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  1. Yes Amtrak's better on Fighting TSA Harassment of Disabled Travelers · · Score: 2

    For domestic travel anyway. I've traveled with Amtrak in California & across the South, coast to coast, no complaints at all. Actually I think there are still trains between Montreal & NY. What about Windsor & Detroit, Seattle & British Columbia, etc? From what I understand only freight trains run between Mexico & the US, but I assume there was passenger train travel between Mexico & the US in the past, say the late 1800s to the 1950s?

  2. The normal australian experiance of church on USPS Discriminates Against 'Atheist' Merchandise · · Score: 1

    is checking out old cathedrals while backpacking through Europe, & that's about it.

    BTW how come hardly any Yanks take a year or 2 off after leaving school, or deferring a year or 2 of uni, & go backpacking around the world? Gez in the average youth hostel one is more likely to find more Kiwis even than Yanks, & it's seems when one does find backpackers from North America, virtually all of them turn out to be from either British Columbia or Quebec.

  3. eh beer doesn't contain lactose on How Beer Gave Us Civilization · · Score: 1

    WTF lactose intolerance among Asian has got to do with evidence that Asians weren't into beer drinking in neolithic times?

    All Asian lactose intolerance seems to indicate is a big gap between past transhuman migration/herding & modern dairy products in their diet, without a long culture/history of settled dairy farming in between.

    What this has to do with beer is beyond me.

  4. Which is why regular SWATting might be good on Brian Krebs Gets SWATted · · Score: 1

    It might make cops more cautious about doing 'no knocks' &/or blasting away

  5. Scientology on Using Truth Serum To Confirm Insanity · · Score: 1

    Says it all

  6. who you believe is irelivent on Illinois Politician Wants a Kill Switch For Anonymous Speech Online · · Score: 1

    The only onus on proof is on the police

    & the fact was they had no proof, just supposition.

    That why he could've simply said "no comment" to any of those questions & no guilt is still implied.

  7. Actually it is on Monsanto Takes Home $23m From Small Farmers According To Report · · Score: 1

    For the entire history of agriculture from the neolithic to the contemporary. Yes a significant percentage, maybe even a majority, of the planet's farmers still do it today.

  8. Actually Yeh on Monsanto Takes Home $23m From Small Farmers According To Report · · Score: 2

    Patent law does not apply to anything homemade by end users themselves, it only applies to commercial products.

  9. Israelis are water wasters on NASA: Huge Freshwater Loss In the Middle East · · Score: 2

    The fact is that the 500 000 Israeli settlers in their colonial outposts in the occupied West Bank use about ten times the water that the millions of Palestinians do in the West Bank. Fact is it's the gardens, farms, pastures, groves & orchids of West Bank Palestinians that are the most efficient Water wise - they have no choice, the Israeli settlers steal 95% of their water.

  10. actually in regards new infrastructure... on NASA: Huge Freshwater Loss In the Middle East · · Score: 1

    Just this month new wind-farm energy dropped in cost to the point that it's now cheaper per kilowatt hour than new coal fired electricity generation. BTW that includes taking into account issues related to storage & peak loads.

  11. It's the Turks on NASA: Huge Freshwater Loss In the Middle East · · Score: 1

    The Turks have built numerous dams on the Euphrates 'n Tigris & their tributaries & are diverting a significant percentage of their waters that traditionally flowed through to Syria & Iraq.

    In some cases this could be considered an act of war.

  12. The Turkish Dams on NASA: Huge Freshwater Loss In the Middle East · · Score: 2

    The Turks have built numerous dams on the Euphrates 'n Tigris & their tributaries & are diverting a significant percentage of their waters that traditionally flowed through to Syria & Iraq.

    In some cases this could be considered an act of war.

  13. Eh???... on Russian Univ. Launches Course Based On ReactOS Led By Alex Bragin · · Score: 1

    I rarely, if ever, had a problem istalling Win9x programs on W2K or WXP

  14. vatican has no problen with darwin on Texas School Board Searching For Alternatives To Evolutionary Theory · · Score: 1

    In fact neither do the Anglicans, Orthadox, Copts, Lutherans & Nestorians for that matter. It's really just nutjob Yank Baptists that think the world's only 6k years old now.

  15. QNX is better on BlackBerry 10 Review: Good, But Too Late? · · Score: 1

    Android's just another layer on that layer cake called Linux.

    Where as QNX is a fair dinkum realtime OS & the favourite OS of nuclear reactors & machines that go beep in hospitals

  16. Open Wifi means there's no one to blame on Free Wi-Fi: the Movement To Give Away Your Internet For the Good of Humanity · · Score: 1

    in the 1st place. Sharing connections so they become nodes in a wireless connection, gives oneself plausible deniability in regards what one downloads. Well anyway, to the same extent one has by running a web cafe from one's own connection.

    You know Wifi was originally designed so everyone was covered by overlapping free/open Wifi, giving everyone covered "multithreaded" internet connections & thus maximum bandwidth via all this parallelism between one's wifi modem & the internet. Of course it's an honour system in regards users adding to this Wifi web / contributing to it by having their own connection at home open to others & thus becoming another node.

  17. QNX is better than Android on RIM Unveils BlackBerry 10, Its Big Turnaround Hope · · Score: 1

    Android just Linux bullshit, QNX is a real realtime OS, & the favorite OS of nuclear reactors & machines that go beep in hospital.

    Where as there's nothing great about Android, except the number of Android apps, & BB10 can do Android apps as well as it's own native apps

  18. IDT Common Law applies to Quepec on Student Expelled From Montreal College For Finding "Sloppy Coding" · · Score: 1

    I think the British had a treaty with Quebec that let them keep their Roman/Civil Law sometime between the end of the 7 Years War & the beginning of the American Revolution.

  19. fresh is cheaper than fast on Hidden Viral Gene Discovered In GMO Crops · · Score: 1

    I doubt any calculations can end in a result that indicates that junk food is cheaper than fresh fruit 'n vegies, plus the required quantity of natural balanced protein sources, prepared at home in healthy portions.

    The problem is that maybe the people you are referring to lack motivation, were badly brought up, born into families of multi-generational violence/substance abuse/ignorance/welfare/etc, have mental health issues, etc,etc & thus are domestically dysfunctional.

  20. Huh? on Boeing 787 Dreamliner Grounded In US and EU · · Score: 1

    I thought it was the DC-10 that had the door problem

  21. govt vs head of state on Boeing 787 Dreamliner Grounded In US and EU · · Score: 1

    You're getting the type of govt mixed up with the type of head of state.

    Regardless of it's meaning in the past, today "Republic" is just a term for nations that don't have a monarch as head of state, while "democracy" is a reference to a type of govt, they are not mutually exclusive. Afterall have you ever heard of anyone describing the UK, Canada & Australia as republics?

  22. Taxation is the cost of civilisation on The World Remains Five Minutes From Midnight · · Score: 1

    Without tax it's the law of the jungle.

    Surely those who are profiting most from how our community is structured should pay the most in tax.

  23. Why should he care on Health Care Providers Failing To Adopt e-Records, Says RAND · · Score: 1

    Hes doing fine the way it is now & couldn't be fucked buggerising arround for no net gain to his patients.

  24. There's no constitional right to cell phone use on Microsoft Patents Tech That Would Silence Your Phone For You · · Score: 1

    Families coped fine without them until relatively recently.

    So stop whinging & expecting life to be at your beck n call.

  25. cinemas, etc can jam the signals anyway on Microsoft Patents Tech That Would Silence Your Phone For You · · Score: 1

    Even not actively, just by building a Faraday cage into their buildings. Or actively jam too, like some jails do, because significant proportion of the jail's outside.