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  1. Re:Why don't you drop the car altogether? on Electric Vehicles Might Not Benefit the Environment After All · · Score: 1

    I tried that, this is what happened to me:

    http://www.maitrise-orthop.com/corpusmaitri/orthopaedic/mo58_spine_fracture/images/planche3_fig6.jpeg

    That is not my Xray, but mine does look very similar I just don't have a digital copy.

  2. Re:Fundamental problem on Electric Vehicles Might Not Benefit the Environment After All · · Score: 1

    It absolutely is possible. Technology will find a way. Lets just hope it is fast enough.

  3. Re:Knee Jerk on Electric Vehicles Might Not Benefit the Environment After All · · Score: 1

    Regulations usually get the desired results, but rarely get the promised results.

  4. Re:Who cares? on Electric Vehicles Might Not Benefit the Environment After All · · Score: 1

    It doesn't even have to compete with gas/petrol fueled cars, it just has to supply my needs and be as cheap or cheaper than ICE. Just like how a tablet doesn't compete against PCs, yet fill the needs of users that never really needed a PC but had one anyway.

  5. Re:Geopolitics vs Environment on Electric Vehicles Might Not Benefit the Environment After All · · Score: 1

    Oil is traded on a world market. It doesn't matter where the individual barrel of oil comes from. The happenings of one oil supplier affects them all.

  6. Re:Yet another great argument... on D.C. Awards Obamacare IT Work To Offshore Outsourcer · · Score: 1

    Interestingly every time an outsource deal like this comes up, there is an outcry of the few people directly affected. It completely ignores the fact that the market as a whole has demonstrably shown to increase in both new jobs created and overall wealth and standard of living for everyone.

    All to often people think of a change to an economic market as being static to the current market, but that change also changes the way the market as a whole works. Things that are good for some are also good for all.

  7. Re:State of Oklahoma as well on Employers Switching From Payroll Checks To Prepaid Cards With Fees · · Score: 1

    Exactly, big business can do only very little associated within their particular focus without the threat of force that government can provide.

  8. Re:Oh Sure. More Supply == More Demand on Immigration Bill Passes the Senate, Includes More H-1B Visas · · Score: 1

    But that's what we're arguing about is an increase in the price of labor above what the market will bare. Because there was a shortage of good US workers their price went up to the point it is above their value. So people are looking to be able to shop around and find a lower price.

  9. Re:Oh Sure. More Supply == More Demand on Immigration Bill Passes the Senate, Includes More H-1B Visas · · Score: 1

    If something costs more than the market will pay and nobody will supply it at a fair market rate there is, by definition, a shortage.

  10. Re:Now there's a petition on whitehouse.gov... on Tesla Faces Tough Regulatory Hurdle From State Dealership Laws · · Score: 1

    Don't forget they took the time to rule that a tomato is a vegetable no matter what dem skientist said.

  11. Re:Now there's a petition on whitehouse.gov... on Tesla Faces Tough Regulatory Hurdle From State Dealership Laws · · Score: 1

    1) Only as far as they can twist an interpretation of the law.

    2) executive orders have become the new legislative branch.

  12. Re:He should have gone to the Pawn Stars shop on TN Man Indicted For Romney Blackmail Attempt: Wanted $1M In Bitcoins · · Score: 1
  13. Re:From a citizen's standpoint on Supreme Court Overturns Defense of Marriage Act · · Score: 1

    You make a good point, I renounce my Libertarian membership and now join the church of the sub-genius PraiseBob!! or what ever new party has your rules If just to get rid of reality TV.

  14. Re:This just in.... on The $200,000 Software Developer · · Score: 1

    Ohh, I get it. One person in the world has a 100 IQ and everyone else has something 99 and lower or 101 and higher. That makes perfect sense.

  15. Re:Finally some competition for Wayland on Xfce, LXDE, GNOME3 Desktops Running On Ubuntu Mir Via XMir · · Score: 1

    X11 is a little long in tooth, X12 will most likely be the next windows system.

  16. Re:This just in.... on The $200,000 Software Developer · · Score: 1

    Actually yes I am. That bell curve you like to force into this in order to "win" is actually a bathtub curve with a large portion of the people at or near enough identical intelligence in the middle and a much smaller portion of people above and below that middle. Unless you can give me a test that says two people with a 100 IQ don't have the exact same intelligence than you are wrong.

  17. Re:Dogs and Ponies, Center Stage on Obama's Climate Plans Face Long Fight · · Score: 1

    If you check the link i sent it compares people actually making things (Mfg:population), which is why the US isn't #1 and not just the output divided by the number of people.

  18. Re:The Not-So-Glorious Reality on The Glorious Return of the Twinkie · · Score: 1

    Exactly, how about just pay me for the hours I work and let me decide how I want to invest it.

  19. Re:lets just update this for brevity. on Obama's Climate Plans Face Long Fight · · Score: 1

    If there really was a "party of no" I'd vote for it.

  20. Re:Dogs and Ponies, Center Stage on Obama's Climate Plans Face Long Fight · · Score: 1

    According to this http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2009104319/g20-manufacturing-output-capita he would be mostly right. There is only a few other per-capita output countries higher than the US.
    And none with an even close to the amount of manufacturing produced in the US overall.

  21. Re:Dogs and Ponies, Center Stage on Obama's Climate Plans Face Long Fight · · Score: 1

    Get a 401k or a mutual fund or buy some stock and then you too can be one of the corporate masters getting money and economic benefit from all the average Americans.

  22. Re: A great win for FreeBSD on PlayStation 4 Will Be Running Modified FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    Yes, a slight churn in FreeBSD developers at sony will produce more FreeBSD developers with lots of experience.

  23. Re:This just in.... on The $200,000 Software Developer · · Score: 1

    Because in the middle of the range there will be a large number of people with the exact same IQ or inteligence or what ever no matter how you test it. What your saying is like having 6 12" rulers and 20 yard sticks and saying exactly half of my measuring devices are below 30.4 inches. It's just not true.

  24. Re:thats what you get for being stupid on Bitcoin Exchange Mt. Gox Halts USD Withdrawals · · Score: 1

    Ohh yea, sorry, government good, private industry bad. What was I thinking, let me bow to my masters.

  25. Re:thats what you get for being stupid on Bitcoin Exchange Mt. Gox Halts USD Withdrawals · · Score: 1

    Blaming the banks is as bad as blaming someone that decided to skip out on a lower paying job because they could continue to collect unemployment for another year or more. They are both in the wrong, but they were put in a government back situation where it would be stupid not to go along with it.