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  1. Re:The UK is regressing to Victorian times... on UK Citizens May Soon Need License To Photograph Stuff They Already Own (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It depends how you define monarchy.

    Humpty-dumpty defined it as a turnip.

    The fact that some guy called the Duke of Westminster owns large parts of central London is another.

    You don't have such a thing as inherited wealth over there? The fact that he gets to wear a gold hat and a weasel-skin coat on special occasions isn't particularly relevant.

    a big clearing out of your ruling class and its institutions

    Like in 1066? Plenty of them in the late 16th/early 17th centuries too.

    I just think many British people are so used to these sorts of things that they don't realise that it is not normal that someone from the North without a posh accent grows up believing they can never be prime minister because they weren't born into the right family.

    People like Harold Wilson, Neil Kinnock or, in the interest of balance, Margaret Thatcher?

  2. Frist amagrand on WSJ: New Education Bill To Get More Coding In Classrooms · · Score: 1

    WSJ is an anagram of SJW. Coincidence? I think not.

  3. Re:The UK is regressing to Victorian times... on UK Citizens May Soon Need License To Photograph Stuff They Already Own (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Except it won't. It'll be a compromise between positions very few people voted for and positions a tiny number voted for.

    The "watermelon" greens were in that position in Belgium for a long time. In Israel it was some Zionist nutbags. Even with FPTP, UK Tories have had to rely on the "fuck the pope" brigade on many occasions.

    P.S. how do you work out a compromise with single-issue parties?

  4. Re: The UK is regressing to Victorian times... on UK Citizens May Soon Need License To Photograph Stuff They Already Own (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Someone perhaps who's one of the (roughly - 30 odd % of the 60 odd % who voted) 20% of the population who voted for this government.

    You could get that figure down by half by including people like minors.

    You've come so far. Why not go full retard and bung the population of China in the denominator too?

  5. Re:We can only detect planets they pass their star on Looking For Jupiter-Class Planets Indicates Solar Systems Like Ours Are Rare (theconversation.com) · · Score: 1

    What's the distribution of the stars' ecliptics relative to the galactic equivalent? I know ours is tilted, or the milky way would be round the equator, which it isn't. And I looked it up.

    Presumably we can deduce it for those where we can detect expolanets by, say, doppler shifts. But isn't there a selection bias there?

  6. Re:Because the arms are to help on Why Haven't the Arms of Spiral Galaxies Wound Up After All This Time? (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Wild guess: that was Joe_Dragon.

  7. Re:But can we explain on Why Haven't the Arms of Spiral Galaxies Wound Up After All This Time? (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    The title is appropriate, given that all ShouldFuckTotallyOff does is wind the readers up.

  8. Re:Spiral compression waves on Why Haven't the Arms of Spiral Galaxies Wound Up After All This Time? (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    A new study suggests it's the dark aether.

    Perhaps I should start a shit pseudoblog too.

  9. Carl Sagen was correct when he calculated the odds for another world with intelligent life.

    Never heard of him. Perhaps the odds are even lower than we thought?

  10. Re:A 404 means things are getting better! on Why Haven't the Arms of Spiral Galaxies Wound Up After All This Time? (forbes.com) · · Score: 2

    someone should tell the Forbes board that they've hired a bunch of incompetents to do their site.

    Ah, so Dice found a buyer at last?

  11. It's just typing (and you overuse colons) on Gigster Wants To Be the Uber of Software Development (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Almost anyone within a ~50 mile radius can drive a car and work for Uber, the same cannot be said for software development.

    No, in that case it's more like 12,500 miles.

    Driving is an un-skilled labor profession. Software development isn't.

    Some software development isn't. Good luck convincing a PHB of even that.

  12. Ethan's gone off on his fixie to see if Trader Joes have one.

  13. I worked at an instrument maker and they told me it was to simplify the spares situation; you don't need to keep [at least] one of every specific instrument to hand, just a few generic boxes that you flash the right software onto.

  14. Re:Why would anyone sue a photographer over this? on UK Citizens May Soon Need License To Photograph Stuff They Already Own (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    My point exactly. If someone builds another London Eye or La Defence or whatever I think the architect has a right to be more than a bit miffed. A photo of it? They can go suck a badger's nads.

  15. Re:The UK is regressing to Victorian times... on UK Citizens May Soon Need License To Photograph Stuff They Already Own (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    a far too cosy relationship between the monarchy (and its periphery) and parliament.

    Complete nonsense.

    Will you be voting for Trump, or Clinton?

  16. Re:Good luck with that. on Ask Slashdot: Cost Effective Way To Soundproof My Home? · · Score: 1

    False dichotomy, excluded middle.

    Take your pick, moron.

  17. Re:Headline Writers Untie! on UK Citizens May Soon Need License To Photograph Stuff They Already Own (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    A photo of a vase is not a vase. Neither is a poem about one, or an interpretive dance.

  18. Re:The UK is regressing to Victorian times... on UK Citizens May Soon Need License To Photograph Stuff They Already Own (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    One of those countries is Italy, and another is Belgium.

    They're both crap.

  19. Re:The UK is regressing to Victorian times... on UK Citizens May Soon Need License To Photograph Stuff They Already Own (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    One, it was closer to 40% than 30%.

    Two, boundary changes are decided by a neutral, independent body.

  20. Re:Read: "Warner avoids massive class-action lawsu on "Happy Birthday To You" Set To Finally Reach the Public Domain · · Score: 1

    Why does that mean it has to be shit? There are plenty of children's tunes that aren't.

  21. Re:Cruz can't be trusted on Ted Cruz Wants Minimum H-1B Wage of $110,000 (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    If the qualifications involve a PhD, 20 years of experience in C++17 and X86_128 assembly plus age < 30 I'm not surprised.

  22. Re:Uber of Software Development? on Gigster Wants To Be the Uber of Software Development (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    You might, but they don't.

  23. Exercise for the reader on Why Is Gravity the Weakest Force? · · Score: 1

    It is left as an exercise for then reader to make up your own joke about attracting clicks.

    For bonus points, work in a few hipster clichés, all of which are true in the submitter's case.

  24. Re:Requirements on Gigster Wants To Be the Uber of Software Development (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Otherwise, you dump the analyst problem onto end-users, who are then constantly in contact with the contractor trying to tune the software via trial and error.

    I thought that's what all this agile shit was about?

  25. Re:Uber of Software Development? on Gigster Wants To Be the Uber of Software Development (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I hope that's per week and not per month!