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  1. Re:What are they going to do if people refuse? on Proposed Bill Would Force Arizonians To Pay $250 To Have Their DNA Added To a Database (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    People's security is very important to them,

    Indeed. If the Police/Fire Department are on strike, who's going to protect the Governor against a random thug or a little spark? It would be a shame if anything were to happen, right?

  2. Bill 1475 was introduced by Republican State Senator David Livingston

    I presumed it'd be a Republican to do this.

  3. Re:Flat Earther Here on YouTube To Blame For Rise in Flat Earth Believers, Says Study (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Evidence that we're not in a 'holographic universe' suggests that our universe wasn't optimized for data efficiency, which is a strike against the simulation hypothesis; a hologram would be flat though. A simulation computer would probably use solid-state 3d chips though (a la 3d NAND). A block of computronium would probably be programmed like an FPGA, so there'd be no circuit boards; traces would be replaced with vias and internal allocation of resources.

  4. Re:"Flat Earth conventions have begun popping up a on YouTube To Blame For Rise in Flat Earth Believers, Says Study (cnet.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Earth is flat from the point of view of the 4th spatial dimension. Flat-Earthers are actually cosmic horrors possessing the weak-minded.

  5. Notice how the 'think of the children!' adults seem more upset about children seeing porn than the children themselves seem to be? If it's not traumatizing then calm down, at least.

  6. We'll built a firewall... and make the pornographers pay for it!

  7. Considering Kansas just passed a new anti-abortion bill a couple days ago (which will almost assuredly be tossed by a supreme court), you're right on the money.

  8. How exactly are they going to preinstall a software filter on iDevices, anyhow? A DNS filter is more likely, and someone can change DNS without paying for any 'removal fee'.

  9. Re:"Why wouldn't anybody like this?" on House Bill Requires Pornography Filter on All Phones, Computers Purchased in Kansas (cjonline.com) · · Score: 1

    my competitor is is in big-porn's pocket!"

    You misspelled 'orifice'.

  10. Re:Basic Capitalism on Why Some US Cities are Fighting 'Dollar Stores' (eastbaytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    'Food desert' is code for 'only one Starbucks'.

  11. Basic Capitalism on Why Some US Cities are Fighting 'Dollar Stores' (eastbaytimes.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If produce stores can't be profitable without also selling sundries, then I guess people don't want produce bad enough.
    Near where I live, there's a produce store that is always jam-packed full of people. It's like Black Friday at Walmart, all day every day. So the "produce stores can't compete" argument is BS, they just need to make prices reasonable and aim for volume. Produce sections at other grocery stores I go to don't get much traffic, though, probably because the prices are ridiculous and apparently targeted at middle-class shoppers, even the non-organic stuff.

  12. Re:Will the Mexicans pay for it? on NASA's Plans To Build A Human Settlement on The Moon (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    You kid but the original space race was seen as an issue of national security.
    If e.g. China had an Earth-independent colony on Mars or wherever, that could undermine MAD.

  13. Funny I came here to post this exact thing. Carrot Top even.

  14. Not Director on James Cameron's Alita: Battle Angel Released After Sixteen Years (rottentomatoes.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    James Cameron is probably better known for directing films than for writing or producing them. Alita: Battle Angel was directed by Robert Rodriguez, not Cameron. The last thing Rodriguez directed that wasn't critically panned was the original 'Sin City'.

  15. Re:Why was it all in one database? on Personal Information of 14.8 Million 500px Users Exposed In Security Breach (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    They took the 'move fast and break things' credo literally. If they went Waterfall the database would've been lost in a flood. They wanted to try pair coding but couldn't find enough married programmers. Then they attempted to pivot to cowboy coding, with plenty of spaghetti code, but Sergio Leone wasn't available for that.

  16. 500px has announced that it was the victim of a hack back in July 2018 and that personal data was exposed for all the roughly 14.8 million accounts that existed at the time. PetaPixel reports:

    500px * 14.8 million users < 1 PetaPixel
    Sorry, that's where my mind went.

  17. Re:US Farmers fixed this problem decades ago on How India's Single Time Zone Is Hurting Its People (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If all businesses were 24 hour, there'd be no need for time zones. Of course that'll only happen once human workers are replaced by robots.

  18. Re:Considering the toilet situation on How India's Single Time Zone Is Hurting Its People (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    They should delay school by 2-3 hours across the whole country so the kids can sleep better, it's standard practice to start school a few hours before the time (research shows) that kids are actually wide awake.

  19. I wonder if instead of doing that again, they'll just decide that something less susceptible to jamming, that's easier to deploy than a satellite constellation, might be better for positioning. Say, some self-calibrating optical system using image recognition, a high-res camera sensor, and maths, that looks at the position of the stars and combines that with an onboard clock to determine latitude and longitude. An auto-sextant, if you will, far more precise than one operated with eye and hand.

  20. Re:what a joke on California Will Not Complete $77 Billion High-Speed Rail Project (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Much of the testing/work is being done on 'loop', which is not evacuated. It's not nearly as fast, but it avoids all those problems. It's often called 'hyperloop' because that's better-known. Loop systems could be designed to be upgradeable to hyperloop later down the line.

  21. Re:China wins again! on California Will Not Complete $77 Billion High-Speed Rail Project (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow, they're both unemployed AND farmers? I bet their farm cats are simultaneously alive and dead, and if you strap a slice of toast with PB to their backs, they spin like a dynamo in midair to power the nation's electrical grid.

  22. Re:As the old bullshitting faggot goes on forever. on California Will Not Complete $77 Billion High-Speed Rail Project (reuters.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Your supporting points don't actually support your thesis statement. Economic power != income.

  23. Re:Marijuana on Tobacco Use is Soaring Among US Kids, Driven By E-cigarettes (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    So if I get a prescription for pain

    If your doctor is also a sadist, this can happen.

  24. Re:Marijuana on Tobacco Use is Soaring Among US Kids, Driven By E-cigarettes (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Decades of cross-breeding and selecting for higher THC content.

  25. Re:Must have been a really good debater. on IBM's AI Loses To a Human Debater (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    More like a journeyman debater, given it lost.