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  1. Re:Clap clap on In Maryland, a Soviet-Style Punishment For a Novelist · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Check off one more box on the list of Police State attributes we are now experiencing.

  2. Re:Just like the wheel. on Feds Want Nuclear Waste Train, But Don't Know Where It Would Go · · Score: 4, Funny

    It would probably take 20 years for the conceptual designs, material selection, laboratory testing of the materials, CAD design, prototype building (a dozen or so), THEN come the lawsuits, Congressional hearings, de-funding, re-funding, de-funding again, re-funding again, route selection, more lawsuits, different route selections ( Repeat ) and finally protestors chaining themselves to everything in the way before the first load of wastes is ready to go anywhere.

  3. So, it's Los Angeles?

  4. Re:Putin: "Your move, West" on Russian Military Forces Have Now Invaded Ukraine · · Score: 1

    Who knows what the truth is now?

    You can't trust Putin.

    You can't trust Obama.

    You can't trust the media.

  5. Re:Putin: "Your move, West" on Russian Military Forces Have Now Invaded Ukraine · · Score: 1

    "Because fuck you, that's why. LOL!

    If you don't mind, I'm going to use this in my every day life (when appropriate).

  6. Re:Putin: "Your move, West" on Russian Military Forces Have Now Invaded Ukraine · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Obama will be breaking out his Red pen anytime now...Red Line imminent!

      His phone is on standby too!

  7. Re:This is what they mean by "point of no return" on Numerous Methane Leaks Found On Atlantic Sea Floor · · Score: 1

    So the world will be really, really stinky for about 9 years?

  8. Re:Resistance is futile! on Robo Brain Project Wants To Turn the Internet Into a Robotic Hivemind · · Score: 1

    Is that Shakespeare's brother or something?

  9. Re:I forced myself to watch it on Put A Red Cross PSA In Front Of the ISIS Beheading Video · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Could it be the HUGE uptick in the amount of anti-semitism is the result of the immigration of a HUGE number Islamic radicals?

  10. Re:Not exactly endearing you to the public on Tech Looks To Obama To Save Them From 'Just Sort of OK' US Workers · · Score: 1

    Yes, actually. For instance, Facebook is shit from a UI viewpoint. What moron designed that? It looks and feels like it was designed by some dorm room college student...oh, wait! It was! And they stuck with that!

  11. Re:The US does not have an IT talent monopoly on Tech Looks To Obama To Save Them From 'Just Sort of OK' US Workers · · Score: 1

    Complete Fucking Bullshit.

    Like it or not, we have system that DOES control who works here. They want an exception so they can hire cheaper people. Their arguments aren't based on technological superiority, but costs. They fire people and then whine that they have no one and need to import workers

    If they want to hire people from outside the U.S, set up shop overseas. Don't bring the Third World here.

  12. Re:Not exactly endearing you to the public on Tech Looks To Obama To Save Them From 'Just Sort of OK' US Workers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So this tool just shit on U.S. workers and claims that people who are essentially nothing but ITT Tech graduates from a third world country are superior.

    They are cheaper, more subservient, less likely to push for raises, and are perfectly happy work 60-80 our weeks.

    I'm sure he has illegals mowing his lawn too. I wonder if Google Car can be programed to run someone down.

  13. Re:god dammit. on Solar Plant Sets Birds On Fire As They Fly Overhead · · Score: 4, Informative
  14. Re:Reactors and Magnetic Shielding on Modular Hive Homes Win Mars Base Design Competition · · Score: 1

    To Clarify...what size would be needed to drive a magnetic fields large/strong enough to provide protection for a small base?

  15. Reactors and Magnetic Shielding on Modular Hive Homes Win Mars Base Design Competition · · Score: 1

    Putting aside the logistics of getting a reactor to Mars (along with a myriad of other things that are currently "put aside") what size reactor/electrical powerplant/whatever would you need in order to provide the same protection from cosmic radiation as does the Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere?

  16. Re: Expert?? on Is Storage Necessary For Renewable Energy? · · Score: 1

    Read the title and summary again. We are talking about supposedly not needing storage.

  17. Re:Expert?? on Is Storage Necessary For Renewable Energy? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I would suspect many people don't understand what it takes to get power from the power plant to your house. It's not just a case of power lines. It is a delicate balancing act between all manner of components that require constant monitoring and adjustment to prevent imbalances that can result in grid failures.

    Adding supplies that are unreliable/unpredictable would be quite some dance...like dancing on a 2x4...on edge, 100ft above the ground.

  18. Re:serious confusion by the author on Email Is Not Going Anywhere · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Facebook and Twitter and Instagram.

    Time waster, narcissist's dream, enabler for the first two.

  19. Re:Stupid on The Quiet Before the Next IT Revolution · · Score: 1

    Nice mortgage business you have there. It'd be a shame if you were to be labeled as some racist organization or something.

  20. Re:Stupid on The Quiet Before the Next IT Revolution · · Score: 1

    Banks were implicitly threaten with audits if their loan profiles didn't meet certain expectations. It's the same with Operation Choke Point today where they are told they will probably be audited if they don't conform their client list to excluded businesses that match certain profiles.

    Don't confuse explicit demands with implicit threats, which can be just as effective in controlling behavior.

  21. Stupid on The Quiet Before the Next IT Revolution · · Score: 1

    No one argues for unregulated markets.

    Reasonable regulation, built on experience, is all that people ask for and all that is needed.

    Forcing companies to provide mortgages to people who are patently unqualified is an example of unreasonable regulations that resulted in untold devastation to the economy.

    Now, the Feds are going around telling banks that these businesses are "bad" and that if they provide service to them, they'll be audited from top to bottom. It is a defacto suppression of Free Enterprise based on a political viewpoint.

    And for those of you that would say this is a good thing, what would you say when at some point, abortion providers suddenly become "bad" businesses?

    People like Waxman and others would love for us to have a Command Economy, if not literally, at least virtually. Since that is fundamentally immoral and 100% incompatible with our Constitution and the laws which flow from it, they are trying an end run around the issue with targeted regulations designed not to protect the consumers, but to encourage/discourage businesses to achieve the same results.

  22. Grandma on Sniffing Out Billions In US Currency Smuggled Across the Border To Mexico · · Score: 3, Funny

    The can sniff out $41,000 in grandma's bra but they can't find pallets of cash going across the border.

  23. Re:Steve Jobs set the standard... on Silicon Valley Doesn't Have an Attitude Problem, OK? · · Score: 1

    Was this before he was kicked out of Apple for running it into the ground, or after he spent years in the wilderness learning how to actually manage a company?

  24. Why? on Connected Collar Lets Your Cat Do the War-Driving · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The goal here is obvious: Discover all of the unsecured, or at least poorly-secured, wireless access points around the neighborhood.

    Here's what has to be asked...why? Any particular reason for wanting to know this?

    Isn't that pretty much like going to all the front doors and checking to see if they are locked?

  25. Re:BLINDED BY ARROGANCE on Why the "NASA Tested Space Drive" Is Bad Science · · Score: 1

    "I know it is appeal to authority..."

    or

    "I know its (possessive) appeal to authority..."

    The first has a missing word, but is still more accurate than the second since "I know" cannot possess anything.