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  1. Re: Why no engine grill? on Jet Strikes Drone Near Heathrow Airport (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    On what planet was Concorde the first supersonic jet?

  2. Re: Manufacturer's responsibility on Jet Strikes Drone Near Heathrow Airport (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    int IQ;

    The problem is always bad metrics.

  3. Re:Monkeywrench the replacement training on IT Employees At EmblemHealth Fight To Save Jobs (computerworld.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Julian?

    I knew a dude who, whenever he started drinking, would preach the gospel of 'Always shit at work, take your time, last year my boss paid me $10k for shitting, I'm always holding it on the drive in...'

  4. Re:The USA Loophole ... on Netherlands Looks To Ban All Non-Electric Cars By 2025 (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    International _shipped_ a personal big rig cab. The 'CSX'.

    I'd still prefer a Unimog. But only if I don't have to pay for repairs.

  5. Re:Lithium demand on Netherlands Looks To Ban All Non-Electric Cars By 2025 (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Current gen battery technology was developed for laptop computers and has been going strong for decades.

  6. Re:Not a big deal on Netherlands Looks To Ban All Non-Electric Cars By 2025 (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Because things are closer together and people live in each other laps?

  7. You can get good coffee from a Kurig.

    You need a reusable k-cup and some good, fresh coffee. A large cup is two 'small cup cycles', fresh grounds for both of course.

  8. Coffee degases after roasting.

    So the choices are: 1. Put a check valve on the container to allow gas out but not allow air in. 2. Let the coffee go stale in a bin before packing it in an airtight container.

    Unless your K-cup/can etc has a way to let gas out, it is stale before packaging. There is still enough degassing that the K-cup are always slightly pressurized, otherwise you'd expect half the cups to have the foil pulled in based on barometric pressure differences.

  9. WWII had 1 'ultraconservative' power, Japan. It would be hard to argue about who was actually more 'left', the soviets or the Germans. They both nationalized industries etc. The main difference seams to be who they were talking about when the said 'capitalists', Germans meant 'Jewish Bankers', while Russians meant 'Bankers'.

    In WWI all governments involved would be considered ultraconservative by today's standard.

  10. I know your trying to be sarcastic, but you _are_ right.

  11. Re: Yes, It is a Law on Sanders Campaign Accused of Trademark Bullying By Web Site (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 2

    I really like your binary thinking.

    It is possible that the red scare was an overreaction AND that the CPUSA was funded by a hostile power that had openly declared their intent.

    There is no longer any doubt that CPUSA was getting funds from Stalin. Those records are all open today.

    Which didn't make anybody in CPUSA a Rusky agent, but did make them a full idiot.

  12. Re: US election on Sanders Campaign Accused of Trademark Bullying By Web Site (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    You are right: Lies are weapons, liberal have most of them and you can't pry them out of their mouths...

  13. It's well dug in and been there for 50 years. That means the locations are zeroed. It would be carnage, but wouldn't last nearly as long as the north Koreans hope. The south would have the air from second 1 of the 'war'.

    Fuel air is a nasty new thing against fortifications. Hardened against nukes is not enough. Shockwave reflecting berms do nothing. Also cluster bombs.

    A friend stationed on the DMZ in the early 90s was of the opinion that they were there to keep the south from going north as much as anything. N Korean military is huge, but the South's military is bad ass and armed with the latest American goodies. Even then, they had every North Korean position zeroed and were ready to go.

  14. Re:Your friend on US: North Korean Missile Launch a 'Catastrophic' Failure (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Google 'korea night satellite picture' you halfwit.

  15. Re:Engineering is Applied Science. on Sarah Palin Says 'Bill Nye Is As Much A Scientist As I Am' (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Experimental physicists surely have an element of engineering in their training and often on staff. That does not mean they get an automatic _promotion_ from scientist to engineer. Than again, everybody else claims the title so WTF.

    Executing an experiment is an 'act of engineering' by definition. Designing it and reporting the results are acts of science.

  16. You should check your sources. Anybody who tells you a one time sleep deprivation will hurt you is full of shit.

  17. Re:Well, that makes him an engineer, not a scienti on Sarah Palin Says 'Bill Nye Is As Much A Scientist As I Am' (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    There are schools that offer both a BS and BA in some sciences. The BA is basically 'arm waving', they take the 'baby versions' of all the usual bears. Yes they have baby p-chem...p-chem without math? It's fulfilling a market demand, sad. Gives 'almost graduated' students a soft landing and graceful exit.

    Also liberal arts schools that only give BAs. Usually their science departments are less than well respected. No PhD programs, etc. A few of the least respectable of these have simply tried to 'get away from the distinction of BA/BS' and called everything a BS.

  18. Re:Well, that makes him an engineer, not a scienti on Sarah Palin Says 'Bill Nye Is As Much A Scientist As I Am' (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    You can get a BA in a science. It means you skipped the math and other hard parts.

    You can also get a BS in pure liberal arts bullshit. It almost always means the liberal arts school perceives what their 'education' has done to the value of 'BA', hence they try to gloom onto the academic rigor maintained in the sciences...'Science Envy'.

  19. Re:Engineering is Applied Science. on Sarah Palin Says 'Bill Nye Is As Much A Scientist As I Am' (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Applying a science is not what scientists do. Scientists grow science. Engineers apply science (and business and, sometimes even art).

  20. Re:Time for you to move into management on Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Insults No Developer Wants To Hear? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Like I say, it was over and over.

    'After my changes, the query fails...can you please help me with the needful?'...and once again there are '+'s in the SQL where the code was looping on fields (or something similar).

    It would take him days just to break it...I think most of that time was spent getting it to compile by throwing extra 's and "s at it.

  21. There you go, switching things up.

    Torture leaves lasting damage and illicits false confessions.

    Sleep deprivation does neither. It temporarily makes a person into a trusting chump (like a Marxist or Christian with their 'leader'). They get 8 hours sleep and are fine, except they remember giving up everything they were asked about.

  22. Re:*TRIGGERED* on Tech Firms Have An Obsession With 'Female' Digital Servants (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    During the years they are best at learning, they learn a bad lesson. Tit's get them what they want...until they start to look like tennis balls in socks. By then it's too late.

  23. You just want to define any effective interrogation technique as torture.

    Guess what? If you say there is no difference, they will just get out the battery charger. There _is_ a difference.

  24. Re:Why are you not putting in 60-80 hours a week? on Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Insults No Developer Wants To Hear? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    If I see a manager that wants that much time, I have no doubt about their incompetence.

    The only way they have to measure programmers is face time. Just leave.

  25. Re:Work for Microsoft? on Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Insults No Developer Wants To Hear? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    MacIdiot, pronounced like crap fast food.