Comment Re:used calculators (Score 1) 359
Could work if the supply of used TIs keeps pace with demand, which often doesn't happen with textbooks.
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Comment Rent-a-calculator? (Score 1) 359
Couldn't schools keep a supply of TIs on-hand and rent/lend them to students for the school year? I'd be surprised if this wasn't already being done somewhere.
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Comment The website is down (Score 1) 129
Comment Do Everything Wrong Day (Score 3, Insightful) 441
There should be a Do Everything Wrong Day where students and teachers alike do things like play dodgeball, cops and robbers, offer pats on the back and hugs, bring copies of Mad Magazine and Guns and Ammo to school, call each other names, walk to school, say they look nice today, and so on and so on. Then everyone lodges official complaints against everyone else, so administrators now will either have to either suspend everyone and then crawl through hundreds if not thousands of hearings, or agree that a lot of the rules against these things are ludicrous if not completely anti-American.
The slogan for the day? "If everyone is in trouble, nobody is."
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The slogan for the day? "If everyone is in trouble, nobody is."
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Battle of the Heavy Lift Rockets 211
schwit1 writes: Check out this detailed and informative look at the unspoken competiton between NASA's SLS rocket and SpaceX's planned heavy lift rocket. It's being designed to be even more powerful than the Falcon Heavy. Key quote: "It is clear SpaceX envisions a rocket far more powerful than even the fully evolved Block 2 SLS – a NASA rocket that isn't set to be launched until the 2030s." The SpaceX rocket hinges on whether the company can successfully build its new Raptor engine. If they do, they will have their heavy lift rocket in the air and functioning far sooner than NASA, and for far less money.
Comment Here's a video of it in operation! (Score 1) 64
Comment Which "other banks"? (Score 2) 98
No mention of them in the articles linked.
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Comment This is what happens (Score 3, Funny) 247
This is what happens when physicists come up with ideas when they're high, and remember to write them down before coming down.
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Comment Just have them talk to my 3rd eldest, Larrisa (Score 5, Informative) 251
Comment Re:Doesn't work (Score 1) 158
It's not called getting "slashdotted" for nothin', ya know.
You want to contact the site and offer to mirror it on your own servers, be our guest.
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You want to contact the site and offer to mirror it on your own servers, be our guest.
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Net Neutrality Is 'Marxist,' According To a Koch-Backed Astroturf Group 531
Jason Koebler (3528235) writes American Commitment, a conservative group with strong ties to the Koch brothers has been bombarding inboxes with emails filled with disinformation and fearmongering in an attempt to start a "grassroots" campaign to kill net neutrality — at one point suggesting that "Marxists" think that preserving net neutrality is a good idea. American Commitment president Phil Kerpen suggests that reclassifying the internet as a public utility is the "first step in the fight to destroy American capitalism altogether" and says that the FCC is plotting a "federal Internet takeover," a move that "sounds more like a story coming out of China or Russia."
Comment Re:The oblig. quote from Snow Crash (Score 1) 233
Got it covered:
This is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fucking stop them.
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Comment The oblig. quote from Snow Crash (Score 5, Insightful) 233
When it gets down to it — talking trade balances here — once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here — once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel — once the Invisible Hand has taken away all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity — y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else:
music
movies
microcode (software)
high-speed pizza delivery
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Comment I'd love to see a customer lawyer up (Score 1) 251
Someone moves to an area where Comcast is basically the only game in town for broadband, and at every step of their signing up for residential service, they have their lawyer in tow, reading and challenging everything. "Equipment rental, no, early termination fee, that's not going to work for us..."
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Comment This form is too hard! (Score 1) 278
~ Here's what I think of your form, Ms. HR Rep! (attach screenshot with dickbutt drawn on form with MS Paint) (send)
~ (bing) You stood up to us. That was the test. Congratulations, your hired.
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~ (bing) You stood up to us. That was the test. Congratulations, your hired.
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