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  1. Re:What about that crystal disk from some time ago on Wikipedia May Get Delivered To The Moon (wikimedia.org) · · Score: 1
  2. Re:What about that crystal disk from some time ago on Wikipedia May Get Delivered To The Moon (wikimedia.org) · · Score: 1
  3. NOT A DRONE AT ALL on Jet Strikes Drone Near Heathrow Airport (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    in reality it was suspected to be a plastic carrier bag used for shopping!
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
    http://www.standard.co.uk/news...
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
    http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/new...
    this was VERY widely reported yesterday as not a drone strike at all but most probably a plastic shopping bag.. yet here it is still being reported here as if it were a drone strike... get a grip and keep up!

  4. Re:we're all scientists on Sarah Palin Says 'Bill Nye Is As Much A Scientist As I Am' (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    There's a litany. I have no opinion on climate change, except my belief that everyone should stop arguing with each other and fucking do something about it, or STFU.
    I don't know who Carl Sagan(1) is, or Mann(?) and have no agenda here -
    except that people without a field of study, or a PhD, or demonstrable knowledge and use of the scientific method should not be called scientists(2).
    Bill Nye is not, nor has even been a scientist, a reputable source of anything, or more than an entertainer and actor.

    wow.. where to start...
    (1) seriously.. how the hell can you never have heard of such a legendary guy who was and still is held in high regard worldwide??
    (2) i suppose there is no science involved at all in Mechanical and aerospace engineering.. nopes.. not at all...

    seriously weak sauce pal.. and again.. wow.. imagine not hearing about a guy that was at the forefront of cosmology for decades and very very very publicly so with regards to his ground breaking series "The Cosmos", SETI and a vast array of highly public and publicised stuff....

  5. Re:Wireless spectrum is not infinite on The Battle Between LTE and Wi-Fi May Have Left LTE-U Out In the Cold (networkworld.com) · · Score: 0

    *IF* it were to give cell phones more bandwidth.

    we already have enough that the caps are artificial.

    This will work to kill the competition to the mobile data plan.

    Hope to use wifi at home or at a cafe? too bad, the 0.5kW transmitter in every corner "for more cell phone bandwidth" is poluting the 2.4 and 5Ghz to the point you can't connect to any wifi network.

    because telcos will surely get an exception to transmit on 2.5 and 5Ghz with a lot more power than consumer devices, because, you know, they will have to "serve well thousands of consumers" so they can have "more bandwidth". ...nobody mention that with the current bandwidth you already can blow your monthly cap in half a day using 4G.

    0.5kW??? really? I think not
    A few facts:

    For HSPA (Ericsson) towers transmit at a maximum of 60 watts (80 watt radios coming soon), phones only are capable of transmitting at +23 dbm (250 mW).

    GSM phones can go up to 2 watts in the lower 900 MHz bands, 1 watt in the higher 1800 MHz bands.

    For LTE, we use something called MIMO which involves two radios each transmitting at 40 Watts.

    Keep in mind each user is only getting a very small fraction of this power allocated to them.

    A cellular antenna, (65 degrees beamwidth, dual-band crosspole type) has a gain of approximately 15-17 dbI, whereas your cellphone antenna has a gain of approximatly zero as it is an omni for all intents and purposes.
    You see unlike mobile phones the towers have rather good antennae ,top notch amplifiers, lovely filters and all sorts and wioth those positions commandeering the higher ground.. they work rather well on a rather low wattage and that's how they are designed. so 0.5kW is blatant nonsense......revise your figures

  6. where are all the Nibiru cranks? on Scientist Claims There's Even More Evidence of Planet Nine's Existence (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I have been laughing my ass off at the thought of these morons whop are such big fans of that TOTAKL CRACKPOT and bullshitter ,Zacharia Sitchin.
    And that other bullshitting crackpot Erik Von Danniken and his wee fanyboy asshole, Giorgio A. Tsoukalos - the idiot you see on Ancient Aliens (and I mean that he was/is the chief of Dannikens fan club and is now somehow an expert???).. BUT the hilarious thing is this.....
    Michael Heiser , an actual Mesopotamian language scholar says to debunk Sitchin and co
    and the whole thesis debunked by Chris White https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and http://ancientaliensdebunked.c... and http://www.sitchiniswrong.com/
    Using this you can have a shed load of fun with these morons!

  7. Re:Uh, just pay extra on Millionaires: Raise Our Taxes To Address Poverty, Fix Roads (go.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    > Really? tell that to Sweden, Norway,Denmark and Finland..

    Not terribly innovative.

    If I had to depend upon them for my health, I would be DEAD.

    "happiness" and "standard of living" are things that get reduced to meaningless statistics spun to support whatever agenda is on tap.

    They fail to capture the things like lack of central heating and high electricity costs that drive people to use pellet driven space heaters that would make American trailer trash chuckle.

    The stuff in bold is to highlight what absolutely serious bullshit you just uttered.
    https://healthmanagement.org/c...
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    They have a better health care which is paid through taxes. now while private healthcare is also available , which gives choice, the state healthcare there is top notch and for you to suggest otherwise is either blatant ignorance or wilful ignorance or.. just disingenuous.
    BTW you do realise that they have central heating in abundance.. oh and electricity is CHEAPER in Sweden, for example, than the USA
    Basic (Electricity, Heating, Water, Garbage) for 85m2 Apartment 148.31 $ (1,221.12 kr)(USA) 86.48 $(712.04 kr) (SWE) -41.69 %
    -41.69% cheaper....
    so how are you trailer trash chuckling now at paying nearly 42% more than those pesky Scandinavians?
    If you are going to make a statement about something , make sure your argument cannot be humped with very very very very little effort ....

  8. Re:Uh, just pay extra on Millionaires: Raise Our Taxes To Address Poverty, Fix Roads (go.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    high taxes on income reduce or remove the incentive to produce and innovate. The country as a whole loses with high taxes, and that affects everyone. The longer the time ovre which this phenomenon is examined, the more obvious it is.

    Really? tell that to Sweden, Norway,Denmark and Finland.. High wages, high taxes, higher standard of life and much happier nations :-)

  9. Re:Angry PC Users? on Microsoft Losing Ground On Windows Store and UWP For Gaming · · Score: 1

    Any game from Microsoft is worth skipping anyway.

    Nah.. Freelancer was pretty damned good and had and still has a modding community.

  10. Re:Whats that old saying on How Ugandans Overturned an Election-Day Blackout of Social Media Apps (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Anyone remember who first said "The Internet interprets censorship as a fault and routes around it" or something to that effect? This is a perfect example.

    John Gilmore bud

  11. Re:could it be on Why Are Apple's Competitors Staying Silent On the iPhone Unlocking Fight? · · Score: 1

    Because they don't make iPhones, you dumb fuck.

    WHOOSH!

  12. Re:Never seen so many allergies in people on Our Hidden Neanderthal DNA May Increase Risk of Allergies, Depression (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    nope ,Scotland

  13. Re:Never seen so many allergies in people on Our Hidden Neanderthal DNA May Increase Risk of Allergies, Depression (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    It's more than that. It's not just food hysteria, there are people who do get incredibly sick from certain foods. Peanut allergies, anyone? These people don't imagine swelling up and clogging their wind pipes.

    Until recently, this kind of sickness was unheard of in Europe. There was no such thing as a peanut allergy. Now we got that, too.

    We get sicker and sicker. And I wonder why. What is it that lets our bodies go apeshit over food?

    My cousin and his father(uncle via marriage) both have severe(anaphylactic) peanut allergies. the son was born in 1968. the father in the 40's.
    I was born in the 70's and i have a severe(anaphylactic) reaction to sheep meat. My mother severe reaction to strawberries... i know plenty of other people with them too, all from my age range but also older and younger.

  14. The Act of the Union 1707 Disagrees with you ;)

  15. yeah I remember a few choice characters getting the "not Proven " verdict.. it's a case of "we know you did it but we can't prove it" as I have been told.

  16. Re:British Airspace on Journalist Claims Secret US Flight 'To Capture Snowden' Overflew Scottish Airspace (thenational.scot) · · Score: 3, Informative

    "Scotland is a country"

    Scotland hasn't been a country since 1707. Its a region of the UK. The fact that a lot of scots want to believe its still a country doesn't change the reality of the situation.

    Then you don't klnow much bud. Scotland is a country in it's own right and even has a separate and distinct legal system.
    As wonkey_monkey says.. it's a country and not a sovereign state. It is one of 4 constituent countries of Great Britain.

  17. Re:Technical Features Rather Than Content on LG Announces "Super UHD" TV Lineup (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1
  18. Re:How about teaching some of the Republicans on Why President Obama Was Held Back a Year Before Starting Code School (quora.com) · · Score: 1

    what the internet actually is

    Ah I doff my hat to you Sir!
    yeah teach them they can't turn off the inter...[connection dropped]

  19. Re:Gets worse near the end of the article on The Story of the CEO Paying Everyone $70k Gets Complicated · · Score: 1

    wow.. you're still posting on this? and still can't extract the info you seek from what i posted.. LOL
    now that's being deliberately obtuse!
    however I do have this to say son..
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  20. Re:Gets worse near the end of the article on The Story of the CEO Paying Everyone $70k Gets Complicated · · Score: 1

    wow.. you still bumping your gums? I refer you to my previous statements... I have better shit to do!

  21. Re:Gets worse near the end of the article on The Story of the CEO Paying Everyone $70k Gets Complicated · · Score: 1

    you're boring me now.
    caps are for "EMPHASIS"...
    I have given you all the answers you are going to get.. I aready said about a thing he could have done.. read my replies.
    In the meantime, I have a flight to catch. bye bye!

  22. Re:Gets worse near the end of the article on The Story of the CEO Paying Everyone $70k Gets Complicated · · Score: 1

    because you are being a blatant pedant for no real reason really except being a DICK.. SOMEONE SAID SOMETHING FOR A LAUGH that had an element of truth.. As he was the finance minister upon whose watch it went tits up... and this after years of Greece being a country that landed itself in the deep DEEEEP shit paying for an olympics it could not afford.
    this had a knock on effect twinned with even more fucking horrible attempts at financial management.
    however.. as i said.. it was a humorous comment that has REALLY GOT YOU BUTT HURT.. and I don't really care pal :)

  23. Re:Gets worse near the end of the article on The Story of the CEO Paying Everyone $70k Gets Complicated · · Score: 2

    now you are blatantly being a total PENIS. I never said one man tanked it.... read WHAT I SAID YOU PARTISAN IDIOT

  24. Re:Gets worse near the end of the article on The Story of the CEO Paying Everyone $70k Gets Complicated · · Score: 1

    um.. the country had a culture of not really being bothered about tex revenue with a laissez faire attitude about it's collection and payment.
    He was a major cog in that culture at a critical juncture and make a total assbag of the whole affair.. so yeah.. irony and plenty of it.
    you though seem really butt hurt about the way you are defending him... a touch of partisan defence there is it?

  25. Re:Gets worse near the end of the article on The Story of the CEO Paying Everyone $70k Gets Complicated · · Score: 1

    uh-huh...... i was only stating it for the obvious joy of the irony. I am well aware of the fact thast it's far more complex however why should i let that get in the way of a bit of ironic shits and giggles....?