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  1. Re:Venutians vs Martians on First Human Colonies Should Be Among Venus' Clouds · · Score: 1

    If some guy is born one day with red eyes that let him see through the clouds and hair all over his face that protects him from the things in the atmosphere then that's going to be for nothing if no woman wants to have his kids.

    If everyone else has massive facial tumours he might not do so badly.

  2. Re:Knock it off on First Human Colonies Should Be Among Venus' Clouds · · Score: 1

    I think there's a fair overlap, I see quite a few comments on here of the "why bother fixing global warming we can't afford it and soon we'll all be living on Mars" type. I really can't understand the level of cognitive dissonance this suggests.

  3. Re:No on Windows 10 Shares Your Wi-Fi Password With Contacts · · Score: 1

    MAC address filtering is common on wired networks, on wireless you generally trust the client to look after their credentials that way you don't have to worry about maintaining a potentially huge list of every user's devices. I don't know if this would share radius credentials, if it does someone should be looking at the sack in Microsoft.

  4. Re: if that's true, on Windows 10 Shares Your Wi-Fi Password With Contacts · · Score: 1

    Just stop driving American cars and you don't even need to.

  5. Re:Drone It on Test Pilot: the F-35 Can't Dogfight · · Score: 1

    When was the last time and F-16 was shot down? As far as I can tell there have been 3 lost in the last 25 years to SAMs, and it seems to be questionable whether the F-35 can evade these significantly better.

  6. Re:Drone It on Test Pilot: the F-35 Can't Dogfight · · Score: 1

    You've been watching too much 24 my friend.

  7. Re:Not surprised on Uber France Leaders Arrested For Running Illegal Taxi Company · · Score: 1

    It's not hard to be a taxi driver, give it a go if you don't believe me. It may be harder to register your own vehicle as a taxi. This shouldn't be surprising.

  8. Re:Uber this! on Uber France Leaders Arrested For Running Illegal Taxi Company · · Score: 1

    Politically connected? I think you're confusing taxi drivers with those secret service guys who drive the president around,

  9. Re:GMOs have so many different problems on Controversial Trial of Genetically Modified Wheat Ends In Disappointment · · Score: 1

    Aren't we discussing GM foods- isn't that almost literally eating knowledge? I highly dispute your "most of it wasn't" as well. The whole "must make money" thing is a fairly recent and broadly unwelcome addition to science. The recent situation with drugs companies arguing it's not worth their while trying to cure diseases while investigating anything that can be sold to rich old white men is one of the more insidious results.

  10. Re:GMOs have so many different problems on Controversial Trial of Genetically Modified Wheat Ends In Disappointment · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Some of the greatest research ever done was done in Universities with grant money with no thought of any commercial applications. The problem with current research is the assumption that it must produce a monetary reward. Obviously commercialisation and testing is a different issue, that is where capital becomes relevant. Knowledge should be it's own reward.

  11. Re:Uber is a Proxy for Progress on Anti-Uber Taxi Protest Blocks Access To Airports In France · · Score: 1

    Then we have to reinvent the licensing system but Uber will have a monopoly. Hurrah free trade.

  12. Re:Understandable in this case on Anti-Uber Taxi Protest Blocks Access To Airports In France · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't that be commercial disobedience? That's a rather different matter.

  13. Re:Unacceptable... on Anti-Uber Taxi Protest Blocks Access To Airports In France · · Score: 1

    $300,000 is clearly excessive and is only the case in a tiny percentage of places where the market for licenses will support that price. It's a classic case of supply and demand. You might as well complain about the high prices in the areas that probably overlap quite significantly with the taxi medallion cost areas.

  14. Re:Unacceptable... on Anti-Uber Taxi Protest Blocks Access To Airports In France · · Score: 1

    The French go more in for the classic type of protest - Listen up y'all it's a sabot-tage. (yes I know the etymology).

  15. Re:Prime Scalia - "Words no longer having meaning" on Supreme Court Upholds Key Obamacare Subsidies · · Score: 1

    I disagree with your reasoning about the flag not being racist entirely, though I have to admit I do feel the whole thing is a "false flag operation" (if you'll excuse the pun) to an extent, it's main objective being of course to move public opinion away from thoughts of the much needed gun control that they should be considering. I expect from your general demeanour that if you look on it this way it will probably make you happy.

  16. Re:Those evil enemy oppressors on Google, Apple, and Others Remove Content Related To the Confederate Flag · · Score: 1

    Understanding the opinions of the man who arguably led the world into the most destructive of all time is probably of more historical value than a flag that highlights the fact you're a racist.

  17. Re:Whatever means necessary? on Google, Apple, and Others Remove Content Related To the Confederate Flag · · Score: 1

    http://www.theatlantic.com/pol...

    Nice try, if in doubt blame the British?

  18. Re:Laptops on Interview: Ask Linus Torvalds a Question · · Score: 1

    It's more annoying it's so hard to buy one without paying for the copy of Windows you don't need or want.

  19. Re:Phase out fossil-fueled power plants by midcent on The Presidential Candidate With a Plan To Run the US On 100% Clean Energy · · Score: 1

    Did you check to see if what you heard is accurate or did you just repeat it?

  20. Re:If it doesn't include nuclear... on The Presidential Candidate With a Plan To Run the US On 100% Clean Energy · · Score: 1

    Then it's not a plan. It's just a bullshit pipe dream that he's selling you for your vote.

    I believe it's called politics. People are always making stuff up like that - "we'll put a man on the moon in 10 years" etc, etc.

  21. Re:Phase out fossil-fueled power plants by midcent on The Presidential Candidate With a Plan To Run the US On 100% Clean Energy · · Score: 1

    That's kind of what "phase-out" means. It will take time, the sooner you start the sooner you finish.

  22. Re:Phase out fossil-fueled power plants by midcent on The Presidential Candidate With a Plan To Run the US On 100% Clean Energy · · Score: 1

    I'm going to blow your mind here - The sun doesn't get switched off at night, not does it disappear! Incredible I know, it turns out our planet is a sphere and the sun is carried around it by a sky dung beetle.

  23. Re:Why such short employment on Who Owns Your Overtime? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Productive and innovative? In my experience the type of butterfly who "pops in and sorts everything out then moves on" is usually the type who leave a pile of half finished crap in their wake.

  24. Re: The irony on Study: Sixth Extinction Event Is Underway · · Score: 1

    Who knew money would be the new driving force for evolution, is there any problem an economist with an excel spreadsheet can't solve?

  25. Re:So rich guy loses court case with bank on Shuttleworth Loses $20m Battle With S. African Reserve Bank Over Expatriated Funds · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Tech is made out of people. Who live on the Isle of Man, for entirely legitimate reasons.