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  1. Re:Upside on Without Plutonium, Deep-Space Probe Missions May Sputter Out · · Score: 1

    The original point was we are not making them anymore therefore we are not making the fuel in the same way that we used to. Whether or not we can dismantle the old ones and get the fuel from them is a completely separate matter.

  2. Re:Upside on Without Plutonium, Deep-Space Probe Missions May Sputter Out · · Score: 3, Informative

    We are not creating any new ones is the point he was making. It had nothing to do if we were still maintaining them. Maintaining them doesn't give the fuel that is needed.

  3. Re:Why are nuclear fission systems too heavy? on Without Plutonium, Deep-Space Probe Missions May Sputter Out · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't they be able to lift the reactor from a nuclear sub?

    I honestly dont know, just asking.

  4. Re:BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA on True Size of the Shadow Banking System Revealed (Spoiler: Humongous) · · Score: 2

    Whenever someone makes a broad assumption about anything, and then refuses to look at other view points I just assume they like being ignorant.

  5. Re:gists? on NSA Shares Intel On Americans With Israel · · Score: 1

    I certainly didn't get the gist of that either.

  6. Re:"Maybe?" on PayPal Freezes MailPile's Account · · Score: 1

    Please quit spamming your referral link. It is kinda rude.

  7. Re:Snowden was never a "Whistleblower" on Snowden Spoofed Top Officials' Identity To Mine NSA Secrets · · Score: 1
  8. Re:"letting you play previously purchased games." on Microsoft Closes Xbox.com PC Marketplace · · Score: 2

    You CAN run the games if Steam goes away. They have promised to release patches to remove DRM if they ever go out of business. Please inform yourself of the facts before you spread your gut feeling as the truth.

  9. Re:"letting you play previously purchased games." on Microsoft Closes Xbox.com PC Marketplace · · Score: 1

    You can backup and install steam games off line as well.

  10. Re:Exciting Times on New Treatment From Australia For All Cancers · · Score: 2

    My prediction is many of the people who could afford it, would not be deserving of it.

  11. Re:Rock and a hard place on Microsoft: Xbox One Won't Require Kinect To Function · · Score: 1

    Because Sony got away with it. Once one of them gets away with it, the others feel free to jump on the boat.

  12. Re:Nicely done on Silent Circle Follows Lavabit By Closing Encrypted E-mail Service · · Score: 2

    Unfortunately I have to agree with you. All three branches and both sides of the aisle are at fault here.

  13. Re:Nicely done on Silent Circle Follows Lavabit By Closing Encrypted E-mail Service · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, but what about the Republicans in Congress that approve of these methods. Everything is Obama's fault, sure whatever. Why don't you hold congress responsible. After all they control the purse strings.

  14. Re:Of course! And you never need more than 640K RA on Hybrid Hard Drives Just Need 8GB of NAND · · Score: 1

    I believe you can even install them on a second hard drive like an external. It gives you that option during install now.

    Put your current games on the SSD (Borderlands 2 loads like a champ off mine) and place the games that you might want to play on the other drive.

  15. Re:Of course! And you never need more than 640K RA on Hybrid Hard Drives Just Need 8GB of NAND · · Score: 1

    You make your raid your storage and use the SSD as a system drive. I have tried a few different SSDs, and the stuff from Intel, or Corsair, or really any well know memory manufacturer works great. I have not experienced any issues with installing an OS on the drives as long as you dont try to use XP or VIsta you should be good. WIn 7, 8, 2008, and Linux all account for the drives well with no configuration needed.

    Just read the reviews. You can get a good 256GB for about 200 dollars.

  16. Re:Cleaning costs high? on NRA Launches Pro-Lead Website · · Score: 1

    No you are correct, that the large area reduces concentration. I just don't know what the concentration in the larger ranges looks like after 50 or 60 years.

    It might just be simpler and cheaper to just switch to a "green" round. It might not. I do not have enough numbers in how many rounds per range in what time frame. I know range control tracks that sort of thing, but I've got no idea.

  17. Re:You really can't figure that out? on First California AMBER Alert Shows AT&T's Emergency Alerts Are a Mess · · Score: 1

    A quick search for kidnapping statistics shows that every 40 seconds a child is reported missing in the united states.
    12% of the US population lives in California.

    How many alerts do you think should be sent out? If this is not a every once in a while thing, how will you ensure that people will pay any attention to them, and avoid the boy that cries wolf issue.

  18. Re:Cleaning costs high? on NRA Launches Pro-Lead Website · · Score: 1

    For many of the standard small arms ranges that may work.

    There is some difficulty though because the qual ranges have targets anywhere from 25 meters to 300 meters. You could probably line the entire range with something like that though.

    You would be also surprised at the number and size of the "ranges" the military uses. Ive seen "ranges" that are large swaths of woodlands. I can see that getting very pricey.

  19. Re:The local range paid expenses with salaged lead on NRA Launches Pro-Lead Website · · Score: 1

    Please do continue tilting at windmills.

  20. Re:Our zeitgeist on NRA Launches Pro-Lead Website · · Score: 1

    I am 110% in favor of the right to own guns.

    But lead rounds ARE poisonous. There is no reason another metal or alloy cannot be used. I do not think lead rounds should be banned, but I certainly do not think they should be promoted. The only thing they have going for them over the other types are the fact that it is dirt cheap. Perhaps if there was a larger uptake in the alternatives the price would drop. Kinda how CFL's prices have dropped dramatically over the past few years.

  21. Re:Lead is cheap. on NRA Launches Pro-Lead Website · · Score: 1

    http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=98594&page=1 Tungsten composite if that was a serious question, but considering that you assumed radioactivity I am guessing you were trying to be snarky.

  22. Re:Lead is cheap. on NRA Launches Pro-Lead Website · · Score: 1

    Potentially, I do know that after decades of leaching into the ground that cleanup was pricey though.

  23. Re:Cleaning costs high? on NRA Launches Pro-Lead Website · · Score: 1

    Many of the ranges have been used for decades with no cleanup, this allowed the lead from the rounds to leach into ground water. I do not know if there was a reason they couldn't just start a routine cleanup (After the contaminated soil was cleaned first of course.)

  24. Re:Lead is cheap. on NRA Launches Pro-Lead Website · · Score: 1

    Military is moving away from using lead bullets. Clean up costs for all of the ranges were very high.

  25. Re:The local range paid expenses with salaged lead on NRA Launches Pro-Lead Website · · Score: 2

    You realize threatening "Liberals" only goes to bolster their claims that guns will be misused and should be controlled.