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  1. They are Shelbots

  2. You end up with stupid kids on Finland Dumps Handwriting In Favor of Typing · · Score: 0

    If you cannot write with pen and paper you will not get a good job. Writing causes you to think better.
    With common core drivel destroying education in this country I guess other countries want to dumb down their population as well. There are many sites online for teaching because the schools are doing a terrible job teaching the basics like writing let alone reading and math and history.

    Cursive handwriting is disappearing from public schools
    http://tinyurl.com/c9pwdsw

    Snips from the article: Since 2010, 45 states — including Maryland — and the District have adopted the Common Core standards, which do not require cursive instruction

    Snip: recently conducted a study that found that children with neater handwriting developed better reading and math skills than their chicken-scratch peers.

  3. Bad Ruling - Slippery Slope on Manslaughter Conviction Overturned For Scientists Who Didn't Predict Earthquake · · Score: 0

    If they let this ruling stand then they will not burn witches next!!

  4. Construction Shack by Clifford D Simak on The Largest Kuiper Belt Object Isn't Pluto Or Eris, But Triton · · Score: 0

    A manned expedition to Pluto finds it's not a planet, but a hollow metal sphere.

    Excerpt: "Pluto never was a planet."
    "Then this means there once actually was a planet between Mars and Jupiter," said Orson. "Not necessarily," Tyler told him. "It may only mean there was supposed to be."

    "What do you mean?"

    "They bungled the job," said Tyler. "They did a sloppy piece of engineering."

    "They messed up the projected fifth planet," Tyler said. "God knows what else they messed up. Venus, maybe. Venus shouldn't be the kind of planet it is. It should be another Earth, perhaps a slightly warmer Earth, but not the hellhole it is. And Mars. They loused that up, too. Life started there, but it never had a chance. It hung on and that was all. And Jupiter, Jupiter is a monstrosityÃ""

    "Look here," he was yelling. "Look here, the bunglersÃ""

  5. 7 countries that obama has so far he has ordered b on US Strikes ISIL Targets In Syria · · Score: 0

    7 countries that obama has so far he has ordered bombed. Creating chaos. Who will be #8?
    Mark Steyn story from 9-13-14: There is a disinclination to believe his promises, said Mustafa Alani of the Gulf Research Center in Dubai.

    “We have reached a low point of trust in this administration,” he said. “We think in a time of crisis Mr. Obama will walk away from everyone if it means saving his own skin.”

  6. Barack Hussein Obama on Researcher Fired At NSF After Government Questions Her Role As 1980s Activist · · Score: 0

    Barack Hussein Obama is personal friends with 2 terrorists who have killed at least 5 people and wounded over 100 using bombs and guns. William Ayers and Bernadette Dorn. obama was introduced to the killers by his then girlfriend Michelle obama.

  7. Rebooting? on Reformatting a Machine 125 Million Miles Away · · Score: 0

    If it is rebooting all the time may I suggest do not use Windows as the OS : )

  8. 1 guy from India on Ask Slashdot: How Many Employees Does Microsoft Really Need? · · Score: 0

    They need one guy from India to fire all the others.

  9. Great idea rewarded with lots of money on Rocket Scientist Designs "Flare" Pot That Cooks Food 40% Faster · · Score: 0

    He is going to be a very rich man.

  10. Wall Street & Democrat party on How Disney Built and Programmed an Animatronic President · · Score: 1

    Wall Street and the Democrat party have created one called obama.
    Turn on teleprompter and he speaks.

  11. Another stupid decision on Microsoft Won't Bring Back the Start Menu Until 2015 · · Score: 0

    Doubling down on stupid.
    Get the following while you wait or simply go back to Windows 7.
    Start8 and ModernMix or Classicshell.net

  12. Political database on New Federal Database Will Track Americans' Credit Ratings, Other Financial Info · · Score: 0

    This is a political database that the democrats are building.
    They will track everything we do and use it against us if need be. Didn't vote for democrats? Then your healthcare records get lost and no medical care for you. Looking for a job, trying to get a loan? Sorry credit mysteriously ruined by identity theft.

    If the republicans ever get back into power and they may never do so if they allow amnesty and those 20 million illegals bring 5 friends and relatives in then the republicans will be like they are in California.

  13. Clippy on Steve Ballmer In Talks To Buy Los Angeles Clippers · · Score: 0

    They will now be known as the Clippy's

  14. More Jar Jar & Ewok's on Ask Slashdot: Can Star Wars Episode VII Be Saved? · · Score: 0

    More Jar Jar in every scene. He should be the focus.
    Oh and do not forget that Ewok muppet planet, the Ewok's should have a big role.

  15. YEAH! on AT&T Buying DirecTV for $48.5 Billion · · Score: 0

    Yeah! Less choices and higher cost!

  16. Greed on Cable TV Prices Rising At Four Times the Inflation Rate · · Score: 0

    My cable price from TimeWarner went from $102 to $134 in about 2 years.
    What did I get for that price increase? Nothing. They even charged me more for the cable modem. I bought my own and my bill went up....

    I will be cancelling the cable tv part and then sign up for internet only. I figure to save nearly $90 per month or $1000+ the first year.

  17. This is not for NASA on NASA-Funded Study Investigates Collapse of Industrial Civilization · · Score: 0

    NASA job is not this. It is to get man and machine off this planet for exploration.

  18. Re:Your task: explain how Net Neutrality stops thi on Is Verizon Already Slowing Netflix Down? · · Score: 0

    You can change your user agent in the web browser on your computer to fool T-Mobile into thinking you are using the mobile browser. No data cap unless you go way overboard and keep streaming movies all the time.
    Also use PDAnet http://pdanet.co/ to connect the cellphone to the pc.
    Do not use the usb connection but instead bluetooth or wifi as T-Mobile can somehow detect the wired usb connection back to your pc. PDAnet will be coming out with a version with the ability to also change the user agent.

    From their site under Help:
    When using PdaNet+ T-Mobile shows a web page to subscribe their tether plan. What can I do?

    You will need to hide tether usage from T-Mobile using USB mode. On the computer side click on the PdaNet tray icon and select Settings->Hide Tether Usage->Level I. Also turn on flight mode and turn it off to reset the data session if you are already blocked.

    Download for Firefox.
    http://chrispederick.com/work/...

    Display the user agent you have:
    http://www.iopus.com/imacros/d...

  19. Brown walls on Office Space: TV Documentary Looks At the Dreadful Open Office · · Score: 0

    I feel like I am working at UPS. The walls are painted a dark brown and we have multiple shades of brown speckled carpet.
    The air exchange is poor to middling. No windows. Can be quite boring but I have a job.
    The cubes are high enough when you sit and when you stand you can look over the top. We are side by side with a aisle in between. I face away from my co-worker. Not too bad for noise as it is a small office. Occasionally you can hear someone getting louder and louder and louder... during a call. You just know they are frustrated. The last place I was at was a call center that had 300+ people in one large room with desks lined up in rows and low enough walls that you could look over them with a minor stretch. Very loud all the time. Did not miss it when I left. I would love walls with a door but can only draw a line with yellow tape and ask my co-workers to knock on an imaginary door (Les from WKRP..)

    I too have co-workers who will not talk but will IM you from the desk next to you.

  20. My own test on Who Makes the Best Hard Disk Drives? · · Score: 0

    It looks like I have my own test going on. I have 4 different manufacturers.
    I used Speccy to tell me what I have. http://www.piriform.com/speccy

    Two of the drives are internal.
    931GB Western Digital WDC WD1002FAEX-00Z3A0 ATA Device (SATA)
    931GB Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH162 ATA Device (SATA)
    931GB SAMSUNG HD103SI USB Device (USB (SATA))
    931GB Hitachi HDS721010CLA332 USB Device (USB)

  21. Amazon delivery drones on Ecuadorian Navy Rescues Bezos After Kidney Stone Attack · · Score: 0

    It would have been better if Jeff Bezos had been picked up and delivered by Amazon delivery drones to a hospital......

  22. Blue Screen of Death Panel on Former Microsoft Exec To Lead HealthCare.gov · · Score: 0

    They are going to set up the Blue Screen of Death Panel.

  23. Mass murderer on Nelson Mandela Dead At 95 · · Score: 0

    Nelson Mandela was a mass murderer as is his wife. He was the head of UmKhonto we Sizwe, the terrorist wing of the ANC and South African communist party. The terrorists bombed in public places, including the Johannesburg railway station. Many innocent people, including women and children, were killed by Nelson Mandela’s MK terrorists. http://thebackbencher.co.uk/3-things-you-didnt-want-to-know-about-nelson-mandela/

  24. obama knew on Healthcare.gov and the Gulf Between Planning and Reality · · Score: 1

    At least $600 million was spent on a website! with another $1 billion going to state exchanges to setup portals. Manned by SEIU aand Acorn people. They managed to sign up a dog and several hundred people yet not 1 person is paying as there is no setup for taking payments! Valerie Jarrett's daughter and son-in-law work at the Canadian company. Michelle obama's school buddy also works there as a VP. She started 6 weeks after the passage of obamacare ( passed late at night on a holiday with lots of bribes) obama knows all about this as obamacare is not about providing healthcare to anyone but a way to massively increase taxes and deny healthcare as punishment for not obeying the state. Example is myself in California. +$5,600 tax with $5,000 deductible. More then $10 grand I have to pay out for 1 person! More people today have lost their healthcare under obama. The estimate range from 50 million in 2013 to everyone come 2014! plus the millions and millions of people who have either lost their jobs or have had their hours reduced to 29/hrs. But don't worry as obama made sure he and congress and aids do not have to participate and use obamacare as you will be paying their medical care.

  25. James Lizzie Fallon on The Neuroscientist Who Discovered He Was a Psychopath · · Score: -1

    I hope he has no "axe" to grind with anyone around him.......