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  1. Re:Prime Scalia - "Words no longer having meaning" on Supreme Court Upholds Key Obamacare Subsidies · · Score: 1

    If you're going to go ahead and ignore the clear intent of the law, scrap the whole thing, and take away insurance from millions of people over what's essentially a typo, then OK, I get to go ahead ignore the definition of 'state'.

  2. Re:Prime Scalia - "Words no longer having meaning" on Supreme Court Upholds Key Obamacare Subsidies · · Score: 1

    You are aware, right, of why the 17th Amendment exists?

  3. Re:Prime Scalia - "Words no longer having meaning" on Supreme Court Upholds Key Obamacare Subsidies · · Score: 1

    Whatever the case, the courts should be rewriting when it's a clear cut, cut-and-dried case of an error.

    Such as this one.

  4. Re:Productivity on Interview: Ask Linus Torvalds a Question · · Score: -1, Troll

    Git is actually the opposite of useful.

  5. Re:This is why I gave up PC gaming on AMD Radeon R9 Fury X Launched, Independent Benchmarks, HBM Put To the Test · · Score: 2

    So you gave up PC gaming because you can't stop spending money that you didn't need to spend?

  6. Re:Masters know their limitations. on Knowing C++ Beyond a Beginner Level · · Score: 1

    OK? The point is that it's not standard. Macro names must follow the same rules as variable names, ie, letters, numbers, and underscores only; and can only start with underscore or letter.

    I'm not sure why you're want a macro named '@' anyway. C++ already has punctuation strewn everywhere. The last thing we need is more funny characters. :-b

  7. Re:Masters know their limitations. on Knowing C++ Beyond a Beginner Level · · Score: 1

    Bzzt. Dollar sign is a gcc extension.

  8. Re:Masters know their limitations. on Knowing C++ Beyond a Beginner Level · · Score: 1

    Well, for starters '@' isn't a valid character in a token. Are you sure you worked on a compiler?

  9. Re:TLDR on TRIM and Linux: Tread Cautiously, and Keep Backups Handy · · Score: 1

    Yeah, don't buy arguably the best SSDs on the market because your OS can't be bothered to work around their foibles.

  10. Re:I do not consent on FDA Bans Trans Fat · · Score: 1

    No, she didn't. The people that were working while she was receiving it paid for it.

  11. Re:Interesting person on A Technical Look Inside TempleOS · · Score: 0

    So who's really being intolerant?

    Easy: The guy who won't make the cake. If you can't find a way to separate your religion from your business you probably shouldn't be in business.

  12. My neighborhood was built in 1986. Still have an HOA.

  13. Re:Meh on Presidential Candidate Lincoln Chaffee Proposes That US Go Metric · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but they sell milk in bags, so their opinion can be safely ignored.

  14. Re:No one cares on Presidential Candidate Lincoln Chaffee Proposes That US Go Metric · · Score: 1

    Metric isn't arbitrary. All the units are based on some more or less useful physical measurement.

    Yes, it is, and no, they aren't The meter was originally 1 ten-millionth the distance from the pole to the equator (which wasn't terribly useful). Now it's defined in terms of the second and the speed of light (which still isn't terribly useful). And the kilogram is still defined by the mass of a metal cylinder in Paris.

  15. Re:No one cares on Presidential Candidate Lincoln Chaffee Proposes That US Go Metric · · Score: 1

    In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram

    Except this isn't true, strictly speaking.

    Whereas in the American system, the answer to 'How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?' is 'Go fuck yourself,'

    The answer is: who cares? I just put the pot on the stove until it boils.

  16. Re:My Car and Bike are Metric on Presidential Candidate Lincoln Chaffee Proposes That US Go Metric · · Score: 1

    Everyone knows what a 2-liter soda is, why can't they figure out what a 2-liter bottle of milk is?

    Because with soda they just started selling 2L bottles but with milk they kept on selling it in half-gallons and unhelpfully labeled it as: 1/2 gal (1.89 L).

    You want people to use metric? You have an uphill battle. But one thing that would help (as shown by the soda bottles) is to make the metric units the nice round numbers and make the imperial units the weird ones. Sell milk in 4L containers and note that it's 1.06 gal on the label. Instead of putting up a sign saying that it's 50 miles (80.5 km) to Townville, make it 80 km (49.7 miles). Et cetera.

  17. Re:Meh on Presidential Candidate Lincoln Chaffee Proposes That US Go Metric · · Score: 3, Funny

    Years 0-25: All signs replaced must print both measurements

    We tried that once in the 70s. In some places people shot the signs down. Literally. With guns.

  18. That's fine, unless you don't want to live out in the country somewhere. Then you're out of luck.

  19. Basically, you can set up your yard to be a "food forest" that naturally produces food, year round, at no cost and with very little maintenance.

    OK, now try to sell this to your HOA.

  20. Re:New version ... on Linux 4.0 Has a File-System Corruption Problem, RAID Users Warned · · Score: 1

    kernel.org:

    stable: 4.0.4 2015-05-17

  21. Re:New version ... on Linux 4.0 Has a File-System Corruption Problem, RAID Users Warned · · Score: 1

    Uh, 4.0 is a stable build, chief.

  22. Well... on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Skills Do HS Students Need To Know Now? · · Score: 1

    They need a longer attention span and the ability to write. Neither of which is going to be served by giving them a laptop.

    Sorry.

  23. Re:I think the key message in the article on The Demographic Future of America's Political Parties · · Score: 1

    is that the party that moves to the center and focuses on issues that face most voters, such as the economy, financial security, etc. and doesn't let their lunatic fringe who focus on one issue, that the majority of voters either don't care about or don't agree with, decide what the party stands for will gain support.

    We already have a party like that. They're called "Democrats".

  24. Re:More proof the media is controlled by Republica on Kim Dotcom Calls Hillary Clinton an "Adversary" of Internet Freedom · · Score: 1

    So... as long as the republicans don't field a complete asshat... they should be able to win.

    Ergo, they won't win.

    The big problem hillary has that Obama didn't have... is that she's not black.

    What the hell?

    Literally my thinking at the time.

    What the hell?

  25. Re:Easy on A Plan On How To Stop Sexism In Science · · Score: 0

    Men's studies doesn't exist because there would be outrage

    You missed the point. Men's studies doesn't exist because that's already 99% of history.