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  1. Re:A long time coming... on China's Stock Crash: $3.5 Trillion Wiped Out, $2.6 Trillion Frozen · · Score: 1

    The debt to GDP ratio is 105% and climbing, a healthy GDP to debt ratio in a developed economy is between 50 and 60%.

    [Citation needed]

  2. Well why not! on Brazilian Evangelicals Set Up a "Sin Free" Version of Facebook · · Score: 1

    What the world needs is another Facebook clone. With hookers and... Oh wait.

    Never mind.

  3. Re:I hope for an agreement on Greece Rejects EU Terms · · Score: 1

    All I hear from the Euro side is nationalism. Blah, blah, blah, the Greeks... Blah, blah, blah, the Germans.

    The bottom line is that national political issues cannot be overridden no matter what the economic issues are. Y'all just might as well invade if you want your money back - your idea of economic union without political union was stupid. Germany was stupid, France was stupid and the other countries of Europe were stupid, as well. The best thing economically that could happen is that the Eurozone can collapse and economies and political power can be aligned again. Better the sound of gunfire than your continual whining "We want our moneeeeeyyyy!!!!"

  4. Re: Good for greece on Greece Rejects EU Terms · · Score: 1

    if they upset their creditors too much, they can expect truly unpleasant consequences.

    Like, uh, the folks in Iceland, who abrogated their debts to their banks after the 2008 crash? They seen to be suffering truly horrific consequences.

  5. Re:Why talk? on Depression: The Secret Struggle Startup Founders Won't Talk About · · Score: 1

    You like that, try bipolar Type II. No highs - just irritation and agitation - but the lows are just the same. That one really sucks.

  6. Re:Mixed feelings... on Supreme Court Upholds Key Obamacare Subsidies · · Score: 1

    I think it is dangerous to allow for that broad of discretion for the judicial branch.

    So maybe conservatives should have stopped their legal challenge to prevent this danger, knowing that they were likely to lose?

  7. Re:this thing comes and goes. on Google, Apple, and Others Remove Content Related To the Confederate Flag · · Score: 1

    For the tl;dr crowd, the South wanted to count them as 5/5ths of a person and the North wanted to count them as 0/5ths of a person.

    The problem is that the North came around to the right side of things with respect to rights, while the South only wanted slaves counted - not to give them actual rights.

    But the fact is, things change. Things changed between the establishment of the constitution and the Civil War, just as things have changed between the Civil War and now. The time for this symbol is gone. If Southerners are the true patriots they claim to be, they'd throw away this symbol to tyranny and rebellion against their country and pledge allegiance to their real flag instead of worshiping the Confederation's rebellious symbol.

    As I said, things change. But the South seems to be too stubborn to change fast enough. We in the North are tired of your social heel-dragging trying to keep us in 1950's America. The bottom line is that the world has changed. Fucking adapt, already. Or secede. Don't care which. Just get out of the way.

  8. Re:Um, what about history? on Google, Apple, and Others Remove Content Related To the Confederate Flag · · Score: 1

    Racism goes away one thought, one step, one action, one symbol at a time. It does not go away quickly, nor without struggle. The de-consecration and minimization of this symbol of tyranny and rebellion is a long overdue step in this progress towards the end of racism. Accept that many find this symbol distasteful or offensive and that its time has come and gone long ago. And just as the fact that we have freedom to go about yelling the n-word doesn't mean that corporations have to give everyone a megaphone for their offensive speech, no corporation are required to give racist symbols a platform.

  9. Re:But Nazi, Communist, ISIS flags are OK? on Google, Apple, and Others Remove Content Related To the Confederate Flag · · Score: 1

    Feel free to sell confederate flags to the rest of the world, if you wish. Americans here at home don't want your Johnny Reb bullshit.

  10. Re:Abstraction on Interview: Ask Linus Torvalds a Question · · Score: 1

    A good abstraction leads a user towards understanding, no matter what his level; a good UI reflects the abstraction, leading the user to use it properly, again, no matter what his or her level.

    Git may have good abstractions (I'll take your word for it), but it has no UI to reflect it and so is opaque to many. In my attempts to use git, I've grown tired of wading through shitty web pages all of which give examples of use, but no abstraction description and no description of how these abstractions are to be properly used.

    If you could point me to one of these documents that clearly explain git's abstractions and their proper use (actually, I'll take the abstractions only - I can probably work out proper use from that), one hopefully having both Windows and Linux information - professionals sometimes have to use both - I'd appreciate it. Until then, I'll have to be fine with using SVN locally and attempting to avoid git as much as possible.

  11. Re:This is not news... on The Next Java Update Could Make Yahoo Your Default Search Provider · · Score: 2

    No, they're having the box checked by default - you have to absolutely ask them to not shit on your floor.

  12. Re:There is no perfect lang on Ask Slashdot: Is C++ the Right Tool For This Project? · · Score: 2

    No one denies that one can write bad code in any language, but the accusation still stands - languages can help or hinder understandability with their syntax. C++, and it's desire for backward compatibility with C, led to some really unfortunately syntactic decisions that make the code less legible. Operator overloading isn't very good for understanding of performance characteristics (Is this adding 2 ints or an array?). Memory management has provided code bulk (because not everything can be RAII) and the plethora of pointer idioms one must navigate if one has any sort of sizable codebase that has been maintained by many others over the years. Now add on features and libraries so broad and complex that organizations actually have their own dialects of C++ (or so I am told) that their employees are allowed to use. Need I go on?

    Frankly, C++ has advantages in some places, but aiding in making code legible and understandable is not one of C++'s strong suits. And I've worked on (and probably helped generate) enough crappy C++ codebases to know of which I speak.

  13. Re:It's more the Government than the ISPs. on Study: Major ISPs Slowing Traffic Across the US · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. Mirroring is not the issue. Government data collection, though a problem in its own right, is not the issue. The problem is with the corporations controlling the network space throttling bandwidth to screw over customers. A simple solution would be taking the "free enterprise" out of long-haul communication infrastructure. A government monopoly couldn't do much worse than these deceitful assholes. Or, of course, regulating the shit out of them until they straighten up. But I'm sure I'm just getting tired of their corporate shenanigans.

  14. Re:Unfair on Where Is Europe's Silicon Valley? · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry. This joke was already used. Please find a new one and try again.

  15. Re:TNSTAAFL on Sprint Begins Punishing Customers For FCC's Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 2

    Imagine an all-you-can-eat buffet. Within reason, eat all you like... to a point...

    Or maybe they could, you know... not lie and not call it unlimited when it isn't? Or in your world is not lying too great a burden on business?

  16. Re:Misdirected Trust on Microsoft Funds First US-Based Chinese Research University Degree Program · · Score: 2

    Do you think the Chinese with their Great Firewall and monitoring aren't aware of every packet that goes across their network? You're asking us to believe that the Chinese love to let rogue agents from third parties use their gear and IP space even with all of the countermeasures they have in place? Maybe for cover. Thanks for your "insight"... I'll take Occam's Razor for $2000, Alex.

  17. Cannibalism? on The Death of Aibo, the Birth of Softbank's Child-Robot · · Score: 1

    I don't see how eating my neighbor gets me parts for my Aibo - unless he has one, too.

    I think you meant that "cannibalizing" (i.e., removing parts from other currently functional) Aibos might be the only way to get said parts - similar words, two VERY different meanings. Even so, functioning Aibos need not necessarily be cannibalized, as I'm sure there may be one or two broken Aibos lying about for parts, too.

  18. Re:This is why I still buy CDs on The Problems Apple Music Needs To Fix Before Launch · · Score: 1

    I like to control how my music goes digital and when. That's why I only play my vinyl on my hipster turntable.

  19. Re:Mmm, clickbait on You'll Totally Believe Why These Startups Failed · · Score: 1

    Welcome to TaskRabbit!

  20. Re:People are claiming a victory where there is no on Edward Snowden: the World Says No To Surveillance · · Score: 1

    The aliens are just a plot twist. Even with aliens, the story has been, is, and, until we decide otherwise, will be "us against us".

  21. Re:Meh on Presidential Candidate Lincoln Chaffee Proposes That US Go Metric · · Score: 1

    I thought we weren't talking about the third world...

  22. Re:Meh on Presidential Candidate Lincoln Chaffee Proposes That US Go Metric · · Score: 1

    You forgot the Kiwis (Haven't they been absorbed into Aussieland yet!?). But yeah, I think that post got the other five countries in the world.

  23. Re:Such a nice, sugary story.... on Disney Making Laid-Off US Tech Workers Train Foreign H1-B Replacements · · Score: 1

    If you had six months and still couldn't pick up the "jargon" and "stuff outside my field", the trouble may be you (or you worked in a company full of assholes).

    I've worked in various knowledge domains - security, medical systems, banking systems, electronic design automation, have only been formally trained in one of them, and needed to come up to speed with them to become effective in my job. I found I could become productive in most jobs within a month and came to be known as the computer guy with the most domain expertise within a year in each case. I did it by asking questions and listening - not only of people who were training, but the SMEs that worked at these organizations. But then I like domain swapping because I get bored easily.

  24. Re:Parents should be liable on Diphtheria Returns To Spain For Lack of Vaccination · · Score: 1

    It would be almost impossible to prove murder. The best you might get is negligent homicide, but even that's a tough sell. It's hard tying a direct causal line between non-vaccination and death, when so many other non-vaccinated children do not die. Yeah, from a medical point of view, it's negligence. From a legal viewpoint? Whole 'nother can o'worms.

  25. Re:This is all Bush's fault!!!! on FBI Is Behind Mysterious Flights Over US Cities · · Score: 1

    No! You would reveal the Bat-secret of the null key Bat-encryption Bat-(R)-algorithm to the Joker!