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  1. Re:Umm, poor people skills? on Coding and Roleplaying - Is There a Connection? · · Score: 1

    That actually tells us something quite interesting: Apparently how most Americans spend their social life has nothing to do with whether they live in a red state or a blue state.

  2. Re:Plague and religion on Gene Found In Black Death Survivors Stops HIV · · Score: 1

    Since you're helping people, I don't think so. The main problem is that both parents must have delta32 in order for a child to express HIV immunity, and you would therefore only be able to achieve full immunity on the second generation of the breeding program: (Scandinavian + African -> 1/2-delta32) + (Scandinavian + African -> 1/2-delta32) -> delta32 full immunity.

  3. How Many Times Should We Pay for Our Software on How Many Times Should We Pay For Our Software? · · Score: 1

    One or zero.

  4. Re:Flawed question on Is The U.S. Becoming Anti-Science? · · Score: 1

    MOD PARENT INSIGHTFUL!

  5. Re:Is The U.S. Becoming Anti-Science? on Is The U.S. Becoming Anti-Science? · · Score: 1

    I'm quite sorry, I believe the actual Evolvedist figure is 3-4 billion years, not 6.

  6. Re:Modding Problems on Modding and the Law · · Score: 1

    "Do not do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."

  7. Re:Is The U.S. Becoming Anti-Science? on Is The U.S. Becoming Anti-Science? · · Score: 1

    So I suppose that the Theory of Evolution predicts the past?

    Teaching that things evolve (which can be and is observed with our very own eyes) is fine. Teaching that we all evolved from single-celled organisms over a period of 6 billion years, is not.

    I challenge every Slashdotter who reads this to try and grok the notion that if nobody was around to see something happen we can never absolutely know that it did. Ergo, things evolve, but may not have done so from primitive single-celled life forms over 6 billion years.

    It just occurred to me, what if God had made all DNA ~90% the same because he was being lazy, like a programmer? Code reuse is a well-known principle! ;-)

  8. Re:Modding Problems on Modding and the Law · · Score: 1

    1.What's Right and What's Wrong are not definable in an absolute sense, therefore what's right is to tolerate as many or all opinions of it possible in hope of getting closer to the ineffable Truth. In this sense what's wrong is repressing an opinion, philosophy or belief, or person holding such, in such a way as to keep it from being practiced. From this definition of what's right and what's wrong we can easily find the injustices that need to be fixed by getting off our Slashdotting asses and looking outside.
    2.They need to be fixed so that people can have their own conceptions of Right and Wrong, because that's the only way anyone will ever figure them out.
    3.I can't tell you what to do, that would be wrong.

  9. Re:Another Intelligent Design theory on Is The U.S. Becoming Anti-Science? · · Score: 1

    OK, we get it, intelligent design theory is for retards who want to believe in Creation without having to openly think they're "unscientific", because this culture treats anyone who openly defies "science" as heretic.

    NOW CAN WE STOP WITH THE FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER, ALREADY? THE JOKE IS DYING!

  10. Re:Modding as old as the human race on Modding and the Law · · Score: 1

    Personally, I think video game modding is fine, but fanfiction should probably have its own special corner of Hell. The exception being Self Extraction, of course, which is funny as all hell.

  11. Re:everything Yay on Modding and the Law · · Score: 1

    Corporations in the modern sense, with the rights and legal treatment of human beings, have only been around since the mid-to-late 19th century, when our "modern" lifestyle was being put into place by certain upper-class factions in England and America. The rest of Europe eventually tried to "catch up", but lacking the correct snobbishness they've never reached the level of corporatism we have here on the western side of the Atlantic.

    If you wish to ask my source, it is "The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea" by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge.

  12. Re:Plague and religion on Gene Found In Black Death Survivors Stops HIV · · Score: 1

    Also, TFA says that nearly nobody in Africa or Asia has the delta32 mutation in any rendering them far more vulnerable to HIV.

  13. Easy to prepare on How Zombies Work · · Score: 1

    In order to prepare for a zombie attack one needs two things: The Zombie Survival Guide, and of course, a holy symbol. Or is that vampires that need a holy symbol? Anyway, I've got my Jewish star ready!

  14. Re:Umm, poor people skills? on Coding and Roleplaying - Is There a Connection? · · Score: 1

    No, I'm in New York.

  15. Re:Suicide in Japan! on Homer Becomes Omar · · Score: 1

    Ahhh... karoshi. The thing that our American laziness saves us from.

  16. Re:Major slimeball story on Sex.com Hijacker Captured in Mexico · · Score: 1

    So you're out of that industry now, right?

  17. This is real? on Sex.com Hijacker Captured in Mexico · · Score: 1

    There really was once a website called "Sex.com" that wasn't pornography? Huh, there's a first time for everything, I suppose.

  18. Re:once again... on Significant FBI Abuses of the Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    Yes, and I suppose that the poor, sick and unhealthy can just go fuck themselves, can they? The real problem with "cutting spending" is that whenever somebody proposes to do that it goes to the wrong places. The government is never willing to cut military, investigative or intelligence spending, but always willing to cut social programs.

    THAT is why we SHOULD NOT promote "cutting spending" without a clear preconception of what we're going to cut, which in turn should be "Military (their budget is more bloated than Windoze, and worse every year) intelligence (the CIA doesn't deserve to live.), and whichever bastard agency runs Echelon and Carnivore."

  19. Just a slight note... on Students Banned from Blogging · · Score: 1

    Student's Rights According to this it seems that even the Supreme Court upholds the Constitutional (including Free Speech) rights of kids in school.

    *ker-plunk-BAM!*

    That was the sound of many Slashdotter's "it's a private school it can do as it pleases" arguments falling to the ground, because they have nothing to stand on.

  20. Bad Security Policy on Significant FBI Abuses of the Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    When will people learn that governments are supposed to run on default deny, not default permit!?

  21. Re:missing it's installer for linux on OpenOffice.org 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I would just like to note that this thing is sheer Hell-On-Earth to install from source. What the flying fuck were they thinking "oh, everyone has an RPM-using machine"?! Linux From Scratch and proud of it!

  22. XD, LOL, ROFL, and other acronyms for LMAO on White House Cease & Desists to The Onion · · Score: 1

    This is so damned funny I sent it to everyone I know. Grab some meat, people, because White House is trying to make fried The Onion and we might as well have shawarma!

  23. Re:agreed 100% on Andy Tanenbaum Releases Minix 3 · · Score: 1

    As a little more addendum, I'll just submit that Pascal/Object Pascal is perfectly usable for writing kernels (including microkernels) and that if you want proof you are free to check out the kernel I'm writing.

  24. Re:does he "get it"? on Andy Tanenbaum Releases Minix 3 · · Score: 1

    Tanenbaum lives in the Netherlands, where said cannibis is legal.

  25. Re:agreed 50% on Andy Tanenbaum Releases Minix 3 · · Score: 1

    An appropriate language named Object Pascal was mentioned just above the parent's post.