Plus it's not their money anyway and god knows where their pension money actually comes from!

"I'm like a bird.
I don't know where my home is.
I don't know where my soul is.
I know my money is from government
And people borrowing hand-over-fist!"

I kept searching for Ms. Mulgrew's statement online to the effect of feeling duped, dumb, stupid, fooled into acting in something, but all I could find talked about giant space salamanders or something.

This is why people in those countries go into government in the first place -- so you can ge in the way of things so you can get paid to get back out of the way.

This happens in the US, too, but not as much (or, a lot more, based on dollars, but with a much more polished meme cover story).

"Well, look at that. Those oil or pharmas are having unconscionable profits agin', Homer!"

This is based on the empiraclly disproven notion that if you restrict work hours that more people will get hired because, hey, the work's still gotta get done, right?

Even after this was repeatedly demonstrated as wrong (unemployment goes up) voters elected to keep the rules. But one shouldn't think for a microsecond it's about anything remotely resembling "increasing employment".

"Dmarc, his eyes close. His sails furl."

Thick, large plate on the end of a powerful robot arm. You should have the seconds necessary for a computer to crank it into position. You just need the accuracy in detection.

Did anyone else get sick of not misreading posts about misreading the title as exotic hardons?

Hardons should not become exotic to you until your forties, and even then because ypu take lots of high blood pressure or other cardiovascular medicine.

> Navy creates fuel from seawater

"In an unrelated story, the USS John C. Stennis drove off the side of a road and crashed last night in mysterious corcumstances, while driving home from work along a mountain pass in Virginia. Police are investigating but there is no immediate evidence of foul play."

I guess they should have magically known it would have been a big deal, then never hired in the first place, carefully keeping that reasoning quiet, so as to not upset the voters who demanded that law while simultaneously reserving unto themselves the right to harm companies for those exact behaviors they forbid them from fixing.

> "Germans will threaten to 'curbstone' people for saying it"

Pick your punchline:

1. I'm gonna have to look that up on Wikipedia.
2. Well, that's an improvement over a gas chamber anyway.
3. I found a curbstone in Elder Scrolls Online and was wondering wat it was for.

Before outlawing it in a pique of jealousy at some perceived cosmic injustice, is this kind of trafing actually a problem?

If the real danger is a scenario where computers issues millions of trades in a few seconds in some feedback loop watching each other and making predictions, a 500ms slowdown could be just what the doctor ordered, slowing things down by 3-4 orders of magniude.

IIRC, *not* going after an infringement can be used in court to bust your copyright. So they're damned if they do, damned if they don't?

Yes, they should be more careful -- apparently there's little, if any, manual review of automated detections, which is the real problem.

> Hello, you appear to be new to Slashdot

"For discovering a multi-million dollar bug that would have required us to shut everything down until fixed, and probably reverted our databases by several days, you get almost nothing! Good day, sir!"

"Wut?"

"I said 'Good day, sir!' !"

comma he said while typing on equipment developed largely by corporations.

Tuition increases are being absorbed by growth of non-teaching positions, not by better professor salaries or lab equipment.