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  1. Re:"Reason" is a publisher of nonsense on Reason: How To Break the Internet (in a Bad Way) · · Score: 1

    Here's one.

  2. Re:Evolution on Did Natural Selection Make the Dutch the Tallest People On the Planet? · · Score: 1

    Dutch women Rock!

    Lucky guy.

  3. Re:Evolution on Did Natural Selection Make the Dutch the Tallest People On the Planet? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, they DO have to keep their heads above the water in case a dike gives way.

  4. Re:wildfires? on Obama Says Climate Change Is Harming Americans' Health · · Score: 1

    Mudslides are coming.

  5. Re:First, manhole covers are not always round on The Key To Interviewing At Google · · Score: 1

    And for being such a "smart" company, their software can be pretty fucking stupid.

  6. Re:Hawaii on Amid Controversy, Construction of Telescope In Hawaii Halted · · Score: 0

    There's always one idiot who falls back on the claim that Communism just hasn't been done correctly yet.

    Maybe they need to kill even MORE people in order to get it juuuust right.

  7. Re:wildfires? on Obama Says Climate Change Is Harming Americans' Health · · Score: 1

    I grew up in Southern CA.

    It has three seasons...Winter, Rain and Mudslide season and Fire season.

  8. Re:wildfires? on Obama Says Climate Change Is Harming Americans' Health · · Score: 4, Informative

    Because Climate Change stopped the controlled burns and built houses in wildfire prone areas.

    And worse than the Dust Bowl? I'm afraid not.

    Most of California's problems are caused by California.

  9. Actually... on The Solar System Is Awash In Water · · Score: 2

    ...it is useable . And for about the same price as shipping it in from other states.

  10. Simon Pheonix on Biometrics Are Making Espionage Harder · · Score: 1
  11. Re:Why different policy on this to Junior IT posit on Feds Boost Goal To 75k New Solar Power Workers By 2020 · · Score: 2

    Solar Panel installation is grunt work. Three guys to lift the panels and one electrician to make sure they don't electrocute themselves. There is no real need for a Federal program to train people for this.

  12. Backward Approach on Feds Boost Goal To 75k New Solar Power Workers By 2020 · · Score: 2

    You are right in that their approach is backwards. Instead of focusing on trying to get workers into the industry, they need to offer incentives to actually build and install solar panels that are cost effective. Tax breaks, Grants, etc. (thoroughly vetted though).

      The Feds don't train construction workers, they offer tax deductions on home. Then, the workers will follow automatically.

  13. Re:Lets encrypt on Google Let Root Certificate For Gmail Expire · · Score: 1

    True...but isn't that kind of like saying a Fax isn't the phone network?

  14. Re:Lets encrypt on Google Let Root Certificate For Gmail Expire · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The internet has become one giant Rube Goldberg machine. Way too many parts and dependencies.

    No, I don't have an alternative, but that's not a requirement to point out that the web seems pretty fragile.

  15. 10,200 Light Years Away on Distance of a Microlensing Event Measured For the First Time · · Score: 4, Informative

    Now you don't have to RTFA.

  16. Re:I'm not surprised on Judge Allows Divorce Papers To Be Served Via Facebook · · Score: 1

    Sometimes the bitch cheats on you.

  17. Re:Domestic Terrorism? on Watching a "Swatting" Slowly Unfold · · Score: 1

    If your partner in crime is killed by Police, then you are charged with his murder.

  18. Re:I'm not surprised on Judge Allows Divorce Papers To Be Served Via Facebook · · Score: 4, Funny

    Next, one spouse will just have to proclaim loudly, "I divorce thee, I divorce thee, I divorce thee!"

    Done. Easy as Pie.

  19. Re:Enjoy Your New Internet Taxes on Why Is the Internet Association Rewarding a Pro-NSA Net-Neutrality Opponent? · · Score: 1

    Prior to deregulation in the 80's and the breakup of AT&T, the iPhone would have been illegal.

  20. Re:Enjoy Your New Internet Taxes on Why Is the Internet Association Rewarding a Pro-NSA Net-Neutrality Opponent? · · Score: 1

    I believe that empirical evidence shows that not disallowing the Feds to do something is synonymous with allowing them to do it.

    In fact, the entire Bill of Rights was constructed on that premise.

  21. Re:Privacy battle on Watching a "Swatting" Slowly Unfold · · Score: 2

    Wasn't that last guy convicted guilty of some 19 "swattings"?

    Plus, I don't discount the Deterrence effect.

  22. Re:Privacy battle on Watching a "Swatting" Slowly Unfold · · Score: 1

    Hard to SWAT someone from a prison cell.

  23. Re:Domestic Terrorism? on Watching a "Swatting" Slowly Unfold · · Score: 2

    And if anyone is injured or killed, then accessory to attempted murder or murder.

    If any property is damaged, full liability right up to taking your pension, property and garnishing of wages.

  24. Re:Privacy battle on Watching a "Swatting" Slowly Unfold · · Score: 1

    How about 20 years to life in prison for perps?

  25. Re:The HUGOs have always been about politics on Hugo Awards Turn (Even More) Political · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You don't mention that Stop And Frisk was invented in a deep Blue city and that Hilliary Clinton pays her women staffers even less than 75%