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  1. Re:Ia my impression wrong? on 2016's First Batch of Anti-Science Education Bills Arrive In Oklahoma (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    DU only has like 32 active posters.

    The take a back seat in tardness to no one.

  2. Re:Gyro data is misleading on Uber's Smartphone-Based Gyrometer Monitoring Seems To Be the Future of Driving (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    I was thinking of just piggy backing on a SCCA track day and bringing my mild Mustang (300HP ballpark, just installed yellow Konis and polyurethane). The quarter mile car won't be any fun at whatever they call sears point these days.

    I might just fly to Florida to drive a M6 around Daytona...you've got me thinking. But I couldn't really run someone else's car really hard, like my own. Also super speedways are just insanely dangerous. I was thinking more road course, hard braking and cornering. Spin without dying.

    The private Maine road sounds ideal. I suspect they have GPS on those units and will detect the commonly run tracks. I can't be the first to think of it. Couldn't get as crazy as a track, but should still be sufficient to get our insurance canceled.

  3. Re:Citizens come last on University of Helsinki To Lay Off a Thousand People (yle.fi) · · Score: 1

    The sunni/shia war is going to last far longer then 10 years and has already gone on for centuries.

    The trick will be getting it back into stalemate without being too obvious about it.

    Does the USA get to send some Mexicans and Central American refugees on to Europe as well?

    The bottom line is no nation can tolerate uncontrolled immigration. You want the educated ones, not the criminals and fanatics.

    I for one am glad the Eurotrash get to deal with it too. Was sick of hearing how bad we were for not welcoming every Salvadoran with free shit.

  4. Re:Citizens come last on University of Helsinki To Lay Off a Thousand People (yle.fi) · · Score: 1

    Your cited source has no credibility.

  5. Re:Refugees on University of Helsinki To Lay Off a Thousand People (yle.fi) · · Score: 1

    Students vote with their dollars. They want club med on campus and get it.

  6. Re:how is this wisdom relevant to /. on University of Helsinki To Lay Off a Thousand People (yle.fi) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, Finland is known for its drunks and drivers. Both of which are legend.

    You can out drink the Ruskys and all drive like you think you are F1 champions.

    For the record those are both good things IMHO.

    Of all the things to be ashamed of in the USA, I'm most ashamed of our drivers. 7 of 8 cars in the USA have slushboxes, even 'vettes are mostly autos. People think 'road armor' is a good strategy.

  7. Re:Rubik's cube on Ask Slashdot: Math-Related Present For a Bright 10-Year-Old? · · Score: 1

    I did. Granting it was a long time ago.

  8. Re:Government schools on 2016's First Batch of Anti-Science Education Bills Arrive In Oklahoma (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Just watch a liberal parent with a conservative kid (brainless spawn the heartless per the old joke). They certainly aren't happy their kid is smarter than them.

  9. Only idiots have things dangling from their mirrors.

    They are training their cranial collision detectors to not work.

    Think about it. What's the easiest way to 'see' a collision course? (Constant vector.) What does a pendulum do at the end of each swing? (present a constant vector)

  10. Re:Gyro data is misleading on Uber's Smartphone-Based Gyrometer Monitoring Seems To Be the Future of Driving (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm almost tempted to sign up, hire myself to drive, than spend the day at a track burning up a set of tires.

    Just to fuck with you.

  11. Re:For once I feel good on Tech Salaries Had Biggest Year-Over-Year Leap In 2015 (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    No accounting for taste.

    One acre/half mile?

    Is your lot 10 feet wide?

  12. Re: Inevitable on SaxoBank Predicts Universal Basic Income For Europe · · Score: 1

    In most of the country, there are no farmers at the farmers market.

    It's just people hustling between the vegetable wholesaler and the farmers market.

    It's the same food as the grocery at more or less the same markup. Just lower overhead.

  13. Re:Inevitable on SaxoBank Predicts Universal Basic Income For Europe · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you will become more willing when you get a little cold and hungry.

  14. Re:Yep on Tech Salaries Had Biggest Year-Over-Year Leap In 2015 (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    You are putting your bird into the wrong bush.

    Benny Hill

  15. Kids will continue to whip it. No need to teach it.

  16. Re:Why do we allow this? on 2016's First Batch of Anti-Science Education Bills Arrive In Oklahoma (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If 1 Timothy 2:12 is false so is John 3:16?

  17. Your going to end up in a war with all their other neighbors. Over who has to take them.

    e.g. Missouri, New Mexico and Colorado share a short border with OK. They should be stuck with part of it. No fair making Texas, Kansas and Arkansas take it all.

  18. Re:Yes i like to discuss creation vs. evolution on 2016's First Batch of Anti-Science Education Bills Arrive In Oklahoma (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    So string theory -> is no scientific theory?

    Granting we don't teach string theory in HS.

  19. Re:Feminists have been doing this for years on 2016's First Batch of Anti-Science Education Bills Arrive In Oklahoma (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Every non-bible thumper knows creationism is bullshit.

    Every non-social 'scientist' knows the soft 'sciences' are bullshit.

    Teaching feminism in the Women's studies departments is the same as teaching creationism is thumper seminarys. The problem is that the government funds one bunch, but the perception is already exactly the same.

  20. Re:Government schools on 2016's First Batch of Anti-Science Education Bills Arrive In Oklahoma (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Does that also apply to parents that teach their children Marxism?

    Where do you draw the line?

  21. Re:screw you and his wife on 2016's First Batch of Anti-Science Education Bills Arrive In Oklahoma (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The only way anybody gives 110% is 25% each Monday-Thursday and 10% on Friday.

    Please kick all the moron, football coach type managers that use this term right in the balls/cunt.

    As to teaching, the 110% people are the problem. Weather creationist or warmist, they believe they're view is beyond questioning.

  22. Re:Ia my impression wrong? on 2016's First Batch of Anti-Science Education Bills Arrive In Oklahoma (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    4590 hits for 'DINO" on 'DemocraticUnderground' (The left's version of FreeRepublic). Using DU's google site search.

  23. Re:Time-of-day metering on Gambling State Says the Solar Gamble Is Over · · Score: 1

    Which is why load following is a separate charge. Electric market is weird. Power goes one place, but 'capacity' goes another. This reflects all the wheeling etc that goes on in the market/grid, capacity is usually more local, reflecting actual available transmission.

    Some plants make 90% of their money by regulating area ramp rate and almost nothing on power.

    I knew of one smaller plant that ran full time at a 90 degree phase angle to correct for all the early dimmers and switching power supplies, with their crazy power factors. That particular mess should be resolving with newer consumer hardware. Markets know how to adjust for this, they are called 'long term contracts for system stability'. All kinds of mischief goes on there as well. Daylight is helping.

    The hour ahead market has very little to do with operations. It sets the link flows. Effects if links are marginal so it has real financial impact. But operations just keeps the machines spinning. Just for example: Do you think they care who paid for the power when a link trips and they have to dump the reflected surge into 'the resistor'? That's for accountants to argue about in the subsequent weeks or months.

  24. Re:Why retail? on Gambling State Says the Solar Gamble Is Over · · Score: 1

    Who are you to start making rules.

    Going to ruin /.

  25. Re:Government should not pick winners and losers. on Gambling State Says the Solar Gamble Is Over · · Score: 1

    There is a huge difference between satellite solar panels, which have a lot of thought put into a degrading but not failing design and roof top solar panels, which are cells soldered to a bus or wiring harness covered in glass and framed in aluminium.