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  1. Re:Welcome to The Presidential RACE on Study Shows Tech Execs Slightly Prefer Romney Over Obama · · Score: 0

    Is THERE something wrong WITH your keyboard? Your shift KEY doesn't seem to be WORKING properly. Or did you BUY your typeface from a KIDNAPPER who made his FONT out OF assorted magazines? Maybe you HAVE been infected with a STRANGE virus on YOUR computer. I sure HOPE it doesn't get transmitted to MY pc.

  2. Why Mice? on Lab-Made Eggs Produce Healthy Mice · · Score: -1

    Why do they always do these type of experiments with vermin? What's so good about increasing the pest population?

    If they used pigs, then they would be rewarded with bacon on success!

  3. Re:it worries me on For Obama, Jobs, and Zuckerberg, Boring Is Productive · · Score: -1

    One day, about two years into being married, my wife mentioned that she was hungry, and so I looked in the fridge and offered to get her two or three things. She declined all of them, saying how she didn't feel like eating any of them. I asked what she did feel like eating and she responded that she was trying to figure that out./p>

    If her final choice was something like pickle and bratwurst ice cream, then congratulations! Please invite us to the shower.

    But if Obama has so much trouble deciding what pants to wear in the morning, how does he handle choosing whether or not to push THE button? It explains much about this administration.

  4. Car? on Successful Engine Test in UK For Planned 1000 mph Car · · Score: -1

    If the only thing making this a "car" is the fact that it has ornamental wheels, then the Space Shuttle was a car, and it had already achieved speeds greater than 1000 mph.

    I think that the definition of a "car" should include such facts as the wheels must be an important component supporting the weight of the vehicle while it is in motion. I suspect this "car" rarely touches the ground while it is in operation.

    If I slap tires on a meteor, does that make it a car?

  5. Re:Old news... on The US Navy's Railgun Program · · Score: -1, Informative

    What they need is some kind of ship with a nuclear reactor that can generate enormous amounts of power.

    Now I wonder who has technology like that in the pipe?

    Obama is giving the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt billions to buy German submarines. Maybe they will have enough electrical power mount railguns. That should allow them to handle their primary stated goal of killing Jews.

  6. How much more is Verizon going to charge for this new service?

  7. Japanese version on Japanese Scientists Produce Element 113 · · Score: -1

    The Japanese version of this element is half the size of the American version.

  8. Re:Republican Shills on DNC Salute to Vets Featured Backdrop Of Russian Warships · · Score: -1

    Obama already explained this. It is George W Bushes fault. That's all the explination a true Democrat needs, or wants.

  9. Hot air on Material Breaks Record For Turning Heat Into Electricity · · Score: -1

    Think of how much energy would be produced by attaching one of these to Obama! You could provide half of the US electricity just from the hot air being produced.

  10. Re:Global Visual Culture From Preshistory to 1800 on Art School's Expensive Art History Textbook Contains No Actual Art · · Score: -1

    This is a TEXTBOOK. The word "textbook" in the description normally adds at least $100 to the price. A copy of a Harry Potter book probably costs around $20, but a copy of a Harry Potter textbook would be closer to $150. Probably more if you use that fake Canadian money.

  11. Re:I had the exact opposite experience on The Problems With Online Math Classes · · Score: -1

    When I tool statistics in college, the instructor spent the first half of every class bragging about how he made his own aspirin. I think he either blew the recipe, or made lots of other stuff, otherwise he wouldn't have spent so much time on that one subject.

    Then there was the required electromagnetics class, that was being taught be a hard physicist. He didn't follow the book, never attached any physical effects to anything taught (only equations were important, not what they represented), used entirely different variable names than the book, wrote on the blackboard with one hand and erased with the other, and had daily quizzes on what he wrote on the board. . More than half the class dropped this required course.

    Having a live teacher isn't always an improvement.

  12. Where they should put their money on Space Vs. Poverty Debate In India · · Score: -1

    They should put all their money into bells. That way, more angels will get their wings, makinf a lot of happy angels. Making tons of happy angels should greayly improve your country.

  13. Was it scaled in celcius on The Galileo Thermometer Was Not Invented By Galileo · · Score: -1

    Was it ruled in the Celsius scale, or what we now cann the Celsius scale?

    The difference, is the original had freezing at 100, and boiling at 0. Someone else decided to reverse the numbering.

  14. The Lies Dicks and Their Drivers Tell on The Lies Disks and Their Drivers Tell · · Score: -1

    Misread this as "The Lies Dicks and Their Drivers Tell" at first, and was wondering what new crap the DNC was doing.

  15. Re:Also in the news on Survey Reveals a Majority Believe "the Cloud" Is Affected by Weather · · Score: -1

    47% of all statistics are just made up on the spot.

  16. Re:Um, duh? on Phony Laser Security System Proves Perception Is Reality · · Score: 1

    The sharks probably improve the defenses a bit.

  17. Re:genetically on Ask Slashdot: Protecting Data From a Carrington Event? · · Score: -1

    Why bother creating a new form of life? Just encoded it into your employees.

    They will probably automatically create backup copies for you (just need to wait 9 months).

    Even if an earthquake squashes them, recovery of your data is simple, with a little help from Igor and his little shovel on a dark and stormy night.

    So what if the latest version of your software causes the zombie apocalypse.

  18. Re:Take it one step further on Scientists Store Entire Textbook In DNA · · Score: -1

    Just think, thousands of years from now, with evolution in progress,
    scientists could read the Betty burn a dress

    Four snore and leven bears ago,
    boar for fatheds bought fort a newt ration

  19. Re:revolutionize eh? on After 60 Years, a Room-Temperature Maser · · Score: -1

    Isn't this something every evil scientist has in his laboratory already? I've got two!

  20. Re:Sounds like win-win to me! on Man Orders TV On Amazon, Gets Shipped Assault Rifle · · Score: 0

    He just accidently entered the secret code-word for a fast-and-furious purchase. He probably mentioned that he wanted to watch Obama in the buyer's notes section.

  21. Re:And you wonder why desktop Linux is a failure? on Fedora 18 To Feature the GNOME2 Fork MATE · · Score: -1

    One of Gnome3 biggest failures is they provide very little documentation on how to customize / modify it. Gnome3 is a actually a dammed good design and provides for immense customizability. Want it to behave like Gnome2, all you have to do is write a bit of JavaScript and glue the bits together is a Gnome2 style, thats it. I truly have no idea why the Gnome3 developers want to hide all the great work they have done. Its so easy to write themes / extension, but why do we have to install these fucking 3rd party tools like Gnome Tweak Tool, WTF is it not built into Gnome3???
     

    Wow! It's really great! Too bad there's no way to find out how to use it. Let's require all the users to figure out how to start up a program by reading the source code. That's more important than doing their regular jobs. Something doesn't work, its obviously because you missed reading function xxxx.

    There is no fucking need to waste everyones time extending Gnome2.

    If these MATE clowns would have just taken a look at Gnome3, they could have made it work exactly like Gnome2 without introducing all this insane complexity of maintaining another dammed desktop.
     

    Take a look at what? Like you said, there's no documentation. Why waste your time trying to fix something, when they are just going to change it all again in the next point release? Gnome and Gtk both make radical changes to the interfaces in minor releases, dropping frequently used simple interfaces with highly complex undocumented ones for the same function. And if you try to use the glade programming interface, be prepared to completely rewrite your code every point release.

    I'm sorry, but these MATE clowns really piss me off, they could have worked with the Gnome3 developers to fix the problems with Gnome3, but instead, they go off their own way, and create duplicate dead effort.

    In my experience, if you are not part of the inner circle of gnome/gtk, don't bother trying to work with them at all. Sending bug reports, code for enhancements, requests for information, all will be ignored.

    So, how many God dammed desktops does Linux have now? do we really need so many? The look / feel of just about any of these desktops can be achieved with a custom shell built on Gnome3, much like Mint.

    So what does this MATE shit do for developers like me, now they expect me to support GTK3 and GTK2??

    Which point release of the major versions are you supporting? You better expect to handle those versions too.

    Why can't these desktop developers learn to get along or at least take a look at Gnome3 and see what you can build on it.

    Why can't gnome3 be compatible with gnome2 out of the box? Did all of the computers suddenly turn into tablets that can only display one program at a time? Out of the box, gnome3 is a piece of crap for developers. It's nearly useless, and you spend too much time clicking all over the place trying to look at several things at once. Maybe you can change it's behavior, but I don't want to spend endless hours trying to teach it how to start a terminal session when there at a lot of alternatives out there that have that capability built in. I want to see multiple windows at the same time. I am not interested in playing stupid "guess which buttons you heed to hold down at the same time you click the mouse" games trying to figure out how to do simple things. It's useless time wasting crap!

    Sorry for this rant, but this complete and total inability to get along, work with, or at least look at what other developers are doing is so fucking ridiculous. We don't need another desktop, we just need to fix the ones we have.

    In my experience, gnome/gtk developers are in their own world, and don't talk to users or outside developers. They do what they want, and to hell with what the users or developers want.

    Look at their libraries, much of it is spent duplicating system library code with their own "improved" versions. Why don't they "at least look at what other developers are doing"?

  22. Re:Relevant on Economists: US Poverty On Track To Hit Highest Level Since 1960s · · Score: -1

    Obama has been President while the Republicans have been the party of "NO". They have blocked numerous attempts to revive the economy with the obvious goal being to leave the economy in the ditch which poor leadership got us into. So, while Obama has been President, saying that he was in charge for the last 3.5 years is ignoring the facts.

    Just look at how they blocked that one bill where 100% of the Republicans vote against it. Obamacare, wasn't it? That really showed those Democrats their amazing veto POWER when they all said "no" to the largest tax bill in the history of the United States. The Supreme Court says it's either a Tax Bill, or it's unconstitutional.

    And the Republicans are always trying to kill jobs, by wanting to allow offshore drilling and the construction of the keystone pipeline. They should follow Obama's example of funding a solar cell plant that would sell solar cells for $3 that only used $9 of raw material to build. And they should donate billions of stimulus money to Denmark, Canada, Brazil, France, ... to create more jobs. Where, in the private sector, could anyone create/save minimum wage jobs for only $280,000 per year. You need someone like Obama for that! It's definitely worth the $30,000+ the debt has increased per citizen in Obama's first 3 years. He should really double that 16,000 additional IRS agents, and then the jobs will really start coming in!

  23. Re:Relevant on Economists: US Poverty On Track To Hit Highest Level Since 1960s · · Score: -1

    The majority of voters overwhelmingly like what the PPACA provides for (no denial on pre-existing conditions, no lifetime limits on benefits, minimum 85% of premiums goes toward benefits, etc).

    Don't forget the 16,000 additional IRS agents that the bill has added. I guess the voters overwhelmingly desire a large increase in IRS agents?

  24. Re:Next? on Google Joining Fight Against Drug Cartels · · Score: -1

    It doesn't help when Obama ships weapons to the drug cartels, and makes sure that there are no obstructions at the borders to drug trafficking.

  25. Re:When Egypt or Libya does it, it's bad, of cours on Executive Order Grants US Gov't New Powers Over Communication Systems · · Score: -1

    Who needs three branches of government? With a dictator in charge, none of the other branches matter.