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  1. You paying him? on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Explain To a Coworker That He Writes Bad Code? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Unless you are the one paying this guy it ain't your problem dude.

  2. Re:Why would they stop developing weaponry? on North Korea Launches Long-Range Rocket · · Score: 1

    If you examine multiple sources, the primary being Marx's letters to Engles. You see the German state was moving more and more in the direction of creating a "Christian" state. Marx and others talked about the Jewish population thinking, if they are going to make a Christion state, we should get a Jewish state. Germany wanted only a Christian state and used that motivation to eliminate the need for a Jewish one. One of many factors but just saying they got rid of them them because they were them is not accurate. Humans don't just do anything just to do it. There is always always something that is motivating them.

  3. Re:n00b on How To Use a Linux Virtual Private Server · · Score: 1

    That used to be the case but I just did my laptop and it went flawlessly. So I think it has improved.

  4. Weak ass backpedal on Mars Rover Finds Complex Chemicals But No Organic Compounds · · Score: 0

    http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/19426

    The taxpayer deserves more for their 3 billion.

  5. Everyone knows the issue on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Fix the Linux Desktop? · · Score: 1

    It's the developer tools stupid. Efforts need to focus there. They need to be designed and Engineered. Not just coded.

  6. Re:Universal Installer on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Fix the Linux Desktop? · · Score: 1

    Tarball isn't an installer format. Try again.

  7. Advertising on Earth's Corner of the Galaxy Just Got a Little Lonelier · · Score: 1

    Could be that they are hiding the habitable world. If I had neighbors like us thinking of visiting, I would.

  8. Re:Lips? on Debate Over Evolution Will Soon Be History, Says Leakey · · Score: 1

    Men and women have faults, does God as well?

    The quote I posted was from the Qur'an.

    We see slow ongoing changes in the fossil record but there is no shortage of "flood" events. Where we see rapid change as well. Many species becoming extinct and rapid changes in others.

    Evolution is one chapter in the book of life, it is not the whole story.

    The logic of "Genesis didn't tell us about this" is weak. What do people expect to be told about their origins by the Creator?

  9. Lips? on Debate Over Evolution Will Soon Be History, Says Leakey · · Score: 1

    It's not covered by Genesis. There's no explanation for this change going back 500 million years in any book I've read from the lips of any God.

    [6.6] Do they not consider how many a generation We have destroyed before them, whom We had established in the earth as We have not established you, and We sent the clouds pouring rain on them in abundance, and We made the rivers to flow beneath them, then We destroyed them on account of their faults and raised up after them another generation.

    Guess he was reading the wrong books. And BTW God doesn't have lips, He is the Creator of lips.

  10. Re:Why so scared? on Tennessee Passes Bill That Allows "Teaching the Controversy" of Evolution · · Score: 1

    If you (or anyone, for that matter) have a valid hypothesis worth study, then by all means bring it up! Any real scientist worth their salt would jump at the opportunity to explore a heretofore unknown theory.

    Laughable. Science today is about getting funding for the next project. Going on an adventure to explore unknown theories is a fairy tale.

  11. Re:Wut? on NSA Chief Denies Claims of Domestic Spying · · Score: 3, Interesting

    All modern governments do. Administrations are more likely to be attacked and overthrown by their own citizens than from other countries. Same as it ever was.

  12. Re:You are here on New Horizons: One Billion Miles From Pluto · · Score: 1

    La illaha.

    There is no God.

    There is no God in creation because he is the Creator of creation and there is nothing like Him. He created existence, time and space.

    La illaha il illah,

    There is no God, but God.

    There is nothing in this Universe able to create (la illaha). So look for the One that does create.

  13. Re:Huh? on Multicellular Life Evolves In Months, In a Lab · · Score: 1

    Keep reading noob: "By culturing only the cells that sank, they selected for those that stick together." They picked the ones on the bottom. Respect your elders.

  14. Re:Spread the word on Ask Slashdot: What Can You Do About SOPA and PIPA? · · Score: 2

    I think this is accurate for Wikipedia and many other sites. The people with the deepest pockets and best lawyers would control what is on the Internet. U.S. Congress's undying support of the 1% in action.

  15. Huh? on Multicellular Life Evolves In Months, In a Lab · · Score: 1

    So human beings picking the winners is evolution but God picking them is crazy talk?

  16. Wow, 123 Jobs!!! on BASF Moves GM Plant Research From Europe To US · · Score: 3, Insightful

    30 years of Conservative ideology has finally paid off.

  17. Re:Micromanage or you will be disappointed on Ask Slashdot: Transitioning From Developer To Executive? · · Score: 1

    Get the developers estimate of the time it will take, then double it. Unless they are a contractor, then you need to try and cut it in half.

  18. Not mandatory but at least encouraged. on Should Composting Be Mandatory In US Cities? · · Score: 1

    I always wondered why they didn't simply implement a program where compostable materials go in brown plastic bags instead of black ones. Then the firms (public or private) can easily compost it. Also individuals with a compost pile looking for some extra organic material to add to their pile can just go pick up brown bags on trash day from people if they want more material.

  19. Vacuum? on OPERA Group Repeats Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Results · · Score: 1

    From the BBC article: "The idea that nothing can exceed the speed of light in a vacuum forms a cornerstone in physics", I wonder why they highlight in a vacuum here when this test was not in a vacuum it was through rock. Bad writing I guess.

  20. Money on Why Do So Many College Science Majors Drop Out? · · Score: 1

    Institutions of higher learning in the United States are about making money, not graduating people. Everyone who has been there knows this.

  21. Re:USA against the World? on US Defunds UNESCO After Palestine Vote · · Score: 1

    Congress is effectively closed. Nothing will get done on anything, as you say. That is why it is laughable hearing the contenders for the Republican nomination talking about all these tax plans. Only thing getting passed in the U.S. Congress will be gas, regardless of who is President.

  22. Re:USA against the World? on US Defunds UNESCO After Palestine Vote · · Score: 1

    Contrary to Conservative belief other countries do have money.

  23. Reality on How Can I Justify Using Red Hat When CentOS Exists? · · Score: 1

    CentOS on all your test beds, RedHat in production. (Like the rest of the business world who has a flippin clue).

  24. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on Getting the Latest Rover To Mars · · Score: 1

    I agree, if they want to land in that way they should send at least four rovers. Possibly have one survive.

  25. STS-38 was the launch I got to see on CmdrTaco Watches Atlantis Liftoff · · Score: 1

    A night launch and totally bad ass. I got to say I am not sad the program is over. We can move on to the next generation of things now. I hope they start making the programs more about human curiosity and exploration. Instead of just a defense against the Russians or the Chinese.