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  1. It's about WHO you know not WHAT you know on Too Many College Graduates? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sorry but my parents sent me to school with the understanding that I was there to meet people and get an "education" second. You're sent to expensive schools because wealthier people send their kids there and we all know wealth travels the generations in the majority of cases. At best College will teach you to learn better and in different ways. If you want real world skills then some night classes and technical schools would be best. 4 year institutions are about relationships not sciences based ona rational world.

  2. How about instead they say... on Too Many College Graduates? · · Score: 2, Funny

    If people want to go out and cut down Taliban and then get a master's degree in history that's fine. But I don't think the public should be subsidizing it.

  3. BP has sent letter requesting help on Life-size Eva Unit 01 Being Built In Japan · · Score: 5, Funny

    BP engineers have sent a letter requesting the help of EVA-01 to help shut off the gulf oil leak. "We have incurred the wrath of our god and are requesting the help of an evangelion unit as Godzilla cannot currently be located."

  4. Can it really be cheaper than a plastic disc? on Will Game Cartridges Make a Comeback? · · Score: 1

    I think the plastic disc is about as cheap as one is going to get when you talk about something to transfer data on.

  5. Sell disc with code for online download of content on In AU, Court Rules Downloaded Software Is Not "Goods" · · Score: 1

    Seems to me this would open the door to selling something like a PS3, simply hardware, and offer a code to download the OS. The hardware itself does nothing except allow you to open a connection to download the OS at first run. This way if the hardware fails, sure they can return it. But the software you're stuck with.

  6. Re:Civ was my offline game on Civilization V To Use Steamworks · · Score: 1

    When my ISP screws up and I lose my service they credit me. When Steam screws up and takes away the product I paid for.. I get nothing. Yes.. I will hold a grudge and I say very rightfully so.

  7. Re:Civ was my offline game on Civilization V To Use Steamworks · · Score: 1

    You can actually set Steam to run in offline mode.. thereby avoiding the connection timeout wait issue.

  8. Re:Civ was my offline game on Civilization V To Use Steamworks · · Score: 1

    I had this problem with Empire Total War. My connection was down due to repeated incompetence by my ISP and I simply received an error anytime I tried to load up Empire Total War offline, no problem with the connection up. They seemed to have patched this problem now but it's very dismaying and I avoid whenever possible buying games through Steam.

  9. Re:18,000 lbs = 4500 gallons every 12.5 days... on Recession Cuts Operation That Uses Hair To Clean Up Oil · · Score: 2, Interesting

    actually I FAIL because I learned math in the us. you could lay down all 18,000 lbs and collect 4,500 gallons in an hour, making this an actually feasible total of 108k gallons per day, minus wring out time.

  10. 18,000 lbs = 4500 gallons every 12.5 days... on Recession Cuts Operation That Uses Hair To Clean Up Oil · · Score: 1

    let's see.. 42k gallons spilling each day... the rate at which this could abso... oops.. FAIL.

  11. Iran circumvents IAEA.. Walmart stock up 5% on Salad Spinner Made Into Life-Saving Centrifuge · · Score: 2, Funny

    Irans elite military units placed orders for large quantities of salad spinners from walmart.com early Tuesday. UN officials release statement citing possible miscalculation of sanction effectiveness.

  12. Re:Fairly pointless research on Gardening On Mars · · Score: 1

    In the citations is a link to the another abbreviation of the treaty here: http://www.unoosa.org/oosa/SpaceLaw/outerspt.html I'm not going to pour over it to find you the exact article suffice to to say: States shall avoid harmful contamination of space and celestial bodies. harmful can be construed in many ways of course but I think it's safe to say you are harming something when you are changing the natural state of being.

  13. Re:Fairly pointless research on Gardening On Mars · · Score: 1
  14. Title could also be Gardening On Earth in 50 years on Gardening On Mars · · Score: 1

    just a thought

  15. Fairly pointless research on Gardening On Mars · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Currently we have rules against engineering other planets and it's made very clear without massively changing the atmosphere on Mars to filter out UV rays then everything is going to have to live in biospheres... we can do that anywhere.. even in space.

  16. Re:Same fate as Joe Camel on California's Santa Clara County Bans Happy Meal Toys · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You have to have a job to buy a happy meal too.

  17. Same fate as Joe Camel on California's Santa Clara County Bans Happy Meal Toys · · Score: 1, Insightful

    This is an old argument. If you want to defend the happy meal then you need to defend Joe Camel too.

  18. Next thing you know we won't be able to... on FAA Says No More Minesweeper Or Solitaire In Cockpit · · Score: 1

    play minesweeper or solitaire while compiling the code for the autopilots. Next stop.. no bugs in software!

  19. All those brains and yet... on Virginia Tech Students Build CHARLI, a Human-Sized Robot · · Score: 5, Funny

    They still manage to stick the video in an area normally reserved for lame advertising that everyone has learned to tune out.

  20. Re:Ground-breaking robot? on Virginia Tech Students Build CHARLI, a Human-Sized Robot · · Score: 2, Informative

    Groundbreaking in the sense that..... CHARLI is the first untethered, autonomous, full-sized, walking, humanoid robot with four moving limbs and a head, built in the United States.

  21. Don't upgrade for features, now it's all security on Corporate IT Just Won't Let IE6 Die · · Score: 1

    Seriously, most corporate IT doesn't need IE 7.. or 8.. or any future version of IE, just like they don't need more than office 98 and windows 2000. The newer software packages require newer hardware, costing money upon money to keep everything upgraded.. and for what? new help features?... oh wait.. security.. we wrote our shit so badly and it has soo many holes in it you have to pay US AGAIN to fix our shit.

  22. Re:Do you want sensitized soldiers? on Supreme Court To Rule On State Video Game Regulation · · Score: 1

    If not then what is the point of regulating these games? If there an effect or not.

  23. Do you want sensitized soldiers? on Supreme Court To Rule On State Video Game Regulation · · Score: 1

    Seriously, without violent video games won't the 18 year olds immediately entering the military after high school be sensitive to violence? Won't they be more prone to freeze up in the height of combat? I'm sure Arnold can appreciate the benefit of a soldier free of moral hesitation.

  24. Smart enough not to land it on their own soil. on Japanese Spacecraft Bringing Back Space Rock · · Score: 4, Funny

    Picked another big island at least.. you know, in case the blob needs to be isolated. Al though I'd think if they landed in Japan at least Godzilla could melt it if it got too large. Oh well.

  25. Turnabout is fair play on Apple To Buy ARM? · · Score: 0, Troll

    In reaction to Apple's move to purchase ARM Google moves to acquire Chinese sweatshops.