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  1. Best calculator ever made. on How To Make a Bitcoin Address With a TI-89 Calculator · · Score: 1

    How about my TI-86?

  2. Re:Different jobs, different needs on iRobot CEO: Humanoid Robots Too Expensive To Be the Norm · · Score: 1

    The human resistance has been defeated. The robot apocalypse already happened. My cell phone told me so.

  3. say what? on Physicist Peter Higgs: No University Would Employ Me Today · · Score: 1

    Nothing of value can be achieved because it's not like it was back in the good old days? Oldfartism.

  4. Re:Really? on Hammerhead System Offers a Better Way To Navigate While Cycling · · Score: 1

    Smart phone is fine for biking. I just set it up, put in the earbuds, and stash the phone in a pocket, and let the nice GPS lady guide me. No need to look at the screen.

  5. Re:Sour Grapes on Car Dealers Complain To DMV About Tesla's Website · · Score: 1

    Owners of Auto Dealerships are the biggest conservative rock-ribbed Republicans going. This is THEIR regulation, so well that's different. You'll hear them go on about how they are pillars of the community, support little league teams, etc. etc. If the government is going to subsidize little league teams then just do it up front.

  6. Re:Better plots? on Hollywood's Love of Analytics Couldn't Prevent Six Massive Blockbuster Flops · · Score: 1

    Or maybe live community theater, God help us all? The most powerful theatrical experiences I have had recently have all been at bare-bones community theater. It's the acting and the story that do it, and when it's there being done live not ten feet from you then it hits home. You can even get involved in it yourself. Sometimes it's a bomb but that is show biz. Get away from The Movie$ & go out for your neighbors, friends, co-workers. Some of these places get grants & are 501Cs so might as well enjoy what you have already helped pay for.

  7. Re:No matter how smart something is.. on The Men Trying To Save Us From the Machines · · Score: 1

    Machines are already in control. Look around you. It's just different than we expected from reading science fiction. Everyone staring into their smart phones and doing whatever their phones say do. The willing slaves are already hard at it.

  8. Re:Unfunded mandate? on U.S. House Wants 'Sustained Human Presence On the Moon and the Surface of Mars' · · Score: 1

    I don't suppose the house is planning to actually pay for the enormous expense of putting a permanent human colony on a different planet? They just want NASA to stop everything else that they're doing and start making manned Mars rockets? Is it any wonder NASA struggles with long term projects, with Congress meddling every year with crazy ideas and budget uncertainty?

    No they want everything else too. As usual they think they can get the money by stiffing poor people.

  9. Re:they seem to go crazy on Forbes 2013 Career List Flamed By University Professors · · Score: 1

    I can't imagine spending that much on toothpaste & toothbrushes, & I take better care of my pearly whites than you do. If I ever see a $315 monthly water bill I'll shit.

  10. Re:Never connect the critical systems to the inter on Intel Team Takes On Car Hackers · · Score: 1

    Anybody read Robopocalypse?

  11. Re:Ron Paul in Five Words on Ron Paul Wants To End the Federal Student Loan Program · · Score: 1

    Ron Paul can go to hell. If you support him and you currently earn less than 5mil/annum then you are an idiot, you have been seduced by simplicity. I'm in no hurry to go back to the 19th century. His policies will make the poor poorer, the rich richer, the middle class poor, and destroy the environment.

  12. Re:how does this thing handle higher level decisio on How Google's Autonomous Vehicles Work · · Score: 1

    A.C.: All very valid and thoughtful. It could turn out that it reduces the NUMBER of accidents while also changing the DISTRIBUTION OF CAUSES. If that happens, it may be difficult for people to wrap their minds around it. For example, the number of accidents caused by distracted driving (cell phones, attractive people on the street) could drop essentially to zero while the number caused by missing cues that seem obvious to humans, could rise. If the overall number dropped, but with the horror/tragedy factor increased (e.g. a rise in ball chasing children struck as in your first example), would societies accept such a turn of events?

  13. Musical Cloroform on "World's Most Relaxing Music" Composed · · Score: 1

    Why?

  14. Re:320 miles on Tesla Model S: 0-60 In 4.5 Seconds · · Score: 2

    My bike gets 100 MGP of WATER. I never have to plug it in. I got it on Craig’s list for $400. I ride to work every day 14.5 mi. round trip so I stay in shape. Lost 30lb. & now eat anything I want & never give it a second thought. I get to spend time outside every day. I'm 61 & I feel great. I know what beautiful days are and also what rain and cold are. I'm in the process of giving away my car. My wife & I should be able to get by with one car. When the snow flies I'll cop a ride in with her or take a bus. When we all learn to move close enough to our workplaces to do this, the world will be a better place and the people who make anti-depressant drugs will have to make something else or go out of business.