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  1. Re:Regenerative braking on Electric Cars Are Not the Answer To Air Pollution, Says Top UK Adviser (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    No, the War on Cars is trying to find new ground. They don't actually care about particulate matter, they just want fewer cars on the roads.

  2. Re:Mozilla = mentally ill. on Inside Mozilla's Fight To Make Firefox Relevant Again (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I uninstalled Firefox and switched to IceDragon after Mozilla decided that virtue signalling (firing Brendan Eich) was more important than their product.

  3. I just realized I didn't really answer your question. Truth is, I've tried looking it up and I've never really found a satisfactory answer. Sorry.

  4. For the religious, "meat" is typically the flesh of mammals and avians. Fish are another classification. This is a perennial question in my (Roman Catholic/Russian Orthodox) household when trying to figure out what we can and can't eat during a Lenten fast. (My answer is that the question kinda misses the point of a fast. If you're trying to find loopholes, then you're doing it wrong. If you think it's too meat-like, don't eat it.)

  5. Cats also eat grass to help them vomit. Mine vomits recreationally, but the other will nosh on the grass if they've got hairballs.

  6. Re:A large dog is worse than a SUV... on Cats and Dogs Contribute Significantly To Climate Change, Says UCLA Study (patch.com) · · Score: 1

    And pot.

  7. Or special handling required by the shipping companies. I tried to return a pair of bookshelf speakers that were plastered with "Danger: Magnetic Fields" stickers and Amazon just refunded me. For some reason, the handling codes work for delivery to the customer but not the reverse.

  8. Re:It's a colorful way of describing a mundane job on NASA Is Looking For Someone To Protect Earth From Aliens -- And the Job Pays a Six-Figure Salary (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Pfft. As soon as extraterrestrial life shows up, the EPA will declare it an endangered species and we won't be allowed to kill it.

  9. Re:With nutcases that believe the opposite on There Is a Point At Which It Will Make Economical Sense To Defect From the Electrical Grid (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977

  10. Re:Hopefully apples too on Top UK Supermarket Laser Prints Labels On Avocados To Reduce Waste (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    If you immediately know the candlelight is fire, then the meal was cooked along time ago.

  11. Re:Avoid travel or leave laptop at home on What To Do If the Laptop Ban Goes Global (backchannel.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yep, if a gun-like appliance is a non-starter (e.g. travel within New York, CA, or some other police state), you can always get an el-cheapo (~$10) box of 9mm ammo. Same flight rules apply and a lot cheaper!

  12. Re:Avoid travel or leave laptop at home on What To Do If the Laptop Ban Goes Global (backchannel.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    For domestic flights, you could always check your laptop with your firearm (even a starter pistol qualifies). The items in the case are inventoried at both ends of the flight and the law requires a keyed padlock (no TSA locks).

  13. I've seen his comments over the last couple of days. 12 is being generous, if one assumes he's taking his meds.

  14. Re:Oh, I see! on Excessive Radiation Inside Fukushima Fries Clean-Up Robot (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1
    What on earth are you talking about? Snopes disagrees with your first sentence: "...neither Trump nor his father ever bore the surname Drumpf" and I have no idea where you get your information on the military, but it certainly isn't the actual, you know, military. People change their names all the time for numerous reasons; the only requirement is that you use your legal name which may or may not be the one on your birth certificate.

    As to your question, "Why shouldn't I see to it that the name which is presumably on this person's Certificate of Live Birth isn't forgotten?" I answer, "Maybe because it's none of your fucking business?" Or have you granted yourself the authority to dictate how other people identify themselves?

  15. Re:Zuckerberg on Zuckerberg Sues Hundreds of Hawaiians To Force Property Sales To Him (msn.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Ha-ole literally translates into "without breath" as Hawaiians in the time of Captain Cook's encounter greeted each other by touching foreheads together and exchanging breaths (the honi). Cook, obviously not Hawaiian, was unaware of the custom and didn't greet the Hawaiians in this way and was assumed to be "without breath." The term entered the vernacular and today is a pejorative for Caucasians.

  16. Re:Anyone remember Apple ][ and Apple /// ? on Mozilla's New Logo Reminds Us that It Is, In Fact, a Web Firm (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    My first computer was a //e at school and //c at home. Perhaps //a was a prototype?

  17. Re:This will never happen, even if I want it to. on Petition With Over 1 Million Signatures Urges President Obama To Pardon Snowden (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Anyone who embarrasses the nomenklatura shall be punished. That's why Obama evicted Russian diplomats after "Fake Russian Hacking News" but not Chinese after the OPM hack. One was bad for Democrats while the other was only bad for America.

  18. You take all of the worst elements of the German Stasi and Orwell's Ministry of Truth and you expect to simply be forgiven after conducting a purge of the proles who forgot their place and blew the whistle on you? No. This is historical revisionism. It's totalitarian in nature and has no business in a free society. Congrats, tho, you've proven that there are still people in the world who think that Stalinism is a Good Idea that just needs some tweaking.

  19. Re:And what else? on Reddit CEO Admits To Editing User Comments Amid Pizzagate Malarkey (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    So how much pressure will Reddit's board of directors suffer to deep-six this assclown? Reddit's always been the taint of the internet, but now they've sacrificed their integrity. This is fraud, plain and simple, and I would not be surprised if an enterprising DA decided to take a look.

  20. Apology? on Reddit CEO Admits To Editing User Comments Amid Pizzagate Malarkey (cnet.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I suppose this is what I get for not RTFA, but the CEO admitted to doing it, obliquely mocked the people pissed at him for doing it, and never apologized? So not only do we have social media moguls decrying "fake news" but now we have social media moguls actually manufacturing it.

  21. Re: It's the transition team, people. on Peter Thiel Is Joining Donald Trump's Transition Team (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Lol I didn't think you were. It reminded me of the fears that Obama was planning a takeover resulting from news that federal agencies not known for their weapons were buying billions in ammo (like NOAA).

  22. Re:It's the transition team, people. on Peter Thiel Is Joining Donald Trump's Transition Team (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    it was simply not chosen.

    Incorrect. It's worse than that; it was rejected.

  23. Re:Just the echoes on Peter Thiel Is Joining Donald Trump's Transition Team (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one who notices how people who try so hard to establish their "patriotic" bona fides are the only ones burning the flag? Ever?

  24. Re:he bet on the winner on Peter Thiel Is Joining Donald Trump's Transition Team (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Pfft. C'mon now, you know that identity politics is only for leftists. Anyone who goes off the reservation is, at best, inauthentic and at worst, an Uncle Tom.

  25. Re:he bet on the winner on Peter Thiel Is Joining Donald Trump's Transition Team (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I played that video game. Didn't end well. :p