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  1. Re:Could be? on Clinton Plan To Power Every US Home With Renewables By 2027 Is Achievable · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Are you really comparing the Clinton's promised diseases to the Obama's plague ?

  2. Re:headline is misleading on Clinton Plan To Power Every US Home With Renewables By 2027 Is Achievable · · Score: 1

    Are you speaking about the first iteration of ACA where people could NOT keep their plan ?

  3. Re:headline is misleading on Clinton Plan To Power Every US Home With Renewables By 2027 Is Achievable · · Score: 0

    Oh, easy, you are doing a second to third order analysis. This doesn't matter for Clinton's campaign. She's not even gonna do a proper first order plan. She's throwing number to look good. She does not care about 2027, what she only cares about is the 2016 campaign No wonder that she's planning 10 years ahead.

  4. Re:headline is misleading on Clinton Plan To Power Every US Home With Renewables By 2027 Is Achievable · · Score: 1

    assuming no energy consumption growth between now and 2027...

  5. Re:Dictator dictating is a Dictator on Obama's New Executive Order Says the US Must Build an Exascale Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    however, if you look year-to-date, it's still making gains.

  6. Re:Equality on San Francisco's Public Works Agency Tests Paint That Repels Urine · · Score: 0

    But women are so frail and fragile, they have to get another exemption. You don't understand, they're all victims, while all men are filthy criminal.

  7. Re:sigh on San Francisco's Public Works Agency Tests Paint That Repels Urine · · Score: 1

    that doesn't make the measure any less sexist.

  8. Re:sigh on San Francisco's Public Works Agency Tests Paint That Repels Urine · · Score: 1

    I'd assume that those men have no other choice than walking the street due to the lack of proper social shelters. Women have plenty of space, but men, no, don't care about them. And then, you blame them for something they had no choice on.

  9. Re:Dictator dictating is a Dictator on Obama's New Executive Order Says the US Must Build an Exascale Supercomputer · · Score: -1

    Just like the 500 millions blown in the failed solar power startup, I guess...

  10. Re:Denser chips on Replacing Silicon With Gallium Nitride In Chips Could Reduce Energy Use By 20% · · Score: 2

    OOTH, none of these relate to the current limitations manufacturer are hitting, which is that lithography at the current scales are becoming nearly impossible.

  11. Re:Next item on tonight's news... on Amazon Proposes Dedicated Airspace For Drones · · Score: 1

    You are misquoting me. I never said all laws were bad, I'm just pointing out government overreach. As for your example, it's silly. The road system is similar to the Internet, yet, governments don't regulate how Internet communication are to be made. Everything we have now has been mostly driven by the private sector. There is a few rogue corporation, but globally, everybody cooperate to build what is the best code of conduct (which is pretty much what the rule of the road are, a code of conduct). The existence of this code of conduct (and strong enforcement) does not forbid people to violate them. Heck, when I drive the speed limit, I am generally at the head of a trail waiting to pass me. Nobody respect the law by the book, but they violate the law in a "common sense" fashion. If the limit is 50 on a wide 4 lane highway an a sunny day in the middle of nowhere, nobody's gonna drive 50. If your argument is that people are stupid and cannot follow a code of conduct, then you are patronizing them. Even the most stupid individuals are not doing burnout and donuts in dense urban area. They do it on country roads or abandoned parking lots.

  12. Re:Next item on tonight's news... on Amazon Proposes Dedicated Airspace For Drones · · Score: 1
    Btw, you are ignorant of the rather recent (US made) Remington 700 massive recall. From their own words:

    http://www.remington.com/pages... (emphasis *not* mine)

    DESCRIPTION OF THE HAZARD: Remington has determined that some Model 700 and Model Seven rifles with XMP triggers could, under certain circumstances, unintentionally discharge.

  13. Re:Next item on tonight's news... on Amazon Proposes Dedicated Airspace For Drones · · Score: 1

    Of course they do. No matter how well done the tampering is, sears wears out, disconnector wears out, etc. Heck, the Russian SKS is known for its possibility of slamfire. Here in Canada, I had several report of Chinese semi-auto bullpup T-97 going full-auto. You're going to blame the Chinese, but Israeli's Tavor have also had reported cases of slamfire (floating firing pin + soft commercial primer).

  14. Re:Next item on tonight's news... on Amazon Proposes Dedicated Airspace For Drones · · Score: 1

    Weapon was not my entire point. My point was when anything new appear, whenever a part of the public freaks out (or a politician, ala. Feinstein, convince you should fear for your life), then the automatic answer is ban. Ban, ban, ban. It generally takes a business to lift part of that ban, but only for the uses relevant for that business. I guess this shows the order of priority of politicians: at a low priority, personal interest (find a new topic to scare people with to get vote), and then, at a higher priority, business interest (because that damn campaign ain't gonna finance itself by doing nothing). Which once again point to personal interest, to keep (or win) a legislature. If in the process you can create a federal / state agency which will buy you a bit of social peace employing housewives, then it's a double win.

  15. Re:Next item on tonight's news... on Amazon Proposes Dedicated Airspace For Drones · · Score: 1

    Actually, why is someone automatically flagged as "libertarian" when condemning the actual slaughter on personal freedom that have otherwise been common sense for decades ?

  16. Re:Next item on tonight's news... on Amazon Proposes Dedicated Airspace For Drones · · Score: 1

    I'm not even gonna dignify that with an answer...

  17. Next item on tonight's news... on Amazon Proposes Dedicated Airspace For Drones · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Government bashes free speech, and then some private agent comes with the wonderful idea of "free speech zone".

    I hate what the US have become, it is such that everything is considered "potentially dangerous", and thus need to be banned and/or operate in "controlled" area. Drones accident will happen, just the same way car accident happens, planes accident happens, or even accidental discharge happen (gun are as much subject to mechanical failure as anything else).

  18. ...or to keep people from being oppressed. Remember that a weapon is a dual-edged sword, it can either enslave you, or set you free.

  19. Re:The only people who follow laws... on Musk, Woz, Hawking, and Robotics/AI Experts Urge Ban On Autonomous Weapons · · Score: 1

    Last I checked, your forefathers were terrorists to the established United-Kingdom. I wonder how things would have turned around if they had been defeated by the legitimate power in place at the time.

  20. Re:May as well ban rain on Musk, Woz, Hawking, and Robotics/AI Experts Urge Ban On Autonomous Weapons · · Score: 1

    Wozniak ? Powerful ? ah ah.

  21. Re:May as well ban rain on Musk, Woz, Hawking, and Robotics/AI Experts Urge Ban On Autonomous Weapons · · Score: 1

    Did it ? It didn't forbid Syria to use it, there was a bit of an international backlash, but nothing really strong, and it allowed Assad to make a point.

  22. Re:I have no fear of AI, but fear AI weapons on Musk, Woz, Hawking, and Robotics/AI Experts Urge Ban On Autonomous Weapons · · Score: 1

    Every single US president ?

  23. Re:I have no fear of AI, but fear AI weapons on Musk, Woz, Hawking, and Robotics/AI Experts Urge Ban On Autonomous Weapons · · Score: 1

    Oncle Sam ?

  24. Sentry minigun.

  25. Re:The Price is Right! on Smithsonian Increases Goal For Spacesuit Crowdfunding Effort · · Score: 1

    In the big pictures, talking or work with anyone on the planet from anywhere in real time is irrelevant. It's just an attempt to give the blink of our lives a meaning.