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  1. Re:Won't save most of the 4000 lives on The Economic Consequences of Self-Driving Trucks · · Score: 1

    yes, the famous drive in the middle lane and cut off someone in the right lane to make the exit

  2. Re:Eighties metal has become classic rock on What Happens To Our Musical Taste As We Age? · · Score: 1

    after ozzy went to the white house and bruce dickinson learned to fly and metallica started to shop at armani, it lost my interest

  3. adults hate kids' music on What Happens To Our Musical Taste As We Age? · · Score: 1

    and wish their kids only listened to the good stuff they grew up with. my dad grew up with classic rock and hated 80's metal bands that i listened to. listening to rap around him was likely to get you a beating

  4. can't you search the current doc types? on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Open Document Format? · · Score: 3, Informative

    if you use the API's supplied by their creators?

  5. Re:Trolling Douchebags on FCC May Stop 911 Access For NSI Phones · · Score: 0

    or you can simply pay the $10 or $15 a month for phone service if you want 911

  6. it's advertising to get people to pay the ridiculous live concert prices

  7. how about we go back to the old days? on The Music Industry's Latest Shortsighted Plan: Killing Freemium Services · · Score: 1

    Artists pay the radio stations play their music and pay the labels to market their albums to convince me to buy your $10 collection of songs and selling the same songs two and three times over as live versions and in greatest hits collections

  8. Re:nature will breed it out on Psychologist: Porn and Video Game Addiction Are Leading To 'Masculinity Crisis' · · Score: 1

    women read donor profiles on those

  9. Re:Lieberman 2.0 on Psychologist: Porn and Video Game Addiction Are Leading To 'Masculinity Crisis' · · Score: 2

    a lot of these games are similar to slot machines in that they space small rewards on a regular basis to keep you playing for hours. Civilization and Sim City are perfect examples

  10. nature will breed it out on Psychologist: Porn and Video Game Addiction Are Leading To 'Masculinity Crisis' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    being that many of them won't pass on their genes, nature will take care of it

  11. Re:Security clearance on Ask Slashdot: Moving To an Offshore-Proof Career? · · Score: 1

    US Military has been buying weapons from partner countries since the original M1. they still don't outsource jobs that need clearances

  12. Re:Cash-for-clunkers Redux on 25 Percent of Cars Cause 90 Percent of Air Pollution · · Score: 1

    the last time in NYC my in'law's 2003 Acuca qualified but not the 1992 Ford

  13. Re:Boston fans... on NFL Releases Deflategate Report · · Score: 1

    yeah, anyone who can afford $10,000 a year for season tickets is obviously dumb

  14. Re:Brand? on 17-Year-Old Radio Astronomy Mystery Traced Back To Kitchen Microwave · · Score: 1

    10 years is about the average time people stay in a home until moving and when people buy a new home they like to buy their own stuff for it

    win win

  15. Re:Brand? on 17-Year-Old Radio Astronomy Mystery Traced Back To Kitchen Microwave · · Score: 1

    whatever my mother in law has and whatever doesn't come out of walmart

  16. Re:About Time... on Apple Gets Antitrust Scrutiny Over Music Deals · · Score: 1

    ipod had a lot of competition back in the day and had a small part of the market for the longest time. it's just that most of the other devices and music stores were crap compared to itunes

  17. apple would never do that on Apple Gets Antitrust Scrutiny Over Music Deals · · Score: 1

    the bright colors and smiling faces tell me so

  18. Re:Moar Cloud on Microsoft Office 2016 Public Preview Released · · Score: 0

    chances are your company has SQL or Cognos or Oracle or something similar and will have that functionality

  19. Re:"It's very detail oriented" on Why Scientists Love 'Lord of the Rings' · · Score: 1

    that's how a lot of geeks think

    don't get an apple tv or roku or something simple, build a home PC, connect to TV and make up complicated instructions to do something simple like watch a movie or netflix

  20. it was the gubment on How Silicon Valley Got That Way -- and Why It Will Continue To Rule · · Score: 1

    US defense industry was big in california from WW2 through the end of the cold war. Lockheed had lots of smart engineers building stealth aircraft at their Skunkworks there. the US space program was the original buyer for CPU's and all kinds of tech that we use today

    after the cold war ended these engineers went to work for private industry

  21. tax breaks on How Silicon Valley Got That Way -- and Why It Will Continue To Rule · · Score: 0

    I hear California has some huge R&D tax breaks all the libertarians love.

  22. Re:Most electric cars are powered by burning coal on New Study Suggests Flying Is Greener Than Driving · · Score: 1

    what about that huge battery? Tesla's weigh more than similar gasoline sized cars because of the battery

  23. Re:Why? on Windows 10 Can Run Reworked Android and iOS Apps · · Score: 1

    run games on a PC that I play on IOS or Android and not run down my battery or use too much data or sometimes they are pretty good games

  24. Re:Solution looking for a problem? on Apple Watch Launches · · Score: 5, Insightful

    when you grow up you will realize that life is better not being plugged in all the time

  25. Re:Solution looking for a problem? on Apple Watch Launches · · Score: 1

    unless you use it for work where a text message is a lot of money/revenue/sales i don't care if i don't see a text the second it comes in because i don't care to be plugged into the borg collective 24 hours a day. if my wife texts me while i'm driving i'll answer her when i get a chance to stop.