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  1. Re:Arizona... on A Year After Sandy, Do You Approach Disaster Differently? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Oh come on, you're a dick too, patronizing people who suffered extraordinary disasters with your post.

  2. Re:Arizona... on A Year After Sandy, Do You Approach Disaster Differently? · · Score: 1

    whoops, got a tag improperly ended in there and lost some text. Not crazy, I promise

    the second link:
    http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/sw/impacts/hydrology/state_fd/azwater1.html

  3. Re:Arizona... on A Year After Sandy, Do You Approach Disaster Differently? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Actually, as much as you personally are intellectually lazy, has elaborate plans in case of drought. and severe floods aren't unheard of either.

  4. Re:How is that Lawrence Lessig uses IOS? on Apple Blocks Lawrence Lessig's Comment On iOS 7 Wi-Fi Glitch · · Score: 5, Funny

    Like most people, he uses it via touch screen.

  5. Re:When Can I Code With a HUD? on 210 Degrees of Heads-Up Display: Hands-On With the InfinitEye · · Score: 1

    Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooh.
    Oh.
    I see.

  6. Re:When Can I Code With a HUD? on 210 Degrees of Heads-Up Display: Hands-On With the InfinitEye · · Score: 1

    Um, Oculus rift is very codeable. The only purchasable version comes as part of a dev kit that includes a C++ SDK, and a specialized version of Unity, both of which support the rift.

    (You can also use source or unreal)

  7. Re:Symptoms, not causes on Book Review: The App Generation · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure I get the part of your hypothesis where you seem to allege it's a unique trait to humans.

  8. Re:It's becoming clear on Stung By Scandal, South Korea Weighs Up Cost of Curbing Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    This is like a drunk-walk of angry complaining. Jumping from topic to related topic you're outraged about seemingly at random.

  9. In fact, I'm hard pressed to come up with anything man has made that doesn't exist for the aforementioned reason... Wheelchairs, maybe?

    The competitive advantage of this machine is left to the reader's imagination.

  10. Re:Who Says they Never Paid for those Nukes... on Israel Helped the NSA Spy on Former French President According To Documents · · Score: 1

    Knowing and watching for a stereotype is not the same as embracing it. You damn well know your logic is flawed.

  11. Re:Who Says they Never Paid for those Nukes... on Israel Helped the NSA Spy on Former French President According To Documents · · Score: 1

    I guess my benefit of the doubt doesn't extend quite as far as yours.

  12. Re:Self serving terminology on Interview: Jason Calacanis On How His Hackathon Is Helping Create Companies · · Score: 1

    Well, only the successful ones are master exploiters. The others run the range of unaware sucker to moderately skilled vulture.

  13. Re:Pay coders to create on Interview: Jason Calacanis On How His Hackathon Is Helping Create Companies · · Score: 1

    An angel investor is someone who invests in a way that saves a company that looks like it has no prospects. Typically that means a sucker, or a gambler who sees really large reward possibilities, and is willing to take on catastrophic risk because they don't have all their eggs in one basket.

  14. Re:Who Says they Never Paid for those Nukes... on Israel Helped the NSA Spy on Former French President According To Documents · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No, it's not evidence of antisemitism, but antisemitism frequently leads to it. There are racists. They do hate Israel just because it's officially Jewish. Those people make it actively harder to criticize a country that is presently engaged in ethnic cleansing.

  15. Re:Who Says they Never Paid for those Nukes... on Israel Helped the NSA Spy on Former French President According To Documents · · Score: 0

    I know what a Semitic person is, but "antisemitic" is a term with a clearly understood cultural meaning. Languages evolve. Get over it.

  16. Pay coders to create on Interview: Jason Calacanis On How His Hackathon Is Helping Create Companies · · Score: 1

    Let's be honest, these hackathons aren't about creative synergy, incentiveising entrepreneurship, or investment.

    It's about getting coders to create the things they think are good ideas. Every single person who works in this field knows they can only devote so much mental energy to maintaining and marginally improving large, dull corporate projects. Any "true believer" coder lives to create things. Novel interesting things, and we can dump 100x more work into that in an hour than an hour on our day jobs.

    But no one wants to, or should have to, pay me(for example) to make a python library to auto-synchronize an object tree across a network, so I spend my spare time on it, and I end up producing 100x more code with a lot more creativity on that than my day job.

  17. Re:Who Says they Never Paid for those Nukes... on Israel Helped the NSA Spy on Former French President According To Documents · · Score: 4, Funny

    One of those rules for criticizing Israel while not seeming like an anti-Semitic cock is #2: not to relate your statement to a conspiracy by banks(because stereotypes).

    #1 is not to deny the holocaust, but you didn't do that, so congratulations.

  18. The EU is not analogous, because half of it was under a completely distinct economic system as little as 20 years ago.

  19. Re:Bragging about torture on Citizen Eavesdrops On Former NSA Director Michael Hayden's Phone Call · · Score: 1

    How about no. How about, instead, we acknowledge that the system of governance we're working in will always be 2 party, due to winner-take-all elections. You want to address that? Then address that. I'm with you. I'll vote for (virtually) any plan that works to address it. You want to whine because some people have opinions in spite of those restrictions? Shove off. You're a petty cynic with nothing to add and can safely be ignored.

  20. There is a 90% chance of any given book review on slashdot having that score. You'd think it would be the other way around, but no; poor, pitiful, neglected 6/10.

  21. Look, you don't need to convince me that former soviet countries aren't doing well. That's obivous, and the history behind it is equally obvious. You need to convince me, the UK, Sweden, France, Luxembourg, or other first world(look up the term) countries are doing empirically worse on one of those three concepts with concrete metrics compared to the US.

    The UK, which has official classes has greater social mobility than the US, for example.

  22. Re:It is barbaric. on Citizen Eavesdrops On Former NSA Director Michael Hayden's Phone Call · · Score: 1

    It is a weak statement. It was intended as such. Do you expect me to look at the state of American petty "proactive defense" that is essentially the default for 20 years regarding terrorism, and say "yep, that's doing our best"?

    It's just a reminder that we had, very very very very recently, people in power who thought that intentionally causing as much pain and suffering as possible in prisoners held by fiat was trivially acceptable.

    When your choice is "doing bad things out of a false sense of pragmatism" versus "performing one of the worst crimes known to man in a false sense of pragmatism" you've kinda got a sucky territory to work in. Demolishing american Military Hegonomy isn't one of the options on the table right now.

  23. Re:Bragging about torture on Citizen Eavesdrops On Former NSA Director Michael Hayden's Phone Call · · Score: 1

    Well, let's not set ourselves into a false dilemma here. It was reported and criticized by some percentage of the media all along, or else you and I wouldn't know. If there is a difference, it is one of scope of criticism.

  24. Yeah, you just totally destroyed that argument I didn't make. You sure showed hypothetical alternate universe me there!

  25. Basically none of what you just said is true.