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  1. It's another thing to say that a handful of cities should bear the load for the entire nation. California, Oregon, and Washington have to pay for the bulk of the nation's failure to care for its people?

    If you're a Christian, you do it and don't argue.

  2. Amazing - so this is the attitude of the average citizen in God's own nation, where a higher percentage of people claim to believe in God and Christ and all that? "I want my quality of life and to hell with those worse off"?

    Seattle and San Francisco aren't in the Bible Belt, they're in liberal atheist territory.

  3. Re:2 years seems rather excessive on NASA Has No Plans To Buy More Soyuz Seats (spaceflightnow.com) · · Score: 1

    Most Soyuz flights are unmanned, it takes a lot longer to prepare for a manned mission, especially when you have Russia's unmatched safety record.

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

    You can't go to Mars until you solve the life support, it's a four year mission minimum with no easy resupply from Earth. To solve life support you need a space station.

  5. Re:Shenzhou is never discussed on NASA Has No Plans To Buy More Soyuz Seats (spaceflightnow.com) · · Score: 1

    How exactly has the US lost the innovation race?

  6. Re:Mass appeal on Why Is Science Fiction Snubbed By Literary Awards? (galacticbrain.com) · · Score: 1

    Literary awards aren't given out for mass appeal though.

  7. The business model is not the customer's problem. When I go to watch a film I don't want to see their balance sheet.

  8. Yeah, when a shootout starts, the first thing you want is some John Wayne wannabe shooting randomly into the dark.

  9. Why can't computers simulate a world right now?

  10. Re:Boeing is pathetic on Boeing CEO Vows To Beat Elon Musk To Mars (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would you expect a rocket company to design its own rockets, instead of getting them from a shopkeeper?

  11. Re:Musk is way ahead on Boeing CEO Vows To Beat Elon Musk To Mars (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    He doesn't just have the will, he has the talent, the production facilities, the engine, the launch pad, the plans for the vehicle, the materials, they've already made the first development fuel tank.

    Boeing have nothing. They're barely even supporting development of the Vulcan. They'll have nothing and do nothing until NASA decide they want to go to Mars and contract stuff out to Boeing, and that will only happen with Congressional support. It might never happen.

  12. Re:Space tourism a plague on Boeing CEO Vows To Beat Elon Musk To Mars (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Both SpaceX and Blue Origin's proposed vehicles use methane. Hydrogen is not considered viable for re-usable deep-space missions.

  13. Re:Sometimes being first isn't the best plan. on Boeing CEO Vows To Beat Elon Musk To Mars (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Rockets don't have a Moore's Law, and that's responsible for like 99% of tech progress in the last 50 years.

  14. Re: these new companies trying to get around old l on Tesla Sues Michigan Over Sales Ban (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Film companies don't have the right to run their own cinemas. Different industries have different regulations. What we really should be asking is, what benefit is it to Michigan to reduce the percentage of the cost of a car that stays in the state? You can't even cry about the free market because Tesla gets so many subsidies.

  15. Re:Law of Unintended Consequences on EU Finance Ministers Line Up Behind $21B Tax Ruling Against Apple (herald-dispatch.com) · · Score: 1

    If Apple are going to do that, give me a heads up so I can buy Samsung stock.

  16. The problem there being that Switzerland isn't in the EU, and only has a tenuous trade deal them.

  17. Re:Not really groundbraking on A Very Detailed Dissection of a Frame From DOOM (adriancourreges.com) · · Score: 1

    Doom has pretty high system requirements though, even though it doesn't look like anything special. If we're being honest, Carmack's technowizardry was only really relevant in the early 90s when people wanted to play FPS games on computers bought for DOS spreadsheets. The 3D accelerator made idtech largely obsolete, only remembered by inherited code in the likes of Source and Call of Duty. And they became obsolete as game developers the second Half-Life came out. Romero was right, it was about design not the engine.

  18. Just because you got away with it for a while doesn't mean you get away with it when the law catches up with you.

  19. As long as Ireland applies their rules and rates uniformly, are they 'assisting' anyone?

    Except they don't, they have a special tax break for Apple. Do you even RTFA before embarrassing yourself on the internet?

  20. Re:The EU needs money desperately on Apple Ordered To Pay Up To $14.5 Billion in EU Tax Crackdown, Cook Refutes EU's Conclusion (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    They can suspend them from the EU. This kills the Ireland.

  21. Re:It's about time... on Creators Call Out YouTube For Demonetizing Videos (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    The market at work.

    I don't think you can really say this when they have such a monopolistic market share they can unilaterally dictate terms.

  22. Define 'assistance for corporations'. As long as Ireland applies their rules and rates uniformly, are they 'assisting' anyone?

    They don't, Apple had their own special deal with the Irish government.

    Perhaps they want to live within their means and not hve piles of cash sitting around as a magnet for the continent's deadbeats.

    When Ireland joined the EU they were the deadbeat. They didn't live within their own means, they were given money by other EU countries, and used that to lower taxes to steal business from them.

    With ignorance like this, I'm guessing you're American?

  23. Re:The EU needs money desperately on Apple Ordered To Pay Up To $14.5 Billion in EU Tax Crackdown, Cook Refutes EU's Conclusion (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    They have authority over state aid, which includes tax breaks. Get with the program.

  24. Re:The EU needs money desperately on Apple Ordered To Pay Up To $14.5 Billion in EU Tax Crackdown, Cook Refutes EU's Conclusion (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    This is total bullshit. They can set whatever corporation tax they like, and it isn't a fine.

  25. I came to this thread because I knew it would be full of salty yanks throwing a tantrum because one of their precious company's has been slapped down. You haven't disappointed!