> so what, why would they? I doubt 1 in 20 executives has a masters-level understanding of mathematics nor do we ask them to.

Is that supposed to be an example of a school teacher's grasp on logic and rhetoric?

An executive usually has a masters degree relevant to their field, namely an MBA. That's the key here. What's relevant to the task? Most teachers are taught about "teaching" rather than being competent in their subject area.

Teacher versus mathemetician or chemist.

You couldn't be more wrong if you tried.

If you're willing to explore something other than what Microsoft has spoon fed you, there's more than enough shiny happy development interfaces out there.

The media loves to push this narrative. It's almost as bad as other ideas they feel compelled to shove down everyone's throats.

I'm not convinced. Storage requirements only seem to be escalating while storage technology for the most part doesn't seem to be keeping up. It doesn't matter how much the pundits wish their fantasy were true.

An all flash array is as impractical now as a single SSD drive was 10 years ago (or 15). It's an application limited by it's pricetag.

You can build all sorts of crazy things if you can spend someone else's money freely.

In 10 years, spinning rust won't be nearly as obscure as tape is now.

...except this isn't about Slashdot users.

You admit this yourself by referring to Amazon.

They are p*ssing off "normal" people with this. That's hardly surprising. They gutted the standard edition of the program that everyone's used to.

> Also, explain to this Canadian why NASA is researching climate.

Studying climate generally requires lobbing things into the sky.

That's covered by the ASA part of NASA.

Seriously? You're going to throw that out? Most of those kids ALREADY end up dead or in jail.

Also, you are ignoring the gap between spooner girls in academia versus the working class variety. They are worlds apart.

You, that teacher, and this article all seem like excuses to overlook actual performance and to find new ways to hand out bogus grades based on entirely subjective metrics.

Much like the "self esteem" fad, this seems like an excuse to give better grades to the unworthy and an excuse to be blatantly anti-intellectual. School teachers were generally the less contientious students.

> Indians think of Judaism as that new fangled sect

> Hinduism is contemporary with the ancient Greek and Iranian religions.

Whenever you see a menorah. That's a remembrance of when that "new fangled sect" collided head on with that ancient Greek religion.

You seem to be a great confirmation that this is an Indian flavor of "Chekov-ism" we are seeing here.

> You can't excuse what Charlie Hebdo are doing, no more than you can excuse what these people did to them,

Insults aren't the same as murder in any sane or civilized society.

Liberty is a difficult virtue sometimes (like any virtue).

Almost but not quite. Anyone that doesn't follow their particular brand of Islam is a target. This includes other Muslims. Perhaps you haven't been paying attention to the news.

The hero of Vincennes is as much of a target as the people he saved.

> Bullshit. Freedom of speech is not freedom to be an asshole to anyone at any time.

Yes it is actually. You have just fallen off the slippery slope that a great deal of us are worried about. You have quite effectively identified the big problem with any attempts to "fight online harrasment".

I once had a next door neighor that had 4 cars on blocks in his driveway.

A) This guy is cooler than any neighbor I've ever had in an HOA
B) This guy's car collection did not devalue my home one bit or make it harder for me to sell it (location baby).

HOAs are just an affront to your personal liberties and a money pit. Their enforced conformity preserves nothing and gives you nothing (except some light fascism).

They don't even enforce the useful (safety) rules.

No. You just have an expensive plan imposed on you by a local monopoly at gunpoint. You are stuck with that plan regardless of how effective or responsive it is.

I would rather spend my own money as I see fit.

And I am already taxed for the poor and the elderly. So it's not quite like the guilded age image some try to pretend the US is.

Planned economies often miss important details (like flouride toothpaste) or drive away useful goods and services.

These practices haven't lowered airfares. They have been a run-around to AVOID raising prices due to the increasing price of fuel. Nearly NONE of the airlines accounted for fluctuations in the price of fuel. They are stuck in a cut throat race to the bottom market where no one wants to be seen raising prices to cover costs.

In the beginning, it was just a stupid shell game.

Now it's a crass money grab.

That's funny because I have taken MREs through TSA checkpoints and been pretty upfront about it when they ask me what they are looking at in the X-ray scanner. They didn't seem to bat an eyelash at it.

That includes the MRE peanut butter.