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  1. Re:How About...? on Slashdot Asks: Beating the Summer Heat? · · Score: 1

    Oh of course, because everyone can just live wherever they want without any other thoughts!

    Not everyone is a hippy.

  2. Re:Anybody Remember Swamp Coolers? on Slashdot Asks: Beating the Summer Heat? · · Score: 1

    Swamp coolers go through 5-10 gallons a day max. Multiply that by 30, and it's only 150-300 gallons a month which may sound like a lot but compared to normal water use is insignificant. Especially compared to corporations that have leaky water sprinklers and dump out much more than that without even a thought.

  3. Re:Anybody Remember Swamp Coolers? on Slashdot Asks: Beating the Summer Heat? · · Score: 1

    In the southwestern united states, it's a very low humidity area.
    We call it a desert.

  4. Re:What's wrong with the Americans? on Slashdot Asks: Beating the Summer Heat? · · Score: 1

    So that's why Inuits have pure white skin! I knew it!

  5. Re:What's wrong with the Americans? on Slashdot Asks: Beating the Summer Heat? · · Score: 0

    Actually, the human body burns more calories when the body temperature is higher. It's a proven fact.

    In cold weather, activity is necessary for BMR to rise, while in heat (for long periods of time) it's just an overall natural rise in BMR.

  6. Re:What's wrong with the Americans? on Slashdot Asks: Beating the Summer Heat? · · Score: 1

    So no clothes, fork/knife for eating (can use your hands), no shoes (can walk without them)?

  7. Re:What's wrong with the Americans? on Slashdot Asks: Beating the Summer Heat? · · Score: 1

    Actually, it sounds like you're both from California.

  8. Re:What's wrong with the Americans? on Slashdot Asks: Beating the Summer Heat? · · Score: 1

    Somehow I doubt that the people in Europe keep the temperatures in their offices and houses above 80 degrees Fahrenheit (26.66 Celsius).

    It's where my AC remains during the summer, when the temps outside are above 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.77 Celsius) all summer long day and night.
    Without AC, it's 95-100 Fahrenheit in the house.

    The military has nothing to do with the price of electricity, as power is created by nuclear, solar, coal, natural gas, and hydroelectric. All of which is produced within the United States.

  9. Re:Shemagh/Keffiyeh. on Slashdot Asks: Beating the Summer Heat? · · Score: 1

    2) Reduce your physical activity level, and take much more frequent breaks if you must work. Core body temperature is ~99F degrees, so you shouldn't be uncomfortable at 80F degrees, unless doing a lot of work.

    Or if the body has lots of fat, it insulates tremendously and makes 80 degrees feel like 100+.

  10. Re:stop doing grunt work on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Stay Employable? · · Score: 1

    If it wasn't for good project managers, work would be chaos in any organization larger than 3-5 people.
    The defining word being, "good".

  11. Re:Question: on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Stay Employable? · · Score: 1

    Yes, he's married.

  12. Re:Question: on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Stay Employable? · · Score: 1

    You do realize you've placed your entire post in parenthesis, right?

  13. Re:Question: on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Stay Employable? · · Score: 1

    Exactly, same with my dog. It's a pack mentality, it's the one reason I refuse to get a cat. Dogs in general are what humans should be like.

  14. Re:Question: on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Stay Employable? · · Score: 1

    Most kids in todays world are sociopaths. It's society in general that has driven that to be the norm.

  15. Re:First advice... on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Stay Employable? · · Score: 1

    There's nothing wrong with credit cards to help get your credit score up.
    Just use them in place of your normal spending, and pay them off monthly.
    Don't fight the system, utilize it properly.

  16. Re:Live by the sword... on Apple To Pay $60 Million Over iPad Trademark Dispute · · Score: 5, Funny

    Especially against the Chinese. I mean, they're paramount for proper trademark usage!

  17. Re:Wait on Apple Transitions Hardware Leadership · · Score: 1

    Sorry, we don't speak Mexican.

  18. Re:Wait on Apple Transitions Hardware Leadership · · Score: 1

    I know you're being sarcastic, but change "computing" to "desktop computing" and you're on track to what was said.

  19. Re:Hopefully... on Julian Assange Served With Extradition Notice By British Police · · Score: 1

    Seriously. If the U.S. wanted them out of the way, it'd take 3-4 weeks and a couple of low-level neutron bomb explosions.

    The 3-4 weeks is the sweeper's time.

  20. Re:Obvious? on Does RIM's "Huge Loss" Signal Wider Handset Market Deterioration? · · Score: 1

    Railroad travel is big in America. Or it was.

  21. Re:Obvious? on Does RIM's "Huge Loss" Signal Wider Handset Market Deterioration? · · Score: 1

    I'm waiting for rims version of hd-vhs ;)

  22. Re:It makes a lot of sense ! on Majority of Americans Think Obama Is Better Suited To Handle an Alien Invasion · · Score: 1

    It's obvious you're a rancid republican, you have absolulutely no sense of humor and no ability to see tongue-in-cheek jokes.
    In the same breath, you attempt to bring up something that's been proven false by the president himself.

    If you don't believe it, go back in time and take a picture of him being born in Kenya and show us. Otherwise, you need to prove he was born in Kenya because there's proof to the contrary.

  23. Re:OF COURSE OBAMA IS BETTER SUITED!!! on Majority of Americans Think Obama Is Better Suited To Handle an Alien Invasion · · Score: 1

    Kenya's a planet?

    stay on topic.

  24. Re:Frequency of use is not so relevant on Why Microsoft Killed the Windows Start Button · · Score: 0

    Maybe because it's called an Emergency brake, also.

    It's what the damned thing was invented for, to stop your car in cases the braking system malfunctions.

  25. Re:stopped using it? on Why Microsoft Killed the Windows Start Button · · Score: 1

    uhh... buddy, there's an "All Programs" area in the start button that is basically the same Windows 95+ start button area.