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  1. Re:Nurse to coworker: "Can you do math?" on Men And Women Think Women Are Bad At Basic Math · · Score: 2

    It's called "lazy".

  2. Re:In the USA on Men And Women Think Women Are Bad At Basic Math · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Are they better at the social sciences? Because the dudes you have in charge down there are total idiots.

  3. Re:Old Man Yells At Cloud on Embarrassing Stories Shed Light On US Officials' Technological Ignorance · · Score: 1

    'cuz he's a MAVERICK!

    We didn't realize the pundits really meant he would fit in best as a 19th century poker player.

  4. Re:beyond funny on Interviews: ESR Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    I lean towards the AR-15 because I'm from a culture that readily produces people with good marksmanship, fire discipline, and steadiness onder combat pressure.

    He values those traits... he didn't say he was personally steady under combat pressure. I think his CP precluded him from ever serving in the military.

  5. Re:beyond funny on Interviews: ESR Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    By the way, he did answer some of those questions within the article: http://interviews.slashdot.org...

  6. Re:beyond funny on Interviews: ESR Answers Your Questions · · Score: 0

    Where's the "-1, Poisoning the Well" when you need it?

  7. Re:beyond funny on Interviews: ESR Answers Your Questions · · Score: 0

    I lean towards the AR-15 because I'm from a culture that readily produces people with good marksmanship, fire discipline, and steadiness onder combat pressure.

    He values those traits... he didn't say he was personally steady under combat pressure. I think his CP precluded him from ever serving in the military.

  8. Re:False advertising. on WSJ: Americans' Phone Bills Are Going Up · · Score: 1

    This is the kind of thing that libertarians warn about. We want free markets, but "free market" doesn't mean giving perks to corporations any more than it means regulating every facet of their existence. The perk is their ability to recover their regulatory costs by passing them on to their customer as fees. The government is enabling them to commit fraud by advertising a rate, then tacking on fees that equal a significant percentage of the charges.

  9. Re:Typical Bureau Land Mgt BS on BP Finds Way To Bypass US Crude Export Ban · · Score: 1

    Yes, this post is a little inflammatory, but also insightful. I'm really sick of seeing unpopular opinions summarily modded down here. It's not that Slashdot is any more leftist than it used to be-- it's simply more belligerent.

  10. Re:Yes, but... on BP Finds Way To Bypass US Crude Export Ban · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Taxing things to change behavior does not work, because one thing government likes as much as power is MONEY. Once they have succeeded in reducing demand through taxes, the revenue will go down and they'll cry that some other tax (probably the income tax) will have to go up to make up the "shortfall".

  11. Re:Isn't government spending part of GDP? on Is Traffic Congestion Growing Three Times As Fast As Economy? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe Yahoo really had a lot of telecommuters.

  12. Re:..or without a background check? on Facebook Wants To Block Illegal Gun Sales · · Score: 1

    I assume you meant "seize" when you said "cease".

  13. Re:..or without a background check? on Facebook Wants To Block Illegal Gun Sales · · Score: 1

    Do you seriously believe that a person who's afraid to go to a store to buy condoms is not afraid to get an abortion?

  14. Re:Simply put... on Facebook Wants To Block Illegal Gun Sales · · Score: 1

    Actually, in many places vehicular manslaughter while under the influence will get your license permanently revoked. But the inconsistency is what we're focused on here.

  15. Re:Fake "survey" is fake on One In Ten Americans Thinks HTML Is a Type of Sexually Transmitted Infection · · Score: 0

    With this one weird trick, you can get atheists to cite any dicey poll that confirms their preconceived notions.

  16. On the internet... on One In Ten Americans Thinks HTML Is a Type of Sexually Transmitted Infection · · Score: 1

    On the internet, there are trolls...

    "This is not a scientific study."

  17. Re:Like the good ole days on Google Won't Enable Chrome Video Acceleration Because of Linux GPU Bugs · · Score: 5, Informative

    3dfx and Matrox. Millennium + Voodoo, bitches!

  18. Re: Exploit, or dumb users? on New Attack Hijacks DNS Traffic From 300,000 Routers · · Score: 1

    DD-WRT has some issue with sessions and cookies. That's why you can sometimes get error messages when making changes after the router reboots, but you didn't exit your browser session.

  19. Re:The answer is simple on Pro-Vaccination Efforts May Be Scaring Wary Parents From Shots · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah, let's teach her a lesson for using the same freedoms the rest of us have!

  20. Re:Solution - Face-saving way out on Pro-Vaccination Efforts May Be Scaring Wary Parents From Shots · · Score: 1

    That will work great until parents are incarcerated and children end up in foster homes.

  21. Re:victimless crime on Child Porn Arrest For Cameron Aide Who Helped Plan UK Net Filters · · Score: 1

    I agree that is different; in fact, more dangerous. But I disapprove of the overreaching government machine that has been constructed to deal with controlled substances and the criminal enterprise it spawned in turn.

  22. Re:Efficency? on PETA Abandons $1 Million Prize For Artificial Chicken · · Score: 1
    No, he didn't miss the whole point. YOU missed this sentence:

    What certainly could be done is regulation to give way more space for the hen / chicken, small tariff on imports from countries that don't have a strong enough regulation yet.

  23. Re:Ah PETA... on PETA Abandons $1 Million Prize For Artificial Chicken · · Score: 1

    This has been reported by media outlets you probably like, such as Huffington Post, so dispense with poisoning the well and admit PETA is an extremist organization.

  24. Re:victimless crime on Child Porn Arrest For Cameron Aide Who Helped Plan UK Net Filters · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sounds just like alcohol abuse to me.

  25. Slashdot has a UK bias on Child Porn Arrest For Cameron Aide Who Helped Plan UK Net Filters · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Seriously, Slashdot. Why should the the rest of the world care what happens on some Downy Street or whatever?