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  1. Re: Good on NASA Has No Plans To Buy More Soyuz Seats (spaceflightnow.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The United States has NEVER fought an enemy without air superiority. The only enemy that came close was Japan and only until the US started sinking their carriers in the Coral Sea. Germany had already lost the battle of Britain by the time the US came on the scene and the Luftwaffe was decimated and never recovered - especially after having to also deal with the Russian front after Barbarossa. While the US has more aircraft than Russia, the US also has a lot of front and a lot more bases to defend - from Japan to Lithuania. Plus American aircraft are extremely high tech, delicate creatures. Russian aircraft are built to be rugged and most of them can land on grass strips and other rough surfaces. Any American who over-estimates the potential of his armed forces against an enemy such as Russia and China (they have a mutual defense pact by the way so an aggressive America would not be fighting only one enemy) is in for a nasty, nasty shock.

  2. Re: Revoke their Linux Licenses on Billionaire Tech Investors Support Divisive Plan To Ban San Francisco's Homeless Camps (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    Funny you use that "second rate free software" every single day without even realizing it.

  3. Said study was conducted by millenials. Two of them got together and talked about this one morning while playing games on their phones and reached the conclusion. Then a baby boomer was hired with a loan from dad to write it up.

  4. Newsflash - vegans get sick and die too. Fuck off.

  5. Focus only on the positive on Pokemon Go Could Add 2.83 Million Years To Users' Lives, Says Study (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    How about a study on how many people have died because of Pokemon? You have to take the good with the bad. Those "extra years" come at a price.

  6. Why would anyone want to buy cancer? 4chan is so 2005...

  7. Re:Define "free" on O'Reilly Gives Away Free Programming Ebooks (oreilly.com) · · Score: 1

    It takes less than 5 minutes to set up a disposable email account...

  8. Re:I'm speechless. on Prominent Pro-Patent Judge Issues Opinion Declaring All Software Patents Bad (techdirt.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's a sort of non verbal communication.

  9. Re:The problem is the battery itself on Replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Phone Catches Fire on Southwest Plane (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "But we fired the whole QA department last year and saved a bunch of money. You were happy at the time, boss... remember?"

  10. Re:one foundation but not the other on Guccifer 2.0 Dumps a Bunch of Clinton Foundation Donor Data (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Pretty sure the IRS is PERFECTLY capable of catching and dealing with people caught cheating with their taxes. This is a non issue.

  11. Re:Lost emails on Guccifer 2.0 Dumps a Bunch of Clinton Foundation Donor Data (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    But if you put too much they all turn yellow.

  12. Re:You harm puppies? on iPhone 7 Finishes Last In New Test of Battery Life (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I chose that sig when PC was just starting to be a thing. It becomes more and more offensive over time without even changing at all. There's something metaphysical about it, so I'm keeping it. Anyway here's video proof of my puppy harming.

  13. Re:How many have to die before Samsung fixes this? on iPhone 7 Finishes Last In New Test of Battery Life (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    these deaths are in no way related to the Note 7

    THAT WE KNOW OF, Overzeetop, that we know of...... /tinfoilhat

  14. At least it won't explode and kill you right? on iPhone 7 Finishes Last In New Test of Battery Life (betanews.com) · · Score: 0

    I'm guessing the Samsung Note 7 wasn't tested...?

  15. In other words on No One's Bidding on The Shadow Brokers' Stolen NSA Hacking Tools (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    FBI upset that no one is going for the honey-pot.

  16. Re:A poor craftsman blames his tools. on Are Flawed Languages Creating Bad Software? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    On the other hand, the tools don't make the craftsman. You give sophisticated tools to an idiot and you will still get something idiotic - although sophisticatedly idiotic.

  17. Re:Legal maneuvers are ... legal! on Online Journalists Launch An Onslaught Against Donald Trump (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    No you're right, it doesn't say that. I guess the actual tax rate just hovers around 20% of GDP through MAGIC.

  18. Re:Legal maneuvers are ... legal! on Online Journalists Launch An Onslaught Against Donald Trump (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    What makes you think it didn't?

  19. Re:Legal maneuvers are ... legal! on Online Journalists Launch An Onslaught Against Donald Trump (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    If you don't like the loopholes, change the laws

    That doesn't work. Rich people are mobile, and so is their money. Change the laws enough and they all leave your country and take most of the wealth with them. What you have to do is realize that the more you squeeze, the less you get. The higher taxes go, the more people find loopholes or out and out cheat. So stop turning people into criminals or scaring them out of your country and deal with the other end - the end that creates 2 BILLION dollar websites and fails to account for trillions (6.5 trillion - give or take a few hundred billion) without even a shrug let alone a scandal.

    Yeah who am I kidding. As if taxation would even begin to cover the budget deficit in the first place.

  20. Re:Systemd was SUCH A GREAT IDEA on Multiple Linux Distributions Affected By Crippling Bug In Systemd (agwa.name) · · Score: 1

    There are no non political struggles when humans are concerned. You should have learned this in kindergarten.

  21. Epinephrine is not a "brand name drug". It's a hormone. Humans produce it. Animals produce it. It's been used medically for scores of years. It's as much of a "brand name" as insulin. Epi-Pen is the INJECTOR, not the drug itself. Now if you're going to tell me that no one else should be allowed to produce an auto-injector - ANY auto injector, because someone has a patent on one DESIGN, then America deserves this. Insulin syringe, 1:1000 epinephrine ampule 1cc, inject .5 cc subcutaneous or im and voila, the $4 "Epi-Pen".

  22. That would make YOU the grime.

  23. You've never heard of isopropol alcohol?

    No, and neither have you. Isopropyl alcohol on the other hand...

  24. Re:Everything Trump does is bad on Trump Takes On 'Crooked Hillary' With Snapchat Geofilter (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Obama is not a sexless god, he's a eunuch.

  25. People eat the center filling of the Oreo but then you're left with all that useless cookie no one wants. Give us less cookie, save money, and pass the savings on to us.