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  1. Re:That's what happens on SpaceX To Shift Starship Work From California To Texas · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's interesting that really stupid people continue to talk about California as if it was run by republicans. California kicked most of it's state republicans to the curb some odd years ago, and got the state back on track. I realize you might have missed that if the only echo chamber you hear is fauxnews, but it's reality.

    Here's an old posting, with pictures to help you out because you don't seem to be able to read... or at least, haven't bothered to read in the past 6-8 years. https://www.businessinsider.co...

    On the other hand, if you want to see truly fucked up... check out Kansas. https://www.latimes.com/opinio... Republicans there have fucked that state up so badly they can't even afford to keep schools open, and that's even with Kansas leeching money off blue states, you know, like California. California has to have a higher tax because of all the leeching red states that suck money from everyone just so they can have some borrowed (or stolen) boot straps to pull on.

    As for that mass exodus from California.... a few interesting numbers: 2017 - 130,000 more left the state for other states, 220,000 more births than deaths, and 185,000 people moved to the state from outside the country.... for a total of an additional 275,000 more people for the year. People without college degrees were more likely to move out of state, while the state added 9,000 more people with graduate degrees than left. So, they gained over twice the number that moved out of state, and increased the education average in doing so. Sounds like a win-win, because stupid doesn't solve problems.

    Right now you really should be concerned a lot more with Kansas being totally fucked over than California, then maybe move on to most of the other red states who routinely come in on the really piss poor side of pretty much every bad demographic there is.

  2. Re:And they are going away on Saturn Put A Ring On It Relatively Recently, Study Says (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Well, we live in our perspective. There's nothing wrong with, and in fact it should be a moral imperative, for us to leave the world a better place than it is now... including resources left in their natural state. My point is, 50-100million years may seem like an incredibly long time in our perspective, but in the scope of the universe, it's not really much of anything. While that may seem nihilistic to put our species in that view, it's also realistic.... and not something we have a choice in.

  3. Re:God continuously invents science. on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Scientists Constantly Surprised By What They Discover? · · Score: 0

    No.

    There has never been, ever, a single solitary piece of evidence that god/a god/multiple gods exist, period. Most people who "do not believe in god" see the reality of that statement, while those who "believe in god" typically have no understanding of what the word "evidence" even means, and they try making up all sorts of shit to try to prove their fantasy/delusion is real. Those who do not believe do not feel the need to live in a delusional state, or make incredibly stupid arguments... like you've done with your post here. I get it, though... i'm sure some people find great comfort in living in a completely static, never changing fantasy land of their own making where they don't actually have to deal with the messy uncertainty of reality.... but it's still just a bullshit fantasy/delusion, and you ignore reality at your own peril because reality doesn't give a fuck what you think.

  4. Re: "information and disinformation look the same" on Mark Zuckerberg's Mentor 'Shocked and Disappointed' -- But He Has a Plan (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, overpopulation isn't actually the problem... it's overconsumption of the worst/most damaging possible choice (available). Part of that is technology... the technology to use better (less damaging) sources of energy is barely out of infancy, and it threatens those already in power with a paradigm shift away from them. The greater the amount of green energy we use, the better off we are... and yes, at a certain point we'll cross the hump where what fossil fuels we use (while continuing to drop) will not cause the amount of damage it's causing now (because it will become a smaller and smaller percentage of overall use), eventually going the way of the horse and buggy. Whether that happens fast or slow depends on technological advancement, and the choice will determine how serious the damage we've already done is to be.

  5. with no one grandfathered in on Mark Zuckerberg's Mentor 'Shocked and Disappointed' -- But He Has a Plan (time.com) · · Score: 2

    No one should be able to use a user's data in any way without explicit, prior consent.

    I agree wholeheartedly, and i think it should be all consumer databases, including Acxiom, Equifax, Experian, Epsilon, CoreLogic, Datalogix, inome, PeekYou, Nielsen, Exactis, Recorded Future, and every single one out there, as well as every single mailing list used by magazines, catalogs, credit card companies, banks.... everything.

    The current hype is about how horrible Facebook, Google or Amazon is... and yes, they're bad... but this shit has been going on for decades. All of it needs to be a require an explicit opt-in (revocable at any time), with fines so significant it will bankrupt a business if they disregard getting an opt-in from people.... and none of this automatic opt-in bullshit because you buy a product from them or use their website.

  6. The 5th Dimension is responsible for the Age of Aquarius. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  7. Bullshit Bullshit Bullshit. Nothing that comes from that cult is worth the time to piss on.

  8. Hopefully we can get those 5g robot doctors to work better by then.

  9. Re:We know everything about space & physics on Have Aliens Found Us? A Harvard Astronomer on the Mysterious Interstellar Object 'Oumuamua (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    Still saying: switch to decaffeinated. Also probably should say: read what people post, not what the voices inside your head are telling you the person posted.

  10. Re:Anonymous Just Uploaded An "Expose" As Well on Have Aliens Found Us? A Harvard Astronomer on the Mysterious Interstellar Object 'Oumuamua (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm going to suggest you switch to decaffeinated. it will help. Your posts make you out to be a ranting conspiracy theory nutcase, and what you posted originally doesn't help your case.

    Every site, building, blade of grass on the planet is aligned perfectly with something in the sky....doesn't mean shit other than 2 points always line up. If these "repeating radios signals" were aimed at Göbeklitepe (and only Göbeklitepe), then Göbeklitepe would be the only place they could be discovered. Tell me again how many radio telescopes are at the archeological dig at Göbeklitepe? Zero? Got it.

  11. Re:And they are going away on Saturn Put A Ring On It Relatively Recently, Study Says (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    The universe works on slightly longer time frames than "the human lifespan." One more sign we ain't really much to do about nothing, except in our own, petty, perspective.

  12. Re:you mean "illegally make his staff work unpaid" on Ajit Pai Gives Carriers Free Pass on Privacy Violations During FCC Shutdown (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1
  13. https://electrek.co/2018/09/24... or it could be like this.

  14. General Brewster is all over this.

  15. Well, no. It's a play off the old saying "beware of Greeks bearing gifts;" beware of the Greeks giving the gift. Restated to other way (which i used as a play on the original), "beware of gifts bearing Greeks" means to beware of a gift that has Greeks inside... like the trojan horse, which is what the original saying was founded on. In that instance, they were both good advice. So while we have to beware of sales reps giving gifts, we also have to beware of gifts concealing sales reps.... although they don't usually sack the city (usually).

    Next we'll go into the differences between "retreating" and "advancing in a different direction."

  16. Shouldn't that saying actually be: Beware of gifts bearing Sales Reps.

  17. At least Bungie didn't make the third classic blunder, the first getting involved in a land war in Asia, the second being crossing a Sicilian in matters of death, both of which are only slightly more well known than: never get into bed with Sony Online Entertainment to publish your game. It's one thing to get Munson'd, it's another level entirely to get Sony'd. Admittedly though, Activision isn't all that much better....

  18. It seems that,once again,someone who has no clue about what net neutrality is has gotten an intentionally misleading, or completely ignorant, post to make it to the front page. Honestly, which is it... is the original poster stupid or just a malcontent liar?

  19. Re:There is no cure for cancer = the cause on $1.4 Million Raised on GoFundMe For 'Garbage' Homeopathy Cancer Treatment Scams (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not even preventative for gout, although it can help relieve the symptoms a little (not immediately like a good does of drugs though) if your gout is brought on by dehydration. Gout is usually caused by eating too many things with high purine content... like red meat, or alcohol (the yeast), and especially gravies. If you're borderline with gout and increase your consumption of those things, you'll have an attack. Becoming dehydrated will also do it if you're borderline, but because it decreases plasma volume allowing more uric acid crystals to form. Citrus juice doesn't help, only modifying your diet to eliminate some of the purines does (or drugs, although that only masks the symptoms, does nothing for the pathology).

    As for kidney stones, i put the lemon juice cure down as an old wives tale, just like cranberry juice. The only real thing (for symptoms) that helps is a good dose of sister morphine... or... several good doses. A buildup of kidney stones is either a round or two of ultrasound to break them up (and a LOT of pain passing them), or even surgery (depending on the size).

  20. Re:Easier way to handle this... on Washington Could Become the First State To Compost the Dead (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Jimmy's probably buried somewhere in a foundation pour.

  21. Re:Easier way to handle this... on Washington Could Become the First State To Compost the Dead (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    But I expect the lawsuits wrapped around the first case where the family can't agree on method of disposal will make this a very unpopular option....

    That is why people need a will, and to ensure their executor know's what they want done (again, writing it down helps a lot). Washington's estate planning is pretty easy, but writing things down almost always helps (a few things can't be doen simply, but even then, probate in Washington is typically easy).

  22. Fucking over US citizens every chance they get.

  23. Re:I've heard this before on Scientists Drill Into 3,500 Feet of Ice To Reach a Mysterious Antarctic Lake (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends on their budget... now we have to worry about finding Godzilla too. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3...

    ....or should that be "again... and again.... and again?"