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  1. Re:1 2 3 4 on Solar Panel Trade War Heats Up · · Score: 2

    Not really - I mean what does America produce that China needs? This is not a trade war as much as trade suicide.

  2. Re:What about the US and Solyndra? on Solar Panel Trade War Heats Up · · Score: 1

    Wait what, this is the only double standard you can see in American policy?

  3. American economy on Solar Panel Trade War Heats Up · · Score: 2

    1. Outsource 90% of manufacturing to China

    2. Start a trade war with China

    3. ???

    4. Profit?

  4. Re:They better stop advertising it as "unlimited". on Sprint Cutting Unlimited 4G Data Plans · · Score: 1

    Most people who are not traders will never understand the concept that volume = liquidity. I think you are wasting your time.

  5. Re:Limits are necessary, or are they? on NH Supreme Court To Rule On Bigfoot Video Shoot In Public Park · · Score: 1

    You can cross a "protest" too. It's just a pain in the ass, takes time, and you'll probably get yelled at. Like crossing a picket line.

  6. Re:Limits are necessary, or are they? on NH Supreme Court To Rule On Bigfoot Video Shoot In Public Park · · Score: 1

    does not mean having the right to physically block people from doing something like getting to work.

    Let me introduce you to the concept of the picket line - recognized by law. Of course a protest is not the same thing, but it's the same general idea.

  7. Re:Limits are necessary, or are they? on NH Supreme Court To Rule On Bigfoot Video Shoot In Public Park · · Score: 1

    Nah that used to be said when I was a kid. Now it's "I disapprove of what you say and you had better be quiet or you'll get in trouble". Only one step away from "I disapprove of what you say and I am turning you in".

  8. Re:They better stop advertising it as "unlimited". on Sprint Cutting Unlimited 4G Data Plans · · Score: 1

    Sprint is doing what you want them to do if you like to invest in successful companies.

    What's that, killing the goose that lays the golden egg? Yeah, short term quarter to quarter thinking is far more important than the big picture.

  9. Re: on Rendering Synthetic Objects Into Old Photographs · · Score: 1

    That's fine so long as you have the mesh and textures for the dead hooker... I guess you could always add a different dead hooker though to a bunch of photos. The president, the judge, the prosecutor, etc.

  10. Re:Limits are necessary, or are they? on NH Supreme Court To Rule On Bigfoot Video Shoot In Public Park · · Score: 1

    However, the park isn't going to stop a family busting out a video camera and recording their holiday hike.

    Why not? They already arrest people for dancing around national monuments in Washington DC.

  11. From TFA on 3D Printers To Save Hermit Crabs · · Score: 2

    One of the challenges is that no one knows yet if hermit crabs will live in man-made plastic shells.

    But hey so long as we can sell 5000 people more plastic filament replacements who cares, it's for a good cause, right?

  12. Re:Fucking hell. on Universal Uses DMCA To Get Bad Lip Reading Parody Taken Down · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Closer to the truth than you think. The federal government has ignored quite a few laws recently, effectively invoking this "we don't care" clause, with absolutely no reaction from anyone.

  13. Re:spam control on Microsoft's Office365 Limits Emails To 500 Recipients · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Other people are free to reach their own conclusions, and decide for themselves what to think about a post with a "$" inserted in it. How about you grow up? No one elected you as a fucking censor.

  14. Re:Well this is some artificial bullshit. on Microsoft's Office365 Limits Emails To 500 Recipients · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Sure - although I have no doubts you would be happy if the limit was set at 20+1 emails per day, just so that it fucked everyone else up but not you, I say we lower it to about 10 emails a day. See? That's the problem with screaming for a law that affects everyone else except you.

  15. Re:Tell them the truth... on Ask Slashdot: What To Tell High-Schoolers About Computer Science? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I used to think like that. Then I found out that medicine has not much to do with memorization (that's what cheat sheets, palm pilots and now smart-phones are for once you graduate) and everything to do with observation, emotional intelligence/social skills, problem solving and common sense. It really has nothing to do with what you see on medical shows, you know, where they try to brute force a diagnosis with endless tests, or run through lists of differential diagnoses for a whole hour. Medicine is not as algorithmic as non-medical people think it is.

  16. Re:FlowCharts can be very useful on Ask Slashdot: What To Tell High-Schoolers About Computer Science? · · Score: 1

    The more time you spend on a flowchart the less connected it becomes to reality.

  17. Re:Tell them the truth... on Ask Slashdot: What To Tell High-Schoolers About Computer Science? · · Score: 1

    Today's exchange rate: 0.9908 US dollars for 1 CDN dollar. But crude oil is currently headed up (which is good for CDN and bad for USD). As a Canadian I can say that I never expected the Canadian dollar to be a "petrodollar" but hey, why not. Makes up for putting up with years of "har har har Canadian dollar is monopoly money" from Americans... don't worry we'll still sell you our oil.

  18. Re:Tell them the truth... on Ask Slashdot: What To Tell High-Schoolers About Computer Science? · · Score: 1

    a career in almost any area of computing science will be high stress, high workload and have few long term options as they age.

    Perhaps they should go back to their original idea of studying medicine? /sarcasm - I'm a doc.

  19. Re:if they aren't asking: nothing on Ask Slashdot: What To Tell High-Schoolers About Computer Science? · · Score: 2

    Those who don't know think there's not much too it..

    Unless of course you live in a rural area and have a septic tank. There is really not much to a septic tank. A hole, a couple 36 inch concrete tube sections, a drainage trench filled with gravel, and a cover. As my dad used to tell me back when I was a little boy and he had a big construction company: "shit eats itself".

  20. Re:It depends on DARPA Proposes Ripping Up Dead Satellites To Make New Ones · · Score: 1

    that the satellite in question might still have fuel available that is going unused.

    Considering the trivial amount of delta-v required to keep a satellite in GEO, that amount of fuel is likely to be tiny per satellite - ie not worth the fuel cost of boosting specialized fuel extraction/recycling equipment up to GEO and into specific orbits. Add this to the fact that fuel is usually pressurized, and that different satellites are probably using different fuel types - it's not the easiest component to deal with.

  21. Re:Lego, Lego Lego !!! on DARPA Proposes Ripping Up Dead Satellites To Make New Ones · · Score: 1

    there is no such thing as Logo's

    Oh yes there is.

  22. Re:Save your money. on Ask Slashdot: Radiation Detection For Tokyo Resident? · · Score: 2

    Yes clearly natural selection must only be performed on a subconscious level only.

  23. Re:Save your money. on Ask Slashdot: Radiation Detection For Tokyo Resident? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    By your logic your own troll means that you should not breed. Clearly you are too aggressive

    So stooping to someone's level makes you better than them? Well done. How about you bottle up that board rage?

  24. Re:An anonymous reader trolls Slashdot. on Ask Slashdot: Radiation Detection For Tokyo Resident? · · Score: 1

    They would obviously conclude that all genetic mutations are due to nuclear power.

  25. Re:Queue the negative comments on Feds Take USAjobs.gov Back From Monster, Performance Tanks · · Score: 1

    And you would be wrong. Queue is a perfectly acceptable English word, derived from the French word for "tail".