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  1. Re:We pounded Afghanistan & Iraq into submissi on Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Opposes Net Neutrality (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I feel quite certain that the public opinion would be even more problematic in a civil war than in the Vietnam War, even if there is military industrial complex control of the media.

  2. Re:On the whole second amendment thing on Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Opposes Net Neutrality (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    A modern military is not good at keeping people conquered. For that you need a police state and an unarmed populace. The United States cannot even handle a place like Iraq with our army, one of the biggest in the world. What would they do in the United States, where bombing wedding parties would have even worse public relations? Where the citizens you are at war with might be teaching at St. Andrew's Episcopal School where Barron Trump goes to school? You don't even need to truly "win" you just need to make the government give up, or preferably, be too afraid to ever start a war in the first place.

  3. Re: This is why Trump is popular. on Newspaper Chain CEO 'Pleased' To Announce IT Plan, Then Fires Tech Staff (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Is everything you buy American? Likely not. Yet you still think the rules if changed could affect people's behavior. A curious parallel with the candidate - who has been advocating these policies for more than twenty years.

  4. Re: Nope on Samsung Officially Unpacks Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge At MWC · · Score: 1

    Perhaps Google's project Ara the modular phone? I also want a keyboard (after burning through multiple used droid 4s). Prototype being shown tomorrow.

  5. Re: Nope on Samsung Officially Unpacks Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge At MWC · · Score: 1

    HTC's phone announced at MWC has an expansion slot. http://www.cnet.com/news/samsu...

  6. Re:from a psychologist that has helped children gr on Ask Slashdot: Terminally Ill - What Wisdom Should I Pass On To My Geek Daughter? · · Score: 1

    I assure you, both sexes are subject to society specific irrational concepts and hormonally driven motives.

  7. Chilling Effects on Pedophile Asks To Be Deleted From Google Search After European Court Ruling · · Score: 1

    I think Google already knows how to handle this - removal with a link to Chilling Effects and the removal notice. No, we don't have links regarding your pedophilia / political corruption / incompetent doctoring anymore - we just have a link to your complaint to remove information regarding your pedophilia / political corruption / incompetent doctoring.

  8. Re:Interesting Math (like there's another variety) on Meat Makes Our Planet Thirsty · · Score: 1

    They do actually sometimes fatten cattle with "candy, hot chocolate mix, crumbled cookies, breakfast cereal, trail mix, dried cranberries, orange peelings and ice cream sprinkles."

    http://money.cnn.com/2012/10/1...

  9. Re:HEY on It's True: Some People Just Don't Like Music · · Score: 1

    There is good music out there still, people just don't get exposed to it, so their comfort levels then grow to match those of clear channel syndicates that have been playing those same goddamn Led Zeppelin songs for as long as I've been alive (1980). A lot of this has to do with where bulges are within the population (boomers) and who listens to / controls the car radio. I personally am tired of songs about hobbits, and wish there was more Jack White (a descendent of Zeppelin for your example) on mainstream stations.
    To give you an idea, there was a day and age where the disc jockey actually picked the music, and a band like the Doors could become particularly popular because the long cut of the song gave the DJ time to run to the bathroom. This is almost entirely gone, except for a number of college radio stations. Instead songs are cut down to nothingness so that the station can claim to play twenty songs non-stop, and the whole mix is made in one place and sent out to the rest of the syndicates (traveling across the country doesn't expose you to new music on the radio generally).
    Most people don't want to hear new music except in a small window of their life. It's just something in our psychology.
    I'll step off your lawn now.

  10. Re:Middle Initial on Snowden Used Software Scraper, Say NSA Officials · · Score: 1

    Orge: John Wayne Gacy, Sirhan Sirhan, how do they fit in Jerry?

  11. Re:Trademark on Full Screen Mario: Making the Case For Shorter Copyrights · · Score: 1

    Which is just another example of how we lost out - Coke hasn't been the same since they changed the formula in 1903. Somebody should be able to bring back classic Coke!

    Addressing your intellectual property issue, (IAAL, but IANAIPL) if the game was outside of copyright protection there wouldn't necessarily be a clear trademark violation. If Steamboat Willy had ever been allowed to have it's copyright expire I would be able to release copies of Steamboat Willy even without permission from Disney. You can't trademark your way around copyright terms. This would be a derivative work, so not as clear a territory.

  12. Re:This is stupid on Sexism Still a Problem At E3 · · Score: 1

    Whores are working girls (too).

  13. Re:Four candidates, summarized on Ralph Nader Moderates One Last 3rd-Party Debate for 2012 · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Anderson

    Must have just drafted this up in the last few minutes.

    Is that sufficiently less conservative than Reagan for you?

  14. Re:Predicting the next 100 posts on The Mathematics of Obesity · · Score: 1

    They can be refrigerated. Though the outer peel will turn black, this does not affect the ability to eat the inner part of the banana. The push to not refrigerate them came from Chiquita, via the Chiquita banana song. You can make your own guesses about why Chiquita wanted them unrefrigerated.

  15. Re:Because there is no money in STEM... on Reversing the Loss of Science and Engineering Careers · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is far far from true. I am a lawyer, please look up the statistics for unemployment in law, particularly young lawyers, and the number of people that are finding that the job that they can find doesn't pay their loan debt. There is even outsourcing (on large document review projects). Most people who went into law are finding that the law school lied to them about their future career prospects. A very large percentage of people who went to law school end up regretting it. The career you want to be in is anything health related with the boomers aging. There are people with AA degrees that make more than I do.

  16. Re:hipaa violation as well? on Judge Orders Man To Delete Revenge Blog · · Score: 2

    In real life sometimes that ends in a restraining order, and sometimes it ends in a relationship. The culture you're decrying exists outside of the movies as well - that you see it in movies just illustrates how illogical and arbitrary people (both men and women) are. I mean, for one, I never see any men intentionally going to a movie that involves romance whatsoever, so it must be women creating this culture. Doesn't the description you give describe the plot of Twilight? I ridicule everyone for their poor choices, it's the only way they'll learn.

  17. Anonymous if you're listening . . . on Anonymous Threatens Robin Hood Attacks Against Banks · · Score: 1

    Don't donate stolen funds directly to the charity, use the credit cards to buy from someone you also despise (Walmart?) and have the product shipped to the charity? I'm not sure if this would work, but I think if Anon put a little thought into the matter they might find ways that eliminate at least some of the problems posted in here. I mean, none of this is ever going to happen, but if it did, it could be done better.

  18. Re:Its one of them 'Nash Equilibrium' thingies. on World Emissions of Carbon Dioxide Outpace Worst-Case Scenario · · Score: 1

    We're measuring by per square kilometer? And the U.S. still just barely get in the lower half with our population density? Have you ever driven through a place like Colorado? There are abandoned gas stations that are listed on the maps as towns.

  19. Re:WTF Slashdot? on US Student Loans Exceed $1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    1) - news for nerds: economics and psychohistorians. 2) - fight your battles where they have impact. There are always protests on campus and they are always ignored. This one hasn't been. 3) An investment of tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars for a field that may or may not be a sound investment for the rest of your life. Education expenses are always a gamble. You're asking high school graduates to be cunning gamblers. If technology advances made your job meaningless your opinion would change. 4) I agree in part, but OWS wants to make their difference in a more left-leaning way, and they seem to be somewhat effective for a bunch of kids that have never had a real job. The appeal of their message just shows how widespread disatisfaction is with the current system. 5) It's not progress since "50 years ago" - college has become semi-mandated by the work place and now the average person cannot afford to go to an institute of higher learning, but simultaneously can't find a job without going (and more often now, even when they do go.).

  20. Re:That depends... on Ask Slashdot: Does Being 'Loyal' Pay As a Developer? · · Score: 1
  21. Re:This just makes sense on Science and Religion Can and Do Mix, Mostly · · Score: 1

    Talk about cafeteria Christianity - your citations states specifically that those are the first and greatest commandments and that all others rest on them, BUT not that they are the only ones:

    "Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill. For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass away from the Law, until all is accomplished. Whoever then annuls one of the least of these commandments, and so teaches others, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever keeps and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. I say to you, that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven."

    http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205:17-20&version=NKJV;

  22. Re:Windows, duh! on Walmart Goes Solar In California · · Score: 1

    It works like a casino - keep shopping with no sense of time.

  23. Re:Cap Gains vs. Income on White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax" · · Score: 1

    I thought all those taxes were passed on to the consumer. Which is it?

  24. Re:Cap Gains vs. Income on White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax" · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Bread and Circuses on @Whitehouse Hosting Twitter Town Hall On Wednesday · · Score: 1

    All modern press Q&A involve the president picking not only whose questions he'll answer, but who is allowed to be there. If you think this twitter conference is bread and circuses, I'm sorry to inform you we've been at the circus for awhile.