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  1. Re:Inquisition on Lawmakers Seek Information On Funding For Climate Change Critics · · Score: 1

    The IRS investigation went well and had a proper outcome, unless you have your own agenda.

  2. Re:Inquisition on Lawmakers Seek Information On Funding For Climate Change Critics · · Score: 1

    Only if people like you get their way. The governemnt has checks and balances, not so in the private sector. I can't vote comcast out and I probably don't have another option.

  3. Re:Inquisition on Lawmakers Seek Information On Funding For Climate Change Critics · · Score: 1

    Sure, because that's how Common Carrier works...

    Educate yourself and stop listening to Rush.

  4. Re:Black Mirror on 5 White Collar Jobs Robots Already Have Taken · · Score: 0

    Yes, thank you for confirming my suspicions. You have no imagination and project your own moral failing onto others.

  5. Re:Instilling values more important on Ask Slashdot: Terminally Ill - What Wisdom Should I Pass On To My Geek Daughter? · · Score: 1

    This is a great post. This American Life has a cautionary tale about this sort of thing: http://www.thisamericanlife.or....

    Basically, the world will change and your daughter will change. Your daughters "virtual instance" of you will also change. If the you of today keeps showing up to stomp all over those changes and you try to impose your will from beyond the grave, it can be damaging.

    The most important things to leave, IMHO, are notes of love and compassion. You want your daughter to know that you love her and did everything in your power to give her a good life. In your position, that involves handing that off to someone else, probably your wife, and trusting her. You just need to make sure that the love you feel is always there to comfort your daughter. Don't sully it with expectations and demands.

  6. Re:Because Bureaucracy, stupid. on The Peculiar Economics of Developing New Antibiotics · · Score: 1

    Yes, our contention is that our whole system is broken and puts sales people, advertisers, and hr drones over research and development. You say, but it's not as bad in Pharma. We're still not impressed.

  7. Re:Reform IP on 5 White Collar Jobs Robots Already Have Taken · · Score: 1

    You should look at the things people build in prison. There is no shortage of ingenuity. There is a shortage of time and opportunity. A basic income would open the world for alot of people.

  8. Re:Black Mirror on 5 White Collar Jobs Robots Already Have Taken · · Score: 1

    This is the basic difference between conservatives and progressives. Conservatives have now imagination and their primary drive is to hoard. The basic income they imagine is a bunk in barracks style room, a bowl of gruel, and a nondescript jumpsuit (probably orange). They imagine "those" basic income people will lay in a stupor, wallowing in what has been given them, sleeping, and raping, and contributing nothing.

    You don't have to look beyond America's prisons to see the fallacy in this train of thought.

    Progressives imagine people with a basic income that allows them to cover their own basic needs and spend their time creating, gardening, helping their neighbors, decorating things, and eventually building businesses or small trading operations.

  9. Re:Best money Tom Steyer ever spent on Obama Vetoes Keystone XL Pipeline Bill · · Score: 1

    Compare how much oil can burn on a train to how much the minimum volume of oil will be if there is a pipeline rupture. Hint, They can't just shut it off, they have to wait for the line to empty.

  10. Re:Best money Tom Steyer ever spent on Obama Vetoes Keystone XL Pipeline Bill · · Score: 1

    The pipeline just shifts the accidents from small scale and more often to large scale and less often. There is no accident prevention magic bullet.

  11. Re:Where are all the "moderate" Muslims? on Al-Shabaab Video Threat Means Heightened Security at Mall of America · · Score: 1

    I'm just fishing in this troll hole...

    Christians object to all sorts of things. You can't lump them all together. That's my point. Muslims are just as fractured.

  12. Re:Where are all the "moderate" Muslims? on Al-Shabaab Video Threat Means Heightened Security at Mall of America · · Score: 1

    Your standing in an airport security line because of money'ed interests who want to sell security theater. That left hand thing is a holdover from less clean times. Your basically rubbing shit on them in their eyes, since that's your wiping hand. It's rude in their culture. I doubt you would be killed.

    Fun Fact, I'm catholic.

  13. Re:Where are all the "moderate" Muslims? on Al-Shabaab Video Threat Means Heightened Security at Mall of America · · Score: 1

    Wow, I'm sorry your parents raised such a hate filled person.
    Westboro is full of hate, but they aren't terrorists. They stay within the constraints of the law and tolerence of them is a good canary for our democracy.

    The fact that you think you can "politely" ask someone to "take a flying fuck at a rolling donut" tells me how far you are from being a true follower of christ, whether you mis-identify yourself as a christian or not. Your brand of christianity is well short of ISIS's brand of muslim, but left to your own devices, I'm sure you'd get there.

  14. Re:Where are all the "moderate" Muslims? on Al-Shabaab Video Threat Means Heightened Security at Mall of America · · Score: 1

    Do christians listen to other christians who condemn? Look at the history of slavery in the south. Did it end because the menonites and some catholics told the other christians it was wrong?

  15. Re:The best trick on Ask Slashdot: Parental Content Control For Free OSs? · · Score: 1

    There are lots of things that aren't evil that are beyond a kids comprehension. Curiosity and sexuality are part of the human condition. They also require a certain level of maturity to be properly expressed.

  16. Re:iPad too fucking expensive on L.A. School Superintendent Folds on Laptops-For-Kids Program · · Score: 1

    +1 Irony between your comment and your sig.

  17. Re:it started with smartphones on Gadgets That Spy On Us: Way More Than TVs · · Score: 3, Informative

    I have a hard time thinking of anything stupider then voice control. It's a great niche for the disabled, but I fail to see the need, or "cool factor" in shouting at my electronics.
    I blame Gene Rodenberry, what a dick.

  18. Re:Oops on Resistant Bacterial Infection Outbreak At California Hospital · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah, overuse like putting it in every day hand soap.

  19. Re:Service Sector on The Software Revolution · · Score: 1

    I agree, inflation hits everyone, rich and poor alike. However, it is very beneficial to a select few. Those are the ones pushing this policy.

  20. Re:Service Sector on The Software Revolution · · Score: 1

    Yes, but the poor are often reactionary, by necessity. They don't have the time, money, or energy to shape policy.

  21. Re: That's on Advice on How to Start an IT Business (Video) · · Score: 1

    Theoretically, it means when we encounter an issue outside our area of expertise we collaborate with experts in those technologies.

    FTFY

  22. Re:That's on Advice on How to Start an IT Business (Video) · · Score: 1

    I'm a sysadmin / network admin who has traditionally made my living in a windows environment. At the size of companies I worked for LInux networking and system monitoring tools just made way more sense then anything in the MS ecosystem. I started learning Linux because I like to learn and I can deploy it to test without cumbersome licensing issues. I also dabble in system forensics and Linux is an obvious choice for your toolkit.

    WIthin the past couple years I've transition to mostly LInux system administration. I find there are less jobs out there, but the wheat to chaff ratio is much better. Employers respect and pay Linux Admins better, and the average Linux Admin is, IMHO, more likely to have the love of learning and curiosity that differentiate between the good and the great.
    I still get dragged into the windows world, because I understand both and I have alot of citrix experience, which translates into a pretty good understanding of AD and GPO.
    I only see Linux growing, more companies seem to be embracing a mixed environment, even if they start with unpatched virtual appliances.

  23. Re:Perhaps it wouldn’t pass today’s .. on 1950s Toy That Included Actual Uranium Ore Goes On Display At Museum · · Score: 1

    Most of what I've read about DU compares it to lead. When you vaporize it, or fragment it; it pollutes the environment with a known neural poison. Vaporization and fragmentation are common when used with munitions. I haven't seen any other references to problems with DU. These are comparable to problems with lead. I sure wouldn't want either being spread around my neighborhood.

  24. Re:Service Sector on The Software Revolution · · Score: 1

    You bull*#@! post collapse housie example shows nothing but a blip in the market. I agree that a violent revolution is bad for everyone, and I hope our system will repair itself without need for one. I'm not sure people like you will allow it.

    You also talk about "standard of living" as if bread and circuses really matter. Just because the poor have better cast offs from the rich doesn't mean their lot is really improving. Your like the guy that gives his old gucci jeans to a homeless person and pats himself on the back because they are so much better then the wranglers he was wearing.

  25. Re:Service Sector on The Software Revolution · · Score: 1

    That's an excellent point. Nothing to lose and idle rich don't make for a good democracy.