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  1. Re:Can't They Stop The Lawsuit? on Taxpayers Fund AIG Lawsuit Against US · · Score: 1

    The government's shares of AIG are non-voting, to assuage fears of nationalization.

  2. Re:Great Article on Taxpayers Fund AIG Lawsuit Against US · · Score: 1

    Do they function well with them?

  3. Re:Whiny bastards on Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch Provokes Bomb Scare · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Does the amount of human life saved by such security measures exceed the amount of human life lost due to extra security (in the form of waiting in line)?

  4. Re:I knew it! on If We Have Free Will, Then So Do Electrons · · Score: 1

    No, the sun may appear blue, but its actual color (the wavelengths of light emitted) do not change.

  5. Re:Mathematicians should not make pronouncements on If We Have Free Will, Then So Do Electrons · · Score: 1

    without direct access to the mystical experience of unity.

    Is there such a unity?

    Trapped in a world that must conform to logical constructs, they are unaware that what they are measuring is their perceptions, not the World. What they observe is merely the particular quality of their minds, not the Truth.

    And why should I believe such a claim?

    Plato's cave cannot be escaped, by creating more precision in the measurement of shadows! Logic is a useful tool for effecting work and accomplishing a task - but not for perceiving the nature of existence.

    Perhaps it cannot be escaped because it doesn't exist.

  6. Re:usability improvements on Look Out, Firefox 3 — IE8 Is Back On Top For Now · · Score: 1

    Ed Bott and Zdnet? Why do I have a bad feeling about this?

  7. Re:Easy solution on Internet-Caused Mistrials Are On the Rise · · Score: 1

    Usually it works for the prosecution, who can choose where in a county to try a case (and particularly LA county).

  8. Re:Easy solution on Internet-Caused Mistrials Are On the Rise · · Score: 1

    And as Alan Dershowitz noted, that might not have mattered had Marcia Clark chosen to try OJ in Brentwood instead of downtown LA.

  9. Re:Far easier to just use a virtual machine on Microsoft Office 2007 In Linux With WINE · · Score: 1

    But doesn't that require having XP in the first place?

  10. Re:A symptom of internet competition. on Office Depot Employee — "We Changed Prices Too" · · Score: 1

    The goods can be delivered in bulk, which is cheaper. Customers can get to shopping centers where they can load up the SUVs with whatever sort of goods they need in a single trip. Brick and mortar retail are rather naturally efficient that way.

    I suspect that FedEx and UPS are also efficient, as they also deliver packages in bulk. How much more would one have to tax a gallon of gasoline to make shipping a laptop by UPS cost five dollars more, let alone thirty?

  11. Re:A symptom of internet competition. on Office Depot Employee — "We Changed Prices Too" · · Score: 1

    And how do goods get to brick-and-mortar stores? Are they delivered by fairies? And how do customers get to stores? If it takes an extra $30 to ship a laptop, we're fucked.

  12. Re:Josh the lone IU on Are Quirky Developers Brilliant Or Dangerous? · · Score: 1

    Your analogy might be better if you made Josh the only floating-point unit, as floating point is generally harder than integer.

  13. Re:Football on Slashdot? TO? on Are Quirky Developers Brilliant Or Dangerous? · · Score: 1

    Most recently, from the Dallas Cowboys. He was then picked up by the Buffalo Bills.

  14. Re:brilliant or dangerous? on Are Quirky Developers Brilliant Or Dangerous? · · Score: 1

    <voice style="alice">Must control fist of death!</voice>

  15. Re:Makes me think of Frederick Taylor on Data Mining Moves To Human Resources · · Score: 1

    Positivist in the sense it is managed based on observable and measurable phenomena?

    No, posivistic in the sense of bureaucratizing human cognition. Some other posters have pointed out that a good manager should know his/her subordinates. This is true, but how does the manager pass that information onto his superiors?

    As for "measurable", positivists are fond of assigning numerical values to attributes, but whether those attributes (such as communicativeness) and values (number of emails) have much to do with determining an employee's value to the company is an issue that positivists gloss over.

    And what do you mean by "phenomena"?

  16. Re:Makes me think of Frederick Taylor on Data Mining Moves To Human Resources · · Score: 1

    It is increasingly a positivistically-managed system

    I fixed it for you.

  17. Re:Is there anything worth bombing? on US Pentagon Plans For a Spy Blimp · · Score: 1

    Agreed, but this also raises the question: Is there much to bomb in Afghanistan?

  18. Re:Rejecting mathematical methods? on Data Mining Moves To Human Resources · · Score: 1

    False dichotomy. Why are all beliefs not derived from this model or others like it subjective?

  19. Summary is wrong on Original Shakespeare Portrait Discovered, Disputed · · Score: 3, Funny

    The article uses 400, rather than 500, years, so the summary is wrong. And why is your post modded funny instead of informative?

  20. Is there anything worth viewing? on US Pentagon Plans For a Spy Blimp · · Score: 1

    Is there anything in Afghanistan worth viewing?

  21. Re:Invisible my foot on US Pentagon Plans For a Spy Blimp · · Score: 1

    But it subtends that angle in only one dimension, where the moon does so in two dimensions. The thing isn't 450 feet wide.

  22. Brain reading on Scientists Use fMRI To (Sort of) Read Minds · · Score: 3, Funny

    Shouldn't that be brain reading, rather than mind reading?

  23. Re:simplify on Collaborative Academic Writing Software? · · Score: 1

    Is there a way of using Open Office without a GUI front end? I like to type my math, not have to point-and-click it to death. I can generate a graph of f(x)=sin x in Latex in about ten lines. How does one do this in Open Office? Can one generate .sxw files programatically?

  24. Re:simplify on Collaborative Academic Writing Software? · · Score: 1

    And if it gets typeset in Latex?

  25. Re:vmware is free on Windows Security and On-line Training Courses? · · Score: 1

    And how is the "emulated hardware" different from the "physical hardware"?