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  1. Re:Ann Druyan was his fiancee? on How the Voyager Golden Record Was Made (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    At some point he just asked her to marry him out of the blue, over the phone, no acknowledged romance previously, just getting along well as friends on the record.

    Her description is available from googling.

  2. Re:Never buy Release 1.0 of anything on How the Voyager Golden Record Was Made (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    We could figure it out quickly. Someone that much smarter would do so that much more quickly.

    You have to hypothize idiots with the brain power of a monkey and no senses like ours to stand a remote chance of failure.

  3. Re:Most likely they'll encounter interstellar debr on How the Voyager Golden Record Was Made (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    Given crashing into something in many billions of years is nil, you feel the odds of intelligence finding it is also nil, then.

  4. Re:Most likely they'll encounter interstellar debr on How the Voyager Golden Record Was Made (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    If we found it today we wouldn't even use a physical needle but rather laser map it to exceedingly high detail. It would take two seconds for someone to figure out the instructions, especially if the entire planet could see it over the Internet.

  5. Re:Obvious answer who will find them on How the Voyager Golden Record Was Made (newyorker.com) · · Score: 2

    In 4 billion years, the Milky Way, 400 billion stars, will collide with the Andromeda galaxy, 1 trillion stars. It's highly unlikely any stars will collide.

    The odds of this thing hitting a star are nonexistent. Of hitting a planet is that divided by a few thousand.

  6. Re:This is what happens when you can't raise taxes on A 'Netflix Tax'? Yes, and It's Already a Thing in Some States (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Then cut non-waste, or tax the holy hellier out of people. But quit borrowing.

    Given we live in better times than ever before, government should be becoming smaller, not larger. We have no war or large infrastructure projects we can legitimately borrow for (where future generations, who will also benefit, can pay for it.)

    This is just the immorality of the current generation refusing to carry its own weight. In the back rooms, they discuss how much they can get away with for borrowing, to lavish to buy votes, not how much they need for services.

    As was shown during the late 90s Internet boom, the government will quickly work to re-unbalance the budget. There is no level of spending and equal taxing that is stable. In rare cases like that, borrowing is restored to purchase more votes.

  7. Re:This is what happens when you can't raise taxes on A 'Netflix Tax'? Yes, and It's Already a Thing in Some States (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    My stepson, dutifully programmed by his teachers, came home quoting the "real unemployment rate" under W. Bush. He stopped doing that under Obama.

  8. Re:How does the city know I use Netflix on A 'Netflix Tax'? Yes, and It's Already a Thing in Some States (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Hotels are not in the business of speaking. At what point does a tax rate become a violation of the First Amendment?

  9. Re:KILL the billionaire on Silicon Valley Billionaire Fails To Prevent Access To Public Beach (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    Venezuela's down thataway.

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  10. Apple should file an anti-trust lawsuit against the Chinese government itself.

  11. Re:But Cuba is our friend! on Hearing Loss of US Diplomats In Cuba Is Blamed On Covert Device (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 2

    As a kleptocracy, they would be vastly more interested in opening up ties with the west than remaining dependent on other broken kleptocracies. You can get a lot more hard, western cash that way.

  12. Re:It's called Alt-Right conservativsim on Wisconsin Won't Break Even On Foxconn Plant Deal For Over Two Decades (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    "We reduced the government gut punching we do to a business a little bit. A loss to us!"

    This "logic" only flies if you view government as a profit center rather than a facilitator, which is the original reason a free people create a government.

  13. Re:There's more to it than that on China's VPN Developers Face Crackdown (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you missed the point of books like 1984, son.

  14. Re:Where do you think you are, the U.S.? on China's VPN Developers Face Crackdown (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Just planting seeds for the philosophical fails behind Vox Populi Vox Dei states.

  15. Re:Where do you think you are, the U.S.? on China's VPN Developers Face Crackdown (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    You assume the people in prison in the US is something to be outraged about, likening it to people jailed in China for speaking up.

    While a good chunk may be drug users here, that is not the same as tracking down and imprisoning someone who challenges your iron fist on power. What a clown.

  16. Cool! CNN's terrible advertising scripting can lock up Chrome even faster now!

  17. Re:This is a good move, Maybe delay until 2025-203 on CBS Delaying 'Star Trek: Discovery' To Maintain Quality (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Good science fiction (maybe intermittent at times) is what fans want. If you can pump it up with season arcs and more social development (no relation) all the better.

    I can forgive barking Klingons in skeleton zoot suits if the stories are good. (The golden glow sepia stuff needs to go though.)

    When's Orville starting?

  18. Re:Stinker on CBS Delaying 'Star Trek: Discovery' To Maintain Quality (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    And to pour over the color tables to get the sepia tones just...about...perfect.

  19. Evil is as evil does on Do Kill Switches Deter Cellphone Theft? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Phone companies were partners in the thefts. They had the customers on the hook for the rest of their contract, and they'd dutifully buy another phone.

    Meanwhile, the stolen phone must sign up with someone, often that very same carrier. So they in effect get the robbed customer to subsidize a second new customer for them.

  20. "Why???"

    "Well, Donald Trump wants us to stay, so we've gotta go."

  21. Re:Bear? on New Research Shows Humans Could Outrun T. Rex · · Score: 1

    All animals eat crap just lying around, predators, even herbivores eat small rodents as occasion presents and fish that wash up.

  22. Re:This is the sort of testing the Feds should do. on The Myth of Drug Expiration Dates (propublica.org) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Your post, useful? Perhaps not. Informative and interesting? Perhaps not.

  23. There's still plenty of content, just that there are other competitors, from Amazon and Hulu, to the original networks keeping their libraries instead of renting them to Netflix.

  24. Good luck with that on California Lawsuit Wants To Weaken Noncompetes (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm going to assume they mean for people coming to work in California.

    Well, other state courts will rule the non-competes still apply as state X laws, where it was agreed to, apply.

  25. Re:Federalism for the win! on American ISPS Are Now Fighting State Broadband Privacy Proposals (eff.org) · · Score: 2

    Many are also opposed to companies not telling you they are spying on you, or hiding it in sophistry about increasing your experience at the bottom of page 97 of a click thru, where they know you will misunderstand and hope and pray you don't figure it out, for their financial benefit.

    That is fraud, and stopping fraud is a legitimate interest.