Drethon - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Not to worry (Score 1) 401

by Drethon on Monday July 07, 2014 @08:28AM (#47398505) Attached to: No Shortage In Tech Workers, Advocacy Groups Say

Around here the big money is going to people who can program Ada and understand DO-178b processes. Something not taught in any school I've been to.

Comment Re:Two sides to every issue (Score 1) 401

by Drethon on Monday July 07, 2014 @08:14AM (#47398417) Attached to: No Shortage In Tech Workers, Advocacy Groups Say

Then why do I keep getting (very good paying) work to fix things that were outsourced? And typically a dozen of us high payed workers cost less to completely rework the unusable results of outsourcing...

Comment Re:Illegal and Dangerous? (Score 1) 200

by Drethon on Saturday July 05, 2014 @10:24PM (#47391049) Attached to: The View From Inside A Fireworks Show

Because it left the ground, these days anything operated outside of the military that is off the ground is bad... or so it seems.

Comment Re:Missing Option: I HATE fireworks. (Score 1) 340

by Drethon on Saturday July 05, 2014 @10:59AM (#47388241) Attached to: On 4th of July:

Most of the commercial fireworks displays around me didn't start until around 10PM.

Comment Re:missing option (Score 1) 340

by Drethon on Saturday July 05, 2014 @10:58AM (#47388231) Attached to: On 4th of July:

I spent an hour lighting off fireworks with a relative. On the drive home I went past a crash that killed a motorcycle rider. The crash scared me far more than the fireworks...

Comment Re:Hello Americans (Score 1) 340

by Drethon on Saturday July 05, 2014 @10:56AM (#47388223) Attached to: On 4th of July:

So http://www.cnn.com/ is international news because it is read outside the US?

Or maybe http://www.foxnews.com/ would be a better example. I'm blaming them on the international community from now on.

Comment Re:Hello Americans (Score 1) 340

by Drethon on Saturday July 05, 2014 @10:49AM (#47388193) Attached to: On 4th of July:

So http://www.cnn.com/ is international news because it is read outside the US?

Comment Re:WTF rich people? (Score 1) 1330

by Drethon on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @08:20AM (#47358879) Attached to: U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Religious Objections To Contraception

In the same category as Obesity?

Comment Re:Thou shalt not kill (Score 1) 1330

by Drethon on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @08:12AM (#47358831) Attached to: U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Religious Objections To Contraception

Only if you can donate more money to political campaigns than military contractors...

Comment Re:Distinct DNA (Score 1) 1330

by Drethon on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @07:34AM (#47358673) Attached to: U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Religious Objections To Contraception

Stop trying to use reason to change my mind!

Comment Re:Detroit calls Google arrogant? (Score 2) 236

by Drethon on Monday June 30, 2014 @11:44AM (#47350639) Attached to: Google, Detroit Split On Autonomous Cars

Anything that costs the share holders their daily profit is highly "arrogant".

Comment Re:Now we know (Score 1) 501

by Drethon on Thursday June 26, 2014 @08:02AM (#47323209) Attached to: A Physicist Says He Can Tornado-Proof the Midwest With 1,000-Foot Walls

You mean Russians from Siberia?

Comment Re:No one is ever influenced by advertising (Score 1) 254

by Drethon on Monday June 23, 2014 @04:27PM (#47300277) Attached to: The Bursting Social Media Advertising Bubble

Well the Samsung adds influenced me to buy a Galaxy S5... after I did a ton of research and found no Motorola or LG phones that looks quite good enough and do not want an iOS device doing anything but playing music.

Comment Re:Tuning it out? (Score 2) 254

by Drethon on Monday June 23, 2014 @04:18PM (#47300217) Attached to: The Bursting Social Media Advertising Bubble

I don't use it at home, I just tune out. I use adblock at work to get rid of those annoying "IT has blocked this facebook ad because..." that are a hundred times larger than the original ad.

Comment Re:About time (Score 1) 118

by Drethon on Thursday June 19, 2014 @12:39PM (#47273543) Attached to: Former FCC Head: "We Should Be Ashamed of Ourselves" For State of Broadband

Can you wire me the money to relocate?

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