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  1. Re:In 300 years abortion seen worse than slavery. on Thomas Jefferson: Scientist, Inventor, Gadgeteer · · Score: 1

    The horror isn't in the slaughter (although it's not pretty, especially in some operations) — the horror is in the factory farming operations where the living, breathing, conscious animals are treated like machinery.

    As to Einstein:

    It is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.

    From a letter to Harmann Huth, 27 December 1930

  2. Re:Yeah on Thomas Jefferson: Scientist, Inventor, Gadgeteer · · Score: 1

    Whereas in the Old Testament, having a wife and concubines was commonplace. Some men had more than one wife. The New Testament didn't change that, either, with no real mention of plural marriage either way.

  3. Re:Without power? on After Recent US Storms, Why Are Millions Still Without Power? · · Score: 1

    I have trains running about 3 acres away

    How many parsecs do they go?

  4. Re:It's always been obvious on The PHP Singularity · · Score: 4, Funny

    Python has *always* been obviously better than PHP (or perl, etc.) But if you have no skills, you look for the easiest path: the goal is to get the project going.

    If your expertise is Perl, climbing the Python learning curve, gentle as it may be, isn't attractive, and becomes less so as your available time to engage in such things narrows. And so your project $sucks @terribly $$ and looks like APL

    This is how I can tell that you're not an APL programmer. APL programs are beautiful. Perl looks as if your mom picked up the phone while you were using a BBS.

  5. Re:useful.... on US Navy's High-Resolution Radar Can See Individual Raindrops In a Storm · · Score: 2

    high durability aircraft

    The return of the A-10?

  6. Re:Do it HAM style on Ask Slashdot: How To Add New Tech To Old Van? · · Score: 2

    "HAM" is not an acronym. Nor is it an initialism.

  7. Re:still... on Immigrants Crucial To Innovation · · Score: 1

    People want to immigrate to America. We made it nearly impossible over the past 30 years to do so legally.

    Excuse me? There has been plenty of legal immigration happening. The Immigration and Naturalization Reform Act of 1986 saw to that.

  8. Re:Artificial organ scarcity on Transplant Surgeon Called Dibs On Steve Jobs' Home · · Score: 3, Informative

    According to a doctor friend of mine who rides, the helmet keeps the brainstem working long enough to keep the body working so the organs can be donated.

  9. Re:...overkill...? on Will Dolby's New Atmos 62.2 Format Redefine Surround Sound? · · Score: 1

    MAD TV did that. 20 blades. MAD Magazine did it in the seventies with six blades, I believe.

  10. Re:Do you need a clock? on The NTP Pool Needs More Servers — Yours, If Available · · Score: 1

    you have to run ntpd anyway

    You'd be amazed at the number of machines that either aren't running it or are so mis-configured that they're not synchronized to anything.

  11. Re:"because it is built on MS Access." on Bev Harris of Black Box Voting Releases Accenture's Voting Software · · Score: 1
  12. Re:"because it is built on MS Access." on Bev Harris of Black Box Voting Releases Accenture's Voting Software · · Score: 1

    They must of been told

    What does it mean for a person to "of been" told something?

    Are you being deliberately obtuse or are you simply unaware of the sad fact of the decline of the English language? (Also, consider that "eric umenhofer" sounds like a name for a non-native speaker - the 'net is international, after all, just like the Village.) What he probably meant was:

    They must've been told that they [the client] had Access already and that it was all they could use.

  13. Re:"because it is built on MS Access." on Bev Harris of Black Box Voting Releases Accenture's Voting Software · · Score: 1

    For a simple data entry and maintenance application, I can throw something together in just an hour or two.

    So Access is like HyperCard.

  14. Re:Big brother and his ethics on RMS Robbed of Passport and Other Belongings In Argentina · · Score: 1

    And they'll verify his identity, take some photos, and issue him a new passport. They'll probably write Mass and have them cancel his ID as well. He should be able to get his return ticket replaced easily enough, too.

  15. Death to Flash! on Adobe Releases Sandboxed Flash Player For Firefox · · Score: 2
  16. Re:anything vyatta runs on? on Ask Slashdot: Enterprise-Grade Linux Networking Hardware? · · Score: 0

    I'm sorry I voided in your Cheerios.

  17. Re:anything vyatta runs on? on Ask Slashdot: Enterprise-Grade Linux Networking Hardware? · · Score: 0

    "Like" but isn't really. Most of the commands my fingers remember from not only using IOS, but from having added new features and fixed bugs in it, don't work. First stumbling blocks: conf t and wr t. They're definitely trying, and if you fiddle with it long enough, you can actually get a pair of tunnels to an AWS VPC with "redundant" BGP up.

  18. Re:It's not the packaging, it's the seal on Worst Design Ever? Plastic Clamshell Packaging · · Score: 1

    Of course, I have, MrEricSir, on multiple occasions. I started shopping at Fry's when they still sold proper components as well as groceries, before the move across Lawrence Expy and the subsequent explosion of stores. The "checking" has always involved taking an inventory of what's in the box and comparing it to the given inventory on the side of the box, then slapping a sticker on it. There are, of course, two stickers, one that's RTV and the other that's meant to be put on items that are to be re-shelved. I've seen a non-zero number of re-packaged items (now they have their own shrink-wrap machine!) with RTV stickers put back on the shelves.

  19. Re:It's not the packaging, it's the seal on Worst Design Ever? Plastic Clamshell Packaging · · Score: 2

    To be fair, they test them in-house before putting things back up on the shelf.

    What color is the sky on your planet?

  20. Re:Edison didn't even invent the Lightbulb!!! on Disentangling Facts From Fantasy In the World of Edison and Tesla · · Score: 1

    What SCO became wasn't what SCO once was.

  21. Re:Irrefutable fact on Disentangling Facts From Fantasy In the World of Edison and Tesla · · Score: 1

    Even though she passed on the seemingly bi-weekly opportunity to get her crew back home?

  22. Amazon warehouses need tweakers? on Amazon Poised To Get Cut of CA Sales Taxes · · Score: 1

    ...because that's what they're going to find in San Berdoo.

  23. Re:Generally, when prescription drugs.... on FDA May Let Patients Buy More Drugs Without Prescriptions · · Score: 1

    Or, you could live in a more-free country that allows you to buy drugs like Tylenol #1, which will generally knock the edge off of a migraine in no time flat. Instead, you have doctors afraid of writing 'scrips for any sort of painkiller (because the twin fears of lawsuits by patients and los federales, not to mention arrest and incarceration) and you end up taking something from the *triptan class of medicines which have side-effects that are nearly as bad as the migraine itself (in the near term).

  24. Re:Photographic prints! on Ask Slashdot: Best Option For Printing Digital Photos? · · Score: 2

    Only 20-30% waste? You're a heck of an optimist. The magically drying out ink carts are what caused me to vow to never buy an inkjet ever again and to recommend only laser printers to people, pointing them to their local "Internet to photo lab" printing option for those images they want hard-copy of.

  25. Just like Burning Man on Posting Photos of Olympics Could Land You In Court · · Score: 4, Insightful

    All your images are owned by us. God, I love the Corporatocracy.