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  1. Re: Or... Ford cedes sedan market to Tesla on Ford To Stop Selling Every Car In North America But the Mustang, Focus Active (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I do all those things, and on weeks I don't use the bus at all, I drive 350 miles a WEEK.

    And there's charging stations at the grocery store.

  2. For actual LIBRARIANS yes. However most other library staff have gone the way of cashier's due to self checkout and computerised cataloguing

  3. Re: Like someone else illustrated on How Pirates Of The Caribbean Hijacked America's Metric System (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    And remember that most of the world doesn't drink milk, because it's a genetic mutation of white western Europeans and their descendants that allows us to digest lactose in any sizeable quantity past childhood.

    They may cook with it, bake with it, but they don't drink it. Hell, most of the kids of colour at the local schools are lactose intolerant, which is a real problem when the state says "why the fuck Aren't your kids drinking milk?! We pay a lot of money to ensure they have it, make them drink it!"

  4. Re: No soft metrics! on How Pirates Of The Caribbean Hijacked America's Metric System (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    And most all American commodity lumber is ACTUALLY made to millimeter specification anyways.

    4x8 plywood? It's not 4 feet wide, nor 8 feet long, and it's certainly not 3/4 inch thick, and reading the labels tell you that in little print.

  5. Re: The question you are all asking... on US Gained a Decade of Flynn-Effect IQ Points After Adding Iodine To Salt · · Score: 0

    Actually, that's "in like Flint", and it comes from a set of movies in the 60s, which spoofed the Bond movies and their ilk. The Austin Power movies spoof the Flint films more than the Bond films.

  6. Useful for homebrewers? on All Over But the Funding: Open Hardware Spectrometer Kit · · Score: 1

    So... Can I use this to determine the alpha and beta acid levels in my homegrown hops?

  7. Re:The judge is right. on Federal Judge Says No Right To Secret Ballot, OKs Barcoded Ballots · · Score: 1

    Women didn't have the right to their own vote until sufferage. Ballots were cast on their behalf by menfolk.

  8. Re:The judge is right. on Federal Judge Says No Right To Secret Ballot, OKs Barcoded Ballots · · Score: 1

    If I had Mod points, I'd mod this up.

    Men used to walk the ballots down to the polling location, carrying their own, their wives, slaves, etc.

    There is NO US constitutional right to a secret ballot. If people WANT there to be, get an amendment passed.

  9. 20 year old Mac SE and HyperCard (I'm serious) on Ask Slashdot: Best Computer For a 7-Year Old? · · Score: 1

    An old Mac SE or SE/30 with a standard set of software (Word 5.1, MacDraw II, HyperCard) provides the basic skills, in an obscenely uncluttered environment, plus an object oriented programming system.

    I have a similar setup in my shed, that I still use.

  10. Re:Vaccines should be mandatory. on Study Finds Unvaccinated Students Putting Other Students At Risk · · Score: 1

    This is actually a plan that might pass muster, legally.

    Special Education students are segregated, sometimes to sections of buildings, but sometimes to their own buildings (depends on the needs, district set-up, if there's an intermediate school district involved which the district gets services through, etc). In my county, the school districts negotiated through their intermediate school district to split up and share the special ed students by their needs, so nearly all the students with deafness in the county go to one school, regardless of where they live in said county (and there's... 8+ school districts here), while the students with total blindness end up elsewhere, and the severe downs syndrom and behavioral problems elsewhere still, each place with its own staff of teachers and professionals trained to deal with those issues.

    Secondly, the public schools are responsible for the safety of the students, while the students are at school, and in most states while travelling to or from school. There's a latin term for it that involves the word "parent".

    Schools already segregate children with severe nut allergies to wings of buildings, or specific rooms. It's an easy argument to make that for the health of ALL students, the ones w/o vaccinations cannot be in the primary student population.

  11. Re:Nice to see it's still alive on 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons Announced · · Score: 1

    I'm married. I play in a group of 2 guys and 5 women, one of whom is my wife.

  12. Re:exponential version growth on 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons Announced · · Score: 1

    My D&D (well... Pathfinder now) group is made up of me, another guy, and 5 women.

    There's a group of ALL women that play at the brewery every week.

    Celibacy might be what happens in HS, but D&D in college will get you laid.

  13. more expensive than hunted animal on In-Vitro Muscle Cells, It's What's For Dinner · · Score: 1

    I'm sure this meat will still be more expensive than the deer I shoot with my blackpowder rifle.

  14. Re:But is it kosher? on In-Vitro Muscle Cells, It's What's For Dinner · · Score: 1

    Will donating our organs at death lead to us being cloned as meat?
    What about the foreskin of circumcised children? Discarded, or grown into veal cutlets?

  15. Show me the TLD on ICANN Approves .IRAN (in Non-Latin) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So... what does this look like? I think a lot of us are using OSs that show us Unicode and non-Latin characters, so lets see it.

  16. "Wide Variety of sizes"? on In Case of Emergency, Please Remove Your Bra · · Score: 1

    32b to 40c is a "wide variety of sizes"?

    So what am I supposed to do, since My wife has DDD's?

    ~DW

  17. Re:Sounds Like Maggot Treatment on Dog Eats Man's Toe and Saves His Life · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is still done in hospitals, particularly for bad burns. The Green Bottle Fly is most often used, as the maggots will only eat dead flesh, and do not excrete waste. Only after they pupate and metamorphose into flies do they excrete, thus the larvae are essentially sterile.

    The pharmacy at the local hospital grows such larvae in sterile environments just for such use. In the field you won't have all those advantages, but it's absolutely an option.

  18. Re:explanation about the condition of the grid on In Oregon, Wind Power Surges Disrupting Grid · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think there are limits to how much of a given resource one group of people should be importing.

    There are too many people in SoCal to be able to provide them enough water. The problem isn't too little water, it's too many people. Some of them need to leave, and go where there is more water. People have been doing this for thousands of years. Our technology does not eliminate this process, only allows it to happen less often.

  19. Re:Common Ground? on Engaging With Climate Skeptics · · Score: 1

    G'day Bruce!

  20. Re:Common Ground? on Engaging With Climate Skeptics · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There very much is a common ground. Truth.

    To paraphrase Dr. Henry Jones Jr...

    Science is the search for FACT, Not Truth. If you want Truth, try the philosophy department.

  21. Re:Sorry, what you're asking for is too easy to ab on Reusing Old TiVo Hardware? · · Score: 1

    We have this. It's one of the reasons we went thru this digital TV conversion. The fact that some devices don't scan and cache the data to show in a compact fashion is just a limitation of that make and model, as many devices do.

  22. WonderLAN on Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do? · · Score: 1

    My laptop is named Hatter
    My old G4 tower is named Alice
    The Laser Printer is Bandersnatch
    The WIFI Router (and thus wifi network): JubJubBird
    My household server is named Duchess
    The two VOIP phones are TweedleDee and TweedleDum
    The DSL Modem (and Gateway to the tubes): Dormouse

    I am Marchie.

  23. Re:Half-assed indeed on New .tel TLD Now In Use · · Score: 1

    Believe the ISP tech monkey that answers phones every day... there are LOTS of people that thing everything still ends in .com

    I tell them "for the incoming mail server, put in mail dot foobar dot net"

    DAILY I get someone who types in mail dot foobar dot net dot com

    ~DW

  24. Re:Good article.. BUT... on Are SSDs Really More Power Efficient? · · Score: 1

    Actually, My girlfriend is terrible about opening her laptop, and just leaving it open on the table, letting the battery run down completely because she has the power-save and auto-sleep functions completely turned off "because they annoyed her"

    ~DW

  25. Re:Gravel! Turn back! on Google StreetView Is In Your Driveway · · Score: 1

    Every single morning driving a Detroit Free Press paper route in Ypsilanti, Michigan.