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  1. Re:At borders and for other jack booted thugs. on The USB Kill Stick, Priced at $56, Is Designed To Destroy Laptops, PCs, TVs (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Congratulations, you've just won yourself a free 10 year stay in beautiful tropical Guantanamo Bay!

  2. I can persuade them to apply the water by telling them their DVD tray is a cup holder.

  3. Re:Great Job, EU! Blurring the lines of Copyright! on Linking Without Permission Violates Copyright, Rules EU Court (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't that a headline from the past, when Spanish newspapers sued google over news summaries and won?

  4. Re:Double standard with renewable classification. on Costa Rica Has Gone 76 Straight Days Using 100% Renewable Electricity (vox.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The problem with hydro is that it's impossible to build more dams in countries with environmental regulations, water rights laws and lawyers.

  5. I used your link to translate your post to Chinese and back, and got "Machine translation is free and very good now are google's bottom quality curve even free so rarely realize it. See the Http://www.freetranslation.com... freetranslation.com] better results."

  6. Cuba is efficient at constraining dissent, yet surprisingly less brutal about it than most dictatorships. They have political prisoners, but they never execute them anymore. Often they let them out of jail and just harass and disrupt them.

  7. Re:Linux supported Kaby Lake features in March on Why Intel Kaby Lake and AMD Zen Will Only Be Optimized On Windows 10 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Was that support backported into Linux 2.6.X from 2009? If not, then how is that different from MS not backporting to Win7?

    A more apt analogy would be if Intel/AMD required systemd for full support for their new processors.

  8. There are more than two candidates. If Americans vote for one they hate anyway, they deserve what they get.

  9. Re:So then Hillary is the warmonger on US Investigating Potential Covert Russian Plan To Disrupt November Elections (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    And in the case of Saudi Arabia, besides the deeply intertwined business investments, we're their main best buddy arms dealer and international apologist for their brutality and protector against Iran.

  10. Re:So then Hillary is the warmonger on US Investigating Potential Covert Russian Plan To Disrupt November Elections (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    She probably will go for four, but the fourth will likely be Iran, certainly not Russia.

  11. Re:So then Hillary is the warmonger on US Investigating Potential Covert Russian Plan To Disrupt November Elections (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    If Russia is with Trump, then electing Trump will mean we will not go to war with Russia

    That's not reasonable logic unless you think Russia is all-knowing and wise. Russia likes Trump because he speaks Putin's aggressive language and thwarts/embarrasses the USA internationally with erratic behavior. Those same factors could lead him into a war with Russia when his manly ego collides with Putin's over something.

  12. Re:The Poor are Poor for a reason... on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    Our wages have hardly doubled since the 70's yet the cost of living has almost quintupled.

    You're just making stuff up out of thin air. The median income in 1970 was $7701, in 1979 it was $15,177. Adjusted for inflation (aka real cost of living, not the big screen TVs and trips to Jamaica somebody suddenly decides they need to be comfortable) that's $47,538 and $50,089. And 2014 was $53,013.

  13. Re:Won't work in America on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    You know, that's what the obamaphone program is for. Gives poor people inexpensive smartphones with free plans that do the job for that.

  14. Re:Won't work in America on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    As a matter of public interest, we need to house homeless people. Even those not responsible enough to rent housing when we give them money. Not that we're really doing it effectively right now, so UBI can't make it worse.

  15. Re:China's Four Pests Campaign on Should We Kill All The Mosquitoes? (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    A campaign done in complete ignorance by a brutal dictator ignoring all science didn't work, therefore forget science?

  16. Re:Meh on Should We Kill All The Mosquitoes? (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    People have driven so many species extinct that we're a major global extinction event. Suddenly when we decide to do it intentionally just once to the most disastrous killers who server no purpose in their ecosystem and are easily replaced by non-harmful species, that's when it becomes wrong?

  17. Re:Most likely explanation on NASA's Impossible Propulsion EmDrive Is Heading to Space (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    If it can extend the orbit of the satellite from weeks to months as is the stated plan, then it would become commercially valuable whether or not it's truly reactionless. I very much doubt it will do so, but if he's not trying to make somebody else pay for it then great.

  18. Re:Countdown to endless arguments in 3.. 2.. 1.. on NASA's Impossible Propulsion EmDrive Is Heading to Space (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    How are you going to weigh the satellite after it burns up in the atmosphere? With the space shuttle retired, there's nothing that can possibly retrieve a satellite and bring it back to Earth.

  19. Re:BSD on the rise on PC-BSD Follows a Rolling Release Model, Gets Renamed To TrueOS · · Score: 1

    The GPL v4 requires all linked code to prefix GNU/ to the name of the product and the author's first born child.

  20. Corruption in Russia isn't news on The Unsettling Relationship Between Russia and Wikileaks (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Who's going to waste time publishing "shocking" allegations of Putin's ill-begotten wealth or deep-rooted corruption at all levels of Russian government when everyone both inside and outside Russia has known about it forever? You might as well publish "water is still wet".

    Wikileaks did do some good work exposing specific corruption in some African nations, but didn't get a lot of media attention for it since nobody was particularly shocked by the allegations.

  21. Since corporations are people on Google Cancels Project Ara Modular Smartphone Plans, Says Report (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It's time we started diagnosing corporations with mental disorders. Google has clearly been suffering a serious case of ADHD. Can we get them on adderall pronto?

  22. Re:welcome to the new microsoft on Google Cancels Project Ara Modular Smartphone Plans, Says Report (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    But this is Google canceling a project! Google, the company famed for following though on all ideas to their natural conclusion, which never quits on a project, who we all rely on for their steadfast determination to never change course or abandon anything.

  23. Re:linux etc on New Intel and AMD Chips Will Only Support Windows 10 (pcworld.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Political correctness is the being polite and considerate to others of today. But don't worry, liberals like the ACLU will continue to fight for your right to be offensive. The only thing we don't do is pretend you're not offensive.

  24. Re:Failure on the *pad* not the rocket on Falcon 9 Explodes On Pad (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Not only have the insurance companies already signed off on the re-used rocket, they've insured it at a similar price to first-use rockets:
    "There also was “no material change” in the insurance rate compared to using a new Falcon 9 rocket, indicating insurers’ confidence in the launch vehicle, Halliwell said."
    http://www.latimes.com/busines...

  25. Re:Failure on the *pad* not the rocket on Falcon 9 Explodes On Pad (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    SpaceX has been doing static fire tests before every launch for years. This is the first time one blew up. Better for it to blow up during testing than on actual launch, at any rate, if you're planning to eventually launch humans with it.