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  1. Re: ludicrous on How Intellectual Property Reinforces Inequality · · Score: 1

    But, if you are willing to forgo the attractive locations, you can get plenty of it for plenty cheap.

  2. I said mass shootings.

    Anti-gun nuts are always throwing suicides in as part of the statistics of gun deaths. While the death did come via a firearm it is no more a gun death as is commonly discussed, as someone running their car into a wall intentially is a traffic accident.

    And if 5 is all you can come up with, I'd say the gun range is a pretty safe place to be.

  3. Re:I remember being puzzled by that chapter on Malcolm Gladwell On Culture and Airplane Crashes · · Score: 2, Funny

    Damn correct speling! It is the mark of sheep!

  4. Re:I remember being puzzled by that chapter on Malcolm Gladwell On Culture and Airplane Crashes · · Score: 4, Informative

    American pilots had the same problem from the 40 to the 80's or so as the airlines were highering mostly exmilitary who brought with them the command structure of the cockpit.

    This was also cited as a primary cause for the Tenerife accident that killed over 500. The Dutch captain pilot was (I think) the most senior pilot in the fleet. He was not to be questioned or your career could be over in a flash.

    It wasn't until after Tenerife that the concept of the Crew Resource Management began to be taught.

  5. Re:1 2 3 4 I declare flame war on UCSD Lecturer Releases Geotagging Application For "Dangerous Guns and Owners" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you remove guns, then you would have a sword problem.
    If you remove sword, then you'd have spear problem.
    If you remove spears, then you'd have a rock problem.
    Get rid of rocks and it would simply be the biggest guy wins.

    The "gun problem" is merely another face of a violence problem.

  6. Re:1 2 3 4 I declare flame war on UCSD Lecturer Releases Geotagging Application For "Dangerous Guns and Owners" · · Score: 4, Funny

    umm..nope. None of that is self defence.

    It's two assholes behaving like assholes.

  7. Re:1 2 3 4 I declare flame war on UCSD Lecturer Releases Geotagging Application For "Dangerous Guns and Owners" · · Score: 1

    Funny, I've never heard of a mass shooting at a rifle range.

  8. Re:1 2 3 4 I declare flame war on UCSD Lecturer Releases Geotagging Application For "Dangerous Guns and Owners" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I would prefer to put my children in a school where all parents educate their children on firearms and are active in firearm sports. That way, kids a less likely to go rooting through bedroom drawers.

    Ignorance of danger doesn't make the danger go away.

  9. If it were my pool... on Lake Vostok Found Teeming With Life · · Score: 2

    ...I'd shock it with a giant does of chlorine.

  10. Why Not Regular Printers? on RepRap Morgan Receives $20,000 Gada Prize For Simplifying 3D-Printer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why does it still take fucking drivers, patches, and voodoo to fucking hook up a regular printer and make it function?

    Shit, I can plug in a VGA 13" or a 42" flat panel and the computer runs that just fine. Printers, I guess, are beyond the average PhD at Microsoft and Apple.

  11. Lost My Mail on USPS Logs All Snail Mail For Law Enforcement · · Score: 2

    Those fuckers lost a check I sent and it will cost me $30 to cancel and resend. I wonder if I can get a record showing it at least made it into the postal system.

  12. Re:This'll take awhile for people to accept on Obamacare Employer Mandate Delayed Until After Congressional Elections · · Score: 1

    What Obamacare will not let you do is have a low cost, catastrophic plan. Which is what I have...$3000 deductible and a $36 or so a month fee.

    If I stay healthy, I win. If not, I'm no worse off than having the full service plan. If the shit really hits the fan, I'm covered.

  13. Re:Blame FDR. on Obamacare Employer Mandate Delayed Until After Congressional Elections · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah...NPR. Now there's a completely objective and truthful source.

  14. Re:So, is this delay legal? on Obamacare Employer Mandate Delayed Until After Congressional Elections · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's called dereliction of duty.

  15. Re:Misleading on Neuroscientist: First-Ever Human Head Transplant Is Now Possible · · Score: 1

    That's the more interesting news. He is effect coming out and saying he has invented a cure for paralysis.

  16. Regardless... on More Details Emerge On How the US Is Bugging Its European Allies · · Score: 1

    ...of where you fall in the political spectrum, I think that everyone can agree that, as of late, the Administration has been exceptionally sloppy, amateurish, and far too invasive (due to sheer laziness).

  17. Re:go work for drone manufacturer on Ask Slashdot: Exploiting 'Engineering And ...' On a Resume? · · Score: 1

    Exactly.

    The military teacher leadership. Officers practice leadership. We have many ex-officers (is there really any such thing) at my company because the know how to navigate red tape, lead by example and get things done.

    I've seen many fresh MBA brats crash and burn because all they knew was school.

  18. Re:What now? on Supreme Court Overturns Defense of Marriage Act · · Score: 1

    If that were the case, then my concealed carry permit, granted in Texas, would be applicable to MA.

    Since that isn't the case, then I expect the issue is more complicated than it looks.

  19. Re:Good ... on Supreme Court Overturns Defense of Marriage Act · · Score: 1

    Nonetheless, people were worried and they were explicitly written out

    And a good thing that was considering the nature of government these days.

  20. Re:Washington D.C. on Obama Reveals Climate Change Plan · · Score: 1

    If YOU want to force others to build new plants, we'll just send your hydro to them and you can build something else.

  21. Re:Washington D.C. on Obama Reveals Climate Change Plan · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Then you should be the first fucker to sit in the dark.

  22. Re:Washington D.C. on Obama Reveals Climate Change Plan · · Score: 1

    That's a pretty fucking lame analogy.

  23. Re:Washington D.C. on Obama Reveals Climate Change Plan · · Score: 2

    And when the IRS wants 10% more each year just because, and without respect to your income, they will soon run you into bankruptcy, not because you screwed up your taxes.

    Same thing here. Emissions of X is legal now, but will soon be illegal. If they manage to reduce it to meet the new standards, they will ratchet it down again until it is not economically feasible to operate.

    HE FUCKING SAID THIS IN 2008

  24. Re:Washington D.C. on Obama Reveals Climate Change Plan · · Score: 1

    If emission regulations keep getting tighter and tighter and tighter, how to you expect any plant to be able to operate?

  25. Re:Washington D.C. on Obama Reveals Climate Change Plan · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When the feds put a coal plant out of business because of more stringent emissions standards make it uneconomical to operate, then regulations put it out of business.

    Plants that are economical now will not be soon solely due to actions of the Feds.