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  1. Re:We're not doomed [Re:We're Doomed.] on 'Extreme and Unusual' Climate Trends Continue After Record 2016 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    There is now and has been for a while significant changes going on. Those in a frenzy however, either believe or really wish that it were possible to throw a switch of some nature and it all be magically done. Those types will complain until that last 1% has been switched and then look for something else to complain about. It's the hysteria that's annoying about all this.

  2. Re:Common Economic problem on Why American Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors With Ukrainian Firmware (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no dearth of tractor brands. What the fuck is a farmer union?

  3. Re:Use Mahindra & Mahindra on Why American Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors With Ukrainian Firmware (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    And you will be known locally as a jackass, not someone with an opinion who simply bought another brand. It will be remembered, and in short order you will be severely hamstrung in simply doing business with a lot of people because they will simply avoid you. Things don't work the same way in rural communities as they do in cities where there's always someone at hand you haven't purposely screwed over. And we tend to see Joe as someone caught in the middle of things, not a hostile adversary.

  4. Re:Open Tractor(tm) on Why American Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors With Ukrainian Firmware (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    1) Can't operate your machine on a cloudy day.
    2) Realistic view of how much acreage a battery can work.
    3) Down time while battery charges.

  5. Re:Open Tractor(tm) on Why American Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors With Ukrainian Firmware (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You see out here in the midwest folks are mighty proud of the color of their tractor.

    You must live in a very different part of the MW than I do. Around here, no one give a crap about the color of their tractor, only if it's reliable and you can see many examples of one farmer owning multiple brands of tractors.

  6. No, I think most people are much smarter than many self-declared intellectuals like to admit. Most readers will instead correctly conclude that todayâ(TM)s intelligencia is full of shit. And I canâ(TM)t even blame them for it.

      Again, yay!, a physicist that isn't a pompous comic fanboi. Seriously, I cruise physics and astro sites regularly and it's almost embarrassing how many comic book concepts are written about as if they were reality on just the barest of mathematical hints.

  7. What's "the company dime"? The time they are compensating you for, or the equipment they purchased?

    Both, if not agreed to.

  8. You agree to it or you don't. What's hard about that?

  9. Re:Don't do what Evan Brown did on GitHub Now Lets Its Workers Keep the IP When They Use Company Resources For Personal Projects (qz.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's happened a couple times with me. What I did was cross out the terms I didn't like, initial and date them and return the form. One time they simply counter signed and filed them, the other they didn't like it but after I told them that was the contract I'd sign, they did as well.

    Never sign away anything you haven't been paid to do.

  10. Republicans do this kind of bait and switch crap all the time

    "If you like your doctor..."
    "If you like your insurance plan..."
    "We'll have to vote for..."

    Want another rock for that last unshattered glass wall?

  11. sometimes even before and after their tenure , regardless of when or how they produce it

    Emphasis mine. Now provide cites and back it up.

  12. Re:The same way you teach an engineer... on Ask Slashdot: How To Teach Generic Engineers Coding, Networking, and Computing? · · Score: 1

    Shhhhh..... I want to watch.

  13. You got your "they"s wrong there Sparky. The author decides if they want their book on for free. I have one for free and yes it's only one of a series. It's called a loss-leader and that's the entire point of giving it away.

  14. Whenever I search Amazon, I do it to find the item, then log on to purchase it. I've never seen the prices jump.

  15. Re:What does the market say? on How To Close the Gender Pay Gap By 2044 (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Who makes up the group that works at that wage?

    Women. Whereas men make up the kitchen and support staff, who are typically paid minimum wage and given nowhere the deference the female wait staff is. They don't get to request shifts, they're just assigned and they're *always* the ones staying until 3AM to clean the place. They also take home less. I've worked in restaurants.

  16. Re:non-issue then on How To Close the Gender Pay Gap By 2044 (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Hell no. That which the government subsidizes, the government controls more. Why? Because those subsidies need to be extracted under pain of jail time from the rest of the population.

  17. Re:No subject on How To Close the Gender Pay Gap By 2044 (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    No it isn't. The phrase isn't that straightjacketed.

  18. No, but you are required to license U.S. copyright in the book to the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped.

    Could you provide a cite please? I found nothing to this effect.

  19. T'weren't democracy - t'was bureaucracy which has no unique master.

  20. Re:Reckless yes. Half the weight of a pillow, plas on Man Gets 30 Days In Jail For Drone Crash That Knocked Woman Unconscious (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Utter bullshit. The average pillow is nowhere near four pounds.

  21. Having people already in jail is of no consideration when sentencing the next, else you're effectively rolling back crimes. And this wasn't trivial shit, relative or otherwise. You now have no argument.

  22. Re:Coding IS the new slide rule on Arizona Bill Would Make Students In Grades 4-12 Participate Once In An Hour of Code (azpbs.org) · · Score: 1

    You may not believe it, but back in the pre-1970s, every student taking science courses was expected to learn how to use a slide rule.

    Untrue. I graduated high school in '67. You could make that statement true if you say certain elective science courses.

  23. Time is finite and even an hour counts. When schools aren't even teaching Econ, Civics or proper history, teaching programming is low on my priority list. Hell, *graduating* students are almost illiterate and innumerate now. Let's correct that first before subtracting an hour by making it mandatory to teach programming, which requires both.

  24. Re:s/drug trials/climate change/g on Most Scientists 'Can't Replicate Studies By Their Peers' (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    This of course presumes the experiment **can** be replicated.

    As for "peerless", there have been researchers at top labs (Bell, for one) that have fabricated their research.

  25. Re:Not about the free market on PewDiePie Calls Out the 'Old-School Media' For Spiteful Dishonesty · · Score: 1

    ... regularly makes this claim and other arguments associated with white supremacy.

    Is that anything like 'abortion should be cheap and easily accessible' being associated with eugenics?