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  1. Re:Yeah, um, not so much on Study Finds 3 Laws Could Reduce Firearm Deaths By 90% (meta.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you read the history of the U.S.? George III didn't seem very interested in American independence until the Continental Army insisted. What would be your alternative suggestion, a blistering taunting?

    Perhaps if we would give the "crazies" access to mental health care, we wouldn't have to worry so much about them getting a gun.

  2. Re:The real solution on Windows 10 Upgrade Reportedly Starting Automatically On Windows 7 PCs (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    The AC has a point. You can stick your data on a share to the Linux box and then roll back the Windows VM in an instant.

  3. The real solution on Windows 10 Upgrade Reportedly Starting Automatically On Windows 7 PCs (softpedia.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I see a bunch of advice about how to jump through multiple flaming hoops to stay with Windows 7. Each works for a while and then MS sends out a new load of malware to again corrupt your PC. So here's the question:

    WHY THE HELL ARE YOU NOT MIGRATING TO SOMETHING ELSE??!!!?

    Just leave him. The abuse will not stop!

  4. Re:So, uh, LEAVE on Some Root For a Tech Comeuppance In San Francisco · · Score: 1

    Nah, it'll just die. Nobody will return to a burnt out hellhole.

    If they take appropriate steps to keep the city livable for vital unsung support people they might avert the problem, but the answer isn't to slap together a bunch of shoddy "luxury" apartments. If they go that route, people will just leave and so will the tourists. They can see shoddy high rise apartments in their own city.

    The proper answer would be for wages and prices to go up in proportion, but it seems no matter how rich the area, employers would rather die than pay over minimum wage. They won't die, but their businesses will soon enough if they continue on the current path.

  5. Re:"The Outside" on Some Root For a Tech Comeuppance In San Francisco · · Score: 1

    So, you put in a nice new couch, thus making your living room attractive. You have no problem if you find me sleeping on it in the morning?

    Or might you consider me an intruder and demand that I leave and never return?

  6. Re:It's simple. on Apple Might Be Forced to Hand Over iOS Source Code to the FBI (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    It's not as if the FBI has never blackmailed a president.

  7. Re:"The Outside" on Some Root For a Tech Comeuppance In San Francisco · · Score: 1

    The influx of new residents from the tech companies are the outside. The existing residents voted for the city they wanted to live in. Many would vote to evict the newcomers if they could so things can get back to normal for them.

  8. People tend to talk much louder on the cellphone than they would in person. They also tend to forget that they're in public. I do NOT want to hear all about your crotch rot at 120 decibels.

  9. A long time ago when the FCC started taking jamming seriously, jamming meant cranking out a few kilowatts to jam a region larger than you could see across.

  10. People seem to naturally talk much louder on a cellphone than they would face to face.

  11. If he did what he is accused of then he is guilty of disturbing the peace.

    Irony at it's finest!

  12. I'm fine with people talking. It's just that when people talk on cell phones, they try to drown out the imaginary fighter jet at full military power parked next to them.

  13. Or he just happened to notice that nobody in the one car he silenced (the one he was in) was screaming OMG call 911, he's having a heart attack!!!

  14. He's referring to the new revised Fundamentalist Bible. They just ignore the parts they don't like.

  15. Re:The real problem on Some Root For a Tech Comeuppance In San Francisco · · Score: 1

    More likely the whole place will burn down because the last fireman had to move or be homeless.

  16. Re:They are deciding what the city is like on Some Root For a Tech Comeuppance In San Francisco · · Score: 1

    No, the choice was imposed from outside. Quite a few would be perfectly fine with the influx of highly paid people would turn the hell around and leave.

  17. Re:The real problem on Some Root For a Tech Comeuppance In San Francisco · · Score: 1

    That's what the 'Franciscans hope for as well. They don't want to live in a character free zone where people slap overpriced high rise apartments up.every few days. Perhaps it is time to give them what they want, they were there first. Their economy was OK before and it can be OK again. Right now, it is in the tank. This is the classic Wall Street vs. Main Street economy.

  18. Re:So, uh, LEAVE on Some Root For a Tech Comeuppance In San Francisco · · Score: 1

    It's amazing how much money supposedly practical and profit minded companies are willing to blow on vanity.

  19. Re:So, uh, LEAVE on Some Root For a Tech Comeuppance In San Francisco · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's going to be really funny when the well paid techies discover there are no schools, no police, and no fire department because nobody doing those jobs could afford to live anywhere near there. Perhaps it will take the next great fire to convince people that the current plan is a total loss.

  20. Re:Ownership vs. Renting on Some Root For a Tech Comeuppance In San Francisco · · Score: 1

    That's because your values differ and you're cool with forcing your values on others. Are you also a fan of sharia law?

  21. Re:Ownership vs. Renting on Some Root For a Tech Comeuppance In San Francisco · · Score: 1

    I DO have sympathy for those who wanted the house as a place to live. They aren't investors who put the money in hoping for a huge return, they just wanted to actually live somewhere and not feel like part of a Gypsy caravan.

    The money makes a nice consolation prize for those people, but it's just that, a consolation prize, not a win.

  22. Re:Ownership vs. Renting on Some Root For a Tech Comeuppance In San Francisco · · Score: 1

    Even owning your home might not help if the property taxes shoot up. If you can sell, you do get a nice consolation prize, but you still enede up pushed out.

  23. Re:I shoveled a fuckton of snow. on This Was America's Warmest Winter On Record (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    So you're saying their success so far predicting what the climate would do is evidence that they're wrong?

  24. I suppose 32,000 is a lot more impressive than 176 received a significant dose and 1 a concerning dose.

  25. Re: Have they thought this through? on NRC Engineers Urge Shutdown of Nuclear Plants If Design Flaw Not Fixed (utilitydive.com) · · Score: 1

    It will increase the draw by 50% on each running phase unless the motor stalls. It can be bad if the motor is at the edge of it's capability when the phase drops out, but remember, these motors drive cooling pumps for a nuclear reactor, so they are larger than necessary to start with. If the reactor is scramed, they won't need to be anywhere near full capacity to keep things going.

    This already happened in 2012 and it wasn't even news worthy.