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  1. Re:Let me fix that for you... on Lawrence Krauss On Scientists As Celebrities: Good For Science? · · Score: 1

    He didn't say they had to be *good* personality traits...

  2. Re:Yes. on Lawrence Krauss On Scientists As Celebrities: Good For Science? · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's twice you've gotten it wrong, now. "Star stuff". And, of course, we are. With the exception of the hydrongen atoms, almost every atom in our bodies was forged in the heart of an exploding star. Maybe you already knew that--but a lot of people don't, and many more never really stopped to think about. It really is amazing, you know.

  3. Re:The beast and the hero on Microsoft Ends Mainstream Support For Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    Well, now, going from 7 to 8 was the first time Windows has progressed in a steady numerical progression since it was a DOS overlay. From 3.11 we went to 95, 98, ME, XP, Vista, 7, and then, finally, 8. Skipping a number to go to 10 is just reverting to form and shouldn't break the good-bad-good chain.

  4. Re:But on Microsoft Ends Mainstream Support For Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    Or I could just install Windows 7 and not have to worry about all this fiddly shit necessary to make the OS usable.

  5. Re:But on Microsoft Ends Mainstream Support For Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    For rizzle.

  6. Re:Intelligent grit is the answer. on Education Debate: Which Is More Important - Grit, Or Intelligence? · · Score: 1

    "Intelligent girt"? Is that anything like "smart dust"?

  7. Re: obligatory /. car analogy on Education Debate: Which Is More Important - Grit, Or Intelligence? · · Score: 1

    So, intelligence equals grit divided by stupid people?

  8. No. on Would You Rent Out Your Unused Drive Space? · · Score: 1

    Let me clarify: HELL, no!

  9. Re:Excellent. on Google Fund To Pay For 1 Million Copies of Charlie Hebdo · · Score: 1

    to show that it doesn't matter if anyone's offended.

    Because it doesn't.

  10. Re:Is google now about to become a target? on Google Fund To Pay For 1 Million Copies of Charlie Hebdo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You can't excuse what Charlie Hebdo are doing, no more than you can excuse what these people did to them, but Charlie Hebdo themselves are responsible for provoking this tragedy.

    Easily the most evil, wrong-headed and vile statement I've seen on the net today, if not this week. You do Islam no favors by blaming the victim like this, sir.

  11. Re:Excellent. on Google Fund To Pay For 1 Million Copies of Charlie Hebdo · · Score: 2

    And, incidentally, John probably didn't consummate that marriage until Isabella was in her late teens.

  12. Re:Excellent. on Google Fund To Pay For 1 Million Copies of Charlie Hebdo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You know what? If you want to publish some cartoons denouncing King John as a pedophile, I will totally support your right to do so.

  13. Re:TV sign-on and sign-off on Ask Slashdot: Sounds We Don't Hear Any More? · · Score: 1

    "And now, the National Anthem..."

    How many youngsters are going to understand the beginning of Billy Joel's "Sleeping with the Television On"?

  14. Re:Indicative of General Attitudes on Fewer Grants For Young Researchers Causing Brain Drain In Academia · · Score: 3, Informative

    A good hunk of this is just because *everyone* is older. From 1980 to 2009, the average age of a US resident went from almost exactly 30 years to 36.8 years (http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2011/tables/11s0007.pdf). That's half of your age increase right there.

  15. Re:Indicative of General Attitudes on Fewer Grants For Young Researchers Causing Brain Drain In Academia · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying is, we need "Carrousel"?

    Renew! Renew! Renew!

  16. Re:Sports MAKES the money. on Fewer Grants For Young Researchers Causing Brain Drain In Academia · · Score: 1

    Their basketball team is also Division III. So they have sports, but they don't have big money sports.

  17. Re:Here it is. Hope you can read Russian. Re:sourc on Russia Says Drivers Must Not Have "Sex Disorders" To Get License · · Score: 1

    2. WHO, and the ICD-10 isn't Russian. It's an international directive which has classified homosexuality as a mental disorder.

    No, it doesn't. Have you actually looked at it? Look at the appropriate sections (F64, F65 and F66). Homosexuality is not there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  18. Re:Free Beating on The Luxury of a Bottomless Bucket of Bandwidth For Georgia Schools · · Score: 1

    Even if we ignore the sunk cost of the already laid fiber, it still has to managed, and that ain't free.

  19. Re:In the name of Allah ! on Gunmen Kill 12, Wound 7 At French Magazine HQ · · Score: 0

    So, where specifically is the violence by the Judes[sic] advocated?

    Oh, let's see here. Exodus 17:

    14 Then the Lord said to Moses, âoeWrite this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.â

    15 And Moses built an altar and called the name of it, The Lord is my banner,

    16 saying, âoeA hand upon the throne of the Lord Jacob! The Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation."

    One of the more notable examples, but there's plenty more the Old Testament if you look.

    Christians get to claim that Jesus revoked those parts of the Old Testament, though it must be admitted that for many periods of history, they didn't act much like it.

  20. Re:Thanks, assholes on Gun Rights Hacktivists To Fab 3D-Printed Guns At State Capitol · · Score: 1

    OP is running on two-decade old data. DC's murder rate *used* to be horrendous, in the 1990s. It is now less than one-fifth what it was then.

  21. Re:Coming soon to another episode of Ancient Alien on Ancient Planes and Other Claims Spark Controversy at Indian Science Congress · · Score: 1

    It's also proven that ancient people mastered the art of wireless communication. /blockquote.

    And so they did. Those big signal fires didn't have much bandwidth, but they still worked pretty well.

  22. Re:This is exactly what OO solves... on Anthropomorphism and Object Oriented Programming · · Score: 1

    If you have fuzzy toast, you probably should've thrown the bread out.

  23. Re:The problem with doxing on Doxing -- Something To Expect More of In 2015 · · Score: 1

    Is that everyone has some skeletons in the closet they're hiding.

    Most people, I'm sure. I actually don't

    Everybody's got something to hide, 'cept for me and my monkey!

  24. Don't anthropomorphize your programs... on Anthropomorphism and Object Oriented Programming · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...they hate that.

  25. Re:conditions in steerage were deplorable on Aircraft Responsible For 2.5% of Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions · · Score: 1

    Actually, we have both flying buses and cars. Ever hear of private jets?