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Comment Why this is news for nerds (Score 2, Insightful) 196

http://www.latimes.com/enterta...

Quote:

"After the Trayvon Martin verdict I was talking to Prince and he said, 'You know, every time people see a young black man wearing a hoodie, they think, he's a thug. But if they see a young white guy wearing a hoodie they think, oh that might be Mark Zuckerberg. That might be a dot-com billionaire.'"

"I said, 'Well, yeah, Prince that's true but that's because of racism.' And he said, 'No, it's because we have not produced enough black Mark Zuckerbergs. That's on us. That's on us. To deal with what we're not doing to get our young people prepared to be a part of this new information economy.'"

Comment Please put this in perspective (Score 1) 140

A $273 million research satellite was dashed into pieces, resulting in a financial disaster

A major studio (Disney) spends $307 on "John Carter", another major financial disaster.

We spend more making bad movies about space travel than we spend on actual research.

At least the Japanese can try again with an improved version of their satellite, while Disney will never be able to turn something like "John Carter" into a successful movie.

Comment My definition of financial bubble (Score 1) 271

I used to define a financial bubble as when the guy in the cubicle next to you brags about how much he made in his investments. When that started to happen, I knew the market was ready for a correction.

Now my definition is "When Slashdot starts offering investment advice"

To answer the OP, "Sell every crypto currency you have right now"

Comment Re:Schooling, perhaps? (Score 1) 519

And you don't know that the other countries mentioned also have a unionized teaching workforce? Australia , Germany , and Sweden all have active teacher's unions.

Your right wing anti union propaganda does not hold up when researching the actual conditions in educationally high ranking nations. The rest of the world does not follow what you believe.

Comment Almost as good as "signs your child is a Goth" (Score 1) 151

from the "Landover Baptist Church" (hint for the oblivious: this is not a real church): .....

23-Misbehaves at school.
24-Misbehaves at home.
25-Eats goth-related foods. Count Dracula cereal is an example of
this.
26-Drinks blood or expresses an interest in drinking blood. (Vampires
believe this is how to attain Satan. This act is very dangerous and
should be stopped immediately.)
27-Watches cable television or any other corrupted media sources.
(Ask your local church for proper programs that your child may watch.)
28-Plays videos games that contains violence or are of a role-playing
nature.
29-Uses the internet excessively and frequently makes time for the
computer.
30-Makes Satanic symbols and/or violently shakes head to music.
31-Dances to music in a provocative or sexual manner.
32-Expresses an interest in sex.
33-Masturbates.
34-Is homosexual and/or bisexual.
35-Pursues dangerous cult religions. Such include: Satanism,
Scientology, Philosophy, Paganism, Wicca, Hinduism and Buddhism.
36-Wears pins, stickers or anything else that contains these various
phrases: "I'm so gothic, I'm dead", "woe is me", "I'm a goth".
37-Claims to be a goth.

Oh wait a second. The UK list is supposed to be serious!!!

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