So you have two independent clauses: "This is a bad article" & "The submitter, editor, and readers should all feel bad."

To combine independent clauses, you usually want to:

- Just put a "." between them, to make two sentences.
- Put a ";" between them.
- Put a "," between them, and then For/and/nor/but/or/yet/so (depending on context).

"; and" is never correct. Either use ", and" or ";".

According to Slashdot, there's no worker shortage at all, & the H1-B program should be cancelled! Who should I believe, the Linux Foundation Executive Director, or various nerds who live in their mother's basement?

I disagree. They know there are other countries, they just see them like those maps of OUR CITY Rest Of Staterestoftheus.

And for those complaining... exactly where is it that you buy half-gallons of soda, rather than 2 liter bottles? Did you want to pay the same price for less soda? Oh, metric is *so* hard (to paraphrase Barbie)....

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Yahoo held on to Jerry Yang WAY longer than most stockholders or common sense would have dictated. Mostly because he and various people he knows owned/own such a large percentage of the company (if not a controlling share).

I have not once wanted to use a scale bar. Really you want to know how long it takes, or how many miles it takes, and it does that. If for some reason Google Maps stopped telling you this information automatically, then yeah I guess a scale bar would be a good way to estimate the same information,

Yahoo was done down by sloppy engineering. Everybody went to Yahoo for first the curated internet and later (when that proved impossible) internet searches, and the internet searches were terrible. Later Google came along, their results actually good, and there was a sudden migration to a site which could actually get shit done.

I don't know if MBAs helped or hurt Yahoo's case, but ultimately they were just swapping deck chairs on the Titanic. There's no possible way a site with shitty search results could compete with a site with good search results.

Meanwhile, here in the US, I'm sitting back, smoking a joint and watching re-runs of "Little Mosque on the Prairie" and "Corner Gas."

Forget about your privacy... this is bigger. A year or two ago, the UK decided against going to the Cloud, because they could not be guaranteed that UK government data would stay on UK soil. If I read that correctly... for Americans, how'd you feel about the Pentagon, or your doctor, having to use data services in, say, India or China, or eastern Europe?

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Yep, and it'll take 10-20 years to commercialize the product.

1970: 10-20 years for fusion!!!
1980: 10-20 years for fusion!!
1990: 10-20 years for fusion!
2000: 10-20 years for fusionnnnnnnzzzzzzz

              mark

Lessee, the banks are legally required to report withdrawals of $10k or more. So, in the majority of cases, someone who deliberately intends to evade reporting withdraws $9,990 or so... multiple times. I'm sure someone here can come up with a good reason that you wouldn't want it known to, say, the IRS.

On the other hand, the most likely reason for this law is to catch under the table payouts... y'know, like to bribe legislative and other government officials, etc.

Sorry, but I agree with the bust.

                  mark "and they got Al Capone on tax avoidance"

This looks like a bigger, beefed-up version of an Ouya. Android hard-core gaming isn't a thing - it's an interesting device but why would anybody want it? Wait 3 months and just get the UHD Roku, or continue using your TV's Netflix.

WTF? If you don't like hoppy IPAs just order something else. It's certainly not like the only craft beer that's available.

80% isn't really that dark...

Bro. Guy Consoglmo, one of the Vatican astronomers, who's been interviewed on NPR, among other places, and has been mentioned on /. before, also teaches at Catholic colleges around the US. One of the courses he teaches is "science for non-science majors". Some years back, he talked about the food chain of the majors that take that class. Next to the bottom were business majors, who didn't get it, but didn't let that worry them.

So, are they worried yet?

Btw, the bottom of the food chain are the communications majors, who didn't get it, and didn't know that they didn't get it. And these are the folks who go into journalism, and HR, and PR....

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Wood, and cellulose, are good insulators... of heat, as well. How ya gonna cool the chips? Put layers of cooling tubes through the chips?

                  mark "man that wood-chip is really burning... I mean, *really* burning.