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Comment Re:Good! It's not a religion (Score 1) 321

"Good! Now maybe people will begin to see the others as stupid too!"

The odds are stacked against you - about 47% of the human population lacks a paracingulate sulcus, the brain structure most responsible for differentiating reality from imagined reality (as a consequence of memory processing). Somewhere over 90% of schizophrenics lack this structure, which lends credence to the theory of an evolution of consciousness and a natural origin of religions.

There appears to be a moderate evolutionary advantage to having the sulcus - we'd expect the presence of one to be lower in antiquity, but if we figure a halving in 10,000 years, you're going to be waiting a long time until it's a tiny minority.

Comment Re:A.k.a shell scripts (Score 1) 268

You scoundrel! You can do pipes in Perl! Tsk, tsk, tsk!

it's not too bad if you don't care about getting the result back. I recently implemented an actual pipe-based system in perl where the results did need to be bidirectional, with open3, and ... well, it ain't pretty.

It's a real shame perl doesn't have the capability integrated into the core language with nice syntactic sugar.

Comment Re:How is this new? (Score 1) 143

Murdock is a reliable corporatist, so he's considered mostly-harmless. I've been following @pierre for a while on Twitter - he's really pissed about the NSA scandal and has the money to draw attention to his concerns.

That's why we're seeing toady stories today bemoaning Rosebud - his reputation needs to be damaged in the court of public opinion, so that the real people who control the press can go about their business.

Comment Re:for most retired people, up-to-date Chrome (no (Score 1) 154

Puppy Linux BTW works very well for many old machines because it's so easy to configure and install. Boot a live CD or USB key, and you can install to hard disk or make more USB keys or live CDs, or remaster with included tools. Runs fine from USB and doesn't require a hard disk. It's available in Chrome and Firefox flavors, and Slacko is based on Slackware so what's not to like?

Comment Re:Improvement (Score 1) 232

What good did handing $1T to bankers in "bailouts" do us?

But as a nation we seem incapable of spending on infrastructure these days. I think we've passed our peak.

Those aren't unrelated statements; the very best reason for fusion not happening is that the value of the USD depends mostly on the amount of oil that is being bought and sold and priced in USD. That's why Hussein's decision to switch to pricing oil in Euros was unforgivable.

The recent wars of the USG are most clearly sensible when viewed through the interests of the central bank and its owners.

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