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  1. NASA has to get a press release out about something. Can not have SpaceX making all the new science.

  2. Re:There has only been one country.... on G-7 Leaders At Hiroshima To Urge More Visits to Nuclear Bombsites (voanews.com) · · Score: 2

    The Koreans and Chinese might have a different insight on "mass murder".

  3. Re:How about the secrets of the Clintons? on Clinton Campaign Chair: 'The American People Can Handle The Truth' On UFOs (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    John Podesta, Podesta Group and the Clinton Fund. Google that for some king of sleaze stuff.

    http://freebeacon.com/issues/p...

  4. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on Bill Introduced To Require ID When Purchasing "Burner Phones" (house.gov) · · Score: 2

    Then why do I need to present my papers to exercise my 2nd amendment rights?

    Can't have a "...well-regulated militia..." if we don't know who's in it.

    "Regulated" as in well trained. Not as in governed by laws. A "well trained militia".

    The 4th definition of "Regulated".
    4. To put or maintain in order: regulate one's eating habits.

    "Militia" = All able bodied males 18 to 45 years of age.

    This is what makes the Selective Service and Draft are legal. Every male 18 to 45 IS the militia.

    SO this is how the law sees it.

    "Males aged 18 to 45 well trained in using guns, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

  5. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on Bill Introduced To Require ID When Purchasing "Burner Phones" (house.gov) · · Score: 2

    ID for everything but voting. Because even if you need it for everything from buying food to mass transit, we can't get in the way of voting!

    Conservatives often mention the need for ID when buying booze or picking up prescriptions as their argument for why they think that requiring certain form of ID for voting doesn't violate voter rights. Well guess what, neither those nor any other need for ID is not only a Constitutionally protected right but a duty for all citizens that is essential for the functioning of our Democratic system

    Then why do I need to present my papers to exercise my 2nd amendment rights?

  6. Re:And why would he? on Obama Rejects New Atlantic Ocean Oil Drilling (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    The oil companies want to buy the leases now while they're cheap.

    Leases are auctioned off just like FCC spectrum auctions. Buy at auction and sit on them for years until needed.

  7. Re:Who is still using mag stripes on ATM cards? on To Secure ATM Transactions: Ditch the Card (securityledger.com) · · Score: 1

    They do now. Walmart started Jan 1st. No more swipe or signature for credit cards. Just stick the chip end of your card in the reader. Debit cards are chip + pin. Sometime this year all stores are going to be 100% responsible for fraud if they do not use the new chip readers.

  8. Re:Will Twitter's destruction wake anyone up? on 'The Room Had Started To Smell. Really Quite Bad': Stephen Fry Exits Twitter (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    OK how about the San Francisco/Silicon Valley "Fondations" like the some ones listed here. Which includes greats like Feminist Frequency and Anita Sarkeesian.

    https://about.twitter.com/safe...

  9. Re:Will Twitter's destruction wake anyone up? on 'The Room Had Started To Smell. Really Quite Bad': Stephen Fry Exits Twitter (betanews.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Twitter 2016 = DIGG 2008 Twitter is going down hill and the elite SJW progressive left is going to use twitter to sell out totally to get a D elected. Just look at what DIGG did to help get Obama elected. "Progress" at any cost. Trump is scaring the sheet out of them. The Rs also to be fare.

  10. Re:In related news: Steam on Microsoft Plans To Make Windows 10, Xbox One Game "Crossbuys" A Habit (pcworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Last holiday 2015. PS4 sold 35M. Xbox did 15M. I read some where it is 2 to 1 on total sales. PS4 has games people want to plan. Xbox not so much. Halo 5 was a flop.

  11. Re:In related news: Steam on Microsoft Plans To Make Windows 10, Xbox One Game "Crossbuys" A Habit (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I wish but it will not. This is only a move to sell more Xbox Ones. The sale numbers are more than in the toilet. Destiny is the only must have game on the Xbox and it is also on PS4.

  12. Re:Terabit ethernet on UCL Scientists Push 1.125Tbps Through a Single Coherent Optical Receiver · · Score: 1

    Up to the late 90's @ a regen shelter you needed to WDMdemux-Regen-OPAmp-WDMmux. Late 90's Nortel came out with MOR (Multiple Wavelength Optical Repeater) cards. Which replaced the WDMs and wavelength specific transmit regen cards but still used OPAmps. The OPAmps of the day had a theoretical range of 90 miles (at least Pirelli and Siemens did). Depending on the condition and quality of the OSP fiber you also need DSMs (Dispersion Compensation Modules). Latter Siemens and Ciena systems today do Regen and Amplify all in one. You must regen. Just amplifying degrades the signal too much. You are also referring to subsea cable. Which is a totally different doped glass compared to the stuff used on land.

  13. Re:Geez, it's like clamydia on SCO vs. IBM Battle Over Linux May Finally Be Over (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    That is because most politicians are lawyers and pass the laws in this country.

  14. Re:Emergency Brake? on Jeep/Chrysler's New Gearshift Appears To Be Causing Accidents (roadandtrack.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Also because standard transmissions unfortunately are going the way of the dodo. The CVs and new 5,6,7 and 8 speed auto transmissions get better MPG than the standards. Wild ass guess that 75% of the drivers in the US cannot drive a standard transmission and never use the emergency brake. And I bet that number is in the 95% range in the SUV owner (Soccer moms) group.

  15. Re:Energy in? on Carbon Dioxide From the Air Converted Into Methanol (gizmag.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    HOW DARE YOU! That is NOT what Global Warming is meant for. It is meant for Progressive Socialist global wealth redistribution and enrichment of the keepers of the religion. Any heretics to the state religion of Global Warming will be rooted out and shamed by the SJW brown shirts and be regulated out of existence. How DARE you question the state religion. The keepers of the religion and their "useful idiots" have declared everything settled. We just need to give billions of dollars to 3rd world war lords to fix the CO2 "problem". Just stop being privileged.

  16. Re:Online lulz on IRS Computer Problems Shut Down Tax Return E-file System (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep 1040EZ is great IF you qualify. You need to make less than $50k. Also have less than $400 in interest income. You can not claim dividends or capital gains or rental income, etc. ALSO if you have Obama Care you will receive a 1095A listing all government monthly subsidies and they count as income. So no EZ for you. Longform 1040 only.

  17. Re:Tax Returns??? on IRS Computer Problems Shut Down Tax Return E-file System (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Because that is illegal. If you are self employed or own a business you must pay quarterly estimated income tax to the IRS. If you owe too much at the end of the year you will be penalized the next year. 15 years ago I owed $1200 on filing. I got a nasty gram stating if I owed more than $700 the next year I would be fined a certain %.

  18. You can do this with any old non computer controlled vehicle with a traditional clutch. You only need to disable the neutral safety switch and pull the coil lead off. Less than 30 seconds is fine. With a cooling down period between.

  19. Re: You want to cheat on your wife? on Ashley Madison Blackmail Letter Revealed (grahamcluley.com) · · Score: 1

    Not that easy. If you just live together depending on the state it is considered a common law marriage. The time together dependens on the state. Relationship contracts like prenups will still need to go through court if it is a bad breakup. God forbid if kids are involved.

  20. Re: POP/IMAP Affected Also? on Yahoo Fixes Bug That Could Compromise Email Accounts When Opening an Email (klikki.fi) · · Score: 1

    How are they going to serve you adds?

  21. Re: "other people" on Gardasil Cleared of Anti-Vax Nonsense (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    For instance you can not enroll a child in public school without immunizations records. Looks like home school only for your kids.

  22. Re:RF? on Obama Orders Feds To Study Smart Gun Technology (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    WRONG. Nice try, though. That's not what it meant. It meant "to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.:", in this case, that standing armies are injurious to freedom. It meant "to adjust to some standard or requirement, as amount, degree, etc.:" and "to adjust so as to ensure accuracy of operation:", and "to put in good order", as in, to do the will of the people. It had nothing to do with training. It had to do with the direction in which it was pointed. If you read the writings of the people who wrote and supported the thing, it is clear that this was the purpose, and not for providing for the national defense.

    BULLSHIT.
    "that standing armies are injurious to freedom". 100% correct. Which is why the MILITIA MUST BE ARMED. Who would make up the army then? Do you know anything about the history of the US? Read about the Civil War. They had actual militia Artillery units with cannons all privately owned. Just like a volunteer fire department today. They drilled every month. No government approval needed. How do you think both sides raised armies? Read up on Teddy Roosevelt and the rough riders. How did the roughriders happen? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  23. Re:RF? on Obama Orders Feds To Study Smart Gun Technology (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Regulated" as in well trained. Not as in governed by laws. A "well trained militia".

    The 4th definition of "Regulated".
    4. To put or maintain in order: regulate one's eating habits.

    "Militia" = All able bodied males 18 to 45 years of age.

    How do you think the Selective Service and Draft are legal? Every male 18 to 45 IS the militia.

    SO this is how the law sees it.

    "Males aged 18 to 45 well trained in using guns, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

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  24. Re:Not a surprise on Report: Activision Buys E-Sports League's Assets (esportsobserver.com) · · Score: 1

    Blizzard is dying. WOW is almost a dead game compared to what it used to be. Starcraft is on life support as an Esport soon to die. HOS (LOL ripoff) is a huge flop compared to LOL. Overwatch (TF2 ripoff) will be a flop as an Esport. Diablo still has a fanbase. Hearthstone is the only healthy and growing game/community/Esport Blizzard has.

  25. Re:Not the best examples on TSA Moves Closer To Rejecting Some State Driver's Licenses For Airline Travel (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    "Regulated" as in well trained. Not as in governed by laws. A "well trained militia".

    The 4th definition of "Regulated".
    4. To put or maintain in order: regulate one's eating habits.

    "Militia" = All able bodied males 18 to 34 years of age. Which is what makes the Selective Service and Draft legal.