I wonder if the Matrix would have ended differently if Neo hadn't eaten the cookie? What was IN the cookie?

*sigh*

Capitalism isn't a bad thing. Communism isn't a bad thing either. Nor is democracy. However, any form of government can be corrupted by bad men. Especially if the masses of poor clueless chumps sit around just watching. And, that is pretty much what happens with all forms of government.

I'm not in love with the concept of capitalism, but I do get tired of listening to poor clueless chumps blathering on about how evil it is.

In effect, you prefer to be manipulated by a communist leader, than by capitalist leaders. Maybe you would prefer not to be used and abused by any corrupt leaders. But - the latter choice really isn't an option, now is it?

The worst thing about it is that, unlike other sites, Slashdot is completely worthless and unusable today. I keep loading it out of habit to check throughout the day and forget that there's not a single thing I want to read. I've been going back to yesterday's stories to see if I missed anything.

White roofs? Really? That's the closest you could get to insulation? You've got a long way to troll before you troll, troll.

It's seldom trivial to get evidence thrown out. You pretty much have to show that they were lying. Not always easy.

Explicit language might modify what would otherwise be there only by an implicit doctrine.

In general, a licensor can modify their own terms. So, if you are using the GPL on software to which you hold the copyright, and you add some sort of exception, it applies. You can't do it to other people's software.

With a little more insulation than usual, you can do that pretty much anywhere in the USA. Oddly, California has higher standards for insulation than pretty much anywhere in the USA. We would very much like the rest of you to catch up sometime.

Right, just the majority of available coal. We've used up the most convenient deposits of it, just like everything else.

Which suggests the question, is that actually that wonderful? Also, whether it's being collected. Maybe in Germany. Not in the USA or China, though.

...make poisonous drywall out of it, as they have done in China?

Assuming you believe those figures.

You can mostly thank our massive population. There are more people living in and around Los Angeles alone than the population of at least half the states in the nation — probably far more if you count illegals correctly, something the census can never possibly accomplish.

Indeed, California is 49th in per capita energy use, no doubt due in large part to having the largest population in the nation.

Most people's perception of how airships should behave from holes is wrong, and it's based on their experience with party balloons. The reason for the differences are:

* Party balloons are pressurized - the skin is stretched taught. The skin on airships are loose.
* Skin area (and thus leak rate) scales proportional to the radius squared, while the volume scales proportional to the radius cubed. Airships are many, many orders of magnitude larger than party balloons. Consequently the rate in which gas can leak out of a hope is drastically lower.

Even large holes in airships don't take them down quickly. Even a moderate sized airship can generally continue flying to its destination and then fix the damage and refill there.

Right, the government said so, so don't worry, taxpayer!

You just cited a document that relies on arguments like " Radioactive elements in coal and fly ash should not be sources of alarm. The vast majority of coal and the majority of fly ash are not significantly enriched in radioactive elements, or in associated radioactivity, compared to common soils or rocks." That's nice. We're not burning common soils or rocks and dispersing them into the atmosphere. The whole fucking article is like that, and you are a useful idiot at best.

If it also replaces chromecast by accepting screencasts from Android devices, then I'm in. I was going to buy a Razer Forge, but that was supposed to be out already and it isn't, so I guess Razer just sucks eggs like usual

A number of the kids from the Potter movies have actually gone on to get work, and meanwhile pretty much everyone else in both movies was famous before they were in either picture.