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  1. And keep upping the weirdness if nobody calls it. Ten Forward, The Moon, Mordor...

  2. Critical thinking involves realizing that you may not be given all the relevant data and may need to find additional information to get a good answer.

    This isn't like that because there is no relevant data. If it was "how many footballs can you fit in a swimming pool" there is relevant data, even if you don't have it to hand. You could even state it as something like ( L x W x H ) / D^3, and go on from there to discuss different forms of packing, whether you actually are packing them like atoms in a crystal or just chucking them in randomly, whether they're actual round footballs that you use with your feet, whether the water's been emptied out etc etc.

    This is more like "What's the difference between a duck". Fucking rubbish.

  3. 1. Not if you need a security clearance, or even lower levels of security handling personal records, etc.

    Yeah, competition is for those private sector saps.

  4. It doesn't have systemd, that's why you don't like it.

  5. Re:A civilisation brought low by global warming on Laser Scans Reveal Maya 'Megalopolis' Below Guatemalan Jungle (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure AmiMoJo will find some way how to blame whitey.

  6. Does it have wireless? And how about the storage space?

  7. Re:There is always an answer on This Chinese Math Problem Has No Answer. Perhaps, It Has a Lot of Them. (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Whomever said "There is no such thing as a dumb question" was not very wise.

    Theirs allot have it a bout.

  8. Re: Any that aren't about 'social justice'. on Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Sci-Fi Books, Movies, and TV Shows You're Looking Forward To? · · Score: 1

    So I guess the 'Alt-Right' have been around since the 1800s then?

    Don't be silly, it would be far too modern for them.

  9. Re: Any that aren't about 'social justice'. on Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Sci-Fi Books, Movies, and TV Shows You're Looking Forward To? · · Score: 2

    Marry Shelly wrong that novel in 1818

    Two wrongs don't make a right, but apparently one makes a write.

  10. Re: Any that aren't about 'social justice'. on Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Sci-Fi Books, Movies, and TV Shows You're Looking Forward To? · · Score: 1

    Oh, come on!

  11. Re:There is always an answer on This Chinese Math Problem Has No Answer. Perhaps, It Has a Lot of Them. (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What have I got in my pocket?

  12. Re:Hu. No. on Why Tether's Collapse Would Be Bad For Cryptocurrencies (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Bitcoin still has 400,000 times more hashing power than its nearest competitor, Ethereum.

    If you dig a one cubic yard hole and then fill it in again and I dig a 400,000 cubic yard hole and then fill it in I'm better?

  13. Ob on Big Backing For 'Universal Stylus' Campaign (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Looks like they're supporting universal run-on sentences too.

  14. Re:This is a BS article.. on Amazon's Push Into Healthcare Just Cost the Industry $30 Billion In Market Cap (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Err...if you didn't allow anyone to make money (a profit) with healthcare, why would anyone go into that industry for a lively hood?

    s/healthcare/law enforcement/. Funny thing, there's plenty of cops out there.

    s/healthcare/military service/. There's plenty of soldiers. Literally an army of them.

    Your logic seems a bit flawed somewhere.

    P.S. "livelihood". One word. It's not some kind of headgear.

  15. Re:The worker didn't misunderstand anything on False Hawaii Missile Alert Sent After Drill Recording Said 'This Is Not A Drill' (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Thing is, if you say "exercise" at the beginning and then say "this is not a drill" it's quite reasonable to assume that the later one countermands the earlier one.

    A drill should never say "this is not a drill". That should be obvious to anyone with an ounce of common sense.

  16. Re:So the worker did their job on False Hawaii Missile Alert Sent After Drill Recording Said 'This Is Not A Drill' (npr.org) · · Score: 4, Funny

    This may be a drill, or it may not be a drill.

    Ask yourself, do you feel lucky?

  17. Re:VERY hard to beat the alliance on MPEG Founder Says the MPEG Business Model Is Broken (chiariglione.org) · · Score: 1

    Pronounced "a-hat". It's an abbreviation & Bowdlerisation of asshat, i.e. editormsmanishjavaid.

  18. Re:The easy reader version on MPEG Founder Says the MPEG Business Model Is Broken (chiariglione.org) · · Score: 2

    ... and laches.

  19. Re:What are the displaced workers doing? on Automation To Take 1 in 3 Jobs in UK's Northern Centres, Report Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    An advisory plebiscite designed to assuage the rise of the populist right is no way to govern a modern democracy.

    It's better than moistened bints lobbing scimitars.

    But not by much.

  20. Re:Too funk to druck on MPEG Founder Says the MPEG Business Model Is Broken (chiariglione.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    1) They killed the goose.
    2) Then they cooked it and ate it.
    3) They made geese extinct. Many, many ducks were collateral damage.
    4) ...
    5) Now they wonder why there's no more golden eggs.

  21. Re: Static typing; sharing server logic with brows on Employers Want JavaScript, But Developers Want Python, Survey Finds (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    If I was under thirty with tribal tattoos and piercings you could hang a towel on I'd invent my own language that translates on the fly into whatever you want.

    As long as you want swift or go.

  22. Re: Static typing; sharing server logic with brows on Employers Want JavaScript, But Developers Want Python, Survey Finds (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Really top talent doesnÃ(TM)t really get bothered about dynamic or static typing.

    Ronnie O'Sullivan could massacre me at snooker using a broom handle.

    He'd still be better using an actual cue.

  23. Re:Pro tip from Europe... on First 'Jackpotting' Attacks Hit US ATMs (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Why is it ill-informed? Not all Romanians are card-skimmers and not all card-skimmers are Romanian, but they're still vastly overrepresented in this form of crime relative to their percentage in the population.

  24. what I remember from photography class in school in the 1970's is that it is anything but trivial.

    Doable, certainly...

    You should be at +4 insightful, not GP.