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  1. Re:Anything to disrupt Quest Diagnostics on Disruptive Bloodwork Startup May Offer Mostly Vaporware · · Score: 2

    It isn't socialized medicine Americans fear, it is socialized medicine run by the same government that runs the VA.

  2. Re:Anything to disrupt Quest Diagnostics on Disruptive Bloodwork Startup May Offer Mostly Vaporware · · Score: 1

    So in other words, their security sucks, and breaches are bound to happen?

    Thanks, now I know who not to go to.

  3. Re:Argle Bargle Morble Whoosh? on Disruptive Bloodwork Startup May Offer Mostly Vaporware · · Score: 1

    Theranos = Umbrella Corp?

  4. Re:There's still the pollution thing on The Box That Built the Modern World · · Score: 1

    This is why it baffles the mind that the Democrats are against the Keystone XL pipeline. The oil will move either way, so it is a choice between a pipeline, or rail line. The pipeline is more efficient, and less likely to spill oil.

  5. Re:There's still the pollution thing on The Box That Built the Modern World · · Score: 1

    My Tundra was built in Texas, does that count as a factory?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  6. Re:Serves you right... on Windows 10 Upgrades Are Being Forced On Some Users (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It is still an update, it is just an update that is loaded on the install media then.

  7. Re:My Thoughts on US Identifies ISIL Hacker Linked To Military Breaches (justice.gov) · · Score: 1

    https://www.washingtonpost.com...

    Security forces retreated from the Malaab area of Ramadi at 1:30 p.m., abandoning about 60 military vehicles, including military-grade Humvees, said Col. Nasser al-Alwani of the Ramadi police force. About half of the abandoned vehicles were sent by the U.S.-backed government on Saturday to reinforce the neighborhood, he added.

    https://news.vice.com/article/...

    Police and soldiers stripped out of their uniforms and abandoned their equipment on the road as they fled.

    http://www.rferl.org/content/i...

    One day before the Iraqi soldier gave his account to RFE/RL on May 25, U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter accused Iraqi forces of showing "no will to fight" and having "failed to fight" in Ramadi despite "vastly outnumber[ing]" the enemy, retreating and leaving behind large numbers of U.S.-supplied vehicles, including tanks.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    After the end of the war, both the CIA and the U.S. State Department were tasked with continuing to identify and collect arms that had flooded the country during the war, particularly shoulder-fired missiles taken from the arsenal of the Gaddafi regime,[32][33] as well as securing Libyan chemical weapons stockpiles, and helping to train Libya's new intelligence service.[29]

    ...

    Multiple anonymous sources reported that the diplomatic mission in Benghazi was used by the CIA as a cover to smuggle weapons from Libya to anti-Assad rebels in Syria.[30]:56[34][36][37][38] Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh cites an anonymous former senior Defense Department intelligence official, saying "The consulate’s only mission was to provide cover for the moving of arms. It had no real political role." The attack allegedly brought an end to the purported U.S. involvement, but did not stop the smuggling according to Hersh's source.[39] In January 2014, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence cast doubt on this alleged U.S. involvement and reported that "All CIA activities in Benghazi were legal and authorized. On-the-record testimony establishes that the CIA was not sending weapons ... from Libya to Syria, or facilitating other organizations or states that were transferring weapons from Libya to Syria."[40]

    Care to try again? The CIA was collecting arms, not distributing, unless you subscribe to the local Tin Foil Anonymous.

  8. Re:Yay for piracy! on Google Books Wins Again (documentcloud.org) · · Score: 1

    It would make sense, the authors are the ones that warn of our impending subjugation by the AI overlords.

  9. Re:Cool. on Google Books Wins Again (documentcloud.org) · · Score: 1

    Well, those ACs could just pour some of those funds into my pocket and I will fix all of the nation's ills...
    I promise.

  10. Re:"the primary intended beneficiary is the public on Google Books Wins Again (documentcloud.org) · · Score: 1

    Do any non politicians even know what the TPP says?

  11. Re:please extend to *music and video* copyright on Google Books Wins Again (documentcloud.org) · · Score: 1

    I sir or madam am the true owner of this incredible piece of art. I have been in a coma for years as Warner beat me over a head with a shovel and left me for dead so that they could steal my copyright.

  12. Re:Yay for piracy! on Google Books Wins Again (documentcloud.org) · · Score: 1

    It must be that a bunch of authors have started hanging themselves with Cat5, as I cannot see any way that a global network of computers could kill an author...

  13. It is pronounced as "approximately".

  14. Re:My Thoughts on US Identifies ISIL Hacker Linked To Military Breaches (justice.gov) · · Score: 1

    It depends on how massively you bomb the area.

  15. Re:My Thoughts on US Identifies ISIL Hacker Linked To Military Breaches (justice.gov) · · Score: 1

    Where do think that ISIL's gets all it arms and Toyota trucks?

    From ignorant ACs like you. They aren't getting them directly from the US. Many of the weapons and materials were taken from the Iraq military when they pissed their pants and ran.

  16. Re:How can we encourage the FCC to consider this? on FCC's WiFi Rule-Making: Making It Fair For Both Open Source and Proprietary (fcc.gov) · · Score: 1

    Do you have a link to where to submit the comments? I tried the almighty Google and have failed.

    I will turn in my Geek card on the way out...

  17. Re:He wouldn't hand over his "Peace Prize" on Documents Expose the Inner Workings of Obama's Drone Wars · · Score: 1

    Funny thing, Hillary supporters started that controversy, not the conservatives.

    http://www.factcheck.org/2015/...

  18. Re:Candidate Obama on Documents Expose the Inner Workings of Obama's Drone Wars · · Score: 1

    I have seen ISIS and ISIL used interchangeably.

    Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
    or
    Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

    They mean the same thing pretty much, and refer to the same organization.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  19. or 3, 4, 5 (most of Europa)

    Can we emigrate to Europa yet? It is kind of cold though...

  20. Re:Nothing to worry about if you have nothing to h on UK MPs Hold Emergency Debate After Court Makes It Legal For GCHQ To Spy On Them (westerndailypress.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Interpreting the constitution strictly would change many things about this country. Just read the second, it is quite clear that ALL restrictions on gun ownership are illegal.

    A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

    The right of the people...shall not be infringed.

    It is clearly stated. But I think you already agree with that anyways due to your signature.

  21. I have nothing to hide, my government said so!

  22. People here in the US Congress want to make Christianity the official religion of the nation, want to ban teaching of evolution in schools and think no woman should be able to get an abortion for any reason whatsoever, even to save her own life.

    You are considerably mischaracterizing people's positions to make them sound crazy. No one has made any effort to make Christianity the official religion, and even if they managed it, the Supreme Court would destroy that law in no time. No one has banned the teaching of evolution, there have been some efforts that have mandated also teaching creationism, but they are widely considered extremists as even the Catholic Church believes in evolution. No one has called for abortion to be unavailable in ALL situations, generally it is believed (by conservatives) that abortion shouldn't be elective, but no one wants women to die because they can't get an abortion, and no one (except a couple crazys) wants women to be refused an abortion after rape.

  23. It is the AI trying to provide cover for itself.

  24. Re:Letting it de-orbit on How Some Creative Hacking Kept Skylab From Becoming Space Junk (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Due to micrometeor damage, there isn't much use to the items after the end of their life. I suppose we should boost the ISS to a higher orbit, if as nothing more than a museum, but it is just not worth keeping up there to continue using it.

  25. Re:Serves you right... on Windows 10 Upgrades Are Being Forced On Some Users (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    with no updates

    That pretty much ended with SP3.

    SP3 is an update.