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  1. I want to fully be back in IT on Flat Pay Prompts 1 In 3 In IT To Consider Jump · · Score: 1

    Hardly just pay, my current job is too easy, and the rules concerning personal life is far too strict, plus my boss only has a GED while I have some college. Yes, this doesn't work at all...I'd take less money to get out. I wish everyone luck as always, only had one interview in the past 3 months.

    Would I jump ship? A different job usually ends up sending you down the wrong path and then you will want to switch back as you realize the grass may look greener, but thats because it has many bare spots hidden by the fence.

  2. Merlin engine!!! on SpaceX Unveils Heavy-Lift Rocket Designs · · Score: 1

    Great news! The Merlin powered the famous Spitfire, Hurricane, P-51D fighters amongst many other Allied airplanes! Legendary!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Merlin

    Oh wait..You mean a rocket engine?.

  3. The image. on Testing the Safety of Tasers On Meth-Addled Sheep · · Score: 1

    Didn't read much of the article, but have to say that sheep looks hilarious! Is it an Australian breed?

  4. Why not send convicts? on Sending Astronauts On a One-Way Trip To Mars · · Score: 1

    If its one way and they are not likely to live, send convicts first! At least no-one would have to worry about Aborigines getting screwed over, unless you believe in the little green man :).

  5. Re:I always suspected on Medieval UK Battle Records Released Online · · Score: 1

    Arrowbait? Wouldn't you have needed to use the French Battle records for 1415?

    In the interests of the Entente Cordiale the above statement is just a joke! :)

  6. Demon Haunted World on Ireland Criminalizes Blasphemy · · Score: 1

    More proof as if its needed that Carl Sagan's "Demon Haunted World" is worsening...

    Matt

  7. Re:Rock and hard place on Symantec Exec Warns Against Relying On Free Antivirus · · Score: 1

    FUD, they are good at it. Must have learned that from someone else...

  8. Would it be possible to tamper with this? on UK Government To Monitor All Internet Use · · Score: 1

    Whats to stop someone affiliated in some way with a security service from planting information into one of these databases to frame an innocent person?

  9. Re:Please! on "Live Expansion" Announced for Warhammer Online · · Score: 1

    All that aside, the game isn't doing that bad as long as you're on a server that is active. Actually, I'm enjoying it way more than I ever did WoW or EQ.

    Does an MMO have to be as successful as WoW to be successful? Also, how long does it take for an MMO to even reach the proportions which WoW attained?

  10. Re:this is the result of socialism on Wikileaks Breaks $3 Billion Corruption Story · · Score: 1

    Erm, this has nothing to do with socialism (and I know Kenya way better than you having actually lived there). Its been pretty much known that this sort of thing has been going on for years under Moi, but its not something anyone in Kenya could safely talk about.

    Is Kenya unique? in a word no...

  11. IGCSE on New UK Initiative - Make Science Easier · · Score: 1

    I was lucky enough to do some IGCSE's and it was way harder than when I carried on upon returning to the UK and doing GCSE's again. I even remember in chemistry learning the properties of graphite in IGCSE's in detail that didn't come up until I was doing A levels.

    Now, the question is why...

  12. Re:They've been dumbing down exams in England for on New UK Initiative - Make Science Easier · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I was a year or two behind you and remember that upheaval. I also remember when they bought calculators into the classroom too soon, all it made was people who could press buttons, but not learn math, but having talked to teachers at that time this trend had been ongoing since the late 60's (when so much of Britain imho was destroyed).

    Thank God I emigrated too!

  13. Re:i was hoping on New UK Initiative - Make Science Easier · · Score: 1

    Keep her away from those bloody calculators unless its just being used to check answers!!!! Make sure she knows her times table backwards and forwards!

  14. Re:Not just source code on U.S. Refuses to Hand Over Fighter Source Code to UK · · Score: 1

    "Also, since the UK is only conributing 10% of the development costs, its no wonder the US isnt keen sharing. Usually with mil-tech you only give a bad, incomplete user manual to the client so he can barely operate the thing and then wait for him to pay more for extra features that are already implemented by disabled in software or simply undocumented. You never ever allow the client to have exact specs, schematics or software which would allow him to reverse-engineer and develop his own extentions and applications to it. "

    This situation is far more complex than what people say, or what you've alluded to. This is the problem, the UK does not see itself as a client, rather as a partner in JSF.

    Read <a href="http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/news/channe l_awst_story.jsp?id=news/032006p2.xml">here</a> and < a href="http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/2005/12/ itar-fallout-britain-to-pull-out-of-f35-jsf-progra m/index.php">here.</a>

    Wouldn't be the first time the US has back-stabbed a close ally. One of the first indicators was right after WW2 with the Bell X1. Britain shared her data with the USA (which actually shocked the US at how far the UK was ahead in jet engine technology) and so closed off any more ties with their "partner". Result was the Bell X1 using a rocket motor breaking the sound barrier.

    StarTux

  15. Re:Climbing Tree is a crime?? on Children Arrested, DNA Tested for Playing in a Tree? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You know there was once a time when the cop would simply walk a beat, in doing this he actually built a bond between him and those he was supposed to protect. Also he knew from doing this who was likely to be "good" or "bad" if something went down. Ever since they took to driving around in cars this bond has been broken and they now just respond to calls without the humanity behind it.

    Just my opinion,

    Matt

  16. Re:Wow, this technology works! on New Patent on TV Forces You to Watch Ads · · Score: 1

    "Personally, I'd be for this system if (and only if) subscribing to the non-ad version completely removes all advertising. But that is never going to happen."

    It does exist, its called the BBC.

  17. Re:Benign DVD players on Film Studios Sue Samsung Over DVD players · · Score: 1

    There is a lot of them out there as I am finding. My DVD player I got from Wal-Mart now is set to region 0. MPAA can take a walk, unless they want to release a region 1 version of It Ain't Half Hot Mum and a load of other titles from the UK. I'm sure I'm not alone...

    Check the make and model of each DVD player and simply search for the codes, some work and some do not.

    StarTux

  18. Weird... on Britons Unconvinced on Evolution · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm a brit too and have not known anyone in all the areas and schools I went to that did not laugh at Creationism. I know they like Ghosts and UFO's a lot and that there seem to be a lot of Paganism around, but still...

  19. Re:Poland did that too on UK Cold War Era Nuclear War Plans Revealed · · Score: 1

    "That means their asses were going to get run over."

        It was expected to be about 3 to 1, but the equipment and training of the west was not so bad and in many areas superior and remember too that most of the Western forces were and still are volunteers.

    There are quite a few wars or battles where a numerically superior foe has been decimated by one that is inferior in numbers...

    However, a Third World War would have certainly been different from any other, indeed even if conventional I am certain that US cities for the first time would have been hit by missiles.

    Luckily this has not yet happened, although if the West make enemies of Russia now or China who knows?

    StarTux

  20. Having tried both.... on Blockbuster's Offensive Against Netflix Flops · · Score: 1

    Tried both at the same time awhile ago and noticed that Netflix just served you better. Had faster turn-around times, Netflix did pretty much most of the time actually send you your top 3. Blockbuster would jump around more, which was kind of annoying. Also with BlockBuster I felt that they did not see, sure about this model (hope that makes sense, it was awhile ago and the specifics allude me, maybe it was just an impression they left).

    StarTux

  21. Re:"Remember...5th of November" on V For Vendetta Delayed until March 2006 · · Score: 1

    Thanks for bringing this to attention of those who may not have known this, especially those ex-colonies...

  22. Re:You might also like.. on March of the Penguins Tops Box Offices · · Score: 1

    Life of Birds is also great.

    As is the Blue Planet as it features great Penguin shots.

  23. Re:Then what? on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1

    "Note that Libia and colonel Khadafi have renounced terrorism and appear to be genuine so far."

    Its Libya, but they recounted it after all the events with Iraq and Afghanistan, its not good for a government to be associated with the "Taliban".

    Need to treat every subject separately as the IRA were running out of support and after 30 years they had achieved nothing with their campaign of violence...Notice I said 30 years? We could be in this for the long haul...

  24. Re:To our British friends on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1

    And of course, not to mention the Blitz in which our grandparents endured unspeakable horrors.

    StarTux

  25. Re:Bound to happen, unfortunately on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1

    "Dou you really believe this???? You mean troops, oil, money, power, control, has nothing to do?

    No, the real reason is the way we treat our women. Take a rest after such an intelectual effort!"

    Don't normally argue with an AC, but think for a second here, maybe just a second which obviously will tax you....

    Maybe I did not feel the need to mention oil over and over again? Yes its in the Wests interest to make sure the oil flows and oil is a big factor.

    I have real world experience which surely 99% of Slashdot lacks? Having been to the Middle as well as having had Middle Eastern friends I obviously have knowledge you lack and many other especially here on Slash lack...

    Really the only answer in the long term is compassion, something you see little of over here in the USA as most popular things seem hateful.

    StarTux