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Comment Re:We welcome America (Score 1) 56

I know how much the feds get, the state, the local, the schools - down to the penny.

Not really. The feds turn around and give a bunch of money straight to the states, and most states give a bunch of money directly to schools and localities.

But how is what size of entity gets money important anyway? In all cases, the money is divided up and doled out to countless individual programs. *That's* what's important, and our system gives you no particular clues to track that.

Comment Re:I don't pay attention anymore (Score 4, Insightful) 91

I used to pay some attention to this stuff like 5-6-7 years ago. I'm done... I do not care anymore. I'm sick of the constant scare tactics and hearing about how every goddamned thing is attributed to climate change. Let it happen at this point, just SHUT UP ABOUT IT.

This article is about the climate actually changing ... and you're mad because that's attributed to climate change?

Comment Re:Oh no! (Score 3, Insightful) 85

How horrible! Imagine the nightmare of taking three seconds to plug in a network cable and have reliable, stable, fast connectivity.

I think that the point was that the fancy recliners were useless, because they probably don't have ethernet jacks like the desks do.

But IMHO, the actual reason that these lounge chairs are useless is because to get real work done, you need a couple of big monitors, a real keyboard and a real mouse. And if you're in a "collaborative workspace", a white board and a table might be a better investment than recliners.

Comment Re:Seems fair to me (Score 5, Interesting) 39

Because I think it's perfectly fair to copyright the elements described

Well, what you think is wrong.

You can't copyright a game's mechanics. The game is played on a 5x6 grid. A grid is not copyrightable.

"Green" for correct and "Yellow" for almost correct is universal.

Lists of available letters in word games are very common. Arranged in Qwerty you say? I'm sure we can find more than one game who did it first.

If the original authors did it, it would have been equally stupid. But they weren't that stupid.

Comment Re:Some real geniuses leading Exxon. (Score 1) 110

Will probably hit 10 billion in a century and with less global poverty than today. Spare us the histrionics.

You are completely wrong.

Civilization will almost certainly be set back to the dark ages or worse by within a few decades by a global nuclear war, which will be caused by social upheavals brought on by climate change, resource depletion and environmental degradation.

FFS, we can barely avoid such a war right now with all the dick-waving dictators proliferating around the world. Just what do you think is going to happen once the stress levels get cranked up by an order of magnitude?

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