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  1. Recoverable assets on Let Them Eat Teslas · · Score: 1

    I'm a big proponent of education. However I am guessing that the banks see a car as a recoverable asset as college tuition is hard to repossess. More risk in the financial world usually equals higher interest rates.

  2. Re:Hamill? on Little Miss Sunshine Screenwriter Gets Nod For Star Wars: Episode VII · · Score: 1

    Facepalm......

  3. Re:Sweet on Curiosity Finds Volcanic Soils · · Score: 2

    So we need to fling poo at Mars. Sounds fun. I guess it's time to send monkeys back into space. :-)

  4. Sweet on Curiosity Finds Volcanic Soils · · Score: 1

    Martian atmosphere is 95% carbon dioxide. Plants like carbon dioxide. Now we just have to plant enough macadamia and pineapple plants to start terraforming and produce oxygen. :-)

  5. Re:Seeing as.... on New Study Shows Universe Still Expanding On Schedule · · Score: 1
  6. My God! on Curiosity Spies Unidentified, Metallic Object On Mars · · Score: 1

    It's full of stars!

  7. Re:Don't panic on US Congress Rules Huawei a 'Security Threat' · · Score: 1

    I for one would like to be the first to welcome our new dog eating overlords. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4394086/Killed-skinned-and-sold.html

  8. Re:Incidentally... on Beer Is Cheaper In the US Than Anywhere Else In the World · · Score: 1

    Hilarious. Your post makes me wish I had mod points to give.

  9. Re:Incidentally... on Beer Is Cheaper In the US Than Anywhere Else In the World · · Score: 1

    If you don't like hops but you are still willing to try something different, steer clear of IPA's or wheats and search out some amber's and reds. As you find some of those you like and start drinking them you will find your tastes will change and pretty soon you will like wheats too. After a while you won't even mind an occasional IPA.

  10. Re:Incidentally... on Beer Is Cheaper In the US Than Anywhere Else In the World · · Score: 1

    America isn't the only country producing chicken mcnugget flavored lager. Fosters, St Pauli Girl, Heineken, Sol, Corona, Harps, Boddingtons, Lablatts, Sapporo, etc. If you want to label it all American flavor, that is your right. Yuengling is the oldest American brewery and the second largest. Sam Adams is the largest American brewery. I'm guessing when dismissing Sam Adams you thought I was referring to Boston lager. They have lots of other better flavors. Anchor Steam is ok but not awesome. We all have different taste though. My best friend prefers Young's Double Chocolate Stout but I don't because I'm one of the few people in the world that doesn't like chocolate.

  11. Re:Incidentally... on Beer Is Cheaper In the US Than Anywhere Else In the World · · Score: 1

    True.I think Yuengling doesn't ship past Ohio and Georgia. Arrogant Bastard in California is good. Some of the New Glarus beers are good but only available in Wisconsin. From Sam Adams I like the Irish Red, Nobel Pils, and Oktoberfest. Anchor Steam is ok as somebody else pointed out. There are a ton of good American Beers if one looks to the craft beer and local micro brews. If you are in the mood for something besides water, don't buy the foreign owned "American" lagers.

  12. Re:Incidentally... on Beer Is Cheaper In the US Than Anywhere Else In the World · · Score: 1

    Sam Adams and Yuengling are actually quite good. Budweiser is Belgian, Coors and Miller are South African. I giggle when people complain about American beer because they don't realize the worst swill we produce has been purchased by other countries.

  13. Hope it doesn't use 50% cpu on IDT and Intel Join Forces For Wireless Charging · · Score: 1

    IDT Audio software has a bad habit of using 50% cpu. Let's hope they use different programmers for this project. Google stacsv64.exe for a sample of IDT quality.

  14. Re:It's Worse for Apple Users on Experts Develop 3rd-Party Patch For New Java Zero-Day · · Score: 1
  15. Re:It's Worse for Apple Users on Experts Develop 3rd-Party Patch For New Java Zero-Day · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not any more. Oracle is providing Java 7 and later for Mac. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jre7-downloads-1637588.html

  16. Gamma? on Radiation Detecting Android Phone Coming To Japan · · Score: 1

    I'm more concerned about Alpha and Beta radiation. Both are far more dangerous to human tissue. Of course they are also significantly easier to shield against.

  17. Enough holy wars on FreeBSD 10 To Use Clang Compiler, Deprecate GCC · · Score: 2

    Here is a link to Clang's reason for creation/existence even though GCC exists. It even mentions a few reasons people might prefer to use GCC. http://clang.llvm.org/comparison.html#gcc

  18. OpenOffice LibreOffice on 12 Ways LibreOffice Writer Tops MS Word · · Score: 1

    The original post states "I got through grad school with OpenOffice (now known as LibreOfifice)," I thought OpenOffice was still OpenOffice and LibreOffice is a fork project of OpenOffice based on reaction to Oracle's purchase of Sun.

  19. Big Brother on US Carriers Finally Doing Something About Cellphone Theft · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A centralized government database of all cell phones with mac addresses, imei numbers and such. Should be even easier for them to do warrantless tracking of whomever they choose.

  20. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? on NASA Shuttle Discovery Set To Buzz Washington, DC · · Score: 1

    It's all fun and games until the thing crashes into The White House, Congress or both. Although that may decrease the corruption there. Notice I didn't say eliminate. We have groomed plenty of corrupt replacements at the state level.

  21. Re:Like Toxoplasmosis on All Video Games Cause Aggressive Behavior, Say Two US Congressmen · · Score: 1

    But they haven't banned cats yet either. http://www.parasitesinhumans.org/toxoplasma-gondii.html

  22. Dune on Ask Slashdot: Good, Forgotten Fantasy & Science Fiction Novels? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Frank Herbert's Dune is amazing. There is a reason there have been multiple attempts to make it into film. However none of them come close to the books.

  23. obligatory Ferengi reference on Google's Rules of Acquisition · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well done Quark Brin! The Grand Nagus will be pleased!

  24. Larry Eustachy on Picture Blocking Beer Cooler Keeps Your Face Out of Embarrassing Photos · · Score: 1

    Former Iowa State Cyclone basketball coach might still be married and working at Iowa State had he had this product. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/507716-the-biggest-party-animals-in-sports/page/5

  25. Squirrel! on EyeDriver Lets Drivers Steer Car With Their Eyes · · Score: 2, Funny

    Squirrel!