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  1. Re:Coal IS a renewable fuel on China To Plow $361 Billion Into Renewable Fuel By 2020 (indiatimes.com) · · Score: 1

    OTOH, if you like your fungi, you can keep your fungi.

  2. Re: Former AMD User on The Loyalty To AMD's GPU Product Among AMD CPU Buyers Is Decreasing (parsec.tv) · · Score: 1

    Those were my thoughts. I've had much better luck with nvidia than AMD/ATI, from both a hardware and software perspective.
    (YMMV)

  3. Just because some don't doesn't mean you can't.

  4. Re:heck of a choice on Donald Trump To Tech Leaders: 'No Formal Chain Of Command' Here (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, Obama certainly took credit for "ending the war". Maybe he should've tried a little harder to convince the Iraqis that more work was needed, but I doubt he gave it his all, since his attitude at the time seemed to be "job well done", as he trivialized the emerging ISIS as a "JV team".

  5. Re:What's the rush? on India Just Flew Past Us In the Race To E-Cash (backchannel.com) · · Score: 2

    Some people conflate moving "forward" a form of progress, even if it's a mistake or rushing to the edge of a cliff. It just sounds too good I guess.

  6. Re:You may not "quit working" on If You Get Rich, You Won't Quit Working For Long (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd have it made it if I hit the lotto. I'd get a bigger house, and have a recording studio built in or near it; then fill said studio with gear, so I could pursue the music I've been doing for most of my adult life, composing and recording songs (instrumental mostly).
    Purpose would not be an issue, boredom would not be an issue. I have add'l hobbies anyway that would provide me with a break from music when I needed it: Astronomy, photography, art, and a tour of Europe. Man that sounds good.

  7. Re: Not gonna happen on 'Star In a Jar' Fusion Reactor Works, Promises Infinite Energy (space.com) · · Score: 1

    They're starting to take it seriously, getting their toes wet, at least.
    https://www.bloomberg.com/news...

  8. Re:We knew this going in on Weather Channel To Breitbart: Stop Citing Us To Spread Climate Skepticism (weather.com) · · Score: 1

    None of those are "supremacists". I'm not crazy about Bannon, but I don't see any valid evidence he's quite as bad as the accusations being leveled against him. The whole anti-semite thing was debunked. You must be a liberal. I'm a moderate conservative, but I'm afraid I don't see "conservative" as an insult the way you do.

  9. Re:False alarm. on First Dinosaur Tail Found Preserved in Amber (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 2

    'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible!!
    THIS IS AN EX - PARROT!

  10. Re:We knew this going in on Weather Channel To Breitbart: Stop Citing Us To Spread Climate Skepticism (weather.com) · · Score: 1

    No, facts are facts. One can justifiably level many arguments against the Orange One but he is not filling his cabinet up with Goldman-Sachs exec, lobbyists, or white nationalists. If anyone gets way too literal, it's people on the left who hang on every tweet he makes.

  11. Re:We knew this going in on Weather Channel To Breitbart: Stop Citing Us To Spread Climate Skepticism (weather.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, getting rid of political corruption. Draining the swamp. I'm glad to see Trump is making great strides there, appointing Goldman Sachs alum left and right.

    Left and right?? Other than Steven Mnuchin, for the Dept of theTreasury (and obviously the guy knows finance) who else in the cabinet is a Goldman Sachs executive/alumni?
    Here's the list so far. None of these other than Mnuchin were affiliated with GS as far as I can tell. You can bet Hillary would've had more.

    • Department of Defense: James N. "Mad Dog" Mattis
    • Department of Treasury: Steven Mnuchin
    • Department of Transportation: Elaine L. Chao
    • Department of Health and Human Services: Tom Price
    • Department of Commerce: Wilbur Ross
    • Department of Education: Betsy DeVos
    • United Nations Ambassador: Nikki Haley
    • Department of Housing and Urban Development: Dr. Ben Carson
    • Central Intelligence Agency: Mike Pompeo
    • Attorney General: Jeff Sessions
    • National Security Adviser: Michael T. Flynn
    • Chief of Staff: Reince Priebus
    • Chief Strategist: Stephen K. Bannon
  12. Your argument here is the same old tripe: "bu-bu-but Fox news".. just stop already, that's a canned response. They're a necessary counterbalance to the left wing shilling of CNN, MSNBC, and the rest. And for the record, Fox doesn't deny climate change. They don't particularly champion it, but they don't officially deny it either.

  13. Add'ly, Google can't take too much pride just as yet until they've saved the amount of energy in fossil fuel consumption it took to manufacture all the renewable energy equipment they bought. Manufacture of solar cells, batteries, wind turbines, wiring.. those items are still being manufactured in factories using fossil fuels, so until the factories are themselves powered 100% by renewable, it's not a total conversion from fossil fuels. That's gonna take many years more.

  14. I'll verify it for you, hack moron. I said "Federal".
    https://www.aei.org/publicatio...

  15. So verify it, you foul mouthed AC.

  16. Same here. I'm also glad that SpaceX and even Blue Origin are getting in on the act, since NASA seems to be in a less capable mode right now (especially with the Shuttles decommissioned). Imagine being stranded up there to starve, freeze, or suffocate, or some combination thereof.

  17. Neither did Obama, unless he created 200,000 federal jobs.. which come to think of it, maybe he did..

  18. Re:Finally, the gloves will come off! on Twitters Says It Will Ban Trump If He Breaks Hate-Speech Rules (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a shame that so few people understand this these days. For far too many people in the US, that's exactly how they define hate. I'd even go so far as to say for a smaller subset it's whatever disagrees with their own political orientation, no matter how polite or well intentioned.

  19. Both

  20. Re:Defamation law still applies on It Will Soon Be Illegal To Punish Customers Who Criticize Businesses Online (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Agreed, balance is good. A company could still suffer losses due to some clueless dolt with a chip on his shoulder, or maybe more likely, an astro-turfer for a competitor, trying to damage the company's standing to improve it's own, relatively.
    Likewise, the consumer always needs protection from any company with an army of lawyers.

  21. Obviously his tweets are random musings that in no equate to policy or introduction of a bill, he often thinks hypotheticals outloud: "perhaps" this or that.
    You think Hillary would've been any better? She actually sponsored an anti-flag burning bill in 2005 that proposes a jail term twice as harsh. You wake up.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  22. Or, you know, libel is actually libel. If what is reported can be verified, then there's no issue of libel. Or is all the "fake news" that Facebook is concerned about imaginary now too?
    And please cite where he'd "revoke citizenship" of a protestor. Perhaps you mean an ISIS defector?

  23. Re:Time to become a heap of neutrinos... on The UK Is About to Legalize Mass Surveillance [Update] (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    That's why they develop Heisenberg compensators in the 23rd century. ;)

  24. And there you have it, the contradiction: this isn't just big business and conservatives pushing this. The Left espouses globalization and multiculturalism; it also supposedly supports the unions and American worker's rights. The two are currently incompatible. How are the unions - essentially democrat- okay with American workers' standard of living being challenged and lowered by the influx of H1Bs and illegal aliens willing to work for 40% of a native worker's pay? Because if you challenge these programs, you get called racist and xenophobic.

  25. Many democrats did this exact thing in 2001, Bush/Gore. They actually pushed for a retroactive change, (AKA cheating). If it weren't for the electoral college, most major cities would decide the election for the entirety of the country every single time, and full representation would be a thing of the past.
    If a two party system isn't bad enough, that'd usher in a permanent one party country (Dem) with a monolithic, centralized, all powerful federal government: USA: Urban Socialists (of the) Americas.