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  1. So what percent are they given to projects? on IAU To Uwingu: You Can't Name That Martian Crater Either · · Score: 1

    Anyone found anything indicating what percent they will be donating to a tax exempt space organization?
    They say they want to get $10 million to that fund.
    The cost of a hole in Mars goes for $5 to $5000. They also have another naming purchase plan for exoplanets where it is $4.99 for each person attempting to name it and then $0.99 for each vote for that name, and 1000 votes needed.

  2. Re:please explain to a non american on New Jersey Auto Dealers Don't Want to Face Tesla · · Score: 1

    It is because car are big purchase items. These laws came about because of problems with manufacturing companies owning distribution then limiting markets and sales or pulling out of market.
    if you purchase a $400 computer and then the maker leaves your state it does not matter that much if you cannot get warrenty work. However go purchase a $32,000 car and that is a completly different matter.
    It is not just cars that most states have this regulation against but alot of other markets are restricted where the maker cannot also directly sell to the end user.

  3. Re:If you don't like it.... on Jewish School Removes Evolution Questions From Exams · · Score: 0

    Since you think that jews and christian use to think the earth was flat these kids have already proven they know more then you.
    That Christians and Jews throught the earth was flat was an 19th century invention by a couple of atheists that got it place in teaching material and it spread from there. You can easily see that this is false but looking at art work 1000 years old which shows the earth as a round orb.

  4. Re:That debt is solid gold! on U.S. Students/Grads Carrying Over $1 Trillion In Debt · · Score: 1

    Not that bad but close. The amount you have to pay back each year is lowered if you don't earn enough money, interest does not change. Then after enough years, which is long, the entire debt is removed.
    So you can go get that doctor degree in Middle Ages Romanian literature and when you cannot find a job for that all your salary from McDonalds will not be taken.

  5. Re:Coprolites? on Belgian Barrels Reveal History of Human Gut Microbes · · Score: 1

    empty it and reuse, no need to seal it up to store for future use.

  6. Re:why do people use landlines again? on How I Cut My Time Warner Cable Bill By 33% · · Score: 1

    There are things like http://www.voicecti.com/teleph... which can remove that need. Depending on your land phone cost you could recover the cost in a year.

  7. Re:and the risks of marriage delays parenthood on Delayed Fatherhood May Be Linked To Certain Congenital and Mental Disorders · · Score: 1

    Please go read about that case. It was ruled that way because the donor did not go through the legal method to donate sperm.

  8. Re: Why? on Asia's Richest Man Is Betting Big On Silicon Valley's Fake Eggs · · Score: 1

    Having been in poor native housing in Mexico, part of Africa and the Middle East that is false. Eggs are amoung the most common items you will eat. For the few places that were able to purchase items they are cheap and last without refrigeration. For those that did not chicken are easy and cheap to raise, in the desert they require minimal water and they can find food if you let them loose on the dung pile.

  9. Re:Service packs? on HP To Charge For Service Packs and Firmware For Out-of-Warranty Customers · · Score: 1

    On the rare occurances that I update our server BIOS/firmware it is to add new capabilities in the form of recognition of new types of hardware devices or new software.

  10. Re:If I am overseas as an American... on NZ Govt May Gut Privacy Laws For US Citizens and Ex-Pats · · Score: 1

    USA is one of the few countries that taxes you on income no matter where you earn it.
    They can do it because you are a USA citizen and fall under it's laws and regulation. You can denounce your citizenship if you don't want to pay it; this tends to be reason you do get expats to denounce their citizenship if they can get it from another country.

  11. What kind of range? on South Koreans Using Kinect To Monitor DMZ · · Score: 2

    From the technical side what kind of range can the kinetic have? It is designed for a home use so 15 to 20 feet?
    If that is the case then how can they be using them in the DMZ when you would want to detect people further out then that.

  12. Re:fake data on Through a Face Scanner Darkly · · Score: 1

    Not exactly random, I always select female in her 80s with weath of a few million dollars, then for last name make it name of the site or place requesting the info.

  13. Re:slashdot: idle speculation for ignorant morons on Is the West Building Its Own Iron Curtain? · · Score: 1

    Yes they will, it is no problem. They may ask for drivers license or passport when coming back, I showwed them my regular 9 year old driver license, non-enhanced and was right in. Othertimes coming back in they see the US license plates and we get waved right in.

  14. Re:Yeah, right on Is the West Building Its Own Iron Curtain? · · Score: 1

    From the standpoint of the USA and for most Europian citizen the problem with traveling to North Korea is getting North Korea to allow you in.
    Now when you get back,provided you got in, we have plenty of examples of what will happen and that is NOTHING.
    Now if North Korea was hosting a bunch of training camps for various known and identified terrorist groups and you went to one of those for weeks or months you would have some problems when you came back.

  15. Re:So, cue up.. on How Silicon Valley CEOs Conspired To Suppress Engineers' Wages · · Score: 1

    To answer your question it is corporation, then unions and employees.
    The unions and employees in various retirement and investment funds. Personally ownership of stock is rather low.

  16. Re:Tesla on Tesla Wins One Over Chinese Trademark Troll · · Score: 1

    Saying that the government should take the money from people to do that would make you a commie.
    Saying that it is the personal responsibility of people to do that make you a conservative.
    Repeating that meme because you want to lessen what others are saying and because you read it so often from liberal sites just makes you an idiot.

  17. Re:Dont do anyone any favors on Court Says Craigslist Sperm Donor Must Pay Child Support · · Score: 2

    They did not ask him however the state was asked for support and money from the state; beyond those given to anyone filing taxes. The state is going after the father to collect the money they paid out.

  18. Re:choice on AMC Theaters Allegedly Calls FBI to Interrogate a Google Glass Wearer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No they cannot, in the USA you can only be detained long enough to do a resonable investigation or write you up.
    Also please learn the basics about the people and Gitmo vs some one in the USA.

  19. Better watch it. on UK Benefits System In Deeper Trouble? · · Score: 1

    Once the Americans wake up and start reading this you will be labeled as a racist.

  20. Visual Basic for Applications??? on Ask Slashdot: Command Line Interfaces -- What Is Out There? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you are doing windows and still doing Visual Basic for Applications for general scripts you are part of the problem and really behind in your skill level.
    Powershell has easily replaced most VBA script usage, there are still a few special cases where it has to be used.

  21. Re:USPS Where are you?? on Surge In Online Orders Overwhelms UPS Christmas Deliveries · · Score: 1

    Please stop repeating this lie, granted it is repeated enough on alot of hate sites. For you it was probably a mistake since you did not know the truth.
    Congress want to protect the taxpayer from having to take over the duties that the USPS said they would do,back in the 70s, the postmaster general and the postal unions want to make the taxpayers pay for their poor management and keep things as they are.
    The postal accountability law,2006, requires the USPS to actually do some proper financial management and dropping it would not make them competitive again; even ignore the money they owe for this they would of lost money for the last couple of years. Without the money set aside they would not be able the meet the obligations they agreed to back in the 1970s and the people who are retiring now would not have the monies that they are suppose to get.
    BTW the 75 years, not life, is number of years that is for ACCOUNTING purposes they have to figure future liabilities. It is NOT how long they have to fund benefits. That 75 years of accounting is followed by the DoD, social security, department of Housing, etc.

  22. Re:How bulglary helpers :) on Is the World Ready For Facial Recognition On Google Glass? · · Score: 2

    Why?
    Far easier to:
    1) Pick an area at around 7pm when it is dark outside and see what lights are not on.
    2) Rob the place.

  23. Re:Obama Steals your mommas house on Unreleased 1963 Beatles Tracks On Sale To Preserve Copyright · · Score: 1

    Your googlefu really,really, really sucks my first search and I had info on it.
    However that portion is not changed in obamacare that dates back a few decades ago, Medicaid is just a loan to be paid back when you no longer need your house and items.
    What Obamacare does is lower requirements to get medicaid it then requires people to go on Medicaid if they qualify for it. If you qualify for Medicaid you now longer qualify for the subsidies that others get under obamacare.
    In the past you basically had to have no assets to qualify so it there was no major chance people would loose much. Now if you have a house and have a basic retirement fund you may qualify. So with obamacare you meet the qualifications for medicaid you go to purchase the mandated insurance you find out instead of costing you $12000 and others qualify for a $9000 subsidy however since you qualify for medicaid you owe $12000 or you can take free medicaid. Then when you die the government takes $12000 for each year you were under the system; and there goes any house you may of had.
    That is what has happened to a bunch of people who got to the web site and people have just been finding out about it the last few weeks.

  24. Re:What is it then? on The Business of Attention Deficit Disorder · · Score: 2

    Well kind of.
    This was originally brought up as a problem 20 years ago, give or a take a few years; ADD, a substype of ADHD, was commonly used.
    At that time it was teachers and schools pushing it and it is still is, if the kid was causing distruptions it was a standard solution to get the kid on a pill.
    Companies are just responding to the need. Companies are coming up with better drugs with less side affects or are cheaper or better in other ways. Since they now have this better drug they are putting out information about it. So now people are pointing to the drug companies and saying how they are to produce a better drug that schools are pushing.

  25. Re:northern nevada on Census Bureau: Majority of Affluent Counties In Northeast US · · Score: 1

    Was kind of thinking that but I have driven through there a few times and alot of the towns along the highway are really shabby places.