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  1. I used to use The Bat!, for years. It got tiresome, (I kinda forget why now, it's been so long, I even had the paid version) I've been using Thunderbird for the past 8 years or so, on both Windows and Linux, I have no complaints. Maddening, it's missing a few features by default like sort account/folder pane, but there's an extension for that, as well as one to toggle HTML on or off easily. If those ever become unavailable, I might shop around. Otherwise, I use it to retrieve mail both from my ISP (pop) and my domain (IMAP), I have about 14 different email accounts in all, it seems to do the job satisfactorily. It supports PGP and I think SMIME, though currently I'm not using them.

  2. Re:Improving the charge-ferrying redox mediators on New Type of 'Flow Battery' Can Store 10 Times the Energy of the Next Best Device (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Then reroute it through the deflector dish.

  3. Obligatory:

    “When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these?
    Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons!
    Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!”

  4. Re:Where I live there are no mail trucks on Amazon Reveals New Delivery Drone Design With Range of 15 Miles (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Fun, sure. Imagine the damage claims though. Especially if it delivered a fragile item through a picture window. :D

  5. Now it's a chicken /egg question.

  6. Re:The dark matter between their ears on Dark Matter Grows Hair Around Stars and Planets (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Question: From TFA:

    "Dark matter may make up 27% of the Universe's energy density, compared to just 5% of normal (atomic) matter, but in our Solar System, it's notoriously sparse. In particular, there's just a nanogram's worth per cubic kilometer."

    So then, if it's 27% vs 5%, normal matter occupies roughly only about 0.185 of a nanogram per cubic kilometer? That seems on the low side.

  7. Re:Isis - sex goddess on ISIS's Hunt For a Bogus Superweapon · · Score: 1
    Most trolls post anonymously, but I admire your style.
    However, I believe they call this, "psychological transference".. I quote:

    An insult to the ancient culture? Why's that? Are you uncomfortable talking about sex or does it bother you?

    You projected an imagined issue onto me, that of "being uncomfortable with sex". You completely misread the meaning of my post when there was no cause to.
    You provided not a shred of any kind of evidence whatsoever. That you even claim to is ludicrous. You're just looking for an argument, i.e. trolling.
    Now bugger off, there will be further communication, you're not worth my time.

  8. Re:I have an idea on Turkey Downs Allegedly Intruding Russian Fighter Near Syria Border (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The reason why they are even around is because we are involved.

    Strangely enough, when you kill someone family members, they hate you every single time. I guess you should stamp out that hate with more death and hate...

    We enabled them, sadly, yes; created them, no. Their twisted ideology and version of Islam did that. The US, unlike Russia, does try to limit civilian casualties. It sometimes fails, and that can and will drive more people to groups perhaps like ISIS, but the big picture is, they only needed a catalyst. And it doesn't begin to explain in the slightest why ISIS has killed so many other muslims as well as Yazidis , who had nothing to do with the US.

  9. Re:This is why ISIS wins on Turkey Downs Allegedly Intruding Russian Fighter Near Syria Border (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, I'm not so sure about Turkey, actually. But yeah, no group in modern history has generated so much hate and provoked so many nations to make war against them. China is pissed off too now, reportedly, after ISIS killed a Chinese hostage, and the UN Security Council has unanimously voted to stop ISIS. I'm trying to remember the last time they did anything major unanimously. Hell, even Anonymous has declared war on them. They don't even get along that well with other terrorists! (AQ)
    The entire world hates them and wants them stamped out, but everyone is tripping over everyone else.

  10. Re:Isis - sex goddess on ISIS's Hunt For a Bogus Superweapon · · Score: 1

    Makers, what?? I'm saying the terror group, in using the name ISIS, is an insult to ancient Egyptian culture, namely ISIS herself; but also by extension I suppose Osiris, Horus, Ra, and hell, even Set.
    ISIS (aka Daesh/ISIL) are an abomination that soils the name, and ironcially devalues and detests ancient cultures, as the destruction of Palmyra has recently shown.
    That's an interesting conclusion you jumped to there, you seemed awfully primed to argue with someone. Or you have sex on the brain a lot.

  11. Re:Isis - sex goddess on ISIS's Hunt For a Bogus Superweapon · · Score: 1

    That's an insult to the culture of ancient Egypt.

  12. Re:In thermometers on ISIS's Hunt For a Bogus Superweapon · · Score: 1

    Well now, this explains a lot. Did you try lead based paint chips? Some of those were tasty.

  13. Re:Common pattern on Police Find Paris Attackers Coordinate Via Unencrypted SMS (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    So the Euro thing is the sole reason for the invasion of Iraq, is what you're saying?
    Well, how well was the "containment" and no-fly zone thing in the '90s really working? There was the UN sanctions scandal, not to mention that the sanctions themselves led to an incredible amount of anti-US hostility and backlash, claiming the US blocked food and medicine from Iraqis, but which was Saddam's doing, as he was busy building those lush palaces. It was during the '90s that Al Qeada became fully formed (technically it began in 1988), Osama Bin Laden was enraged that Americans were on Saudi soil -the land of Mecca- and his Muhjadeen had been rejected by the King to fight off Iraq. OBL was then exiled from SA and vowed revenge; the rest is modern islamo-terrorist history.
    We might've been better off going into Iraq in the first place and getting the hell out of Saudi Arabia. Both choices are lose/lose though.

  14. Re:Talk about drawing a fine line... on AMD Launches Radeon R9 380X, Fastest GPU Under $250 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    This. I will never use Radeon again, I've had very few issues if any with nvidia. And that's on Windows, even.

  15. Re:Common pattern on Police Find Paris Attackers Coordinate Via Unencrypted SMS (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, he also invaded Kuwait, with designs on Saudi Arabia, but interestingly, no one mentions that anymore. He wanted a stranglehold on ME oil production.

  16. Both he and Degrasse Tyson are getting a bit arrogant and smug. It doesn't befit those representative of science very well.

  17. Re: resemblance on DoJ Going After Makers of Dietary Supplement (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know about hungry, but I noticed a few years ago when I'd use it, I wouldn't get tuckered out while lifting. I wasn't getting winded. It really boosted stamina. Just 1 minute of rest between sets and I was ready to go again. Eventually though, that effect seemed to taper off, and I stopped with all that stuff. Well, partly because I haven't had my lazy ass in a gym for 3 years.

  18. Re:This is really wierd on After Paris, ISIS Moves Propaganda Machine To Darknet (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a lie, to be blunt. It's news everyday. But it's also in their own backyard. Paris is not.

  19. Re:Democrats asked for this loophole first on Senators Attempting To Remove Robocall Loophole · · Score: 1

    He is, but that's not new; no different from democrats who ignored when Bush had a democratic majority congress to work with/against and blamed him solely for so much. It goes both ways.

  20. Re:Proof this is justified on MI5 'Secretly Collected Phone Data' For Decade (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Quite the contrary, those kinds of operations take planning, dry runs, procurement of supplies, training ,etc..

  21. Re: Still got mine. on When Slide Rules Were Like Cellphones (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    2001 was like yesterday, you're still a kid. Oh, and stay off my lawn, too.

  22. Re:Anecdotal evidence on TSA Screeners Can't Detect Weapons (and They Never Could) (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    And also ... their really aren't that many nut jobs out there that are truly willing to kill themselves. I'd bet you a good chunk of change that only the pilots during 9/11 even knew it was a suicide mission if we really knew what was going on.

    But sadly, there are; the religious fanaticism is so strong among many islamic based terrorists that they have done this already many, many, times, in the mideast and abroad. And IIRC, the documentaries on 9-11, some of the hijackers didn't know it was a suicide mission until late in the game, but I think they all knew before boarding the planes.

  23. Re:Footage showing the police in the right. on App To Hold Police Instantly Accountable In Stop and Search (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    That's why a number of wearers probably won't record the part where they were acting like an ass or doing something illegal and giving the cop lip, resisting arrest, etc.. they'll only starting recording when the the cop reacts making it appear unprovoked. Context is important.
    Still, so long as the cameras record *everything* that happens and provides fair context including what led up to an encounter, I think they're a good idea, on both sides, for citizens and cops. Cameras don't lie or have bias.

  24. Re:Play nice! on Leading Theory of Solar System's Formation Just Disproven (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    The five senses we humans possess are those which allowed us to adapt to our environment and live in it; there is no reason for me to believe they are sufficient to explain our universe.

    Very eloquently said.

  25. Re:"Apart" or "a part" on Anonymous Says US Senators Were 'Incorrectly Outed' As KKK Members · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I'd caught that too. Innocent typo or clever word play, hard to tell.