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  1. Re:Final nail? on Global Warming Has Made the North Greener · · Score: 1

    Gonna do something similar this year now that I have a credit card that charges me the same interest for cash advance as for any other purchase.

  2. Re:Final nail? on Global Warming Has Made the North Greener · · Score: 1

    How do you die by moving to where the food is?

  3. Re:Final nail? on Global Warming Has Made the North Greener · · Score: 1

    CSAs are an excellent solution to the local buying problem. The issue with them, of course, becomes justice for the poor who can't afford a $1000/year (on average) subscription- even though they likely spend far more than that on food over the course of a year.

    I believe the solution there is a sort of a hybrid CSA- where the farm laborers are part time and paid for with actual shares in the farm.

  4. Re:stop worrying about time on Ask Slashdot: How Many Time Standards Are There? · · Score: 0

    122 posts in, and nobody even bothered to mention that the real problem with time is that it is a highly subjective measurement.

  5. Re:Final nail? on Global Warming Has Made the North Greener · · Score: 1

    For the past two centuries, the juniper forests of Northern California have been invading Eastern Oregon.

  6. Re:Final nail? on Global Warming Has Made the North Greener · · Score: 2, Informative

    #1 thing to do about it- stop living in cities.
    #2 thing to do about it- those who are unable to do #1, should plant food.
    #3 thing to do about it- buy local as the #1 use of greenhouse gas causing fuel is SHIPPING.

    None of this is rocket science. If industrialization is the problem, we need to de-industrialize.

    And yet, I find, those who complain the most about global warming, are not the rural populations, but the urban ones.

  7. Re:Final nail? on Global Warming Has Made the North Greener · · Score: 1

    That seems rather non-intuitive, got proof?

  8. Re:Hooray - more ways to make more humans. on Scientists Have Re-Cloned Mice To the 25th Generation · · Score: 1

    And that's why you posted AC, right?

  9. Re:Hard to believe on Scientists Have Re-Cloned Mice To the 25th Generation · · Score: 1
  10. Re:My god. Try visting reality. on Tesla Motors Loses Appeal Against BBC's Top Gear · · Score: 1

    I still want to see American History Channel's Top Gear race a Tesla Roadster vs this guy's homebrew:
    http://www.plasmaboyracing.com/

    My guess is that the White Zombie, while having a much smaller battery pack and thus a lot less range, beats the Tesla in the quarter mile.

  11. Re:I'm not even a fan, but on Orson Scott Card's Superman Story Shelved After Homophobia Controversy · · Score: 1

    I think you're missing a step of logic. The Illuminati decides who will run, and the voters get to pick the lizard of their choice, who will do exactly the same stuff as the other lizard. But you've got to vote for the lizard because otherwise the wrong lizard might get into office.

  12. Re:I'm not even a fan, but on Orson Scott Card's Superman Story Shelved After Homophobia Controversy · · Score: 1

    My guess- that gay marriage is being pushed so hard because they KNOW that attitudes about gays are shaped by family members, and that passing gay marriage will mean that it will eventually be challenged demographically as non-gay-gene families outbreed gay gene families.

    Thus they need for EVERYBODY to not only tolerate, but celebrate, homosexuality, and will punish strongly anybody who does not in the re-education camps.

  13. Re:That's not DRM on DRM Chair Self-Destructs After 8 Uses · · Score: 1

    I have a store near me. It requires special paint around the parking lot. They failed to put that paint on the curbs, thus anybody with enough strength to push the cart through the landscaping, is able to steal one.

  14. Re:Translation: We Don't Have Gigabit Fiber on Time Warner Cable: No Consumer Demand For Gigabit Internet · · Score: 1

    Real translation: We refuse to price our top products at a level that the market can bear.

  15. Re:I was going to moderate in this discussion but on Long-Lost Continent Found Under the Indian Ocean · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure how non-fictitious this part of the Bible is, but yes, the Indian Ocean is where the four ancient rivers that are said to connect at Eden meet.

  16. Re:Cheap labor trained with tax dollars on Tech Leaders Encourage Teaching Schoolkids How To Code · · Score: 1

    If I had mod points and wasn't already commenting in the discussion, I'd mod this up. YES!!! Teaching kids to actually program, in a variety of languages, might be the ultimate defeat of the keyword syndrome in HR.

  17. Re:Sure! on Tech Leaders Encourage Teaching Schoolkids How To Code · · Score: 1

    This was my first time interviewing non-locally to me, so I don't know. It is NOT normal in my local market to pay for somebody to come interview, ever. In fact, there was recently a story on the news about a teenager who happened to run into a restaurant manager while walking 15 miles to a job interview because he couldn't afford bus fare. When he didn't get the job he was interviewing for, the restaurant manager posted the story on his facebook page and offered the kid a job. It went viral.

    It is NOT common in any other industry, and I never bothered to ask until this opportunity.

  18. SG-1 on Russian Meteor Likely an Apollo Asteroid Chunk · · Score: 3, Funny

    So it wasn't a Gu'ald attack?

  19. Re:no feedback on Minority Report's Legacy of Terrible Interfaces · · Score: 1

    Exactly why I did NOT get a Samsung Galaxy S3 and went for a Samsung Galaxy S Relay instead. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find the Phone key (though for some reason there is an e-mail key, a text message key, function-.= .com, and a voice mode key, all squeezed into the thumbboard). I also have yet to learn to touch type numbers on it.

  20. Re:Middle school math teacher here on Tech Leaders Encourage Teaching Schoolkids How To Code · · Score: 1

    http://raptor.martincarlisle.com/

    I recently had a career fair to do at my kid's school. I looked up "freeware flowcharting", and found this. Took me all of a half hour to program in the Friendship Algorithm from Big Bang Theory as a demo.

    Looks like a great first language to me, and while it is an interpreter, it contains a translator to several other high level languages as a starting point.

  21. Re:Teaching kids... on Tech Leaders Encourage Teaching Schoolkids How To Code · · Score: 1

    The problem was Java. He should have started with this:
    http://raptor.martincarlisle.com/

  22. Re:Sure! on Tech Leaders Encourage Teaching Schoolkids How To Code · · Score: 1

    Many Recent College Graduates are the former, and many people who actually have a family and/or invested in real estate are the later. Someday, maybe, HR departments will recognize this fact, and put the extra money they save by hiring an RCG into free training classes, and offer telecomuting options for the more senior positions.

    I can dream, can't I?

    Except it isn't such a dream. I was contacted in my recent 2 month job search by a company 3000 miles from my home who had identified me as a potential recruit with the skills they desired- AND was willing to let me work from home, and had I made it to round 2, would have actually paid for my plane ticket for the interview.

    I found something closer because my wife runs a daycare and I don't want to try to code with 6 screaming kids in the background.

  23. Re:Cheap labor trained with tax dollars on Tech Leaders Encourage Teaching Schoolkids How To Code · · Score: 2

    Salaries have been going up steadily in this arena for the past two years. Software Engineering is just about the only industry that has.

    Having said that, if they really wanted to solve the problem, they'd try to educate Human Resources better, and encourage more on the job training instead of refusing to hire anybody without 6 years of experience in a technology that only emerged last year.

  24. Change your e-mail address on Ask Slashdot: Identity Theft Attempt In Progress; How To Respond? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sometimes, it becomes necessary to change your e-mail address.

  25. Re:If you wanted to know about humans, on We Aren't the World: Why Americans Make Bad Study Subjects · · Score: 1

    " If the military isn't against the state already, it will be when their friends and families are killed by WMDs launched by their employer."

    The corps is mother, the corps is father. Train your soldiers right and all of their friends and family will BE military, and employed by the State.