in the video, with its predictable post-rock sounding uplifting score (I called it before even clicking the link), Neil Tyson asks of me: how much would [I] pay to "launch our economy?"

um, I'm sorry, pal, but I don't think that's how "the economy" works.

With Kansas stating that 'evolution could not rule out a supernatural or theistic source, that evolution itself was not fact but only a theory and one in crisis, and that Intelligent Design must be considered a viable alternative to evolution,' and North Carolina's legislature circulating a bill telling people to ignore climate science, maybe it's time we start listening to experts who have a proven record of success, rather than ideology that has only been 'proven' in the mind of elected politicians.

or maybe it's time to get the government out of education?

lol.

um.. yea? I'm not a self-loathing guilt ridden "progressive" piece of shit.

There's a very easy rebuttal to the Libertarian argument that government employees' personal lives shouldn't be regulated at least a little

yeah? I have a really easy rebuttal to your "rebuttal:" FUCK YOU.

Wouldn't you want the same policies applied to politicians to prevent them from developing relationships with that one nice guy who just so happens to be a lobbyist for a major kitten-puppy-bunny murder conglomerate?

no. stay the FUCK out of my life.

Not only would his veto have done nothing, it would have also opened the door to attack ads about how he vetoed healthcare for wounded veterans, since that's also in the bill.

um, ok? the absurdity of this is just mind-boggling. so what you're suggesting is you support someone being in power for no other reason than their desire to be in power, while they do things antithetical to the health of the nation? please, cry me a river because your re-election campaign is ruined.

I'm sure you'll do an about face during your second term, right? why would I ever doubt you, dear leader?

you people are absolutely fucking perverted. you are nothing but an indoctrinated, state-worshipping lemming. I'm not even kidding. do some introspection and save yourself from this mind-numbing filth. you are actually coming out and saying that The President of the United States America has no obligation to do anything to better the circumstances of the nation he is representing, so long as whatever he may do is in discord with his ability to retain office.

I'm pretty sure that "falling on his sword to keep you happy," whatever that even means, is exactly what he should do. I think you have it backward. I don't give a fuck about being kept happy--that's your bag, because all this is to you is a popularity contest. it's partisan nonsense, and has no relevance to logic or truth. he should fall on his sword because he's damn near treasonous, shitting on the United States Constitution without abandon. I won't mind if you go down with him; it will happen eventually. it always does.

n/t

uh, I'm sure you're a troll and all, but it seems there are people who actually believe this nonsense. it's insane. you are suggesting that penalizing businesses makes them more likely to keep their business in the states? huh? what exactly goes on inside of your head?

just for the record, Slashdot does not allow posts from Tor exit nodes.

Firefox will use more memory if the overall amount of memory you have is higher. it's proportional, as it ought to be. I doubt you have 32BG of memory. I have 8GB here, and currently have 230 tabs open, and Firefox is using ~2.4GB. as someone else mentioned, add-ons play a huge role in this as well. I've had Firebug disabled the majority of the time for this reason.

uh, what? my Firefox is using 2.4GB right now. and I love when these discussions start and some haughty POWER USER NERD feels it necessary to point out the fact that he has a whopping 10-20 tabs open. really? I have 230 open right now, and I just cleaned out about a hundred or so recently. what are you talking about?

it will work--it just won't work very well. it becomes a race condition in this case, which can be intelligently gamed.

If you're a guest in my home, you're welcome to use the bandwidth, along with the lights and water. Can you imagine visitig a friend only to be told, "Look, here's the PIN code to unlock the lights, and here's the key in case you want to wash your hands."

I can imagine it, yes, but only because I use a lot of drugs, and I've read Philip K. Dick, someone who also did a lot of drugs in his time.

actually, interleaved DSL is still only common in European markets, and other non-US markets around the world. fastpath is simply non-interleaved DSL. if you have access to a command-line interface or GUI on your DSL modem, you may be able to modify whether or not you use interleaving, but with some ILECs/CLECs this is not possible. just read the Wikipedia about interleaving. it's essentially just a method of error-checking and correction for lossy lines, as copper phone lines are pretty finicky, and DSL is heavily reliant upon clean signals. interleaving adds some 20-30ms or so of latency.

this doesn't show the same thing necessarily, as someone else said, some traceroute programs use UDP rather than ICMP. but additionally, this depends on how the receiving host handles TTL. they are not required to re-transmit using the same TTL value, and the reverse path is not necessarily the same as forward (and neither are necessarily static.)

Are you saying that you believe it is fair that there are some experiences in life that can never have because the number of zeros in your bank account is too small?

yeah, bro. I want a free Lamborghini. Obama owes me one. I hope you're ready to buy it for me. they're expensive.