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  1. Re:Sauce for the goose on Sony Accused of Pirating Music In "The Interview" · · Score: 1

    Of course Sony can always show they own rights to a song that "pay day" infringes on.

  2. Re:Sauce for the goose on Sony Accused of Pirating Music In "The Interview" · · Score: 1

    you forgot, "Meanwhile, 1.5 million pirates have downloaded the comedy." and it is on you tube with 529,847 views, that would be something like $300,000,000,000.00

  3. Re:Don't take airplanes piloted by the Malays on AirAsia Flight Goes Missing Between Indonesia and Singapore · · Score: 1

    Yes the game has changed, now the House of Saud is kicking Russia's economic ass up around their ears; and if Da`eth's funding is collateral damage so much the better.

  4. Re:Release all the data you didn't on N. Korea Blames US For Internet Outage, Compares Obama to "a Monkey" · · Score: 1

    Yep, until more hacked releases of Sony Pictures movies show up, this starts to smell like a publicity stunt.

    I'm not sure that is how it started, but it sure got that way way pretty quick.

  5. Re:That's not the only way it's inferior on Newest Stealth Fighter's Ground Attack Sensors 10 Years Behind Older Jets' · · Score: 1

    The problem is the aircraft totally sucks at fighting the type of wars we're most likely to be drawn into, it only kinda sorta does what an A10 does. We're much more likely to go up against jihadists than we are any modern militaries and the F22 is built for fighting modern militaries.

  6. Re:I never have understood on Serious Economic Crisis Looms In Russia, China May Help · · Score: 1

    When Russia sells petroleum to Germany, the transaction is completed in USD, ergo both parties need to have USD on-hand in order to trade. This is true for most commodities trade. ....
      if countries suddenly stopped using USD for commodity transactions, then the global demand for the USD will drop.

    I don't agree, in most cases the U$Dollars is a standard measure of value rather than physical thingy like a briefcase full of FeRNs (Federal Reserve Notes). Even at that, when the shit hits the fan, money is only worth what you can buy with it and you can't eat gold or burn it to keep warm. If Russia and Germany are buying and selling from each other in a balanced basis, the amounts of currency in the float will be trivial.
    Now what upsets the apple cart is when a Russian President like Vladimir Putin, decides he wants Russia playing its old games and prop up al-Assad in Syria, which pisses off the House of Saud who collapses the Oil market and starts to crush the Russian economy. Russia has enough Islamic countries in it sphere of influence (many on its boarders), that keeping them all from turning on either Russia or each other takes a high level of brinkmanship that's difficult to achieve and more difficult to maintain.

  7. Re:Should let them work inside parks. on Councilmen Introduce Bills Strongly Regulating UAV Use in NYC · · Score: 1

    Well yes I understand that, yet when Jan Brewer down in Arizona did the same thing with immigration it was a BadThing(Tm).

  8. Re:Stupid rethuglicans restricting our rights on Councilmen Introduce Bills Strongly Regulating UAV Use in NYC · · Score: 2

    Garodnick was elected to New York City Council in 2005, winning 63 percent of the vote in the general election and defeating both the Republican and Libertarian candidates. In the five-way Democratic primary that year he won 59% of the vote. Daniel Garodnick

    I've noticed that Democrats are more likely to "pass a law" on the "issue du jour" than they are to either rationally consider whether a new law is really necessary or to hold LE and the courts accountable for enforcing the existing applicable laws.

  9. Re:Seems legit on Councilmen Introduce Bills Strongly Regulating UAV Use in NYC · · Score: 1

    So that would preclude FPV . FPV is an acronym meaning "First Person View". A person referring to "flying FPV" is referring to piloting their model aircraft from a first person perspective onboard. This is accomplished by means of tiny video cameras and wireless RF links. The typical FPV plane consists of many components that must work well together to get the job done. In this case the drone may be out of sight (behind a tree), but the person flying the mulit-rotor vehicle may have a better view than if he was flying by sight.

    Remotely controlled aerial vehicle must be under direct visual observation at all time per FAA regulations.

    With respect to UAS used as model aircraft, the FAA reiterated the operating guidelines in AC 91-57, and further noted that to qualify as a model aircraft, the aircraft would need to be operated purely for recreational or hobby purposes, and within the visual line of sight of the operator.
    The policy statement also clarified that AC 91-57 applied only to modelers and “specifically excludes its use by persons or companies for business purposes.” 72 FR at 6690
    Interpretation of the Special Rule for Model Aircraft

    so if you fly behind a tree and lose the visual line of sight, your operating outside the FAA guidelines and I suspect that any system permitting FPV from a UAS affordable by a hobbyist or small or medium bussiness would only be capable of transmitting on a strictly line of sight basis and any obstructions in the LOS would cause losse of the video transmission.

  10. Re:Should let them work inside parks. on Councilmen Introduce Bills Strongly Regulating UAV Use in NYC · · Score: 2

    Oh good grief people read the article,

    No person may avigate a UAV within the limits of the city except:
            1. The police department in accordance with section 14-133.1.
            2. A person avigating such UAV pursuant to and within the limits of an express authorization by the federal aviation administration.

    basically a grandstanding city Councilman introduced a statute making it illegal to operate a UAV anywhere it is all ready illegal to operate a UAV!

  11. smuggly satisfied! on US Links North Korea To Sony Hacking · · Score: 1

    While I don't support hacking into anybodies computers, I'd have to say that That after The Sony BMG CD copy protection rootkit scandal which involved a form of hacking on their part and cpyright infringement, the file sharing lawsuit against common people, the lawsuits from the artists to get a fairshare of damages Sony has won in filesharing, and the general asshattery involved in the entertainment industry, it's hard to be sympathetic to them; karma is a bitch when you are. North Korea on the other hand can only be decribed as a boil on the ass of humanity, so if it's destiny that some company would have to fall on it's sword to embarrase the sensibilities of Kim Jong-il, I'm glad that Sony volunteered.

  12. Re:Quoted from TFA on NASA's $349 Million Empty Tower · · Score: 1

    Senators are in charge of a lot of things the general public is only vaguely aware of.

  13. Re:Quoted from TFA on NASA's $349 Million Empty Tower · · Score: 0

    Your confusing cost with wealth redistribution. Everything they spent either went into wages, or bought goods that paid somebodies wages and generated profits that were distributed to stockholders. Being an overt Commie redistributionist is a bad thing(tm), being a covert Republicrat or Democan redistributionist is a economic stimulis package.

  14. Re:Why not ask the authors of the GPL Ver.2? on The GPLv2 Goes To Court · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily, anyone can contact the software authors and negotiate license terms; it can become more difficult as the number of authors increase and probably exponentially more difficult. MySQL for an example had multiple licensening options, one was the GPL.
    The reason what licensor actually said that counts is because the licensor is the entity that initiates legal proceedings to remedy perceived violations of the licence. Any way the terms of the GPL are essentially a non-concern until you distribute.

  15. Re:The drought is bullshit on Linking Drought and Climate Change: Difficult To Do · · Score: 1

    You guys are all fucking zero-sumers, you want more water in an area that is desert, build a couple nuclear power plants and run some desalination plants. News flash, Southern California is in the horse latitudes, that means desert, just like almost every desert on the planet is in the horse latitudes.

  16. Re:Thave us, Algore! Thave us! on Linking Drought and Climate Change: Difficult To Do · · Score: 0

    Oh noes! We broke teh fuckin' planet! We broke the goddamned planet!

    :: runs around the room, flapping my arms like a faggot ::

    Thave us, Algore! Thave us!

    We didn't break teh fuckin' planet; just Kaliphornia, and that was because Feinstein voted with the Republicans and Hell froze over. When you disturb the natural order there are consequences.

  17. Re:Why not ask the authors of the GPL Ver.2? on The GPLv2 Goes To Court · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter what the aurthor of the GPL meant, it's what the licensor actually said that counts

  18. Re:EFF Says: on 9th Circuit Will Revisit "Innocence of Muslims" Takedown Order · · Score: 1

    If your an actor, hired to be in a historically based film protrayal of a particularly decadent period of Roman Civilization, when ruled by a Ceaser who was discribed as

    sources focus upon his cruelty, sadism, extravagance, and sexual perversity, presenting him as an insane tyrant. Caligula

    and produced by Bob Guccione, it's hard to be sympathetic to complaints that it turned into a porno.

  19. Re:Windmills? on Last Three Years the Quietest For Tornadoes Ever · · Score: 1

    Could windmills have an effect? How much energy are windmills taking out of the system? Maybe the windmills interact in a butterfly type effect, short-circuiting some necessary precursor of tornadoes.

    As a dyed in the wool denier, I can unequivocally say that windmills remove an immeasurable amount of energy from the planetary system and have no effect on the frequency of tornadoes or any other storms.

  20. Re:Time to openly admit... on Last Three Years the Quietest For Tornadoes Ever · · Score: 1

    Weather is an instance of climate, if weather is chaotic, then climate is chaotic; self-similarity is a harsh mistress. You alarmists all seem to confuse Chaotic systems with erratic systems; chaotic systems often appear well ordered, while being unpredictable.

  21. Re:Dark matter and the sniff test on Deflating Claims That ESA Craft Has Spotted Dark Matter · · Score: 1

    However, for some reason unknown to me, the visible matter in our solar system perfectly describes how the planets orbit the sun, how the moon orbits the earth, and how hard I hit the ground when I try to fly. So where is this dark matter, all this extra gravity? Shouldn't I hit the ground a lot harder than we can explain just based on the mass of our planet?

    I assume that because this so called dark matter, if it really exists, is pretty homogeneous at scales of planetary systems so all of the gravitational pulls at infinitely different angles just cancels out.

  22. If you've gotten a "tetanus" shot since 1949 you've some form of pertussis vaccine as well.

  23. The manufacturer's product liability insurance company.

  24. Re:freedom 2 b a moron on Time To Remove 'Philosophical' Exemption From Vaccine Requirements? · · Score: 1

    If God didn't want me to go to prison, he wouldn't have permanently brain damaged my kid with measles and that stupid measles shot wouldn't have stopped him anyway!

  25. Re:freedom 2 b a moron on Time To Remove 'Philosophical' Exemption From Vaccine Requirements? · · Score: 1

    I just saw on the TV (Detroit market) that to get the philosophical exemption, the parents will have to have a face to face meeting with a public health official who will explain both the risks and benefits of vaccination, which should help reduce the numbers of frivolous exemptions. Additionally I think parents should be held personally responsible for their children's health i.e. if you opt of a vaccine for religious or philosophical reasons and your kid gets that disease, you go to prison for criminal child neglect. I wouldn't be opposed to kids not vaccinated for religious/philosophical reasons being segregated so they don't pose a threat to kids who are unable to be vaccinated due to bona fide medical conditions.