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  1. I don't actually know any climate scientists that I can ask personally but I do know that in the 70s because of the long cooling trend that started after the dust bowl the media was was grabbing headlines with global cooling scares. It had died out by the end of the 70s then had a short lived resurfacing after the 1980 eruption of Mount St Helen before global warming became the next big thing to catch headlines on.

    To my point those global cooling scares of the 70s were based on scientific research hand picked and reported by the media in a sensational way. The effect of greenhouse gases hasn't been understood for over a century and you as much as admitted there are still details we don't understand.

    All that being said cleaner, cheaper, safer, renewable resources are what we should be striving for even if tomorrow global warming is solved.

  2. Re:Mail-order catalogs on 'The Unwillingness To Foresee The Future' (stratechery.com) · · Score: 1

    Really, the Sears here is constantly packed. It's huge like an clothing store, furniture store, appliance store, home improvement, hardware store, that does tires and oil changes. They will even deliver your new central air, furnace, stove, washer, dryer, and install it for you.

  3. Wasn't Pacman, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong jr, Mario bros., and galaga all on atari also.The atari came out in the 70s and the nes in the 80s so the games look much better on nes but they were still a lot of the same games.

  4. Re:So the question is this: on Amazon Granted a Patent That Prevents In-Store Shoppers From Online Price Checking (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Since chances are you are not at an amazon store and the website you are comparing pricing and availability on is probably amazon, I would say so that stores can't do it because they already patent it.

  5. Re:Outsourced IT, Outsourced performance. on Oil Changes, Safety Recalls, and Software Patches (daemonology.net) · · Score: 1

    I will grant you that you could expect to pay 1.9 to 2.2 times as much to rent a similar house for or about the same as my mortgage or for a cheap 1 bedroom apartment locally but my son's cheap 1 bedroom apartment for the area he lives in costs about 2.4 times as much as my mortgage and a similar house would sell for triple what I payed.

  6. Re:Outsourced IT, Outsourced performance. on Oil Changes, Safety Recalls, and Software Patches (daemonology.net) · · Score: 1

    Low wage is relative... I live in the mid-west have a nice house w/garage and a yard etc... and my son that lives in San Francisco who makes more than me is broke and lives in an little apartment that's costs him more than twice my mortgage.

  7. Re:amazon prime on Ask Slashdot: Your Favorite Subscription Services? · · Score: 1

    Sadly I have to agree I can get just about anything on amazon prime w/ free shipping then watch prime video... Since I live in the boonies I order a lot of stuff from amazon that I just can't buy locally. The last thing I got from amazon was an ignition coil for a riding mower, I could have driven 60 miles and picked one up but that's a waste of time and gas.

  8. Re:Outsourced IT, Outsourced performance. on Oil Changes, Safety Recalls, and Software Patches (daemonology.net) · · Score: 1

    Outsource doesn't automatically mean cheaper or India there are outsource companies in the US and Europe and they can be more expensive. They just call themselves logistics companies to distance them from the word outsource and they run anything from call centers, ware houses, repair facilities, IT, payroll, you name it but yes you get what you pay for.

  9. Re:nearly impossible to anticipate? on Chess.com Has Stopped Working On 32bit iPads After the Site Hit 2^31 Game Sessions (chess.com) · · Score: 1

    Araine 5 $7 billion arithmetic overflow...

  10. Re: This was expected on US Tech Companies Start To Become Copycats of Chinese Peers (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    There are shoes and boots on the market that are made from quality materials, triple stitched, and after 2 or 3 years you can have the boots re-souled but you won't find them at Hibbets or any other trendy sporting goods store.

  11. Re:Drug delivery device on E-cigarettes 'Potentially As Harmful As Tobacco Cigarettes' (uconn.edu) · · Score: 1

    Less litter I will agree with however your other two points are relative. One of my sons vape and his car stinks like a nasty chemical fruit explosion and it's always on his clothes.

  12. Re:What about... on E-cigarettes 'Potentially As Harmful As Tobacco Cigarettes' (uconn.edu) · · Score: 1

    It's kind of tricky you are inhaling it so it's not being processed by your liver so anything you eat that might not normally be toxic because your liver takes care of it could be a problem. Kind of like a couple shots of whiskey isn't a problem but a couple shots of whiskey in an enema can kill you. It's also a vaporized liquid that goes into your lungs which eventually will turn back into liquid.

  13. Re:I don't believe that but... on E-cigarettes 'Potentially As Harmful As Tobacco Cigarettes' (uconn.edu) · · Score: 2

    Cigarettes don't have tar made from petroleum like on a the road they have a TAR (total aerosol residue). Everyone likes to believe that e-cigarettes leave no residue behind but that's just silly and anyone that might propagate that myth is highly suspect.

  14. Re: This was expected on US Tech Companies Start To Become Copycats of Chinese Peers (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    Many many products are made cheap in a deceptive nature masquerading under marketing salesmanship of a high quality design, material, and production process.

    You get what you pay for doesn't mean what it used to. Shoes are probably the best example, the most popular and expensive are little more than junk more of a status symbol than an actual product. I had a pare of work boots that I wore for almost ten years and only had to replace them when I spilled some chemical on them that messed up the leather you aren't getting a name brand pair of basketball shoes that last like that.

  15. Re:Who copied who? on US Tech Companies Start To Become Copycats of Chinese Peers (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know about reverse engineering anything, all the electronics in my house are either made china or have parts that were made in china even the stuff from American companies. When I think reverse engineering I think of someone starting with no knowledge of how the device works, not someone that already manufactures a large chunk of the parts deciding to assembly their own version of the end product.

  16. I had not heard that but would assume that it would really depend on the state and the wording of the law as a well worded state law would be done in a manner that complies with the federal laws. Things like a minimum wage are easy the federal government says shall not be less than and the states says shall not be less than a higher number.

     

  17. No clue about federal laws but some states have laws that guarantee a persons right to a court in both civil and criminal matters. These type contracts are not used in those states.

  18. Re:Lack of iPhones on Police In Oklahoma Have Cracked Hundreds of People's Cell Phones (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    My son has cracked more than a couple iphones... he won't take them out of his pocket before he get's on the skateboard. I just quit buying them for him.

  19. Most inmates aren't murders they are drug dealers, users, and thieves. $80k/yr for 5-10 years to keep someone from stealing a $30k-$60k car sounds like a lot of money to me. It really all comes down to which crimes are worth $80k/yr and which might be handled better in a different way.

  20. Re:Half the summary is missing... on Amazon Is Offering a Discount on Prime For People On Government Assistance (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    third paragraph of tfa...

    This announcement is the latest in several recent moves Amazon has made to appeal to lower-income households and become a direct competitor to Walmart. Last year, it introduced the $10.99 monthly payment option, and earlier this year it announced the decision to start accepting food stamps for online grocery orders beginning this summer.

  21. Re:Government should just drop the product. on Price-gouging Maker of EpiPen Literally Said That Critics Can Go Fuck Themselves (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    The question is how long before the patent runs out and did they make back their money on research and development how many regulatory hoops did they have to jump through to bring it to market and how much did it cost. I don't know it wasn't covered in tfa.

    Does it cost squat to manufacture but with research, development, testing, and regulatory hoops is it still a loss?

    If so then maybe we are wrong to be annoyed that they want to recoup some money, if not then they are a bunch of jerks... no one wants to show a breakdown of all the financial info on the product so we don't the answer to that.

     

  22. Re:Unwatchable on Videotapes Are Becoming Unwatchable As Archivists Work To Save Them (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    I find a lot of new movies especially in the horror genre to be unwatchable compared to vhs. I know you know the type I'm talking about where it's supposedly a record of cell phone camera, security cameras, and camcorders cut together.

  23. Re:Seems reasonable. on Harvard Pulls Student Offers Over Online Comments (go.com) · · Score: 1

    No I was just pointing out that a bar allowing or not allowing people to smoke was a bad example because a lot of states don't allow smoking in business that are open to the public. Even tobacco stores the one place where every one is most likely a smoker.

    My question though is that if this was a private group what is their view on the student that reported this and that broke the confidence of the private group and possibly violated the group's privacy agreement implied or otherwise. Granting that from the description there were no criminal charges pressed against the students posting.

    I could care less if a private school wants to decline students based on what they post publicly so long as they are not taking government funds. There are private nonprofit colleges that receive government grants like the catholic university my not catholic niece goes to.

  24. Re:Seems reasonable. on Harvard Pulls Student Offers Over Online Comments (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Smoking in business that's open to the public is against the law in my state no matter what the owner thinks is right.

     

  25. Re:It's never their fault, of course on Movie Studios Are Blaming Rotten Tomatoes For Killing Movies No One Wants To See (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I didn't even look at the rotten tomatoes rating and still wasn't interested in either of those movies because they have already been done to death.