Do you realize that 200 years ago was still 10 years after the first railway journey, 21 years after the first untethered flight of a hot air balloon, that weaponized rockets were in common use by British armed forces and others (later inspiring Jules Verne to write science fiction about going to the moon), and that early versions of electrical telegraphs were in testing?

I had a Radeon card fry in a PowerMac G5 (1st gen) several years back... at first I thought I had an electrical fire in my house. I'm pretty sure in that case it was the fan on the card that failed, as by the time I extracted it, the heat sink had warped and peeled halfway off the GPU chip. I ended up putting the OEM card back in, and donating the machine to my church, where it is still going strong to this day.

Unless of course, Verizon throws in a tablet for an extra $0.02 up front and $10/month on your data plan when all you went in to do was replace your 3.5 year old phone. Sold.

Mostly true, but more true is that when a white (or any race) guy with a gun points said gun at the cops and gets shot by the cops, other white guys with guns usually say, "Dumbass! What the hell was he thinking would happen!?! Better nominate him for a Darwin Award!"

This is neglecting now too frequent edge cases like "cops get warrant for wrong house, homeowner dies in ensuing firefight" or "child with obvious fake gun gets shot by police"

I'm pretty sure the GP was speaking with officers working the beat, not the city police chief, county sheriff, or prosecutor, in whom that full discretion actually lies. "Don't let marijuana violators go, or else you lose your job" is pretty strong motivation to enforce.

There are two articles linked. The first article is about a new integrated circuit amp. The second is about a year old and is about a separate vacuum tube amp. The first article mentions that the new IC amp broke the record of the earlier vacuum tube amp. So, for once, the summary is correct.

I think I'll let the above question stand on it's own.

Anyway, I regard Meyers-Briggs as a tool, rather than anything mathematically perfect.

By the way, I don't really care if you're rude or polite. This is Slashdot, after all!

We caucus in my state (Washington) during Republican primaries, rather than a wider public vote. The Democrats hold a very solid majority outside my career field, both in the local area, and state wide. Our local representative in the State Legislature is a Republican and a few county or city officers are, but that's about it.

I think part of the problem is a lot of people who are attracted to the teaching field tend to be ESFJ-Meyers-Briggs personality type, which, in the first place, tends not to be the best personality for participating in critical thinking.

This is anecdotal, but the sample size is still fairly large: The vast majority (~75%) of U.S. engineers (not counting software developers, we don't have many of those around here) that I know and work with (figure around 500) are left of center and tend to vote Republican, a lot of those having been leaning Tea Party or Libertarian lately, and hate what the Neo-Cons have done. Those that vote Democrat usually come from families that have strong labor unions ties, but seem to be fairly moderate to conservative otherwise; they are also usually the ones that like to stir up debate and play devil's advocate, but what engineer doesn't like debate and/or arguing from time to time?

"The Internet. Where men are men, women are men, and the 13 year old girls are FBI agents."

The scientist that examine it did a little bit more than look at it, but the most telling note in the linked paper is "Considering that we do not know the internal structure of the reactor, and therefore cannot completely rule out that there were other charges inside it besides the one weighed and inserted by us, " which was exactly my thought after reading the summary.

As someone else posted above, if you look at it from the opposite direction, it still twists right.

Find the nearest screw or bolt (almost all will be right-handed), pick an end to be up, point your right thumb in that direction then curl your fingers: your fingers will curl in the same direction that is needed to move up the spiral. Now flip the bolt or screw upside down and try it again... Yep, still works. Now try it with your left hand: your fingers will curl in the downwards direction. That is what is meant by right-handed or left-handed.

Well I suppose in-flight engine fires don't count, if no one dies...

I had a large group of buddies who got a "free week" in Japan in late August or early September 2000 (I don't remember precisely when) following an engine fire as they were flying back from Korea to California. As they were Reservists whose "2 weeks of training" already ended up being 3 weeks (before the incident), their civilian employers were none too happy! My flight was a fewdays later on a normal commercial airline, and I actually beat them home.

"The three-engine DC-10 entered service in 1970 as a passenger jet, and the last airplane working in that capacity, operated by Biman Bangladesh Airlines..."

Did anyone bother to check on World Airlines, which only flies passenger charter flights for the U.S. Military, and (mostly) flies in and out of military air bases? Before I left the Army a few years ago, I had the (dis)pleasure of riding their sketchy DC-10's and MD-11's several times. Also, neither of the two planes can cross the Pacific Ocean (California or Washington to Japan or Korea; and vice verse) in one hop, on those routes there is always a refueling stop at Anchorage or Honolulu.