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  1. Re:All Republicans and Trump backers on Julian Assange Could Be Time's 'Person Of The Year', And Is Also Still Not Dead (time.com) · · Score: 2

    I know quite a few women (northern AZ) who voted for Donald of Orange, and overwhelmingly they were local business owners - the same demographic who have historically supported previous Republicans.

    As to the point of your Grauniad article, once Democrats allowed their own base minorities to be as viciously anti-white as they wanted, it nullified the whole racism/sexism issue for the rest of the voters. The thinking around here was, "They don't care? Then neither do we!"

  2. Big changes coming to our truck stops on Self-Driving Trucks Begin Real-World Tests on Ohio's Highways (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Are they prepared to be invaded by no-name autonomous Linux laptops, making their own way from cab to cab in the self-driving truck standby row, interfacing with trucks who are away from the watchful gaze of their corporate mainframes? Self-driving trucks going rogue and snarfing up flash drives full of ones and zeroes smuggled in from Mexico?

  3. Re:Eliminate peer reviewed journals on Science Journals Caught Publishing Fake Research For Cash (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no need to 'eliminate' editors. Moving journals to websites will take away that primary argument in favor of money-grubbing monopoly, "It costs a lot to distribute small numbers of print issues with charts and illustrations to scattered college libraries..." This is easy to do on websites, and the savings will enable hiring some perfectly good editors from that putatively vast pool of underemployed academics out there.

  4. Re:Eliminate peer reviewed journals on Science Journals Caught Publishing Fake Research For Cash (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, things are moving that way, but there are still too many print journals still around that operate as high-priced monopolies. It's a matter of changing the culture one journal at a time.

  5. Re:Eliminate peer reviewed journals on Science Journals Caught Publishing Fake Research For Cash (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No, peer review is the part of the system we need to keep. Replace the journals with websites, and invite peer review on the site. Access problem solved, journal monopoly broken.

  6. The African way on Schools Funded By Gates and Zuckerberg Ordered Closed In Uganda (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The Bridge Foundation just needs to pay whatever baksheesh the President For Life needs, and life will go on as before.

  7. Re: Castro dead on Fidel Castro Is Dead (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Communists don't have Hell. Castro is burning in Venezuela.

  8. Re: Did we learn nothing from Star Trek? on For the First Time, Living Cells Have Formed Carbon-Silicon Bonds (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't the problem that earthly biology is based on a carbon-oxygen chemistry? Because silicon dioxide is an inconvenient solid, silicon biology would more likely feature silicon-hydrogen chemistry, exhaling silane.

  9. And I thought we should all use "correct horse battery staple" for everything and that would be secure!

    If we were allowed to compose passwords this way, we would indeed be secure. It's when there are silly rules that require us to remember the equivalent of c0rrectHorseB4tterystaple&* that the idea breaks down.

  10. "It's not that women have no drive but it is quite a bit weaker than men's. "

    People who say that are doing it wrong.

  11. Sorry but I fear there are no sex divers for Linux. That's why all linux users are virgins.

    No, they're virgins because they installed the Widcomm sex drivers.

  12. It would keep the lazy bastards out of our gene pool.

  13. A Netflix of the spoken word? on BBC Planning 'Netflix of the Spoken Word' to Take Radio Content Global (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    Does that mean there will be two parallel services? You can choose any story you want, and have it mailed to you from London on a DVD in a couple of weeks. Alternatively you can take the streaming option, but almost none of the stories you want will be available.

  14. Re:Also tracks protests! on Google Will Tell You How Crowded Places Are In Real Time (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    "I'm sure cops will love this feature because they'll be able to use it to track groups of protesters anywhere."

    And protesters will hate it not su much because of the idea of being tracked, but because now the press will be able to fact-check their ludicrously inflated crowd numbers.

  15. "Either way stop or leave. I fucking hate you."

    You're not looking at this in the right way: what in hell's wrong with having an easy way to identify flamebait?

  16. Re:Reality on Google Search Results Have Liberal Bias, Study Finds (thedenverchannel.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Note how many times they have made that claim, just in this thread.
    Denial be deep and wide...

  17. Re:Relief on Tesla Runs an Entire Island on Solar Power (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Islands are ideal places to test small energy sources, because islands as large as Hawai'i are 'off the grid' and are often run entirely on diesel.

    A geothermal plant is on my itinerary in Iceland.

  18. Gag campus peitions on Study: Most Students Can't Spot Fake News (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Typically, fake college petitions to "end women's suffrage" or "ban dihydrogen monoxide" pull about a 30% signing rate.

  19. Re:I don't want to pay for this. on Amazon Wants To Include Live Sports as Part of Prime Membership (geekwire.com) · · Score: 2

    Personally, I am a true sports fan, such that I own equipment and go play them with friends instead of sitting around watching other people play.

    That's how I play too.

  20. Re:I don't want to pay for this. on Amazon Wants To Include Live Sports as Part of Prime Membership (geekwire.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes, this is a good deal for sports fans if and only of the sports premium is optional.

  21. Re:75% of california's poeple are brain dead on One Third of California's Trees Are Dead (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    No matter how much water you put on a straw man, it's not going to grow into anything.

    The first goal of any desalination program would be to supply drinking water to the human population. Okay, okay, and also to California's vast herd of lawyers.

    Then we would consider the cost of adding enough desalinated water to underwrite whatever level of agricultural use we deem to be necessary. This would be decided area by area and crop by crop, as Californians would ask themselves questions like

    1. Can we do without those water-intensive almonds?
    2. If we plant varieties of corn, lettuce, etc. that have been bioengineered to need less water, will we fear-beswacked liberals deign to eat them, or will we have to sell them to the shriveled Republican enclaves that persist in places like Newport Beach? ,,,

  22. I have gotten to like the MikroTik routers. Easy to set up if you use the defaults, yet incredibly configurable.

  23. Re:75% of california's poeple are brain dead on One Third of California's Trees Are Dead (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    All the more reason to get serious about desalinating.

  24. Re:75% of california's poeple are brain dead on One Third of California's Trees Are Dead (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    Dams allowed Californians to store water to make dry periods survivable, besides making the all-desert southern half of the state inhabitable in the first place.

    But it's true that if an exctended megadrought, like the one that wiped out the Sinagua and Anasazi in the 1400s, were to hit once again, the much larger population of today's California would have to fire up the nukes and desalinate on a massive scale. If we still had Democrats like Roosevelt, that would be doable.

  25. Re:75% of california's poeple are brain dead on One Third of California's Trees Are Dead (sfgate.com) · · Score: 0

    I'm a little unclear here. Do you believe droughts are visited on states that vote Democrat?

    It depends which Democrats we're talking about. Franklin Roosevelt was famed for building water-retention infrastructure, one effect of which was to make a dry California bloom. During the Seventies, the Democratic hierarchy kicked most of the normal people out of the party, leaving a remnant which is more famed for preventing water infrastructure from being built.

    Result: the Dust Bowl is back.