Comment Re: I believe it because.. (Score 1) 291
I don't know who modded this down but it was damn funny and has a certain amount of truth to it.
I don't know who modded this down but it was damn funny and has a certain amount of truth to it.
Apparently the Professor was a professor of everything BUT naval architecture.
No. In Russia, GLONASS uses you!
Chuck Norris can kick the Russian's GLONASS!
Perhaps he/she, like me, had an account years ago and lost the password?
And somehow lost the ability to create a new account? Nice try.
Amen. I'm not a Jew but I completely agree.
Anyone who equates someone who accepts DRM with someone who accepts the systematic slaughter of an entire people by the state needs to have their sense of proportion adjusted.
I agree that we can learn a lot using telescopes and autonomous/semi-autonomous robots but nothing captures the imagination quite like one of us actually going there.
Wallet may not be the best place for that tag, although it probably beats placing it in your belt buckle.
How about a tattoo on your johnson?
Thanks for the Lemons analogy.
Hey, hey hey! This is Slashdot. No lemon analogies allowed.
Only car analogies and the more twisted the car analogy the better.
Here's a few more:
160,000 times the top speed of a Segway
500,000 times faster than a senior on a scooter
6.67 E07 times faster than a garden snail
1.11 E15 times faster than Europe and North America are drifting apart
infinity times faster than the U.S. Congress
That's why the HFTs installed their own dedicated fiber-optic lines between key exchanges that were "straighter" than the public network to shave a few milliseconds off the roundtrip time at the cost of $100's of millions. Why do you think they did that? So they could improve their WoW latency?
That was only one of the techniques they used to manipulate the market. NY Times has a nice article about the book that brought this to peoples' attention.
..the Koch brothers are aliens...
No, they're just dicks.
Or are they?
I for one welcome our alien dick overlords.
Then pull the SIM card before you put it in the evidence bag. No SIM card means no remote wipe. And install a WiFi blocker in the police evidence room to prevent it callling home via WiFi.
I'll have to rethink the realism of Moonraker. I used to think it was the most ridiculous of all the Bond films but Musk is well on his way to being a real life Hugo Drax.
obamacare requires people to buy health insurance by law. there is no escape, muwahahahaha!
The government requires you to have car insurance and there's no outrage over that. It protects you and anyone you might get in an accident with.
How is requiring health insurance any different? It protects you and your family from unexpected medical expenses that would bankrupt anyone but the 1%ers.
A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. -- Thomas Jefferson
