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  1. Re:Well, that's embarrassing on Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate Muhammad · · Score: 1

    As my ex father in law, a Professor Emeritus in theology used to say, "If all the splinters of the cross were assembled, the cross would have been too big to drag through the streets." As you said, forgers were plentiful and good at their craft. Usually it was just wood chunks and chicken bones, but this one was exemplary.

  2. Re:So it's not unlimited, then... on T-Mobile Starts Going After Heavy Users of Tethered Data · · Score: 1

    Most of the time the food goes to waste.

    No it doesn't, that's just rationalization. Restaurants (successful, anyway) are *very* good at managing product waste. There's very little waste from a buffet.

  3. Re: So it's not unlimited, then... on T-Mobile Starts Going After Heavy Users of Tethered Data · · Score: 1

    Mud hurled by someone without the balls to use their own ID.

  4. Why should the "industry" be aware? on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Do If You Were Suddenly Wealthy? · · Score: 1

    Unless you mean "those seeking to enter", then this is yet another call on an "industry" to solve the problems of individuals. Notch can't deal -- Notch's problem, mot "the industry's".

  5. Re:It's a hacked Deja Vu on "Hack" Typeface Is Open Source, Easy On the IDEs · · Score: 1

    since the widescreen monitor plague has made vertical space a premium

    I seriously do not understand what you mean. Buy a square screen monitor.

  6. Re:Here's the article on "Hack" Typeface Is Open Source, Easy On the IDEs · · Score: 1

    An actual, out-loud laugh. Thank you.

  7. Re:Cost on More Cities Use DNA To Catch Dog Owners Who Don't Pick Up Waste · · Score: 2

    You sir or ma'am have not been around horse shit. Just an FYI, cattle crap stinks too.

  8. Re:Much rejoicing on Stephen Hawking Presents Theory On Getting Information Out of a Black Hole · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I missed the bulletin were you were appointed laughter arbiter.

  9. Re:Product doesn't even _need_ a "scathing" review on Life With the Dash Button: Good Design For Amazon, Bad For Everyone Else · · Score: 1

    I think you have your pronouns confused. You meant to use "I" but mistakenly used "you".

  10. Re:Life after Amazon on Life With the Dash Button: Good Design For Amazon, Bad For Everyone Else · · Score: 1

    1) I've never had Amazon sit on an order for a week without a notice that the item wasn't in stock.

    2) I just went to Amazon and ran a test. The shipping price is *not* built into the item price. I ordered one, the two comupter mice. Same mouse each time. The shipping was $8.29 and $8.49. So your statement is demonstrably false.

  11. Re:Easy to make the Dash button kick butt... on Life With the Dash Button: Good Design For Amazon, Bad For Everyone Else · · Score: 1

    They're new, so they're novel. They'll mature.

  12. Re:Wonderful Thing on Life With the Dash Button: Good Design For Amazon, Bad For Everyone Else · · Score: 1

    Ah, purposefully switching "chooses" from purchaser to seller. Of *course* the seller chooses their price. *All* of the competing vendors do. Then the customer chooses the price they like for the goods they'll receive.

    If you're going to imply someone's shallow, don't be so shallow yourself.

  13. Re:Have you ever been to a grocery store? on Life With the Dash Button: Good Design For Amazon, Bad For Everyone Else · · Score: 1

    Now figure in the bulk storage of the cold restock items and how to get them to the shopping shelves. You've got half a clue and half an argument.

  14. Re:Actually great UX for everyone else on Life With the Dash Button: Good Design For Amazon, Bad For Everyone Else · · Score: 1

    "My marketing team" -- right AC, right.

  15. Re:Actually great UX for everyone else on Life With the Dash Button: Good Design For Amazon, Bad For Everyone Else · · Score: 1

    The immediate feedback is the button push and knowledge you ordered the laundry soap. Also, there's no *MAYBE*, the purchase is sent and the soap will arrive later. (Most people don't wait for the empty box to get more soap and so don't need it to materialize on the spot, they put it on a list and get it later. Much the same logic as the button.)

    I think it will catch on somewhat.

  16. Re:That's all that consumer-oriented businesses do on Life With the Dash Button: Good Design For Amazon, Bad For Everyone Else · · Score: 1

    The problem with the complainers is they act as if their complaints must be taken as fact, not opinion and hurt feelings.

    Complain all you want, but if you generally receive that little finger wave brush-off, you might reevaluate the need for publicly airing your personal opinion as if the other party were an actual villain.

  17. Re:That's all that consumer-oriented businesses do on Life With the Dash Button: Good Design For Amazon, Bad For Everyone Else · · Score: 1

    I said yes, but labeling isn't in the interests of any producer,...

    So, you lied to him to win your argument. Labeling most certainly is in the interest of the producer because it's an interest of the consumer.

    if none of them labeled, then would customers just choose to starve to death?

    Another piece of bogosity. This is definitely *not* the only alternative available.

    Your friend missed two fallacies in your #2 "gotcha" query.

  18. Re:That's all that consumer-oriented businesses do on Life With the Dash Button: Good Design For Amazon, Bad For Everyone Else · · Score: 1

    If the practice doesn't influence all the other companies to use the same practice, what's the deal?

    Figured I'd just use a hypothetical question since one appears to by your entire argument as well.

  19. Re:Well-regulated militia on Do You Have a Right To Use Electrical Weapons? · · Score: 1

    Oh please.

    First, I attributed the first definition, so you're simply FUDding by implying it's mine. Go bark up a real tree.

    Second, I was pointing out that the promoted definition of militia was too narrow and so the subsequent argument against the public obtaining arms is flawed.

    Third... Well hell, I at least brought in a definition. How's this? You grab the legal definition and post it.

  20. Re:Exclusivity on Do You Have a Right To Use Electrical Weapons? · · Score: 1

    No, not constant fear, constant vigilance. Other people cannot be trusted without qualm. ISIS doesn't give a rat's ass what you want civilization to look like. Neither does the street thug.

  21. Re:Well-regulated militia on Do You Have a Right To Use Electrical Weapons? · · Score: 1

    There's no way in hell any government would pass a law forbidding its own soldiers from carrying weapons.

    Maybe not law but we have a number of dead military personal gunned down in their offices to demonstrate our military will indeed disarm their troops.

    I'll presume to correct your statement to mean "any sane government".

  22. Re:Well-regulated militia on Do You Have a Right To Use Electrical Weapons? · · Score: 1

    Merriam-Webster:

    militia: the whole body of able-bodied male citizens declared by law as being subject to call to military service.

    Considering we don't want to discriminate against women, that means the entire able-bodied population.

    This leaves "well regulated". The laws regulating firearm ownership pretty much have that covered.

  23. Re:You can't teach the unteachable. on Police Training Lacks Scientific Input · · Score: 1

    Have you really had such radically different experiences?

    I certainly have. I've worked in numerous cities and I have never once come across the atmosphere you describe. I have met and been friends with a number of officers and none of them match that description.

    Your description of "every last" cop is so antithetical to my experience (and blatantly biased) that I have to assume that you're the common denominator, not the police.

  24. Re:Send then to train in Norway and the UK on Police Training Lacks Scientific Input · · Score: 1

    Not a crime. What's your point?

  25. Re:It's a union thing on Police Training Lacks Scientific Input · · Score: 1

    So you want to give the police the authority to morally judge someone's state of mind prior to any illegal actions and then "guide" them (with the authority of law), even though they are currently breaking no laws?

    Piss off to that.

    "Peace Officer implies their duty is to prevent those laws from being broken in the first place."

    That is not and has never been the implication other than by their simple presence doing so. Please provide some support for your supposition.