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  1. FAA, Netherlands and South Africa on Drone-Shooting is Now a Federal Crime, FAA Confirms (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile, police in the Netherlands are actually training eagles to attack drones. And last week in South Africa, a drone crashed through the window of an office building and hit an unarmed office worker on the head.

    I suppose FAA has no authority in Netherlands, nor in South Africa. So, how relevant is this to the subject?

  2. Re:we're all scientists on Sarah Palin Says 'Bill Nye Is As Much A Scientist As I Am' (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Fucking lame argument. It is not an ad hominem attack when you cite the track record of a scientist in a particular field he is just trying to make accessible to the layman. He is an expert in the field. Bill Nye isn't an expert at all in climatology, this is so obvious. I don't see why you argue about it. To make his point, he has to refer to someone else, the actual expert, but himself he is just a communicator. He is not authoritative he the field he is talking about.

  3. On another hand, if this hypothesis worth enough and there is any doubt about it, the scientific community would free some observation time on the existing radiotelescopes to find out. So, being not the case, I conclude either the scientific community believes it doesn't worth to verify because the strength of the signal can be computed for the two comets, the hypothesis can then be checked numerically and an observation will not add any thing new, either it believes this hypothesis is very unlikely and not a valid explanation. In both case, I will pass my turn and not fund this. I already fund the other radiotelescopes from my taxes.

  4. You are probably right, no need for a radiotelescope to find out.

  5. Re:what's the explaination? on Alien 'Wow!' Signal Could Be Explained After Almost 40 Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep, very same as the 'Who killed JFK?' case.

  6. Re:I dunno about you... on Dyson Airblades 'Spread Germs 1,300 Times More Than Paper Towels' (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Washing your hands doesn't remove all the bacteria and viruses. Unless you dip your hand in an alcohol based lotion that kills germs, then you spread dead germs with the Dyson hand dryer. Most industrial soap lotions found in public WC do not kill germs. They help to dissolve dirt on your hands in water, at most.

  7. The problem with your comparisons is lead in gasoline WAS a problem, that's why legislation forbidded its use as an additive.

  8. Where do you live in Canada to see those huge changes? Can you provide a list of these changes and the link with global climate change with a confidance level over 95%? I am living in Canada too and I don't see huge changes, not changes I can attribute to something else than normal wheather variations.

  9. Why do you think a skilled worker cannot come from India and cannot write proper code?

  10. I would gladly immigrate in USA if that was a little bit easier. I already have family in USA and I am a skilled worker. I do not want an H1B visa at all. I will never consider a H1B visa.

  11. Pretty much silly prediction. You seem to think USA is a dictatorship. Don't you know there is a Congress? The POTUS cannot do anything.

  12. Re:Cheaper Maybe on How George W. Bush and NASA Saved SpaceX From Financial Ruin (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    So true.

  13. Re:Valid Action on Amazon Customers Sign Letter To Jeff Bezos To Dump Donald Trump (thestreet.com) · · Score: 1
    Very lame argument. Amazon is not obligated to carry Trump products, you are facing the reverse. Someone trying to prevent Amazon to carry Trump products. You are way in the field with your argument.

    Yes, they are trying to stop me and everybody from buying Trump stuff by making it less widely distributed. It doesn't take a Ph.D. in rocket science to imagine the next step will be to petition the next larger distributor of Trump products until none will distribute Trump products. The idea is actually to prevent people from buying Trump products. Don't be naive.

  14. Re:What the fuck? on Amazon Customers Sign Letter To Jeff Bezos To Dump Donald Trump (thestreet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful
    First of all, in all cases about Mexicans and South Americans, Trump has talked about illegal immigrants. Don't miss the illegal before the immigrants. Every country is actually expulsing illegal immigrants, even the Obama administration is doing it. Since nothing has actually worked to control illegal immigration, Trump is proposing something else and engaged Mexico's responsability in that.

    Second, the ban on Muslims is a temporary measure and what actual right should someone have to actually immigrate in USA? Once you are an American citizen you are protected by the USA Constitution, but until you are, what the fuck?

    Third, what's the point of protesters to invest Trump's rallies and try to prevent him to address his supporters? This is a bullying attitude in very first place from the protesters. I would like to see Bernie and Hillary being treat the same way just to see their very reaction and the reaction of their own supporters for fun.

  15. Re:What the fuck? on Amazon Customers Sign Letter To Jeff Bezos To Dump Donald Trump (thestreet.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't you see the irony in your own comment?

  16. Re:There has only been one country.... on G-7 Leaders At Hiroshima To Urge More Visits to Nuclear Bombsites (voanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Reference required.

  17. Re:Where are the "peace protests" over Bataan? on G-7 Leaders At Hiroshima To Urge More Visits to Nuclear Bombsites (voanews.com) · · Score: 2

    We are STILL handing out WWII Purple Hearts to this day because we ended up not having to invade. If the Japs didn't want to get nuked, perhaps they shouldn't have started a war of aggression.

    Needless to say they had plenty of opportunities to surrender before Hiroshima, after Hiroshima and before Nagasaki and they didn't. The Japanese minister of war was running a total war against the Americans until the Japanese Emperor discovered his motivations and decided and order to surrender after Nagasaki. The Japanese were actually warned about Hiroshima or rather than a blast out of proportion with anything previously seen and asked to surrender. They simply ignored the notice.

  18. Re:There has only been one country.... on G-7 Leaders At Hiroshima To Urge More Visits to Nuclear Bombsites (voanews.com) · · Score: 2

    You are pathetic. The Soviet army helped to end the war in Europe and did nothing for the war in Asia. Which is why there was Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan did have plenty of opportunity to surrender before Hiroshima and even Nagasaki, but never did. The Japanese ministery of war was running a total war until the Emperor discovered it and decided given Hiroshima and Nagasaki to surrender.

  19. Re:Environmental Poisoning By Corrupt Corporations on Risks To Human Health Will Accelerate As Climate Changes, White House Warns (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The real problem: too many people on the planet.

    So, why do we want to save them at all price?

  20. Re:Ah, shame. on US Army Hopes To Outfit Soldiers With Tiny Drones By 2018 (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes, quadrotors are more energy hungry than a plane or an helicopter and it makes probably more noise and is less compact than an helicopter as well.

  21. Re:Fools! Trump almost certainly won't be elected on Canadian Startup Uses Trump to Lure Tech Workers (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know, but seriously, what are the options for the Republicans? Cruz? Kasich? These two guys are much worst than Trump for the Presidential election.

  22. Re:Consider on Canadian Startup Uses Trump to Lure Tech Workers (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I believe Trump is just setting a negociation position toward South Korea and Japan about the military support from USA which cost all American citizen a significant amount of their revenues each year. Nothing has been done yet. What he says often is military support offered by USA everywhere in the world is costly and not rewarded by beneficiaries to its real value. That's why he also suggests to stop supporting NATO and many other operations around the world.

  23. Re: They want people to pay for backround music on on The Music Industry Is Begging the US Government To Change Its Copyright Laws (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    Let's see,

    Are you paying for the "Internet" – Nope Are you paying for /. – Nope Are you paying for the computer, editor, modem, etc., etc. – Not if you using one at a friends, work, hotel, internet cafe, etc., etc.

    AC you are bullshit!

    And you are full of shit because,

    1. I am actually paying for the "Internet"
    2. I am actually paying for /. since all the pubs is just for that and buying products give money to announcers to buy pub on /. to pay for /.
    3. I don't see any relevance for this one.
  24. Obviously you don't have any children nor teens to say he should know the password. Next, if Apple is unable to unlock it, there is an israeli firm who is able to unlock it. Too bad Apple is less proficient in security for its own products than external firms.

  25. Say that to Tutankhamun.