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  1. Re:Sweet on Curiosity Finds Volcanic Soils · · Score: 1

    If we can get onions to grow, then I have no problem covers Mars in onions. If we could add a legume or potatoes, so much the better.

  2. Re:Sweet on Curiosity Finds Volcanic Soils · · Score: 1

    "There are none on mars."
    And you know this..how? Tests on the soil say otherwise.
    Did you mean 'organic matter'?

    "You will need to fling large amount of ready-to-use nutrient rich soil along with those plants."
    I have no problem with that. Toss it into the northern regions. Some sort of Ivy. Lets see what happens.

  3. Re:The beginning of the end... on Self-Driving Car Faces Off Against Pro On Thunderhill Racetrack · · Score: 2

    Just like it's illegal to fly a plane manually? oh wait. More alarmist bullshit form the 'League of Alarmist through FUD."
    And if it goes where you want, why does it matter?

  4. I want to see on Self-Driving Car Faces Off Against Pro On Thunderhill Racetrack · · Score: 2

    a dozen driverless cars designed to race go at this. Would emergent behavior appear? Can we make them so decisions are recorded and then applied to the next situation?

  5. hah, my bad for forgetting on Wireless Power Over Distance: Just a Parlor Trick? · · Score: 0

    Marconi and Braun, Nobel prize winners. Tesla was like 10 when they did this.

  6. Re:Propagation, Dissipation, and Inductance on Wireless Power Over Distance: Just a Parlor Trick? · · Score: 1

    There is no billing issue. Billing would be easy.

  7. Re:What about the dangers? Does it cause cancer? on Wireless Power Over Distance: Just a Parlor Trick? · · Score: 0

    " The more energy involved the worse off I'd think "
    sigh. Do you lack all critical thinking capability? DO you often speculate about things you are ignorant about? Just say in thing that pops into your head?
    Do you even know what energy is?
    Sheesh.

  8. Re:Tesla on Wireless Power Over Distance: Just a Parlor Trick? · · Score: 2

    he didn't invent wireless communication.
    look up photophone (1880)
    or
    David E. Hughes 1889
    or
      Heinrich Hertz
    or
    Chandra Bose

    One popular comic ass talks about Tesla, makes factual wrong statements about Tesla, and every self proclaimed 'nerd' starts repeating it like it's actual fact.

  9. Re:Tesla on Wireless Power Over Distance: Just a Parlor Trick? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Tesla figured out how to broadcast power miles away, wirelessly, using technology available in the late 1800s. "
    STOP IT. this is a false statement. Tesla went bat shit crazy, and made shit up.
    Yes he was a genius and found out how to do some great stuff. Lets celebrate that and not the Bullshit myth.

    I'll be impressed when you idiot can start to separate fact from fiction.
    And before you replay, if such a device existed, billing would be trivial. IT's like people really ignorant of electrical engineering and Billing practices came together to fall under a conspiracy theory instead of ACTUAL THINKING about it.

    There are many ways to bill, but I will sum up with an example:
    I pay for sewer, yet there is no Sewer meter on my sewer line.

  10. Re:No it isn't on Wireless Power Over Distance: Just a Parlor Trick? · · Score: 0

    It'd not a billing problem. Billing is easy, your just auto subscribed if you are in their area. It's wold be a flat rate adjust at the end of the year. Billing is trivial.
    As such, it isn't a billing problem. Electric companies would LOVE not to spend money one cables, poles and linemen.

    Another conspiracy killed by common cents.
    heh.

    And you "solution" only underlines your ignorance.

  11. Re:As it was before on Wireless Power Over Distance: Just a Parlor Trick? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No he did not.
    Tesla needs props, but the Tesla myth does not.

  12. Re:B-b-but Asperger's! on D&D Monster Study Proves Eyes Have It · · Score: 1

    "Not, of course, that all D&D players have Asperger's. "
    not even most. Statistically a "fee" have it. "FEW"

    Just...just stop talking about aspergers until you know something.

  13. Re:File this under DUH on D&D Monster Study Proves Eyes Have It · · Score: 1

    Becasue common knowledge, tradition, and what we were taught as kids is always correct?
    How about to find you if it's correct? then to find out Why?

  14. Re:Neither on D&D Monster Study Proves Eyes Have It · · Score: 1

    is it? I've hear the joke for decades.

  15. Re:Basic martial arts. on D&D Monster Study Proves Eyes Have It · · Score: 1

    My Polish Fencing teacher used to say:
    "The point follows the guard. Watch it."

  16. Re:Basic martial arts. on D&D Monster Study Proves Eyes Have It · · Score: 1

    Wrong. You should give your black belt back to whoever taught you that useless piece of information.

    If they are unskilled, then you don't need to know becasue there skill alone isn't enough. If they are skilled that will use that AGAINST you.
    Aldo Nadi went into that quite a bit when teaching people how to feint. And NO its not as gross as 'Stare at a spot of a bit then attack elsewhere."

  17. Re:But... on D&D Monster Study Proves Eyes Have It · · Score: 1

    Why do you think the beholder isn't immune to it's own powers?

  18. Re:But... on D&D Monster Study Proves Eyes Have It · · Score: 1

    A slice is made between the body and the head.

  19. Re:Boobies on D&D Monster Study Proves Eyes Have It · · Score: 3, Informative

    "I hate looking at people's eyes (probably aspergers) s"

    STFU.

  20. Re:Bet Google Streets Started This on Federal Judge Approves Warrantless, Covert Video Surveillance · · Score: 1

    It's more complex then that, and that's been the ruling for decades. The only difference is now they can put cameras; and this may not even get past the supreme court. They have shot down similar things before.

  21. Re:Easy solution on Federal Judge Approves Warrantless, Covert Video Surveillance · · Score: 1

    ". I would argue that anything left on my property, which I did not have ownership, would fall under the "lost" or "abandoned" definition of Common Law. "
    and you would be wrong.

    "Also, obstruction of justice only applies to someone who is NOT a suspect. "
    not quite. It applies to people other then the suspects when questioned. Ii applies to everyone is something is physically destroy or tempered with.

    Ignoring the fact, that once the police knwo you are aware of the cameras, they will change tactics. Or simply arrest you for impeding their investigation, and use that as probably cause to get a warrant while you are sitting in jail.

    Personally, I would get a lawyer.
    This assumes you don't actually have pot planet growing in your yard. IF you do, and you find cameras, you basically have two option.
    Get rid of the plants as soon as possible.
    Disappear into Mexico.

    It's also quaint that you assume there would be a van somewhere and not a wifi connecting into a network. like a repeater to a cell tower.

  22. Re:My Sign on Federal Judge Approves Warrantless, Covert Video Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Yes, that you intend to kill people legally entering your property and you are threatening people NOT on your property.

    "herp derp..I have a gun and I can point it at people and threaten them herp derp."

  23. Re:wait on Federal Judge Approves Warrantless, Covert Video Surveillance · · Score: 0

    Did you rad and/or understand anything beyond the title?

    It's give the government the power over private companies for oversight.

  24. Re:wait on Federal Judge Approves Warrantless, Covert Video Surveillance · · Score: 2

    Since it's likely the next president will replace the supreme court justices, yes, the president will matter. Romeny is pro corporation, and very much a 'They must be guilty or they wouldn't be under surveillance". kind of guy. Keep that in mind if you vote.

  25. Re:Where's the Part of the Ballot that Matters? on Google Launches Open Source Voter Information Tool · · Score: 1

    It will, becasue you bond interest rate may be impacted, as will the willingness to lend.