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  1. Re:When you unbalance a stable system, it falls ov on For Much of the World, Demand For Water Outstrips Supply · · Score: 1
    Several reasons:
    1. Seawater doesn't flow uphill.
    2. People don't want ugly desalinization plants on their beautiful beachfront property.
    3. Distilled water actually leeches out your body's minerals and can kill you. Plus it really doesn't taste as good as Mountain Spring Water.

    It's really not as simple as it sounds at first glance. But if it becomes a major issue it could happen.

  2. Re:Microeconomics 101 on For Much of the World, Demand For Water Outstrips Supply · · Score: 1

    Or Brawndo.

  3. Re:Pizza Prices Will Go Up Under Obamacare on For Much of the World, Demand For Water Outstrips Supply · · Score: 1

    Says the guy who just admitted that it took 6 years for his wife to get a surgery for cancer...

  4. Re:Where do I sign up....? on For Much of the World, Demand For Water Outstrips Supply · · Score: 1

    But California has the perfect Mediterranean climate to grow most things.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Valley_(California)

    "On less than 1 percent of the total farmland in the United States, the Central Valley produces 8 percent of the nation’s agricultural output by value"

  5. Re:I like the ones... on Secret Security Questions Are a Joke · · Score: 1

    there's nobody I've probably even told in REAL life about my first pet, Aflie, a baby chick I had for a few days

    Well, there goes that...

  6. Re:You're doing it wrong on Secret Security Questions Are a Joke · · Score: 1

    With a secret salt of your choosing.... Not a bad idea. You could regenerate it yourself, but criminals are too dumb to bother.

  7. Re:Simple solution on Secret Security Questions Are a Joke · · Score: 1

    Do all the internet searches you want, you'll never figure out that my high school was "Never give guns to ducks."

    Searching slashdot.com... AHA

  8. Re:Simple solution on Secret Security Questions Are a Joke · · Score: 1

    HAHAHA... Where are my mod points?

  9. Re:They don't teach languages on Will Online Learning Disrupt Programming Language Adoption? · · Score: 1

    Especially ADVANCED degrees. When I was hiring, we never found a Masters or PhD that was worth hiring. Too much theory, no real world. One person with a masters didn't know what the Start button on Windows 95 did. Another couldn't add one column to a csv in 8 hours!

  10. Re:2 Simple Solutions: on Bad Software Runs the World · · Score: 1

    Tax the living shit out of all trades. When the day traders bitch, tell them to get off their lazy asses and contribute to society like the rest of us.

    Seriously.

  11. Re:It isn't cost effective to build good software on Bad Software Runs the World · · Score: 1

    Human beings are very intelligent.

    Link?

  12. Re:Is that news? on How To Watch Internet TV Across International Borders · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Too late. LA Times already posted an article on Aug 1: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/aug/01/business/la-fi-tech-savvy-olympics-20120801

  13. Re:Perhaps a good choice, but for the wrong reason on Debian Changes Default Desktop From GNOME To XFCE · · Score: 1

    Of course optical discs fade out too, but they are still the most permanent.

    So I keep hearing, but every time I run into a really old CD-R I burned 15+ years ago I try it and they still work just fine.

  14. Re:I've been uxing Xubuntu on Debian Changes Default Desktop From GNOME To XFCE · · Score: 1

    "They aren't going to allow em to escape."

    You're right, but I really don't understand this move from Microsoft. "Escaping" is staying on Windows 7, which makes them no money. Or worse, going to Mac, which has a reasonable desktop. If power users had the option of running Windows 8 like Windows 7 with an optional setting, they might spend some money and give it a whirl. As it is, people will stay away in droves.

  15. Re:What? Since when... on Wikipedia Edits Forecast Romney's Vice Presidential Pick · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia was typed by a billion blind monkeys, right?

  16. Let's all lock arms and dance on SCO Group Files For Chapter 7 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ding, dong, the witch is dead...

  17. Re:You can't do that! on Thin Mini-ITX Platform Enables DIY iMacs · · Score: 1

    rural broadband expansion... They just do it.

    Link? As far as I know, they have all taken money for it, but has anyone actually done it?

  18. Re:meh on MS-DOS Not Stolen, New Forensic Analysis Concludes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    He didn't even swindle it. Microsoft paid for it outright, source code and all license rights. So it really doesn't matter if it was exactly the same. It's not Gates' fault that the other guy didn't have a buyer like IBM waiting.

  19. Re:Talk about... on Iranian State Goes Offline To Avoid Cyber-Attacks · · Score: 3

    Nobody saw the Taliban becoming more fundamentalist. I had an Afghan friend whose fought in the war against Russia and even he was shocked when the Taliban gave up on their promises of education and voting for women, westernization, etc., in favor of fundamentalism. If he was among them and didn't see it coming, how could Reagan or any other outsider possibly have seen it?

  20. Re:Talk about... on Iranian State Goes Offline To Avoid Cyber-Attacks · · Score: 1

    But if your religion actually means anything to you, it helps to shape your morality and values. Therefore, people believe the way they do because of the writings of those they believe (rightly or wrongly) to be more wise than themselves and attempt to follow to become wise themselves (or go to heaven and get 72 virgins or whatever). Nobody (even atheists) can separate their religious beliefs from their actions.

  21. Re:Why do we need uSec trading? on Algorithmic Trading Glitch Costs Firm $440 Million · · Score: 1

    One per hour would allow for some strategy as the day commences, but not too much. 7-8 per day should be plenty.

  22. Re:Why the double standard? on Algorithmic Trading Glitch Costs Firm $440 Million · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, but if you MADE money with your own software by finding a weakness in their algorithms, they would cancel it and arrest you: http://www.financial-planning.com/news/norwegian-day-traders-timber-hill-2668351-1.html

  23. Re:Is that a man or a woman? on The Tricky Science of Olympic Gender Testing · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The article says it's far more common in female Olympic athletes, but they don't know why. I don't know, maybe it's BECAUSE THEY'RE MEN!

  24. Re:NBCs coverage has been appallingly bad on US Viewers Using Proxies To Watch BBC Olympic Coverage · · Score: 1

    Interesting rant. You sound similar to many conservatives in the US.

  25. Re:Atdhe on US Viewers Using Proxies To Watch BBC Olympic Coverage · · Score: 1

    Not to mention NBC. All they show are the sports Americans like and they almost always show Americans in them! Can you believe it? It's almost as if they think their broadcast is only for Americans!