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  1. Re:Grumman isn't private? on NASA Is Outsourcing Its Next Moon Lander To a Private Company (pressherald.com) · · Score: 1

    You identified the probably only part on the LEM that wasn't at least once redundant. And it wasn't mostly because it was near impossible for that rocket to NOT fire. Hypergolic fuels have that property.

  2. You'll zero my bank account? Really? For free? Oh boy, thank you! Could you also call the collection agency and tell them to stop sending those nasty letters, that would be swell.

  3. Re:Got one of these calls at work on After Microsoft Complaints, Indian Police Arrest Tech Support Scammers At 26 Call Centers (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I got one as well, was hilarious. Hint: Don't call a security research company and tell them they have a virus on their PC. At best you get asked "Only one? What happened to the rest of our samples?"

    At worst you get sent through some VMs for good measure.

  4. Re: Consequences... on US Life Expectancy Falls Further (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    But you do know that only one of them can actually be influenced by your diet, yes?

  5. Dude, have some standards, no matter how desperate you are to get laid!

  6. Re:Sad a job is more important than ethics on Google Shut Out Privacy, Security Teams From Secret China Project (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    They already had a price, or they would't be billionaires.

  7. Re:Don't care who on NASA Is Outsourcing Its Next Moon Lander To a Private Company (pressherald.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You should.

    NASA landing a man on the moon meant that a lot of technology and progress became available to a lot of US companies. If a corporation develops and invents those things alone, you really think they would share that with anyone? They'll take taxpayer money to fund their R&D without giving any of those developments back.

  8. Re:Grumman isn't private? on NASA Is Outsourcing Its Next Moon Lander To a Private Company (pressherald.com) · · Score: 1

    I foresee dead astronauts. Redundancies cost money, and unless it's very clearly in the specs, it won't be there.

    But hey, maybe we learn a thing or two from it...

  9. Re: Consequences... on US Life Expectancy Falls Further (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Unlike the rest, diabetes is a fairly slow killer. Unless you can find me a reason why diabetes hits exactly now that the others strike, I dare say it's irrelevant.

  10. Re:Emotional instability on US Life Expectancy Falls Further (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    You might have noticed that the effin SUMMARY (no need to even read an article) states that the reasons are not natural, but artificial shortening of life, like suicide, murder and sickness. It's not a matter of diet or education, it's a matter of money.

  11. Re:YouTube on US Life Expectancy Falls Further (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    True heroes.

    If we only had more people like them, if only to have eventually fewer people like them.

  12. Re:Courtesy of China on US Life Expectancy Falls Further (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey, don't poop free market and capitalism!

  13. Re:where are the guns mentioned on US Life Expectancy Falls Further (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    It's also a major contributor to intentional death, so it evens out.

  14. Re: Decisions, Decisions on US Life Expectancy Falls Further (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Well, once you move out of your basement and stop playing The Sims you'll notice that out in the real world, it ain't as easy as in a computer game.

  15. Re:Disease? on US Life Expectancy Falls Further (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No matter how good your doctor is, if you cannot afford him he could be offering eternal life and you'll still croak from a preventable disease because you just can't afford it.

    And with more and more people not being able to... well, what do you expect?

  16. Re:Consequences... on US Life Expectancy Falls Further (cnn.com) · · Score: 1, Redundant
  17. Re:Consequences... on US Life Expectancy Falls Further (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Sugar makes you want to kill yourself and take drugs?

    I must have missed that study.

  18. Re: Consequences... on US Life Expectancy Falls Further (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I just want to live long enough to see how this ends. I'm pretty sure it's gonna be worth the wait.

  19. Re: Consequences... on US Life Expectancy Falls Further (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Processed foods and high sugar drinks make people kill each other and themselves and use hard drugs.

    At least read the fucking summary if you can't be assed to click on any of the links.

  20. Re:Sure, we'll release the documents. on DOJ Made Secret Arguments To Break Crypto, Now ACLU Wants To Make Them Public (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    A first-past-the-post system reduces the options to two. By definitions. If a third party emerges, one of the original two will have to vanish.

    Take a look at your history and realize that there has never been a moment when there were more than two parties. And the last time a party got replaced it took a civil war to do so. The last time a candidate from a different party than The Two even got to second place in a presidential election was a century ago. And it was a former president.

    It may work on a local level where knowing a person still matters. Granted. As soon as this is out the window, you're reduced to a two party system.

  21. Re:Sorry, I didn't know this wasn't common knowled on Fed Says Millennials Are Just Like Their Parents. Only Poorer (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If you at least bought that 8th mansion. But instead you're bunkering that money in some bank, hoping that finally you find something worthwhile to "invest" in. Not realizing that a worthwhile investment requires that that investment finds someone to sell to, which requires that this someone not only wants/needs what is offered but also can afford it.

  22. Re: Working in 1933 Germany on DOJ Made Secret Arguments To Break Crypto, Now ACLU Wants To Make Them Public (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You ARE in East Germany.

    A little known fact is that some communist regimes in East Europe started to offer fake choices between two candidates. Yes, you had the choice! Vote for the commie. Or the other commie.

    And whether you like it or not, you have exactly the same choice in the US. Vote for the corporate whore. Or the other corporate whore.

  23. Re:Sure, we'll release the documents. on DOJ Made Secret Arguments To Break Crypto, Now ACLU Wants To Make Them Public (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, let's vote for the OTHER party next time, that's gonna change everything!

  24. Re:I avoid loud restaurants on How Restaurants Got So Loud (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    The right setting and atmosphere matter. No doubt. Your examples are pretty good, nobody wants to sit in a deathly silent sports bar, but there's a limit to what's acceptable as background noise. Good bars know how to kill sound to keep the noise in the background where it causes atmosphere instead of annoyance.

  25. Re:I avoid loud restaurants on How Restaurants Got So Loud (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 2

    Not really in my experience. It's also the fucking music that keeps blaring from all speakers. Allegedly to "drown the noise" the people make. Which only results in people talking (or even yelling) louder so they can hear each other over the goddamn music!