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  1. Re:Russian Rocket Motors? on SpaceX Wins Injunction Against Russian Rocket Purchases · · Score: 1

    What nation had its lines redrawn along ethnic lines? I'm drawing blank on that one. Poland, along with the Polish corridor was drawn with large German populations in the borders. The same thing happened with a lot of the baltic nations, like Czechoslovakia, which was one of casus belli Hitler used for his early aggressions.

  2. Re:NASA bot in FFXI on The Million-Dollar Business of Video Game Cheating · · Score: 2

    But, the point of online gaming is pure competition. It's anonymous, you don't even get the adoration of strangers. (and you're losing money, to boot!)

    Cheating online just seems like bringing a pistol to a 1-on-1 basketball game, gunning down your opponent, shooting the ball through the hoop a couple of times; and then telling yourself what a great basketball player you are.

    It's not about winning. It's an inferiority complex. It's about dominating other players. It doesn't matter to the cheaters what methods they use, they want to have the feeling of that power over others.

  3. Re:Nuclear power is too expensive on Decommissioning Nuclear Plants Costing Far More Than Expected · · Score: 1

    The fuel rods are still there because the Nuclear Waste Polic Act of 1982, which was signed into law and later amended, designated Yucca Mountain to be the site for nuclear waste disposal in the US. Initially it charged the government to survey for sites. When it was amend it was to designate Yucca. The site was supposed to be open to receive waste in 1998, however if it wasn't the companies running the reactors were supposed to keep waste on site and be compensated for the storage by the Federal government. We're currently paying between $300-500 million a year to these companies.

  4. Re:Nuclear costs way too much on Decommissioning Nuclear Plants Costing Far More Than Expected · · Score: 1

    We have a plan. It's enshrined in law. The problem is that one Senator is abusing his position of power to stop the project and the administration/President is refusing to enforce the law on the books. Meanwhile, the Federal government has been paying $300-500 million a year to the nuclear companies to store waste on site since 1998 because the government hasn't gotten a central repository open.

  5. Re:It's a government contract job. on Decommissioning Nuclear Plants Costing Far More Than Expected · · Score: 1

    Yucca Mountain was designated by Federal law. It's not even a site "selected" by whatever Federal agency was in charge for finding a site. The law also permits Nevada's governor to veto the Yucca Mountain site, albeit overrideable by a vote in both houses of Congress. The law was also amended to designate Yucca Mountain as the sole site for nuclear waste.

    The answer's pretty simple. Repeal the law, which Harry Reid knows he can't do so he instead abuses his power in the Senate to prevent anything supporting Yucca from coming up. Coupled with the President failing to enforce the laws regarding Yucca mountain and it's pretty squarely on Democrats shoulders. Meanwhile we're spending $300-500 million a year in paying the companies that operated nuclear plants because we didn't have a repository, like the law dictated, in place by 1998.

  6. Re:Time to move into the Century of the fruit bat. on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: 1

    Sure it did. Who is a waste of taxpayer money? Those that the justice system has deemed unfit for society.

    It doesn't matter to me how much it costs to arrive at that judgment (through appeals) but once that judgment has been made there's no point for society to continue supporting those individuals.

  7. Re:Failed injection. on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: 1

    On animals, but make sure you don't use mice and have have male researchers in the room. Otherwise their stress levels going up may cause a reduced sensation of pain and taint the tests.

  8. Re:Time to move into the Century of the fruit bat. on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: 1

    It's quite simple. Through the justice system, society decides that some individuals are no longer fit to be part of the society which the justice system represents. You have three choices. You can incarcerate this individual for the rest of his life, in which case he is still benefiting from society taking care of him. You can kill the individual, in which case he no longer draws a benefit from society. The final choice, which is never used anymore, is to exile the individual from society, in which case he no longer draws a benefit from society.

    I do not believe that someone who has been deemed unfit to be part of society should be able to reap any benefits from it. Thus the only outcomes that I feel are appropriate are the death penalty or exile.

  9. Re:Eternal Vigilance on CISPA 3.0: the Senate's New Bill As Bad As Ever · · Score: 1

    You've not read much Sun Tzu.

  10. Re:When will this end on CISPA 3.0: the Senate's New Bill As Bad As Ever · · Score: 1

    God. Fuck Putin. Hate on Kissinger all you want but he postulated that providing economic aid to Boris Yeltsin (about '91-'93) after the collapse of the USSR would lead to a resurgence of Russian imperialism and ultimately come back and bite us in the ass about 20 years later.

  11. Re:Sorry, Mr. Becket on CISPA 3.0: the Senate's New Bill As Bad As Ever · · Score: 1

    And people wonder why some of us want a greatly restricted federal government with more power granted to the states.

  12. Re: Security through Antiquity? on US Nuclear Missile Silos Use Safe, Secure 8" Floppy Disks · · Score: 1

    The Internet is a series of tubes.... and everyone knows all the vulnerabilities come from the Internet so anything with tubes is really vulnerable.

  13. Re:That big? on US Nuclear Missile Silos Use Safe, Secure 8" Floppy Disks · · Score: 0

    She's 73 years old. Senility does happen.

  14. Re:No cheap way to demine... on Minesweepers Robotic Competition Aims For a Landmine-Free World · · Score: 1

    Really? A metal detector? You do realize that when the metal detector was introduced in WW2 the Germans started responding with wooden and glass mines. Plastics and composite materials are the general composition of mines with metallic parts minimized.

  15. Re:5000 people annually on Minesweepers Robotic Competition Aims For a Landmine-Free World · · Score: 1

    Vehicles are only useful as clearers where anti-personnel mines are used. If you even suspect that anti-vehicular mines are present then you can't use vehicles safely.

  16. Re:Lost on Why Should Game Stories Make Sense? · · Score: 1

    It's sad when I look at S6 as a bunch of noise with Richard's backstory explained.

  17. Re:What we would like to know on Anonymous's Latest Target: Boston Children's Hospital · · Score: 1

    The same thing would probably happen to most of their members?

  18. Re:FTA commented, not approved on FTC Approves Tesla's Direct Sales Model · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The Fed isn't required to do anything. They're only given permission to do so.

  19. Re:Same with photo printers on Consumers Not Impressed With 3D Printing · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Load file.
    Press print.

    Yeah, real inspiration.

  20. Re: Meh, vote left. on F.C.C., In Net Neutrality Turnaround, Plans To Allow Fast Lane · · Score: 1

    Keyser Soze

  21. Re:Meh, vote left. on F.C.C., In Net Neutrality Turnaround, Plans To Allow Fast Lane · · Score: 1

    Well, since the Republican has been blasting your ass for some time you might as well stick with the ass blasting you know, understand, and developed coping mechanisms for rather than voting for the ass blasting you know nothing about and need to learn all over to cope with.

  22. Re:Proposal. on NASA Chief Tells the Critics of Exploration Plan: "Get Over It" · · Score: 1

    It's a shame people don't use the gender neutral it more often. Instead they feel they must come up with their own new unique methods of being gender neutral.

  23. Re:testing the waters on Netflix Plans To Raise Prices By "$1 or $2 a Month" · · Score: 1

    It's to make binge subscribers pay a little bit more.

  24. Re:Repeat July 2011 on Netflix Plans To Raise Prices By "$1 or $2 a Month" · · Score: 2

    Why would there be an exodus, current subscribers are not having their prices changed, only new subscribers. This is a move to counter binge subscribers in order to smooth out their revenue. In fact, if Netflix wanted to be brilliant about it, the would offer their Xth month free with a $1-2 reduction in your subscription cost. Basically, you're "paying forward" the extra $1-2 towards a month subscription that you only get if you stay subscribed long enough. That would essentially provide the exact same lower costs for long term subscribers.

  25. Re:Not Necessarily A Bad Thing on Netflix Plans To Raise Prices By "$1 or $2 a Month" · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yep. Their goal is to encourage long term subscriptions and not binge subscribing. They have a "problem" where people will subscribe for one to two month, binge watch content, and then unsubscribe for about six to eight months.