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  1. Probably invented Tomacco. The Simpson's will be suing them for copyright violation.

  2. A use for west Texas.

  3. Re:Try Canada on Trump's Tech Battle With China Roils Bill Gates Nuclear Venture (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Renewables are hard to sell to other countries for profit.

  4. Try making money by repairing iPhones on Tim Cook to Investors: People Bought Fewer New iPhones Because They Repaired Their Old Ones (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why doesn't Apple offer to repair old iPhones? They could make extra money.

  5. There is a post on this already on China 'Lifts Mysterious Veil' by Landing Probe on Far Side of the Moon (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Second post on the same subject on the same day?

  6. Re:And why should I care? on Why the West Coast Is Suddenly Beating the East Coast on Transportation (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    To avoid a 3 hour traffic jams? I had to drive 7 miles in LA, took 45 minutes. This was during the middle of the day, not rush hour. A subway would have taken a few minutes to travel that distance.

  7. Re:Try Canada on Trump's Tech Battle With China Roils Bill Gates Nuclear Venture (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    But they are against pipelines to send it anywhere. Instead they load it on trains which crash and blow up small Quebec towns.

  8. It's not far from Seattle. Much easier to get to than China.

  9. I'm waiting for Windows 11 on Windows 10 Passes Windows 7 in Market Share (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I hear it's one louder.

  10. Re:pancake mode or it doesnt happen on Chrome on Windows 10 To Get Dark Mode Feature Soon (hothardware.com) · · Score: 0

    with syrup and butter.

  11. Re:Just look at Slashdot on Chrome on Windows 10 To Get Dark Mode Feature Soon (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    or an off mode.

  12. Re:They'll just buy more from overseas on The EU is Banning Almost All Coal Mining on Jan 1 (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    And more natural gas from Russia.

  13. They'll just buy more from overseas on The EU is Banning Almost All Coal Mining on Jan 1 (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    EU countries will just import more coal from overseas.

  14. Turn it up to 11...

  15. Re:One weird Lunar Eclipse trick on China Gets on the Bandwagon To Provide Global Satellite Internet (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    That's called Earthshine, and it is very much brighter than the total eclipsed part of the Moon, plus the Moon is much dimmer since it is only partially lit. The full Earth is very large and bright as seen from the Moon. The tiny bit of sunlight that is refracted by the Earth's atmosphere during a lunar eclipse is nothing in comparison.

  16. Re:One weird Lunar Eclipse trick on China Gets on the Bandwagon To Provide Global Satellite Internet (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Because the human eye is pathetic at seeing things that have vastly different brightness. As long as part of the surface is brightly lit, your eye perceives the rest as dark. See this illustration, If you use a camera and overexpose the bright side, you see that the dark side is indeed red: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  17. Re:With all the planned low-orbit satellites plann on China Gets on the Bandwagon To Provide Global Satellite Internet (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    They will just start running into each other. Survival of the fittest.

  18. Move to Canada, where all the money is made of plastic. Problem solved.

  19. I saw a sign on the news about Brexit. They were talking about the border, and the sign said "Welcome to Northern Ireland, all speed limits are in miles per hour." I'm glad Great Britain switched to the metric system back in the '70s.

  20. Re:and now I feel old on How One Merchandiser Lost $1M Trying to Monetize the 'Hamster Dance' Site (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    I still have a copy of the original web site. No idea why I have keep it all that time.

  21. Put Sears on Layaway on Sears, the 125-Year-Old Iconic Retailer, Has 24 Hours To Survive (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Someone should put Sears on layaway. Then they can pay for it over time.

  22. Re:Kurdistan Doesn't Exist on Google Erases Kurdistan From Maps in Compliance With Turkish Government (kurdistan24.net) · · Score: 0

    Correction: wasn't

  23. Re:Kurdistan Doesn't Exist on Google Erases Kurdistan From Maps in Compliance With Turkish Government (kurdistan24.net) · · Score: 2

    Pakistan was a place that didn't exist, either. But, if you kill enough people, you to can have your own country.

  24. Re:Stop moving to where the "weather is nice" on There's A Lot At Stake In The Weekly US Drought Map (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    You forgot 10 Million mosquitos.

  25. Stop moving to where the "weather is nice" on There's A Lot At Stake In The Weekly US Drought Map (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    Nice weather means clear skies. Without rain. Stop moving to dry areas and then complain that there is no water. Move to Minnesota. Land of 10,000 lakes.