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  1. Re:Not a fantasy country anymore? on Can You Buy a License To Speed In California? · · Score: 1

    It's a little more free-range here. The cops hate everyone else, even the rich, but if you are in their buddy club, you often get to skate.

  2. Re:Common Knowlege on Crowd Wisdom Better At Predictions Than Top CIA Analysts · · Score: 1

    I'm not particularly smart, but doesn't EVERYBODY already know those CIA fools are incompetent?

  3. Old Berkeley Hippie here... on NYC Considers Google Glass For Restaurant Inspections · · Score: 1

    I use Chlorine compounds with discretion, and I eschewed Triclosan long before the FDA noted its questionable properties. I think that cleaning up other people's public filth*, moving Cow dung about the farm, and generally rooting around in dirt have adequately inoculated my system. I use a reasonable amount of water and simple soap products to try and keep a lid on the pathogenic stuff.
    * I wash the hell out of my hands before I touch myelf- don't disrespect those Mycobacteriums...

  4. Re:Shakespeare, Orwell on Canada Introduces Privacy Reforms That Encourage Warrantless Disclosure of Info · · Score: 2

    The English Language is a marvelous, mutable thing, is it not?

  5. Re:cumulate filth on NYC Considers Google Glass For Restaurant Inspections · · Score: 1

    I don't like to overwhelm my biodefenses. YMMV.

  6. Re:Transfer on LA Police Officers Suspected of Tampering With Their Monitoring Systems · · Score: 2

    This is the preferred solution. After all that training, once an officer proves his eagerness to randomly break a few legs, it just won't do to let them go. That good LAPD conditioning has been disseminated throughout the country as these "rogue" cops take their skills and fucked-up attitudes out to rural America, the better to squelch any nascent bonds developing with the innocent citizens they intend to "protect and serve".

  7. Re:Hear, hear! on It's Time To Plug the Loopholes In Pipeline Regulation · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's what I tell him, but Fox News said Wikipedia was full of shit, so he won't reference it for anything useful, like organic chemistry & such.
    He clung to dial-up for an amazingly long time, too. Netzero ftw!

  8. Hear, hear! on It's Time To Plug the Loopholes In Pipeline Regulation · · Score: 2

    My Dad won't read Wikipedia either. He gets his information from Fox News.

  9. Save the Chiddrens! on Federal Bill Would Criminalize Revenge Porn Websites · · Score: 1

    I sorta looked into this a few months back, and saw that the woman* running the site was soliciting for an on-line petition. I emailed her to say that whilst I sympathised with the want to prevent this sort of thing happening, her petition was a vague and indiscriminate demand for legislative action. I suggested that my support and that of anyone with both cerebral function, and an understanding of abstract concepts like liberty, &c., might be loath to encourage mindless action using this issue as yet another critically urgent pretext. I did get a form letter back, but it may have been automatic, it did not address my query. I reckon that it will be effective, just what the proponents of speech regulation and licensing have been waiting for.

    *Not sure which one, it seems there's been a boom in that field.

  10. Re:Specked Taters on Mystery MLB Team Moves To Supercomputing For Their Moneyball Analysis · · Score: 1

    I'm a nerd, not a hacker, but yeah. I was on the fencing team.

  11. Compounding variables on Mystery MLB Team Moves To Supercomputing For Their Moneyball Analysis · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I RTFA, it was unavoidable.
    Looks like they might actually use the horsepower.

  12. Re:America's Pastime on Mystery MLB Team Moves To Supercomputing For Their Moneyball Analysis · · Score: 1

    I can take it or leave it, but a minor league game from wooden bleachers is a much better time for me.
    What I find amusing is the obsession with statistics, considering the randomness of any particular game. But then I don't follow any particular team, its the spectacle of seeing it done. (And the main thing I appreciate is how unimaginable it is relative to my own abilities.)

  13. Re:Ummm, probably not on Skydiver's Helmet Cam Captures a Falling Meteor · · Score: 1

    I have a hard time imagining a chute launching a rock that size high enough up to delay it that long, and of course the rock would have had a hard time getting that far forward to catch that weird gust of wind that brought it back toward the camera.
    I remember a bullet that did that and then landed on a guy's stretcher once, so it could happen.

  14. Re:OT: Obnoxious Noah Movie Ad on Skydiver's Helmet Cam Captures a Falling Meteor · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I was referring to an ad served on Comedy Central, but I hold the client liable for the offense.

    Fuck you, Sears.

    OP was assaulted @ TFA, I was not, at this time, but its the sort of thing that would make me skip a movie I had planned to see in a theatre.
    I'm a petty, vindictive asshole; But really, do those guys think they're selling better?

  15. Re:Don't bother. on The Problem With Congress's Scientific Illiterates · · Score: 1

    This is also the tactic of pusillanimous sociopaths, plausible deniability based on the "who the fuck says stuff like that?" and selective memory- "I did not say that."
    I am researching whether this is actionable, or if I can get a restraining order for judicial relief from having to abide false statements. It is very difficult to sit still when some cowardly liar denies past years of ongoing bullshit.
    These people are evil and a blight on civilisation, but they practice harder than anyone else, and are very skillful.

  16. Re:OT: Obnoxious Noah Movie Ad on Skydiver's Helmet Cam Captures a Falling Meteor · · Score: 1

    I did not get that, but I've commenced a Sears boycott since that full-volume commercial hijacked my computer at 3AM last week (it woke up two people that I know of, got the dog out of bed, and probably disturbed the downstairs neighbor.) I don't know how many others adhere to this, but I have a strict policy of depriving revenue to offensive businesses.

  17. The horror, the horror. on New York Public Library Releases Over 20,000 Hi-Res Maps · · Score: 1

    I feel your pain.

  18. Just fucking wrong. on Million Jars of Peanut Butter Dumped In New Mexico Landfill · · Score: 1

    I realize that Corporate America is unconcerned with what is right or correct, but carbonaceous material such as this should be recycled into the biosphere. Sanitary landfills are a terrible waste of space, and we should have composted this to replenish the topsoil.

  19. Re:Mission Accomplished on Researchers: Rats Didn't Spread Black Death, Humans Did · · Score: 1

    Yeah, just like Iraq. We sure showed 'em.

  20. Re:Old News on Researchers: Rats Didn't Spread Black Death, Humans Did · · Score: 1

    I am absolutely not going to RTFA or google this, but but aren't bubonic plague and pneumonic plague caused by the same bacteria, Y. pestis? I sat in an armchair about 30 years back and figured out that fleas could never vector out the fatality rate that history indicates. Even if most folks were living like rats at the time. BTW the survival rate is far lower for the pneumonic variety.

  21. Re:high alcohol yeast on Synthetic Chromosomes Successfully Integrated Into Brewer's Yeast · · Score: 1
  22. Re:This is unholy on Synthetic Chromosomes Successfully Integrated Into Brewer's Yeast · · Score: 1

    Hops are expensive. Keystone and Arrogant Bastard differ in both quantity and quality.
    I don't think its the yeast.

  23. Re:Fun fact on One Person Successfully Removed From US No-Fly List · · Score: 1

    common sense=rare sense
    Ironic?

  24. Rapid Capabilities Office on Classified X-37B Space Plane Breaks Space Longevity Record · · Score: 1

    "The Air Force now has a policy of acquiring capabilities rather than missions."

    Thus spake Jonathan McDowell. Sounds like somebody needs a fatter booklet of blank cheques.

  25. Re:I'm glad on Synthetic Chromosomes Successfully Integrated Into Brewer's Yeast · · Score: 1

    Super beer yeast was already created by old fashioned selective breeding, we really did not have to do anything questionable for that.