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  1. Re:Except... on Twitter Moves Non-US Accounts To Ireland, and Away From the NSA · · Score: 1

    >>Are we being civil to each-other on the internet? Since when has that been allowed? Particularly on Slashdot.

    look at the discussion on this thread ( our little section )
    being civil is the top form of discussion.
    and everyone is working at the top of their game

    I've learned more in this little chat than the rest of the threads

  2. Re:Here's a better idea on William Shatner Proposes $30 Billion Water Pipeline To California · · Score: 1

    sorry, that's a fallacy.
    Under siege might not be a good word

    but here are some examples of what I am trying to present

    bananas ( we have no bananas today ) long modern history of food shortages

    Potatoes, real good example of improper management lead to the Irish famine, blamed on the virus ( which is a factor ) but the restrictions of import / export from Ireland lead to it.

    Corn as a stable product ... biodiesel changed all that
    production history variations and the market did respond well to it.
    http://www.card.iastate.edu/io...

    Rice as a stable product ... subject to weather issue, one good flood can wipe out %'s of the worlds production
    storms and percentage of damage http://environmentalresearchwe... ( I think it might be a tainted new source, but I feel the idea of damage of crops is presented properly )
    panic and rumors caused http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2...

  3. Re:Here's a better idea on William Shatner Proposes $30 Billion Water Pipeline To California · · Score: 2

    You forgot to take 1 issue into your factoring ... food security. a country that goes under siege will starve unless they food security.

    I think if we ( as a civilization ) get to that point which we see in the tv show star trek, then your conclusion is much more valid.

  4. Re:What a bastard on DIA Polygraph Countermeasure Case Files Leaked · · Score: 1

    mine still works.
    but the anti magic starts failing when i add more acid into my drink

  5. Re:Why was his estate even allowed to exist? on Joseph Goebbels' Estate Sues Publisher Over Diary Excerpt Royalties · · Score: 1

    Why? A will is a will. and has a long history. so any settlement on the estate might have been placed in an allied fund. if the diary was sold then the asset provenance was moved. Nazi held, to allied held to someone new ...
    this chain is highly important in art and as we speak, new looted are is always being discovered. That chain of ownership is very important. That's why Hermann Göring went to a lot of trouble to get all his art ( using brutality ) with a legal chain of title.

  6. Re:Son of Sam on Joseph Goebbels' Estate Sues Publisher Over Diary Excerpt Royalties · · Score: 1

    don't know, but their are similar laws prior to the sun of sam laws in the late 60's and i think in the late 50's too

  7. Re:Unless on Joseph Goebbels' Estate Sues Publisher Over Diary Excerpt Royalties · · Score: 1

    off topic indirectly : Doctor something or another ( the real bad nazi doctor in a death camp ) has a ton of research done on his victims, including brain fluid amounts. in the 90's it was ruled that data could not be used. for what reason I'll never know. but the data was valid data.

  8. Re:Unless on Joseph Goebbels' Estate Sues Publisher Over Diary Excerpt Royalties · · Score: 2

    I don't think this would apply.
    dead guy before capture.
    private family journals belonging to an estate
    "crime does not pay royalty's" did not come into effect I think until the late 50's.

  9. Re:Except... on Twitter Moves Non-US Accounts To Ireland, and Away From the NSA · · Score: 1

    Not sure if I failed....
    I was showing how a structure could be used to go around.

    while the tax evasion I should have explained more

    I will say this, YOU WRITE real good. I enjoyed reading what you wrote.
    the voice I used was tonal to aggressive
    nice read...

  10. Re:Really? on Twitter Moves Non-US Accounts To Ireland, and Away From the NSA · · Score: 1

    While you are right. the point is more to focus data retention and privacy law locally.
    Now all hell has to break loose in order for one side to learn or get data from the other.

  11. Re:Except... on Twitter Moves Non-US Accounts To Ireland, and Away From the NSA · · Score: 1

    I think in the MS case, it was held in MS's own servers and not a separate entity servers in which MS had access.

  12. Re:Except... on Twitter Moves Non-US Accounts To Ireland, and Away From the NSA · · Score: 3, Informative

    I have a very general answer to this which if you research will lead to the exact answer.
    Companies in the USA are allowed to have subsidiaries ( look up the structure of any international bank )
    Subsidiaries are governed by local law and pass the profits up the chain.

    the government can not request a subsidiary outside of it's jurisdiction to hand over personal information
    ( maybe some other things, but not personal information )

    to carry this issue to the extreme ...
    Please see what Argentina did to citi bank recently (2015)
    Please see what NY ( 1996 to 2002 ) and the USA (last 6 years) did to Swiss banking
    NY told the Swiss ( in summary ) If you got nazi loot you can not do business with NY, Swiss banking replied by opening subsidiaries to handle NY business
    Swiss replied to the USA ... here are all the Americans that have accounts with us, you figure out who is evading taxes.

  13. Re:Alternative Idea for Landing on Longer Video Shows How Incredibly Close Falcon Stage Came To Successful Landing · · Score: 1

    there goes that idea.... makes sense.
    So no net from below
    no snares or loops

    How about some sort of air bags that deploy from the side of the deck, just to stable it, don't have to last long, just long enough to keep it centered for a few seconds.

  14. Re:We have already figured most of this out. on Can Civilization Reboot Without Fossil Fuels? · · Score: 1

    yes, history shows that salt mines made the money. and processing of sea salt takes some time.
    but smoked fish might last a long while

  15. Re:Alternative Idea for Landing on Longer Video Shows How Incredibly Close Falcon Stage Came To Successful Landing · · Score: 1

    While I think your idea would still leave some damage ... I'm thinking similar ... something like a safety loops that snare it at multiple heights once it touches the barge.

  16. Re: Andrew "bunnie" Huang argues that Moore's Law on Fifty Years of Moore's Law · · Score: 1

    >> weird hyper-dimensional shut

    if you are thinking space time or something like Warp speed, not sure if their is enough power ever to achieve that in our life time
    if you are thinking LxWxH + trinary chips ... that could happen. given I like to dream but the thought of trinary chip just seems like wishful thinking

  17. Re: Andrew "bunnie" Huang argues that Moore's Law on Fifty Years of Moore's Law · · Score: 1

    >> Yeah, it may "eventually" stop when transistors are built with just 3 atoms
    Funny I was thinking along the same lines, I recall when they got to 9 or 10 atoms as being the nearest they could be, then 2 or 3 years someone came out with 8, I do like Moore's Law as a benchmark of what can be achieved. And just not in chips but in data storage and power consumption.

    I really wish I could find more benchmarks on progress. it's just fun to learn stuff like this.

    Oh by the way... I guessing ( using Moore's Law ) that we should have our first real space platform that is transmitting energy from space to earth, something like a laser beam or microwave beam or maybe something totally different. about 13 to 16 years from now

  18. Re:We have already figured most of this out. on Can Civilization Reboot Without Fossil Fuels? · · Score: 1

    I've tried to cut out my food shopping bill by growing all sorts of food.
    even high density seasonal planting ( I live in Florida so I got year around )

    with a family of 4, could not get the veggie bill down to zero every week
    on 20000sq feet of ground ( about 1/2 acre ).

    BUT i got it down to 200ish for the year. ( we are at something like $2000 for organic )
    I think it's just like you said, canning and storage skills

    now the good thing is, I got almost all my neighbors to plant fruit trees...
    Mangoes, avocados, oranges, lime and some others.
    7 years from now we will have a well feed area

  19. Re:We have already figured most of this out. on Can Civilization Reboot Without Fossil Fuels? · · Score: 1

    just a note.
    A) 1 ox should be able to plow from 1/2 acre to 1 acre with care.
    B) shoreline communities can be double the population of inland communities due to fishing. problem is finding salt to preserve the fish

  20. Re:Olde-timey carbon fuel on Can Civilization Reboot Without Fossil Fuels? · · Score: 1

    I really don't think we would be super dependent on coal ( coke ). I think would be more of a methane type based than coal based.
    back in the 90's I was able to witness the processing of pig ( cow maybe ) manure into a huge - wide vat, and the farmer was able to heat and use the fuel
    the vat was a simple round tub about 4 meters across and had a cover that could close tight. he then used a bike pump to make some pressure.

    this was in India. I've never forgotten how simple the set up was.

  21. Re:Two Words: Pinto Beans on America's Methane Mystery: NASA Set To Investigate Hotspot Over the 4 Corners · · Score: 2

    Wait, I don't mean to troll. But don't all the UFO's get reported around that area??

  22. Re: Oh, Okay on Hugo Awards Turn (Even More) Political · · Score: 1

    While what you say is true, the imagination of these devices were created or adopted by star trek. So we got lucky that TV placed these ideas and engineers tried.

  23. Re: Oh, Okay on Hugo Awards Turn (Even More) Political · · Score: 1

    Not being smart enough, does not the Azimov series of foundation start slightly dystopic and then grows ??

  24. Re: Tim Cook is a Pro Discrimination Faggot on Apple's Tim Cook Calls Out "Religious Freedom" Laws As Discriminatory · · Score: 1

    I thought of that first. it's a violation of handicap people ( wheel chair laws )

    most of the USA. door width has to be 36 inches in width.

  25. Re:Tim Cook is a Pro Discrimination Faggot on Apple's Tim Cook Calls Out "Religious Freedom" Laws As Discriminatory · · Score: 1

    Disclosure : I'm really hating this law since it seems ( and I don't know exactly ) that it's an easy way to discriminate.

    My question is: ( more like an extreme thought exercise )

    I have create a faith that does not like fat people, can I open a restaurant and only admit thin people ?

    based on everything I have read so far, even this is acceptable under this rule ( so to be law )