Current science doesn't have a good answer for these questions. The pro-Climate Changers insist/assume that 100% of it comes from human caused increases in CO2. 100% of anything coming from one source is very unlikely. Just a few days ago a story came out that scientists found that 50% of the reduction in arctic ice is due to natural cycles.

  22. This story was posted earlier today by someone else.

  23. Re:Pence is consolidating his position on Michael Flynn Resigns As Trump's National Security Adviser (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Agnew resigned after pleading no contest to charges stemming things he did while Governor of Maryland.

  24. Re: I'm sure he had nothing to hide on Michael Flynn Resigns As Trump's National Security Adviser (go.com) · · Score: 2

    Crimea wasn't part of the Ukrainian SSR until 1955. It has never had a large population of native Ukrainians. It shouldn't have been part of the country in the first place.

  25. Re:Okay - that was quick. on Michael Flynn Resigns As Trump's National Security Adviser (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Since when is a 2.1% margin a landslide? Clinton didn't even get 50% of the vote.