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  1. Re:It's not the business model that is broken. on Where Have You Gone, Bell Labs? · · Score: 1

    The greediest guy down in the Louisiana bayou who dropped out of middle school isn't going to make millions for himself as head of Goldman Sachs during a recession. You do need smarts to get yourself to the top of a bank and mess things up for everyone, and to stay there when the shit hits the fan. I'm not saying you don't need greed; I'm saying that the smarts will get you to the top, while being dumb will leave you out in that bayou.

  2. Re:Long term on India's First Stealth Fighter To Fly In 4 Months · · Score: 1

    Parachutes save pilots while still putting them in the danger zone. There's 0 danger to our soldiers sitting back in the US flying sorties over Afghanistan. I know I wouldn't give two shits about crashing some drone if I knew we were churning them out of factories like candy.

  3. Re:5th Gen on India's First Stealth Fighter To Fly In 4 Months · · Score: 1

    Not at all. The people in control of the Afghan military aren't the people we're fighting. We're fighting a small group of radicals, not a country with a military capable of even maintaining F15's. If they had F15's, they wouldn't be running at us with bombs strapped to their chests. Did you forget that Afghaniland was a war on terror (particularly al-Qaeda), and not a war on Afghanistan?

  4. Re:GREAT! on Disney Buys Marvel For $4B · · Score: 1

    Eh, Dave's the same person he was 60 years ago. I wouldn't expect Gilliam to do anything not somewhat experimental and thoughtful. Disney is made up of a multitude of different people, the majority of which probably haven't even been there for 5. They have a corporate culture that changes. They also have people that don't stay for the entirety of the corp's existence, important as a corporation is largely gonna be what the people working there make it. I don't think Dave has 50000 personalities, 2% of which change to new ones every year, so they're much different situations.

    Side note: GP modded funny?

  5. Re:Cost? on Dad Builds 700 Pound Cannon for Son's Birthday · · Score: 1

    Close, but the storage cost for helium would be different. Bronze just sits wherever you put it, while with helium you have to pay for a canister.

  6. Re:Wow, news for nerds on Dad Builds 700 Pound Cannon for Son's Birthday · · Score: 1

    Someone who was born exactly 11 years ago, duh!

  7. Re:overhyped on Robotic Mold · · Score: 1

    I'm not a good enough bullshitter.

  8. Re:Not Really a Robot on Robotic Mold · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I have better projects involving certain plants in mind.

  9. Re:Umm... on Robotic Mold · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, this sounds like it's a normal mold.

  10. Re:Good marketing team on Robotic Mold · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So, how is this different from putting some mold on or near a bunch of moldfood and letting it work its magic?

  11. Re:Contracts. . . on Disney Buys Marvel For $4B · · Score: 1

    Jsut about any except Spiderman. It has videos of him, and the ride is based around those.

  12. Re:Bye bye marvel... on Disney Buys Marvel For $4B · · Score: 1

    Sounds more like 2 breaths of CO2 to me....

  13. Re:GREAT! on Disney Buys Marvel For $4B · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think they're talking about the modern channel and its overall ludicrousness. Any entity is going to change over the course of 20-60 years, leading to different types of material being produced, if they're talking about movies.

  14. Re:It's not the business model that is broken. on Where Have You Gone, Bell Labs? · · Score: 1

    "The best and the brightest fucked up the most."

    By definition, if they screwed up the most - or even quite a bit - then they are not the best and the brightest.

    If they made themselves a shitton of money, they are the best and the brightest. They just used their advantages against everyone else to maximize their own intake.

  15. Re:Frankly on Musician Lobby Terms Balanced Copyright "Disgusting" · · Score: 1

    I refer you to here, as Mozart actually broke what was a primitive copyright on a piece he listened to.

  16. Re:Actually on Musician Lobby Terms Balanced Copyright "Disgusting" · · Score: 1

    If they had stuck to public domain music, they'd be missing out on the majority of music anyone has cared about for 50 years.

  17. Re:5th Gen on India's First Stealth Fighter To Fly In 4 Months · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We'd need F22's in Afghanland? Since when do our enemies have jet fighters to begin with? We could use biplanes with modern ASM's with around the same effect as an F22 in Afghanistan.

  18. Re:Long term on India's First Stealth Fighter To Fly In 4 Months · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You also lose on the fact that you're not putting pilots on the brink of death, which makes them largely less effective, says Sun Tzu.

  19. Re:Good for US overall on India's First Stealth Fighter To Fly In 4 Months · · Score: 1

    ....and you think that the US wouldn't ramp up production a massive amount if we had a good Defense Secretary who saw a large war on the horizon?

  20. Re:Interesting stuff on India's First Stealth Fighter To Fly In 4 Months · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, the moment people believe it can't happen, it will.

  21. Re:Interesting stuff on India's First Stealth Fighter To Fly In 4 Months · · Score: 2, Interesting

    People tend to think of stealth a this thing that keeps missile lockons, and you from being seen on radar. That's jsut not true. stealth is there to help us get in and get our without being seen. When they plan an airstrike with B2 bombers, they go through tons of prep to know where the radar is beforehand to be far away from it. I would imagine that even on a fighter, stealth isn't worth squat once you're to close to the radar.

  22. Re:Dangerous Thinking on India's First Stealth Fighter To Fly In 4 Months · · Score: 1

    They weren't thinking of adding maneuverability to their weapons though. Cannons only shoot in one given direction, on a ballistic arc. We've got missiles that track well enough where we can shoot targets in any direction.

  23. Re:Yes, patent system not meant for software paten on Cato Institute Critique of Software Patents · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because he heard about it in a newspaper. These were his friends, there's no citation needed for that.

  24. Re:I have no problem with this. on Utah Law Punishes Texters As Much As Drunks In Driving Fatalities · · Score: 1

    You don't even need to look away while eating certain food. burger king's fries (in the "frypod" that fits in your cupholder) come to mind.

  25. Re:Mature code? on The Story of a Simple and Dangerous OS X Kernel Bug · · Score: 1

    By your definition, there is hardly any mature code out in userland. Adding features means you will create bugs, and since users crave features, there won't ever be a full set of software (app, os, daemon, etc) labeled mature by your definition, and only a small number of code segments that would be unchanged over a decade, let alone multiple decades.