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  1. Re:Fucking idiots on U.S. Government: Sorry, We're Closed · · Score: 1

    So basically you say, since USA has imported all the crazies from Europe, you are the balanced one and everyone else is provincial?

    You remind me of an old joke:

    As a senior citizen was driving down the freeway, his car phone rang. Answering, he heard his wife's voice urgently warning him, "Herman, I just heard on the news that there's a car going the wrong way on 280. Please be careful!"

    "Hell," said Herman, "It's not just one car. It's hundreds of them!"

  2. Re:idiot on Producing Gasoline With Metabolically-Engineered Microorganisms · · Score: 1

    Dude, you are calling other idiots and retards, but at the same time you are talking about a higher rate of yearly checkups. I guess it is the Dunning-Kruger effect at work here.

  3. Re:Countries do this all the time on Swiss War Game Envisages Invasion By Bankrupt French · · Score: 1

    My employer does pay taxes just as well. I don't work for a multinational, I work for a small company.

  4. Re:Fucking idiots on U.S. Government: Sorry, We're Closed · · Score: 1

    Your first premise might be correct, but your second, "in other words" is wrong. Not implementing new policies is the very definition of being conservative.

  5. Re:Countries do this all the time on Swiss War Game Envisages Invasion By Bankrupt French · · Score: 2

    I live in Germany, pay the taxes and don't consider them unreasonable. In fact, they were higher 20 years ago (and Germany was better off back then as well).

  6. Re:Countries do this all the time on Swiss War Game Envisages Invasion By Bankrupt French · · Score: 1
  7. Re:Fucking idiots on U.S. Government: Sorry, We're Closed · · Score: 2

    Far left? That would be CPUSA. Are you sure they are in the government?

  8. Re: its not fracking or the market, its superfund. on Central New York Nuclear Plants Struggle To Avoid Financial Meltdown · · Score: 1

    Funny thing, though. In the year of the reunification, GDR's debt was at 27,6% of the GDP (source).

  9. Re:idiot on Producing Gasoline With Metabolically-Engineered Microorganisms · · Score: 1

    Here the private insurance companies actively encourage and pay for the yearly checkups because prevention is way cheaper than medication and early problem recognition is also cheaper than healing an advanced stadium of any illness. Who is the complete moron now, retard?

  10. Re:Here's the full story. on Ask Slashdot: Suitable Phone For a 4-Year Old? · · Score: 0

    Ah, I see. Now that was a whoosh of me.

  11. Re:Here's the full story. on Ask Slashdot: Suitable Phone For a 4-Year Old? · · Score: 1

    Yes, it is in the declaration.
    And as for your question, obviously with a FileNotFoundException

  12. Well, it is a private company, so the CEO is not just a glorified clerk.

  13. Re:media inaccuracy on First Cases of Flesh-Eating Drug Emerge In the United States · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about? Silica is inside great many pills as a filler.

  14. Re:So much innovation for so little value on Undiscovered Country of HFT: FPGA JIT Ethernet Packet Assembly · · Score: 2

    Arbitrage is just another form of speculation, and while it may help price stability, it may just as well help to price volatility and needlessly high prices. Which, when we talk about food, actively kills people.

    And before you dismiss that as not fitting into your worldview, consider that what I have written comes from the internal papers of Deutsche Bank Research [1] [2] which was big news here in Germany a while ago.

  15. Re:So much innovation for so little value on Undiscovered Country of HFT: FPGA JIT Ethernet Packet Assembly · · Score: 1

    So basically what you want to say is that before HFT was possible, there was no price stability for commodities?

    Dude, whatever you are smoking, cut it.

  16. Re:Missing Point on Car Dealers Complain To DMV About Tesla's Website · · Score: 1

    It is dangerous not to change DOT regularly, it attracts water like a magnet so after a while the brake fluid not only becomes corrosive due to all the water in it, that water can also start to boil when braking a lot and you definitely don't want that - steam is compressible.

    That is why I only use mineral oil brakes in my bikes - no need to bleed these ever.

  17. Re:Missing Point on Car Dealers Complain To DMV About Tesla's Website · · Score: 1

    That is purely a taxes thing since an electric car is way cheaper than a gasoline car in Norway.

  18. Re:this is the future of aerial combat on Boeing Turning Old F-16s Into Unmanned Drones · · Score: 2

    Don't be too sure about that, even now fighter pilots can bend the airframe while maneuvering.

  19. Re:Wait a minute on Link Rot and the US Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    You mean the "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" part?

  20. Re:old, really old, news on USAF Almost Nuked North Carolina In 1961 – Declassified Document · · Score: 1

    The nukes developed during the Cold War weren't for destroying cities.

    Yes they were.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_Totality
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Dropshot

    These plans for nuking the largest Soviet cities were as evil as it gets.

  21. Re:We'll never have a sane debate about nuclear po on Its Nuclear Plant Closed, Maine Town Is Full of Regret · · Score: 1

    ORLY?
    One of the more known German anti-nuclear activists is an engineer who worked for General Dynamics, was a director of the nuclear power department of a German tech company AEG, was the CEO of Interatom (a Siemens daughter that built nuclear reactors) and was responsible for a fast breeder reactor design.

    I think that guy knows more about nuclear power than all the atomic playboys on slashdot together.

  22. Re:More importantly on Why Are Some Hell-Bent On Teaching Intelligent Design? · · Score: 1

    Well, not by birth, but certainly by upbringing. And this is all what matters.

  23. Wrong academy.
    The science freak academy is the "Russian Academy of Natural Sciences".

  24. Re:Sounds familiar... on Canadian Scientists Protest Political Sandbagging of Evidence-Based Policy · · Score: 1

    And now you are talking even more out of your arse. In fact, the reduction of technological and industrial production started at the same time when the social market economy started to gradually change for the free market extremism - around the millennium.

    Also, there was always a collective - the pack, the extended family, the clan, the village. And individualists were punished.

    But I know that you won't let puny facts stand in the way of your convictions.

  25. Re:Sounds familiar... on Canadian Scientists Protest Political Sandbagging of Evidence-Based Policy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    First, economics is not a real science, it is social science, and, in its prediction craft, often similar to astrology.

    Second, as you could see at the example of West Germany, social market economy was far better than fundamentalist capitalism to improve the lives of common people.

    And above all, saying that there never was such thing as collective, is sheer idiocy because human society evolved in small collectives, not as a bunch of individuals. All this "special snowflake" individuality is a very recent invention and seems to breed arrogant arseholes first and foremost.