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  1. Re:Let's all start running now! on Sea Rise Could Force Millions In Florida To Adapt Or Flee (miamiherald.com) · · Score: 1

    Wat? Wat is jouw betekenis. Keelontsteking? Dat is de Duitse accent .. zeker ;-)

  2. Re:Let's all start running now! on Sea Rise Could Force Millions In Florida To Adapt Or Flee (miamiherald.com) · · Score: 1

    Their *grandchildren* will have time to adjust.. However, It's unclear to mer if a ratio of 30% crude oil will change the freezing point of salt water, or just how near the geographic North Pole Florida will, in fact, be by then. Or is it the South poledirection it would be yanked to? Kind of pointless anyways. Just like bimini and that underwater complex you'd need scuba gear to enter - not that I wouldn't just DIG an underwater villa, but the access road would be just hell!

  3. Re:Title on What Apple Can Learn From BlackBerry Not To Do (informationweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Like.. more like use to, befour I learnd writing good...

  4. Re:First thought... on Comcast Provides Uncapped 1 Gb Service To 1 Customer -- of 22.4 Million (myajc.com) · · Score: 1

    But... But.. they NEED the "Xtra Large" jacuzzi because they're carrying all the fat they've scraped off the bones of their subscribers...

  5. Re:Um. Let's pattent words. on A California Jury Finds Copyright Infringement In an Interface (deepchip.com) · · Score: 1

    My farts are not imaginary! And your farts sound too much like mine! I'm suing!!

  6. Re: Not worth it on Another Windows 10 Update Causing Problems (windowsreport.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps somebody at M$ should point Satya Nadella to this thread. That is if he wants the complete unvarnished truth. His mistake was trying to emulate modern Apples' self destructive policies without realizing that these very policies were what was bringing MORE disgruntled Apple users to install Windows 7.
    I dare you.. have him read just the first half of the comments

  7. Seconded. Boy Oh boy I used to be such an Apple evangelist..There was a "magic" about them and even in the OS9 days it was ever so cool.. Then Steve got sick. It took them less than a month after he died to violate every precept he had instilled in the company ethic... At this point.. I pretty much despise them now...

  8. To dream the impossible dream... on FujiFilm Discontinues Last Film For Millions of Polaroid Cameras (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    is to think nthat this will EVER qualify for the impossible project. Instamatic camera collectors are so few and far between that they will almost all be able to obtain "discovered" cartridges via ebay. IMHO the film sucks terribly and fades so quickly that anybody who hasn't scanned their "precious memopries" taken via "peel away" instamatic has most assuredly lost them by now... we were early adopters being in real estate and I can still remembert the smell to this day...

  9. I don't understand the entire artticle never mind the headline. If the guy objects to his designs being used without his permission he should have reserved copyright.. instead of assigning CC to it. Dumb. As far as people using an actual copyrighted design or whatever to sell on ebay.. lately it looks to me like ebay has been really sloppy allowing questionable items to slip by (cassette tapes in my case). Personally I don't give a rat's #$$ about if they're there or not becase I can tell the difference between professional design and printing and the sloppy amateurish jobs these "rare!! paper label unusual design" countertfeits have - but others might not, and I really hate having to slog through all these "saudi" and chinese low quality fakes just to find what I'm looking for...

  10. Re:Autonomous = Future on New Report Cites Dangers of Autonomous Weapons · · Score: 1

    Well Everybody that's ever read a book or seen a movie knows full well that killer robots is a Bad Thing.. but I guess it's not "official" until a report is drawn up on it.. y'think?

  11. Re: The solution seems obvious to me... on Microsoft Unhappy With Beta Testers, Demands Answers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    sorry about the bizarre typos! Typing crip here...

  12. Re: The solution seems obvious to me... on Microsoft Unhappy With Beta Testers, Demands Answers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    And you don't think Apple sees you as one big mark, as well? More than a few of the bad ideas M$ has adopted originated with Apple. Not the least of which ios the short software lifespan of a couple of years. I'm talking about post-Jobs Apple here. Having been an a=Apple user for 15 years.. I was planning on switching to Windows while Win 7 was current. Now? There's only Linux... :sigh:

  13. You want to know what kind of president he'll be? on How Donald Trump Uses Twitter As a Weapon of Fear · · Score: 2

    Well, the old saying applies here... just look at their fruit. Meaning, of course forget about what he says and instead look at his actions. Those are a better indicator of how he'll behave as president. And to me, they're a pretty damning indictment of thoughtless and harsh actions. On one level, of course it doesn't matter who becomes president as the actions continue unchanged.. but internationally, it DOES matter.. and , given Don's penchant for sticking his polished patent leather shoes right uo his mouth, along with his classic rudeness, he could easily set off world war 3 (and 4, and 5, and ...). And certainly his approach to domestic crises could make matters insoluble with one word.
    He may talk a good game, and that is what you need in his line of "work", but it is actions you have to look at, and his actions betray him.

  14. Yeah sure.. what a great idea.. NOT! on It's Time To Kill the $100 Bill, Says Larry Summers · · Score: 1

    "There are now so many ways to pay for things, and eliminating big bills should create few problems." What a crock. All the other ways are monitored registered tabulated calculated and ON THE RECORD. Want to pay the babysitter? better get her interac #no. Save for a rainy day where nobody excepy your needy children can receive it? Tell them they better declare it! Wanna buy a bike cash at a swap shop? Forget it. Big friggin brother is truly at the door....

  15. Re:They might guarantee it... on Snowden Would Return To US If Government Guarantees Fair Trial (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    ...Or could this have been handled more discreetly.
    From my point of view, he went all Drama Queen and took it overboard ...

    Indeed. Had he handled it quietly and discreetly he would most certainly have been quietly and discreetly silenced and no action taken, thereby allowing the activites to continue. I'm not *necessarily* implying that he would have been murdered.. there are other ways to silence a threat.. but no change would have occurred. Intelligence services jujst can never have *enough* information - even if 99% is never even gone through, and even spying on their allies is considered essential. I meamn, *are* they our allies, or just an elaborate front portrayed through three wars and 200 years .. even though the head of the departmnent is married to one of them and they have an office next door, go to the same church and have been trustworthy as allies for 200 years, doesn't mean they're not *really* the enemy and taking everybody for a ride!. Seriously - THAT is how these people think.
      Except, of course, if one is British. One simply does NOT question the loyalty of their co-workers in the agency.. It is just not... er... ever... done! When the Americans keep bringing up their suspicions at briefings it is just typical the US' suspicious mentality. Ignore. it will go away... :-)

  16. Re:They might guarantee it... on Snowden Would Return To US If Government Guarantees Fair Trial (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure he would. Painful though it might be for me to say, since I agree with the neccessity for his actions, there exists no "special exemption"against treason, even when dealing with a corrupt or overreaching government So I would strongly advise his never returning.. since a "faiir trial" would most assuredly land him in fronyt of a firing squad.. the mandatory form of (summary) execution. And of course , appeals are nonexistent on a verdict containing a summary execution order. So a "fair trial" . NOT what he needs. A change in the legal code IS...

  17. Re:Lawers should be put out of job on A 19-Year-Old Made A Free Robot Lawyer That Has Appealed $3M In Parking Tickets (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Was it Dickens who said "First shoot all the lawyrers?" Certainlty the sentiment is as old as time itself...

  18. Whatever. One law for the powerful and one for us. on Copyright Professor's Lecture Removed From YouTube Over Sony Content-ID Claim (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    ?We shouldn't be surprised by this any more. There';s one law for the rich and powerful and one for the rest of us. What we SHOULD be surprised about, however, is that not ONE of these bleeding heart liberals in the field of politics or law, that claim to be for the oppressed, has mounted any kind of protest over this repeayted violation of civil liberties or human rights. Not when it comes to being steamrolled over by these large corporations.. at least the entertainment industry, anyways.
     

  19. Re:Of course this should be possible on Scientists Have Discovered How To 'Delete' Unwanted Memories (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I would think the memory is erased via overwriting.. therefore accessing a memory woulfdn't cause it's erqasure. Were it not so we would be vegetables from birth. Lots of common anxiolytics can prevent the formation of new memories, leading one to suspect that GABA is integral towards the formation of memory. since it is also GABA (Gamma Amino Butyric Acid) that is displaced by these drugs to (presumably) exert their calming action ...
    Of course this is what I learned 35 years ago so maybe they know a whole lot more about this field by now...

  20. Re:Paging Dr. Tyrell on Scientists Have Discovered How To 'Delete' Unwanted Memories (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Does it actually say we are now actually able to erase and rewrite memories, or that we are only *learnng* how memory really works, . because if they said they can now rewrite memories I don't recall it being mentioned in the show (pun not intended). Of course we have known how to excise memory for a long time even hundreds of years.. if somewhat crudely, via treppanning (!), or more recently via frontal lobotomy (All sing together now "I'd rather have a bottle.....").
    So the only new development would be being able to rewrite memories, since we have known for quite some time the human brain does not work like a "tape recorder".. Actually, I would say it works more like a digital backup system...

  21. Re: At least the summary is realistic about Swar on Sci-Hub, a Site With Open and Pirated Scientific Papers · · Score: 1

    Most Republicans are Holocaust Deniers.

    It might have been more accurate to turn it around to say "Most holocost deniers are republicans"

  22. Re: At least the summary is realistic about Swa on Sci-Hub, a Site With Open and Pirated Scientific Papers · · Score: 1

    They probably would be the first to agree about this sorry state of affairs. Being "republican" by itself, of course naturally doesn't impoluy that they would be, but the narrowminded clique has swelled to gargantuan proportions within the republicans since these types always want to identify as "conservatives". They are of course aanything but, but you won't find as many of these close minded pinheads in the "opposing" parties. Really if you want to blame anything for the resurgence of Holocost denial, or the reurgence of.. you got it.. Flat earthers.. or climate change denial (a big one) then blame the internet.. a great big wacko delusion enabler...

  23. The artists usually has absolutely NO idea during signing of the actual terms and / or the duplicity of the label. Plus they're usually broke stoned and in need of money and management.. all of which are promised if they just hand over publishing. Most artists aren't particularly good lawyers or accountants etc. Some are. They become super wealthy. Most live on( and carelessly blow) their advance and are dropped before they can ever hope to repay that amount. That they still owe back...

  24. > Turns out you only need permission from the company with distribution rights, not the artist themselves.

    Copyright seems not to protect the author, but corporations.

    Patents now also don't protect the inventor, but rather some corporations.

    The worse part is having to hear that litany about capitalism being good, when it's carefully avoided by said corporations...

    The entire industry exists to feed the hyenas at the top.. preferably with meat from the carcass of the discarded artists...

  25. Anne Franke must surely be turning in her grave. She would have wanted it to be publicly available. Does the actual author have absolutely no say? How is it restrictive copyright is assumed if there is nobody to benefit from such restrictive regulation? Just WHOSE rights are they protecting in that event?