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  1. Re:Nonsense on Apple's Tim Cook Calls Out "Religious Freedom" Laws As Discriminatory · · Score: 1

    So those no blacks signs we see in old photos are all airbrushed in?

  2. Re:And what good would it do? on Why the Final Moments Inside a Cockpit Are Heard But Not Seen · · Score: 1

    Since we didn't get any black box from MH370, I fail to see why also not getting video would have helped.

    In Silkair 185, the voice recorder was shut off. I somehow doubt the video would have fared any better.

    Perhaps what we really need is a more reliable way to get the data we already gather.

  3. Re:And what good would it do? on Why the Final Moments Inside a Cockpit Are Heard But Not Seen · · Score: 1

    Exactly why I am advocating against the video cameras.

  4. Re:Let's see on Experts: Aim of 2 Degrees Climate Goal Insufficient · · Score: 1

    The person who provided citations to back my position. You would read it if you wanted to be educated. Clearly you are quite happy being a braying ass (how ironic).

    But I have to ask, are you paid to spout drivel on /.? Surely nobody could actually believe that runoff from paved surfaces explains flooding on a clear day?!?

    Either way, it hardly matters. You have proven yourself ineducable. You have your fingers jammed in your ears all the way up to your metacarpals and you're screaming LA LA LA at the top of your lungs. probably crying tears of desperation wondering how long until you have to gouge your eyes out in order to keep believing.

    I have no more time for that crap.

  5. Re:Let's see on Experts: Aim of 2 Degrees Climate Goal Insufficient · · Score: 1

    I guess you didn't read the detailed article I gave you in the other thread?

    Of course not, it takes a lot of cool aid to erase that many facts.

  6. Re:Let's see on Experts: Aim of 2 Degrees Climate Goal Insufficient · · Score: 1

    When it is below the new sea level, naturally.

    Have a read.

    Keep standing there denying, the bubbling sound you make after a while will be really funny.

    What's the next excuse? Sunspots? Wind? The dog ate it?

    Now troll no more.

  7. Re:Let's see on Experts: Aim of 2 Degrees Climate Goal Insufficient · · Score: 2

    So tell me, how does that put a dock under water? How does it require raising the whole sewer system to keep it working? How does it just happen to synchronize with the tide?

    I can see it occasionally reversing the storm drains, of course, but some areas now have floods happen on a sunny day. It just comes up out of the ground.

    Now pull your head out of your ass, the gas is making you woozy.

  8. Re:Let's see on Experts: Aim of 2 Degrees Climate Goal Insufficient · · Score: 2

    So you believe runoff got so bad it raised the level of the ocean? WOW.

    Sounds more like you'll make yourself believe nearly anything to avoid facing the truth.

  9. Re:Complete article on Experts: Aim of 2 Degrees Climate Goal Insufficient · · Score: 1

    That looks a bit like lying with figures. Neither of the events that page pointed to were as large a deviation from average as we are seeing now.

    It's like noticing that it's 120 in the house and Dad says no worries, he can remember it being 90 a few times last year.

  10. Re:This should be the common case, though. on NSA: We Mulled Ending Phone Program Before Edward Snowden Leaks · · Score: 1

    That and they couldn't get Alexander to stop running around in his new 6 million dollar mockup of the Enterprise bridge making whooshing sounds long enough to discuss it with him.

  11. Re:Echo chamber on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Near Launching Presidential Bid · · Score: 1

    He at least held an elected office first.

  12. Re:Echo chamber on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Near Launching Presidential Bid · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Only if the alternate reality doesn't exist. She actually turned HP into a ruin of it's former self, but she also actually got a massive pile of cash for it and Lucent actually started waving money and stock offers at her before her seat was even cold. Then she actually left a smoking crater where Lucent used to be but she actually made big piles of cash doing it.

    That's the thing. She lives in an actual alternate reality where terminal fuck-ups are coveted.

    For the rest of us, no matter how many times you discharge the halon, EPO the datacenter and delete the database server and all of the backups, you won't make CEO money, so it is truly an alternate reality.

  13. Re:The Better, Longer Lasting, Cheaper Bulb on Graphene Light Bulbs Coming To Stores Soon · · Score: 1

    I didn't claim markets can't work, just that you won't find new technology with significantly better features coming out cheaper. It does eventually happen.

    All of those tablets out there are significantly more expensive even now than would be suggested by the marginal cost of production. They haven't reached the endpoint by far.The vast majority of them will be long gone before they do reach that endpoint.

  14. Re:And what good would it do? on Why the Final Moments Inside a Cockpit Are Heard But Not Seen · · Score: 1

    What would it tell us that we don't already know. Serious question.

  15. Re:And what good would it do? on Why the Final Moments Inside a Cockpit Are Heard But Not Seen · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And if we could all watch that in an endless loop on CNN, it would tell us what useful information? We already know that the co-pilot went nutzy-cuckoo and deliberately crashed the plane. We already know he took the pilot out of the picture to do it.

    So surely the answer is to amp up the psychological stress a few more notches because we all know that high stress makes people more likely to go nutzy-cuckoo and that.... HEY, perhaps we shouldn't do that.

  16. Re:The Better, Longer Lasting, Cheaper Bulb on Graphene Light Bulbs Coming To Stores Soon · · Score: 1

    Yes, for the same price, not for cheaper.

  17. Re:The Better, Longer Lasting, Cheaper Bulb on Graphene Light Bulbs Coming To Stores Soon · · Score: 1

    But it doesn't happen in one step even if the economics would support it. It starts more expensive and hopes to sell on features and performance. The price slowly drops to a new plateau as the early adopters slow down but remains more expensive. As others me too the features (assuming a patent sueball and/or collusion doesn't work), the price slowly drops.

  18. Re:The Better, Longer Lasting, Cheaper Bulb on Graphene Light Bulbs Coming To Stores Soon · · Score: 1

    Careful, the verteron flux might break down the subspace barrier.

    Trust me, you do NOT want to mess with that!

  19. Re:How much do LED bulbs cost? on Graphene Light Bulbs Coming To Stores Soon · · Score: 1

    CRI is one factor. Color temperature is another. Flicker/strobing is yet another.

    Add in dimming and some people don't like that the color temperature doesn't go down with the brightness like incandescents do. Others like that.

    So it's back to what aspect of the light was unacceptable.

  20. Re:as usual faith in humanity is gone... on Commercial Flamethrower Successfully Crowdfunded · · Score: 1

    They're extremely dangerous toys designed to get your rocks off.

    Must resist "living Darwin" comment. Aww screw it!

  21. Re:Legal on Commercial Flamethrower Successfully Crowdfunded · · Score: 1

    Well naturally. Once the owner burns the store down deterring shoplifting, nothing left to steal == no crime.

  22. Re: He's good. on Prison Inmate Emails His Own Release Instructions To the Prison · · Score: 2

    You mean it will reduce the value of everyone's debt.

  23. Re:He's good. on Prison Inmate Emails His Own Release Instructions To the Prison · · Score: 2

    Poor people can't even open a bank account anymore.

  24. Re:He's good. on Prison Inmate Emails His Own Release Instructions To the Prison · · Score: 1

    There may exist a theoretical construct that is necessary and isn't itself criminal but I am not convinced that we have an actual example of such at this time.

    Bank fraud is not a desirable thing but at the end of the day it's just crooks stealing from crooks currently.

  25. Re:Protected relationships on Modern Cockpits: Harder To Invade But Easier To Lock Up · · Score: 1

    Why does that need to be a legally protected relationship?

    Because if it's not protected, the person won't go to confession and the opportunity to talk him out of it is lost.

    For the same reason, if the state will not honor the sanctity of confession (or other pastoral relationships) it puts itself in a position of banning religious practices. It just doesn't look much like freedom of religion if they keep hauling clergy off to jail when they behave as their religion insists that they must.

    Note that mandatory reporting for doctors is not without controversy and is not frequently enforced. There are also laws that go the other way. For example, some states have laws providing amnesty from various drug and underage drinking laws if it is discovered in relation to calling 911 for a medical emergency.