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Submission + - ThinkGeek Is Scaling Back

Bootsy Collins writes: ThinkGeek — the 20-year-old 'goods for nerds' retailer I've associated with Slashdot ever since they were both part of the Andover and VA Linux mega-empires — appears to be dramatically scaling back their operations. On July 2, thinkgeek.com will be no more, and instead a "ThinkGeek-curated" selection of products will be for sale through the website of Gamestop, their current owner. They're attempting to clear out all existing inventory, and their rewards program is being shut down, too. On ThinkGeek's website, they're spinning this as a "move"; but it's hard not to feel like yet another symbol of the (somewhat) old days is passing.

Comment DoorDash? (Score 1) 32

Geez, who gives them any business? They started out OK, but went to total crap. I give them a try about once a year, hoping they've sorted things out since they have restaurants that no other delivery service nearby has. And every time, it's a joke. The food they deliver arrives messed up in transit, or multiple hours late, or simply never arrives at all -- every single time I've ordered from them.

Comment Re: What did you expect? (Score 1) 524

Youâ(TM)ve been moderated troll but you speak the truth. Weather forecasting is becoming significantly more automated, though it has always been a running joke that âoeyou should be a weather forecaster, the only job you can be wrong more than half the time and keep your jobâ.

Also, why are there public sector unions at all? Isnâ(TM)t a union designed to band employees against their employer? Didnâ(TM)t Lincoln say our government was âoeof, by, and for the people?â So by that line of thinking isnâ(TM)t the union against us, the people?

Comment Re:Scientists my foot (Score 3, Informative) 319

predominantly scientists who played prominent roles in the Manhattan Project during WW2.

WW2 ended in 1945 and everybody of prominence back then is long dead.

Not sure how that pertains to my answer to your question; but yes, the Manhattan Project (or its precursor) scientists involved in the creation of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists -- Rabinowitch, Szilard, Oppenheimer, Bethe, Urey, etc. -- are gone now, although a few survived until relatively recently (Hans Bethe, for instance, did not pass until 2005).

But even if they were alive, try explaining, why their role in the development of the weapon makes them better experts on matters of foreign policy, military, and psychology, than that of any engineer or a dentist?

Why, in other words, should we value their opinion on how imminent the use of their weapon is over that of an engineer or a dentist?

Do you think, bladesmiths could better predict the imminence of duels, than other contemporaries?

I don't know why you're asking me these questions, since I merely answered the one you posed (about what the basis for the name was), and made no assertions of the sort that your questions seem to imply or defenses of anything the Bulletin has ever published.

The so-called "Doomsday Clock" is undoubtedly the most notorious thing about the Bulletin; but it's a tiny fraction of what they publish and what they argue. In general, and from my experience, the papers/articles published therein which argue for any particular viewpoint on an issue tend to be supported with attempts at logical reasoning built upon a set of claimed evidence. That absolutely does not make any of them right, any more than the many papers that fill scientific journals every week are all correct; and it's completely reasonable to argue that one sees flaws in their reasoning or in the set of facts/axioms/whatever on which their reasoning is based; and I'd be very surprised if any of the principals involved in the publication now, or those who write for it, would argue to the contrary.

Comment Re:I think it sucks (Score 1) 660

In terms of Photoshop, for example, there's plenty of free software/alternatives that you can use for viewing your data.

Perhaps not anymore. The OP seems to be suggesting that they're moving to a cloud storage paradigm where you no longer have local access to the files, in which case you can't easily (or perhaps, eventually, at all) pass them to GIMP or whatever else.

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