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  1. Re:And on Gardening On Mars · · Score: 1

    If it's planned properly, you'll be fine on a vegan diet with no supplements. Pregnant women probably should take supplements but can bear healthy children without them, and I assume NASA would want to hire a world-class nutritionist for this project anyways.

  2. Re:Open Source Alternative on Symantec To Acquire PGP and GuardianEdge · · Score: 1

    We live in a democracy ???? What country are you in?

    Slashdot.

    Be a patriot! Mod this comment up!

  3. Re:Well deserved on Comcast Awarded the Golden Poo Award · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, WTF? It seems like someone just doesn't like what you have to say.

  4. Re:Well deserved on Comcast Awarded the Golden Poo Award · · Score: 1

    I stand corrected. That sounds a whole lot more expensive than just "noncommercial + appointment" would be, though.

  5. Re:Well deserved on Comcast Awarded the Golden Poo Award · · Score: 1

    Either way, you're going to pay in time or money. I pick time.

    You didn't pick time, they picked it for you. There is currently no option to pay extra for a more specific cable installation time.

  6. Re:Adoption vs. Selling on Man Accused of Trying To Sell Kids On Craigslist · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Adoption is supposed to be in the child's best interest, while selling is is supposed to be in the buyer and seller's best interests. I will now summarize the next response, to save time.

    "HUUURRRR DUUURG adoption is BAD becuz the GOVERNMENT fucks it up!"

  7. Re:Pedobear? on Extremists Warn South Park Creators Over Muhammad In a Bear Suit · · Score: 1

    By the time he died, Muhammad has thousands of followers and had converted most of the Arabian Peninsula to Islam. He commanded an army and waged war for years, culminating with the conquest of Mecca.

    Pick up a fucking book.

  8. Re:Brutal civilization. on Cows On Treadmills Produce Clean Power For Farms · · Score: 1

    Employment is not slavery.

    I don't think you two are going to settle that argument any time soon.

  9. Re:What? on Cows On Treadmills Produce Clean Power For Farms · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's used in conjunction with a form of nuclear fusion. Just an intermediate step before plugging them into the Meatrix.

  10. Laugh on. on Volcanic Ash Heading Towards North America · · Score: 1

    We'll see who's Eyjafjallajoking when it reaches us.

  11. Of course it didn't come up! on Do You Have a Secret Immunity To 3D Movies? · · Score: 1

    You should have checked Wiktionary, not Wikipedia, duh!

    It's a German given name.


    Wait, what?

  12. Re:Not notable on Aussie Tech-Focused Wiki Launched · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Not notable on Aussie Tech-Focused Wiki Launched · · Score: 1

    You just don't get it - people talk here on Slashdot because they are tired of Wikipedia bureaucratic fights. They don't want to get involved because they've been wounded before and don't want to get shot at again.

    I used to work at a soup kitchen, but I got tired of all the beaurocracy. Once I made a pot of soup that didn't meet their byzantine sanitation requirements, and they threw it out! An insult to my perfect cooking! Screw that.

  14. Re:Not notable on Aussie Tech-Focused Wiki Launched · · Score: 1

    Do you have a few reliable sources that describe the GNAA directly and in detail? If so, I can get the article restored for you.

  15. Re:Not notable on Aussie Tech-Focused Wiki Launched · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is a very popular opinion on Slashdot, but it's simply not true. Notability is determined by sources. In fact, your Pokemon example is particularly dated; in 2007 most of the Pokemon articles were deemed not notable and merged into what's now very well sourced coverage.

    General comments against Wikipedia notability get modded up because most people have had something deleted. Specific comments that specify what got deleted get modded down because most of the time it wasn't actually notable at all.

    I'm not all talk, though. If anyone reading this ever actually is the victim of some beaurocrat's arbitrary preferences, leave me a message and I'll make sure any article that passes the inclusion requirements gets to stay. There's a whole Article Rescue Squadron full of people who are willing to do something about the problem instead of just whining about it on Slashdot. Yeah, I get it, "I don't have the time to join a Wikipedia group, Wikipedia can go fuck itself, it's a lost cause"... but you've got plenty of time to complain about it here.

  16. Re:Oooh boy. on Spamming a Judge Is Contempt of Court · · Score: 0, Troll

    Any way of chewing gum at court is highly disrespectful.

  17. Re:Nah, best clock is my girlfriend's clock on Man-Made Atomic Clocks the Best In the Universe · · Score: 1

    That's better than her being late!

  18. Re:Meh. on What the Top US Companies Pay In Taxes · · Score: 1

    Yes, we are uninformed. Link/elaboration please?

  19. Re:Incentives drive behavior on What the Top US Companies Pay In Taxes · · Score: 1

    Problem is you are basically tying your nation's ability to tax to a single cyclical industry (real estate) instead of the entire economy. Works great when the real estate market is hot and tax revenues crater massively when the real estate market cools off. Asset price bubbles become a HUGE problem.

    The problem of real estate bubbles and cyclical prices is in part because land is taxed so little. With a land value tax (or to a lesser extent normal property taxes), people buy less property just for speculation, and buy more to do something actually productive.

  20. Hey, look! I hit something! on Fossil of Ant-Eating Dinosaur Discovered In China · · Score: 1
  21. Re:Interesting tactic, won't work. on Warner Brothers Hiring Undercover Anti-Pirates · · Score: 1

    You should try Kaffeine. You can skip everything and change your audio/subtitle/etc settings with the right-click menu.

  22. Re:EXCELLENT idea - student hours are not wasted on Journalism Students Assigned To Write On Wikipedia · · Score: 1
  23. Re:Non-Notable on Journalism Students Assigned To Write On Wikipedia · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Exactly. "I don't like it" arguments usually get thrown out in deletion discussions.

  24. Wikinews? on Journalism Students Assigned To Write On Wikipedia · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Wouldn't it make more sense to have journalism majors write for Wikinews instead? They could even get accredited for press passes.

  25. Re:In completely unrelated news.... on Millions Continue To Click On Spam · · Score: 1

    That's because personal computers are low-cost consumer goods. You can buy a decent one for a couple hundred bucks and it quickly devalues. When it breaks, it might be more cost-effective to just buy a new one than to get it fixed. Now compare that to your house. It takes years to pay off, and its value remains relatively constant. When it breaks, you get it fixed! You can't afford a new house!