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  1. Re: Never moving to El Capitan on Mac Users Reporting Widespread System Freezes With OS X El Capitan 10.11.4 Update (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    What part of that comment do you think was a lie? This would be exactly the type of thing that an Apple store wouldn't take in for repair, as there is nothing to repair.

  2. Re:Never moving to El Capitan on Mac Users Reporting Widespread System Freezes With OS X El Capitan 10.11.4 Update (macrumors.com) · · Score: 0

    So, what you are saying is that you never upgrade RAM or hard disk drives? You never replace the hard disk to get a larger drive or faster SSD over the course of ownership?

    Your comment is silly, and you should feel silly typing it.

  3. I don't know, 3 minutes after FP isn't too bad.

  4. There are actual valid medical reasons to not get vaccinations. Some vaccines contain egg products, some people cannot be exposed to eggs. Other people have compromised immune systems, and cannot have the vaccines as they will catch the disease and die from it.

  5. http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/va...
    http://vaccines.procon.org/vie...
    http://www.vaccines.gov/basics...

    Bullshit.

    People are against vaccines because if ignorance, not some secret knowledge.

  6. Re:bi-partisan screw-up on Astronauts Won't Be Flying To Space In Boeing's Starliner Until 2018 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That is quite a lot of assertions, do you have citations to back any of that up?

    I am not saying what was typed is untrue, but I don't recall ever hearing about an effort to possibly bring back the shuttle under Obama, and the main reason I recall hearing for the shuttle shutdown was conversion of facilities and funding which could not be done with the shuttle running.

  7. and corporate welfare is also huge.

    Please point to the budget line item you are using to make that assessment.

  8. Re:Doing this stuff is hard on Astronauts Won't Be Flying To Space In Boeing's Starliner Until 2018 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I would even add to what you typed above, actual engineering can be used in Earth orbit or in Earth-Moon Lagrange points. We should be working towards building better space stations, and orbiting habitats, and that will give us some of the engineering needed to do longer missions and eventually allow us to build colonies on other planets.

    Unfortunately, the engineering I have seen you talk about for Venus, some of it would be utterly useless in space, so would be less useful to your idea of a Venus mission. However, if we can learn how to keep people breathing long term without adding oxygen into the system, and work out how to grow food and feed a space station, these things might translate pretty well into an initial Venus mission that might test out the acid breakdown process I have seen you talk about previously, while still able to run a mission without the input if it doesn't work.

  9. Because clearly:

    They advised the Central Intelligence Agency, the United States Department of Defense, and the president on the use of enhanced interrogation techniques: mental and physical torment and coercion such as prolonged sleep deprivation, binding in stress positions, and waterboarding, and stated that such acts, widely regarded as torture, might be legally permissible under an expansive interpretation of presidential authority during the "War on Terror".

    Is exactly equivalent to:

    The court heard how Abbas Abid, a 48-year-old engineer from Fallujah in Iraq had his fingernails removed by pliers; Ali Shalal was attached with bare electrical wires and electrocuted and hung from a wall; Moazzam Begg was beaten, hooded and put in solitary confinement, Jameelah was stripped and humiliated, and was used as a human shield whilst being transported by helicopter. The witnesses also detailed how they have residual injuries till today.

    So clearly, Bush must have directly ordered the expanded torture used on these people.

    The point I was making is that the examples given in court were so far above waterboarding (that while scarey, doesn't actually injure the person), that perhaps they were performed by people who were not under direct orders, but were acting on their own. These don't sound like the kinds of things the president would order who had already gone to the attorney general to ask what was acceptable by law. Why even bother to ask if you didn't care to stick to what was ruled legal?

    I have intentionally not bolded two of the accounts from trial, those two don't even count as torture as far as I know. The beating is questionable though, it depends on what exactly he means by that.

  10. Re:How about replacing the CEO with a machine on Wendy's Plans To Automate 6,000 Restaurants With Self-Service Ordering Kiosks (investors.com) · · Score: 1

    You do realize that if that came about, I am pretty sure most corporations have the money to build their own police force, don't you?

  11. Re:How about replacing the CEO with a machine on Wendy's Plans To Automate 6,000 Restaurants With Self-Service Ordering Kiosks (investors.com) · · Score: 1

    Look, there are a few socialist countries left in the world. If you feel the need to live in a socialist country, feel free to move to Cuba, North Korea, or China, we totally won't stop you.

    Stop trying to bring socialism to countries who have no desire to be socialist, you are just trying to destroy the rest of the world to suit an impossible idea. If you need any more proof of that, take the GDP per capita of the US and do the freaking math.

  12. Re:Move along on Government Spy Truck Is Disguised As A Google Street View Car (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Now the entitlement has set in like MRSA.

    Because clearly, someone who doesn't want to be discriminated against is entitled.

  13. Re:Move along on Government Spy Truck Is Disguised As A Google Street View Car (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    one should never underestimate the Power of the Force.

    What was it, about 1 MW?

  14. Perhaps it has more to do with photographic technology of the time period?

  15. Re:Summon into back of trailer mode? on Tesla Model S Owner Claims Vehicle Went Rogue Causing An Accident By Itself (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Um, all cars are sold with parking brakes. You perhaps are referring to the incorrect naming of these systems as emergency brakes?

    Parking brakes are how you keep the automatic transmission from getting locked up when parking on a hill.

  16. Re: Summon into back of trailer mode? on Tesla Model S Owner Claims Vehicle Went Rogue Causing An Accident By Itself (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    When parked, it is improper to have a manual transmission in neutral as well. The best gear to leave it in is second.

  17. Re:Summon into back of trailer mode? on Tesla Model S Owner Claims Vehicle Went Rogue Causing An Accident By Itself (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    It is the front of a construction vehicle flatbed trailer, likely the wheels are a couple of car lengths ahead of where the car hit it.

    Why exactly do the sensors on a Tesla not detect overhangs? Would it have driven into anything at that height? I see a design defect in the sensor array.

  18. Re:Summon into back of trailer mode? on Tesla Model S Owner Claims Vehicle Went Rogue Causing An Accident By Itself (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem with parking on the left hand side is that you have to look through the vehicle in front of you to see oncoming traffic. I can't see any way that you would be able to pull out of the parking spot in the pictures of this accident.

    On another note, why isn't there a sensor at the top of the windshield?

  19. Re:At very least the ad revenue should go to the g on French Inquiry Launched After Live Suicide Broadcast On Periscope (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So the government has no part in cleaning up the mess, repairing their train, investigating the rape accusation? You have some off definitions, I am sure the government should just stay out of these things though...

  20. Re: Understand why they dont like this.. on French Inquiry Launched After Live Suicide Broadcast On Periscope (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The penalty should be resurrection and being made immortal!

  21. And what is the definition of "it's" if I might ask?

  22. Re:Hey assholes! Gonna make a habit of this now? on Peachy Printer Funds Embezzled To Build New Home Instead of $100 3D Printer (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    https://slashdot.org/story/01/...

    Yeah, like Slashdot never removed comments before.

  23. Come on, you know you want to support these great projects!

    https://www.kickstarter.com/pr... (funded)
    https://www.kickstarter.com/pr... (funded)
    https://www.kickstarter.com/pr... (funded)
    https://www.kickstarter.com/pr... (MASSIVELY funded)

  24. Looking at my own kickstarter history (I contribute the amount to actually get the product, not $1 for a thank you):

    I have 8 contributions,
    1 failed (Clang) I could get a refund, they offered it, but I felt that there was actual effort to doing it, and it just didn't succeed.
    4 outstanding, the projects are still supposably attempting to deliver, I have heard nothing about issues.
    3 received.

    So, for me, the numbers are pretty good, I have no complaints. The 4 outstanding projects, from the updates being given, look very likely to happen, all 4 of them are in production according to the updates.

  25. Re:pander to republicans?!?!?!?? on Obama To Become First US President To Visit Hiroshima Since 1945 Nuclear Attack (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Uh huh.

    You do realize that the president has very little to do with the budget? Also, who the hell cares about a single year's deficit? The budget for 2009 had the Bank and GM bailouts in it. You should also know, the voted on budget for 2009 had a $407b deficit attached, so the entirety of the deficit was not in the original budget as no one could foresee how bad the recession would get, and the bank crashes which happened during 2009. Also, $445 B of the deficit came directly from the TARP Bailouts and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which were both from Obama/his congress.

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

    If you want to hold Bush responsible for 2009, fine, but then we should hold Obama responsible for a total of $5296 trillion dollars of deficit, compared to Bush's $3547.4 trillion, so who exactly did worse? This doesn't even include 2016, and 17. Good on Obama, he reduced a single year's deficit, what a great president we have there.

    If you want to blame someone for the crash, blame the right person. Bill Clinton signed into law (didn't even try to veto!) the Gramm Leach Bliley act, which directly led to the recession.

    But yeah, let's all blame Bush for the one year that he wasn't in office running things.