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  1. Re:So can we have the list of things to do? on EU Car Makers Manipulating Fuel Efficiency Figures · · Score: 1

    And here I thought all these sci-fi vehicles where the door closes and the seam completely melts away were just being showy for the sake of being showy.

  2. Re:European Magic on EU Car Makers Manipulating Fuel Efficiency Figures · · Score: 1

    MPG is deemed important w.r.t. oil use. Hence ethanol blends, intended to cut down on that, are irrelevant w.r.t. mileage.

    You would then need a 2D graph of oil use per mile for various ethanol concentrations. Unless this differs proportionally from burning pure gas, it buys you no important knowledge.

  3. Re:WTF? on NASA IG Paints Bleak Picture For Agency Projects · · Score: 2

    You mentioned the Republicans but forgot to mention the Democrats would rather burn the republic to the ground than make mile reductions in their massive increases (which started under Bush btw).

    Your one-sided rhetoric shows you are part of the problem, not the solution. It is the Democrats you praise who are playing the same game schoolboards play, but at a national level, where they cut school bus service first, to irritate parents. Here, they do asinine things like not deploy an ostensibly needed aircraft carrier, or force factories to shut down...for lack of inspectors, both of which should have been among the very last, not first things. I can't say Romney would be much better, but Obama is about as foolish a president I've seen, deliberately abrogating leadership and choosing to play rhetorical games of chicken -- "Our car is crashing," he says, "and it's the Republicans in the back seat, not me behind the wheel."

    In the bigger picture, you are just the substrate for your political meme spread mechanism, where you aid in power seizure to force the meme onto others.

  4. Re:If you like an app buy it on Google Removing Ad-Blockers From Play · · Score: 1

    Er, presenting the ad.

  5. Re:If you like an app buy it on Google Removing Ad-Blockers From Play · · Score: 1

    I don't know but they may earn some money just presenting the app.

  6. Re:Seriously now... on Google's Punishment? Lecture Those They Snooped On · · Score: 1

    "Asswipe" is not a plural, group noun. The plural would be asseswipe.

  7. Re:Idle speculation on Manga Girls Beware: Extra Large Eyes Caused Neanderthal's Demise · · Score: 1

    In the same way that Roger from American Dad knows which allys you can get raped in, I suppose.

    Speaking of a dolphin-human hybrid, Roger...

  8. Re:Idle speculation on Manga Girls Beware: Extra Large Eyes Caused Neanderthal's Demise · · Score: 1

    Forget all other definitions of civilization you have learned from clueless anthroplogists and historians pulling shit out of their ass.

    Civilization is the process of thwarting the animal-like hunter-gatherer impulse that treats stuff as first-come, first serve. This allows the civilized to have enough protection from "gatherers" so they can engage in long-term enterprises like farming and factories.

  9. Re:This just in on Manga Girls Beware: Extra Large Eyes Caused Neanderthal's Demise · · Score: 2

    As the part of their brain that's larger should make them more empathic w.r.t. emotions, well we could be breeding our new overlords: the super-politician.

    "It's sooooooooo easy to lie convincingly to them..."

  10. Re:This just in on Manga Girls Beware: Extra Large Eyes Caused Neanderthal's Demise · · Score: 1

    Speculation, that's about it. It's silly to think their brain couldn't accomodate the same, with the region slightly shifted.

    Also, I thought they already proved Neanderthals, which were not a separate species w.r.t. reproduction, were in fact merged and absorbed into homo sapiens, not dying out per se.

  11. Re:Oh noes! on European Human Rights Court Rejects Pirate Bay Founders' Appeal · · Score: 1

    As currencies are no longer based on the tangible like gold, it's pure data-stream discriminatory meme fascism. One virtual stream they want to be free; the other, hells no!

  12. Re:Oh noes! on European Human Rights Court Rejects Pirate Bay Founders' Appeal · · Score: 1

    For some people, "Information wants to be free" to transfer to their computer, but they don't want the dollars in their pocket to be free to travel the other way into the author's pocket.

  13. Re:In English, please on Using Truth Serum To Confirm Insanity · · Score: 1

    Hence "McDonald's board of directors", unless you say McDonaldziz board of directors, then use McDonald's's, a posession of the corporate entity McDonald's.

    The speaking convention should drive the punctuation, not the other way around.

  14. Re:In English, please on Using Truth Serum To Confirm Insanity · · Score: 1

    I recommend punctuating it the way you pronounce it. If you say Homeziz, then use Homes's. Otherwise use Homes'.

  15. Re:Questionable at best on Using Truth Serum To Confirm Insanity · · Score: 1

    I don't think you get Internet in there. But you'd probably lose weight and live longer.

    I always wondered how you got to be one of those nutball friends of Dr. Bashir's in DS9. Now that's a sweet life, being cared for and free to pursue intellectual interests.

  16. Re:Secret Treaty? on US Government May Not Be Able To Fix Cell Phone Unlocking Problem · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It isn't secret anymore -- when they actually vote on it. But then there's no time to examine it, much less get public commentary, much less habe 6 months for people to think it over.

    These are the same people who brought you the "we have to approve the health care bill to see what's in it."

  17. Re:other countries have laws that phones must be u on US Government May Not Be Able To Fix Cell Phone Unlocking Problem · · Score: 2

    That's what the two-year contract is for -- to amortize the cost of the $600 phone over 2 years while still giving them (Verizon, et al) service profits.

    Fair enough, if that's how the cost plays out so you don't have to pay for a laptop equivalent up front. But you are still buying it, so it should be yours at the end.

  18. Re:Sorry, but... on European Parliament Decides Not To Ban Internet Porn · · Score: 1

    Porn is defined as a group of ideas that one group in power can rally their supporters behind for the purpose of solidifying and increasing their power.

    Further details are unnecessary.

  19. Re:The very definition of "Liberal Fascism" on European Parliament Decides Not To Ban Internet Porn · · Score: 1

    It bothers me there are people out there who are oblivious to the hundred of millions of deaths over the centuries directly attributable to power-hungry people weilding the power to dictate speech and jail those who say things they don't like. This Means You. No, stop looking over there and hemming and hawing. Participatory dictatorship and oppression is nothing to strive for. That's how your grandparents got out of control.

  20. Re:thought police on European Parliament Decides Not To Ban Internet Porn · · Score: 1

    It's been two days -- why do these little Eichmanns still have jobs?

    No, wait. These are more like Goebbels -- propaganda ministers. Accurate Nazi comparisons are accurate because. Who they are and what they are is rotten to the core, humans looking for reasons to control other humans. That is the problem historically.

  21. Re:Well... on European Parliament Decides Not To Ban Internet Porn · · Score: 1

    Content-based restrictions? What you point to lists no examples, so, fail.

  22. Re:Well... on European Parliament Decides Not To Ban Internet Porn · · Score: 2

    -1: This Disagrees With My Worldview And I Don't Want Anyone To See It

  23. Re:As anal as France is.... on France Demands Skype Register As a Telco · · Score: 2

    Way back when, BBS networks would sometimes let their modems be used by people to dial out locally. It's sickening that some government thugs are trying to ladle massive regulatory burden on such.

  24. Re:JUST DON'T FUCKING BUY THEM! on Is It Time To Enforce a Gamers' Bill of Rights? · · Score: 1

    DC Universe Online with it's maggot-bloated console-based design (many MMORPG powers, but no more than six per loadout) sadly got my money. Similar console- style Duke Nukem did not, and I had been waiting. :(

    You have to say no. Money talks.

  25. Re:"Normative behavior" on U.S. Calls On China To End Hacking; Start Cyberspace Dialogue · · Score: 5, Funny

    "We are not hacking. Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time."

    (Guard 2 whispers): "Are they leaving?"

    "I told them we weren't hacking." (Both snicker.)