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  1. Google + ended? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Feel About the End Of Google+ ? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    I must have been sleeping very long.

  2. Other TV scientists can learn from Nye on How Did Bill Nye Become the Science Guy? · · Score: 1

    The fact is that the science is dull, boring and heavy to pay attention to, even for most adults, let alone kids. Bill Nye making that a bit easy and somehow funnier to watch, people watch. in the end, we want people to watch science programs more, don't we?

  3. Re:Slashcott! on Mac OS X Bitcoin Stealing Trojan Horse Called OSX/CoinThief Discovered · · Score: 1

    >> I will work to create a new community where things can be run with quality user discussions as the paramount objective.

    and before long, you will be cashing out too... CmdrTaco did.

    oooh the $weet money.

    change is the only constant, as someone once said. Dice saw the high-flying twitters and facebooks, and said; hey, how to increase slashdot users, to make more money? how? how? howwww?

    all this, is only natural.

  4. Re:Fuck Beta on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! · · Score: 1

    While at it, FUCK CmdrTaco as well, for cashing out.

  5. Re:Slashcott on Major Internet Censorship Bill Passes In Turkey · · Score: 1

    why don't you all major submitters of /. stories, set up a slashdot-like-site owned by your own foundation, and move your stories there?

    readers will come, i will.

  6. Re:Success = happiness? on The "Triple Package" Explains Why Some Cultural Groups Are More Successful · · Score: 1

    >> Would you rather be successful and miserable, or a happy failure?

    if a country in general full of happy-failures, that country is dependent of others, that culture will be wiped, will not be able to protect itself from nearby predator countries.

  7. >>First generation immigrants are generally more motivated and productive compared to those farmed locally

    Because, immigrants are selection of people, they are not average people. it takes guts, determination, drive, and other above-average human attributes to move into an overseas country, into another culture.

    immigrants in general are above-average people, their children are on the other hand, are average.

  8. chinese moon rover on 'Opportunity' Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary Roving Mars · · Score: 2

    is out of order, i heard today.

  9. Google on Ask Slashdot: Events Calendar Software For Local Community? · · Score: 1

    calendar.

  10. Re:Surface on Ballmer To Retire · · Score: 1

    if you try many ideas, you fail many times..

  11. Re:Good news for stockholders on Ballmer To Retire · · Score: 1

    why is this funny? parent is dead serious. /. seem to be filled with monkeys lately.

  12. I want to record my opinion.. on Ballmer To Retire · · Score: 1

    .. that, Ballmer was a great, and MS will miss him.

  13. Why HTC is Loosing User? on HTC Unveils Revamped HTC One · · Score: 0

    My observation is, because a hard, physical 'home' button is missing on front face of HTC phones. That made me choose a Samsung Galaxy S1, S3, over HTC.

    IPhone and Samsung Galaxy both have a physical 'home' button on their phone.

  14. Re:Simplest Solution on Richard Stallman's Solution To 'Too Big To Fail' · · Score: 1

    >>>Next simplest solution: make "Bail-out" == Nationalization. if we taxpayers are footing the bill, we have every right to own that motherfucker.

    Govt run companies are in general bloated, inefficient, and are fertile corruption grounds.

  15. If not for Google... on Microsoft Says Google Trying To Undermine Windows Phone · · Score: 1

    ...this would have been the YoWP (year of windows phone)

  16. Re:Perhaps what we need is.... on Has the Mars Rover Sniffed Methane? · · Score: 1

    jesus man.. u could have written a book with all that.

  17. Re:He should be jailed on Journalist Arrested In Greece For Publishing List of Possible Tax-Evaders · · Score: 1

    Evading tax is every Greeks' right and what has made Greece the economic powerhouse it is today.

    Greeks evading tax? Blame on Turks.

  18. What do Detroit, or Stuttgart, or Tokyo? on How We'll Get To 54.5 Mpg By 2025 · · Score: 2

    >>What do Detroit, or Stuttgart, or Tokyo have waiting in the wings?

    you surely mean, China.

  19. Re:But that's not the real problem. on To Encourage Biking, Lose the Helmets · · Score: 1

    yes they do, you are a revenue stream for them, they wouldnt give a shit othervise ;)

  20. Re:Not so on How Apple Killed the Linux Desktop · · Score: 1

    mine too..., and i love latest unity.

  21. Re:Warren Buffett Owns Shares of BYD on Chinese Automaker Launches Remote-Control Family Car · · Score: 1
  22. Warren Buffett Owns Shares of BYD on Chinese Automaker Launches Remote-Control Family Car · · Score: 1

    Warren Buffett Owns 10% of that BYD.

  23. Re:Everyone seems to be using Apple.. on Curiosity Lands On Mars · · Score: 1

    i thought that they'd be using linux instead..

  24. Everyone seems to be using Apple.. on Curiosity Lands On Mars · · Score: 0
  25. They were Turkic People on Earliest Americans Arrived In Waves, DNA Study Finds · · Score: 0

    The distant cousins of Turkish, and Turkic peoples of central Asia