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  1. did him a favor... on Homeland Security Stole Michael Arrington's Boat · · Score: 2, Interesting

    honestly, if Coastal Craft's construction is as bad as the grammar on their website... DHS may have saved his life...

  2. Re:better explanation on Quantum Gas Goes Below Absolute Zero · · Score: 1

    but he also pointed out that even the teacher didn't understand quantum theory. I think that was in one of these http://www.vega.org.uk/video/subseries/8 videos. probably the first one. so he's probably safe there too...

  3. Re:The Cold Equations. on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Depressing Sci-fi You've Ever Read? · · Score: 1

    I read it when I was somewhat younger, but I think that the part that really got me in the end (on top of everything else,) was that the pilot was going to have to explain what happened to her brother. my imagining of the brother's reaction really knocked me...

  4. The Cold Equations. on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Depressing Sci-fi You've Ever Read? · · Score: 1

    reality combined with low margin engineering... very depressing.

  5. Re:heinlein was right again! on Solar Cells That Emit Light Break Efficiency Record · · Score: 1

    hmmm... Nehemiah Scudder == Mitt Romney? oh dear...

  6. Re:The Name on Gimp 2.8 Finally Released · · Score: 1

    most of the 'physically challenged' people I know refer to themselves as crippled.

    being actually crippled they can't see any reason to put up with the bullshit of being polite or indirect about it. generally the only time they use PC terms is when they run into the obviously not PC. (i.e. badly sized doors, lack of alternatives to stairs in public spaces, insensitive assholes (clods, sorry) etc.)

  7. Re:The Name on Gimp 2.8 Finally Released · · Score: 1

    I suspect a lot of children probably think it's the name of the flat plastic string with which you make braided lanyards at summer camp.

    many tend to forget it exists after age 14-16, when a lot of people begin to see brightly colored things as being immature.

  8. heinlein was right again! on Solar Cells That Emit Light Break Efficiency Record · · Score: 1

    some rolling roads, a life detector, and a massive fundamentalist revolution and we should be all set...

  9. Re:Bunch of idiots on NHTSA Suggestion Would Cripple In-Car GPS Displays · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's run by the people you elect on a regular basis. At least in the country where this story is relevant...

  10. Re:But is it art? on Microsoft Launches Windows 8 Consumer Preview · · Score: 1

    can't be Mondrian, he had a pathological fear of green..

    must be Theo van Doesberg...

    if so, someday we'll get diagonals!

  11. Re:Some things never change on Apple Causes Religious Reaction In Brains of Fans · · Score: 1

    so the apple logo is looking down from on high... does that imply that the windows logo is staring up from hell?

  12. Re:Basic business understanding failure on Game Developer Group Warns Against Amazon Appstore · · Score: 3, Informative

    But at least at iTunes, each developer is the one mucking with the price, for their own benefit/loss/risk. The amazon method is to muck with the price of the product whether or not the developer wants them too, primarily for amazon's benefit/loss/risk.

  13. Re:Hold up a sec.... on Game Developer Group Warns Against Amazon Appstore · · Score: 1

    Which might explain Trump's three bankruptcies...

    It's always interesting to watch a store, battling for marketshare, destroy the source of its products, who are battling for marketshare, all in the name of "good business"

  14. Re:In other news on NASA's Next-Generation Airplane Concepts · · Score: 1

    in fact that's the only way they *can* end with a winning record.

  15. Re:Bullshit on Sex Boosts Brain Growth · · Score: 1

    but what you say is true.
    the nba is full of geniuses, *geniuses at having sex.*
    slashdot is full of 'retards...' (as you put it)

    intelligent doesn't necessarily mean good at science.
    sad to say, revenge of the nerds was not a documentary...

  16. no, this is how things work. on Apple Reverses iPad "No Cash Purchase" Policy · · Score: 1

    you make a general rule, people break it, you make a more specific rule, it causes a problem, you make an exception, people exploit it... etc.etc.etc.

    pick a system, any system.

    here's a reasonably good generalization of how law systems work and fail.

  17. Re:I'm sorry but.... on Facebook Is Transcoding Video For iPad · · Score: 1

    I've wondered about this... what's the point in watching movies in a resolution greater than the screen that you are watching them on?

  18. Re:Were it not for Apple, on Facebook Is Transcoding Video For iPad · · Score: 1

    it always seemed to be that a lot of discussion about apple products had the character of a lot of people who couldn't afford them trying to convince themselves that they didn't want the products.

    there are similar conversations in other circles about BMWs and jewelry and such.

    personally, I don't like everything apple does, but I prefer them to the alternatives.

  19. Re:Were it not for Apple, on Facebook Is Transcoding Video For iPad · · Score: 1

    as with the rest of the economy, it was a 5% with a disproportionate share of expendable wealth.

    number of people matters less to a business. it's number of people with money.

  20. followed immediately by... on First Impressions of the 11th Doctor Who · · Score: 2

    "all right, I'm never saying *that* again..."

  21. Re:sounds like a safety law suit jackpot and not a on Company Sued, Loses For Not Using Patented Tech · · Score: 1

    one wonders whether the injury rate is indicative of the inherent dangers of a tablesaw as much as it is indicative of the nature of the types of people who buy sawstop saws...

  22. Re:Cut off his thumb? on Company Sued, Loses For Not Using Patented Tech · · Score: 1

    gloves and a table saw just mean that rather than losing a finger, you lose your life when the whole of your lower arm is ripped off...

    gloves will work for a bandsaw given the nature of the blade and the size of the teeth, butchers use them. but with a table saw you're just looking for death.

  23. Re:Saw Stop is great on Company Sued, Loses For Not Using Patented Tech · · Score: 1

    fwiw the contractor saws seem to run around $700, but the cartridge replacement is still @$170 a pop

  24. Re:The plan on Company Sued, Loses For Not Using Patented Tech · · Score: 1

    it's been done with ladders... google 'ladder lawsuit' for fun...

  25. not the same as airbags on Company Sued, Loses For Not Using Patented Tech · · Score: 1

    for the sake of argument, many people have raised the fact that there were lawsuits regarding cars with and without airbags. the major difference between laws about cars and those about powertools, is that cars are used in groups, there are other people on the road who may need to be protected from your negligent driving. since you could be injured by another's car, as well as yourself, there is some area where the legislated (or court mandated,) safety equipment may be necessary. when govenrnments pass laws, (when done properly) they are intended to govern or limit interactions between citizens.

    however, outlawing tablesaws without sawstop tech because some idiot thought they knew how to use a table saw is legislating to protect you from yourself. and like many other current morality laws, is equally stupid.