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  1. I'm pretty sure we figured out how to grow Cotton here in the US at some point in our history.

    But we don't have the slaves any more.

  2. Re:Breaking News on Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic To Lead EPA Transition (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it just didn't occur to me that you were arguing against the claim that Trump could stop the Paris accords in other nations, as that is a claim absolutely no one has tried to make.

  3. Re:The truth is that it does not matter. on Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic To Lead EPA Transition (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Slowing down population growth only postpones the inevitable. It does not avoid it.

    But reversing population growth, where the death rate surpasses the birth rate, avoids the "inevitable" quite nicely. And that's happening in places, and the number of those places are growing.

  4. Re:Breaking News on Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic To Lead EPA Transition (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Of course Trump can cancel the Paris Climate Accord, at least for the US. The Senate never ratified it. It, in spite of being a treaty, was declared in force for the US on Obama's word alone. Trump's word alone can therefore repeal it.

  5. Might be true on Russia Says it Was in Touch With Trump Campaign During Election (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Might not be. Might not mean anything even if it is true; just sending a couple of unsolicited emails could be "in touch." Russia is going to see an advantage in sowing doubt about Trump regardless of the truth.

  6. Re:Dumb Trump supporters on General Motors To Lay Off 2,000 Workers at Two US Plants (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Of Michigan's 14 House seats, 9 went to Republicans and 5 went to Democrats. Michigan did not have a Senate seat up for election this year. Their seated Senators are both Democrats.

  7. A 90 degree angle would be a veritcal wall, and would be an infinite slope, as slope is calculated as "rise over run", and with a verticle wall, the run is 0.

  8. This just in... on Fake Shopping Apps Are Invading the iPhone (nypost.com) · · Score: 0

    Throwing money at people you don't know and have never heard of before doesn't end well. Film at eleven.

  9. Yes, it does explain it. It does it perfectly. It does so because it explains how they are two entirely different tasks. One was having to actually read emails one by one to see what they say. That is a very slow process. The other is simply comparing emails ro ones you've already read and determining that they are identical. That can be trivially automated, and is very, very fast.

  10. Re:Fox News headline version on Wikipedia's Not as Biased as You Might Think, Say Harvard Researchers (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    Pay $10 to watch what you want to hear

    Pay $20 to listen to what you want to see.

  11. When talking about a sloping surface, it's common to talk about a grade, expressed, in percent: a 10% grade, a 20% grade, and so on. This is of course, convertable into a angle measured in degrees or radians.

  12. Re:Bannks don't need to be online on British Retail Tesco Bank: 20,000 Customers Lose Money (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If, by "the old days", you mean the Middle Ages. Banks haven't stored all the cash and gold on deposit with them in the vault in many centuries.

  13. When asked.. on Mythbuntu Linux Has Been Discontinued (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    ...Adam Savage said he had no comment.

  14. Cars are infinitely faster than anyone can run, but we still hold tracck and field events.

  15. Re:You can't fool me! on Meet VoCore2 Lite, a $4 Coin-Sized, Open Source Linux Computer (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    A $4 coin that costs $45?

  16. You can't fool me! on Meet VoCore2 Lite, a $4 Coin-Sized, Open Source Linux Computer (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    There are no $4 coins!

  17. Re:Paris Climate Change Agreement Enters Into Forc on Paris Climate Change Agreement Enters Into Force (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It's meaningless without ratification. The US will not make any effort to comply with it and the courts will throw out any attempt to force such an effort until it is ratified. The US is not part of the agreement, because the agreement will not be enforced in any way until it is ratified.

  18. Re:Not a good idea... on Judge Refuses To Block New York 'Ballot Selfie' Law (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, this is a good reason to be against the movement to unlimited postal and proxy votes that's so popular right now. They used to be tightly regulated just because of this concern.

  19. Re:Law enforcement's gonna love this! on Adobe Is Working On 'Photoshop For Audio' That Will Let You Add Words Someone Never Said (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Police already know how to prove these sort of thing haven't been tampered with: it's called "the chain of evidence". These techniques are simply going to have to be applied to recorded testimony, that's all.

  20. Re:Facebook is poisoned brand with gamers on Facebook Officially Announces Gameroom, Its PC Steam Competitor (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is dead on arrival, as Facebook is poisoned brand with gamers. They might attract casual Facebook gamers, Farmville and the like, but they already have these.

    They already have them, but they're not extracting money from them; Zynga and their ilk are. This is a plan to get a hold of the revenue streams that currently goes to Zynga et al.

  21. Re:No on People Who Use Facebook Live Longer, Study Finds (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Just because your test subject dies because he was hit by a bus doesn't mean that facebook is responsible for the living....

    Making unwarranted assumptions. One could easily make a case that walking while distracted by social media make you more likely to be hit by a bus, thus such deaths should be counted in determining the effects of it.

  22. And would owning gold bullion remain legal? We've outlawed it before, you know.

  23. Re:Sorry, Tim... on Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'We're Going To Kill Cash' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Ever been to Japan?

    Most places, especially restaurants, don't take credit cards.

    Nope, never been. But I've hear Japan's weird. Most jobs, you don't get a paycheck, let alone direct deposit. You get a pay packet. You get your salary or wages in cash.

  24. I guess you could say... on Twitter is Shutting Down Its Video App Vine (recode.net) · · Score: 2

    ...it's dying on the Vine.

    YEEEAAAH!!!

  25. Re:NXP = NFC on Qualcomm To Buy NXP Semiconductors in $47 Billion Deal (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    NXP is also synonymous with NFC technology

    So who specializes in AFC technology?