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  1. Re:No Carbon Emissions? on Mini-Tornadoes For Generating Electricity · · Score: 1

    How do military expenditures make oil seem cheaper. Last I checked, Republicans in Congress was rebuking the Navy for their investments in alternative energy sources. Turns out the Navy is big on those since it means they wouldn't have to rely on oil. So far, the Navy has been able to tell Congressional Republicans to shove it up their stove pipes.

  2. Re:How did they drift so far apart? on Polio Eradication Program Suspended In Pakistan After Aid Workers Shot · · Score: 1

    India and Pakistan both inherited British bureaucracy. That got them off on the wrong foot. The Muslims, as they seem to do everywhere else, cannot stand living in close proximity to non-Muslims so they up and left to East and West Pakistan. East became Bangladesh when they found they didn't care for the crazy West. Given the wars between India and Pakistan, India (under Indira Gandhi) just had to make it worse by letting off a nuke thus showing the Paks they had big dicks. So Pakistan just had to have their nuke otherwise their dicks would also grow in stature. The nutjobs on both sides always seem to be spoiling for a fight. The U.S. should never have sided with Pakistan early on. It only fed Pakistan arrogance.

  3. Re:Hillbilly regions and their conspiracy theories on Polio Eradication Program Suspended In Pakistan After Aid Workers Shot · · Score: 2

    The Taliban has been against vaccination long before the bin Laden operation. Let's all be multi-culti and let the hicks overrun the civilized people. Any history of Pakistan would show you the only oppressor in the Pakistan tribal regions has been Islam and its upside down view of women, child marriage, education, etc. Let's also not forget that the wonderful cultural heritage of those regions is also the one that cultivates poppies for heroin production.

  4. Re:Welcome to being a target on School Shooting Prompts Legislation To Study Violent Video Games · · Score: 1

    So the advertising industry is really running on empty fumes? How is it that games don't effect people yet advertising does?

  5. Re:When Is the Appropriate Time, Exactly? on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 1

    "17,352 (55.6%) of the total 31,224 firearm-related deaths in 2007 due to suicide", from the article.

  6. Re:you are crazy on Ask Slashdot: Interviewing Your Boss? · · Score: 1

    The flip side of that is a dork actually makes it through and proceeds to shit on and/or fire all the interviewers that made him feel uncomfortable. I think the downside also needs to be considered.

  7. Re:Ask him on Ask Slashdot: Interviewing Your Boss? · · Score: 2

    And 15 for "synergistic". 20 for "incentivize". And if you hear "empowerment", you are already dead, vote NO!

  8. Re:send the mini-shuttle over there to wack it on North Korea's Satellite Is Out of Control · · Score: 1

    Seems a shame for the U.S. to waste all that effort tracking these things. Now if they had a policy of NZ gets to light them off, and the U.S. gets to test its antimissile systems against them, then that would be useful and interesting.

  9. Re:I think you missd a word on Atheist Blogger Sentenced To 3 Years in Prison For Insulting Islam · · Score: 1

    Along those lines, I heard one Mid-East scholar say that in the West, there are professional insult givers while in the Mid-East there are professional insult takers. It doesn't matter what the West does, they'll find something to be insulted over.

  10. Re:The Pattern on Russia and China Withdraw Bid For Internet Control · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "they?" A Conspiracy!! Yep, that's it, numerous oil companies, some nationalized and some privatized, shipping companies, refiners, governments, etc. all got together and decided that you needed to have higher prices, and kept the manipulation secret...those sneaky bastards. You know, the Sun keeps rising and falling in the sky....a Conspiracy!!

  11. Re:What about a healthy brain on Brain Pacemaker Helps Treat Alzheimer's Disease · · Score: 1

    Already been invented, the Orgasmatron (see Woody Allen).

  12. Re:Free as in beer on Brain Cells Made From Urine · · Score: 2

    I want to see Mr. PeeBrain, run on a single AA battery. You take Mr. PeeBrain into the bar, and down a few pints. Plug in Mr. PeeBrain (discreetly, of course), and whallah, any brain cells you lost to the alcohol in the beer have now been replaced by New and Improved brain cells automatically reinjected into your brain.

  13. Re:Let's just get this out of the way now... on Ticking Arctic Carbon Bomb May Be Bigger Than Expected · · Score: 1

    Why, what an enlightened outlook. I'm guessing you have no children or grandchildren, because if you did, you might care about them.

  14. Re:Canonical current users? on Ubuntu 13.04 Will Allow Instant Purchasing, Right From the Dash · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And Ubuntu is created by elves, they cost nothing to employ, singing joyous songs of open source and ideals while they work tirelessly just to satisfy you and your bunny world.

  15. Re:Dis-unity on Russia, China, and Others Seek Greater Control Over Internet · · Score: 1

    Respectable culture? You mean the degradation of women, child brides, honor killings, taxing everyone not Islamic, no personal freedoms except those granted by an arcane moldy old book? That respectable culture?

  16. Re:Oppressive Regimes on Russia, China, and Others Seek Greater Control Over Internet · · Score: 1

    The U.S. did give Iraq back to the Iraqis less one brutal dictator who only served the interests of the 20% of the pop. that is Sunni. That the Iraqis decided they hated each other is their own fault. The U.S. didn't even keep the oil. Before that, it took back Kuwait from Saddam, and...gave it back to the fat boys in the robes. Before that, the U.S. took Panama away from the dictator Noriega, and then gave it back to the Panamanians...less one dictator named Noriega.

    The U.S. also took Afghanistan away from the Pashtun storm troopers who were intent on driving all the other groups out of the place, and then, the U.S. gave most of it back to the Afghans and is on track to give the rest back.

    Now, what point was it you were attempting to make?

  17. Re:Aren't the US already a low wage country? on A US Apple Factory May Be Robot City · · Score: 1

    Wait until the Chinese start slinging their military weight around. They are already making noises and many Asian countries have discovered what a good friend they either have or would like to have in Uncle Sam. Or maybe you'd appreciate a Arab Spring that decided Islam was the way the rest of the world ought to live, a madrassa on every block everywhere to train the thought and morals police of which Saudi Arabia and its fellow Salafist storm troopers are so fond. And there'd be about 5-6 million less Jews after the Arabs finished solving their "Jewish Problem".

  18. Re:Woohoo! on Hit Game Makes £52 In First Week On Windows RT · · Score: 1

    All MS has to do is knacker the I'm-not-Desktop-UI for desktops and leave the mobile thing alone. Problem solved...except most people/companies still won't see any need to go to winders 8. I'm guessing the UI switch was to encourage people to move, but most do not appear to be swallowing the bait, the payoff just is not large enough for most.

  19. Re:or just get rid of the government on US Security Classifications Needs Re-Thinking, Says Board · · Score: 1

    Grandma won't like not getting her SS checks. I think that would probably be okay, she can live with you, can't she?

  20. Re:Civil disagreement. on US Security Classifications Needs Re-Thinking, Says Board · · Score: 1

    See Syria, try to draw battlelines there.

  21. Re:I've said it before... on Verizon Patents Eavesdropping Using Your TV For Ad Targeting · · Score: 1

    "The spying is scary, but the results are just some ads, which in a worst case are very embarrassing."

    Dear, why is every second ad trying to sell me testosterone pills? What have you been discussing in front of the TV?

  22. Re:BBC Images show an undamaged ScanEagle drone on Iran Claims To Have Downed Another US Drone · · Score: 1

    "self-destruct"? On a drone? The amount of material you would need to detonate would completely swamp the usual payload. The don't have it because they cannot afford the weight to carry it.

  23. Re:But But But "Argo" Taught Me ... on Iran Claims To Have Downed Another US Drone · · Score: 1

    See MSNBC.

  24. Re:Did Zuckerberg ever have to get past HR? on Just Say No To College · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Your number 3 is spot on. Programming is more or less code monkey work. Businesses are increasing asking for domain knowledge of some field to which programming is applied. Most of those fields require a college degree.

  25. Re:Not a programmer on Iran Suspends Programmer's Death Sentence · · Score: 1

    Hmmmm....your comment history is a bit short, your slashdot number is a bit high, and you are making quite specific claims about someone.

    Care to let us in on the evidence? Evidence from Iran doesn't count, their authorities being on the darker side of human nature. We'll be looking for evidence vetted by respectable third parties. Now cough up or you are spouting BS.