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  1. Re:adult working hours on Boston Elementary, Middle Schools To Get a Longer Day · · Score: 2

    In my experience a long schedule in software programming is counter productive. Sometimes you are better off going for a jog and then getting back to programming gets you back on track but other times it really doesn't work and the more you try to solve the problem the less evident it becomes. Eventually you wake up in the morning and you know how to fix it. But you can't force the creative process.

  2. Re:6:05 on average on Boston Elementary, Middle Schools To Get a Longer Day · · Score: 1

    Back when women stayed back home doing house chores it wasn't a problem. My only hope is eventually more people will start working from home and this will again cease to be a an issue.

  3. Re:his name is Nayirah al-aba ? on North Korean Defector Spills Details On the Country's Elite Hacking Force · · Score: 2

    You overestimate their abilities. The South Korean army alone could take them on and win if they mobilized. The Norks have utterly obsolete military equipment.

    The problem is it would not happen without large casualties and probably a bombing of Seoul so I doubt they want to do it.

  4. Re:*sips pabst* on Ars: Final Hobbit Movie Is 'Soulless End' To 'Flawed' Trilogy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I disagree. Tom Bombadil was rightly cut as it served no practical purpose. I do agree that the second movie was kind of weirdly constructed, and in the last movie the ending seemed to drag on forever and ever. But the ending also drags on forever in the actual book so I cannot fault Jackson for that.

    I think the LotR movies were well done. But he just did not have the material to turn the Hobbit from one book to three movies. That was an insane thing to do. He just watered down the plot too much and then had to change the story in stupid was to drag it on more.

    If there is ONE book which I think could be done in two or three movies its Dune. The Hobbit? Not really.

  5. Re:Stone Age diet ? he wants to live all 20 years? on How Venture Capitalist Peter Thiel Plans To Live 120 Years · · Score: 1

    They started eating unleavened bread. That's what happened. The population was too high to live on a hunter-gatherer diet by then.

    The skeletons of that time usually have rickets and stunted growth.

  6. Re:Overpopulation and Length of Sentencing on GCHQ Warns It Is Losing Track of Serious Criminals · · Score: 1

    That is basically how the legal code of law in the Qin kingdom in China worked. The Chinese believed back then that it was a waste of time and resources to jail men so the most common sentences were either death or corporal punishment.

  7. Re:Not-so-hidden agenda on Can Rep. John Culberson Save NASA's Space Exploration Program? · · Score: 1

    Plus the money would go to fund failed programs like Constellation and the SLS. I bet it would fly about as much as the X-33 did.

  8. Re:Has NASA done all that badly? on Can Rep. John Culberson Save NASA's Space Exploration Program? · · Score: 1

    Launching a Saturn V was not cheap. The prior programs also used rockets that already had been developed for military purposes so the costs are probably mostly marginal costs on top of that.

  9. Re:Good luck to him on Can Rep. John Culberson Save NASA's Space Exploration Program? · · Score: 1

    The main issue was Concorde wasn't manufactured by Boeing. But the other issue was the 1970s oil crisis which made a lot of things which used a lot of oil uneconomic. Another casualty was the Wankel engine. Heck even military aircraft no longer use turbojet engines because they consume too much fuel.

  10. Re:Chernobyl Blew when they pushed the Red Button. on Cyberattack On German Steel Factory Causes 'Massive Damage' · · Score: 1

    AFAIK the explosion was a hydrogen gas explosion due to water thermolysis after the core melt down. Nothing like a nuclear bomb blast.

  11. Re: In unrelated news: Average IQ up 5 points in U on Dish Pulls Fox News, Fox Business Network As Talks Break Down · · Score: 1

    This is hardly news. Read about the Greens and the Blues in Byzantium.

    I guess they only need a football team each and it would be complete.

  12. Re: Bewitched? on Marissa Mayer's Reinvention of Yahoo! Stumbles · · Score: 2

    Steve Jobs was brought back because MacOS Classic was a steaming pile of shit and they needed NextSTEP. Once he came on board they came up with the iMac and MacOS X pretty quickly. They also knifed the 3rd party cloning business which meant they had more profits to them. He was a bastard but he knew how to make money.

    At that time the company was doing okay. The rest was just icing on the cake.

  13. Re:https://youtube.com/watch?v=OinvdoyBsEc on Marissa Mayer's Reinvention of Yahoo! Stumbles · · Score: 1

    By God her laugh is almost as bad as Jeff Bezos's.

  14. Re:Home of the Brave on "Team America" Gets Post-Hack Yanking At Alamo Drafthouse, Too · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So you think he wouldn't have lost a land battle in China? Why do you think he came back crying like a baby to the US President that they needed to nuke Beijing and Moscow? The whole idea was ludicrous. The Soviet Union had tested their own nuclear weapons before the Korean War started.

    I usually prefer calling the Korean War WWIII to put it into proper perspective.

  15. Re:Innovative sheepdips on Australia Moves Toward New Restrictions On Technology Export and Publication · · Score: 1

    Google "SILEX nuclear".

  16. Re:Real reason - Russia on In Breakthrough, US and Cuba To Resume Diplomatic Relations · · Score: 1

    I would be less concerned about Russia and more concerned about the efforts the Chinese have made to get into Cuba.

  17. Re:Why not push toward collapse? on In Breakthrough, US and Cuba To Resume Diplomatic Relations · · Score: 1

    No the mistake was supporting the overthrow of Assad and Gaddafi. They came in from Syria remember? And they probably got to Syria via Turkey from Saudi Arabia.

  18. Re:Why not push toward collapse? on In Breakthrough, US and Cuba To Resume Diplomatic Relations · · Score: 1

    You can hardly call the invasion of Iraq a conquest. It was a successful expeditionary incursion but the stated goals by the PNAC for the war were the stabilization of the Persian Gulf oil producing region and the demobilization of the troops stationed in the border since the first Gulf War. The demobilization did happen but the Persian Gulf was not stabilized at all. So in that sense the war failed to meet their objectives.

    The PNAC also intended to invade North Korea at the same time but I guess the Afghan war precluded that from happening.

  19. Re:The video game crash of 1983 on Apple Wins iTunes DRM Case · · Score: 1

    The Video Game Crash happened because personal computers had better graphics and cheaper games. You could get a computer which could do more than play games for the price of a console. Curiously or not 1983 was around when the C64 came out.

  20. Re:been there, done that on Ask Slashdot: How Should a Liberal Arts Major Get Into STEM? · · Score: 1

    The is probably next to zero overlap I bet.

  21. Re:Imagine that! on Spanish Media Group Wants Gov't Help To Keep Google News In Spain · · Score: 1

    You are assuming that the people with more income spend more. Which is not necessarily true.

  22. Re:But of course they were... nitwit. on Apparent Islamic Terrorism Strikes Sydney · · Score: 1

    Those Jewish massacres were condemned by both the Catholic Church and the Kings at that time.

    The so called Northern Crusades weren't even named Crusades at the time for obvious reasons. It was a retcon. I could also call them a backlash against prior Norse invasions on the Catholic Roman Empire.

    The Cathar war was similar to the Reform Wars and it had nothing to do with external relations but it was about suppressing internal dissent.

    So you think Jews, Heretics, Pagans, etc don't wage war either? You sure are naive.

  23. Re:Don't worry guys... on Apparent Islamic Terrorism Strikes Sydney · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can get enlightened here. I quote:

    The First Crusade (1096–1099) ... ended as a military expedition by Roman Catholic Europe to regain the Holy Lands taken in the Muslim conquests of the Levant (632–661), ultimately resulting in the recapture of Jerusalem in 1099. It was launched on 27 November 1095 by Pope Urban II with the primary goal of responding to an appeal from Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, who requested that western volunteers come to his aid and help to repel the invading Seljuq Turks from Anatolia.

  24. Re:Don't worry guys... on Apparent Islamic Terrorism Strikes Sydney · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Crusades were a backlash against Muslim invasion nitwit.

  25. Re:Imagine that! on Spanish Media Group Wants Gov't Help To Keep Google News In Spain · · Score: 0

    No. The first place I heard with that kind of moronic market segmentation was AppleInsider and worst of it all some people are eating it hook line and sinker.

    Apple is going down into the 15%-10% niche of the market the belong into...