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  1. Re:moving all the time is dumb on Nobody Is Moving, Especially Millennials (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    The concept that anyone would consider a full, loving family criminal is mind boggling. We support, love and nourish them without any negative impact to yourself. Why would you hate on kids?

    Why is society so toxic towards children in general?!

  2. Re: moving all the time is dumb on Nobody Is Moving, Especially Millennials (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    Lol, yea I do my best editing after I hit 'Send'.

  3. Re:moving all the time is dumb on Nobody Is Moving, Especially Millennials (nymag.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    sure you might make more money cash wise, but you're going to be a perpetual renter aka sharecropper with nothing to your name

    putting down roots means you can buy property at a younger age which means you will pay it off faster and have kids at a younger age. the perpetual movers will be the people having their first kid at 45 and no spare cash from having their rent increase all the time

    Not true at all. You have to recall that all surveys and questionnaires are only valid for the demographic that chooses to participate in surveys or questionnaires.

    My family and I have moved for almost every job I have had in the tech sector and we have had 8 children in the last 20 years. No, we don't own a home, but we are currently working on a Bus to live in as we move between contracts.

    Our debt to income ration is damn low for a couple in their 40's. If I were to buy I would save up and pay outright. Retirement starts with a low debt to income ratio. Who the hell want's a mortgage?

    So far the list has been:
    - California,
    - Oregon,
    - California,
    - Florida,
    - The Great Nation of Texas
    - Oregon.

    Anyone have any DevOps / System Engineer roles in Texas? PM me! :)

  4. Re:Only the earthworks are visible on Hundreds of Stonehenge-Like Monuments Found In The Amazon Rainforest (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Absolutely brilliant Thank You!

  5. Yet.

  6. Re:Only the earthworks are visible on Hundreds of Stonehenge-Like Monuments Found In The Amazon Rainforest (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    That's beyond comprehension. What kind of background was she raised with?

  7. Re:Only the earthworks are visible on Hundreds of Stonehenge-Like Monuments Found In The Amazon Rainforest (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    but even simple things as the motion of stars/planets elude the average human now. Not even to talk about when and how to plant which fruit

    I wish I could say you're wrong here, but for the most point I think that has to do greatly with the abundance of distraction that's available.

  8. Re:Only the earthworks are visible on Hundreds of Stonehenge-Like Monuments Found In The Amazon Rainforest (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Assuming we hadn't had our own near-extinction level event in some time long past we are unaware of. It's possible, and there are certainly legends that would suggest that we have had greater technological levels in the past. It would be pure arrogance to think we are the first, and best iteration of the Human race.

  9. Re:Only the earthworks are visible on Hundreds of Stonehenge-Like Monuments Found In The Amazon Rainforest (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    I was thinking more along the lines as the base of something multi-storied. Who knows, I am just tired of every ancient building made of stone referred to as a temple of some kind.

    The only thing about Human's that has really changed over the millennia is how fast we can kill each other. I imagine Human nature and behaviour to be much the same 10,000 years ago as 10 years ago. There has to be room for something with a more mundane purpose that has survived through the ages.

    Of the things we have today, what does anyone imagine they would look 1,000, 5,000, 10,000 years from now?

  10. Re:Only the earthworks are visible on Hundreds of Stonehenge-Like Monuments Found In The Amazon Rainforest (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    look at the massive amount of resources people pour into religion... historically it is perhaps only rivaled by defense.

    Based on your argument all our major cities will be viewed as giant mecca's of religion. Which they clearly are not. I expect the subways would be the church of the underworld etc.

    It's only very recently that we've regularly created massive structures for purely secular use.

    Roleplay:
    5000k+ years ago we had massive structures built for purely secular purposes using 'green' technology. What would those ruins look like?

  11. Re:Only the earthworks are visible on Hundreds of Stonehenge-Like Monuments Found In The Amazon Rainforest (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    For buildings we might build yes. You know, progress and all. But some of these structures are just massive, and could very well have held a larger wooden structure above it. Point is nobody knows and a hypothesis is 'merely' an educated guess. With truth being stranger than fiction, these things really could have served any number of purposes that were *not* religion-centric.

  12. Re:Only the earthworks are visible on Hundreds of Stonehenge-Like Monuments Found In The Amazon Rainforest (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Or Stonehegnge could be the remnants of the foundation for a tall structure.

    Why do all ancient stone ruins *always* have to be called some kind of temple? chances are it served a much more mundane purpose?

  13. Double standard on NSA Contractor Indicted Over Mammoth Theft of Classified Data (reuters.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But Hillary did nothing wrong.

  14. Re:Presumably, the current Earth was also born dry on Glass From Nuclear Test Site Shows the Moon Was Born Dry (newscientist.com) · · Score: 2

    I keep hearing comets being described as mostly rock and ice. I think there's water on these celestial bodies, but we aren't finding it on the surface for obvious reasons stated above.

    Most places on Earth require drilling at least 100ft before finding fresh useable water where there's not natural springs. Lets send a serious drill to some of these celestial bodies and do some real digging to find out what's below. Blowing craters in the surface will just melt, then disperse water as ice, recreating the environment of the original surface.

    If we were to judge the entirety of the human body by what we can scrape off the surface with small weak tools unable to break the surface you're not going to see much. Lets poke a real hole in the moon or mars and see whats inside.

  15. Re:Censorship. on Wikipedia Bans Daily Mail As 'Unreliable' Source (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    CNN is just as bad as all the rest of the alphabet channels. All they care about is ratings, and the dollar that comes with ratings.

  16. Re:And I'll never read TFS on Story Of a Founder Who Burned Through $21M While His Social App Fling Crashed (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    View page source.

  17. Re:Overwatch Loot Boxes? on World of Warcraft Gold Can Now Be Used To Buy Other Blizzard Games (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You should see what they did to butcher TeamFortress2. It was so bad I removed it from my system entirely.

  18. The organization bills itself as an online community that campaigns to hold corporations accountable on a variety of global issues such as climate change, workers' rights, discrimination, human rights, corruption, and corporate power grab.

    As they power grab to promote their own political agenda.

  19. Re:Isn't this just virtue signaling at this point? on Sweden Pledges To Cut All Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 2045 (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    estimates still show that it will take a 50 years

    Assuming that Sweden will still exist as the nation we know it with the current political climate. Climate Change is the least of the Earth's problems.

  20. I would have moderated this +5 Funny but it looks like the politicos got here first.

  21. Re:Malignant narcissist upset, news at 11. on Running For Congress, Brianna Wu Criticizes The FBI's GamerGate Report (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    People should be able to subject people who disagree with them to endless harassment and intimidation without any consequences, right?

    And that's exactly what she plans to do to the other kids that called bad names once she's been given the congressional power to pursue her feminist witch-hunt with impunity.

    That's enough to make me campaign against her just on principle alone.

  22. Ok, put one of these probes in your mouth, ear, and butt.

    Wait, Wait, wait *this* one goes in your butt.

  23. tweets coming from places where nobody lives; messages being posted only from Windows phones; exclusively including quotes from Star Wars novels.

    So, Windows Developers...

  24. Re:It's about licensing fees on the new way. on Oracle to Block JAR Files Signed with MD5 Starting In April (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Not if Java refuses to load those functions and requires their 'more secure' proprietary functions instead.

    This feels like the computer industry trying to lock out the free like in the days of big iron.

  25. I really think oracle is actively trying to kill Java, with this MD5 signing thing blocking thousands of apps that will never be re-signed and then aggressively pursuing java licensing fees, this would be the icing on the cake.

    In case you missed it previously:
    https://developers.slashdot.or...