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  1. Re:Comparative advantage is BS on Russia Bans US Use of Its Rocket Engines For Military Launches · · Score: 1

    Pre-WWI prosperity... where even the richest countries had massive child labor and 15 hour work days in squalid conditions that make a modern Chinese factory look like a worker's paradise? Right.

  2. Re:Space programs as a crowbar? on Russia Bans US Use of Its Rocket Engines For Military Launches · · Score: 1

    The majority of people were born much more recently than 40s. I gather your solution to the middle east is to move all the Israelis back to the countries their grandparents lived in 70 years ago, too... no more humane than Stalin.

  3. Re:Hmmm... on Can Google Influence Elections? · · Score: 1

    Google News is just the opposite, though -- it presents you with versions of a story from many different papers/slants/countries so you can see all sides of the story when you normally wouldn't. Of course, you still have to click.

  4. Re:So a bicyclist is safer..... on Traffic Optimization: Cyclists Should Roll Past Stop Signs, Pause At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    no one gets away paying no tax at all

    Well, homeless shoplifters do.

  5. Re:How is Burying Africa Under PCs Going to Help? on $7 USB Stick Aims To Bring Thousands of Poor People Online · · Score: 3, Informative

    A multiparty democracy whose president is wanted by the ICC for war crimes relating to the deadly ethnic riots he caused in the last election.

  6. Re:time for a new public licence on US Military Drones Migrating To Linux · · Score: 1

    If knife developers had the option of adding a license clause forbidding the use of their knives in muggings, perhaps they would.

  7. They're all clones of Jango Fett, but clones degrate over the years and the later generation clones lose the aiming gene.

  8. Re:Expect complaint to FAA in 3, 2, 1... on Drone Camera Tornado Coverage Raises Press Freedom Questions · · Score: 1

    First complainant is automatically volunteered for the business opportunity of flying a helicopter into a tornado.

  9. Re:It depends on the hat you're wearing on Drone Camera Tornado Coverage Raises Press Freedom Questions · · Score: 0

    Impeachment isn't a criminal charge, you can only be fired not go to jail. And Nixon illustrates the immunity from real consequences for illegal acts, if he'd been anyone but the president he'd have gone to jail.

  10. Re:tabs on bottom have been removed on Firefox 29: Redesign · · Score: 1

    It was seriously wrong, yes, but it wasn't really a UI issue.

  11. Re:tabs on bottom have been removed on Firefox 29: Redesign · · Score: 1

    There was nothing seriously wrong with the KDE 4 UI, it was the fact that they released it before they'd implemented most of the KDE 3 features that upset people.

  12. Re:Share of warehouse inventory not good metric on Microsoft Continues To Lose Money With Each Surface Tablet It Sells · · Score: 1

    Use != web browsing. I love my android tablet, but I never use it for web browsing unless it's just for testing a design.

  13. Re:How many trillion would it cost to return on Decommissioning Nuclear Plants Costing Far More Than Expected · · Score: 1

    Residents/senators of the area of that one storage plant would still forbid it, perhaps on the grounds that radioactive waste would have be transported through their community to get there. It's not a technical problem, it's an irrational public fear problem.

  14. Re:Occams Razor on Proposed Indicator of Life On Alien Worlds May Be Bogus · · Score: 1

    Doesn't that have to be a pretty big moon to have a measurable atmosphere, and isn't that likely to be very rare for terrestrial planets? Even Earth's moon seems abnormally large for a terrestrial planet, far bigger than any others known.

  15. Re:In the future... on Google Using Self-Driving Car Data To Make Cars Smarter · · Score: 1

    If civilization collapses, you don't have cars to drive. So you should only be lamenting how few people know how to ride a horse.

  16. Re:Still waiting to see 3 things on Google Using Self-Driving Car Data To Make Cars Smarter · · Score: 1

    Many people drive rarely already. They cope.

  17. Re:Still waiting to see 3 things on Google Using Self-Driving Car Data To Make Cars Smarter · · Score: 1

    Worst case, it's not hard to make a vehicle pull over and ask a human to drive when the weather gets bad. And we already rely on mechanical windshield wipers for humans to operate cars in weather.

  18. Re:Tomorow I'll look at another stone slighly dark on NASA Mars Rover Begins Examining Strange Slab Nicknamed "Windjana" · · Score: 3, Funny
  19. Re:Is this true? on Waste Management: The Critical Element For Nuclear Energy Expansion · · Score: 1

    The problem is the people of Nevada. They would not elect anyone who would put nuclear waste in their metaphorical back yard, because fear.

  20. Re:One of these things is not like the others... on China Censors "The Big Bang Theory" and Other Streaming Shows · · Score: 1

    When it comes to language disparities, I think India at least equals China with its hundreds of languages and cultures. And manages to be relatively democratic, if highly flawed and still prone to some censorship.

  21. Re:The diffciulty in getting carnivores to switch on Bill Gates & Twitter Founders Put "Meatless" Meat To the Test · · Score: 1

    But why do we need some new "beyond meat" product? I like eating meat, but even I think current cheap supermarket veggie burgers taste better than the McDonald's sort of meat.

  22. Re:30% is such a nice cut on Amazon Turns Off In-App Purchases In iOS Comixology · · Score: 5, Informative

    And virtually everyone else that offers payment processing services

    Only in mobile app walled gardens. PayPal, 2checkout, authorize.net etc only take about 3%.

  23. Re:Funny thing on Former US Test Site Sues Nuclear Nations For Disarmament Failure · · Score: 3, Informative

    When it comes to trade, the WTO has leverage and has successful punished the USA for violations. Nobody has any leverage to enforce the NPT.

  24. Re:Good for them! on Former US Test Site Sues Nuclear Nations For Disarmament Failure · · Score: 1

    Only significant factor? The European Union is a pretty significant factor in preventing something like WWI or WWII, and much of the rest of the world hasn't been at peace.

  25. Re:Alternative to one tough tablet on The $5,600 Tablet · · Score: 1

    MicroSD cards aren't particularly breakable. That's where you put your data.