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  1. Re:Land Mine ... Attack? on South Korea To Restart Propaganda Loudspeakers Along Border · · Score: 1

    "It's all fun and games until someone... Whoops!"

  2. Re:Land Mine ... Attack? on South Korea To Restart Propaganda Loudspeakers Along Border · · Score: 1

    Maybe they just threw it like a Frisbee.

  3. Re:Ineffective? on South Korea To Restart Propaganda Loudspeakers Along Border · · Score: 1

    Sounds like South Korea could probably pull off a pretty big propaganda victory if they just put a trash dump at the border.

  4. Re:And now we know... on Javier Soltero: The Outsider Microsoft Tapped To Reinvent Outlook (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 1

    I can't believe it. They actually made it worse than Outlook 2013. How'd they manage that?

  5. Re: Just wait until they can deliver it on North Korea Claims It Detonated Its First Hydrogen Bomb (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm still unclear why when white Americans do it they are "patriots" or "militias" instead. How those idiots in Oregon right now differs from any other terrorists is utterly beyond me. If anything their crime is significantly worse - they are not only terrorists - they are committing high treason as well.

    At the moment, they are a bunch of yahoos starving themselves in a cold building (they forgot to bring food to their occupation). No one's been hurt, yet.

    I wouldn't be surprised, if a single round gets fired by them, that they get charged with domestic terrorism.

  6. Re: Just wait until they can deliver it on North Korea Claims It Detonated Its First Hydrogen Bomb (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Those are clearly outliers and if you think the U.S. is ready to give up strategic positions and economic beachheads in places like Turkey, Germany, etc then you have lost your mind. Maritime pre-positioning and the like scaled way up couldn't come close to replacing those lost positions.

    You don't think the U.S. would respect German, Turkish, or South Korean sovereignty if they demanded that we leave?

  7. To celebrate, Great Leader made balloon animals for his military advisors..

  8. Re:Devices need a collision avoidance app on Emergency Room Visits From Distracted Walking Skyrocket (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Better yet, have the device take a selfie video as the collision occurs and automatically post it to youtube.

  9. You got caught with your pants down?

  10. Re:I have a plan... on Emergency Room Visits From Distracted Walking Skyrocket (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Anyone know if you could get away with an insurance policy that demands such data, in the event of a claim, and then attempts to deny coverage for any costs deemed to have been incurred because of negligent distraction? Just think of how many claims you could deny with the right data...

    Hang on, I'll look it up on my smartpho!@#$!#$#RFAEKSF

  11. Re:Dangerous Habits on Emergency Room Visits From Distracted Walking Skyrocket (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    And the distracted walking skyrocket claims yet another victim...

  12. Re:Walking Skyrocket? on Emergency Room Visits From Distracted Walking Skyrocket (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Were you distracted?

  13. Re:OK FAA - I challenge you to simplify on Drone Ban Extends 30 Miles Around DC, Per FAA (wusa9.com) · · Score: 1

    A drone pistol? Seriously?

    Did you miss the video where some guy mounted a pistol with a remote actuator on the trigger on a drone and then demonstrated the drone hovering and firing at a target?

    I think it was posted about 3-4 months ago.

  14. Re:Breakin' the law, breakin' the law on Drone Ban Extends 30 Miles Around DC, Per FAA (wusa9.com) · · Score: 1

    This post of mine isn't a response to this post of yours directly, but a broader question at you more generally.

    Throughout this thread I keep seeing you speak of "binary" and "non-binary" in a way that's not familiar to me and not immediately obvious from context.

    Can you explain what you mean by those terms, in this context?

    I believe the GP is accusing the AC of arguing with a false dichotomy, or "false binary", when the actual choice has a range of options. e.g. "We can either ban drones, or we can have everybody flying them into jet engines all over the country."

  15. Re:why stockpiling? on Giant Methane Leak in California Won't Be Capped For Months · · Score: 1

    We were getting ready for the zombie apocalypse.

  16. Re:more to it on Giant Methane Leak in California Won't Be Capped For Months · · Score: 1

    They've been using this site for decades. They had a quite spectacular valve bow-out and fire in the late '60's/early '70's. The plume of fire was visible for miles.

    This place is also in the shadow of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory.

  17. Re: Just like deepwater horizon on Giant Methane Leak in California Won't Be Capped For Months · · Score: 1

    Don't get me wrong, I have no sympathy for the petroleum industry but I am sure they are trying to fix this as quickly as possible given the bad PR.

    So. Cal. Gas is also stuck paying the hotel bills of all the evacuated families. About 4,000 families have requested relocation.

  18. Re:Rotting eggs? on Giant Methane Leak in California Won't Be Capped For Months · · Score: 1

    Something like that happened in the '60's, at the same spot. A valve blew out and the escaping gas caught fire. It took them about two weeks to bring it under control.

    It looked pretty spectacular, though.

  19. Re:School lunch probably explains a lot of it on Poverty Stunts IQ In the US But Not In Other Developed Countries (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    We have school lunches in the US.

    They don't look especially good compared to the rest of the world, but we do have them.

  20. Re:Schooling, perhaps? on Poverty Stunts IQ In the US But Not In Other Developed Countries (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    My wife, who is usually pretty open-minded, having grown up in a house without basic amenities like running water, was shocked when we visited San Francisco. There was one particular street made entirely of shit - people just shitting all over the road everywhere. Not at all what was expected, after having visited some other first world nations, previously. The expectation was the the USA would be like these, and yet given its wealth and image, even better. Nope. Streets made of human shit.

    Lucky you! You got there just in time for the annual Shit Festival.

  21. Re:Cancelled by Congress on DOE Launches Nuclear Waste Disposal Initiative (energy.gov) · · Score: 1

    Good idea.

    We in California are going to build our storage facility just on our side of our border with Nevada :)

  22. Re:12 year old Sikh boy on 12-Year-Old Sikh Boy Arrested In Texas After Bringing a Power Bag To School (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    Sikhism is Islamic now? When did they start praying in mosques?

  23. Re:What is the best choice for Open Source lights? on Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out of 3rd-Party Bulbs With New Firmware (techdirt.com) · · Score: 2

    Candles and a book of matches? :)

  24. Re:OK you Republicans, now's your chance on Top Democratic Senator Will Seek Legislation To "Pierce" Through Encryption (dailydot.com) · · Score: 2

    If a moderate candidate runs on the GOP ticket, the Democrats will just take out ads questioning his "Republicanism" and the Republicans will vote for his opponent, just like they did when Gray Davis took out ads against Richard Riordan.

    California Republicans tend to be gullible. They can't pick a viable candidate to save their lives.

  25. Re:Speaks with forked tongue on Top Democratic Senator Will Seek Legislation To "Pierce" Through Encryption (dailydot.com) · · Score: 2

    Same with her stance on gun control. While one of the biggest proponents, she has (or had... she may have given it up in shame when this was revealed) a CCW permit in California, which is near impossible for an average person to obtain

    And she had it while successfully leading the charge to ban handguns in San Francisco.