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  1. Re:SEC Suspicious Package on Shots Fired At US Capitol · · Score: 1

    Many "suspicious packages" are probably just a paper bag that blew off a garbage truck or some kid left their school backpack lying around.

  2. Re:Funny how different news outlets react on Shots Fired At US Capitol · · Score: 2

    Once the dust settles it will be amusing to see that all the shots were fired by police.

  3. Re:Better late than never... on California Outlaws 'Revenge Porn' · · Score: 1

    And finally we're talking about enforcing copyright on the internet. On Slashdot.

    The most important sentence in all the comments.

  4. Re:Having BEEN in the BSA... on Boy Scouts Bully Hacker Scouts Into Submission · · Score: 1

    Female Scoutmasters are permited, unless there's been a recent rules change. There's just fewer in Boy Scouts because the women are more likely to be involved during Cub when higher counts of parents are involved and camping is the exception rather than the norm for activities.

  5. Re:jerk on Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    Parked is a distinctive operatoinal state of a motor vehicle. A parked vehicle will not accelerate when the gas pedal is depressed. A parked vehicle will not move at all when the foot is released from the brake pedal. Contrast this with the drive operational state where pressing the accelerator will cause the vehicle to accelerate and releasing the brake will permit vehicles to move.

    Most people are not parked at a red light. They are driving at a red light with their foot on the brake pedal. This state creates multiple inherent risks. The first risk is that by releasing the brake the driver will rear end another vehicle. This creates an incident that must be resolved as well as creates an obstacle in what should be a moving lane of traffic for however long it takes to resolve the incident and send the involved drivers on their way. The second risk, and a worse one, is present for the front liners at the red light, acceleration will cause them to go into the intersection which creates a large risk for themselves and cross traffic. Just look at the number of people claiming that their car suddenly accelerates when they pressed the brake, or some other similar issue. Neither of those situations can happen when the vehicle is in park. They can happen when the vehicle is in drive and the odds of them happen as the attentiveness of the driver diminishes.

  6. Re:jerk on Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    You're driving if your vehicle is in a state where pressing the gas peddle will cause it to accelerate. Inattentiveness can lead to you pressing the wrong peddle at the wrong time. If your vehicle is in park then pressing that gas peddle, barring mechanical issue, will not cause the vehicle to move.

    That's the crux of why a vehicle at a stopped light, in drive, causes it to be an issue when texting. If you are at a red light and your vehicle is in park (which provides visual indication to other vehicles) then you're free to text.

  7. Re:jerk on Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    You are driving a vehicle if the vehicle is in a drive mode and not a park mode.

  8. Re:jerk on Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    You're not violating the speed limit when stationary at a light. You are violating the texting law when doing so at a light and stationary. The operative word here is that the texting drivers have their vehicle in drive. If the driver put their vehicle in park (which has a visible outside indicator) and then proceeded to text, the cop wouldn't and couldn't issue them a violation as the vehicle is no longer in drive.

  9. Re: your sig on Software Glitch Means Loss of NASA's Deep Impact Comet Probe · · Score: 1

    Unless he means he has 34 distinct personalities.

  10. Re:Why were nukes making routine flights inside US on USAF Almost Nuked North Carolina In 1961 – Declassified Document · · Score: 1

    The incident happened when coming in for a landing.

  11. Re:Safety design was fine on USAF Almost Nuked North Carolina In 1961 – Declassified Document · · Score: 1

    The probability is way to high based on numbers you pulled out of your ass.

  12. Re:old, really old, news on USAF Almost Nuked North Carolina In 1961 – Declassified Document · · Score: 1

    Civilization has proved that spearmen can take down battleships.

  13. Re:Balanced attack: blue and red on IDF Hackers Test Readiness In Israel For Cyberattacks · · Score: 1

    Being born in the purple was a great honor in Byzantium.

  14. Re:old, really old, news on USAF Almost Nuked North Carolina In 1961 – Declassified Document · · Score: 1

    Ante Pavelic was responsible for the behaviors in Croatic & Serbia that lead to over 500,000 deaths. They were among the most brutal during the war. The Jews systematically executed by the Nazis don't even come close to the atrocities committed by the Ustashi. The only thing that the Nazi's really had going for them were quantity.

    This included such horrors as forcing Serb Orthodox to dig a mass grave for themselves, after which the Croats would hack them to pieces with axes. In another similar event, an Orthodox priest for forced to say rites for all the people as they were killed. The 2nd to last person killed was the priest's own son. This ended with the priest being skinned alived.

  15. Re: old, really old, news on USAF Almost Nuked North Carolina In 1961 – Declassified Document · · Score: 1

    Specifically, Hiroshima was the headquarters of the 2nd General Army. The atomic bomb killed off the head of that army. The command staff, logistics, and a significant portion of the army itself was killed off. One bomb essentially destroyed one of the two defense armies for mainland Japan. Hiroshima was certainly a military objective it's just so easy to miss that in light of the civilian casualties.

  16. Re:If the bomb did explode, would USA blame USSR? on USAF Almost Nuked North Carolina In 1961 – Declassified Document · · Score: 1

    So your comparing the sudden loss of 14% of the population of a single state against the nation-wide statistics for various deaths? What the fuck?

  17. Re:If the bomb did explode, would USA blame USSR? on USAF Almost Nuked North Carolina In 1961 – Declassified Document · · Score: 1

    Kenndy was responsible for Bay of Pigs as it was executed. Eisenhower's administration was responsible for the initial planning and conceiving of the invasion. Kennedy took all the planning and threw it out the window. He elected to put the invasion on an isolated beach with poor access out of it (vastly different from the Eisenhower plan) and decided to withhold any air support for the operation (different from the Eisenhower plan) for fear of having the US associated with it.

    So yeah, Kennedy didn't plan it but he took the steps that turned it from having reasonable odds of success into the disaster it became. He should have issued a go/no go command rather than have the plan hacked to pieces over political reasons.

  18. Re:God of the Gaps on Why Are Some Hell-Bent On Teaching Intelligent Design? · · Score: 1

    I would recommend looking into the Jesuit order of the Catholic Church. I would also like to point out that Pope Francis is the first Jesuit Pope.

  19. Re:God of the Gaps on Why Are Some Hell-Bent On Teaching Intelligent Design? · · Score: 1

    You really have a bad understanding of the papacy. For a large portion of the Catholic Church's the papacy was de facto controlled by one nation or another due to influences on cardinals during the papal conclave as well as the veto rights of the king of Spain, king of France, emperor of Austria, and the Holy Roman Emperor. It wasn't the church that had the power to destroy nations it was a single nation that had the power to influence the papacy such to destroy nations. By the 19th century the church was pretty much free of those outside influences and you see a policy pursued by Popes to set the church up as a neutral arbiter between nations. However that was threatened significantly by the kingdom of italy as it took papal holdings. For a time there were no papal holdings and the papacy itself was on sovereign italian territory. Once they regained some land for the papacy, the looked back towards that arbiter role.

  20. Re:More importantly on Why Are Some Hell-Bent On Teaching Intelligent Design? · · Score: 2

    What's with the appendix?

    The appendix likely serves as a safehouse for helpful colonic bacteria. During an infection the colon will get cleansed, including the help bacteria. However the way the appendix is setup prevents it from also being purged. Bad bacteria usualy don't manage to get into the appendix and when they do it usually causes inflammation. Since the body can't naturally purge the appendix the appendectomy is the only solution. Since the appendix doesn't provide a direct critical benefit to the body, that's why removing it doesn't appear have a negative side effect although it is quite probable that without the appendix you are more vulnerable to catching a new illness after bad bacteria get cleansed since there's no safe house from which good bacteria can repopulate.

    Why have testis outside the body, where they can be bashed easily

    Storage temperature. If the testes were located inside the body, then the temperature would be raised high enough to decrease fertility.

  21. Re:Which Nation? on California Becomes First State In Nation To Regulate Ride-Sharing · · Score: 1

    I think he's refering to the asteroid.

  22. Re:Why is it called ride sharing? on California Becomes First State In Nation To Regulate Ride-Sharing · · Score: 2

    It might be a trap for Akhbar.

  23. Re:Impressive... on Charles Carreon Finally Surrenders To the Oatmeal · · Score: 0, Troll

    it is suggested that Buddhism attracts the mentally unstable.

  24. Re: We need another Cold War. on Without Plutonium, Deep-Space Probe Missions May Sputter Out · · Score: 1

    What we need is naquadah.

  25. Re:Nintendo surviving on fumes... on Visionary Nintendo President Yamauchi Dies · · Score: 1

    How are you doing? Becaues I'm a potato.