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  1. Re:But that doesn't explain on Monogamy May Have Evolved To Prevent Infanticide · · Score: 1

    or a career oriented type woman

    Career oriented type women are going against nature, as they put career above reproduction.

    And anyway, even they are often attracted to bad boys, it's just that logic tells them that mating with such would be bad for their career. .

    In reality, the reckless girl is most likely to successfully carry offspring, as she is probably being reckless about birth control, while the career oriented woman takes it diligently. We (humans) survived for quite a long time without regular obgyn visits.

  2. Re: Mail DVDs? on Post Office Proposes Special Rate For Mailing DVDs · · Score: 1

    You don't need a computer running 24/7 to use Netflix streaming; just turn it on when you want to use it. Though, for those of us with families, there is probably at least one thing on using electricity at any given time (except for those families where everyone leaves the house for a good portion of the day).

  3. Re:US Post Office is messed up big time on Post Office Proposes Special Rate For Mailing DVDs · · Score: 1

    Logically, that makes the most sense, but unfortunately the copyright laws don't work on logic. The licensing fees for the legal ability to burn the movies is, most likely, prohibitively expensive.

  4. Re:US Post Office is messed up big time on Post Office Proposes Special Rate For Mailing DVDs · · Score: 1

    Someone that has a job that isn't pretty much slavery has the time to watch 2 - 3 movies after work...

  5. Re:dumb on Post Office Proposes Special Rate For Mailing DVDs · · Score: 1

    You get to just stick it in a mailbox at your curb?! If I don't want to take something to the post office, I have to schedule a pickup on the USPS site - it's the same amount of hassle as doing the same on the UPS site. There's none of those big blue boxes on the curbs anymore around here.

  6. Re:dumb on Post Office Proposes Special Rate For Mailing DVDs · · Score: 1

    Crazy idea, but why not require people that want to use the USPS to pay for it? I'm sure there are many people that only get junk mail from them that would be happy to give it up...

  7. Re:How is this news? on Post Office Proposes Special Rate For Mailing DVDs · · Score: 1

    Not relevant if your mailbox has no lock and you don't have a front gate (or leave it unlocked). UPS and fedex leave things regardless of whether I'm home or not. For some people, though, that isn't a perk...

  8. Re:Like in the Bible! on Ohio Zoo Attempts To Mate Female Rhino With Her Brother For Species Survival · · Score: 1

    In the original Care Bears Movie, the Care Bears met the Cousins in the Forest of Feelings; those characters only received their tummy symbols at the end of the film. In Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation, the Bears and Cousins received their symbols when they were orphan Cubs. Therefore, it must be true that the Bears and Cousins received their symbols as cubs, and I misinterpreted the first movie.

  9. Re:pedodophiles ?? on Spanish Chatbot Hunts For Pedophiles · · Score: 1

    Yes. Better keep a close watch on your replica taxidermied dodo.

  10. Re:50s TV - Antennae on Ask Slashdot: Video Streaming For the Elderly? · · Score: 1

    Well, I'm about 30 miles outside of Chicago, and when we gave up on it 2 or 3 years ago, we were having to adjust it every time we changed the channel (my parents, about 30 miles outside of Chicago too, but not in the exact same direction, still have to do it) ... and during rain, snow etc. good luck getting a stable signal at all. And commercials are apparently broadcast from somewhere else, because once a show works, the commercials often don't work, and while I'm fine with not watching commercials, the skipping, freezing etc. was annoying as hell.

    (Eventually we got tired of fighting with it to watch the 2 - 3 shows that weren't available legally online, and decided we'd wait the 30 minutes or so after they aired to pirate them.)

  11. Re:50s TV - Antennae on Ask Slashdot: Video Streaming For the Elderly? · · Score: 1

    I'm talking about antennas that attach to the tv.

  12. Re:'Why don't they tell people?'" on The City Where People Are Afraid To Breathe · · Score: 1

    I've lived in California and Phoenix and this is the first I've ever heard of it.

    Perhaps they talk about it on tv and in newspapers, and therefore assume everyone knows... but I don't watch tv, didn't read the newspaper nor own a tv when I lived in California and Phoenix, and the one person I knew that owned one in either of those places didn't have an antenna and just used it for watching DVDs. (And I'm not talking about being one of those hoity-toity, too good for tv people; admittedly, I was too poor to own one when I lived in those places, and my friends were as well).

    I remember signs warning me to remember to drink water in California and Phoenix (and that is sort of obvious, because I get thirsty)... why not have something like "Now entering a high Valley Fever spore area" signs?

  13. Re:hmm.. on The City Where People Are Afraid To Breathe · · Score: 1

    With citizens, bus fare is not the only concern - the bigger concern is having a house, job, food etc. once they get somewhere else. For prisoners, that's all taken care of for them...

  14. Re:Something built into the TV? Samsung? on Ask Slashdot: Video Streaming For the Elderly? · · Score: 1

    My 3 year old starts his netflix cartoons on a Roku. But then again he also does that on a dual-boot pc...

  15. Re:50s TV - Antennae on Ask Slashdot: Video Streaming For the Elderly? · · Score: 1

    Antennas aren't as easy to use, though... you've got to move it around and turn the dial until you get it just right, and when you turn the channel you've got to do it again. Depending on how mobile and patient his parents are, it may be much easier for op to set things up and hand them a remote to something that is going to work as long as there is internet...

  16. Re:Apple TV on Ask Slashdot: Video Streaming For the Elderly? · · Score: 2

    Does Apple TV have a password option? I know the Roku does, and since it asks for a password for everything that costs extra, yet no password for everything that doesn't cost extra, it makes it easy to differentiate.

  17. Re:Never seen any of these legendary leaks. on Firefox Takes the Performance Crown From Chrome · · Score: 1

    Being able to do what I love to do for a living does indeed take intelligence.

  18. Re:Cowards and bullies? Please. on Orson Scott Card Pleads 'Tolerance' For Ender's Game Movie · · Score: 1

    bigot: someone who, as a result of their prejudices, treats other people with hatred, contempt, or intolerance

  19. Re:Meh on Spanish Chatbot Hunts For Pedophiles · · Score: 1

    Pity that people attracted to 14 year olds are not pedodophiles, and they think they will catch pedophiles like this.

  20. Cowards and bullies? Please. on Orson Scott Card Pleads 'Tolerance' For Ender's Game Movie · · Score: 1

    He doesn't like homosexuals because they are homosexualls.
    We don't like him because he's bigoted against homosexualls.

    It is pretty much the same*, and I don't see how it is a "bullying tactic" to say so. The cowards are the ones that are afraid of the truth.

    *The difference is one is based on biology and one is a learned behavior. But the bigotry was learned by him and now is so ingrained that he can not choose to stop being bigoted any more than a homosexual can choose to stop being homosexual. He can pretend to not be bigoted, he can hide it, but asking him to do that is just as bad as asking a homosexual to hide their homosexuality, and it won' t make it go away..

    Not that I'm saying you should pay to see his movie because of this; as others have said, there's a difference between tolerance and financially supporting. I'm just saying that yes, if you are intolerant of him then you are doing the same thing he is doing - being intolerant of others - and it does not make me a coward nor a bully to say the truth.

  21. Re:Too Bright on The Average Movie Theater Has Hundreds of Screens · · Score: 1

    A hit in performance at watching a movie... is that suppose to be a bad thing?

  22. Re:Never seen any of these legendary leaks. on Firefox Takes the Performance Crown From Chrome · · Score: 1

    1 - 2 I am smart enough to not get zero days and cp viruses. And if you get them they are just going to run when you turn the computer back on
    3. I have a fire alarm and in my whole life have never had a computer catch on fire. If I wanted to be concerned about fires I'd be unhooking my stove, water heater and furnace every night. But it's rare enough to not be worth the time and worry.
    4. I'm willing to pay that money to not have to give up a bit of my time every day
    5. I care more about my time than your feelings
    6. My computer does updates while I sleep and turns back on, ready to use when I awake

  23. Re:Too Bright on The Average Movie Theater Has Hundreds of Screens · · Score: 1

    How are phone conversations more annoying than the multiple in-person conversations that would happen if the people didn't have other forms of entertainment?

  24. Re:Too Bright on The Average Movie Theater Has Hundreds of Screens · · Score: 0

    Many people have the mental capacity to both watch the movie and play Sudoku...

  25. They're all there because they want to be. on Sexism Still a Problem At E3 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If the booth babes thought it was sexist they would not be there. IMO saying booth babes should not exist, is saying that women can't be expected to make wise choices about their own lives - and THAT is much more sexist.