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  1. The sickness can be cured on When Working in Virtual Reality Makes You Sick (medium.com) · · Score: 2

    Well, the sickness can at least be treated by building a resistance.

    What I learned from flying, and it seemed to transfer to VR:

    Participate until you feel the motion sickness, maybe even until you feel very sick, but under no circumstances should you play until you vomit. That will set you back. Over time, you will be able to participate for longer periods of time, until eventually you don't even think about it anymore.

  2. Recycling is STUPID on US Recycling Companies Face Upheaval From China Scrap Ban (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I know we've all been raised on the recyclist propaganda; but, could we just stop it already?

    Paper: The largest land owner in my home state, NC, is a forester. The raise southern pine trees for the paper and wood industries. Trees are a CROP plant. The paper, plywood, and lumber industries do NOT want trees from old growth forests. They want trees that are all of the same size, have been grown to be straight, and will go through their equipment with the minimum of attention. On the back end, landfills are living systems. Lined with clay, and covered with plastic, enzymes are pumped through the waste to produce methane that is burned to produce electricity. Effectively, there is no paper waste.

    Plastic: Some enzymes have been discovered in the past few years that are effective at breaking down plastic molecules. These will soon go into the enzyme mix to make plastic as productive as paper.

    Long story short, today the normal waste cycle IS recycling. Stop wasting money and resources on a separate truck to drive around to take the waste to the same place.

  3. What we really need is basic IQ testing and emotional/mental stability testing before we allow anyone to vote.

    It can be simpler than that.
    Make the ballot a list of offices with blank boxes to fill in the names. Yes. Just leave all the names off. If the voter can not be bothered to learn enough about a candidate to be able to spell their friggin' NAME, then that voter does not deserve the opportunity to vote. PERIOD.

    Call it a poll tax if you want, but I will always assert that some level of civic involvement and commitment should be required to have a say in selecting our leaders.

  4. Re: Translation. on Canada's Ontario Government Ends Basic Income Project (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Worse still, the "aid" my just as well cause the collapse of local industries. The few people that once could offer mediocre jobs can now offer none at all. 'Aid' only helps if it builds up a countries infrastructure.

  5. Re: Translation. on Canada's Ontario Government Ends Basic Income Project (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 2

    I've been in that EXACT situation.

    Fought my way through community college, and then a BS degree, while supporting a wife and two children.

    You are a whiney little apologist bitch. Grow a pair, get off of your ass, improve your skills, and quit your bitchin'. It's lame, and we don't want to hear it.

  6. Which will actually fix the problem. Call us back when people are starving for reasons other than poor distribution of resources, most of which are caused by political upheavals.

  7. Re:Well, yeah. on Terraforming Might Not Work on Mars, New Research Says (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    Next problem, lack of gravity. Various experiments done on ISS with plants and animals suggests that humans will not be-able to procreate in zero G.

    So, you're saying no space porn!?

    Fuck it. I'm staying here.

  8. But, this whole argument goes away if the solar plant they're building uses molten salts.

  9. Re:Even if they succeed - they will fail. on 20 States Take Aim At 3D Gun Company, Sue To Get Files Off the Internet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Except that sane people never wanted the child porn in the first place. A digital file in order to make a plastic gun, fire it once just to giggle when you hear it go "bang" once, and then put it on a shelf to never be touched again.....why, that is geek nirvana.

  10. Americans didn't need to use gun control to round up their population and put them in internment camps, as any Japanese-American can tell you.

    Ask the Native Americans about that, though.

  11. it was written right into the 1968 gun control act. You can build yourself a firearm without any oversight or background checking.

    Yep, It is perfectly legal to construct your own firearms, and in the eyes of the law and ATF, the only part that is technically the weapon, is the serialized portion, which is the lower receiver in most cases, at least with rifles.

    What happens if a build my own lower receiver? What if I build a gun WITHOUT a lower receiver? I'm talking a piece of pipe mounted on a block of wood. A chunk of metal on a rubber band as the firing mechanism.

    The grandstanding Bill Ferguson and those following him are all malinformed, uncreative idiots.

  12. Please take your propaganda and shoved it. The person you described as a Nazi was attacked by an angry mob and attempted to escape. Watch the video.

  13. Re: And we still hear how global warming is a hoax on 118 All-Time Heat Records Set Around the Globe (miamiherald.com) · · Score: 1

    But, he bought carbon credits to make up for it. I mean, it was from the company that he owned....but...still.

  14. Re:Starting? on Fake News 'Crowding Out' Real News (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The difference I see today vs. yesteryear is that the populace at-large is doing less critical thinking about how news should be ingested. That is, asking the following questions: Who is writing it? Why are they writing it? Is it to inform or entertain (or both)? What viewpoint are they trying to convey and why is that viewpoint important from the perspective of the author? How is it important to you as the reader/viewer?

    Wow! Really? You really think grandma and grandpa did anything but completely lap up whatever the talking head on the box had to say? You think they critically analyzed and questioned the motivations of the thing their government was feeding them?

  15. Re:Microaggressions on Ask Slashdot: Why Did You Quit Your Last Job? · · Score: 1

    That's why I've decided to do away with microagressions. Hell! Go big or go home!

  16. Re:People quit their managers on Ask Slashdot: Why Did You Quit Your Last Job? · · Score: 1

    Trust me. Not hiring enough people is way down on the list of the ways a bad manager can make the job shitty.

  17. Re: What's the goal of the union? on More Than 60% of Tech Workers Feel They're Underpaid (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And, that is EXACTLY how it should be. I have the right to sell my labor to the highest bidder. The companies have the right to seek the workers who are willing to work for the least. Unions are nothing but an extortionist mob.

  18. He says as the blue swirl slowly spins down.

  19. I agree with you that shadowing is slimey business. It's a form of deception. If these people are so bad, Twitter should call them out. Release a press release and show the world the ugly things they were up to.

    The shadow banning has echoes of Twitter knowing their position is not defensible.

  20. We're not sure what happened, but it appears the police acted stupidly.

  21. That explains the relentless string of commercials on broadcast TV and radio.

  22. Re:Assault on free speech and conservatives on Facebook Signs Agreement With Washington State To End Discriminatory Ad Targeting (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    They can't stop you from holding a meeting or rally.

    For that, you need to call in Antifa.

  23. Then again, older people also don't buy into half the stupid shit the younger do. //refactoring to generalize

    This now works for every generation since Jack traded his mother's cow for those stupid beans. I, for one, can recount some STUPID buying decisions I've made in my life that I'm not likely to repeat. The problem with older people is not that they're smarter. It's that they're more experienced. They've had time to have been there and to have done that. They got the t-shirt, and it fell apart before they got home.

    Marketers want the young and naive. Those that can be convinced that nirvana lies at the end of ten easy payments of 49.95. Many older people never learn, and remain easy marks, but the young have a higher probability of not having experience with whatever con they're pushing.

  24. The people responding to you have obviously had a drink from the plastic Koolaid pitcher, Kokuyo. I just watched an episode of Penn and Teller's show "Bullshit" about this law. What is clear is that Democrats like to create laws that totally ignore science as long as they can feel good about themselves.

    From what I can see, the ESA is used almost exclusively as a tool by NIMBYers to block construction projects.

  25. Increasing the resolution of a low MP sensor is extremely difficult. Please note that I did not say it is impossible. it *is* possible to increase the resolution but it is a complex, time consuming, and sensitive process. Starting with more pixels is a much better option!

    You have obviously not seen a detective show since the 70's. Every one of them has a sequence where they blow up a grainy, night time security camera video in order to read the washing instructions on the inside of someones underwear.