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  1. Re:California 'High Speed' Rail may beat it on Engineers Plan The Most Expensive Object Ever Built (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    > It would have been cheaper if the main line ran directly between the major population centers (Los Angeles, San Francisco and Sacramento)

    Umm... the central valley connects LA and SF. Sounds like a good location for a train. I don't see a faster way to connect. Agreed about the location of the first segment, although the LA and SF segments won't be done for years, even if they were chosen to be first. LA needs a major tunnel through the mountains, and SF needs an overhaul on the caltrain corridor.

    The best part about HSR is that it will connect to downtown destinations rather than PITA airports. you can get on at Union Station and get off at the Transbay Terminal. There are subway and light rail lines that connect to both endpoints, making them accessible from throughout the metro areas.

  2. Re: Child abuse on Language Creation Society Says Klingon Language Isn't Covered By Copyright · · Score: 1

    What I know is that they're all self-professed atheists, and they're happy to identify as such. According to christian dogma, atheists go to Hell for the sin of not believing.

    Maybe they'll all change their minds at your funeral, and you'll be like lolwut?

  3. Re: Child abuse on Language Creation Society Says Klingon Language Isn't Covered By Copyright · · Score: 1

    > If I'm wrong, I'll get to hang out with all the cool people- Jimi Hendrix, Christopher Hitchens, most of my friends, family, and lovers, Janis Joplin, Carl Sagan, Bertrand Russell, Douglas Adams, Woody Allen, Mick Jagger, Kevin Bacon, Richard Burton, George Carlin, Jeremy Clarkson, Jimmy Carr, Bruce Lee, Orson Welles, Robin Williams, David Gilmour, Charlie Parker, Steve Wozniak, etc etc etc....the list goes on and on.

    Uhhh, many of these people are still alive. Allen, Jagger, Gilmour, Wozniak... also what do you know about what they believe in their hearts? that's what matters.

  4. Re: Child abuse on Language Creation Society Says Klingon Language Isn't Covered By Copyright · · Score: 1

    > Ask yourself again: "what if I'm wrong?".

    Pascal's wager.

  5. Re:Child abuse on Language Creation Society Says Klingon Language Isn't Covered By Copyright · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    OMG MUST UPVOTE

  6. boehner called him lucifer and a miserable sob. sums it up I think.

  7. Re:Without Steve Jobs on Apple Has First Earnings Decline In More Than A Decade (go.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean like a car?

  8. Well now I'm confused. Regardless, there are definitely three levels of plates, and I find it really easy to get the lowest of the highest level but not the middle level.

  9. yes, the trusts were genuinely out of control back then. at least many of the robber barons endowed universities and other cultural institutions.

    It's interesting that today's LEDs will last for 10+ years. Heck, even CFLs will last 5+. Speaking of CFLs, I went to heck and back trying to find a neutral white CFL color. The original ones were the bright white flourescent, made you feel like you were in an ER. These are 5000K lights. Then there are the mellow white/yellows, also called "warm light", also called 2700k. I struggled to find the middle ground, "daylight" 3500K bulbs. It was hard because in many places the bulbs aren't even labeled. But I found them, and now I have warm light in my living room/bedroom, daylight in my kitchen, and either day or bright white in my bathrooms. A good win all around I think!

  10. citation needed.

  11. Re: Why buy consoles that aren't above and beyond? on Slashdot Asks: Is the Golden Era of Video-Game Console Sales Over? · · Score: 1

    what good is 4k when there will be no 4k tvs because 4k is doa? i still have a 720p tv. you don't see me complaining?

  12. Re:Why buy consoles that aren't above and beyond? on Slashdot Asks: Is the Golden Era of Video-Game Console Sales Over? · · Score: 1

    many of us don't have fancy desktops, don't want to spend time maintaining a system, and want to just sit on the couch, turn on the tv, and play.

  13. Re: regulation on Jet Strikes Drone Near Heathrow Airport (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    My fear -- soon there will be a false flag event that will turn the tides of public opinion. Just like 9/11 and Pearl Harbor. Then it will be too late.

  14. criminal organizations on BlackBerry Comments on Canadian Police Eavesdropping Report (blackberry.com) · · Score: 1

    TFS:

    > Chen wrote, adding that the company's cooperation with the Canadian police resulted in shutting down a criminal organization.

    And yet the Clinton Foundation is still in operation. Conflicting info, not sure how to resolve.

  15. Re:One every minute on BlackBerry Comments on Canadian Police Eavesdropping Report (blackberry.com) · · Score: 1

    located the sucker.

  16. Re: regulation on Jet Strikes Drone Near Heathrow Airport (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    basically, 100% correct. If the drone industry doesn't come up with a sensible solution, then FAA will Shut It Down.

    I'm curious, what solutions did you propose?

  17. Re: regulation on Jet Strikes Drone Near Heathrow Airport (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 2

    1.5cm? That must be some cray euro coin. Here in America we use normal coins.

  18. regulation on Jet Strikes Drone Near Heathrow Airport (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I hope everybody is ok. This bodes very poorly for drone ultraregulation and enforcement. As the summary says, it was only a matter of time.

  19. Re:No More Clintons, ty on About 40,000 Unionized Verizon Workers Walk Off the Job (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    unfort hill still is getting the majority of votes, showing where the rank and file are.

     

  20. Re:No More Clintons, ty on About 40,000 Unionized Verizon Workers Walk Off the Job (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    unfort hill still is getting the majority of votes, showing where the rank and file are.

  21. Re:No More Clintons, ty on About 40,000 Unionized Verizon Workers Walk Off the Job (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Verizon CEO ripped Bernie in a FB post, about his "contemptible" platform of trying to make business decisions into a moral issue. Probably the wrong response at the wrong time.

    http://www.politico.com/blogs/...

  22. Re:Obviously they had to pay a lot on TSA Paid $1.4 Million For Randomizer App That Chooses Left Or Right (geek.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    the actual passenger-facing software was really cheap. what was expensive to develop and install is the cameras and computer detection algorithms to tell if the person is white, black or brown.

  23. Re:Apple is boring? on At 40, There's Never Been a Tech Company Quite Like Apple (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    about 15m new car sales per year. 40m used car sales per year. consider your statistic, first when you say "new" car it is likely new to them but not brand new. Also, a family may have 1 or 2 cars but 4 or 5 people. so if you think about it my figure is pretty accurate.

  24. She's not a tea party or an evangelical, but she's very close to a moderate republican. She's owned by the same corporate interests that own jeb bush and company. They're different on the requisite social issues, abortion, etc, but I don't think they really care about that anyway.

  25. > So how many browsers tabs do you want people to open in the background, they pay no attention to in order to stream ads.

    Likely they would put a huge weighting on pay per click rather than pay per impression. Not that this metric couldn't be gamed as well.

    > It seems most internet advertising is targeted at advertisers convincing them to buy more and more internet advertisements.

    Internet advertising, like any business, is focused on the customers that pay its bills.

    > All this in a collapsing market where the middle class, the spenders are shrinking and getting poorer each and every day.

    Call and complain to Donald Trump. Alternatively Bernie Sanders. Two sides of the same coin, really. Like the Force.