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  1. Re:Meanwhile... on U.S. Offshore Wind Farm Receives $2 Billion From Japanese Banks · · Score: 1

    Holy crap! Where the hell did you get all those strawmen?

  2. Re:Meanwhile... on U.S. Offshore Wind Farm Receives $2 Billion From Japanese Banks · · Score: 1

    You completely failed to discern my point. One more time without any examples that might send you off on another tangent: There is no logic in calculating a per-unit cost for a subsidy in an industry that is in its infancy.

  3. Re:Meanwhile... on U.S. Offshore Wind Farm Receives $2 Billion From Japanese Banks · · Score: 1

    the government never gave it to them. It simply didn't take it in the first place.

    The material difference being?

  4. Re:Meanwhile... on U.S. Offshore Wind Farm Receives $2 Billion From Japanese Banks · · Score: 2

    Your math isn't sensible. You do realize the purpose of solar subsidies is to get the industry off the ground, right? Per-megawatt cost means nothing. Going by your logic of what is good value, the very first Tesla cost millions of dollars. Never mind how much less expensive the second one was, nobody wants to buy the first one so why bother.

  5. Re:Turn off wifi on Have a Wi-Fi-Enabled Phone? Stores Are Tracking You · · Score: 1

    One store alone may not be able to identify you personally. But then the googles of the world will soon be aggregating data from every store, including the ones where you've used your credit card. At that time, your MAC address will very much personally identify you.

  6. Re:What's the point? on Hurt Locker Studio Begins Requesting Canadian ISP's Subscriber Info · · Score: 1

    The Tories got the camel's nose into the tent. It makes no sense to pursue non-commercial offenders today, but the numbers can be adjusted over time. They've tried time and time again to get this kind of legislation in place and always failed. This time, it's in (just the tip so far) and look how quiet everybody is over it because the initial numbers look favourable.

  7. Asterisk-Greylist-Captcha on FTC Offers $50,000 For Best Way To Stop Robocalls · · Score: 1

    I use Asterisk to prompt unknown callers with "Press 1 to be connected" before my phone will ring. Works like a charm.

  8. Re:Great! on First Community Release of Diaspora · · Score: 0

    you should have wrote

    have written

  9. Re:Ermahgerd 1984! on Calif. Man Arrested For ESPN Post On Killing Kids · · Score: 1

    Threats of violence that can be reasonably carried out are assault.

    Not any more... now they're T-e-r-r-o-r-i-s-m !

  10. Re:Ermahgerd 1984! on Calif. Man Arrested For ESPN Post On Killing Kids · · Score: 2

    But what's the new criterion that turns an everyday threat into a terrorist threat? If it's not "to effect political change" any more, what's the new distinction?

  11. Re:Personal Waste Transporters on Star Trek Tech That Exists Today · · Score: 1

    Where was that?

    There's one in the captain's ready room, opposite the replicator in its little alcove. He once came around the corner wiping his hands together, looking like he had just washed them.

  12. Re:Exploitation? on Don't Build a Database of Ruin · · Score: 1

    Ok so you use an anonymous credit card... where do you get the items sent?

  13. Re:Stupid on Iranian Players Blocked From World of Warcraft Due To Trade Sanctions · · Score: 1

    We did. The telcos squandered it in the 90s.

  14. Re:When I was a kid we thought America was free on Iranian Players Blocked From World of Warcraft Due To Trade Sanctions · · Score: 1

    Your 9/11 has you all cowering and on your knees.

    As it was designed to.

  15. Re: Maybe on Genetically Engineering Babies a Moral Obligation, Says Ethicist · · Score: 1

    Even if evolution was still working

    When did it stop?

  16. Re:Capitalism at work? on The Decline of Google's (and Everybody's) Ad Business · · Score: 1

    This girl does ...or if you have time for the long version

  17. Re:Awesome! on F-Secure Report: Another SCADA Attack in Iran — This Time With AC/DC · · Score: 1

    Thanks for those, check out HP ScanJet Ode To Joy

  18. Re:Fast Networks on Could Google Fiber Save Network Neutrality? · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Here's hoping on 'Wearable Computing Will Be the Norm,' Says Google Glass Team · · Score: 1

    You know, "defensive", kind of like our national Department of "Defense"

  20. bioterrrism on Insects As Weapons · · Score: 2

    Just asking, is all crime called terrorism now?

  21. Re:The BBC isn't state sponsored media? I must be on State Media Rushing Into Coverage Void Left By Dying Newspapers · · Score: 1

    The BBC reported the collapse of WTC7 (the third tower to collapse on 9/11 even though it was not hit by an airplane) approximately 23 minutes before it happened. With the building still standing behind her in plain view, Jane Standley reported "live" that the collapse had already happened. It's actually quite funny how the BBC quickly tried to cover it up, "lost" the tapes, and denied everything. The video is freely available online so they were finally forced to apologize, citing the "confusion of the day".

    http://www.wtc7.net/bbc.html

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky90eEIzStw

  22. Re:Oh, stop acting surprised, Iran on Iran Claims New Cyber Attack On Its Nuclear Plants, Blames US and Allies · · Score: 2, Troll

    Given the truth about Pearl Harbor, Vietnam, others including 9/11, it's more likely that the US would do something to its own Pentagon or White House to unite the people against Iran.

  23. Re:Bad Idea? on Iran Claims New Cyber Attack On Its Nuclear Plants, Blames US and Allies · · Score: 2

    I get that Iran has a deserved reputation for abusing their neighbors

    Please explain.

    ...then we're in the wrong.

    Thousands of dead Americans and counting, a million dead Iraqis and counting, how are we not already in the wrong?

  24. Re:not a good thing on Have Your Fingerprints Read From 6 Meters Away · · Score: 1

    Right, so if I understand, the system can work if and only if the bank spends every penny of interest earned on goods, services, salaries... If the bank keeps, invests or re-lends any of the interest earnings, then we're doomed, or at least some of us will have to default, which I think is what's happening.

    Still, best case is that all the money in circulation is borrowed from these private corporations and they're sucking up compound interest for doing virtually nothing. Would you agree then that the value of the "real economy" must grow exponentially just to keep the financial system from collapsing?

  25. Re:not a good thing on Have Your Fingerprints Read From 6 Meters Away · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure of your point.