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  1. Re:So now it only affects tourists? on Supreme Court Partially Revives Travel Ban, Will Hear Appeal (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    Could you make more money in the same time pushing a mower?

    You're right; the Mexicans would kick your ass and take your mower.

    Have you heard of my get rich quick scheme...er, side business. Digercise. The first exercise program where you get paid to workout.

    Just send me $300 to get you started, I'll send you a 'high leverage, carbon steel, earth moving device' and the address of the nearest Digercise center. When you get there, someone will offer you money to exercise, and here's the best part, half of that money is yours to keep. Send me the other half.

  2. Re:The cost of the elevator is the floor space on New Maglev Elevator Can Travel Horizontally, Vertically, and Diagonally (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You'd want to hack the elevator, get it going maximum speed up at the start of the free fall period, for maximum duration.

    Still wouldn't be long enough for sex. Maybe a set of elastic trapeze like position restraints, a deep, soft landing surface and a 'bounce hack'. If you could overpower the motors, get it to 30m/sec up. That's six seconds of zero-G per cycle. Getting crushed by 2 Gs, about half time, would have be worked into the rhythm. Extreme care would be needed, focus too.

  3. Re:..and the march of SocJus continues on 6 Female Founders Accuse VC Justin Caldbeck of Making Unwanted Advances (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Vegas has gone before us. They are 'models who serve' not waitresses. Yours are 'models who administratively assist while naked', 'models who DBA while naked' etc.

    I hope you're not expecting anything to get done?

  4. Acquire one? How does that work? Best I've done, could be described as a revocable easment.

  5. Birth control car: Four banger, many windows/benches, FWD automatic trans, minivan. With a diaper full of green shit hidden behind an interior panel and a GPS tracker.

    Just as with the dog, the only solution is to chase the bitch away. Far away.

  6. Re: Typical on Sci-Hub Ordered To Pay $15 Million In Piracy Damages (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    If you give them all the money from the bank they cease to be poors. See Monty Python: Dennis Moore...

  7. If someone borrowed my honey badger and it came back with cervix squeezens all over it's face, I wouldn't ever loan them anything again. Might be upset.

  8. Best line in TFA:

    You might as well shove a taxidermied honey badger up your cervix. It will have the same effect as a jade egg, and it’s free.

    Where can I get a free taxidermied honey badger?

  9. Re: A good first step on Trump Plans To Dismantle Obama-Era 'Startup Visa' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It can also cover the purchase of a convenience store, not outright, but nice down payment. SBA will give you a loan for the rest.

  10. Re: Ban Muslim Immigration on Ron Howard Steps In To Direct Han Solo Movie (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Make no mistake, we're competing with them. They are losing, we've got their internal war restarted and things are progressing nicely. Oil should be irrelevant before they kick the fight out of each other.

    We just have to keep our panty wearing 'men' busy chanting at protests and white knighting lesbians and all will be well. Make antifa the face of the left and we get more Trump.

  11. Re:Rail on It's Too Hot For Some Planes To Fly In Phoenix (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    The fastest Amtrak train, would be lucky to get you from Boston to DC in that timeframe. And the sleeper will cost _many_ times more than the airplane seat, I'm not even sure they have them on that train.

    Anywhere outside BostiYorkadelphia and it's simply 'no'.

    Coast to coast is about a 6-9 hour direct flight. Even on Schnellbahn that would be a 20 hour ride, assuming no stops and a fairly direct line. If we built those rail lines, they would go broke and everybody knows it.

  12. Re:Will the execs do hardtime when a drone takes d on Wireless and Drone Execs Praised President Trump as He Pledged To Cut Down Regulations (recode.net) · · Score: -1, Troll

    It obviously hurts less than facing reality. Their hate keeps them warm.

  13. Tacoma narrows was resonance. Destructive aeroelastic flutter is an _example_ of resonance. There is one dweeb making a name out this pedantic distinction and guarding the wiki article, while ignoring that the wiki article on flutter describes it as a resonant phenomenon. He should be ignored, it's an example of everything wrong with wikipedia.

    I've seen the god damn film, it was torquing in the second harmonic.

  14. Re:Intro subjects don't need constant updates! on University of Missouri To Use Open Source And Other Cheaper Alternatives For General Education Textbook (columbiatribune.com) · · Score: 1

    If you didn't take calc freshman year, you were unprepared for Engineering school. You should have had AP in HS.

  15. Re:Intro subjects don't need constant updates! on University of Missouri To Use Open Source And Other Cheaper Alternatives For General Education Textbook (columbiatribune.com) · · Score: 1

    That's charging sales tax on the fees that 3rd party warehouses charge...federal sales tax?

    'Tax warehouses as revenue enhancement' is just gobbledygook, 'reverse the polarity on the tachyon stream'.

    All taxes are 'revenue enhancement' to the government, so there's the 'it's just redundant, not stupid argument'.

    Warehouses don't generate revenue, unless you're a 3rd party warehouse company, in which case you've already been paying taxes on income.

  16. Re:Rail on It's Too Hot For Some Planes To Fly In Phoenix (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    The feds have been using the fund to beat-up the states for decades.

    The states should just increase their own gas taxes and we'll just have to write off the federal money. Once they get their hands on it, we're fucked anyhow. Needs more starving, cause what we've been doing is anything but. Far too much money in DC.

  17. I bet the Ag, Engineering, Law, Veterinary and Medical schools are still full.

    Business majors (read: right wing, four year party) staying away in droves. Liberal arts (read: left wing, four year party) also not happy as they eventually fired the notorious bitch.

    Big losers, just off campus bars, frats and campus drug dealers. I bet in 3-4 years the graduating class is almost normal size.

    Mizzou has always been bad for 'babysitting' party hounds. Brags on being #1 party school x times, think Chico State.

    Also note: University of Missouri isn't just Columbia.

  18. Re:Intro subjects don't need constant updates! on University of Missouri To Use Open Source And Other Cheaper Alternatives For General Education Textbook (columbiatribune.com) · · Score: 1

    How would you even 'tax warehouses as revenue enhancement'? What does that even mean? Inventory? Depreciation? Writing off expired or obsolete? Warehouses don't generate revenue, sales do.

    It's just words pushed together by someone clueless...teachers are pretty clueless, so I'm guessing option B.

  19. Re:What do they all do? on Etsy Slashes Almost a Quarter Of Its Staff In Attempt To Refocus (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    There are always exceptions, but I maintain that the appearance of success is important when dealing with VCs. They aren't all the brightest bunch.

  20. Re:Tech employee here on Tim Cook Told Trump Tech Employees Are 'Nervous' About Immigration (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Your belly might coerce you. But your belly isn't your employer and your employer isn't guilty of coercion because you are hungry. Become a breatharian.

  21. Re:Double Down on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Isolate a Network And Allow Data Transfer? · · Score: 1

    Needs more AS-400 and System/32!

  22. Re:IPX/SPX on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Isolate a Network And Allow Data Transfer? · · Score: 1

    Gen sys on netmare 2 from 360k floppies...nobody ever did that twice, except everybody who forgot one thing the first time. You needed a running server with disk images to avoid it.

  23. Re:Intro subjects don't need constant updates! on University of Missouri To Use Open Source And Other Cheaper Alternatives For General Education Textbook (columbiatribune.com) · · Score: 2

    Those are already all 'weed outs'. Let's just make sure that the open source book is GOOD.

    We could just teach Physics and Calc out of 'Principia'...but the fail rate would skyrocket.

  24. Re:Rail on It's Too Hot For Some Planes To Fly In Phoenix (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Not in my experience. But I live in CA, many business people from the midwest will tell you their location is better because the trips are shorter, but I grew up there, so not buying it. Even midwest to 'coast' is about 2000 miles, more or less.

    Also note: Even at 200 mph the time penalty for train at 1000 miles is pretty bad. Less now, with the shitty airport situation, but the 200mph train is in Germany, so.

  25. Re:IPX/SPX on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Isolate a Network And Allow Data Transfer? · · Score: 1

    Running netmare was a privilege? Who knew?