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  1. Re:Upstaged by Trump on WikiLeaks Posts 2,000 More Emails From John Podesta (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The trump tape is over a decade old

    That the Trump tape is a decade old is a datum back from that era. Comparing Trump then with Trump now shows that he has not changed during that time. That is independent of who ever released the tape.

    I don't know if I subscribe to the conspiracy theory that this was all orchestrated for maximum effect before this debate. You'd think that if this tape was common knowledge amongst various people that Billy Bush would have used it to help his cousin Jeb out during the primaries.

  2. Re:Covered this already on Are Tech Firms Liable For What Their Users Post? (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    ^^Mod up^^

  3. Hmm... and I can have all that an non-overpriced food at home, along with no parking fee and the movie actually pausing whenever I want to take a piss (at a toilet that's not smelling like a sewer and where I don't have to wait for 10 minutes for my turn)... so what exactly is the benefit?

    Well if you really want to see a movie on its release date there are not many legal options.

  4. Re:Movie theaters on Netflix CEO: Movie Theaters Are 'Strangling the Movie Business'' (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There are 18+ movie theaters. They're basically all that's worth going to anymore.

    I'll second that. The food and drink they serve may be over priced (but you don't have to eat or drink), but the larger seats and leg room and lack of annoying kids is a huge draw card.

  5. Re:This was missed by LUDDITE behaviorists! on Apes Can Guess What Others Are Thinking -- Just Like Humans, Study Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Modern ape apers know that ONLY apes can ape apes, so if you use an apey ape psychologist instead of a LUDDITE behaviorist, everything will be super apey!

    Apes!

    Oh come on .. how could you not lead with "YOU'RE ALL APES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

  6. Re:The waiting is just on Upcoming Blade Runner Sequel Gets a Title: Blade Runner 2049 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't be such a pris!

    Well he didn't make a gaff, so that's something to chew over.

  7. Re:Replicated Studies on Scientists Study How Non-Scientists Deny Climate Change (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Didn't they recently say that many scientific papers/studies cannot be replicated? I've also heard that many of the global warming studies don't include the solar cycles the sun goes through as well.

    I also heard that the reason Trump won't release his taxes is because it will reveal his donations to NAMBLA.

    It's amazing what you can hear if you don't care about truth or nominating the source of where you heard it,

  8. Re:And What Will Come of It? on California Launches Mandatory Data Collection For Police Use-of-Force (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    but there is nothing intrinsically different about police officers that makes them honest.
    You mean other than their training?

    Just as a counterpoint to your example.

    1. Officer Sherry Hall from Georgia who claimed that a black guy shot her. Who has now been charged with fabricating that story as well as various other offenses.
    2. Officer Jason Stockley from St Louis kills guy then plants gun on him.
    3. Officer Mark Wayne Rowe from VA Beach stealing gun bags from the evidence room
    4. Pinellas County Sheriff’s deputy Wayne Wagner beats up on a woman and then accuses her of battery of him.
    etc etc

    So yeah, right. Training.

    But what is non-sensical is (former) Officer Stephen Mader from Weirton Wha who was basically fired because he didn't shoot a suicidal man with a gun. Mader who is a former Marine had surveyed the situation, decided that the man in question was not really a threat and was trying to talk him down. Two other officers arrived, decided that the guy was dangerous and shot him dead. Mader was fired because his actions put the other officers at risk. Oh yeah, the gun was unloaded.

  9. Re:What about the Ada way ? on A New Programming Language Expands on Google's Go (infoworld.com) · · Score: 2

    You could do something like Ada does where it has a closing block construct.

    For example, loop blocks have an opening "loop" statement and a closing "end loop" statement.

    ALGOL called from the 1950's and it wants its syntax back.

    And no .. I didn't warn it about anything.

  10. Re:What's wrong with this? on Senators Accuse Russia Of Disrupting US Election (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The sad thing is that it's been going on for well over 120 years

    Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq

  11. It seems to be:

    Person P stops doing work for Company A and starts working at Company B. Management at Company A has no clue. When they figure it out they see that the work Person P did for them was not related/influenced by Person P's relationship with Company B

    What is the news in that story that requires a 400 word summary?

  12. Re:OMG on Our Atmosphere Is Leaking Oxygen and Scientists Don't Know Why (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    where would the oxygen come from?

    Please tell me you're kidding. Did you sleep through plant biology in high school?

    -jcr

    You seem to be deaf to that whooshing sound above your head. But, hey .. let's parse it it out anyway.

    In photosynthesis we basically have CO2 + 2H2O + photons => [CH2O] + O2 + H2O

    Do you notice that there is the same number of O's on both sides of the equation? That means that no O was created in the process, which means your derision about the OP is unfounded as photosynthesis does not create O2, it merely frees O2. EG all the O we need and use already exists in the world.

    Thus the OP was correct in stating that levels of O can only go down and not up, as the only place you can normally create new O is in the center of a star. But O could potentially escape into space (as I believe that He does)

    The trap you fell for was that TFA is talking about the shifting of O trapped/released from various sources within the Earth's environment as a closed system, whereas the OP was implying O exfiltrating from the Earth. So Apples and Oranges.

    All in all it was a pretty good troll. Factually correct, with a huge dose of easily over-looked assumption.

  13. Re:Should have gone for Schwarzenegger Headline: on Senate Panel Authorizes Money For Mission To Mars (usatoday.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Senate Panel Says "Get Your Ass to Mars."

    And as a non-American I would wonder "Why do you need to send livestock to Mars"?

  14. Re:If Trump wins... on Hacker Leaks Michelle Obama's Passport (nypost.com) · · Score: 0

    The niggers were not looting with GB was president.

    I'd like to introduce you to Rodney King. He lived in a place called Los Angeles at the time GB was president.

    Oh, what's that? You're so young that you didn't know that there have been two presidents named GB?

  15. Re:I want to borrow the court's microscope... on With 3D Printer Gun Files, National Security Interest Trumps Free Speech, Court Rules (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    ...because, no matter how closely I scrutinize the text of the First Amendment, I can't find this "national security" exclusion they're talking about.

    Too right. And when I sell goods/services/information to North Korea or Iran, I should be allowed to do so because it's an expression of my free speech, because I don't see ITAR mentioned in the constitution either.

  16. Why Alice Bob and Charlie? on Quantum Teleportation Achieved Over 7km of Cable (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    I always thought that it would be apropros to use Bob, Carol, Ted and Alice as example names for sharing.

  17. Re:Oh Noes!!!!!! on College Student Got 15 Million Miles By Hacking United Airlines (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    He earned miles, not money. Did you read the article?

    yes .. and that is taxable income.

  18. Oh Noes!!!!!! on College Student Got 15 Million Miles By Hacking United Airlines (fortune.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    You have to pay taxes on money you earn? Say it ain't so.

    FFS Get out of the basement and explore the real world.

    I knew a guy who said he'd happily pay a tax bill of (pinky finger to mouth) $1 Million dollars. Because that meant he had learnt a shitload more.

  19. Re:It can't come soon enough... on US Regulators Issue Comprehensive Policy On Self-Driving Cars (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    I mean illegal

  20. Re:It can't come soon enough... on US Regulators Issue Comprehensive Policy On Self-Driving Cars (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    s/manual transition/transition/

  21. Re:It can't come soon enough... on US Regulators Issue Comprehensive Policy On Self-Driving Cars (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    So all this happened within a second or two? Because that's typically how long it takes for everything to go from perfectly fine to everything is fucked in a car accident.

    There is a difference between a safety system operating instantaneously and a manual transition from autonomous to manual control. The person I was responding to seemed to be describing the latter.

  22. Re:It can't come soon enough... on US Regulators Issue Comprehensive Policy On Self-Driving Cars (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Using a cellphone while driving is illegal where I live, you get a ticket just for holding one in your hand even if at a stoplight, so those problems are not common here.

    And its legal where I am too .. but that doesn't stop people doing it.

  23. Re:Need Smart Roads, Too on US Regulators Issue Comprehensive Policy On Self-Driving Cars (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    iv) Operate a marketplace in which vehicles can bid for access to express lanes or right-of-way. (Late for a crucial meeting? Pay other cars $5 each to pull out of the way.)

    Toll roads around DC now implement a congestion based fee, so that accounts for your marketplace. And I don't have a problem with that.

    But paying other cars to get out of the way? That smells of a have vs have-nots class based society and potentially turns public roads into the private roads of the super rich.

  24. Re:It can't come soon enough... on US Regulators Issue Comprehensive Policy On Self-Driving Cars (vox.com) · · Score: 2

    Humans can handle driving down the freeway when everything is going right

    You've obviously never seen someone driving down the passing lane weaving from side to side (and crossing lane boundaries) all the while doing well under the speed limit. Yeah, sure .. things are going well for them chatting on their phone but they are an accident waiting to happen. They just have no clue as to the problems they are causing.

    Interestingly the Subaru Eyesight system has a mode for detecting side to side weaving in a lane.

  25. Re:It can't come soon enough... on US Regulators Issue Comprehensive Policy On Self-Driving Cars (vox.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Would you rather they be busy on their phone and unable to take over from Autopilot?

    Status: Approaching area where human needs to manually control vehicle
    Action: Request Human take over!
    Status: Human not responding within required timeframe
    Action: Alert Human to take over (this time with feeling)
    Status: Human is still not responding
    Decision: Human is incapable of taking over control
    Action: Initiate Safe Stop and/or Safe Pullover to side of road
    Action: Alert Human fro third time
    Status: Human is still not responding
    Action: Initiate call to authorities - Human is likely incapacitated.