I think he felt totally Brahmin, actually.

But let's just say it's not a complete surprise that Uttar Pradesh has a very lively Maoist rebellion going on. I'd probably join them, if I was a peasant living there.

Yes, that was a painfully dumb remark in the summary.

Amen to that. I once had someone removed from a project I worked on, because even after a week of explaining WHAT I wanted, it wasn't getting anywhere. I later worked on another project where they brought in a new programmer - lo and behold, the person I managed to get fired walked in. As it turned out, when given explicit instructions and a template, we got passable code. It just took a bit of time to set things up at first.

Personally, I'd not have hired that person in the first place, but when you lead a team that's been selected for you, you have to play the hand you're dealt.

My guess: Attack of the Drones.

Interesting link with some info about that: http://www.independent.co.uk/v...

(It's about TTIP, which seems the same as TPP but aimed at the EU). The article claims NAFTA caused the loss of around 1 million US jobs, as opposed to the promised gain of hundreds of thousands of extra jobs.

Nice site. Didn't know it but I can see it will get a lot of use here on slashdot :)

What I read was that they gave the buoy temperature measurements a higher weight when determining the averages, to account for the greater accuracy of the buoys. I didn't read anything about changing the measurements themselves for the buoys.

Yeah, just like Venus.

You do need a working netflix account, a paid one, I assume? Or do Americans just get Netflix for free? In which case the content has been paid for. What's not been paid for is the extortionist in Canada that said to Netflix "I can make them bleed harder, if you let me - and we can split the difference!".

It used to be the case that tax collectors paid the King for the privilege and then got free reign to squeeze the populace for as much as they could. Quite a lot of uprisisings started that way. But tax collection where you took everything the people had, wasn't stealing, oh no - it was all nice and lawful. And when the people starved and poached a hare in the forest, they were hung - for theft. In the view that defends that position, stealing is when you withhold money from the people holding the guns. When you take stuff from the people on the wrong end of the gun, it's just business as usual.

Well, I don't subscribe to that opinion. The extortion racket by Bell is theft. Avoiding it is just good sense.

I don't particularly mind kids who have forethought and can put in effort, get access to beer. If they're that smart, they're probably smart enough to not overdo it. No, it's the kids that don't think much about anything, and dislike effort, that should be kept away from drugs - including alcohol.

And it's similar with guns. Whoever thinks that making guns cheap and easy to fabricate without skills is a good idea, is nuts. I mean, if that's a good idea why not go beyond that, and give everyone who is unemployed and didn't finish high school, a bottle of Sarin gas in case they feel threatened by someone. Or a flamethrower. What could possibly go wrong?

I'll just point to the twitter account by the rebel leadership proudly claiming they shot down the plane, the numerous Russians captured in combat on the ground, the signals and radiotraffic, the eye witness accounts of the Buk missile system being moved to Ukraine, and the open support by Russia for the rebels.

Did they hand over missile systems to barely trained rebels so they could use them against the Ukrainian airforce? That's a very likely scenario, given all that's known at the moment.

However, the inquiry is still onging. I'll wait until the results are out before saying "x did it".

Let me just copy/paste the relevant bit here then.

"The California Attorney General granted immunity to O'Keefe and Giles in exchange for their raw videos shot at three California ACORN offices. Its comparison of the raw videos with the released versions found that the published videos had been heavily edited to misrepresent the workers and the situations so as to suggest criminal intent and activity."

Yeah. Because 16 years was enough to reproduce, but in order to reach that age you needed to have a body that didn't fall apart the day after. So we tend to have a "long tail" lifespan where we are currently able to extend the tail.

But this isn't about extending the tail - except as an intermediate step, I want to extend the ramp-up and stay there! And right after, evolution and I are going to have a nice little chat about how we are going to proceed from then on - with me in the driver's seat. Because if we can control our aging process, we are likely in control of much more. And I so want to fix our rather haphazardly designed bodies...

Eternal youth WILL come. It's prudent to prepare for it, even if we ourselves may not live to see it.

So... fascism was caused by choice anxiety then? I'd never have guessed!

I'd hate to be at just a mere 2.6 lightyears distance from an event that caused two volumes both 600000 lightyears across to be filled with hot, X-ray emitting gas.