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  1. Re:How about content providers pull out of Europa on Netflix and Amazon Could Face Content Quotas In Europe (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Attempt no broadcasting there?

  2. Re:these botnet operators on Ransomware Adds DDoS Attacks To Annoy More People (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    "Lghten up. Let me guess, you're the kind of person that uses terms like "micro-aggression" and "cultural appropriation" and expects to be taken seriously."

    For these people, I have a worse punishment than flogging. They should be required to parse their own sentences for live and may God have mercy on their souls.

  3. Re: these botnet operators on Ransomware Adds DDoS Attacks To Annoy More People (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    So you think you're important enough that you get to kill people who inconvenience you?

    For this definition of 'inconvenience', actually yes.

  4. Typical clueless journos on Google-Backed Solar Plant Catches on Fire (pv-tech.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Having a fire break out in a concentrator tower is not the plant 'torching itself'. To get a usable Carnot temperature differential.for power generation, the temperature on the heated end of the tower has to be high, so that's where the excessive temperature risk is concentrated. But when journalism is being practiced by scribes who nothing about science, every error condition has to treated as an apocalypse. Welcome to our world, solar developers.

  5. Re:Bad, but not because of the amount or fuel type on The World's Largest Cruise Ship and Its Supersized Pollution Problem (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If you want to cruise, take a river cruise. Instead of two hours in a port where all there's time to do is dash to the souvenir shops, you spend most of each day tied up in an interesting small town that has a lot of history and culture to explore, and at your own pace. There are interesting rivers in every part of the world where you would rationally want to be.

    River cruisers are small, too, under 500 passengers.

  6. Can the Pavlok be surgically implanted? on Wristband Gives You An Electric Shock When You Overspend (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    And could I set it to go off if the wearer walked into a casino?

  7. Re:This is what happens... on Scientists Say Nuclear Fuel Pools Pose Safety, Health Risks (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    As isotopes of short half life break down, the radioactivity of each spent fuel rod goes down exponentially. The fuel pools at nuclear plants were all designed to hold spent rods for the year or so it takes for the hottest isotopes, like iodine, to cook off. The intention was to then move them to buffer storage, like Yucca Mountain, for eventual recycling into new fuel. Let's see if Trump can get the recycling plant built at Yucca, which would provide a lot of ongoing jobs, not just construction, for Nevadans.

  8. Re: Truly Epically Dumb to Destroy It on Why Don't Scientists Kill The 'Demon In The Freezer'? · · Score: 1

    That and most anti vaxxers are dumb as a box of rocks. The IQ of those types is very very low.

    A smallpox epidemic would therefore be a handy way of scrubbing the ring around the gene pool.

  9. Re:US disagrees on Google Appeals French Order For Global 'Right To Be Forgotten' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    interestingly the country google is from completely disagrees with googles stance as they regularly make laws and rulings around data beyond its borders

    And in this case the US government is wrong, not Google.

  10. The defendant may have cause for a claim of Abuse of Process.

    But has any defendant in this type of case successfully won a case by claiming Abuse of Process, since abusive process is a standard technique in civil trials?

  11. "this means archive.is isn't as good a source, since it heavily alters pages in the process of storing them."

    And yet the same legal system still insists that we use faxed signatures instead of digital signatures.

  12. Re: Bomb or missile - or Airbus Murderbus on EgyptAir Flight 804 Missing (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Christ, do you have that rant saved, ready to use? Did an Airbus aircraft run over your pet goldfish?

    He's just farting in our general direction.

  13. Re:Bomb or missile on EgyptAir Flight 804 Missing (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    " They would be in Paris with a bomb, but choose to go through all the airport security and the risks associated with it just to blow up a plane filled with mostly Egyptians in Egyptian airspace?"

    Jihadists hate Egypt right now because its military shut down the Muslim Brotherhood operation to take over the country, knowing that destruction of Pharaonic antiquities would deprive Egypt of its main source of income, tourism.

  14. Re:Paris isn't exactly French these days. on EgyptAir Flight 804 Missing (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "A leftist, making excuses for Islamists, and trying to deflect the blame and say the whole thing is the West's fault for being so kind and admitting these people. "

    Leftists also reflexively defended the enemy during the Cold War, but in those days I could see a rationale, since Communism was an exaggerated version of their own belief system. But jihadism is totally opposite to everything our left stands for right now: status of women, prisoner rights, gay rights, worker rights, and use of rape as a standard tactic for exercising power and outbreeding the local population. Our left loves to mock every other religion, but curiously not this particularly bad example of one.

  15. Re: LOL on EgyptAir Flight 804 Missing (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    "[In] biology a population within a species that is distinct in some way, especially a subspecies."

    Once again: a religion is not a genetic type. It's a set of ideas within a culture that people can freely adopt. Even Lysenko didn't believe that religion was transmitted genetically.

  16. Re: LOL on EgyptAir Flight 804 Missing (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Catastrophic destruction with no warning in the cruising phase of flight is so rare that a bomb is virtually the only possibility. TWA 800 was in initial climbout. Enroute accidents typically look like Swissair 111, in which an electrical short caused insulation above the flight deck to catch fire. There was plenty of communication with the pilots to characterize what went wrong, even before the flight recorders were analyzed. Even in the case of Air France 447, where there was no pilot communication, the avionics sent of a detailed series of error messages showing that Pitot icing gave the pilot incorrect values for airspeed, causing them to stall the plane in panic.

  17. Re:Hmmm on Genetically Modified Crops Are Safe, Report Says (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    What makes both of these lines of argument logical fallacies is that the accusation is never supported by citation of evidence. People who adhere to certain politician factions, such as the Church of Warminetics, standardly accuse everyone who differs with them, even just in degree, of being shills for Big Something.

    Note that I am NOT claiming that manmade climate change doesn't exist, but only that a large faction defending the idea is taking it as a fixed political verity, rather than a scientific hypothesis to be argued using the scientific method. The opposite position, "denialism," is also a political reaction.

  18. Re:Let me be the first to say on Pfizer Blocks The Use Of Its Drugs In Executions · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "Just switch to nitrogen asphyxiation if you want a humane execution which isn't dependent upon strapping the condemned down to a table, having to have a non-professional put an IV in, trouble getting drugs, etc..."

    Then watch liberals try to ban the 'dangerous chemical, nitrogen'. It will be the American version of this epic moment in Green theology:
    http://www.stuff.co.nz/nationa...

  19. Re:wait a sec on Updated Skimer Malware Infects ATMs Worldwide (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    "There are ATM's running a version of Windows?"

    There is an easy way to identify the less-than-major banks that would do this: look for the armored car to be a bicycle messenger carrying a cigar box.

  20. Re:And nobody's life is changed on Europa's Ocean Chemistry Could Be Earth-Like (discovery.com) · · Score: 2

    " Can anyone provide a real answer to the question? "

    For the same reason we maintain research settlements in Antarctica. Finding life in any other place would tell us a lot about the conditions in which any ecosystem and its species can survive. There would be intense study of what any species there might have in common with Earthly life, both to check for any proof of the panspermia hypothesis and to extend the extremophile envelope in which life can exist.

  21. Re:This may sound harsh... on Wikipedia Editor Says Site's Toxic Community Has Him Contemplating Suicide (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The Internet IS the outside, in that it contains the opinions of everybody out there.

  22. Re:Frickin' drama queen on Wikipedia Editor Says Site's Toxic Community Has Him Contemplating Suicide (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    And guess what: this is notable.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  23. Re:I guess there's one sensible solution to this on Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test · · Score: 1

    Kudos for letting us know who the dopers are in here.

  24. Re:I guess there's one sensible solution to this on Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test · · Score: 1

    "By all means, import more illiterates!"

    Meanwhile, look at the quality of the people being imported into Europe these days. At least our insurgents are Catholic.

  25. Re:I guess there's one sensible solution to this on Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test · · Score: 2

    "As it turns out, only three kinds of people will take a postal route job. Slackers, wingnuts, and people who just need to pay their bills."

    There's also a requirement that they be really, really afraid of dogs.