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  1. Re:Like on Wall Street Today? on Using a Supercomputer To Predict Revolutions · · Score: 1

    If the unemployed got together and rioted 1960s style we would see some real changes.

    No thanks, Ms. Piven.

  2. Re:When do we revolt against these Tea Party assho on Using a Supercomputer To Predict Revolutions · · Score: 1

    A small minority forced the majority

    Really? How was that? Were blackmail or firearms employed?

  3. Re:When do we revolt against these Tea Party assho on Using a Supercomputer To Predict Revolutions · · Score: 1

    Probably because she runs a business with her husband. She also administered a farm that was owned by her father-in-law. I'm surprised you didn't hear about all the claims from the left that somehow that farm should have run without subsidy-- nearly impossible, thanks to the farm economy the government created in the New Deal-- because Bachmann is a conservative. Anyway, saying she's never had a non-government job is lying through omission.

  4. Re:Pigeon Crap Lactation?? on Discovery Brings Us One Step Closer To "Milking" Pigeons · · Score: 2

    aborted chicken embryos

    Unfertilized.

  5. Re:Sweet! on Discovery Brings Us One Step Closer To "Milking" Pigeons · · Score: 1

    I don't know; have you seen where your vegetables grow? Do you trust some backwards farmer, that he fertilized them properly and didn't use human waste full of pathogens? Or hormons; are they homosexual, or are they Mormons? Who knows?

  6. Re:I have worked in a chocolate factory on Discovery Brings Us One Step Closer To "Milking" Pigeons · · Score: 1

    I guess the dirt and bugs are what make that European chocolate so superior.

  7. Re:But... on Discovery Brings Us One Step Closer To "Milking" Pigeons · · Score: 1

    Were the cows allowed to go out and graze? They don't "live" in the shed; they weather there. And I'm glad they flushed out the manure so frequently. I'm sure you'd prefer they be given flush toilets, but getting 1,500 pound dairy cows to sit on one is tricky.
    It's a shame about the antibiotics, but it beats letting the "mange" spread as you implied. I note that he didn't see antibiotics being administered to the adults.

  8. Re:Couldn't I just do this with a RAM cache? on OCZ Wants To Cache Your HDD With an SSD · · Score: 1

    64K? Luxury! In my day, we hadn't invented memory yet so we had to hire vagrants to stand in the computer room, each holding a card with a "0" on one side and a "1" on the other. We only had room for about 32,000 of these, for a measly 4KB. Each was tattooed with a memory location. When we needed to read the "memory", we had to shout out the appropriate drifter... I mean memory location. If the dirty hobo didn't answer within the refresh interval, he was beaten severely. High latency was not tolerated. The trick was giving each street person enough whisky to keep him sufficiently content, but not enough to put him to sleep. Sanitation was a real issue, but that's a story for another time. Back to work!

  9. Re:So... on OCZ Wants To Cache Your HDD With an SSD · · Score: 1

    BadAnalogyGuy has a contender to deal with.

  10. Re:No Borders Rewards Card on Borders Bust Means B&N May Get Your Shopping History · · Score: 1

    Seriously. I cashed out my rewards as soon as I heard they were circling the drain.

  11. Re:how is this legal? on Borders Bust Means B&N May Get Your Shopping History · · Score: 1

    It wouldn't be ambiguous if the government hadn't meddled and, like every other corp, told GM it's chapter 11 or chapter 7: take your pick.

  12. Re:1 in 3200? on New Images of Tumbling US Satellite From Theirry Legaullt · · Score: 1

    My calculator says 81.81...

  13. Re:Hmmm... on Smart Meters Reveal What You're Watching · · Score: 1

    What you're describing is a standby UPS. The line interactive UPS can buck or boost the line voltage using a transformer instead of the battery, and even very cheap UPSes are line interactive now (aka AVR) because you just need to add two cheap relays to the taps of the transformer. Regardless, the system normally runs directly off the AC as you said, and you would need the second type you described (an online UPS) to keep the load isolated from the AC input.

  14. Re:Same problem, different format... on Ask Slashdot: Recovering Data From 20-Year-Old Diskettes? · · Score: 1
    Assuming the transport still runs, make 100% sure that you are trying to play the SVHS tapes on the SVHS machine. If you put an SVHS tape in a VHS machine, you may catch a few frames before you lose sync. This looks like a bad machine, when it's just incompatibility. Also, try both the S-video and RCA outputs; even if you can only get the RCA out to work it's better than nothing for now.

    I got a working SVHS player just a year ago from Goodwill.

  15. Re:House plus site, services, foundation, etc. on MIT's $1,000 House Challenge Yields Results · · Score: 1

    I don't trust the use of human waste for compost due to the risk from pathogens. It's a bad idea, unless you use irradiation technologies that remove the possible cost savings.

  16. Re:First off... It's a $5,925 house. on MIT's $1,000 House Challenge Yields Results · · Score: 2

    China doesn't want any more people in their (existing) cities, because for various reasons (mostly involving the stupid, oppressive decisions of the Chinese government itself) people are fleeing the countryside to the cities in large numbers. Inexpensive homes like these can keep people in decent living conditions in rural areas.

  17. Re:Go USA on Anonymous Kills Websites, Cartels Kill Bloggers · · Score: 1

    They made possession of minor amounts of pot a ticketable offense.

    So instead of violating people's liberty and property, they'll just take their property.

  18. Re:European Starlings on Wild Parrots Learning To Talk From Escaped Pet Birds · · Score: 1

    I always wanted to train a flock of ravens to say, "nevermore".

  19. Re:Propaganda or Bad reporting? on UK Man Jailed For Being a Jerk On the Internet · · Score: 1

    Perhaps there is not such a large difference between physical and emotional abuse as we might have thought.

    Yes there is. Physical damage can usually be confirmed visually or through tests. Emotional damage can be fabricated.

  20. Re:Is it my imagination... on "Wi-Fi Refugees" Shelter in West Virginia Mountains · · Score: 1

    It's only recently that we've come to grips with the fact that nearly all women are hysterical.

  21. Re:Keynesian? on Krugman On Bitcoin and the Gold Standard · · Score: 1

    is how the US got out of the great depression with help from the New Deal

    No. even if this were true, do you really think that taking over nine years to end an economic downturn is acceptable? "I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started... And an enormous debt to boot!" - Henry Morgenthau, Jr, Secretary of the Treasury under FDR

    and WW2.

    Yes.

  22. Re:Keynesian? on Krugman On Bitcoin and the Gold Standard · · Score: 1

    For example Austerity has never gotten anyone out of a recession.

    1920.

  23. Re:Keynesian? on Krugman On Bitcoin and the Gold Standard · · Score: 1

    Don't let the fact that was done in 1920, ending the recession, bother you. Meanwhile, over two years of runaway deficit spending and the economy is no better with higher unemployment than when we started.

  24. Re:Keynesian? on Krugman On Bitcoin and the Gold Standard · · Score: 1

    $250K per year is not the winner's circle. Try seeing if you can live off a single year's "windfall" of $250,000 for the rest of your life, "winner". But really, the President actually set it lower, at $190,000. That's where the "Making work pay" tax credit peters out. Oh wait-- the tobacco tax. I saw a Wendy's employee taking a smoke break the other day... how much do those folks make a year?

  25. Re:Keynesian? on Krugman On Bitcoin and the Gold Standard · · Score: 1

    That's funny, because all the figures I have here told me that the middle class exploded in the 1920s. You know, the evil Harding and Coolidge administrations. Apparently, nearly 10 years of New Deal failure wasn't enough to prove that it was a bad idea. It's Hoover's fault, really... FDR blasted him for his meddling policies, then proved over the next decade that really screwing up the economy requires a "liberal". If only WWII hadn't happened... maybe in another 10 years of unconstitutional control of private business and property confiscation the New Deal would have worked on its own.