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  1. Re:you lose on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Explain To a Coworker That He Writes Bad Code? · · Score: 1

    indeed, this article is just one of jealousy. the old-timer will be there long after the kid is outsourced, for his wares are running the place

  2. Re:Beware every third version on Windows 8 Even Less Popular Than Vista · · Score: 1

    windows 8 will always be hated, just as vista

  3. Re:Cut out the intermediary step. on USMA: Going the Extra Kilometer For Metrication · · Score: 1

    try buying some lumber. or fine jewelry

    sure SI metric the standard, so it is in the usa really, our inches, gallon, etc. are defined in terms of SI

  4. Re:Cut out the intermediary step. on USMA: Going the Extra Kilometer For Metrication · · Score: 1

    we're talking about what people use every day, not government decree. for construction materials, for tea, for jewelry.....

    hardly incorrect, half my family is chinese

  5. Re:Beware every third version on Windows 8 Even Less Popular Than Vista · · Score: 1

    no, it's still every other version. the slashdotter you link to perferring win 8 is not typical, most of us rate it far, far below Windows 7

    the MSCE at work even hate windows 8. the windows gamers I know hate it, the relatives who use windows hate it

    the masses have weighted in: windows 8 is a turd

  6. Re:Windows 8 blows on Windows 8 Even Less Popular Than Vista · · Score: 1

    everyone I know (including windows certified engineers at work) are *downgrading* to win 7 on new boxes that came with win 8.

  7. Re:Cut out the intermediary step. on USMA: Going the Extra Kilometer For Metrication · · Score: 1

    I travel to asia regularly. the chinese do use the units I mentioned

  8. Re:Wait. on 2013 Will Be a Big Year For Private Spaceflight · · Score: 1

    the issue is privatized space travel, for now governments can afford to be their clients. this is an important step on the path to colonization.
    the biggest breakthrough would be a low power lift system, colossal carbon tube (made in 2008 at Fudan U. in China and Los Alamos in the USA) may be the perfect material for cable

  9. Re:started in the 1960s on Researcher Warns That Military Must Prepare For "Mutant" Future · · Score: 1

    not just pilots, for example snipers were given amphetimines. "No such substance exists", yes it does and it is quite common, it's called "saltpeter" (potassium nitrate)

    You must be young....

  10. Re:Cut out the intermediary step. on USMA: Going the Extra Kilometer For Metrication · · Score: 1

    no - read the article
    5 gm != 1 gm
    1.03L != 1 L
    1/9 M^2 != 1 M^2 / 10
    etc.

  11. Re:What's the point? on USMA: Going the Extra Kilometer For Metrication · · Score: 1

    we don't make buildings and machines using miles

  12. nope, RTFWA on USMA: Going the Extra Kilometer For Metrication · · Score: 1

    taking 5 gm and dividing or multiplying by 10s isn't quite metric system, neither is taking 1.03 L for base volume unit.

    you'd better take steps to educate yourself lest our new not-quite metric asian overlords be displeased

  13. Re:Our universe is doomed! on The U.S. Careens Over the Fiscal Cliff, Reaching Only Half of a Deal · · Score: 1

    false, plenty of life does not depend on insects in any manner. you flunked biology?

    human life is the only life on earth that matters. man is the measure.

    you think like a man-hater; you might be a sociopath.

  14. Re:Totally predictable on The U.S. Careens Over the Fiscal Cliff, Reaching Only Half of a Deal · · Score: 1

    there is no such large group that wants a small government. The Republicans want a huge government in the pockets of mega-corporations, the Democrats want a huge welfare state. Meanwhile, those with the government in their pockets can make money either way.

  15. Re:First Time on The U.S. Careens Over the Fiscal Cliff, Reaching Only Half of a Deal · · Score: 0

    you are spouting the usual tripe to defend the banking cartel. The bankers get to define "profit" after "expenses", that is the core of their scam. The central banks are interdependent, and in the west largely controlled by a few families of a certain ethnic group.

  16. Re:First Time on The U.S. Careens Over the Fiscal Cliff, Reaching Only Half of a Deal · · Score: 1

    you are confused, having a "gold standard" does NOT mean the value of gold held equals that of the currency. get a clue before spouting nonsense

  17. Re:but the good news is on NASA Faces Rough Road In 2013 · · Score: 1

    whose numbers do you use? wikipedia says $17 billion for NASA in 2012. I only counting direct budgeted Iraq and Afghanistan "war" costs ~ 160 billion for 2012.

  18. Re:but the good news is on NASA Faces Rough Road In 2013 · · Score: 1

    our interests, or certain mega-corporate interests (big oil & other resource, banking cartel, etc.)?

  19. Re:Un the USA, *everything* is lacking funding ... on NASA Faces Rough Road In 2013 · · Score: 0

    the country won't break, it'll just change: they'll enslave some, imprison others (big business that), and kill the rest. you're right about the main thing though, we'll all definitely be fucked over. It's called a fascist police state.

  20. Re:The problem with protests. on New Documents Detail FBI, Bank Crack Down On Occupy Wall Street · · Score: 1

    you're talking about one place. there were many places the protests happened, and park hours violated. That is not how "we americans" do things, just a few.

  21. started in the 1960s on Researcher Warns That Military Must Prepare For "Mutant" Future · · Score: 0, Troll

    in USA, drugs ("speed" and similar) and nutrition (e.g. sexual desire suppressant in food) to alter behavior has been going on since Viet Nam war at least

  22. Re:can we mod summary as on Want a Job At Google? Better Know Microsoft Office! · · Score: 1

    Plenty of publishers won't take that, but PDF or LaTeX or major desktop publishing format (Adobe, PagePlus, etc.)

  23. Re:The problem with protests. on New Documents Detail FBI, Bank Crack Down On Occupy Wall Street · · Score: 1

    you seem to be deluded that OWS somehow will fix that problem. you are deluded that anyone who says something bad about OWS is against fixing that problem you mention. OWS won't fix that problem, OWS will change nothing. OWS is backed by mostly wealthy people who probably pay less taxes than you do. only either changing the law or changing the government will fix the problem you mention.

  24. Re:Where's the thermodynamics outrage? on The Power of a Hot Body · · Score: 1

    I'm quite curious why you would mock or label as "pseudo-physicist" anyone who pointed out the foolishness of harvesting energy from moving cars. Perhaps the pseudo-physicist is between your ears.

    As for assisting HVAC heating with the human body, yes every building being heated, that also has people in it does that already, without one cent needing to be spent on additional equipment or infrastructure.

  25. Re:How is this possible? on The Power of a Hot Body · · Score: 1

    you forget their nominal condition, liquored up and red-faced radiating heat.