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  1. Re: Actual history on Donald Trump Is Sworn In As the 45th US President (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Finally someone who will get at the history of the region instead of offering up nonsense statistics.

  2. Re:people's preference on New Wyoming Bill Penalizes Utilities Using Renewable Energy (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    Because the reason the opinions matter in the first place is because it is the people matter, not the built-in limitations of the choices they've been given. By the logic as currently expressed, once the representative has been chosen, the people are no longer voting, and the preferences being expressed are no longer of the people and your original expression that the "your own" is of the People of Wyoming does not make sense. Two degrees of meaning have been removed from the conventional meaning of "the preferences of the people of Wyoming", first the people who did not vote for a representative, then the people who did vote for a representative, because then it is the preferences of the representative and not the people.

  3. R2D2 sounds so cool, everyone will be doing it on Tiny New Robots Perform Eye Surgery (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure it starts with this device naming itself after the movie robot, but the name is so cool that everyone will be doing it. R2D2 is the new 'Smurf'.

  4. Until you discover you've locked yourself out of all your stuff.

  5. I prefer the term sloppy in this case,an I don't think that makes me unreasonable.

  6. Only problem is, what he wrote was in response to what he thought you wrotes, and more to the point he said some. Long story short, people are sloppy and he didn't appear to mean to refer to that particular example.

  7. Re:people's preference on New Wyoming Bill Penalizes Utilities Using Renewable Energy (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    They may not count, but that is not the same as without significance.

  8. Re:all becoming more closed-minded on Star Trek Discovery Gets Delayed Again As Spock's Father Is Cast (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    Forgetfulness is not necessarily closed-minded, but I have a sentiment similar to yours in that what happens here does not just affect this country and that people taking interest in the elections of other countries shouldn't be called meddling, but a reasonable looking after interests. So when Obama contributes to an Israeli campaign, I don't talk of interference, but if doing so was really in US interests, and whatever Russia did or did not do isn't meddling, though the question of legality is there, but then breaking the law is not necessarily wrong.

  9. Re:people's preference on New Wyoming Bill Penalizes Utilities Using Renewable Energy (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    Because voter turnout is so high?

  10. The real headline on New Wyoming Bill Penalizes Utilities Using Renewable Energy (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    President Col. Sanders, beloved mascot of KFC passes an ordinary bill mandating the purchase of KFC chicken once a week. People will rejoice at this yet another natural outcome of the amendment passed during the Trump administration that relinquished the vote of the common people to the companies that are responsible for them.

  11. One Israel black mark on Donald Trump Is Sworn In As the 45th US President (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    There being agreements that Palestinians not seek unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state is something that neither of them should have agreed to. This has recently come to my attention. That's not how achieving nationhood should work.

  12. Re: Israel bulldozing terrorists' houses on Donald Trump Is Sworn In As the 45th US President (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Seems like you've been misinformed: https://www.bing.com/search?q=...

  13. Re: Israel bulldozing Palestinian houses on Donald Trump Is Sworn In As the 45th US President (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Citation needed.

  14. Re:More stuff that had no record of happening on Donald Trump Is Sworn In As the 45th US President (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    forced the native population out of their homes with force.

    Er, what supposedly went down anything like that. I haven't heard anything remotely like people being forced out of their homes. And you do realize you redundantly said force twice. Idiot.

  15. Also, Palestinian is not a race. on Donald Trump Is Sworn In As the 45th US President (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    So that makes you the idiot.

  16. 1900 on Donald Trump Is Sworn In As the 45th US President (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    There is zero indication that anyone considering themselves "Palestinians" lived there. So if you want to play that game...

  17. Re:Cherrypicking on Donald Trump Is Sworn In As the 45th US President (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    That comes nowhere near reflecting everything that went on and you know it.

  18. Alarming vs problematic on Galileo Satellites Are Experiencing Multiple Clock Failures (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    There's a big difference between something that is alarming vs. probematic. Just because it isn't alarming doesn't mean they are wasting their time figuring out how to get things back in working order. In fact, one of the reasons it is not alarming is because the can do something to get things back in working order. You're like that guy who said Ray Kurzweil was afraid of death because he is interested in finding ways to avoid the unpleasant thing. I don't like lots of things; doesn't mean I am afraid of them. I do things to fix situations; doesn't mean they are alarming. Or are you alarmed every time something fails and you have to turn it off and back on again?

    "Alarm" equates to panic. It is not a waste of time to attempt to set people straight when they use a term inappropriately. I may disagree with C. S. Lewis that the proper term for a waterfall is sublime as opposed to beautiful, but he does have a point. https://www.bing.com/search?q=...

  19. Which is the Palestinians fault on Donald Trump Is Sworn In As the 45th US President (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The Palestinians are the Nazis then.

  20. Re:a quintillion here, a quintillion there on NASA Is Planning Mission To An Asteroid Worth $10 Quintillion (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah? Well, I refuse to deal with such piddling small change, which is why many are under the mistaken impression I am poor.

  21. Vulcan ears copyrightable elements? on CBS, Paramount Settle Lawsuit Over 'Star Trek' Fan Film (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    Everyone knows they were modeled on depictions of demons having pointed ears.

  22. Re: the real threat: The rich and powerful using A on Elite Scientists Have Told the Pentagon That AI Won't Threaten Humanity (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey, if you aren't doing something you enjoy, it's all on you, not the rich. Now my health problems are my greatest barrier, but in some sense, that's still me.

  23. Re: Any Intelligence would be better on Elite Scientists Have Told the Pentagon That AI Won't Threaten Humanity (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Lawnmower man, is that you?

  24. Re: It does not matter. on Elite Scientists Have Told the Pentagon That AI Won't Threaten Humanity (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Your post lacks appropriate caveats, but is generally on the mark. The AI will be great for those who aren't stingy with their data now and from now on. The people who view losing their privacy as the biggest threat will like the foolish virgins of parable be shut out in the cold. Face it, information is the new lamp oil of the current era.

  25. Re: And this was done over the phone on Elite Scientists Have Told the Pentagon That AI Won't Threaten Humanity (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Excuse me, is this the forum for Portal humor? The cake is a lie. All the scientists are Aperture Science cores. https://youtube.com/results?q=... the cores