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

    "No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."

    Attributed to General George Patton Jr

  2. Re:Silly Person on Ask Slashdot: How To "Prove" a Work Is Public Domain? · · Score: 1

    Considering that the cartoons in question are in public domain and there are multiple people creating packets of them and selling them without any problems, you are axiomatically incorrect.

  3. Re:Darn! on Octopus Genome Sequenced · · Score: 1

    If we were speaking Greek or Latin, that would be true. Scientific names mix Greek and Latin and don't really follow. From Wiki:
     

    The usual plural in English is "octopuses" (pronounced /.../), but the Greek plural form "octopodes" (pronounced /.../) is sometimes used, though less frequently than in the past. The form "octopi", as if the word were a Latin second-declension noun, is generally considered incorrect, but is in fact used.

  4. Re:So.... on CNN and CBC Sued For Pirating YouTube Video · · Score: 1

    But, importantly, those ideas, "terribly unique" or not, were **not thought up by you**. Makes your stance on how things should work for the idea's originator kind of a pick the pocket affair in appearance.

    Unless the originator gives/sells off some control, they should have exclusive constrol for a limited time. Most will agree the timeframe should be smaller, but no, don't take away the originator's control. It's the only leverage s/he has.

    Really, only the SW fanbois and grls would notice.

  5. Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid on The LibreOffice Story · · Score: 1

    I've had .doc documents that didn't open on any of seven word processors, two of which were M$. What the hell do you do then?

    The tool for the job is the document and its format. The .doc files are not a good tool. And if you're outputting a recent level, you're basically insisting others purchase a(nother) expensive word processor for your casual need.

  6. Re:The poor UI limits LIbreOffice. on The LibreOffice Story · · Score: 1

    A desire to be 'different' from OpenOffice Writer then. I have OOW up now and the italic is a barred capital I in italic.

  7. Re:Never heard of "Pixels" on "Pixels" DMCA Takedown Even Worse Than We Thought · · Score: 1

    He said "Pixels", not "pixels".

  8. They don't *have* a monopoly of patents. That's hyperbole.

  9. Re:Peh on Researchers: The Thermostat In Your Office May Be Sexist · · Score: 1

    Knowingly stooping to using pedantry as a defense is a tacit admission you know he's right.

  10. Re:flavor on Soylent 2.0 Comes Bottled and Ready To Drink · · Score: 1

    I've heard of this movie involving two girls.

  11. Re:flavor on Soylent 2.0 Comes Bottled and Ready To Drink · · Score: 1

    You mean, aside from helping you determine if something is edible?

  12. Re:Space Food Sticks v2.0 on Soylent 2.0 Comes Bottled and Ready To Drink · · Score: 1

    But they got a cafeteria full of grown adults to mix their formulas and drink them with looks on their faces of people drinking something they must than what they'd rather?

  13. Re: They aren't revolutionizing shit. on Soylent 2.0 Comes Bottled and Ready To Drink · · Score: 2

    No one is feeding you anything. You feed yourself. That makes you responsible, not a food supplier. I'd far rather live in a world where I watch some dumbass eat himself to death than live in one without Twinkies because some crusade removed everything dumbass could hurt himself by eating.

    You suffer from that magical view of the past thing as well. Your list ("obesity, heart disease, diabetes, colon cancer, and many many other serious medical issues") existed prior to modern foods. We just died of other stuff first and more often.

  14. Re:They aren't revolutionizing shit. on Soylent 2.0 Comes Bottled and Ready To Drink · · Score: 1

    PeeWee translation: "I know you are, but what am I?"

  15. Re:Well, sure, but... on Genetically Modified Rice Makes More Food, Less Greenhouse Gas · · Score: 1

    But, if you put a gene in there that produces significantly more or less of something and you've got a problem.

    How marvelously vague.

  16. Re:Or... just hear me out here... on Kentucky Man Arrested After Shooting Down Drone · · Score: 1

    Funny... not... is...

  17. Re:Or... just hear me out here... on Kentucky Man Arrested After Shooting Down Drone · · Score: 1

    "No one was threatened" - Yes they were.

    "no one was spying" - Yes they were.

    " there was no damage" - Not the only prerequisite in determining intrusion.

  18. Re:Early results... on Microsoft Edge On Windows 10: the Browser That Will Finally Kill IE · · Score: 1

    I have yet to figure out this obsession some people have with screen space. Bitching about three friggin' toolbars?

  19. Re:Why is this even a story? on Ask Slashdot: Everyone Building Software -- Is This the Future We Need? · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, someone looking for a chair should have some vague understanding of what constitutes 'their' chair. I wouldn't look at the dainty stuff my daughter would, for instance, I'd be way too hard on it. So, people should only purchase apps they've taken "test drives" on, to beggar the analogies.

  20. Re:Um... you're not nearly cynical enough on Ask Slashdot: Everyone Building Software -- Is This the Future We Need? · · Score: 1

    "Makes sure" - that's called an assumed authority on the part of the unions. Other areas of the country without union enforcement do just fine, as do the workers. What is it they *actually* provide?

  21. Re:Everybody List What You Think Went Wrong on DHI Group Inc. Announces Plans to Sell Slashdot Media · · Score: 1

    Careful of how you define "good". I hear there have been whole groups of people who have done horrendous things for "the good". That's why SJW is typically aimed at people doing bad things for their personal "good" cause. It's sarcasm indicating that it's obvious they're really not doing what they proclaim they are.

  22. Re:Everybody List What You Think Went Wrong on DHI Group Inc. Announces Plans to Sell Slashdot Media · · Score: 1

    Not really. Most of the articles of GG that I've found were linked to from actual news sites. And I've found, the more conservative the site, the greater the pep talk for GG.

  23. Re:Under what authority? on Police Shut Down Anti-Violence Fundraiser Over Rapper's Hologram · · Score: 1

    I admire Volokh's legal analyses and reluctantly have to agree unless there is a clause prohibiting contracts to holders of outstanding warrants. I still maintain that for Keef, it was about circumventing the warrant for money and not at all a free speech issue.

  24. Re:Restrictions on free speech on Police Shut Down Anti-Violence Fundraiser Over Rapper's Hologram · · Score: 1

    They're not restricting him from showing up and speaking. By all means he should. They're preventing the use of a venue against the terms of the signed contract. They don't rent spaces to people with active warrants. It was obviously not a free speech issue with him either, but a method to work around a warrant keeping him away from a paycheck.

  25. Re:Raising questions about freedom of speech? on Police Shut Down Anti-Violence Fundraiser Over Rapper's Hologram · · Score: 1

    What *content* was disallowed?