I like that! Yes, some good stuff is still around, but far too much as been lost. How old is that one? I hadn't seen it before. Back when K5 was still relevant, some of my articles stayed in the top five for years, but are gone now, locked away in someone's dusty archive.

I can think of only four reports of Illinois State Police dying on the job since I came back to Illinois in 1986, and all of them were automobile accidents. Not one died by gunfire.

Send the witless moron who spoke of the danger of being a cop a list of the most dangerous jobs, they're all over the internet. "Cop" ain't on any of them. The guy making ten bucks an hour roofing faces far more danger every day. And you're more likely to be shot at work because you're a minimum wage convenience store clerk than a cop.

Now, Fire/rescue, their jobs are far more dangerous than a cop's and a hell of a lot more of them are injured or killed on the job than cops. Those guys risk their lives to save lives, cops face little risk and most are too cowardly to take any risk at all to save a citizen's life. Hell, look at that thing in California this summer when the cops killed the bank robbers and the crook's human shields as well.

Well it was about remembering a photo so I'd say it's more about recall than learning

Indeed; I was always terrible at memorization, but when I learned a thing, I KNEW that thing. Memorizing Ohm's Law doesn't mean you know what it means. Understanding is far more than memorization.

My reaction was "well DUH!" as well. This is simply scientific confirmation of the obvious. Now, had the study stated that curiosity had no effect on learning, that would have been a startling finding.

But that's how science works; something that is blindingly obvious is often disproven. In this case it wasn't.

Just because the 1%ers have money doesn't mean they're honest.

I would think hoards of cash would indicate more of a tendency to dishonesty than honesty. It's hard to make an honest dollar, far easier to steal one.

I really don't see the 18th century guy recognizing an automobile as being a carriage. A smart phone, with its lit screen and moving pictures and everything would be completely alien to him.

I think "gaol" would have been more common in Europe than the US, and in fact Webster's says "chiefly British variant of jail, jailer". The story takes place in Southern Illinois about 30 miles from St. Louis (on the campus I attended).

You see plenty of 1%ers on TV. Hell, half of Congress is in the 1% club. The ones you don't see are the .01%ers; they hold the real reins of power..

No, I haven't, thanks! I'll have to see if the city library carries them, I need to go there to make sure they didn't put Nobots in the juvenile section anyway.

My budget is kind of cramped right now, I have a huge dental bill to pay off.

Because it may be part of a book in the future. I did Nobots like that, and it was a pain in the ass to convert all the dumb quotes to smart quotes in Oo. Its search and replace isn't the best.

I guess the 1%ers still think that absolutely none of the rules don't apply to them, and that banks should continue to make risky loans to them, just because of who they are.

From where I sit in the middle of the bell curve it looks to me like the rules actually DON'T apply to the 1%. And maybe it's possible, but how could a loan to someone that rich be the least bit risky?

But then the original document won't have them. Dice should be deeply embarrassed that their "nerd site" is so deeply flawed. Soylent News isn't even a year old yet, used slashdot's code and have fixed the smart quotes, something we've been screaming at slashdot about for years.

The fucking thing looked fine in preview. Why in the HELL does it look fine when you preview it and then look like shit when posted?

This is really amateurish, slashdot. FIX YOUR GOD DAMNED CODE!

My apologies to fans, there's an unfucked version here, where preview actually matches what it looks like when you post it.

Get your act together, slashdot, and fix this ugly fucking mess. This should be an embarrassment to you, but I guess Dice is unable to express that emotion.

The next mcgrew journal will simply contain a link to a site that is less retarded. Yes, slashdot, I'm pissed off. FIX YOUR BROKEN CODE or I'm gone!!!!