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  1. Re:And so the cycle of "reform" continues on FDA Bans Trans Fat · · Score: 1

    Big difference is these "mistakes" have the force of law behind them. When it comes to nutrition, we're still rather ignorant and attempts to regulate have much more to do with politics than science.

  2. Re:Mixture on US Teen Pleads Guilty To Teaching ISIS About Bitcoin Via Twitter · · Score: 0

    Nope. My brother and I had to resort to jumping from the 2nd floor porch and shoulder rolling off the bushes down to the sidewalk four feet below that. Still not covert.

  3. Re:Mixture on US Teen Pleads Guilty To Teaching ISIS About Bitcoin Via Twitter · · Score: 1

    Sneaking out of your mom's house without getting caught doesn't qualify as covert.

  4. Re:We're screwed on The Danger of Picking a Major Based On Where the Jobs Are · · Score: 1

    ... for making a person well-rounded, teachable and educated, but with a particular focus on an area of study.

    What it's *for* and what it *does* are two very different things.

     

    but without the general education their long term use to the company could be severely limited.

    Because people who haven't dumped massive amounts of money on a degree can't learn after they start working? Hardly. The effects of college are greatly exaggerated.

  5. Re:Just swear at the agent on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Service Providers When You're an IT Pro? · · Score: 2

    You're an asshole. Now, could I have a discussion with someone more intelligent?

  6. Re:A poor workman... on PHP At 20: From Pet Project To Powerhouse · · Score: 1

    To which someone added "With ten lines of commentary to describe what the line does."

  7. Re:Cue non-programmers linking "A fractal of bad d on PHP At 20: From Pet Project To Powerhouse · · Score: 0

    And anyone shouting 'noob' is a non-thinker.

  8. An Ozark Haykoo on Signs of Ancient Cells and Proteins Found In Dinosaur Fossils · · Score: 1

    Palest white circle.
    The faintest dab of yellow.
    Ain't no such thing as too many grits.
     

  9. Re:No, not really on G7 Vows To Phase Out Fossil Fuels By 2100 · · Score: 1

    That last paragraph is one big oxymoron.

  10. Re:Be smart on Writer: "Why I Defaulted On My Student Loans" · · Score: 1

    Then it is an equal mistake to bitch about its cost and the need to repay it.

  11. Re:Social mobility was killed, but not this way on Writer: "Why I Defaulted On My Student Loans" · · Score: 2

    If you get a major that is "useless", it shouldn't doom you to a fate of crushing debt for the next thirty years.

    It doesn't. Taking out large loans to get that useless degree does.

    Unless of course, you think that only the wealthy should be able to learn anything about art history...

    I have a large collection of art books, have spent many hours pouring over others in libraries and visited a number of museums. No need for college to learn about art history. Only initiative.

  12. Re:Maybe cause and effect are reversed? on Colosseum Lift That Carried Wild Animals Into Arena Rebuilt · · Score: 1

    That'll be why we are all so laid back and peaceful.

    Current times are far below previous history in terms of violence. If you believe otherwise, you're making the mistake of raw numbers as opposed to percentages.

  13. Re:Stupid question on Colosseum Lift That Carried Wild Animals Into Arena Rebuilt · · Score: 1

    ... there is also sufficient evidence to prove they used the meat, bones, and skin for various needs instead of merely killing the animal for sport every time.

    Their level of technology required that as did European stone age technology. You might also look up Alfred Jacob Miller's "Driving Herds of Buffalo over a Precipice", 1867. Don't overly romanticize things.

  14. Re:Still in sad condition on Colosseum Lift That Carried Wild Animals Into Arena Rebuilt · · Score: 2

    Oh fucking horse shit. Equating a job at Costco with slavery is just retarded. You can always walk off and get another job. Same with cage fights and sports, the participants volunteer, they're not slaves. You have a tiny point with bum fights, but those are illegal, not sanctioned.

  15. Re: How is it on Colosseum Lift That Carried Wild Animals Into Arena Rebuilt · · Score: 1

    No we don't, we know full well it's a fiction. At the distances they watched the fights, the Romans could have easily faked it. They chose not to fake it, we chose to fake it.

  16. Re:That's because it's fiction. on Chinese Doctor Performs Head Transplants On Mice · · Score: 1

    My clones come with a contract on their ass. Clone leaves the storage without my consent - its head explodes.

    So you admit you would murder a sentient being.

  17. Re:Nothing wrong with proprietry software on Ubuntu Software Center Criticized For Mixing Free and Non-Free Software · · Score: 1

    The mess, as you admit, was a fallacious filing. That has nothing to do with free software being better.

  18. Re:bi7ch on Ubuntu Software Center Criticized For Mixing Free and Non-Free Software · · Score: 3, Informative

    Do not type and hit a bong simultaneously.

  19. Show me the free software you wrote, and we'll talk.

    People do charity works in different venues for differing reasons. Don't be so condescending as to think that only those working in specific venues have the right to speak out on the practices in them.

  20. Re:Nothing wrong with proprietry software on Ubuntu Software Center Criticized For Mixing Free and Non-Free Software · · Score: 1

    There's nothing wrong with proprietary software as long as it is declared a such and we understand free software is better.

    And if the proprietary software is declared as such but is *better than* the free software, that's not OK? Not sure you meant to say what your sentence seems to.

  21. Re:It's a problem- but Canonical's a bigger proble on Ubuntu Software Center Criticized For Mixing Free and Non-Free Software · · Score: 1

    If the user experience is for shit (and yes, lots of software behaves like shit) then you have a problem, but it's not the price.

  22. Re:Theory has its place on Have Some Physicists Abandoned the Empirical Method? · · Score: 1

    You are correct, math is a tool. It is not however a science, other than an accumulation of knowledge. It is used to further investigate reality, which is science. Math can also be used to describe absolute bullshit as well as reality. When that is done, it's not being used scientifically.

  23. Re:There is no such thing as non-empirical science on Have Some Physicists Abandoned the Empirical Method? · · Score: 1

    Fine. Do it on your own dime and file it in the drawer labelled "Things To Do Later".

  24. Re:And 4) on NOAA: Global Warming 'Pause' Never Happened · · Score: 1

    In other words, instead of a scientific argument, yours is based on current convenience. And a convenience you are simply imagining.

    Could you explain that "vast"? It's measure and how you came about it? Seems to be the basis of your convenience.

  25. Re:Oh I didnt want to be a criminal on Intel Security Scares Ransomware Script Kiddie Out of Business · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There's certainly a moral and ethical difference in engaging in it purposefully as opposed to breaking some obscure laws.