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  1. Re:Star Trek was never SJW on Star Trek Discovery Gets Delayed Again As Spock's Father Is Cast (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    He's pissed as hell and comes very close to asking Worf to resign, despite it being a completely legal killing under Klingon law and being done "off the clock", not in Worf's official capacities.

    Exactly like any modern "SJW". Find me one SJW who wouldn't be pissed as hell at say a Pakistani neighbor committing an "honor killing" of his sister. We support muslim rights and cultural differences, but never the right to murder in the name of culture.

  2. Re:fake news from cnn on Russia Extends Edward Snowden's Asylum To 2020, To Offer Citizenship Next Year (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    You can criticize the government in Russia or China. It's when you start to organize a protest or movement that you disappear.

  3. If casinos were tampering with the air, the least they could do is make it less toxic so non-smokers don't feel the need to leave quickly.

  4. Re:Ridiculous or not, can't fly my toy copter with on Moon Express Raises $20 Million In Series B-1, Fully Funds Trip To The Moon (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Is registering your name so we know who to blame if you fly your toy into something important causing expensive damage actually over-regulation?

  5. Re:There will be no train on California's Bullet Train Hurtles Towards a Multibillion-Dollar Overrun (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    That's because those other places have numerous large cities along the route. California may have 40 million people, but we basically only have two centers of population: bay area/Sacramento and LA/SD. Those are about 400 miles apart, and the population in between is insignificant.

  6. Re:There will be no train on California's Bullet Train Hurtles Towards a Multibillion-Dollar Overrun (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    High speed rail will tie these two great regions even closer together, compensate for our overcrowded highways and airports, and benefit the entire state.

    It will not, because it's simply not competitive with airports and highways. Flights are significantly cheaper than the proposed costs of HSR tickets, and highways have the big advantages of being able to take more stuff / split costs with passengers / actually get to a destination that isn't on a public transit route (and of course HSR won't be much faster than driving either once you have to do 3 transfers through local bus routes and then walk a mile).

    Rail is best for commuters, but the number of people who commute from SF to LA is approximately 0, so at best that'll add new commuters rather than taking the load off anything else.

  7. Re:There will be no train on California's Bullet Train Hurtles Towards a Multibillion-Dollar Overrun (latimes.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't mind mass transit that can't pay its own way (in fact, I'd fully subsidize free public use of city bus / light rail systems to encourage their use and lower emissions). The main reason I voted against high speed rail is that it doesn't actually solve a problem -- it's not more attractive to the customers than air travel or car travel, the ticket prices aren't projected to be cheaper, the trains won't arrive sooner than planes, and by the time it's built it'll be extremely antiquated already (it's not even a true fast HSR project by today's standards, let alone 2040s standards).

    If the hyperloop had been on the ballot instead, I would've had to consider it much more strongly. It would be a very risky project also, but at least it would be innovation and it would potentially provide something new that would solve real problems.

  8. Re:Well, duh. Mass transportation is a slush fund. on California's Bullet Train Hurtles Towards a Multibillion-Dollar Overrun (latimes.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It would probably be easier for California if we built it through the base of a mountain range. Nobody owns that. Having to negotiate for ownership of the route necessarily means it'll be tied up in court for eons.

  9. Mexico will pay for it.

  10. No Linux version on Opera Neon Turns Your Web Browser Into a Mini Desktop (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    10 years ago, they treated Linux as an equal platform. Not lately.

  11. That's in the year 2019. Gotta wait 2 years.

  12. Re:That's pretty old on Scientists Calculate the Moon To Be 4.51 Billion Years Old (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Consistently reproducible bugs are still bugs. They're the kind of bugs somebody should've fixed by now.

  13. Re: Systemd, WTF? on Interviews: Ask Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst A Question (redhat.com) · · Score: 1

    Is Red Hat concerned with how systemd has driven so many Linux users to FreeBSD?

    Considering BSD has 0.7% server market share which actually declined by 0.2% over the past year, and unmeasurably microscopic desktop share, your loaded question has a false premise.

  14. Re:Guess that means on Richard Stallman Acknowledges Libreboot Is No Longer A Part of GNU (gnu.org) · · Score: 1

    I'm looking forward to the animated splash screen of a gnu being beaten to a pulp (and the ensuing animal rights controversy).

  15. It's safe to assume that the only reason to narrow it to only female and not male emacs virgins is in order to tell the overwhelmingly-male emacs evangelicals that spreading emacs is as good as sex. It's a stupid joke. RMS was no doubt generalizing to appeal to the most common group of his audience in that moment (heterosexual men), which isn't a big deal, although I understand and respect the right of other groups to be irritated by it (particularly women who are being appropriated as a reward for the crude joke).

  16. So the vi/emacs wars have finally escalated to this... there's just too much passion involved in defending one's chosen text editor to expect either side to act decently.

  17. Re:Baby and bathwater. on Richard Stallman Acknowledges Libreboot Is No Longer A Part of GNU (gnu.org) · · Score: 1

    It's still GPLed. The vast majority of GPLed projects are not GNU projects. According to Stallman this project had only been a GNU project for a very brief time, and the development team for it preceded it being GNU and continues with it post-GNU. So nothing lost except access to lawyers.

  18. A voluntary long form census is statistically completely worthless. There is absolutely no value to the data when the data no longer represents a random sample of the population, and instead represents retired people with lots of time and nobody to talk to except a form. So Harper absolutely did kill the ability of researchers to learn anything useful from the census.

  19. Re:I wouldn't live near heavy traffic on Living Near Heavy Traffic Increases Risk of Dementia, Study Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually it's much more expensive to live in a high-traffic polluted downtown area of a major city than it is to live anywhere else.

  20. Re:DAB is garbage. on Norway To Become First Country To Switch Off FM Radio (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Outside of biggest cities, FM radio is useless too. It has very poor range. Anyone who actually wants information is tuned to AM radio, which works for hundreds of miles... or at night even a thousand plus miles.

  21. Re:Not for me on Brain Region That Recognizes Faces Keeps Growing in Adulthood (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps if you can trick yourself into seeing people as objects...

  22. Re:I wonder... on Brain Region That Recognizes Faces Keeps Growing in Adulthood (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    For the purposes of the question asked, "extroverted individuals" is presumably a shorthand for "people who talk to new people more often" (and thus have more faces to remember). The true definition of extroversion isn't relevant.

  23. Re:hand over control to automata and others on A Squishy Clockwork BioBot Releases Doses of Drugs Inside the Body (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Use only Stallman-approved FOSS organs. They may crash a lot and be missing some features and not have any drivers to interface with your other organs, but you'll spend the rest of your life feeling ethical.

  24. Re:Propaganda? on Fewer People Are Dying of Cancer Than Ever Before (theoutline.com) · · Score: 2

    Libertarians think that forcing someone else to prolong your life is selfish and wrong.

    I believe that a chance for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness should be a universal human right. I believe libertarians are selfish and wrong for denying their fellow humans the right to live. It takes a not merely selfish but downright sadistic society to knowingly let millions of citizens die by denying them health coverage, and then turn around and ask the dying man in the street "how could you be so selfish and wrong as to try to force me to prolong your life?"

  25. Re:Propaganda? on Fewer People Are Dying of Cancer Than Ever Before (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Many, many cancers have high survival rates when detected early. To detect it early, people have to see their doctor regularly. If you don't have insurance,you do not ever see a doctor until you're extremely ill because you know any treatment will bankrupt you. There are now fewer people without insurance. It would be utterly absurd for cancer deaths not to have been reduced as a result.