Anyone who thinks girls (or, more generally, the opposite sex) are a waste of time really is doing the whole, "life," thing wrong, no matter how smart they are.

Luckily for Mr. Obama, voters like you, who think for themselves, are in the extreme minority. :)

He'll get re-elected. There isn't a single candidate anywhere else in the country that doesn't come off as a complete lunatic or is not the victim of a media-wide smear campaign.

It's sad that you have had to repeat your main complaint (what is it now, 7 times?) on a site that is supposed to be full of intelligent commenters. And folks wonder why words like "groupthink" get tossed around about slashdot.

He also stole it from a sign.

Do you realize that such a horribly gross, over-reaching generalization nullified the ability of any credible person to take anything you said in the rest of your comment seriously?

Have you ever watched a webcam porno on a generic porn-tube site that has no sound because the drunken college girls couldn't splurge for a microphone before going all online-slut for their temporary boyfriends? It totally takes away from the raw, uninhibited, and sloppy lesbian action that you want to experience and, in the worst cases, it can completely ruin the porn.

Making a badass computer animation of one of the most complex aerospace engineering systems to be designed in the last few decades and then not adding sound because there is, technically, never any sound in a vaccuum would cause the same experience loss. It would, effectively, be making some of the best science-porn out there and cheaping out on the microphone, robbing us space geeks of our much anticipated hot lesbian rover-Mars action.

Complaining about a PR clip not being pedantically correct in its techincal details is as retarded as the drunk college girls that won't just cough up $20.00 for a microphone.

You know what I've found as a college graduate that has been out of school for 3 years and is now switching jobs? Most graduates who have been trained for 3 years are unwilling or uninterested in switching jobs unless their company treats them like crap. Once companies start treating their employees with some god-damned dignity, respect, and basic fucking decency again, us newly-trained workers will hang around plenty long.

Of course, if you graduate school and get put in a job where you are consistently talked down to, consistently told that your ethical and moral decisions are inadequate and, therefore, you need regular bi-annual training on contrived ethical delimmas, where you are consistently told that, "Sorry, you aren't actually smart enough to do xxx despite four years of hard, intelligent, quality schoolwork," and where you are consistently told by your manager that, "someone has to keep an eye on all of you," referring to your entire working group as if they were convicts in a labor camp then, yeah, you start to look for a new job after a few years.

Start treating employees with respect and investing time, training, and, most importantly, trust in them and they will stick around longer than 3-5 years. But if being decent to your fucking employees is just too much of an expense then don't be surprised when they get some training and fuck you as hard as you fucked them for three years by walking out just as they start becoming productive.

I am continually surprised at how effectively the DIY, hacker, maker communities consistently fly under the radar of the general social consciousness, as reflected by this particular writer's apparent lack of awareness about them. There has to be a reason for that, but I wonder what it is.

I would wager that most of the folks living in rural Canada do, in fact, own and operate radios as both a hobby and as an emergency backup. I know radios are very popular in rural areas in the States. I would be surprised if any of the folks roughing it in the Canadian wilderness did not have some sort of radio gear that they know how to use.

Meh, we yanks may die younger but we have hotter girls to fuck along the way. Suck it!

Most satellite safety modes involve pointing some primary axis at the Sun because it ensures solar power gets to at least part of the solar arrays while minimizing the liklihood that the communications fixtures would interfere with instruments on other satellite platforms. It's a good, "safe and minimally powered," mode to try to recover from.

But let's be practical here. Of those objects listed, The Bible is by far the most effective object to bludgeon someone's face with.

Meh, brain power used without a love of something or someone is just wasted energy propping up nothing but intellectual masturbation. The smartest man may sacrifice love for "brain power," but it is the wiser man that sacrifices some, "brain power," for the things that he loves.

Not that far of a stretch. Grecian pagan fundamentalists probably still believe Zeus manifests himself on Earth to rape people, though, He seems to prefer taking forms like rams and rain clouds rather than men. Ah well, if you're going for God-rape, why not throw in some beastiality with it as well, eh?

For what it's worth, I do know at least one person to calls themselves a Hellenistic Priestess and actually worships the ancient Greek pantheon of gods, so they do exist. :D

Which, incidentally, is also why we have so many laws on the books demanding that the government does stuff for us, but that nobody has to foot the bill for all that stuff. Yay direct democracy!

But you're correct, the referndum and petition powers are very sharp, double-edged swords.