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  1. Carrie Fisher was not in Rogue One on Actors Are Digitally Preserving Themselves To Continue Their Careers Beyond the Grave (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    They used a different actress who looked like the young Leia.

  2. Re:the planet doesn't "care"... on IPCC Climate Change Report Calls For Urgent Action To Phase Out Fossil Fuels (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Umm, the only way to reduce my carbon emissions to zero is to stop living.

  3. It isn't the republicans showing outrage that one of their bosses supported a friend.

  4. Re: More accurately - A **few** FB employees outra on Facebook Employees Outraged Over Exec's Appearance at Kavanaugh Hearing (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 2

    Open hared of women, now you are just projecting onto him. Open hatred or at least disdain for the Senators trying to nitpick him into some kind of fault. Breaking down the slang of teen age boys and so on?

    Anyone defending himself against such a witch hunt over baseless unfounded and refuted accusations would get testy. Stating otherwise is just trying to create cause to reject him.

  5. Re:That's Crazy on New Yorkers Sue Trump and FEMA To Stop Presidential Alert (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The fact that you have to add flavor shows the problem with your view. Stake should be vaguely familiar with the location of the grill but otherwise still mooing. The pinker the interior the richer the flavor. And zero need for A-1 or any steak sauce. Why would you mask the rich flavor of a great steak with vinegar and other spices?

  6. That might induce bruising and swelling that would cause the facial ID to fail.

  7. Re: He's not evil, he just doesn't give a shit on Trump Administration Prepares a Major Weakening of Mercury Emissions Rules (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    The fact that Bernie endorsed her during the general election means nothing, Cruz, and most the GOP candidates endorse trump even after he'd been insulting them during the primaries.

    The fact is that Hillary should be facing time in federal prison for multiple counts of at a minimum negligent mishandling of classified information, if not the more serious intentional mishandling of classified information. She has a trail of lies and corruption going clear back to being fired from the Watergate investigation for lying.

    Again, Trump was no angel, not by any means, But he was miles ahead of his opponent. The Dems rigged their own primary to choose the one candidate unable to beat someone as unlikeable as Trump.

    But since then, the economy is rocking, unemployment is low (record lows for minorities) Both mostly due to all the regulations that his administration has cut. We now have a renegotiated trade agreement with Canada and Mexico, NK is still at the bargaining table. The Embassy in Israel is where it belongs decades after congress passed a bill ordering it to be moved to Jerusalem. We have Justice Gorsuch and soon will have Kavanaugh on the court as well. (No corroborating evidence or witnesses).

    The list of winning just gets longer and longer

  8. Re: He's not evil, he just doesn't give a shit on Trump Administration Prepares a Major Weakening of Mercury Emissions Rules (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    Nobody is claiming he is an angel. But he is not part of the political establishment. His opponent was queen of that corrupt establishment even going so far as to rig her party's primaries to ensure she be ordained the next great leader. Oh but we said Nope to her. He wasn't a great choice, but he was far better than the alternative option (the one that actually had a chance at winning.

  9. Re:Ridiculous on California Has a New Law: No More All-Male Boards (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    And most incorporate in or quickly move their incorporation to Delaware due to favorable laws.

    for example, Walmart just formally changed the name of their corporation, eliminating the hyphenated version Wal-Mart for Walmart. This was filed in Delaware even though they were founded and are still headquartered in Arkansas.

  10. That would be Pittsburgh! 6 Super bowls. Conference championships aren't titles.

  11. Re:Facts Considered Harmful on Facebook Will Start Fact-Checking Pictures, Videos (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Your definition of neutral needs work. Politifact, factcheck and snopes are definitely not neutral. All three lean heavily to the left. The AP may actually be somewhat middle of the road but as the AP mostly leans left I doubt it. So if the Weekly Standard is right leaning, then at best it's L3 N1 and R1 but more likely L4 vs R1

  12. Re: Considering we still do slavery on Python Joins Movement To Dump 'Offensive' Master, Slave Terms (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    You have no idea what a gulag is if you think the US prison system and the justice system is in any way comparable to the Soviet Gulag.

    We have a criminal justice system, with many protections for the accused. Do mistakes still happen on rare occasion, yes, that comes from having humans involved, we make mistakes. But the vast majority of those incarcerated are there for one reason alone. They committed a crime and were caught and this is their just punishment.

    As the saying goes, don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

    The soviet gulags were used to punish dissidents and political opponents, the housing conditions were harsh at best (unheated quarters in Siberia). Death was often the only escape. Our prisons are lavish 5 star hotels by comparison, with free education opportunities for bettering ones self. Dissidents and political opponents don't disappear into our prison for decades or forever. You have to be found guilty of an actual crime.

    Yes the system could be better, but it is no gulag.

  13. Re:Why have nocotine at all? on FDA Chief Considers Ban of All Flavored E-Cigarettes (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine
    it's well documented that Nicotine is the primary addictive ingredient in tobacco. But it's health risks are minimal. If you can get the nicotine without the tobacco it's far better for your body.

  14. Re:Why have nocotine at all? on FDA Chief Considers Ban of All Flavored E-Cigarettes (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    The intention is to satisfy the Nicotine craving while eliminating the harmful toxins and poisons of the Tobacco. Nicotine is addictive, but other than that and being a mild stimulant like caffeine it isn't harmful.

    It gives the most commonly claimed benefit of cigs, the stimulation of the Nicotine) without the poisons. Of course it makes sense to include nicotine.

  15. And this is Bing doing it on the first response. Interfering with the installer is a problem but the initial banner is just the Bing results exactly like Google does with Chrome.

  16. If you reduce the Carbon content to pre-industrial levels, future warming and current warming will be rolled back. If you are talking about carbon release rates that's another story, but if you remove the insulation the heat will rapidly dissipate. Remember also that in the 70's the indicators were for the start of the next ice age, which we are past due for anyway. Historical temperature charts show that Ice ages follow rapidly after a heating spike. Not tens of thousands of years later. In 1816 the eruption of Krakatoa created the Year without a Summer, a single volcanic event cooled that very early if not pre-industrial earth so much that crops dies and it never got truly warm in the northern hemisphere. That could have cascaded into the start of the next ice-age. What if our carbon output has already delayed the onset of such cooling?

  17. So you want the next Ice age to begin? Why must it be pre-industrial levels. Why not 1950's levels?

  18. Re:Yes, they should on White House Says Anonymous 'Coward' Behind New York Times Op-Ed Should Resign (freerepublic.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Those "hired by Trump" are most often just those who had the position in the last administration as well. For the most part only the top most Cabinet secretaries and those just under that level are replaced (example Deputy Rosenstein in the Justice Dept.). Many senior officials just under that level are basically given a quick interview and as long as they don't state they refuse to work for the new President, they are hired for the same job they had under the prior administration.

    So yes this is still Deep State. At least until the coward identifies their self so we can see what position they actually hold and when they actually started working in their position.

  19. Re:Yes, they should on White House Says Anonymous 'Coward' Behind New York Times Op-Ed Should Resign (freerepublic.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Easier, just close the early primaries. The first half dozen or so Primaries set the race. To get the nomination you have to get the early momentum.

    In the early elections Trump won the early primaries in Open primary states and Lost big time in closed Republican only primaries.

    As a primary election is for the members of a party to choose the candidate they want to represent him it makes no sense at all to ever have an open primary. It should be those registered as members of that primary, and those willing to register (even on election day) as part of the party, but it should not be open to the general voting populace.

    Voter tallies in early states indicate that many Democrats crossed party lines to vote for Trump in the open primaries. The opposing party voted for the worst candidate in large numbers in those open primaries.

    That gave Trump the crucial early wins that gave him the momentum towards nomination. By the time most primaries remaining were in closed primary states it was a three man race between Trump, Cruz (who was hated even more by the establishment GOP) and Idiot boy Kasich (who never stood a chance but stayed in to deny Cruz votes that could have swung the nomination to him or at least to a contested convention at which he likely would have won the nomination).

    We don't need to redo the voting system so drastically, just close the primaries to registered members of the parties. The left managed to swing the GOP nomination to the worst of the candidates, but their own was still so bad he beat her easily. I certainly didn't vote for him in the Primaries, but in the general election, he was the far better option and I had no qualms about voting for him.

  20. Re:Yes, they should on White House Says Anonymous 'Coward' Behind New York Times Op-Ed Should Resign (freerepublic.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not in 30 of the 51 separate elections. A nationwide popular vote total is irrelevant, we don't vote as a single body nationwide but in 50 states and the DC we vote in 51 separate elections and in 30 of those states he won, giving him the electoral votes for a rather substantial victory.

  21. Re:Try that in NJ... on Locals Reportedly Are Frustrated With Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure the google engineers can come up with a servo operated arm to "flip the Bird". In most of the country it will activate only occasionally and totally at random. In NYC it will be on a continuous up down cycle as long as the car is in operation.

    The horn is just a switch much easier to automate.

  22. Re:What if the feds say no? on California Moves To Require 100% Clean Electricity by 2045 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    No it's not just out of your refund. If you owe taxes, and got hit with the ACA fine, then you owed more taxes. The only way to avoid it was to be so poor as to qualify for tax credits, or have employer based insurance.

  23. Re: Another judge legislating from the bench on Federal Judge Rules Against Trump Administration on 3-D Gun Blueprint Case (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Also those were internment camps not concentration camps or labor camps. They were wrong. but we did not pack them into barracks structures like sardines, intentionally overworking and starving them at the same time, trying to kill them off.

    What happened was wrong, but they were interred but kept together as families in family housing units.

    They were considered a security risk, and were moved from the coasts, often losing all their property and possessions in the process, but they were not in concentration camps designed to kill them off one way or the other.

  24. Re:Another judge legislating from the bench on Federal Judge Rules Against Trump Administration on 3-D Gun Blueprint Case (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The same way the original Liberator pistols were intended to fight tyranny. From the dark, from back ally's. The idea is a widely distributed firearm, that can be used without warning, from any direction at any time against the forces of the tyrant.

    the original liberator was intended to be shipped in mass quantities to the Ghetto's of Poland to allow the Jews and other undesirables to have a last defense. To be able to shoot at German forces from every direction and then be quickly disassembled to be hidden or just discarded. Unfortunately we ran out of time and couldn't get the original into Poland in significant numbers in time.

    And such a weapon can still kill the jack booted thug caught alone, allowing his more effective weapons to be taken. But even more it's the concept. The idea that gun control is dead if anyone can print all the guns they want in the privacy of their own homes. And you can't just stop 3d Printing either. There is at least one 3D printer that can print all it's own components except basic wiring, simple motors and a raspberry pi for the controller. In short you can print your own printers, and use them to print guns. And 3D printing is getting better, materials are getting better, and the firearm designs that can be printed are getting better.

    As to the Tanks and Jets. Guess who has to man those. US citizens in the service, who even if they did support tyranny would find a very big difference between operations here and operations overseas. Their families. Overseas their families are safe back here in the US, thousands of miles and an ocean keeping them safe from reprisals. Here in the US, their families are among the people they would be fighting and might very well be fighting along side those fighting tyranny. And that also assumes the armed forces don't act in opposition against any attempt at tyranny. When we swear the oath of service, it's to the Constitution, not the President or Congress or any political party or movement.

  25. Re: Another judge legislating from the bench on Federal Judge Rules Against Trump Administration on 3-D Gun Blueprint Case (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    What brand is that? Trading insults with the media is tyranny? He hasn't arrested any of the media or other dissenters. Nobody is being hauled off to labor or re-education camps in the middle of the night. The only groups engaged in organized rioting are the leftist Anti-fa.

    You don't just get to claim tyranny without documenting it. What has he done that's tyrannical? Cut taxes? Oh the horror! Brought NK to the negotiating table? How evil. Acted to protect our borders against illegal immigration and other external threats? Terrifying. Cut the regulatory burdens on business and industry? That's not very nice.

    Oh that's right he's badmouthed the press, blocked CNN's asshole reporter from a few press briefings (while allowing plenty of other media to ensure it's still well covered. And he's insulted anyone who insults him because he is rather childish in that way. But that's still not tyranny.

    You might be able to make an argument about the families at the borders and the kids in cages, except that policy has been enforced with that practice of separating the kids from the families in each of the last three Administrations, So if that counts, then Bush II and Obama were also Tyrants.

    Trump has not tried and does not have the ability under our system of government to grab supreme authority, And to counter any claim of tyranny is the fact that so many of his actions have been halted at least temporarily by the courts, but on further legal review have been allowed to go forward.

    So again, where is his tyranny?