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  1. Re:I don't understand? on Estimating Damages From the VW Emissions Scandal (acs.org) · · Score: 0

    > 46 deaths

    I wonder how many people didn't die because the vehicle had enough oomph to accelerate out of the way in an emergency.

  2. (Fry squinting): I see what you did there.

    The government already tracks you and your IP and MAC and what kind of underpants you buy and what card gets monthly Internet charges. I am not sure what else they want.

  3. Re:Trump just says stuff on Trump Says He'd Make Apple Build Computers In the US (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Literally a disease. It is a chronic condition that lead to the degradation of the organism.

    The problem is that, to some, it "works" beautifully in memespace, the imaginings, and actual real measurements are ignored.

  4. Re:return to reality, please on Fraud Detected In Science Research That Suggested GMO Crops Were Harmful (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    Ok, we wouldn't have chocolate, onions, and mustard if lefties had been making an FDA 4000 years ago. Or water.

    Learn something.

  5. I feel certain some people, be it in cryo, or frozen up a mountain or in Antarctica, will remain so long afted the nanotech exists to repair individual cells.

    So, yes. Some probably will.

  6. Well, this is less about super nano robot tech than about the energy required itself. As with fears of a grey goo problem, the energy simply isn't there for a quick rollover.

    That much molecular change should make it glow in the IR pretty brightly.

  7. "Although the electrical field is of low amplitude, the field excites and activates immediate neighbors, which, in turn, excite and activate immediate neighbors, and so on across the brain at a rate of about 0.1 meter per second."

    Ahhhh, body thetans. At last we have found you!

  8. Re:Nothing wrong on The FBI Feared Communist Infiltration of EPCOT (muckrock.com) · · Score: 1

    Back then it wasn't so clear a free economy would decimate a communist one in productivity and producing health and wealth for the average person. And all that conveniently skips the meme aspect of how communism "sounds good" to people.

  9. Re:Apple is not "The world’s largest company on Apple May Owe $8 Billion To the EU After Tax Ruling (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Their infinite innovator died a few years back. Currently it's back to golden parachute squatters hoping to bail before their lack of innovation loses too much value.

  10. Re:$8 billion only? on Apple May Owe $8 Billion To the EU After Tax Ruling (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    $8 billion won't dent Greek's debts, much less divided among Europe.

    The problem lies squarely and mechanically on the ability and desire to borrow from future generations to pay for current consumption (and not for things that arguably benefit future generations, like infrastructure, and war.)

    These are literally people who didn't sav enough for retirement, not just personally, but through government plans either. They don't carry their own weight.

  11. Re:Good! on Apple May Owe $8 Billion To the EU After Tax Ruling (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Follow the money. EU politicians aren't getting political donations the way US and national governments in Europe are.

    They want some too! Why d'ya think they went into power to begin with?

  12. Re:FWP on Help Is On the Way In the War Against Noisy Leaf Blowers · · Score: 1

    First World Problems.

    This is anti-smoking in reastaurants all over again, actually driven by people who don't like it, using arguments of health that, irrespective of value, have nothing to do with that.

    Here it is noise, so conjure up some combustion health reason, and poof! Done.

    Aren't we a clever and proud people?

  13. Re:Future legislation will require... on California Legislation Would Require License Plates, Insurance For Drones (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Here's what you need to know:

    > inexpensive ...for now.

  14. Re:Bullshit on World Bank Says Internet Technology May Widen Inequality (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    A transnational corporation is just a normal one with a bigger consumer base.

    As such, the heads are atop a much larger organization with commensurate pay increases.

    It is natural "the gap" will widen...even if the average wage stagnates, which it isn't, because many in ppor countries now have non-trivial pay jobs.

    The average wealth continues to climb, as does the average wealth and access to food and products. This is a good thing, not a bad thing.

  15. Re:System working as planned. on French Drug Trial Leaves One Brain Dead and Five Critically Ill (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    One could argue humanity should be even riskier. Though no one wants to be the one who dies in testing, bringing effective drugs to mass market years, or even months faster could save many more lives than they cost in riskier testing.

  16. Re:Hardly surprising on Big Trouble for Bitcoin (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Right-anarchists believe what you say. I am not sure True Libertarians do. They incorporate a strong government that can provide a currency (preferrably based on gold or something) and enforce contracts and lawsuits and property rights.

    The wisdom and safety of Bitcoin, severed from this, might be a good idea, but is not Libertarian. The ability to purchase anonymously, as with cash, should not disappear, and should be treated as a fundamental right.

  17. Re:Idiocracy on More People In Europe Are Dying Than Are Being Born (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Then why are "the stupid people" flocking to the "civilized peoples' " lands?

    I will take a world with rising seas and pollution...and choked shelves with cheap food and 2015 medicine than whatever else your fantasy mind is imagining would exist, which outcomes studies of dictatorships and communism show don't happen in reality.

  18. Re:Dweeb Culture is not Nerd Culture. on RIP Alan Rickman, AKA Hans Gruber, Severus Snape (variety.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    You made this all up. What a dweeb!

  19. Encoding challenge on Netflix Movie and TV Show Country Comparison and Content Lists (finder.com.au) · · Score: 1

    > ID codes for all subgenres was released

    Intergenerational lesbian love stories? There's Desert Hearts, and Loving Annabelle, and Losing Chase, but that one was frustration and suck as the denoument for the buildup was ruined when a kid walked in 10 seconds too early, and two new movies out this year, but won't be on Netflix for a while.

  20. Re: What if you're on US "soil" abroad? on Netflix Executive Admits a VPN-Blocking Policy Might Be Impossible To Enforce (theglobeandmail.com) · · Score: 1

    Sayings are a whole nother issue, but I could care less.

  21. Well, even that is getting stale. Content creators get their money via Netflix. It really only messes with content creators' other deals, like a particular network in a region or country.

    This is the same thing that delayed radio stations dumping their streams over the Internet.

  22. Re:Secret treaty on TPP Signing Ceremony To Take Place In February (freezenet.ca) · · Score: 1

    I am happy with companies, AKA people, being able to sue idiotic local protectionist laws out of existence. That is part of what free trade is about. This has been used against the US under current treaties already.

    The TPP has problems, but this isn't one of them.

  23. They have the daisy cutter and MOAB and probably bigger stuff by now, and other bombs which can punch through 30 feet of steel-reinforced concrete, and then explode. These are not enough for newer bunkers, which compensate.

    However, if you dominate the field such that you can drop these at will, you have trapped the rat. The need to get him, or whatever command is in there, is diminished.

    Like cracking all encryption, micro nukes are a solution to a short term problem that risks far bigger long term ones. Do not be short sighted.

  24. I remember Putin seizing control from Yeltsin. He then turned to taking over the TV stations...and brought in an US company to manage them.

    "Capitists will sell us the rope with which to hang them." Communism or post-communism standard dictatorship, they just want the power.

  25. So... on The 40,000-Mile Volcano (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    By definition, that makes them enormous sources of heat

    Well how much heat? TFA doesn't say. Enough to pilot El Nino or something similar? More?