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  1. Re:Lighter than air craft won't work on Firms Team Up On Hybrid Electric Plane Technology (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    News-fucking-flash: materials and propulsion technologies may have improved just a bit in the past eighty years.

  2. Re:Diminishing returns on Firms Team Up On Hybrid Electric Plane Technology (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    electric engines

    (insert Samuel Jackson voice) "Ain't no electric engines, motherfucker!!!"

  3. Re: Superuser access on Two Major Cydia Hosts Shut Down as Jailbreaking Fades in Popularity (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Remember how DRM killed the minidisc.

    I do not; I do, however, remember how Sony killed it - before it even arrived.

  4. He means twelve U.S. citizens.

  5. Re: Incorrect subject on Nearly 4 Million Bitcoins Lost Forever, New Study Says (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Bitcoin is the chosen currency for the black market, the black market in every nation on Earth.

    Or that's merely an oft-repeated line of horseshit and bears no resemblance reality whatsoever...

  6. Re: Have They Looked Under the Seat Cushions? on Nearly 4 Million Bitcoins Lost Forever, New Study Says (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    ...then it will be gone.

    The song or your mind?

  7. ...one of the top executives at the Bureau of Land Management

    And a real brain, at that.

  8. Re: No on Petition Calls for Ouster of FCC Chairman Pai (whitehouse.gov) · · Score: 2

    How do you get a chance to talk to him for an hour?

    For Democratic congressmen, a large pile of coke. For Republican congressmen, a naked boy - and a large pile of coke.

  9. Re: How Were All of the Last Predictions? on Could Collapsing Antarctic Glaciers Raise Sea Levels Sooner Than Expected? (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    it was the best time for life on earth with 1950 ppm atmospheric CO2

    Right. For Jurassic life, which (based on your not-so-astounding powers of reasoning) you might very well well be; the rest of us, not so much.

  10. Re: Yeah... and?!! on DC Fans Angry Over Rotten Tomatoes 'Justice League' Ratings (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    It amazes me how little people value their time - the most precious commodity they've got - in this case, less than negative two dollars per hour.

  11. Re: I know you will think I'm very, very old, but: on Ajit Pai and the FCC Want It To Be Legal for Comcast To Block BitTorrent (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Had your IQ checked lately?

  12. Re: Let not who cracked Uber ... on Uber Hackers May Have Been Russian (thetimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Just like every other large organization... including those whose security screw-ups we never hear about.

  13. Automation does not [necessarily] a robot make.

  14. Re: driverless is stupid on Singapore To Use Driverless Buses 'From 2022' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Can anyone justify that?

    Sure; MBA's, marketing drones and politicians - notable programming geniuses, every last one.

  15. Re: Helpless Without Google on Google Wipes 786 Pirate Sites From Search Results (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    There's an art to being an asshole...

  16. Re: WTF? Were you not paying attention? on 'We Are Disappointed': Tech Companies Speak Up Against the FCC's Plan To Kill Net Neutrality (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2

    Please, think of the goats!

    I'm sure the goats prefer those with smaller hands.

    Q: Why do shepherds wear flowing robes?

    A: Because sheep can hear a zipper from a mile away.

  17. Re: OK, Libertarians, explain this one! on Uber Is Under Investigation By Multiple States Over a 2016 Data Breach (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Keep your homosexuality and feminism in the closet where they belong.

    Is that your secret? (Pun actually not intended...)

  18. Re: Jews, blacks, and the disabled not welcome on Facebook Still Lets Housing Advertisers Exclude Users By Race (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    No, the "how" is extremely important: we're told some bullshit about "microprocessors" and"algorithms" but clearly alien technology has to be involved...

  19. Re: in your heart, you know it's true on Russia Detects a Significant Radiation Spike In Mountains Close To Soviet-Era Nuclear Plant (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Russians are vodka-addled incompetents.

    Especially their rocket scientists, aircraft engineers and weapons designers.

  20. You're both correct; is that really so fucking hard to see??

  21. Re: Keep on draining the consumer protection swamp on FCC Will Also Order States To Scrap Plans For Their Own Net Neutrality Laws (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    you should thank HRC

    I'll thank her - l'll thank her for being such an abysmal choice that even one person was willing to vote for Ruprecht...

  22. IS that the point being made here?

    Obviously not or you wouldn't be asking.

  23. Re: Might have been nice if the summary explained. on Hitler Quote Controversy In the BSD Community · · Score: 1

    The people most afraid to hear or see a hitler quote are also the people most likely to become guards in concentration camps.

    Sure but only because of intolerance and inflexibility; not because of some imaginary "left" and "right" us vs them idiocy.

  24. Re: OMG on Flat Earther Plans To Launch Homemade Manned Rocket (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    What ate you talking about?? The objectivity and mental flexibility required to believe in a flat Earth should almost certainly translate to rocket science...

  25. Re: I Blame the Joggers on Upsurge in Big Earthquakes Predicted for 2018 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You're joking, but it's a cycle, which reason is not fully understood yet.

    Obviously there's a gradual, incremental slowdown due to tidal forces... but any speculation about cycles is just that.