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  1. Re:Internet ? on North Korean Internet Is Down · · Score: 1

    I believe 3 years in this education center might help your memory, comrade.

  2. Re:Internet ? on North Korean Internet Is Down · · Score: 1

    Yes. It was invented by Kim Jung Un. Al Gore only took the credit.

    (OK, yeah, we all know Al Gore didn't really say that. It's a joke.)

  3. Re:About Fucking Time on In Breakthrough, US and Cuba To Resume Diplomatic Relations · · Score: 5, Insightful

    For years, the only thing this served was to try to get votes in Florida. And even then, I do not know how much good that did.

    Either Obama has written off the Cuban vote in Miami or he has decided to concede FLA to the GOP. Either way, Obama has finally done something right.

    Opening up relations with Cuba makes too much financial sense for pride or antiquated ideas of anticommunism to get in the way.

  4. Re:Fear the Asian carp on How One Man Changed the Ecology of the Great Lakes With Salmon · · Score: 1

    The Asian carp is not going to destroy a 7 billion dollar a year industry any more than the zebra mussel did. The Asian carp will change the 7 billion dollar a year industry. The Chinese love Asian carp. I have had it, it's not bad. If it had a better name, I suspect it would sell better. Call it Asian Whitefish or Pekin Perch, some nonsense like that.

  5. As an IT Manager on Should IT Professionals Be Exempt From Overtime Regulations? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm an IT Manager. I weekly am required to make my dudes work 45-50 hours. Two or three times a year, they put in 65 - 70 hour weeks. They get nothing for the OT except MAYBE comp-time. I don't even get the comp-time.

    I am in favor of this. If the IT dudes were treated the same as everyone else, they wouldn't be required to work themselves half to death and get a reputation for being sullen.

  6. Re:Damn Dirty Apes on New Effort To Grant Legal Rights To Chimpanzees Fails · · Score: 2

    If they landed, we should hope they would extend personage / suffrage to us.

  7. Antiquated technology on Breath Test For Pot Being Developed At WSU · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As great as any new technology is, I hope this is antiquated by law changes before the technical application machines become practical.

  8. Re:Don't fight it on Ask Slashdot: Making a 'Wife Friendly' Gaming PC? · · Score: 1

    You need to pay closer attention to the above comment. If gaming is important to you, your fiance knew this before she became your wife. If she demands that you change now, you need to ask yourself what are you willing to give up.

    For example, let's say you have a dog. You've fond of your dog. You marry, and then the wife demands you put the dog outside. Or give it away.

    It's only a difference in degree. Your choices matter as well. If gaming is central to your happiness, then the rig belongs in the living room. If your new wife doesn't like it, then maybe she doesn't.

  9. Oh Lord on Gilbert, AZ Censors Biology Books the Old-Fashioned Way · · Score: 0

    Jesus Fucking Christ.

  10. Re: Why on France Wants To Get Rid of Diesel Fuel · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Nonsense. Why are you lying?

    Modern diesels cannot be told apart from gasoline. They do not stink and belch smoke. I should know, I have two.

  11. Re:Reparations for the Innocent on Hacker Threatened With 44 Felony Charges Escapes With Misdemeanor · · Score: 0

    MOD PARENT UP

  12. Re:Duh ... on Hacker Threatened With 44 Felony Charges Escapes With Misdemeanor · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ten years ago I would have said you were a crank. Five years ago I would have ignored the comment. But this country has gone seriously down hill over the past decade and a half.

    Corporate fraud and malfeasance is a major issue. Even things corporations do legally should be of paramount concern to the people of the US. There needs to be a disassembly (not continued over-regulation, which are two completely separate things) of the finance structure in the US, starting with the repeal of GLBA and the reinstatement of Glass-Steigel.

  13. Re:Story I heard as a kid on Group Tries To Open Source Seeds · · Score: 1

    OK. Let me explain it another way. A technology innovation has shifted part of the production possibility frontier curb.

  14. Re:Story I heard as a kid on Group Tries To Open Source Seeds · · Score: 4, Insightful

    My degree is in economics. What you are proposing is a zero-sum game. This is not how life works.

    If you can get more grain out of a field, that will enable you to use that grain for other purposes. Cattle, chickens, etc. Your food choices increase. You can put some of the field into lumber at the same overall bushel production. Heck, you work less hard for the same number of calories. You can get a job in manufacturing perhaps. Basically, the increase in calorie production means an overall improved quality of life for both the individual farmer and the community as a whole.

  15. Story I heard as a kid on Group Tries To Open Source Seeds · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My people were farmers. There was a story I was told as a kid.

    A farmer went on a long journey. When he came back, he had a new corn seed. He planted it and had yields 50 bushels per acre higher he had last year and it was much higher than all his neighbors. His neighbors wanted to buy seed from the farmer. He refused to sell it to him.

    The next year, the farmer's yield was only 35 bushels per acre better than his neighbors. Every year it decreased, until his yield per acre was back at the original amount.

    The moral of the story is twofold. First, crops germinate.

    Second, a rising tide raises all boats if you let it. Just because your neighbors also have more grain doesn't mean you'll have less. With more grain, you can raise more head of cattle, have more chickens, reduce the amount of grain and begin raising vegetables. Even if the price of grain declines, the amount you can do with that grain should offset the decline.

  16. Re:Split Comcast in two on Can the US Actually Cultivate Local Competition in Broadband? · · Score: 1

    I just brought in WOW for my personal experience. If this goes well, I will also consider WOW for my business environment.

  17. Re:Goddamnit on Sketches Released of New Star Wars Museum · · Score: 1

    Feel free to park at Millennium Garages, it's an easy 2 mile walk from Soldier Field. Famous of tailgating out of the wind: Underground!

  18. Goddamnit on Sketches Released of New Star Wars Museum · · Score: 2

    First that spaceship crashed into Soldier Field and now this.

    If Chicago doesn't change parties, either libertarian, GOP, green, anything really, the city is never going to be relevant again. Too much corruption and stupid projects. We have terrible roads to get anywhere, awful schools, and a joke of a county hospital system.

    Oh, but hey, shiny bean.

  19. No one on Elon Musk Warns Against Unleashing Artificial Intelligence "Demon" · · Score: 1

    No one is saying how exciting it would be to meet an "other". An intelligence other than human. That alone is worth going forward.

    Fear does not become us.

  20. Re:Makes sense to me on Elon Musk Warns Against Unleashing Artificial Intelligence "Demon" · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wrong. It's pronounced more like 'Tzar'.

  21. Re:/. is getting more and more unbelievable !! on Mark Zuckerberg Speaks Mandarin At Tsinghua University In Beijing · · Score: 1

    Just go home with your Roman.

  22. Re:Makes sense on Chemists Grow Soil Fungus On Cheerios, Discover New Antifungal Compounds · · Score: 1

    But no depth to supply the fungus with the nutrition necessary for life.

  23. Makes sense on Chemists Grow Soil Fungus On Cheerios, Discover New Antifungal Compounds · · Score: 1

    Cheerios have a very large surface area relative to size, making them an ideal choice for growing bacteria / fungus.

  24. Re:Wonder How Much? on Michigan About To Ban Tesla Sales · · Score: 2

    It doesn't benefit their auto industry.

  25. Re:Meh on Google Announces Motorola-Made Nexus 6 and HTC-Made Nexus 9 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I think that NVidia has a pretty good one for 299. The Tablet Shield.