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Comment Re:Take a guess... (Score 1) 252

Why don't you move to India you fucking chump. You do have a stake in unions. The only reason you make what you do is because teachers and cops make 50k a year. In India software developers make 30k because they have no alternatives. No seriously: you and all your toothless redneck chump friends get the fuck out of my country.

Comment Re:And next up (Score 1) 467

The choice is not between BIG government and the patient/family. The choice is between government which is accountable to the voters and BIG medical insurance companies that are accountable to shareholders NOT THE PATIENT. There is a term for people like m0s3m8n. m0s3m8n is a chump. We in the US pay three times as much for health care than they do in France and yet we do not have any health care. Insurance companies only provide insurance to healthy people. And when you get sick they weasel out of payment due to pre-existing conditions. If you have any sort of chronic illness your only choice is to work for a company that provides health care. Apparently m0s3m8n thinks that McDonalds employees deserve to die. The problem stems from the belief that universal single payer health care requires everyone to live in the gulag in soviet Russia. m0s3m8n I hope you die of cancer
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Journal Journal: I want the perfect coffee maker! 4

Apparently, Americans drink something like 20 gallons of coffee per person per year; that's fine, but I guess I'm driving up everyone else's quota, because I probably have a cup of coffee every few weeks, on average.

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Submission + - Alvin slurp gun used to capture hermaphrodite

Damien1972 writes: Researchers used an "Alvin Slurp Gun" to capture a hermaphroditic hagfish from a deep sea hydrothermal vent. It is the first time that a member of the jawless fishes (agnathans) has been captured from a hydrothermal vent site. Joe Jones of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, a scientist involved with the expedition, explained: "The Alvin slurp gun is a vacuum canister attached to the front of Alvin that is connected to a Tygon tube position in the front of Alvin. The specimens are suctioned through the tube and stored in a canister on the front of Alvin. It is usually used for collecting small sessile animals." Video of the capture is available.
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Submission + - Another perspective on intellectual property

joejor writes: With so much controversy over intellectual property rights in software development, it may be instructive (or at least entertaining) to look at another human endeavor that suffers from stolen ideas: stand-up comedy. Radar magazine has an article that describes the long history of cribbing and theft in comedy, by big names and small.

Given the nature of stand-up, where source material has to be broadcast from performer to audience, it often happens that one performer will hear another's bits and incorporate the funniest ones into his own act, without attribution. The perspectives of the comedians interviewed range from enlightened to downright hateful (hmm, sounds familiar).

Choice quote from TFA: "People take plagiarism so seriously in all other forms of media, whether it's music, newspapers, books ... But with comedy, it's like, 'You're on your own.'"
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Submission + - Nanotech battery claims to solve electric car woes

rbgrn writes: A123 Systems claims to have invented a Lithium Ion battery that not only can discharge at very high rates of current but can be recharged very quickly without damage to the cells or overheating. From their website: "A unique feature of A123Systems' M1 cells is their ability to charge to high capacity in 5 minutes or less. That's a significant improvement over traditional Li Ion, which typically requires more than 90 minutes to reach a similar level of charge." Using this technology, General Motors has announced a plug-in hybrid SUV and Venture Vehicles is developing a fully electric 3 wheel vehicle. Politics aside, the main technological hurdle to mass adoption of electric cars has been a fuel station replacement when driving distances beyond a single charge worth of range. Will we finally be seeing high current recharge stations in the next decade?
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Submission + - myth of the ultimate gadget

some tech geek writes: "People are always looking for the ultimate gadget : the one gadget that does it all! Of course, I'm one of them :) But I'm beginning to realize that there is nothing like the ultimate gadget. It's just a myth. No one can build it! We're never going to come near it — except may be in a James Bond movie! What do slashdot readers think? What would be your ultimate gadget? What all would it do? How would it look like? How close would the iPhone come to the ultimate gadget?"

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