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  1. Re:Death Coil on Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers · · Score: 1

    In short, Marx won.

    (not my thought, from that reclusive British lady who recently won a Nobel for literature...lazy kicking it, not looking it up)

  2. Re:Death Coil on Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers · · Score: 1

    As you say, it has plenty of legitimate uses, but it isn't something you wanna just experiment with if you don't need it, the whole "replaces other instinctual motivations" thing is exactly nasty.

  3. Re:Oil not equal to nuclear on McCain Backs Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    People call it geothermal, but I prefer ground source heat pumps.

    They generally still have a compressor, it is just smaller because energy is being pushed to move faster, not being pushed backwards (heat pump in cooling mode: hot house to cool ground; AC in cooling mode: cool house to hot air).

  4. Re:Oil not equal to nuclear on McCain Backs Nuclear Power · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yay! 300,000 people down, 6.4997 billion to go.

  5. Re:Seriously, WTF? on McCain Backs Nuclear Power · · Score: 4, Funny

    You should contact security at the plant you visited, you shouldn't have been close enough to the waste for it to give you a warm glow.

  6. Re:No Child Left Behind on Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers · · Score: 1

    Because the money you put in your IRA vests instantaneously whereas a pension may take years to vest. If I can get all of that first year money the first year, I'm not so worried about finding out I hate it.

  7. Re:$5 a gallon? on McCain Backs Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    It isn't about the prices. It is about the increases in the price.

    High gas taxes are good policy, as they give you the opportunity to stabilize prices and they discourage wanton consumption (operating from the goofball idea that oil is a limited resource, reducing silly consumption is good). The US doesn't have that policy, so people that made a bunch of decisions based on $1 a gallon gasoline are now regretting those decisions.

    I don't drive an SUV or have a fat ass, but I'm still an American.

  8. Re:no American power plants burn Oil on McCain Backs Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    Whoosh. He was making the point that you explained.

  9. Re:Seriously, WTF? on McCain Backs Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    So what emotion makes you humorless?

    There is at least a 51% chance it was a joke (would could possibly be better than cheap, abundant energy? I know, energy that violates the laws of physics!).

  10. Re:Death Coil on Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers · · Score: 1

    Sure.

    I would suggest that one way to vastly improve government would be to have objective standards and measures in place before spending the money (this isn't countering anything you said, just a comment, I expect you would agree).

  11. Re:Every sperm is sacret on Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers · · Score: 1

    Do you carefully proofread all of your online output?

  12. Re:oh noes! on Netflix To Eliminate Profiles Feature · · Score: 1

    I just look for either sun or clouds. Both are enough to know that there is going to be weather that day and crack one open.

  13. Re:Lawyer: This, boys and girls, is why . . . on Man Fired When Laptop Malware Downloaded Porn · · Score: 1

    You are likely correct. Paranoia and rational don't always go hand in hand though.

  14. Re:No Child Left Behind on Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers · · Score: 1

    One huge step would be for states to make pension participation optional. That way, it would instantly be more practical to teach for 10 years, as none of your compensation would be deferred.

  15. Re:Death Coil on Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sort of. I would not suggest studying the effects of sticking your hand in a blender, simply deciding it is a bad idea is sufficient. This line of reasoning extends to other things that are somewhat more germane to living your life (savings are better than debt, don't screw dirty whores, heroin is nasty, etc).

  16. Re:Umm... because they want to work tomorrow, too? on Why Are the Best and Brightest Not Flooding DARPA? · · Score: 1

    That half a brain cell must be awesomely paranoid.

  17. Re:First.. on A Few Firefox 3 Followups · · Score: 1

    Getting paid by Google for search traffic.

  18. Re:Lawyer: This, boys and girls, is why . . . on Man Fired When Laptop Malware Downloaded Porn · · Score: 1

    If the intersection of child porn distributors and malware authors is larger than 0, the malware author may have written the malware to distribute the child porn. Or to keep it in circulation to gain later access to it, etc.

  19. Re:Better Days... on The Tiger Effect and Internet DDoS · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's actually quite healthy to like yourself just a little bit less than that.

  20. Re:Wow! Could Thse ISPs be in Trouble!? on The Tiger Effect and Internet DDoS · · Score: 3, Funny

    It isn't real clear that he started out fitting into society...

  21. Re:It's Twitter, Slashdot Duped Again! on $50 to Get XP On a New Dell · · Score: 1

    I agree with your thesis ("nothing it gained"), I just don't see any real harm in simply ignoring him, even if it leads to other people playing into his reward game.

    His behavior is not indicative of self examination, expecting self examination to emerge is fairly optimistic.

  22. Re:Wasting money on $50 to Get XP On a New Dell · · Score: 1

    Of course, you could phrase that first point as "Broken apps activate UAC a good deal of the time".

    It is still too early to judge Vista. If linux adaption is accelerating in 2 years and people are still ranting about how bad Vista SP2 is, the case for calling it a failure is a lot stronger. As it is, the sales numbers aren't exactly abysmal.

  23. Pedantic rebuttal on $50 to Get XP On a New Dell · · Score: 1

    Wii sports.

    I guess it is up for debate whether it's in its own genre though.

  24. Re:It's Twitter, Slashdot Duped Again! on $50 to Get XP On a New Dell · · Score: 1

    What are the odds that you are just giving him what he wants by giving him so much attention?

  25. Re:Free iPhones! on The Impact of Low Salaries At Apple · · Score: 1

    You may like foobar 2000:

    http://www.foobar2000.org/

    0.9.5 and later have a revamped default interface and may warrant a reevaluation if you have previously evaluated and rejected foobar.