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  1. Re:Conservative. on Ask Slashdot: How Often Do You Update Your OS? · · Score: 2

    I used to have a great deal of interest in my computers, but after Windows 8, OSX, Gnome 3 and Unity, I really don't like computers any more, so I just do what's necessary to pay the bills.

  2. Re: Freedom of Speech? on Reddit Will 'Hide' Vile Content After Policy Change · · Score: 1

    If I'm the one with the communications infrastructure and I let you use it to communicate, what you say reflects on me because I built your podium.

    Free speech does not entitle you to someone elses podium.

  3. Good on 2014 Was Earth's Warmest Year On Record · · Score: -1, Troll

    Cold weather sucks. I don't own costal property. I'm glad the world is getting warmer. I hope it continues. It will increase the carrying capacity of the planet by making food easier to grow. I see no downside.

  4. Re: I'm sure this isn't about Young vs Trump, righ on Neil Young Says His Music Is Too Good For Streaming Services · · Score: 1

    He gave you permission to copy his stuff if you like. He just doesn't feel right selling a music stream to you because he feels it's a rip off. For you. I doubt he needs your money at this point.

  5. Re:plastic is for junk on Ask Slashdot: For What Are You Using 3-D Printing? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Have you ever had a LEGO brick turn squishy on you? Because that's what they're made of, ABS plastic.

    It's a plenty tough enough material that I used it to manufacture parts for a geodesic dome for outdoor use as a greenhouse, and it held up fine. I also manufactured gears for a friends high end RC car after the manufacturer had gone out of business. Those gears see a lot of stress, and they held up fine.

    ABS is a great material, and so is PLA.

  6. Need an STD biostamp on How Biostamps Can Replace Clunky Biomedical Sensors · · Score: 0

    Need an STD biostamp, something that, when you see it, you know the person is safe.

  7. A money clip on Ask Slashdot: What's On Your Keychain? · · Score: 1

    I use a money clip instead of a wallet. It matches my sunglasses. And I always carry a harmonica. Other than that, boring stuff... keys, fob, phone, earbuds, bank card, credit card, identification, lighter, cigarettes, and sometimes a cigar cutter.

  8. Re: The good news is... on Yes, You Can Blame Your Pointy-Haired Boss On the Peter Principle · · Score: 1

    The problem boils down to Ego. If you've got one, then you're the problem.

    The manager who wants to be treated with respect beyond that due their role is just as bad as the employee who wants to be treated with respect beyond their role.

  9. Re: The good news is... on Yes, You Can Blame Your Pointy-Haired Boss On the Peter Principle · · Score: 1

    Are you managing people, or projects?

    I think the problem is, modern managers are expected to herd cats.

    The problem isn't the managers, it's the cats.

  10. Re: Tim Cook is a Pro Discrimination Faggot on Apple's Tim Cook Calls Out "Religious Freedom" Laws As Discriminatory · · Score: 1

    The do retire. Think big picture for a minute?

  11. Re: Tim Cook is a Pro Discrimination Faggot on Apple's Tim Cook Calls Out "Religious Freedom" Laws As Discriminatory · · Score: 1

    I am. I believe in annullment of non fruitful unions. Fuck who you like, cohabitate as you like, but make marriage about nurturing families has ALWAYS been my position. I came to this position when my tasks as a life insurance agent/financial planner led me to help rich DINKs pay less taxes using marriage laws, and felt strongly enough about it to change careers.

    My position may not be to your liking, but it is still based on logical long term social best interests as I see them, and not extremism or prejudice.

  12. Re: Tim Cook is a Pro Discrimination Faggot on Apple's Tim Cook Calls Out "Religious Freedom" Laws As Discriminatory · · Score: 1

    Having a system that supports the creation and nurturing of the next generation of mankind is in the long term best interests of homosexuals just as much as anyone else. Corrupting it into something purely based on decadent sex is not wise. For anyone.

  13. Re: You can't have both. on On Firing Open Source Community Members · · Score: 1

    Elite doesn't mean anything without context. You've determined that playing well with others is the context, so, those who do play well with others are elite, and the rest crap.

    You're incapable of creating an inclusive community. They require acceptance of all.

  14. Re: Necesary Censorship on France Will Block Web Sites That Promote Terrorism · · Score: 0

    He wasn't a genius, he was a figurehead for a popular opinion of the time.

    Understanding that is key to preventing a repeat. For reasons that made sense to them, they chose him because he said "Let's get those fuckers" and they reacted eagerly.

  15. Re:You can't have both. on On Firing Open Source Community Members · · Score: 1

    You sure sound like an elitist...

  16. Re:You can't have both. on On Firing Open Source Community Members · · Score: 1

    This is the kind of binary thinking from programmers that erodes the nascent relationships among well-meaning human beings. Your ignorant approach is neither an "Uncomfortable Truth" or a useful concept. Often the most obstreperous person can be the most productive, but they must be carefully taught in social graces. Even elementary schools have learned that "Everyone work alone!" is not a useful model; the best schools now bring along the slower (or more socially inept) students through consistent and persistent group activity. Only autocrats refuse to work on building viable, productive teams in which a disparate members each contribute in their own ways, but in accordance with a common "culture" of mutual respect.

     
    So, the people who are in pain and reflexively lash out at others...

    The people who are screwed up socially and offend others without knowing what they're doing...

    The people who have no where to turn and no community to welcome them...

    You will turn those people away because they're not playing well with others, because they ruin the "peace, love and pancakes" "viable, productive team" kind of atmosphere that you're going for.

    And then, you will pat yourself on the back for being welcoming and inclusive?

    No. You just have a different definition of what "elite" means.

  17. You can't have both. on On Firing Open Source Community Members · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you want a welcoming, inclusive community, you don't get to decide certain elements don't belong and remove them.

    If you want to do that, you don't really want a welcoming, inclusive community, what you want is a community of elite according to a set of standards.

    So, decide what it is you're choice will be and focus in on it, then everything will become obvious.

  18. Re: Lots of weird crap coming out of Congress lat on White House Threatens Veto Over EPA "Secret Science" Bills · · Score: 1

    Sorry, you don't get to redefine science as "Something a scientist told me."

    There is no shortage of people willing to make statements in the authoritative tone, and the stupid and undisciplined accept that as a way to avoid that uncomfortable feeling of uncertainty. I'm not among them, are you?

  19. Re: Lots of weird crap coming out of Congress late on White House Threatens Veto Over EPA "Secret Science" Bills · · Score: 1

    If it's not transparent and reproducible, it's not a proposal based on science, but authority. It holds as much weight as a statement by the Flying Spagetti Monster.

    If you want a faith based approach to law making, just be forthright about it. It's not like you're alone. But, please don't denigrate the scientific process by claiming that's not what's happening. People are thick enough already...

  20. Of course on OPSEC For Activists, Because Encryption Is No Guarantee · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If I'm the only one who can unlock your encrypted communications, then it's in my best interest to have everyone encrypt their communications, because then, I'll be the only one with total situation awareness.

    It won't be in any of your interests, of course, because you'll be handing me my advantage on a silver platter... but you're all far too shortsighted to pay attention to such things.

    Of course Obama and the NSA want you all using strong encryption. Stupid of you to give them what they want, though.

  21. Re:There are two people you cannot satisfy with fi on Why Hollywood Fudged the Relativity-Based Wormhole Scenes In Interstellar · · Score: 1

    Wormholes have never been observed in nature.

    Therefore, there is no science behind them. There is only faith.

  22. Re:Time for men's liberation on Two New Male Birth Control Chemicals In Advanced Stages · · Score: 1

    Right.

    What if you're one of those people who has gone around the track long enough to understand that sex divorced from reproduction is meaningless, who always wanted to have that family that everyone seems to want to be "liberated" from taking responsibility for?

    Because, honestly, that's how I feel, and I've quite literally given up on women, and sex.

    Reproductive sex isn't boring, like something out of a Puritan movie. It's just as nasty and wild and passionate and kinky as it always was. But, it's overlaid with the knowledge that, in that moment, you're like God, reaching down to create life, and your dick is his finger, and this might be the moment that your child is created. It's like taking everything that was pleasant about sex and elevating it to a spiritual level without taking anything away from it.

    Contraception takes all that away, and renders sex with a woman no different from sex with an apple pie, or a man, or a dog.

    It should be the first letter in the acronym. SLGBT, with the first letter representing the word "Sterile".

    I used to spend my free time chasing a mate. Now that I realize I'd have an easier time finding a unicorn in this culture than a woman who will truly commit to creating a family, I find it hard to find reasons not to sit and grow moss.

    But hey, thanks for setting us all free.

  23. Re:Welcome to the 90s! on Vint Cerf Warns Against 'Digital Dark Age' · · Score: 2

    As we become more sophisticated, we design things that are more delicate. The more advanced we are, the less likely our creations will be accessible to those who come after we fall.

    Which, considering that we've demonstrated these capabilities once already, and considering how long we or bipeds like us have been around, implies that it's happened before.

    If there were more advanced civilizations before us, there's no reason to think we'd know about them.

  24. I know the answer to your question! And, I'm one of the great developers, not like all those other dummies! All the other guys suck, except me and the people I work with! Let me give you some examples of how I'm not like all those other guys!

    Man, I feel so good about myself right now!

  25. Re:Vizio P Series on Ask Slashdot: Affordable Large HD/UHD/4K "Stupid" Screens? · · Score: 1

    These aren't televisions. They're billboards. And until someone offers to pay me a monthly fee to put a billboard in my living room, there won't be one there.