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  1. Re:I agree on We're In the Midst of a Literacy Revolution · · Score: 1

    According to several historians, the armies that fought in the Civil War were the most literate armies in history up until sometime right around the year 2000

    The battle of Gettysburg had a total of 200,000 combatants. Lee had 75000 men, and the Union forces had 94,000 men. Citation. The battle of Passchendaele had 800,000 dead, wounded or captured alone. 3 million troops fought in total in the American Civil War. There were over 38 million dead, wounded or missing combatants in World War 1, and that doesn't even count how many participated. We're talking orders of magnitude more soldiers, obviously some of them were dumb as fuck.

  2. Re:1 Question on NASA Tests Heaviest Chute Drop Ever · · Score: 1

    When will America start using SI units as the standard? Pounds don't mean anything to me.

    http://lmgtfy.com/?q=50000+pounds+in+kgs

  3. Re:I'd rather have 4/36 on How Does a 9/80 Work Schedule Work Out? · · Score: 1

    > All in all, unless you are in perfect health and never get sick, it is much cheaper to live in Canada. Unless you are in perfect health, and are 100% confident enough of it to not insure yourself, its still going to cost you insurance money in the USA.

  4. Re:In the UK, try Cambridge, York, Warwick... on Study Abroad For Computer Science Majors? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm a junior at a top liberal arts college in the US - currently spending the year studying Part II Computer Science at Cambridge. If you can get in (the application process is long and unnecessarily bureaucratic), there's nothing like it. It's absolutely fantastic. Also, the drinking age is 18. Everyone loves Americans in the post-11/5 world. Cambridge is breathtakingly beautiful, and a year in Cambridge ain't exactly a bad experience to have.

  5. Re:You need to explain on When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux In Education · · Score: 1

    Thats it. Liberal software. As if it wasn't elitist enough...

  6. Re:I think that by modern law, they are in the rig on UK ISPs Are Censoring Wikipedia · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have a burka fetish. Take that, Saudi Arabia!

  7. Re:Relativity? on Kilogram Reference Losing Weight · · Score: 2, Informative

    Thats not relativity. The twin paradox wont degrade the mass over time. It would make it 'younger' according to the situation you described, but not lighter.

  8. Re:Not "evil" on Google Mulling Video Ads In Search Results · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Furthermore, "evil" is a moral judgement, so, even if you're not buying into a societal definition, such as exists in a penal code, you're basing it on a religious definition. I have to disagree. Morality can exist independent of religion. Many religious people make this mistake of assuming that only religious people have morals.
  9. Re:Windows XP SP3 on Vista SP1 Coming In Q1 2008 · · Score: 1

    Dammit, screw Vista, where's my SP3 for Windows XP? Didnt you get the memo? Its called "Vista"
  10. Re:Roland Zonkpaille on The Physics of Beer Bubbles · · Score: 4, Informative

    I know a lot of people think Roland Piquepaille has 'reformed' because hes no longer linking to primidi, but Roland is still whoring Slashdot for ad views and the like - its just that he is now employed by zdnet. The links in the summary all link to his new blog run by zdnet.
    Im not saying that its wrong to do this - but dont be fooled into thinking that his new links are somehow 'genuine' and hes not whoring as usual.

  11. Re:Very nice FUD on Firefox Going the Big and Bloated IE Way? · · Score: 1

    Next in Wired: Firefox as bloated as IceWeasel! Oh the horror!!!

  12. Re:Steve has some cogent thoughts on Jobs Favors DRM-Free Music Distribution · · Score: 1

    complete? from Slashdot? you must be new here...

  13. Re:Normally I'm on the side of civil liberties... on Restrictions On Social Sites Proposed In Georgia · · Score: 2, Informative
    NO!
    "I disagree with what you have to say but will fight to the death to protect your right to say it" - Voltaire.

    Myspace might be horrible in your opinion but this is when if you truly believe in freedom of speech you would still support them.

  14. Re:To quote a famous man... on Internet Usage Boosts Post Office Revenue · · Score: 1

    The RIAA isnt legislating to force open the original door, but rather, litigate the other door shut.

  15. Re:The best puzzle is easy on Celebrating Puzzles · · Score: 1

    1. because suddenly you have extra hot dogs... and you wouldnt want to waste them and youre money, right? so you buy some more buns. 2. and then you have empty buns, so you buy hot dogs... which leads to... 3. ??? (hint: see 1.) 4. Profit!

  16. Re:Unlawful Comabatants? on MIT Media Lab Fashions · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well the status is that if you are once in spy clothes (not in uniform) and in battle, your rights as a PoW are lost for the future, which is why soldiers do not do volunteer spy missions and then go back to being soldiers - if it can be proven that they were once spies, regardless of their future status in combatant clothes, they can be treated as unlawful combatants.

  17. Re:The real question is.... on Microsoft and MTV to Launch Music Service · · Score: 1

    and Sony/BMG should jump onto iTunes quickly, cause nobody with any sense is going to be buying those CDs and sticking them in a computer to put the songs on their iPods

  18. Re:Interesting on The exhaustion of IPv4 address space · · Score: 1

    thats what the coders thought in 1990 when they contemplated y2k as well...

  19. Re:Cyberspace Imitates Life? on Virtual Muggings in Lineage II · · Score: 1

    he said that every crime in the real world will be duplicated in cyberspace. he didnt say that every cyber crime would be a duplicate of real world crime. go back to high school and read up on set thoery. Just because every member of set B is duplicated in set A does not mean every member of set A is a duplicate of set B.