Bartles - Slashdot User

Comment Re:What will it take? (Score 0) 302

by Bartles on Monday September 01, 2014 @04:07PM (#47802217) Attached to: Study: Antarctic Sea-Level Rising Faster Than Global Rate

50 years. Do you actually believe that crap? It was 30 years ago that people started predicting catastrophe. It's funny how Armageddon keeps being moved just out of reach of verification.

Comment Re:What will it take? (Score 1) 302

by Bartles on Monday September 01, 2014 @01:45PM (#47801211) Attached to: Study: Antarctic Sea-Level Rising Faster Than Global Rate

You'll be dead long before the Sun expands and envelops the Earth. What are you doing about it today?

Comment Re:Failed (Score 1) 302

by Bartles on Monday September 01, 2014 @01:43PM (#47801197) Attached to: Study: Antarctic Sea-Level Rising Faster Than Global Rate

Look up.

Comment Re:yet if we did it (Score 1) 463

by Bartles on Monday September 01, 2014 @01:37PM (#47801155) Attached to: Deputy Who Fatally Struck Cyclist While Answering Email Will Face No Charges

You obviously don't listen to talk radio.

Comment I like how... (Score 2) 169

by Bartles on Sunday August 31, 2014 @08:42PM (#47797391) Attached to: XKCD Author's Unpublished Book Remains a Best-Seller For 5 Months

...Cambridge, New York, Seattle, and the San Francisco Bay Area, has now become "throughout the US". And yet Slashdot thinks it can comment on social issues. Are all 4 of those areas in the top ten wealthiest metropolitan areas? Probably pretty close.

Comment Re:Impressive (Score 1) 152

by Bartles on Sunday August 31, 2014 @05:23PM (#47796755) Attached to: Anand Lal Shimpi Retires From AnandTech

You know what I meant.

Comment Re:Impressive (Score 1) 152

by Bartles on Sunday August 31, 2014 @11:22AM (#47795345) Attached to: Anand Lal Shimpi Retires From AnandTech

It's 2014. Your computer should not have any moving parts.

Comment Re:Does this office need Congressional approval? (Score 1) 117

by Bartles on Saturday August 30, 2014 @06:48PM (#47792847) Attached to: Google's Megan Smith Would Be First US CTO Worthy of the Title

Yes, many in Washington will want her as CTO specifically because of her gender and sexual orientation.

Comment Re: But is it reaslistic? (Score 1) 369

by Bartles on Friday August 29, 2014 @09:32PM (#47788719) Attached to: Islamic State "Laptop of Doom" Hints At Plots Including Bubonic Plague

In the US you get treated anyway, because the law requires it. Also, if you can't afford antibiotics you are eligible for medicaid. If you haven't enrolled and haven't been forcibly enrolled, its your own fault.

Comment Re:Did you expect anything else? (Score 1) 194

by Bartles on Friday August 15, 2014 @01:37PM (#47679267) Attached to: The Billion-Dollar Website

Actually, just about every metric for measuring the economy is far worse now than it was 8 years ago. So no, both administrations aren't equally bad. The one you voted for and support is far worse.

Comment Re:Technical People (Score 1) 194

by Bartles on Friday August 15, 2014 @01:17PM (#47679079) Attached to: The Billion-Dollar Website

Yeah, that's all great. But they nominated Cynthia McKinney. If it had been David Duke would you be saying the same thing? Ultimately, the candidate matters.

Comment Re:in other words (Score 1) 194

by Bartles on Friday August 15, 2014 @12:54PM (#47678877) Attached to: The Billion-Dollar Website

Thanks for destroying them with facts and logic.

Comment Re:in other words (Score 1) 194

by Bartles on Friday August 15, 2014 @12:52PM (#47678853) Attached to: The Billion-Dollar Website

The difference being that the people on the left that recognized it as a giant clusterfuck, still supported it and the politicians that forced it upon us. Authoritarians don't care if their provided services are good or bad.

Comment Re:Technical People (Score 2) 194

by Bartles on Friday August 15, 2014 @12:50PM (#47678815) Attached to: The Billion-Dollar Website

You do realize that Cynthia McKinney was the Green Party nominee in 2008, right? For me, it would take a lot for them to right that wrong and get my consideration again.

Comment Re: biased algorith (Score 1) 177

by Bartles on Thursday August 07, 2014 @09:45AM (#47622135) Attached to: Algorithm Predicts US Supreme Court Decisions 70% of Time

And sometimes an algorithm can't predict the future OR correctly duplicate the past. Just see global temperature models.

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