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  1. Re:Some dreams don't count on The President Wants Every Student To Learn CS. How Would That Work? (npr.org) · · Score: 0

    The story is current because Obama just mentioned teaching code in the SOTU.

    And by extension, that means you have to be against it.

  2. Re:Prohibited by Government on Developing 3D-Printing Tech for Cars (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Toyota Hilux is the first one I thought of. The smaller trucks like the ford ranger.

    That's what I thought too. But the reason those vehicles aren't in the US has to do with the market and not government regulation.

  3. Re:Prohibited by Government on Developing 3D-Printing Tech for Cars (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    many fine cars in use overseas can not be sold in the USA

    Such as?

  4. Re:Fueled by recent change to Twitters TOS on Twitter Sued For Giving Voice To Islamic State (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sure, there is no greed outside US, everybody knows that.

    There's greed everywhere. We just do it better than everybody else.

  5. Re:Fueled by recent change to Twitters TOS on Twitter Sued For Giving Voice To Islamic State (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    First the SJWs went after gamers. Then they went after @nero. Now they're going after ISIS.

    Damn them all to hell.

  6. The point is: hurting customers is bad for business

    Sadly, no:

    https://theintercept.com/2015/...

  7. Your precious regulations didn't prevent Chipotle from poisoning all of those people.

    No, but when it happened, Chipotle wasn't able to continue doing business as usual because the world found out what they'd done.

  8. Re:Federal involvement done better on Obama Proposes $4 Billion Investment In Self-Driving Cars (transportation.gov) · · Score: 1

    Rather than having Washington jump into its own program of vehicle development, better to facilitate the development of the numerous industry standards, many of which will involve state and federal infrastructure, that we are going to need to make autonomous vehicles pervasive.

    Which is exactly what this story is about you stupid sonofabitch. Can't you even be bothered to read beyond the word, "Obama"?

  9. The straw that stirs the drink on Obama Proposes $4 Billion Investment In Self-Driving Cars (transportation.gov) · · Score: 0

    Self-driving cars are part of the SJW agenda to take away our manhood. Alphas don't want a layer of electronics and artificial intelligence between us and the metal.

    Fuck Obama.

  10. Look at the e-coli outbreak at Chipotle for an example. Some people got sick and they lost $7 Billion in value -- 30+% of the company's value. Does anyone actually think fear of government regulatory agencies is a bigger problem for them than losing 30% of their company's value in 3 months?

    Without the regulations, the only people who'd have known about the Chipotle e-coli outbreak would have been Chipotle.

    Regulation doesn't exist to preserve shareholder value.

  11. DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES compost me!

    I've already made my preferences known to my family:

    "Get six jolly cowboys to carry my coffin.
    Six dance-hall maidens to bear up my pall.
    Throw bunches of roses all over my coffin.
    Roses to deaden the clods as they fall."

    Then beat the drum slowly, play the Fife lowly.
    Play the dead march as you carry me along.
    Take me to the green valley, lay the sod o'er me,
    I'm a young cowboy and I know I've done wrong."

  12. Re: Penny on Should the US Change Metal Coins? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    They had no problems with individuals owning weapons of any sort, and that includes artillery.

    Citation, or you just made that up.

    It's hard to tell, but probably something on the order of 1% of the population is members of the NRA, and I wouldn't be surprised to find that over ten percent of them believe they should be able to buy military weapons. There are people outside the NRA that do also, including me, who interpret the Second Amendment as meaning that. I don't think 99.9% of the population disagrees with me on that particular topic

    I don't know how NRA members do math, but if 10% of 1% agrees with you, that actually leaves 99.9%.

    Just be emotionally prepared for the tide to turn against your ridiculous fantasy of what the 2nd Amendment actually means. Once Scalia bites the big ravioli, the insanity of the past 25 years is going to end, Then you can go join the geniuses in the Oregon bird sanctuary living under a tarp.

    http://distractify.com/humor/2...

  13. Re:Glass ceiling is a term that only originates on Ann Caracristi, Who Cracked Codes, and the Glass Ceiling At NSA, Dies At 94 (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Madam Curie and Florence Nightingale showed women leaders can make it far earlier than that.

    Madam Curie and Florence Nightingale made a small fraction of the income that men were making.

  14. Re: Is she the same woman... on Ann Caracristi, Who Cracked Codes, and the Glass Ceiling At NSA, Dies At 94 (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    Every so often, I browse Slashdot comments at 0, just so I can see what the AC's are going on about.

    It's sort of like looking under the refrigerator. Momentary disgust then getting up and forgetting I ever saw that. Life is too short.

  15. Personally I'm more concerned with working my way through David Bowie's back library.

    If you're just now working your way through Bowie's back library, you're not Soundcloud's target audience. I don't know, maybe iHeart Radio where you can have your tastes curated for you is more appropriate.

    Soundcloud is to Apple Music what SOHO and Chelsea are to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

  16. So? on Universal To License Music To SoundCloud In Streaming Deal (thestack.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    SoundCloud – a major step for the popular startup, which has struggled to receive legitimate recognition in the industry

    Soundcloud is one of the more dynamic and interesting sources for music. Who cares if it receives "legitimate recognition in the industry"? The industry is a dinosaur and is best left for the junkpile of history alongside the whale oil industry.

    I find some of the most interesting new music on Soundcloud. Nothing from Taylor Swift or Adele is going to make me more likely to use it.

  17. ixnay on the own-phay on Stallman's Legacy Halts At Hardware (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    This doesn't affect me because I always talk in code anyway.

  18. Re: Penny on Should the US Change Metal Coins? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The "militia" clause is somewhere between a justification, and explanatory clause, and a restriction on the right to bear arms, and the Supremes have ruled that the last one isn't correct.

    This is a frame that's arisen in the past 25 years, and it's one that will change again in our lifetime.

    That's the thing about the Supreme Court: it's a political body and it changes with the fashions of the day. For a couple of centuries, the militia clause was taken to mean, "No, dummy, you can't own any kind of weapon the military has, because of course you can't."

    It will change again in our lifetime. There is no reason - no possible reason - that there should be private ownership of any weapon the military has. The founding fathers didn't think so, Judge Robert Bork didn't think so. And neither did the Supreme Courts and constitutional scholars in between think so.

    And 99.9% of Americans don't think so.

  19. I need this on Graphene Flakes Facilitate Neuromorphic Chips (ieee.org) · · Score: 2

    If neuromorphic chips can help my PC run Just Cause 3 better, I'm all for them.

  20. Re:What da F? on India Telecom Regulator Pooh-Poohs Facebook's Orchestrated Lobbying Campaign · · Score: 1

    Has theodp finally gone off the deep end?

    If he's the one who put "pooh-poohs" in the headline, then yes, he has gone off the deep end.

  21. Re: Penny on Should the US Change Metal Coins? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Now, let's look at that word "militia" in the Second Amendment. A militia is something that can be called up for military operations. If the right to bear arms is to have any relation to military operations, then it implies that the individual has the right to own current military equipment. This has not been the law since 1986.

    Why not look at the words, "well-regulated"?

  22. Re:That is Le Pew on French Conservatives Push Law To Ban Strong Encryption (dailydot.com) · · Score: 0

    That is Le Pew

    Oui, my little cabbage. It is ze love at sight first.

    https://youtu.be/JEdBndu0YUM

  23. Re:More doller coins and add 2 doller coins on Should the US Change Metal Coins? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 0

    I was once asked to leave a strip club after I dropped a couple of dollars worth of ice cold change down the front of a strippers panties.

    You probably hurt his dick.

  24. Re: Penny on Should the US Change Metal Coins? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Or, you know, you could learn what "well regulated militia" meant in the 1700s and you could then buy a clue...

    And you might want to learn what "gun" and "arms" meant in the 1700s. I would tell you to buy a clue, but I'm not sure you'd know what to do with it.

    http://militaryhistory.about.c...

  25. On the other hand, one of the short list of things one as Spanish can be proud of nowadays is that despite the crisis and what other European countries are doing, in Spain there's no fascist party worth mentioning (cross fingers).

    That's an interesting point. Maybe it's because there are still so many people alive in Spain who can vividly remember fascism. It does appear that the countries where fascism is on the rise are the countries that don't remember what it's really like.