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  1. Re:How about no. on Syria: a Defining Moment For Chemical Weapons? · · Score: 1

    Actually, you can set loose a fight wherever you want to!

  2. Re:Well on Mexican Village Creates Its Own Mobile Phone Service · · Score: 1

    um, calling a native an indian isn't calling a spade a spade it's just ignorant and stupid. I mean, come on, everybody found out it wasn't India centuries ago.

  3. Re:Capacity on Particle Physicists Facing Insane Competition For Work · · Score: 1
    Maybe.

    However, this is being seen in pretty much every single sector. Lots of people with degrees and an order of magnitude less jobs.

  4. Looks like on First Asteroid Discovered At Uranus's Leading Trojan Point · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    someone forgot to wipe!

  5. Re:failure to respond... on Syria: a Defining Moment For Chemical Weapons? · · Score: 1
    um, weapons you can't use have no value.

    Why did the USA attack Iraq? We aren't privy to everything the decision makers see, nor are we as psychotic

  6. Re:War should Suck on Syria: a Defining Moment For Chemical Weapons? · · Score: 0

    Actually, if that had happened we'd be better off no? Less overpopulation. As long as it wasn't a nuclear war the environment would have been better off, less plastic pollution, less destruction of the environment for oil, less agricultural pollution, less contamination of the food supply with gmos, less destruction of the environment for resources, less etc...

  7. Re:The "chemical attack" was planned by the west on Syria: a Defining Moment For Chemical Weapons? · · Score: 1

    Interesting if true.

  8. Re:failure to respond... on Syria: a Defining Moment For Chemical Weapons? · · Score: 1
    um, he got support by lying and trying to bully the rest of the world.

    Of course Russia and China oppose, that's where the real war is.

  9. Re:War should Suck on Syria: a Defining Moment For Chemical Weapons? · · Score: 3, Informative

    um, you do know the USA and USSR just moved the violence and destruction to other countries right? Perhaps the world would have been better off for the last 70 years if they just took it out on each other and not played their stupidity out on the world stage.

  10. Re:I never understood the principle. on Syria: a Defining Moment For Chemical Weapons? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    idiot

  11. Re:failure to respond... on Syria: a Defining Moment For Chemical Weapons? · · Score: 1

    except that those oil people don't care about securing syria, all they need is for the price of oil to go up, which it is.

  12. Re:Why is it up to US to police world? on Syria: a Defining Moment For Chemical Weapons? · · Score: 1

    Probably because the US took on the police role to bully other countries, now they're just being called on their bully bluffs.

  13. Re:failure to respond... on Syria: a Defining Moment For Chemical Weapons? · · Score: 2

    Or maybe he seriously doubts that there would be any retaliation. Seriously, the USA looks like a bully that's finally been called on their bluffing. That and he's probably smart enough to know that the USA has no ulterior motive to go in and they really don't do anything that they think won't help them in the long run.

  14. Re:How about no. on Syria: a Defining Moment For Chemical Weapons? · · Score: 1

    um, if you stay out of the fight then you lose to Russia. Do you really think that's going to happen?

  15. Re:What are abnormalities? on Will Robots Replace Rent-a-Cops? · · Score: 1

    Nothing new under the sun. Just putting into practice esoteric ideas from millenia ago to test their merit as any good scientist should.

  16. Re:BIG DEAL!!! on Ohio State Introduces Massive Open Online Calculus · · Score: 2

    Except that most MOOCs moved away from open source and so this is news if a big university has decided to go back to the totally open source route.

  17. Re:Well on Mexican Village Creates Its Own Mobile Phone Service · · Score: 1

    Dude, I'm warning the guy, not making threats. Learn the difference, if you're looking for some examples perhaps you should start proofing your posts.

  18. Re:What are abnormalities? on Will Robots Replace Rent-a-Cops? · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I have the unfortunate predilection of acting the same towards everybody and being extremely idealistic. Growing up english in quebec there were always situations like this. Granted, I wouldn't call my behaviour tough, just naive and autistic. However, I never backed down and things always worked out in the end.

    I'm not sure if MX is supposed to stand for mexico, but when I was living there, no matter the attitude of the person, if I treated them like any other human (and I do that because I see them as any other human) they were unable to do anything but treat me the same. It's amazing how treating others the same as you would treat yourself can even get police that were looking for bribes to let you go free. Once, an enraged crack addict in withdrawal broke his hand against a concrete wall because he couldn't bring himself to harm me because of the way I had treated him.

    Change the way you see them in your head and you might find that they change the way they act towards you.

  19. Re:perl or python or whatever on Ask Slashdot: Speeding Up Personal Anti-Spam Filters? · · Score: 1
    Don't bring your prejudices into this!

    It doesn't get much easier than someone not only handing you the code but also holding your hand and walking through every single function. Unless you want to use a magic black box and where's the fun in that?

  20. Re:perl or python or whatever on Ask Slashdot: Speeding Up Personal Anti-Spam Filters? · · Score: 1

    regexps in cl-ppcre are faster than perl.

  21. DIY on Ask Slashdot: Speeding Up Personal Anti-Spam Filters? · · Score: 1

    http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/practical-a-spam-filter.html has the nuts and bolts. CL-PPCRE does perl regex matching faster than perl.

  22. Re:One thing is for sure on Will Robots Replace Rent-a-Cops? · · Score: 1

    Please don't extrapolate from your country to other countries. Perhaps it's different in the UK, I know through experience it isn't that way in most of Canada (haven't seen it all!).

  23. Re:What are abnormalities? on Will Robots Replace Rent-a-Cops? · · Score: 1
    Intelligent doesn't imply smart.

    Perhaps all the furtive speedy grabbing of items is what leads you to look suspicious?

    At any rate, if this is your local grocery store, the smart thing to do is get to know the people that work there and let them get to know you. Perhaps you are just as prejudiced as they are, and there's no cure for prejudice like exposure to the truth.

  24. Re:FWIW, completely untrue. on Mexican Village Creates Its Own Mobile Phone Service · · Score: 1

    No, some of us really are offended. Lots of people don't like being called the same thing as the people that took their lands, abuse them as labour, talk like potty mouths with no respect for family and society, and show no consideration for nature around them.

  25. Re:Well on Mexican Village Creates Its Own Mobile Phone Service · · Score: 1

    um, people who care about truth and precision? I know you're a USian since you don't care about that and because you automatically turned it into US and THEM, but i'm not, I'm American, so I don't know how conservative your 'liberal' is on the world scale, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't describe me.