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  1. Re:So China is a shithole ... on Chinese Police Get Power To Inspect ISPs (scmp.com) · · Score: 1

    And that's your position?

    Lame.

  2. Re:James Webb ... on Hubble Telescope Hit By Mechanical Failure (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The only thing he said incorrectly was that the craft will orbit the point - it doesn't ...

    Thanks.

  3. Re: So China is a shithole ... on Chinese Police Get Power To Inspect ISPs (scmp.com) · · Score: 1

    FTFY

    ... having a leader who is bombastic and when he was a reality TV star boasted to a crony that he was such a celebrity that he could blame the victim ...

  4. The wafers are unique in that they are "off-the-shelf" units manufactured by Nabisco and can be found in quantity on aisle 13.

  5. Re:James Webb ... on Hubble Telescope Hit By Mechanical Failure (bbc.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    How embarrassing.

    Lissajous curves are the family of curves described by [...] parametric equations ...

    Go away.

    The James Webb Space Telescope will not be in orbit around the Earth, like the Hubble Space Telescope is - it will actually orbit the Sun, 1.5 million kilometers (1 million miles) away from the Earth at what is called the second Lagrange point or L2.

  6. So China is a shithole ... on Chinese Police Get Power To Inspect ISPs (scmp.com) · · Score: 1

    ... country and America has a sexual predator as a leader.

    Who's throwing stones?

  7. Who the fuck cares? on Chinese Police Get Power To Inspect ISPs (scmp.com) · · Score: 1

    Why are we even talking about this?

    China is a sovereign country and it can do whatever it wants to do.

    That's true of the Google story, as well.

    It doesn't matter what China wants to do as long as capitalists can find a way to monetize it.

    Hell, give out personal data as a promotional item.

    Bribe the uppers.

    Whatever it takes to make a buck.

    Americans can't even protect its students, for crying out loud.

    Physician, heal thyself.

  8. Re:The only surprise on Chinese Police Get Power To Inspect ISPs (scmp.com) · · Score: 1

    Two different markets; two different strategies. (Explains Google's China strategy, too.)

    In the United States CONSUMERS want secure phones. Fuck what the gubmint wants.

    Apple makes money off secure shit.

    In China, the consumer is secondary to the gubmint. Apple plays by the rules and makes money.

    It's all about making money.

    If a market wants phones with cow shit on them, Apple has the XS and stuff ready to go.

  9. James Webb ... on Hubble Telescope Hit By Mechanical Failure (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    ... and hurry.

  10. Carbon-based ... on National Theater In London Offers Glasses With Live Subtitles (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    ... subtitles.

    GMO shit. No thanks and stuff.

  11. Didn't work for Apple ... on Will Chromebooks Someday Threaten Windows? (itworld.com) · · Score: 1

    ... which was/is a no-show in the business market.

    FTFS:

    If kids grow up using G Suite and Chromebooks, there's a reasonable chance they'll use them when they get older.

  12. Re:None of them do on Energy Department Proposes Funding For Ohio's First Offshore Wind Project · · Score: 1

    Or an ounce of pesticides.

    Or a square mile of deforestation.

    Or 1.0 Exxon Valdez.

  13. Re:Terrible Idea on Energy Department Proposes Funding For Ohio's First Offshore Wind Project · · Score: 2

    I am having an honest anonymous debate.

    Emphasis mine.

  14. Re:Terrible Idea on Energy Department Proposes Funding For Ohio's First Offshore Wind Project · · Score: 1

    You obviously don't fish.

    We had this discussion back when Moby Dick was a minnow.

    All your arguments preceded the proposed construction of offshore rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.

    Sure, we've had explosions, oil leaks, and all that but those rigs are prime real estate for people who fish and dive.

    Like birds playing games with turbine blades, fish flock (see what I did there) to the flora and fauna attracted to the rigs.

    Divers take photos of those rigs juxtaposed against backgrounds of beautiful sunsets/rises.

    The turbines don't exist yet and you're having a major cow.

    Take the easy way out and grab a boat and head out to the EXISTING "eyesores" in the Gulf and protest, OK?

    Bring bait and beer.

  15. Re:Terrible Idea on Energy Department Proposes Funding For Ohio's First Offshore Wind Project · · Score: 1

    I don't see your name on the "Ban billboards," list of protesters.

  16. Re:Terrible Idea on Energy Department Proposes Funding For Ohio's First Offshore Wind Project · · Score: 1

    Your kind of post pisses me off.

    When you use passive weasel words like that, how the fuck are we going to be able to understand your position on the matter?

    Are you OK with the goddam global warming cooling fan farm or not?

  17. Re:Offshore Energy on Energy Department Proposes Funding For Ohio's First Offshore Wind Project · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I see where you're going with this and it's an interesting concept.

    We could drain the lake somewhat; fill in some of the shore with, say, plastic debris, and use the new shallows as oil flats much like salt-flat technology.

    Peasants (refugees and immigrants) could go out each day with plastic bottles and collect the oil floating atop the liquefied shallows and pour those into the hold of an Exxon (Valdez class) tanker that will sail out to sea, follow the coast line to Port Arthur, Texas and deliver to the Saudi Arabian-owned refinery complex there.

    It's a win-win.

    The plan does not include the use of coal yet, but that could be worked in somehow.

    Perhaps we could ship it in to keep the peasants warm in winter and to provide pot-bellied stoves for nourishment.

    Not addressed is the hit corporate prisons will take when we divert the slave trade from corporate prisons to oil farms, but we can craft some laws where it's not only illegal to be driving while Black, we could expand that to walking while Black.

    I can't think of everything.

    I'll leave that to the fossil fuel lobbyists as I finish my bottle of water.

  18. Re:Since when? on Can We Test the Speed of Light Using 'Lensing' from Supernovae? (arxiv.org) · · Score: 1

    This.

    There's really nothing to get upset about here.

    Scientists are probing the universe at different times in order to determine if the speed of light has changed over the billions of years.

    It's a necessary question that we'd like to answer.

    Sure, there are spectators speculating on the outcome of the game before the fucking anthem has even started, but that's not something that's necessarily batshit crazy.

  19. Re:This man's Navy ... on Japan's Silent Submarines Extend Range With Lithium-Ion Batteries (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    I told you what field I'm in:

    Aviation Anti-Submarine Warfare Technician 2nd class. [USN]

  20. Re:This man's Navy ... on Japan's Silent Submarines Extend Range With Lithium-Ion Batteries (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    So, a whole career down the drain because I learned nothing.

    Sorry to disappoint.

  21. Re:This man's Navy ... on Japan's Silent Submarines Extend Range With Lithium-Ion Batteries (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    Can't help you.

    I can only share my experience and expertise.

    The issues you're leaning toward are not issues we had to deal with and that continues to be the case.

    Thanks.

  22. Re:I don't want ... on Instagram Tests Sharing Your Location History With Facebook (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    My wife looked at pillows on Amazon and then told me Facebook was fraught with pillow ads.

    Creepy.

  23. Re:This man's Navy ... on Japan's Silent Submarines Extend Range With Lithium-Ion Batteries (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    Buoys and ships and satellites monitor currents, and there are many at different temperatures and depths, like rivers in the sea.

    The hydrophones work best in open waters because man-made noises are rare.

    That.s why subs keep close to the shipping lanes and noisy shores.

    Ship and airborne craft, manned and unmanned, are capable of dropping hydrophones at several depths.

  24. I don't want ... on Instagram Tests Sharing Your Location History With Facebook (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    ... any goddam relevant ads.

  25. I'm a cattle rancher AND a beekeeper.