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  1. Re:Dawkin's is a piss poor social scientist on Dr. Richard Dawkins On Education, 'Innocence of Muslims,' and Rep. Paul Broun · · Score: 1

    that's probably the weakest argument i have ever heard.

    getting to Africa doesn't require a leap of faith. just a boat and some patience.

  2. Re:unbalanced on Pakastani Politician Detained By US Customs Over Opposition To Drone Strikes · · Score: 1

    An arrest is the act of depriving a person of his or her liberty usually in relation to the purported investigation or prevention of crime and presenting (the arrestee) to a procedure as part of the criminal justice system

  3. Re:Distinguishing conflict from disagreement on Dr. Richard Dawkins On Why Disagreeing With Religion Isn't Insulting · · Score: 0

    That would only be coercive if they take it upon themselves to send you there personally.

    bollocks.

    if you don't pay up, my friend Vinny over there is going to break your fucking legs.

    not coercive?

  4. Re:Here here! Well said. on Cringley: H-1B Visa Abuse Limits Wages and Steals US Jobs · · Score: 1

    Obviously not. I have been too busy trying to find talented people to fill headcount. I wish we could hire h1bs then maybe we wouldn't have to keep wasting our time on all these kids that should have stuck to liberal arts...

  5. unbalanced on Pakastani Politician Detained By US Customs Over Opposition To Drone Strikes · · Score: 1, Troll

    i wonder how the US would react if Pakistan started arresting random visiting politicians & diplomats on the grounds that, well, you know...

  6. Re:Here here! Well said. on Cringley: H-1B Visa Abuse Limits Wages and Steals US Jobs · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry but if you're having trouble finding a job right now in a field that can hire h1bs then you're doing it wrong. It has nohing to do with the h1bs.

  7. Re:Here here! Well said. on Cringley: H-1B Visa Abuse Limits Wages and Steals US Jobs · · Score: 1

    How many Indian h1bs are taking jobs away from those English majors?

  8. Re:Here here! Well said. on Cringley: H-1B Visa Abuse Limits Wages and Steals US Jobs · · Score: 1

    What you're saying is that when an h1b gets a job he's taking a job away from a citizen and that the citizen suddenly becomes unemployed, or is unable to find work at all.

    That makes no sense at all.

    The citizen may not get the job that was taken by the h1b but he'll get a similar one with very slightly less pay on average.

    The guy that loses his job is the guy at the bottom of the ladder. But that improvement to productivity, trade deficit, etc should ensure that doesn't happen.

    Cringley's talking out of his arse. His argument has no solid economical basis.

  9. Re:Dawkin's is a piss poor social scientist on Dr. Richard Dawkins On Education, 'Innocence of Muslims,' and Rep. Paul Broun · · Score: 1

    big difference. the elephant exist - you can go back to africa and say "look there are elephants!"

  10. Re:Dawkin's is a piss poor social scientist on Dr. Richard Dawkins On Education, 'Innocence of Muslims,' and Rep. Paul Broun · · Score: 1

    sign me up. i'm absolutely an anti-religious bigot. i don't care if you're gay, straight, black, white, rich, poor, fat, thin, whatever. you're a person, that's great. but if you believe in fairies in the sky, you're delusional by definition, and if you change my laws to align with the will of your sky fairies, and you use my money to delude my kids in school then I have a problem with you and as such I don't give a fuck if your so-called-sacred sensibilities are singed. deal with it.

  11. Re:Dawkin's is a piss poor social scientist on Dr. Richard Dawkins On Education, 'Innocence of Muslims,' and Rep. Paul Broun · · Score: 1

    soviet communism was definitely a religion:
    - belief system? check
    - cultural system? check
    - world view? check
    - spirituality? check
    - morality? check
    - clergy? check
    - hymns? check
    - laws? check

    it had pretty much everything except maybe for proscribed creation or afterlife myths.

  12. Re:Dawkin's is a piss poor social scientist on Dr. Richard Dawkins On Education, 'Innocence of Muslims,' and Rep. Paul Broun · · Score: 1

    1) i wasn't talking about religious wars. i was talking about the non-theological basis for the anti-religious campaigns in the soviet union.
    2) while not all wars are religious in nature, there's certainly no shortage of examples of overtly-religious conflicts. take the crusades, the french religious wars, the 30-years war, global islamic jihad, the lebanese, iraqi & sudanese civil wars, just for starters.

  13. Re:Dawkin's is a piss poor social scientist on Dr. Richard Dawkins On Education, 'Innocence of Muslims,' and Rep. Paul Broun · · Score: 3

    you're confused.

    The soviet union (and other similar crazies) didn't suppress religion because of some deeply held theological belief. they suppressed religion out of a desire to eliminate all competing power structures, both political, ethnic, historical and sociological. they wanted an absolute monopoly of influence over their citizens. once they had taken out the existing monarchy/elite the next most influential bodies in russian society were the churches. if there had been a widespread atheist church where every sunday folks gathered under one roof to talk about the non-existence of god and how they should do certain things in their daily lives to honor that fact (however rediculous that sounds) - that would also have been banned. they even decimated the striking power of the trade unions.

  14. Re:Dawkin's is a piss poor social scientist on Dr. Richard Dawkins On Education, 'Innocence of Muslims,' and Rep. Paul Broun · · Score: 1

    you need to talk to Socrates.

  15. Re:Microsoft's bad decisions just keep coming on EC Sends Statement of Objections To Microsoft For Violating Anti-Trust Agreement · · Score: 1

    And the http/HTML stack isn't an industry standard?

  16. Re:Microsoft's bad decisions just keep coming on EC Sends Statement of Objections To Microsoft For Violating Anti-Trust Agreement · · Score: 1

    It was a bad decision to tie the IE web browser function into the Windows operating system

    was it a bad decision to bundle a TCP/IP stack into the Windows operating system?

  17. which operating system has the largest number of different browsers available for it?

  18. Re:Check if your channel is too crowded on Ask Slashdot: Why Does Wireless Gear Degrade Over Time? · · Score: 1

    but how about 2 signals from different APs on the same channel? won't they co-ordinate their retries.

  19. Re:Check if your channel is too crowded on Ask Slashdot: Why Does Wireless Gear Degrade Over Time? · · Score: 1

    Care to elaborate?

    Afaik two APs on the same channel will negotiate collisions using CSMA/AC. Two APs on different, but overlapping channels will see each other's signals as noise.

  20. Re:Check if your channel is too crowded on Ask Slashdot: Why Does Wireless Gear Degrade Over Time? · · Score: 1

    Are you saying that CSMA/CA doesn't do what I think it does?

  21. Re:Check if your channel is too crowded on Ask Slashdot: Why Does Wireless Gear Degrade Over Time? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Using the same channel does not increase signal interference. Signal interference comes from APs using neighboring channels in close proximity. If you're looking for greater range, try switching to the same channel as your neighbor. Your bandwidth could be lower, but the interference will be reduced.

  22. Re:Terrible inteface on Photo Tour of Google's Data Centers · · Score: 1

    it doesn't work in Lynx, either. WTF!?

  23. Re:Terrible inteface on Photo Tour of Google's Data Centers · · Score: 1

    it's Google, it's a beta, try to find the right Google Group to post to, i'm sure you'll get a vague response from someone@google.com in a few weeks.

  24. Re:You're all rick rolled now! on Photo Tour of Google's Data Centers · · Score: 1

    these are the tubes.

  25. Re:You couldn't learn all that in high school on Ask Slashdot: What Were You Taught About Computers In High School? · · Score: 1

    Heh I got 1,4 on ours when the '84 arrived to replace it. Eventually it was scrapped and replaced with a '73. Fun toy for a kid used to tiny micros.