No, they're rated R. Now, if Fritz the Cat (the only feature length cartoon to ever get an X rating from the MPAA) were a Xmas movie...

It looked legit but was an obvious spoof.

You need more coffee. Monsanto is a chemical company, not an electronics company. Why would a chemical company spread printed circuit boards?

I'm surprised you never heard of polychlorinated biphenyls (which I probably misspelled), they were used as transformer oil for almost a hundred years (that's electrical transformers, PCBs were used as coolant). My dad was a lineman, he's now dying of cancer from PCBs. Purina killed his dad, Monsanto is kiling him. Yet dufuses at slashdot scream for less regulation. Meanwhile, now that we have the EPA you can drive past the plant in Sauget and the air no longer burns your lungs.

You've proven me wrong -- I used to think there were no stupid questions. This is not 1940s technology, dimwit! That's like if slashdot had an article about a self-driving corn harvester (they may actually have them, I don't know) and you say "What's this doing on slashdot? We've had tractors since 1920!"

Technology is technology, engineering is engineering, whether automotive or IT.

If you don't want to read the story then don't click the damned link, dumbass. Nobody held a gun to your head.

Indeed. Why am I discriminated against because I'm single? Why does a widow with a child pay more in taxes than a childless married couple with the same income? IMO, there should be no marriage deduction, and marital status should not come into play with any law.

Isn't that entire business model predicated on the idea of "trying" rather than "succeeding"? As soon as you succeed, you're basically out of a job, right?

Who cares if you're out of work if nobody's poor and you don't NEED to work?? The problem is you're thinking in terms of "business models" because when the only tool you know of is a hammer... capitalism and markets will be obsolete in a post-scarcity world.

Agreed -- it took me four years to write Nobots, because I had to work every day to pay the rent and eat. I may finish my newest, Mars, Ho! this year, along with getting The Paxil Diaries (which took longer to write than Nobots) in print, because I retire in February.

FREEDOM!!!

I've been a Star Trek fan since the first episode aired in 1966, but that particular attempt to explain why so many Star Trek aliens are so human-like was really, really lame. So, all the Federation planets were seeded by primitive parts of DNA and all managed to evolve creatures so similar, considering the difference between an octopus and a sparrow?

I parodied Star Trek and Star Wars (yes, I'm a SW fan too) here.

The presence of the moon could be fundamental to both the magnetic field and plate tectonics, due to the churning of the earth through tidal action. Also, ocean tides may have been a contributor to the creation of life, perhaps the concentration of soluble minerals in tidal pools were a factor. So, it could be that life will only evolve on a planet with a large moon.

That was a proposition in one of Asimov's last Foundation books (Foundation and Earth? I haven't read them in a while) and Asimov was a biochemist.

However, there is another way. An earth-sized satellite of a jovian moon would get stirred well enough. And then again, there may be life nothing like we know it. Or unlikely as it seems, we may be the only life in the universe. In Nobots, life is rare and found in few galaxies.

You kids are ignorant of history. The unions were more powerful then than ever. There were no non-union auto workers in 1964, and they were well paid, with good benefits and pensions (unlike today with your stupid anti-union sentiment). The decline didn't happen with unions, it happened when management decided to build cheap, shitty but expensive gas guzzlers in the 1970s when Japan was building well-built, quality, inexpensive transportation.

The unions didn't kill the industry, it was the other way around.

You win today's prize for the most ignorant comment posted at slashdot. Congrats!

Most of the editors were around before Dice. You need to give them a break -- these guys aren't English majors, they're technologists. Save your annoyance for typos and stupidities in a large newspaper, where they have editors with degrees in English and literature rather than engineering and programming and math.

Although it would be nice if Dice actually did hire two or three English majors to proofread what the editors and firehose have selected for display.

Er, your math is a little off -- there was no Mustang fifty years ago. The Mustang came out in 1964, and its generation lasted until 1973 (citation).

I had a '69 with a 350CI Cleveland. That small body and huge engine made the button completely unnecessary. To do a u-turn from a stop you just cranked the wheel around, gave it a little gas and popped the clutch, it would spin around with a screech and a cloud of smoke. In fact, the tires would screech every time you power-shifted it, in all four gears.

I really don't know how fast it would go, the speedometer only went to 140 and I buried it once. It was still accelerating when it felt like it was going to become airborne so I slowed back down to a less suicidal speed.

Great engine. Too bad all the things that hung on to the engine, like the starter, fuel pump, etc. were crap. I spent more time under he hood than I did driving it. I think I went through 5 starters on that lemon.

But the point remains, no one is FORCED to believe in the statue. I disagree with the intent that you feel it is somehow forcing you to believe

Would you feel the same way if it were core principles of Scientology? Would that not represent a de facto endorsement of the tenents of Scientology?

the 10 commandments have been on state capitols for as long as this country has been around, its nothing new

And this bit of hypocrisy is long overdue for abolition.

one does not have to believe in god to respect others.

Quite correct. And believing in god does not absolve you from respecting others either. Using public funds and public property to promote your religion is unequivocally disresepectful to citizens who think differently.

in other words, you do NOT have the right to not be offended anymore than someone of a different faith/non faith

A hindu, buddhist, or pagan would be just as troubled by state sponsored proselytization.

The new pope is just better at PR. Let me know when his bishops start enforcing progressive policies in their dioceses.

Sin or fallacy? I've never met anyone who believes that believing in a deity is a sin. I've met plenty, myself included, who believe that believing in a deity requires at least one fallacy.