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  1. Re:Oh the huge manatee on Manatee No Longer An Endangered Species (miamiherald.com) · · Score: 1

    No! Not rainy days! Laying in bed screwing around on a rainy day is heaven on earth. Don't take that away. Fire ants? Please wipe them out.

  2. Apple and Google don't care, they'll do what they want. I don't care because I know every type of DRM gets circumvented in the end so they can play their futile game all they want.

  3. Re:quick, post it here on Publish Georgia's State Laws, You'll Get Sued For Copyright and Lose (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    It was originally supposed to take debtors as colonists and a few hundred were settled in Georgia. Most of the colonists however were tradesmen with skills. It seems the first Governor, General Oglethorpe, had ideas about how to establish a colony and he didn't really want a lot of losers with no skill set. He sold it as a buffer colony against Spaniards in Florida and the idea was to remove a lot of debtors from prisons in England and transplant them there. Oglethorpe was a cagey customer and basically performed a bait and switch on the King. If you look at Savannah, which he built, you'll see how it's all laid out, a planned city with parks and all. Really nice. The rest of the state has roads laid out by oxen and towns and cities that popped up willey nilly.

  4. Re: Reusable - like the shuttle? on SpaceX Makes Aerospace History With Successful Launch, Landing of a Used Rocket (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    The one that broke up over Texas was due to tiles being damaged. They did not fall off but were struck allowing heat to destroy the shuttle. The other was due to a failing o-ring. A lot of things to go wrong with possible catastrophic consequences.

  5. Re: Reusable - like the shuttle? on SpaceX Makes Aerospace History With Successful Launch, Landing of a Used Rocket (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The shuttle was an expensive learning system. Technology has advanced much since. The costs for orbital shots is much cheaper than two decades ago.

  6. Re:I'm On a Boat! on SpaceX Makes Aerospace History With Successful Launch, Landing of a Used Rocket (theverge.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Baby steps man. Baby steps. The future isn't coming overnight.

  7. Re:Study was paid for by music industry... on Safe Harbor Cost the US Music Industry Up To $1B in Lost Royalties Per Year, Study Finds (musicweek.com) · · Score: 1

    I bought a ton of music on cassette and vinyl during the 70s and 80s. I mostly played it in my car as I traveled a lot in my younger days. I listened to the radio as likely as not most of the rest of the time. I was never music crazy. I liked mostly rock and country and blues with some metal. Now I might go all day without the radio ever coming on. I listen to streaming music from my phone over my car stereo when I'm on a trip but I'm less into it now than ever. To think people lose their minds over this stuff is kind of bewildering. Billions of dollars to hear people sing.

  8. Re: Trumps gonna fuck us good on Will VPNs Protect Your Privacy? It's Complicated · · Score: 0

    What? The fire plan thing? That's kind of a joke. The fact that DC is destroying America? I see evidence of that every day.

  9. Re: Trumps gonna fuck us good on Will VPNs Protect Your Privacy? It's Complicated · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    By far. Partly because he's ineffective. She would have had the backing of the DC elites to get every little piece of shit legislation done by hook or crook while in the Oval Office. Trump will end up fighting with the elite stooges in his own party so much that he'll get very little done. This is my hope at least. That government is best which governs least. Every time they pass almost anything it just fucks the place up even more. I heard that the Chinese have a nuclear fire plan that exempts DC. They know it's their most effective allying in destroying America (besides, they pretty much own it anyway). There will be no wall. Obamacare will continue on until it collapses and then they'll pass something worse and more expensive. At least it looks like the open borders thing is going to die from lack of support. Yep, he's a dirtbag, which makes him at least 2 or 3 levels above the evil sons of bitches (and cunts) in Congress. And I include most of both mafias...uh,,,,parties in that description. Sorry for the rant, I'm in a bad mood today.

  10. Re:Government solutions are always transient, too. on FCC To Halt Expansion of Broadband Subsidies For Poor People (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That's like saying under current liberal thinking all industry should be nationalized. Enough of this stupid shit. My suggestion is you open your router up for your neighbors to use.

  11. Re:My VPN has no information. on Will VPNs Protect Your Privacy? It's Complicated · · Score: 4, Informative

    You know, nothing is perfect. You do the best you can. If you're actively breaking the law I'd suggest not doing it over the internet.

  12. Re:Trumps gonna fuck us good on Will VPNs Protect Your Privacy? It's Complicated · · Score: -1

    Hilliary would have fucked us harder, faster, and deeper. Her dick is HUUUUUUUUUUUGE!

  13. Re:Government solutions are always transient, too. on FCC To Halt Expansion of Broadband Subsidies For Poor People (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I just hate the entitled assholes that think we owe them something for being alive.

  14. Re:Government solutions are always transient, too. on FCC To Halt Expansion of Broadband Subsidies For Poor People (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I pay 100 dollars for mine but I use the shit out of it. The 30 buck tier is okay for everything but heavy video usage. I remember a 2400 baud modem hooked up to my Amiga. I was so excited at how fast it was over the 1200 baud one.

  15. Re:Government solutions are always transient, too. on FCC To Halt Expansion of Broadband Subsidies For Poor People (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    I left home for the military in 79, obtained a trade in electronics and never lacked for a job since. We provide food and shelter for most of the poor in this country already. We subsidize health care as well. Internet usage is available at most if not all public libraries. I'm tired of the cry baby crap. I've worked my whole life, paid plenty in taxes along the way. To be lectured by some shitass like you about living in my "mom's basement." I've donated money for food banks and to the Ronald McDonald house charities through my work's charity program. Fuck you very much. I'm fine with helping people that need it but Internet is not a need and it's certainly not a right.

  16. Re:Government solutions are always transient, too. on FCC To Halt Expansion of Broadband Subsidies For Poor People (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If you've got enough education or a skill set good enough for something besides ditch digging or flipping burgers then you shouldn't be destitute. There's something wrong with this whole idea that we've got all these people who have college degrees that need to be on welfare. Most public libraries have Internet available.

  17. Re:They are not government employees on Two Activists Who Secretly Recorded Planned Parenthood Face 15 Felony Charges (npr.org) · · Score: 0

    So the video he's being prosecuted for making isn't true?

  18. Re:Government solutions are always transient, too. on FCC To Halt Expansion of Broadband Subsidies For Poor People (arstechnica.com) · · Score: -1

    I've picked up excellent working computers from the curb. Computers that are useful are essentially free. Internet access isn't exactly expensive unless you want 100MB connections. To do actual research, my providers cheapest service is 29.95 and is more than sufficient for anything except file freaking. If they can't come up with that then they need to work a little harder, yes. It's not a need, it's a luxury. Needs are things that you have to have. No one has to have internet.

  19. Re:Government solutions are always transient, too. on FCC To Halt Expansion of Broadband Subsidies For Poor People (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    100 years ago few people considered it non necessary. Almost all communities had schools. What does the Internet have to do with being able to read and write?

  20. Re:Government solutions are always transient, too. on FCC To Halt Expansion of Broadband Subsidies For Poor People (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a silly statement. Basic needs are food and shelter. There are other needs that are very important such as clothing and sanitary conditions. Internet? That's not even a need. I have it and enjoy it but if it was gone tomorrow I would survive easily.

  21. Re:Government solutions are always transient, too. on FCC To Halt Expansion of Broadband Subsidies For Poor People (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    I don't mind paying for infrastructure and prisons are by definition a thing of government. As such taxpayers should fund. I don't mind a safety net that provides basic shelter and food for poor people. Non necessary things like broadband? There is a middle road but I find it hard to view things like broadband there. I think if liberals want to fight for the poor they might better fixate on how to provide health care. That's going to need some creative work.

  22. Re:They are not government employees on Two Activists Who Secretly Recorded Planned Parenthood Face 15 Felony Charges (npr.org) · · Score: -1, Troll

    They're also funded by selling off fetal parts. Or were those guys putting that money in their own pockets?

  23. Re:They are not government employees on Two Activists Who Secretly Recorded Planned Parenthood Face 15 Felony Charges (npr.org) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As much as I hope we can kill all government funding for planned parenthood, the right to not be subject to this kind of spying by activists is too important to give up. I see people on the right trying to support this activity but they should beware. When you take these protections away we all lose. Personally I think we've given up too much of our freedoms now. Let's not give any more away.

  24. A realist I see.

  25. Re:What's so important about Syed Nawaz's age? on Bay Area Tech Executives Indicted For H-1B Visa Fraud (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe it implies that he's likely to be in prison for the rest of his life. I hope so.