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  1. Re:This is not rense.com on U.S. Spy Panel Is Loaded With Insiders · · Score: 0

    That'd be Cass Sunstein.
    Why does the tinfoil make typing and grammar so difficult?

  2. Re:Fire them. on Senators Push To Preserve NSA Phone Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Government is not a necessary evil. Government is a necessary good.

    My government is an unnecessary evil;
    It is a tool of tyranny, wielded by fascistic corporate persons.

  3. Re:Feinstein on Senators Push To Preserve NSA Phone Surveillance · · Score: 1

    I think parent refers to the widely known fact that Uncle Laban, Ebeneezer Scrooge, and the Koch Brothers, are all registered Republicans, which is prima fascia evidence that they are, in fact,
    the Party of Evil.

  4. Re:Feinstein on Senators Push To Preserve NSA Phone Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Prima fascia proof that the Republicans have no monopoly on evil.

  5. Re:God on Why Are Some Hell-Bent On Teaching Intelligent Design? · · Score: 1

    I think literacy and global communication will put deity-based religions into some kind of big decline, (Thanks, Joseph Campbell.)
    although I could be very wrong about this.
    Faith in Capitalism is becoming scarier to me than the mob of religious believers.

  6. Eric Cartman on Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    "Awesome!"

  7. Re:Mineral Oil on Car Dealers Complain To DMV About Tesla's Website · · Score: 1

    The fact that it doesn't eat paint matters a lot on a bicycle. And FWIW, I find the feel of glycol crud on my hands is much more grotesque than Pentosin.

  8. Re:Missing Point on Car Dealers Complain To DMV About Tesla's Website · · Score: 1

    Do you run DOT 4, or DOT 5?

  9. Re:Unmarked vehicles on New York Turns Rest Stops Into 'Texting Zones' · · Score: 1

    My travel bong is well nigh invisible to prying eyes. Technology ftw.

  10. Re:Artificial Intelligence on Boeing Turning Old F-16s Into Unmanned Drones · · Score: 1

    Solves the ethical problems of pilot discretion. Which IMHO is the biggest problem of mission objective.

  11. Re: false expectations/incorrect data on Brooklyn Yogurt Shop Sting Snares Fake Reviewers For NY Attorney General · · Score: 1

    Not my box, but iirc its the same at home, I go to incognito and burn through ten pages, since I haven't bothered to worked out cookie management in the new browser.

  12. Re:false expectations/incorrect data on Brooklyn Yogurt Shop Sting Snares Fake Reviewers For NY Attorney General · · Score: 1

    Anyone can post anything on the internet, it might not even be true. Whilst perusing the summary, I was misled into thinking that TFA was linked at reuters. But it turns out that I just burned up another instance of the NYT from my monthly allotment. I never get used to it. silly me.

  13. Re:Selling IS the mission. on NSA Chief Built Star Trek Like Command Center · · Score: 1

    As long Majel Barrett responds to the voice commands, it's money well spent.

  14. Re:proving parent right... on Indiana Man Gets 8 Months For Teaching How To Beat Polygraph Tests · · Score: 1

    The Federal Misprision statute specifies knowledge of actual commission of a felony, but this seems to be more like conspiracy, which is itself a much more serious felony anyhow.

  15. Re:no ghettos pre-internet? on Could Technology Create Modern-Day 'Leper Colonies'? · · Score: 1

    Ghettos are used as a labor-saving technique by the police. Sort of like triage in medicine, some patients just get palliative treatment, or less, since there's not anything to be gained by helping. I've lived in both kinds of places, and learned to expect and accept a level of service predicated on the zip code of my driver's license.

  16. Re:old story for this physicist on Particle Physicists Facing Insane Competition For Work · · Score: 1

    Rarely have I had service that deserved more.

    No surprise there; Think about it. I prefer to bribe the help memorably. If I get poor service I leave about 10%, otherwise, I round up from 25%.
    My special recommendation is memorable denominations. I believe that I am spoken of in my absence, as usually the very next time I show up I start getting the preferred customer treatment. When I go to my bank, I always get a roll of dollar coins, and a handful of $2 bills. I pay for my item with a two, or a couple coins, that way they can figure who dropped the generous tip in the jar. Some times the cashier will pull the $2 bills out of the register to buy with their own money, as they remain strangely uncommon.
    OTOH, I probably get a bit more respect due to my not treating the help as servants, but more like a friend who is a gracious host.

  17. Re:More government! on Why the Japanese Government Should Take Over the Fukushima Nuclear Plant · · Score: 1

    Why do you hate Freedom?

  18. Re:So... on The Golden Gate Barrage: New Ideas To Counter Sea Level Rise · · Score: 1

    It's hard to say where the water will be potable after a few decades of fracking, but as for now, there's still a bit of farming being done in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley. It won't be getting storm surges for a while, but most of the arable part is right down near sea level.

  19. Re:Speed on Intel Plans 'Overclocking' Capability On SSDs · · Score: 1

    We sure noticed the difference when we switched to 10,000 rpm drives, I'm waiting for the SSDs to mature more before a full commitment, hopefully put them on the PCIe bus when we do.

  20. Re:So Full Of Win! on How One Man Turns Annoying Cold Calls Into Cash · · Score: 2

    I often tell them I'm off to get whomever they claim to be calling, then get busy, back to doing whatever it was before the interruption. For that level of service, $6.5 is almost reasonable.

  21. Re:Marin on Wildfire Threatens Water and Power To San Francisco · · Score: 1

    ...and its easier to find rolling green hills with trees to add graphics to.

  22. "Tinder Dry" on Wildfire Threatens Water and Power To San Francisco · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I was going up Briones Road yesterday and stopped to let a doe cross the road, and noticed a wisp o' smoke on the shoulder. I did not realize how dry it was until I saw how long it took me to put that out, every little blade of grass just wouldn't go out, and somehow magically passed on the smolder. I think I spent over three minutes, the dog was pretty pissed.
    I watched a broken Miller bottle bottle start dry grass on fire once a long time ago. Very surreal, like the time I watched oily rags spontaneously go. (That one is probably pretty repeatable.)

  23. Fluffy story on Microsoft Needs a Catch-Up Artist · · Score: 0

    Looks like a cut-and-paste from Microsoft's PR department to me.
    Somebody probably wants to unload a few shares on the volatility.

  24. Re:Why is this here? on Wildfire Threatens Water and Power To San Francisco · · Score: 1

    They shut down part of the electric power grid due to fire threat. That may not be quite as thrilling as Mankind's latest advances at Fukushima, but I, for one, think it notable.

  25. Mod -5 incorrect on Wildfire Threatens Water and Power To San Francisco · · Score: 4, Informative

    How about we be generous and say that poor land practices have exacerbated the benefits of this Anthropogenically-induced Drought. Climate change was not the only cause.