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  1. Re:Breach of contract, copyright infringement on Elsevier Going After Authors Sharing Their Own Papers · · Score: 1

    They need the right to the death penalty.

  2. Re:Horse already left the barn on Is a Postdoc Worth it? · · Score: 1

    No, it's not. It's the maximum the NIH will directly pay the PI for the postdoc position. PIs discretionary funds, departmental, or institutional funds are often added to boost the salary of folks in competitive areas. I know many folks paying their post docs well above that. Just because you don't know any, doesn't mean it doesn't happen, or isn't common.

  3. Re:Horse already left the barn on Is a Postdoc Worth it? · · Score: 1

    You are just wrong. NIH sets a minimum, and I've gotten more than that. So have a lot of other folks I know. You just don't know what you are talking about, as should be expected from a coward.

  4. Re:Wagging the dog. on Only 25% of Yahoo Staff "Eat Their Own Dog Food" · · Score: 1

    It's because everyone is so suprised they are still alive, and wondering what they are doing to make enough money to live.

  5. Re:Horse already left the barn on Is a Postdoc Worth it? · · Score: 1

    Everyone I know in STEM that paid is a foreigner. I'm in the Bio field. All U.S. born grad students in the universities I'm familiar with had their tuition paid and received a stipend from the university or a training grant they were on. They didn't make a lot, but none paid for classes at all.

  6. Re:Horse already left the barn on Is a Postdoc Worth it? · · Score: 1

    Really? Then how do I know several that make well over 60k? How did I know postdocs 10 years ago that made 60k?

    With the right skills in the right area, yes, you can make that at a good research university. One in the midwest with decent cost of living even.

    Heck, NIH funded postdocs start at over $39K, with 0 years of experience. Work in a competitive area and your boss will throw in money above that.

    http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/funding/policies/nrsa.htm

  7. Re:Why subsidize? on A War Over Solar Power Is Raging Within the GOP · · Score: 1

    Yes, it would have been much better if my grandparents hadn't gotten a land-line phone on their farm 80 years ago, and just waited 60+ years for cell-phone technology to be invented. All those phone calls to friends, relatives, doctors, etc, were all wasted on inferior, expensive land lines. They should have just driven across country for a half-century or so whenever they wanted to talk to someone.

    Your example kind of sucks.

  8. Re:Sounds good on paper on Should the US Copy Switzerland and Consider a 'Maximum Wage' Ratio? · · Score: 1

    Really? Apple designs things. They are then manufacted by very low-pay labor in China. Apple is decoupled. Apple still makes a shit-ton of money, while the workers producing the goods make well, shit. It's not hidden. Everyone knows about the factories in China with nets to catch suiciding workers. Apple doesn't seem to be facing any problem.

  9. Re:Sounds good on paper on Should the US Copy Switzerland and Consider a 'Maximum Wage' Ratio? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You mean the rich will still be able to make "gobs of wealth" by outsourcing all their low paying jobs to contractors or or other copanies providing the low-pay employees to do the grunt work.

  10. Re:Stock Options on Should the US Copy Switzerland and Consider a 'Maximum Wage' Ratio? · · Score: 2

    You think a CEO wants to deal with a wallet full of Bitcoins that the value varies so hugely with over time, and is still considered something that could be quashed by governments? Nah.

    What they'll do is simply outsource all the low pay jobs in the copany to other companies that suddenly their spouses and friends start up. All that will be left of the parent company is executives, that can crank up their salaries at will.

  11. Re:Does the glasses pose any danger to the eyes ? on New Smart Glasses Allow Nurses To See Veins Through Skin · · Score: 1

    "Just because our rods and cones don't react to the different wavelength doesn't make it any more dangerous."

    You forgot the other exception. The other end of our color range. We see down to ~390nm on the blue end of the spectrum. But ultraviolet light at ~240nm will break down our DNA and cause cancer, kill cells, etc.

  12. Re:Psyops at its finest. on NSA Wants To Reveal Its Secrets To Prevent Snowden From Revealing Them First · · Score: 2

    We were secretly giving Americans anal probes during their sleep. It was for your own good so that the terrorists wouldn't win.

  13. Re:"Dark Friday"? on Alfred Poor Says HDTV Manufacturers are Hurting (Video) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Dumbest thing I ever heard. The name is in reference to black vs red ink in accounting books showing positive or negative numbers. Black is a positive thing in accounting. Some people go out of their way to be offended by things that aren't relevant.

  14. Re:The time has come the walrus said... on Microsoft Warns Customers Away From RC4 and SHA-1 · · Score: 1

    Or that we shouldn't use WEP for our wireless encryption.

  15. Re:They should upgrade the warning ... on Man In Tesla Model S Fire Explains What Happened · · Score: 1

    Odds were way higher with the Pontiac Fiero.

  16. Re:Interesting argument on There Would Be No Iranian Nuclear Talks If Not For Fracking · · Score: 1

    This just in:

    A politician tells a lie.

    See the full report at eleven o'clock.

  17. Re: Control... on Where Does America's Fear Come From? · · Score: 1

    To be fair, in Europe, when you move from one area the size of a US state to another area the size of a US state, they probably speak a separate language. Not true in the US.

    Less need to speak 3 languages mean less of us do.

  18. Re:Which company bought this 'new' rule? on EPA Makes Most Wood Stoves Illegal · · Score: 0

    It won't be a right wing cause for too long. Exxon doesn't sell wood. One half of the right wing will start smacking down the other half if it stays an issue.

  19. Re:May as well get SOME money on Amazon Gets Blow-Back Over Plan To Sell Kindles At Small Bookshops · · Score: 1

    The only think I learned from the story is that you are a giant douchebag.

  20. Re:Bring on the wearable interfaces. on 20-Somethings Think It's OK To Text and Answer Calls In Business Meetings · · Score: 1

    That's strange. Usually there's just one call. The friend checking to give an excuse for you/them to bail if it's going horribly/scary, then some 'emergency' comes up that you have to leave for.

  21. Re:More junk. on Why NASA Launched Millions of Tiny Copper Wires In Orbit · · Score: 1

    And ~20% of the world's energy.

    But I was replying on a U.S. based site, to an article about a U.S. based agency.

  22. Re:More junk. on Why NASA Launched Millions of Tiny Copper Wires In Orbit · · Score: 1

    No we don't. Pollution used to be much worse. The Cuyahoga river hasn't caught fire in decades. Back in the 60's, pollution like that was rampant.

    The EPA was created in 1970 by Richard Nixon, and things have improved much since. Yes, before Reagan, the Republican party actually had pretty thoughtful stances on many topics, hard as that may be to believe.

  23. Re:I am one affected on Battlefield 4 DRM Locking Out Part of North America Until EU Release · · Score: 5, Informative

    You buy from EA, you get what you pay for.

    Don't want to pay to be treated like shit? Don't buy from EA.

    It's been that way for years. Why are people acting suprised?

  24. Re:Yes, why indeed, teach STEM to children? on Telegraph Contributor Says Coding Is For Exceptionally Dull Weirdos · · Score: 1

    Grade school is what those of us in the U.S. usually call grades 1-6 (sometimes 1-5, 6 somtimes gets mixed into middle school, also know as junior high, usually grades 7-8, with 9-12 being high school).

    There are folks out there who learned to read and write at home before grade school, so that's not always a use for grade school for some of us.

  25. Re:Telco oligopoly on Why Is Broadband More Expensive In the US Than Elsewhere? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We like our internet service like we like our medical service.

    Way overpriced do to large companies owning congress.