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  1. Re:Cut military spending. on US Navy Admiral Questions Expensive Stealth Platforms · · Score: 1

    Back then - and we are talking about 1918 here - Stalin was basically just an errand boy for Lenin and Trotsky. Besides, preaching is a fitting job for a seminarian. Allied intervention, on the other hand, was very much real and after Lenin's death 6 years later the damage was long done.

  2. Re:Cut military spending. on US Navy Admiral Questions Expensive Stealth Platforms · · Score: 1

    His paranoia was justified.

  3. Re:Now he joins "The Skeptical Environmentalist" on Koch Bros Study Finds Global Warming Is Real And Man-Made · · Score: 1

    So why do you want a car to sit six when there are only 4.5 people to sit? Oh, and why do you chop people in half?

  4. Re:The Best or Cheapest Option? on NASA Considers Apollo-Era F1 Engine For Space Launch System · · Score: 1

    Then again, NK-33 has got a better thrust to weight ratio (137) and was built in in the late 1960ies.

  5. Re:what is a "gun safe"? on How a 3-Year-Old Can Open a Gun Safe · · Score: 1

    Well, by that logic I ought to prepare for a meteorite strike, zombie apocalypse and alien invasion as well.

  6. Re:what is a "gun safe"? on How a 3-Year-Old Can Open a Gun Safe · · Score: 1

    Nope, I don't live in the USA. And this is why I think that this particular problem cannot be solved by firearms. It is like doctoring on symptoms instead of the actual illness.

  7. Re:what is a "gun safe"? on How a 3-Year-Old Can Open a Gun Safe · · Score: 1

    From here it sounds like paranoia, to be honest. I think in this country home invasion isn't even defined as a separate crime because it has happened only a few times since WW2.

    But well, to each their own. I don't even have any ammo at home for my Makarov because I haven't been shooting for quite a while.

  8. Re:what is a "gun safe"? on How a 3-Year-Old Can Open a Gun Safe · · Score: 1

    Maybe he just chose to live in an area where you don't need to fear someone break into one's house and doesn't need loaded firearms all over the place just to feel safe?

  9. Re:It's called "Get A Grip!" on Ask Slashdot: Preempting Sexual Harassment In the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    Except that I am jewish.

  10. Re:It's called "Get A Grip!" on Ask Slashdot: Preempting Sexual Harassment In the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    Holy crap, now that's uptight. I've got a colleague that constantly cracks antisemitic jokes to me, and I answer by behaving like an agent of the zionist occupation government. We get along just fine.

  11. Re:work time is not 24h/day. on Ask Slashdot - Careers In Computer Science That Keep You Physically Active? · · Score: 1

    I just meant that the size of the single meal was too large, not the entire calorie intake. Personally, if I eat too much in a single session, I become sleepy, too, so splitting the same amount of food to 5 smaller meals instead of three large might help.

  12. Re:work time is not 24h/day. on Ask Slashdot - Careers In Computer Science That Keep You Physically Active? · · Score: 2

    The productivity does drop a bit indeed, but not too much. Maybe the meals were too large? I don't eat much, since I am on a weight loss program (lost 55 kg already) and I stay quite sharp.

  13. Re:work time is not 24h/day. on Ask Slashdot - Careers In Computer Science That Keep You Physically Active? · · Score: 2

    Actually, I have found Polar gear to be very tight-fisted when it comes to calorie counting. Other bike computers or sports applications show a much higher value for the same route (more than 2000 kcal for the roundtrip).

    Also MTB here, but modified for commuting (slick tyres, fenders, hub dynamo, lights and a heavy lock). Then again I weigh 100 kg, so cycling uphill burns energy like there's no tomorrow.

  14. Re:work time is not 24h/day. on Ask Slashdot - Careers In Computer Science That Keep You Physically Active? · · Score: 2

    Bicycle commuting to work can burn 400-700 kcal/day.

    Way more than that. I currently commute ~23k one-way, with a lot of uphill. My Polar bike computer says about 1300 kcal/day

  15. Re:Margin of Error on Contest To Sequence Centenarians Kicks Off · · Score: 1

    this is a pretty easy thing to do, just acquire a thyroid infection that leads to a hypothyroidism. that's underclocking for humans.

  16. Re:The cat food can on Sally Ride Takes Her Final Flight · · Score: 1

    Why couldn't us mere humans be the same way?

    There are humans that are exactly the same way. Look up Wikipedia for cargo cult.

  17. Re:Triple Play? on If You Lived In Riga, You Wouldn't Bother To Cut the Cord · · Score: 1

    Calm down, dude, there is nothing to fear. Merkel doesn't do anything at all, she just sits there and talks sometimes. She isn't called "a talking pantsuit" for nothing.

  18. Re:there are signs on McDonald's Denies Prof's Claim Staff Attacked Him For Wearing Digital Glasses · · Score: 1

    DeutschlÃnder is a sausage brand. You mean Deutsche.

  19. Re:I can see why they'd drop support for XP, but.. on Microsoft Office 2013 Not Compatible With Windows XP, Vista · · Score: 1

    Who cares? Why should people spend their money upgrading when they have no reason to? To make Microsoft happy?

    Frankly, I don't see your problem.

    If they chose to upgrade to Office 2013 they are making Microsoft happy anyway and might as well upgrade to Windows 7.

    If they don't want to spend the money to upgrade the operating system, why upgrade the office software in first place? It is even more expensive and the old one works just fine.

  20. Re:This isn't the first time on McDonald's Denies Prof's Claim Staff Attacked Him For Wearing Digital Glasses · · Score: 1

    Totally reminds me of this:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxYuBriNT7U

  21. Re:Translation: on Judge In Kim Dotcom Extradition Case Steps Down · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Or maybe the judge just didn't like the case much - maybe because Kim Schmitz is a crook but has to be acquitted anyway - so the judge used this loophole intentionally to remove himself from the case.

  22. Re:I wanted to post this on Another Elon Musk Bet: Half of All Cars Built In 2032 Will Be Electric · · Score: 1

    Sorry for using the wrong word. I meant flax, of course.

  23. Re:I wanted to post this on Another Elon Musk Bet: Half of All Cars Built In 2032 Will Be Electric · · Score: 1

    So you can from linen, just as well. Without problems with DEA.

  24. Re:Just to clarify on Man Physically Assaulted At McDonald's For Wearing Digital Eye Glasses · · Score: 1

    It is not as if the ghettos are artifically created. They sort of grow. Immigrants tend to move to districts where the cost of living is lower. The higher amount of immigrants estranges the locals who move away from those districts. This creates a positive feedback loop and voila, you've got a ghetto.

  25. Re:Rich people don't like to go slow? on Will Speed Limits Inhibit Autonomous Car Adoption? · · Score: 1

    Well, I am in my thirties and I HATE driving with passion. I don't even own a car for this reason. A bicycle is fine for short commutes (anything under 30 km one way), for everything else I take a train.