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Comment: Re:Thoughts on Vampire rules? (Score 1) 78

Such transitions have been slow, but now we have sparkling vampires made of stone.

I know you are talking about Twilight, but if I recall correctly, in Anne Rice's Vampire novels, the really, really old vampires looked like (& were as hard as) alabaster statues until they moved.

Comment: Re:3D-Printed Revolver? (Score 1) 435

by operagost (#43782701) Attached to: Working Handgun Printed On a Sub-$2,000 3D Printer

3/4 of people who attempt suicide will be deterred by a simple obstacle or obstruction in their way.

Who are we to say whether someone should kill themselves?

People being rational don't murder.

Yes, they do-- absolutely. Unless you're thinking only about what some jurisdictions call second degree murder. That's a biased sample.

Comment: Re:Indonesian, Korean and french (Score 1) 201

by LordNimon (#43781707) Attached to: Australia Makes Asian Language Learning a Priority

Chinese, which would actually be REALLY useful in this modern world.

No, it wouldn't. It would take a massive effort to be proficient enough in Mandarin to be able to use it, and you would still not be accepted by native Chinese, because you're not one of them. You won't be able to use your rudimentary Mandarin to make any kind of business deals in China. If anything, you'd just be forced by your employer to travel to Beijing frequently and breathe in the toxic air. No thanks.

Comment: Re:How about cutting Notes? (Score 1) 257

by operagost (#43781527) Attached to: Goodbye, Lotus 1-2-3
Indeed. It's not hard to find Groupwise haters, even now, but they never seem to explain why. Groupwise was essentially the first modern groupware. Even on Windows 3.1, while Microsoft was putting out a bare bones mail program, Groupwise had a 99% complete calendaring system. The only thing that everyone uses that it didn't have yet was busy searches.. and that came with v5 in 1997. Outlook was pretty much still crapping in its diapers, in multiple ways, and Notes was a database design program disguised as a horrible groupware.

Comment: Re:What is it I am supposed to learn? (Score 1) 137

by smitty_one_each (#43779501) Attached to: What Professors Can Learn From "Hard Core" MOOC Students

Of course anything even remotely resembling a union is "communist", so we can rule that option right out.

Private sector unions are a perfectly reasonable expression of the right to assemble.
It's when they distort the market and drive jobs away that achieve that full "solution in search of a problem" state.
Public sector unions, like mutinies and rabid dogs, need to be put down.

"Facts are stupid things." -- President Ronald Reagan (a blooper from his speeach at the '88 GOP convention)

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