Please make it speed limited to the average speed of pedestrians in it's vicinity.

Accepting an advertised offer that works in your favor isn't a scam. It's just a good financial decision.

I sincerely miss being spanked by the dean on those sleepless nights. They were some of the best times.

No, it does not threaten human existence.

So roughly 12-15 people received them?

I'd prefer a 16 year old climate activist to do it.

/s

Are you fucking serious?
Please delete your slashdot account and use CNET for your tech news from now on.

From what I've been told, there are about 6 hogs in the US that have basically accomplished the same thing.

Is this news for nerds, or stuff that matters?
Maybe there was a third category added: Things that were obviously going to happen.

It wold not be the 5th or 6th largest economy in the world if it left the US. Most of the companies based there would immediately move back to the United States, they wouldn't pay the outrageous taxes they would be assessed.
With no standing army, it would then be taken over by China or Mexico, depending on whatever agreement they came up with between them.
Quit spreading this half-truth.

Exactly. The story behind "anybody can #Learntocode", is teaching them how to copy and merge someone else's code. The majority of them don't actually know how to code.

There are 30 crew on a merchant ship tops. There are maybe 60,000 merchant ships in the world. Let's be very generous and round up to 2,000,000 merchant sailors total.
2,000,000 people, out of the billions of people in the world, are not the ones generating the lions share of the plastic waste found in the ocean.

If something does exist, how can that possibly mean it shouldn't exist? It means your theories are wrong.
Do Slashdot's editors have no knowledge of basic science?

100% of science doesn't agree on anything.

I'm sure if someone mentions abortion you get all anti-states rights in a hurry.