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  1. Re:Inaccurate on Pope To Resign Citing Advanced Age · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with "retiring" when you're 85?

  2. Re:Advanced age? on Pope To Resign Citing Advanced Age · · Score: 1

    I saw him in October at a canonization. He looked beat. He probably looked at World Youth Day coming up this summer, and figured he'd rather put up his feet and write books. He thought he could retire at 79, but instead he got elected pope.

    I don't suppose you'll be in your present job when you're 85.

  3. Re:Some here say it's not relevant, but it is on Pope To Resign Citing Advanced Age · · Score: 1

    I teach Natural family Planning, which has been shown in several peer-reviewed large trials to be just as effective as contraceptive pills [http://www.cclgb.org.uk/effectiveness.html].

    Bottom line: there is a lot you don't know about the Catholic Church.

  4. Re:This is news? on No Wi-Fi Around Huge Radio Telescope · · Score: 1

    The third harmonic on their UHF converter boxes.

  5. Re:This is news? on No Wi-Fi Around Huge Radio Telescope · · Score: 1

    Look at the door on your microwave oven. See how close the mesh is?

    Now put the whole school inside a microwave oven. Well, minus the magnetron. And put in "airlock" doors that only open one at a time.

  6. Re:This is news? on No Wi-Fi Around Huge Radio Telescope · · Score: 1

    We did that at S band (3.4 GHz) using a 300 watt transmitter and 28 dB gain antenna. Had to integrate several seconds though. I wanted to fire up our 150KW radar transmitter, but it is limited to 300 microsecond pulses which spreads it out in bandwidth too much. As I recall, we downconverted to HF (20 MHz or so ) then used a narrow HF receiver to get down to below a KHz bandwidth.

  7. Re:How Does Germany Beat Chinese Pricing? on Fox News: US Solar Energy Investment Less Than Germany Because US Has Less Sun · · Score: 1

    No, the panels and inverters cost the same as in Germany. What's different here is the higher costs for permitting, distribution, installation, and markup of a low-demand product. It costs twice as much to get panels put on a roof here. And it doesn't need to. Then again, by the time we finally get our shit together, panels will be more efficient and cheaper.

    We need a German head of the DoE. While he's at it, Obama should hire a German to run Amtrak.
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    Disclaimer: I'm a fiscal conservative, Christian non-Fox-watcher. And been collecting solar power since....um, 1987 I think. We live in upstate NY, the sunshine capital of the USA (cough). My pump's running now.

  8. Re:MS Office mewlers and shills, queue here! on LibreOffice 4 Released · · Score: 1

    They usually lead off with
    = LibreOffice is not absolutely 100% compatible with the Gold Standard Of All Word Processing Formats, that has been used since the dawn of time and cannot be changed or else many middle managers, IT staff and purchasing agents will be fired and civilization will collapse

  9. Re:But what if Java is the next WAIS? on LibreOffice 4 Released · · Score: 1

    If they had used Ada, maybe they'd let the military use it.

    I had to use Microsoft Turd all the time, yuck.

  10. Great on No Transmitting Aliens Detected In Kepler SETI Search · · Score: 1

    Now can we get back to solving our problems?

  11. Re:They're hiding... on No Transmitting Aliens Detected In Kepler SETI Search · · Score: 1

    But it has reached Niburu.

  12. Get a Chromebook on Ask Slashdot: Buying a Laptop That Doesn't Have Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Buy beer with the extra money.

  13. Re:Try NewEgg on Ask Slashdot: Buying a Laptop That Doesn't Have Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Buy a computer that has the specs you want, then wipe the hard drive and install LinuxMint. Problem solved.

    FTFY.

  14. Re:Best Yet on Office 2013: Microsoft Cloud Era Begins In Earnest · · Score: 1

    Animations? Is Clippy back?

  15. Re:... so. on Why a Linux User Is Using Windows 3.1 · · Score: 1

    Because if you paid a shitload of money for something, or went to the trouble of stealing it, you wouldn't want to admit something else was just as good, and was free. Your argument would be that they are different, in ways that are extremely critical to you, and your expensive solution is the standard.

    Like Microsoft Office.

  16. Re:Belgians drilling a hole in the ocean?? on Belgium Plans Artificial Island To Store Wind Power · · Score: 1

    The other possibility is that the numbers favor putting the storage right next to the turbines, so you have a constant amount of power being fed back to land instead if tons of it in spurts, and the storage taking up farmland somewhere. Although I'd do a quick guesstimate at putting it near areas of high use.

  17. Re:Not a big deal on IBM's Watson Gets a Swear Filter After Learning the Urban Dictionary · · Score: 1

    "Teringlijer"

    My wife's cousin said it meant "esteemed American relative", not what Google translate said.

  18. Re:can someone please explain to me on How Verizon's 'Six Strikes' Plan Works · · Score: 1

    Well, I have free office software and a free operating system.

  19. So much for Hope and Change.

    Since Obama was elected, Johnny Cash, Bob Hope and Steve Jobs died. Now we have no Hope, no Cash, and no Jobs.

  20. Re:Change the road signs on Petition For Metric In US Halfway To Requiring Response From the White House · · Score: 1

    How old is your car, that it doesn't have both numbers on the dial?

  21. Re:What would I like to see at CES? on Slashdot Asks: What would you like to see at CES? · · Score: 1

    Along with Clippy, BoB and Metro. Proceeds to benefit the FSF.

  22. The day I moved my office off base.... on US Military Signs Modernization Deal With Microsoft · · Score: 1

    ...and installed LinuxMint on my 6 year old desktop that replaced a 3 year old machine with all the Microsoft/DoDParanoid crap, was the best day of my career. No windows, no Gates, I was free.....like Munich.
    Really, the USAF developed their own super-secure distro. Why not use it? And save $617M? Or did some procurement officer get an XBox under their Christmas tree?

  23. Re:Or they could just increase gas tax on Oregon Lawmakers Propose Mileage Tax On Fuel Efficient Vehicles · · Score: 1

    My 2900 pound 1998 Neon got 40 MPG. 5 speed, no A/C. If it wasn't a piece of shit I'd be driving it today.

  24. The last measurement to change... on USMA: Going the Extra Kilometer For Metrication · · Score: 1

    will be the 1/4-20 thread in the bottom of a camera.

  25. Re:Heard that one before: on Campaign To Remove Paper From Offices · · Score: 1

    It was about 1980 as I remember.