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  1. Re:Judgement on What's In a Tool? a Case For Made In the USA (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    or is there something about the dremel that makes it 2.5 times better?

    According to the commercials, you can invite the girls home to see your dremel and end up getting laid. Try that with a Ozito.

  2. Re:Helium3? on China Targets 2018 For Landing Probe On Far Side of Moon (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    How do these rumours get started? I thought everyone knew the Nazi's only used D+T fusion, which was why they stuck to the far side of the Moon, didn't want to be detected by the neutron emissions. Luckily they never knew about neutrinos which is how they were tracked down.

  3. Re:Touchy Feely Bullshit on What's In a Tool? a Case For Made In the USA (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    The quality of Canadian Tire's Mastercraft brand is not too bad, better then recent Craftsman, and comes with a lifetime guarantee. Have some pretty good sales and gives you Canadian Tire money, which the local bar accepts at par. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  4. Re:Africans are not less smart on Katherine Johnson: NASA's Pioneering Female Physicist (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    Actually work such as Goddards was mostly used for anti-immigration justification. The IQ tests heavily revolved around American culture with questions like who won the World Series in 19xx.
    Throw some culture questions into an IQ test and you're going to select for that culture being smarter.
     

  5. Re: Another victory for corporate corruption on TPP Signing Ceremony To Take Place In February (freezenet.ca) · · Score: 1

    You made the claim that the American Military would have sympathy for an armed rebellion against tyranny and I stated that an armed rebellion would be spun as a socialist revolution which the military wouldn't support then you gave a couple of examples of commanders in the army that joined wars of separation for their own tyrannical ends (Washington to continue to steal land from the savages and Lee to have the same right as Grant to own slaves).
    Really it comes down to who has the best propagandists and the American establishment has been practicing since they spun King Georges declaration that everyone is equal to a statement of tyranny when he had little more power then the current Queen with Parliament being Supreme (since the mostly peaceful Glorious Revolution of 1688) and passing the laws that were tyrannical.

  6. Re:Helium3? on China Targets 2018 For Landing Probe On Far Side of Moon (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd suggest that you actually read up on Helium 3, much harder to fuse then H2+H3 but cleaner, and very sparsely spread on the lunar surface, easy to make on Earth as Tritium decays into He3.
    As it is deposited on the Moon by the Solar wind, probably same concentration on the far side as the near side.

  7. Re:obviously... on Distant Supernova Is the Most Powerful Ever Detected (osu.edu) · · Score: 1

    Only true for large stars. The Sun for example will not explode but rather end up as a white dwarf slowly cooling down until eventually it is dark.

  8. Re:Easier Idea on Anti-Terrorism Hypothetical: Bulk Scanning of Hosted Files? (justsecurity.org) · · Score: 1

    "Just a thought"? You didn't put any thought into that. If you knew THE FIRST DAMN THING about ISIS, al Qaida, and all the rest you would know that their ultimate goal is to control the world. That means every country, all the people. That includes where you live now!!

    So not much different then the Americans currently, with lots of previous contenders. The big difference is capability, the Americans have a good PR team and can act nice and can show up with an aircraft carrier and suggest signing this treaty, or better just threaten to isolate you. But as their vendetta against Saddam showed, they're willing to kill 100,000ths or more innocents to gain control.

  9. Re:What else is searched for on Anti-Terrorism Hypothetical: Bulk Scanning of Hosted Files? (justsecurity.org) · · Score: 1

    Well Christians have affected my life the most, including my Mother-in-law being a victim of the residential schools and my wife being part of the great snatch. The news is full of Muslims, another off-shoot from the Old Testament who worship Christ, doing evil things though I have to admit the worst terrorist I've ever personally met was a Sikh, another warrior religion.

  10. Re:What else is searched for on Anti-Terrorism Hypothetical: Bulk Scanning of Hosted Files? (justsecurity.org) · · Score: 1

    Sorry for the lack of citations, this 26.4 dial-up connection makes it hard to load the average 2MB web page. Googling "residential school" or "truth and reconciliation commission" will give a lot of citations.
    As for what the New Testament actually says, it doesn't matter as most Christians use a book called the Bible which includes the Old Testament and they have no problem citing passages from that part of the Bible to justify their actions. And lets be honest, the Old Testament is about a crazy fucked up sadistic God who demanded that his chosen people do all kinds of evil things and every religion based on the Old Testament seems to be full of crazies who love fighting amongst each other about who has the correct interpretation. Not that the other major religions are better, seems to be a survival of the craziest sects thing. Truly peaceful religions get wiped out.

  11. Re:What else is searched for on Anti-Terrorism Hypothetical: Bulk Scanning of Hosted Files? (justsecurity.org) · · Score: 1

    The residential schools were shut down in the 1990's here in Canada. Ran by Christians, they practiced torture, often just for fun, sexual molestation, medical experiments and all kinds of horrible stuff,as related by living witnesses. You were safer being sent to the western front in WWI and WWII then letting the Christians get hold of you.
    That's Christians practicing their evil agenda of converting or killing savages (and being sadistic tyrants) as recently as 25 years ago in a first world country.
    Then there are the horrible stories that come out of Africa.

  12. Not supporting new features is fine. Actually refusing to boot is not fine. I have an OS/2 computer here, it'll boot on the newest processors with a bit of work in the BIOS including turning on the BIOS emulation. Some features don't work, need to turn of hyper-threading and it won't throttle down as much as it could but it'll boot and run fast making use of all the real cores, video in VESA mode, HDs are limited to 2TB and need an old fashioned MBR and such but it boots and runs.
    Eventually the BIOS emulation will go away and it won't boot anymore, but hopefully that is a decision of the Motherboard manufacturer, not the CPU manufacturer.

  13. Re:Say What?! on Help Is On the Way In the War Against Noisy Leaf Blowers · · Score: 1

    My leaf blower is a 4 stroke, same with my weedeater and lawnmower. Quieter then the 2 strokes and just as powerful or close enough. Just have to adjust the valves every hundred hours.

  14. Re:FWP on Help Is On the Way In the War Against Noisy Leaf Blowers · · Score: 1

    While mulching is the best, there are limits. Some leaves such as Horse Chestnut don't seem to mulch and the Maple leaves can be deeper then the lawnmower.
    I did recently get a pamphlet mailed to me by Stihl, who sell leaf blowers but not mulching mowers, going on about the benefits of mulching.

  15. Re:FWP on Help Is On the Way In the War Against Noisy Leaf Blowers · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure that is already illegal to dump your leaves on your neighbours lawn or the street where it will plug the drains.
    Myself, use the blower, which is 4cycle, to blow the leaves into a pile for bagging and taking to the municipal dump where they have an industrial composting setup.
    Worst for noise are the Harleys, one local ATV that sounds like it has no muffler, and last night some idiot chainsawing in the dark.

  16. Re: Another victory for corporate corruption on TPP Signing Ceremony To Take Place In February (freezenet.ca) · · Score: 1

    They were separatists. Washington never planned on marching on London and Lee marched on Washington after being attacked by the north.

  17. Re:"Social Justice" prevents good journalism. on Explaining the Lack of Quality Journalism In the Internet Age (gawker.com) · · Score: 1

    Funny thing is the only place I've ever heard about gamergate is here (and on a couple of links I followed from here in attempting to understand what it was), and I still don't know what the fuck it was about.
    I keep hearing this social justice shit from people here who seem butthurt that they ain't getting any social justice and it just seems like a lot of sad people blaming each other for their shortcomings.

  18. Re: Another victory for corporate corruption on TPP Signing Ceremony To Take Place In February (freezenet.ca) · · Score: 1

    Neither was really a rebellion. Rather wars of separation. Washington and Lee were both defending their homes from distant governments with Washington being happy to stop fighting after 13 of the colonies got their independence and Lee would likely have happily stopped fighting if a treaty giving the Confederates everything south of the Mason Dixon line had been offered.
    I guess a lot would depend on who had the best propagandists, with the American current establishment having very good ones, often made all the better as they aren't working for the government.

  19. Re:they are right! on World Bank Says Internet Technology May Widen Inequality (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    For now. How would things be in eg America if the government had to balance its budget? Probably be done through extreme austerity and all those Walmart workers would suddenly have a hell of a time making ends meet without government help.

  20. Re:why so hung up about arch? on Zero-Day Vulnerability Discovered In FFmpeg Lets Attackers Steal Files Remotely · · Score: 1

    While Michael did resign as official leader, he is still very involved and seems to be defacto leader.
    Watching the split was like watching a couple where you're friends with both going through a messy breakup. You can see both sides but don't want to take sides as they both have a point. In FFmpeg vs libav, it was mostly a conflict about the workflow. It was kind of disgusting how the (future) libav developers handled things, namely trying to hijack FFmpeg during the move to git.

  21. Re:Enablers always widen inequality on World Bank Says Internet Technology May Widen Inequality (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    So the guy working three jobs to pay his bills is lazy and the guy spending a couple of hours on the phone to his stockbroker and his pet politicians is productive?

  22. Re:Very wide impact. on Zero-Day Vulnerability Discovered In FFmpeg Lets Attackers Steal Files Remotely · · Score: 1

    https://lists.libav.org/piperm... points to some worries.

  23. Re:why so hung up about arch? on Zero-Day Vulnerability Discovered In FFmpeg Lets Attackers Steal Files Remotely · · Score: 1

    Libav seems to be reacting to this as well with a quick fix to blacklist HTTP in HLS. Whether the same vulnerability or a different one I don't know.
    https://lists.libav.org/piperm...

  24. Re:we've BEEN going to Mars! on NASA Safety Panel Finds Concerns With the Journey To Mars (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course your astronaut isn't going to do much after breaking his foot trying to kick a 1000kg robot

  25. Re:we need a public utility on Are Phone Numbers Doomed To Die? (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I have to pay the phone company an extra $40 a month for email capability on top of the $20 a month for the phone line.
    Costs 15 cents to send a message on my cell phone though I could pay $40 a month for unlimited messaging.
    For $5 + the $20 a month to the phone company I have unlimited calling anywhere in N. America, and that's without shopping around.