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  1. Re:I'll pass. on 'Arrested Development' Comes Exclusively To Netflix · · Score: 1

    Some of the best TV shows are ones that show you that main characters are not impervious to death.

  2. Re:And you're an on With Troop Drawdown, IT Looks To Hire More Vets · · Score: 2

    Maybe, but he is correct.

  3. Re:2 people agreeing is news? on Technical Glitch Lets Reporters Eavesdrop On Obama, Sarkozy · · Score: 1

    Dont forget that they like to fire unguided rockets at civilian populations and routinely try to kidnap and execute israeli men, women, and children. Hell the Palestinians have bounties placed for israeli soldiers and citizens.

  4. Re:Worst case scenario = greenhouse cliff on World Emissions of Carbon Dioxide Outpace Worst-Case Scenario · · Score: 1

    Wasnt that the crappy plot to "The day after tomorrow" that essentially every climate, weather, and marine scientist said was completely bullshit?

  5. Re:mOLDy on Military Labs Develop Caffeinated Jerky and "Zapplesauce" · · Score: 1

    SF always has the latest and greatest years before everyone else. Then again they also field strip their MREs and add stuff as well. They also dont have to worry about freshness as they can get new stuff as required. The normal supply lines can be MUCH longer, as in decades longer.

  6. Re:Stay awake during guard duty ??? on Military Labs Develop Caffeinated Jerky and "Zapplesauce" · · Score: 1

    Hell, it isnt good enough to reliably take down a deer unless your shot placement is excellent. It is recommended that when using anything chambered in 5.56x45 on anything bigger than a squirrel that you put multiple rounds into it.

    for the OP: Don't talk about things your don't know or understand.

  7. Re:WTH!! on Ron Paul Wants To End the Federal Student Loan Program · · Score: 1

    Or maybe if all the entry level jobs didn't have all the bullshit requirements that you have any degree in anything you would be able to work toward another career path without having to go to college at all. Wow, talk about class mobility.

  8. Re:"Free" money on Ron Paul Wants To End the Federal Student Loan Program · · Score: 1

    It sounds more like your impatience got the best of you. Often life presents us with problems that all have imperfect solutions.You decided to forego free tuition to further your education at a non-ideal institute that you could have later graduated from. So your decision was to go to a more expensive institution right off the bat and incur more debt.

    My decision was to go to a small CC for my first 2 years of school (It took me 3 years to do) then moved on to a prestigious school, I also worked 40 hours a week at a job and contracted on top of that. No it was not a fun experience, but I have virtually no student debt at all. I took 15-18 credit hour semesters every semester.

    You had an even better chance than I did as you wouldn't have to have paid for tuition at all for those first 2 years of university, but you chose to not exercise that opportunity. You get no sympathy for taking the shortcut and putting yourself into debt because you didnt want to take a little extra time to get your degree.

  9. Re:"Free" money on Ron Paul Wants To End the Federal Student Loan Program · · Score: 1

    This post is highly underrated. I worked my butt off for years holding a 40 hour a week job and running my own small contracting business, and going to college full-time. My first 2 years I lived at home with my parents and paid my tuition in full every semester, then I moved out to main campus and roomed with a bunch of people and still paid my tuition in full every semester. My parents never paid a dime for any of it.

    So excuse me if I dont feel bad for all of the people that got their degrees in anthropology or liberal arts, while never working a day while going to an out of state private school that cost them 30k a semester and taking out extra loans to pay for living expenses. Just because you made poor financial decisions does not give you the right to take MY money that I worked hard for to pay of YOUR student loans.

  10. Re:Best Part on China Says Its Internet Policies Are Open and Clear · · Score: 1

    Nope, instead of having "Free Speech Zones" they just simply execute you if you try to protest...

  11. Re:So... Android is a cheap knockoff of Apple on Jobs Wanted To Destroy Android · · Score: 1

    Exactly, all apple "made" was a polished Prada knockoff. and if the Prada is just a knockoff of RIM then apple is just a knockoff of a knockoff.

  12. Re:Windows phones were good for something, once up on Ballmer Slams Android As Cheap and Overcomplicated · · Score: 1

    You know... because that one that happened like yesterday doesn't count... or honeycomb. Android updates have pretty much been every 6 months or so. And there is a HUGE step up between gingerbread and ICS and yet that only off by 4 months on he 6 month release schedule.

  13. Re:Can't be ignored any longer on Fat Replaces Oil In F-16s · · Score: 1

    This kind of capability is more for being able to use Field Expedient Acquisitions.

  14. Re:about time... on Film Turns Windows Into Solar Panels · · Score: 1

    No, but the occasional bird will hit it.

  15. Re:Global warming on Severe Arctic Ozone Loss · · Score: 1

    Reductio ad absurdum. Try a better argument.

  16. Re:Just don't ask him about Star Trek on Spock Gives Up the Con · · Score: 1

    Yup, I saw him giving a talk at a convention once and people were told at the door not to bring up star trek. Instead he wanted to talk about his photography and other crap that no one at a Science Fiction Convention wanted to talk about.

    One person dared to defy the warning was thrown out of the session for it.

    I've heard other tales of him being a douche to fans as well.

  17. Getting a cell phone on Ask Slashdot: Advice For Using a Cell Phone In China? · · Score: 5, Informative

    DO NOT TAKE YOUR OWN AMERICAN CELL PHONE. I've had 3 colleagues have theirs either confiscated or taken to be "searched" (If it was being "searched" they got it back on their way out of the country, if it was confiscated it was gone for good.) Cellphones are dirt cheap there and so are sims with unlimited data plans and a crap ton of minutes. For 30 bucks you can usually have a decent flip phone and a month of service. Service for me was 7$ a month after that. Be careful what you browse on the internet and what you say on the phone.

  18. Re:No wear rockets? on SpaceX Reveals Plans For Full Launch System Re-usability · · Score: 1

    No, no it doesn't. It says 100x reduction in cost.

    That means if you have rockets that cost 10,000,000$ and it is 50,000$ in fuel for each launch, and carries 100kg into orbit, but it is non-reusable to get 10,000kg into space it costs 1,005,000,000$ or 100,000$/kg

    Now if you have a rocket that costs about the same, has the same weight capacity but is reusable but takes a bit more fuel per launch (lets say 60,000$), Lets say you only fire the rockets 10 times, that means you need 10 rockets. Total cost is 160,000,000$ or 16,000$/kg.

    With only launching the rocket 10 times you reduced the cost to only 16% of its original cost.

    Rocket fuel is cheap compared to the actual expense of the rockets themselves. No, this one technology allow will probably not get that 100x reduction, however even if they get just a few launches out of each vehicle then this is a HUGE step in the right direction.

  19. Re:I'm waiting on Ask They Might Be Giants About Almost 30 Years of Music · · Score: 1

    This is not the thread you are looking for *waves hand*

  20. Question on Ask They Might Be Giants About Almost 30 Years of Music · · Score: 1

    I was at your show last Thursday in Indianapolis! It was a great show! What exactly is a Miasma of Incandescent Plasma?

  21. Re:No wear rockets? on SpaceX Reveals Plans For Full Launch System Re-usability · · Score: 1

    Um, I think they are saying that rocket fuel is cheap (which it is), but the rockets themselves are not.

  22. Re:Lack of news on Conflict Between Occupy Wall Street Protestors and NYPD Escalating · · Score: 1

    Um, you mean he has a good standard of living... because of the current economic system used in America... which is Capitalism... (Socialism. I dont think that word means what you think it means...)

  23. Re:amusing side note... on Bethesda's 'Scrolls' Lawsuit Going Ahead · · Score: 1

    So because they didnt budget for used games sales that means they get to accuse me of stealing? That sounds pretty stupid.

  24. Re:Great idea for a movie. on US Military Moving Closer To Automated Killing · · Score: 1

    Really...? And where might you be finding these stories?

  25. Re:War is power. on US Military Moving Closer To Automated Killing · · Score: 1

    Well actually what he is pointing out is that under threat of violence Obama levies taxes against people to pay for it.