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  1. Re:7 Core Demands of Occupy Wall Street on Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests? · · Score: 1

    3. Teachers should be paid as much as doctors and it should be a prestigious job. You cannot improve a society without education. I can't believe anyone would want to cut funds for education.

    Thats fine, as long as the education required to become a teacher along with the certifications, internship, and continuing eduction match that of a doctor. Teachers are not paid as much as a doctor because becoming a teacher requires a liberal arts BA degree (the easiest to get) and a fifth year of education. If we required teachers to make the same as doctors then we would have a lot of grads out of work because so many of them trained to become teachers.

  2. Re:Now all carriers are going to LTE... on Sprint Details Shift To LTE · · Score: 1

    It is a limitation on the CDMA. Even CDMA phones are not interchangeable due to the radio frequencies that are being used by Verizon vs Sprint. Hence no taking your Galaxy S2 you got on sprint and using it on Verizon. They cannot accept a unlocked GSM phone because it is incompatible with their networks.

  3. Re:Intentional Balkanization = detrimental to cons on Sprint Details Shift To LTE · · Score: 1

    Your also in a country smaller then the state of Virginia with less population.

    What works for a small country does not necessarily work for a very large one.

    US pop 300m+ / Size 9.8m sq Km.
    Bulgaria pop 7.3m / size 111k sq Km.

  4. Re:holy crap, what idiots on SAIC Loses Data of 4.9 Million Patients · · Score: 1

    Until an idiot plumber on the floor above you swings his braising torch too close to a fire sprinkler, and thousands of gallons of water find the crack between the floors and pours straight down upon your SAN cabinets. (Yes, that actually happened to us...)

    Not an issue since were on the top floor.....(but I get your point). FWIW, our tapes are stored in a safe which is in a safe.

  5. Re:holy crap, what idiots on SAIC Loses Data of 4.9 Million Patients · · Score: 1

    And if there's some physical disaster (fire, flood, etc, etc)?

    Flood, not an issue at my building cause its on the 6th floor. Fire or Earth quake...well I've asked about that.

  6. Re:holy crap, what idiots on SAIC Loses Data of 4.9 Million Patients · · Score: 1

    I'm a SAIC employee and I manage the servers in our office. Corporate policies are that backups are to never leave the server room, much less the office. This policy was put into place a few years ago (along with desktop encryption) after some 401k data was taken from a stolen HR computer.

  7. Re:Apple should be worried on Samsung Plans To Block the iPhone 5 In Korea · · Score: 1

    The problem though is when your far enough away that a Samsung looks like a iPad, then just about every 10" tablet looks like a iPad.

  8. Re:Poor Guy on Carol Bartz Is Out As Yahoo's CEO · · Score: 1

    Tell that to Frylock, Shake and Meatwads neighbor.

  9. Re:Home on the Web? on Facebook Makes Privacy Settings More Obvious · · Score: 1

    A facebook profile is more like a window in the red light district.

    I thought that was a Craigslist profile....

  10. Re:Blah on Verizon Employees End Strike · · Score: 1

    Look at the details though. Verizons business is separated into different operating units. The mobile operations unit (which is basically all non-union) generates the profit. The land-line unit (where all the union members are) has been losing customers and therefore shrinking, hence it doesnt make much money at all (if any).

  11. Re:Just that pesky Constitution on Slate: Amazon's Tax Stance Unfair and Unethical · · Score: 2

    Yes, lets have a right to privacy so that anything with anyone (age/sex/species) is legal as long as it happens in your bedroom. Lets have a right to kill baby that would have been born naturally in another week (and then killing it would be murder, not "a choice").

    Your right, I don't think its a good idea to change the constitution either. In fact how about we go backwards and get the federal government out of most matters. Let states decide on when/if abortion is legal. Let the states decide on their educational standards. Or how about something as novel as making sure that the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

  12. Re:Only in America on New IMF Head Says US Must Raise Debt Limit, or Face 'Nasty Consequences' · · Score: 1

    You link former Enron advisor Paul Krugman and call people on the right nuts? Krugman is wrong every day and twice on sundays.

  13. Re:These guys are actually innovating on Tesla Will Discontinue the Roadster · · Score: 1

    Had they failed, unemployment would have skyrocketed, and we'd be in the depths of depression instead of just recession. I know it's trendy and hip to be on the "Free Markets or Bust" bandwagon these days, but maybe you should actually look at what the domino effect of your desires would actually do.

    This is the same mindset that gave us a trillion dollar stimulus to keep unemployment under 8%. Unemployment is still higher, were trillions more in debt, and people are now out of work on average longer then during the great depression.

    Its a recession when your neighbor is out of work
    Its a depression when your out of work.
    Its a recovery when Obama is out of work.

  14. Re:These guys are actually innovating on Tesla Will Discontinue the Roadster · · Score: 1

    No, If Tesla can not make it on their own, without governmental support they do no deserve to exist. A great goal does not justify governmental intervention. Before you get to warped, I disagreed with and will always disagree with the government intervening in any business, there is no such thing as too big to fail.

    GM and Chrysler could not make it on their own with out government support and yet they still exist. Had they been allowed to fail (nothing is to big to fail), maybe they would have left a void waiting to be filled by Tesla. But alas we get the government subsidized Leaf instead.

  15. Re:Regular cars are not 75K on Tesla Will Discontinue the Roadster · · Score: 1

    It's rumored that Toyota and Honda have been selling their hybrids at a loss, mainly to keep their CAFE average in conformance as they were selling more SUVs. A small start-up can't afford to do cost-shifting like that.

    The major car companies have been selling their sub-compacts at a loss for years due to CAFE averages.

    Just goes to show you what regulation really does. It prevents new entries into a established market due to the costs being so high.

  16. Re:Whelp on SCOTUS: Clean Air Act Trumps Emissions Lawsuits · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...and I would love to see nuclear provide 75% of our power but the same environmentalists who hate coal also hate nuclear. To them, cheap energy (no matter the source) is the problem. Of course cheap energy has done more to lift civilization out of poverty then anything else.

  17. Living, breathing document.... on Military Drone Attacks Are Not 'Hostile' · · Score: 2

    That's what liberals consider the Constitution. If they are willing to bend the Constitution on matters such as interstate commerce or or various amendments, you knew it was only a matter of time when they redefined what a war was (ie its only a war when we say its a war).

  18. Re:Money buys power -- regulatees capture regulato on FCC Commissioner Leaves To Become Lobbyist · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because Republicans are progressives... all the way back to Teddy Roosevelt.

    She wasn't a progressive but a statist. And yes, you can have Republican statist but getting rid of them is one of the reasons why we have the tea parties.

  19. Re:Money buys power -- regulatees capture regulato on FCC Commissioner Leaves To Become Lobbyist · · Score: 1

    Yet what happens when the "Right to Privacy" collides with the actual right to freedom of speech. answer? Look at the UK and the gag orders put on the media by the courts to protect the wealthy s privacy (and their misdeeds which can be embarrassing).

  20. Re:Scraping the bottom of the barrel on Global Warming To Hinder Wi-Fi Signals, Claims UK Gov't · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sea levels have risen and sea levels have fallen in the past.

    Its just civilization has now cropped up and made these changes inconvenient. It used to be that man would migrate if his surroundings became inhospitable. Now they just try and control nature.

  21. Re:Ugly on Drudge Generates More News Traffic Than Social Media · · Score: 1

    Figuring Drudge has had the same basic site in place with almost no changes since the mid 90's (remember, he broke the Lewinski scandal the Newsweek tried to bury), of course the site is a 90's look.

  22. Re:how bout on Draft Proposal Would Create Agency To Tax Cars By the Mile · · Score: 1

    What oil subsidies and tax loopholes do you refer too? Oh, maybe its the accelerated depreciation and manufacturers tax credits....something just about all corporations who produce something can get. Of course Oil does not get Per unit subsidies like Wind, Solar, etc.

    Or maybe your referring to foreign oil companies in Brazil and Columbia who are getting subsidies to aid in their production and refining of oil.

    Also, remember that the Government already gets more in taxes then the oil companies make in profit per gallon of gas.

  23. Re:Bad. on Draft Proposal Would Create Agency To Tax Cars By the Mile · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So....hows all the Hope and Change working out for everyone.

  24. Re:What parallel universe have I fallen into... on An IP Address Does Not Point To a Person, Judge Rules · · Score: 2

    The same world where bin Ladin is dead, democracy is sweeping the middle east like a sandstorm, Duke Nukem Forever will ship in June and the NDP are the official opposition in Canada.

    2011 is pretty interesting so far.

    You seem to forget that democracy in the middle east (outside Iraq and Israel) boils down to one MAN, one vote, ONE TIME.

  25. Re:not taking reasonable care on Sony Sued For PlayStation Network Data Breach · · Score: 1

    When I had a convertable, I used to leave it unlocked. This way if they were going to break in, at least I wouldnt need to buy a new top.