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  1. Aircraft? on Supersonic Jet Could Fly NYC To London In 3 Hours · · Score: 1

    I want a sub-orbital

  2. Re:Won't save most of the 4000 lives on The Economic Consequences of Self-Driving Trucks · · Score: 1

    Pros vs Amateurs

  3. Re:The bases have to be built from local material on NASA Announces the 3D Printed Habitat Challenge For Moon and Mars Bases · · Score: 1

    or, no water required https://youtu.be/6ajzOaauYa4

  4. Re:Ability to multitask on Microsoft Study Finds Technology Hurting Attention Spans · · Score: 1

    proven that multitasking up to 5 tasks works

  5. Re:Impossible! on Microsoft Study Finds Technology Hurting Attention Spans · · Score: 1
    I have a really cleaver proof that this is not possible

    while I just have a cleaver

  6. Re:News for shills, stuff that costs money on How Windows 10 Performs On a 12-inch MacBook · · Score: 2

    Problem childhood?

  7. Re:carsickness on Will Robot Cars Need Windows? · · Score: 1

    Planes have windows for passengers and there is nothing for them to see

  8. Re:Saudi Arabia, etc. on Carly Fiorina Calls Apple's Tim Cook a 'Hypocrite' On Gay Rights · · Score: 0
    "The difference between SA and Indiana is that Indiana protects religious freedom"

    So I guess you're a straight white male, and vote the Republican ticket

  9. Re:Vimeo on Ask Slashdot: Options Beyond YouTube For An Indie Web Show? · · Score: 1

    If you are at all familiar with it, Vimeo has a bit more class, and it's users are a bit more sophisticated and their product quite a bit more polished and professional appearing, than the standard YT'er, with their "oops, dropped the camera again" dialogue

  10. Re:And redundancies come through faster as well! on Inexpensive Electric Cars May Arrive Sooner Than You Think · · Score: 1

    Until they come up with that, how about 84 MPG, 125 MPH top speed, tandem seating, 5 star crash rating, all for https://www.eliomotors.com/

  11. Re:And redundancies come through faster as well! on Inexpensive Electric Cars May Arrive Sooner Than You Think · · Score: 1

    The authors found that batteries appear on track to reach $230 per kilowatt-hour by 2018. The authors found that batteries appear on track to reach $230 per kilowatt-hour by 2018.

    Perhaps some time after 2018 we will see editing of article summaries before they go to the front page as well? Nah, probably not.

    OP should just change name to Johnny Two Times

  12. Re:What an Embarrassingly Vapid Article on Focusing On Tech Alone, You Miss How Autonomous Driving Will Change Society · · Score: 1

    I agree with almost every one of your points, but there exists a prejudice against ANY automobile automation because it isn't "macho", or dilutes the "driving experience" EG, the auto vs manual transmission debate: Automatic transmissions have proved themselves far superior in many racing venues, yet all you here is "real men only drive a manual" Meh!

  13. Re:Yes. on Google 'Makes People Think They Are Smarter Than They Are' · · Score: 1
    What ever happened to:

    " the mark of an intelliugent man is not if he knows the answer, but where to find it"?

  14. Re:To see what happens... on NASA-ESA Project Will Shoot an Asteroid To See What Happens · · Score: 1

    you forgot " hold my beer"

  15. Any takers? on Jeremy Clarkson Dismissed From Top Gear · · Score: 1

    $20 US says he'll be back on the telly within 60 days

  16. Re:Hmmm on RadioShack Puts Customer Data Up For Sale In Bankruptcy Auction · · Score: 1

    "I personally love walking out of Best Buy while their "security guard" yells at me " Friend did that twice @ Sam's Club, Third time he went, he got banned

  17. Re:Do It, it worked in AZ on Gen Con Threatens To Leave Indianapolis Over Religious Freedom Bill · · Score: 1

    "denying to do so to others on whatever whim" illustrates the freedom for your business to fail, because you're an a-hole

  18. Re:Just Askin' on Come and Take It, Texas Gun Enthusiasts (Video) · · Score: 1

    "“Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed.” Abraham Lincoln In "The Second Amendment: A History", Michael Waldman quotes that statement from Abraham Lincoln by way of explaining that judges, even Supreme Court justices, are not much different from politicians when it comes to public opinion: It informs, even where it does not direct, their actions and decisions. The Supreme Court only got around to affirming the individual’s right to gun ownership in 2008—by then the court’s decision in District of Columbia v. Heller was more or less in line with public opinion, which itself had changed markedly over time, thanks largely to a two-pronged propaganda blitz by the National Rifle Association and the equally vociferous arguments of conservative legal "scholars". In 1959, a Gallup poll reported that 60 percent of Americans favored banning handguns; by 2012, that figure had dropped to 24 percent. Waldman is not cynically suggesting that the Supreme Court is a slave to public opinion. Rather, he is pointing out what should be obvious but is too often ignored: The court does not operate in a vacuum. Our view of the Second Amendment, he writes, “is set at every stage [of the nation’s history], NOT BY A PRISTINE CONSTITUTIONAL TEXT , but by the push-and-pull, the rough-and-tumble of political advocacy and public agitation.” I rest my case

  19. Re:Just Askin' on Come and Take It, Texas Gun Enthusiasts (Video) · · Score: 1

    ""A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State... "... the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." The People are to be armed, to protect the country (which is The People), AGAINST its own army, if need be. " an awful lot of personal opinion there "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed — and hence clamorous to be led to safety — by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." And, "The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it." H.L. Mencken

  20. Re:Just Askin' on Come and Take It, Texas Gun Enthusiasts (Video) · · Score: 1

    and seeing as how, when the 2nd amendment was written, there wasn't a hell of a lot of "densely populated regions", and those regions that were populated, densely or otherwise, many had laws that said that when in town, leave your guns at sheriff's office, get them back when you leave Look, I own guns, I used to hunt ( as a personal, don't any more), but I love target shooting Own an Olympic grade air rifle, and my personal motto is: Ten shots, 10 meters, one hole (it's sort of a Zen thing)

  21. Ahh, excuse me, but on Come and Take It, Texas Gun Enthusiasts (Video) · · Score: 1

    What about the 18th Century eludes your understanding?

  22. Re:Sound effects... on NBC Thinks Connected Gloves and "Bullet Time" Can Make Boxing Cool · · Score: 1

    Boxing hasn't been cool since Tyson cut Cus D'Amato and Kevin Rooney loose, and he took up with Don King

  23. Re:Yep, the government _is_ the terrorist ! on UK Prime Minister Says Gov't Should Be Capable of Reading Any Communications · · Score: 1

    Just beacuse you can do something, does not mean you should, welcome my friend to the machine

  24. Re:Advanced Workings.... on Ask Slashdot: Linux Distro For Hybrid Laptop? · · Score: 1

    Does anyone else remember a time when the rolling own your kernel modules for devices to work properly was considered advanced? And now almost everything works out of the box. I guess I'm getting old.

    We all are

  25. Re:Too bad... on Wind Power Is Cheaper Than Coal, Leaked Report Shows · · Score: 1

    Logically, once the plant's paid for, it has to be. The other guys are still buying coal.