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  1. Re:Books based on the D&D realm on TSR's Lost 1980s Dungeons and Dragons Movie Script, Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Heck, with all the equality people being so loud right now, having black females ruling a society might get some interesting reactions when the realize how ruthless and evil the Drow are.

  2. Re:So how is this different on Google's Android Pay Mobile Payments Service Arrives In US · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you should read up on how NFC payment works. The card number never traverses the RF, only a random token which is a one off for every transaction.

  3. Re:So how is this different on Google's Android Pay Mobile Payments Service Arrives In US · · Score: 1

    Apple Pay was a copy of Google Wallet. Now you are claiming that Google is copying Apple Pay by putting out an updated Google Wallet? Your logic makes my head hurt.

    When Apple Pay came out, CVS stopped accepting Google Wallet transactions, and enabled Apple Pay, which always bothered me, as both are NFC, so it was only a power play.

  4. Re:Who cares? on John McAfee On Why He's Running For President · · Score: 1

    I didn't say the war was wise or right. I said that there weren't lies. Lie implies knowledge that what you say is not true, and at the time with the way Saddam was acting, it looked like he had chemical weapons and was working on the development of a nuke. Saddam was the one lying, not the White House; the White House was working off the best intelligence they had which showed that Saddam was developing nukes and likely had chemical weapons factories that he was hiding from the UN. Saddam was refusing entry to the weapons inspectors, which is what kicked off the war. What else should have been brought from this action? Perhaps the better solution would have been sanctions, but without knowing it was all lies and bluster, how could we be sure that this would work?

  5. Re:Phone as a pager on Interviews: RMS Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    How does an app that tracks a woman's period and lets you know when certain parts of it infringing on freedom? This isn't an app tracking your every move, it tracks time. The woman who wrote the linked article is talking about how creepy and misogynistic it is to allow a man to be able to count days and put an alert on a calendar. Not understanding that this app has valid uses, and frankly doesn't do anything someone can't do with a calendar already. This app isn't tracking your position on the globe, it is a totally different kind of tracking which is impossible to prevent as anyone could do it.

  6. Re:Horse Shit! on John McAfee On Why He's Running For President · · Score: 1

    I was not going to bitch about your previous post where you quote the Clinton adviser. Who was also one of the people on the staff giving Saddam Chemical weapons and technology to use against Iran just a few years before he was suddenly a bad guy. I won't tolerate this kind of lie.

    Not my quotes, and there were many on that post (which wasn't mine). I was pointing out that a TON of Democrats thought there were WMD in Iraq. Many Many people thought there were, and at the time, Saddam was claiming he had them. It turned out that Saddam was all bluster, but how could we have known? He confirmed the original intel we had, which at the time no one knew was faked.

    Your link points to a 1988 attack on the Kurds which the US is at least partially responsible for since we gave Saddam chemical weapons and technology to fight Iraq with in their war.

    That was the point. Saddam had no issues previously using WMD, so when he is blustering that he has them, and saying he is going to attack Iran, Israel, and everyone else, what do you expect us to respond?

    After the first Gulf war there were no WMDs in Iraq and none were found in or after the 2nd Gulf war.

    How would we know? The first gulf war we were prevented from entering Iraq. There were many indications of WMD, as I detailed a little above.

    The second war started on massive deception and lies, like "mobile WMD plants" and "SCUDS" capable of delivering the massive stockpiles of nerve agent being made in those mobile plants with no possible defense. The biggest lie was about Yellow Cake and Dirty bombs, completely fabricated by Italian intelligence and passed off as true to the US Public.

    Yes, Saddam was lying, I need proof that ANYONE in the Bush administration knew that. Everything I have read indicated that the US intelligence apparatus thought that it was possible, and had received what later turned out to be unreliable intelligence that he had this stuff. I am taking offense at making it out to be that Bush started a war because he felt like it. I never saw anything at the time or later to indicate that he did, only that we got bad intel, and with the way Saddam was acting, that intel looked damn good at the time.

    I thank you for your service.

  7. Re:Who cares? on John McAfee On Why He's Running For President · · Score: 1

    Of course, if we tax the hell out of corporations like the Democrats want, that will just open up all the jobs that the corporations are holding back, right?

  8. Re:Who cares? on John McAfee On Why He's Running For President · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you misread what I wrote? We are losing full time positions and replacing them with part time positions which are counted like they are equal.

  9. Re: US Bill is only 4 Trillion? on Researcher: The US Owes the World $4 Trillion For Trashing the Climate · · Score: 1

    I didn't assert anything, take a look at who you are responding to. You asked for citations, I attempted to provide some.

  10. Re:Who cares? on John McAfee On Why He's Running For President · · Score: 1, Troll

    Lies? What Lies?

    http://politics.slashdot.org/c...

    https://www.google.com/webhp?s...

    So, what exactly was being lied about? There were WMD found in Iraq, so it couldn't be that, maybe that Saddam wasn't willing to use them?

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

    Naa, couldn't be that. So, please explain yourself.

  11. Re:Who cares? on John McAfee On Why He's Running For President · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Unfortunately, they are part time minimum wage jobs replacing full time salaried positions, so it is a net negative.

  12. Re:Phone as a pager on Interviews: RMS Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    The linked app looks damn useful. Should I head home, or hide out at the bar to avoid the shitstorm that is PMS?

    Is it safe to have sex (and not make babies), is it time to have sex to produce a baby?

    If it is something you are already privy to, how is it creepy?

  13. Re: Yes, they are employees on California Overturns Uber's Appeal: Its Drivers Are Employees, Not Contractors · · Score: 1

    A self-driving car will have to respond in millisecond time to unexpected threats (tire blowout, deer darting into the roadway, etc.) and instantly coordinate that response with dozens of vehicles in immediate proximity.

    Again...how is this any different than a human driver? Why does the computer have to outperform humans so significantly in your mind?

  14. Re:Easy way.... on Plug In an Ethernet Cable, Take Your Datacenter Offline · · Score: 1

    Sometimes those pins come with non conducting handles, these pins are usually called push pins. (thumb tacks)

  15. Re: US Bill is only 4 Trillion? on Researcher: The US Owes the World $4 Trillion For Trashing the Climate · · Score: 1

    Per capita is about the dumbest measure for this stuff. It is pollution, it is pollution the US doesn't have at all, what don't you get there?

    The first link was a national geographic story about the pollution of the Yellow River, any Google search for it will turn up tons of information about this.

    If the smoke/particulate clouds coming from Chinese cities are so bad that they are causing LA (of all places) to be effected, than they are bad, but you can just point to per capita if that makes you feel better.

  16. Re: US Bill is only 4 Trillion? on Researcher: The US Owes the World $4 Trillion For Trashing the Climate · · Score: 1

    Funny, I thought we produced all this CO2 at an agreed upon price, but now we are being told we owe $4T, where'd that come from?

  17. To name a few,

    Japan,
    Germany,
    All of NATO,
    Used to be in the Philippines, they asked us to leave, and are now begging us to return,
    South Korea,
    Frankly, most of the world, just Google for US military bases, they aren't all in the US.

  18. Re: Go after China on Researcher: The US Owes the World $4 Trillion For Trashing the Climate · · Score: 1

    I like your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

    In all seriousness, thank you for those links/names, I had never heard of GeekChic or Sub Zero, and had forgotten about Tom Bihn, but all of those are awesome now that I looked into them. If you have any other suggestions like that, they are much appreciated.

  19. Re:Go after China on Researcher: The US Owes the World $4 Trillion For Trashing the Climate · · Score: 1

    So, as the other AC said, if you want to compare Poland to the US, it should be Poland compared to a US state. The US is a conglomeration of states, which is what the EU is.

  20. Re:Devil's advocate on Researcher: The US Owes the World $4 Trillion For Trashing the Climate · · Score: 1

    I can't believe that post got +5 informative...maybe you are informing us of your lack of intelligence in this instance?

  21. Re:US Bill is only 4 Trillion? on Researcher: The US Owes the World $4 Trillion For Trashing the Climate · · Score: 1

    Or you know, they could not contribute anything to making the problem worse, and instead build nuclear and solar energy plants?

  22. Re: US Bill is only 4 Trillion? on Researcher: The US Owes the World $4 Trillion For Trashing the Climate · · Score: 1

    So then, maybe the US should be paid back for all the contribution of research towards nuclear power, solar panels, etc? We can't help it that even after designing all these awesome things and pretty much giving it away, China still builds the dirtiest coal plants possible.

  23. Re: US Bill is only 4 Trillion? on Researcher: The US Owes the World $4 Trillion For Trashing the Climate · · Score: 1

    Perhaps we need a new figure; per land area?

  24. Re: US Bill is only 4 Trillion? on Researcher: The US Owes the World $4 Trillion For Trashing the Climate · · Score: 1

    http://ngm.nationalgeographic....
    http://www.natureworldnews.com...

    Please name the last time these issues happened in the US. You might find LA at their worst to be near China's moderate levels, but nowhere near on average.

  25. Re:Not impressed on Software Takes On School Science Tests In Search For Common Sense · · Score: 1

    Doesn't that prove that Google's AI is actually sentient now?