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

    Nazis breathe air. You breathe air. Therefore you are a Nazi. Until you expand your reasoning as to why both circumstances being the same is also wrong, that is all your assertion amounts to.

  2. Re: News for Nazis on Donald Trump Is Sworn In As the 45th US President (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The provlem with that line of reasoning is that the main reason that Israel is so good at creating settlements is because the Palestinians can't be bothered to.

  3. Re: News for Nazis on Donald Trump Is Sworn In As the 45th US President (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    No, he picks something to mock that will unsettle the person the most, of course.

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

    Trump grab comment was made before he hit the campaign trail.

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

    The Palestinians already had all the ammunition they needed. Fighting against Israel was pretty much a day one thing since the founding of it.

  6. Re:Some Playstation VR titles... on 3D TV Is Dead (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You can't delete comments on Slashdot no matter what. Also #notallvr

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

    Not all of us of course. Mainly those who unreservedly supported either of the two major candidates. I don't know the breakdown among those who supported the other candidates or like me didn't support any.

  8. Re:Standards on Galileo Satellites Are Experiencing Multiple Clock Failures (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not the standard you set in your first message. "A 12.5% failure rate in the core components of a system that has been in place for less than half its design life is alarming by any metric." I believe it was.

  9. One did that the other didn't on Donald Trump Is Sworn In As the 45th US President (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Well Hillary does maintain a public and private position, so there's that.

  10. So, liberals then on Donald Trump Is Sworn In As the 45th US President (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It's the crowd of Hillary and Barak who believe in a diversity of voices as long as those voices stay within strict racial stereotypes and norms. Otherwise you get called things like Uncle Tom.

  11. Qs messing with the universe on Star Trek Discovery Gets Delayed Again As Spock's Father Is Cast (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    Doctor Who comes the closest to Qs messing with the universe. The Doctor frequently illustrates that he is hiding the extent of his power to manipulate the situation through things similar to hypnosis that the Master openly used in the classic series, but the seventh Doctor especially illustrated that he could do too.

  12. Re:alarming by any metric on Galileo Satellites Are Experiencing Multiple Clock Failures (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Then by that standard the world should be in a perpetual state of alarm.

  13. Re:Dramatic contemporary issues on Star Trek Discovery Gets Delayed Again As Spock's Father Is Cast (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    That reminds me of the situation regarding "racism" and to some extent "nukes". Racism used to be of the sense that my race is better than your race, but now a situation has developed that can still legitimately be called racism where people think all races are equal but if you aren't behaving according to stereotypical norms for your race, then you are bad and maybe an Uncle Tom. Both nukes and racism are referred to not for their effects but for their scariness.

  14. Re:Dramatic contemporary issues on Star Trek Discovery Gets Delayed Again As Spock's Father Is Cast (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 2

    Yeah, a Borg with breasts and so prominent at that never made sense to me. Especially since Jeri Ryan's breasts weren't as prominent when she was on "Leverage". They could have gone with a Borgs want to be the best so she had to have the best breasts bit, but the matter was never addressed, ever.

  15. With medical degrees, in fashion,from France... Oops, this is the wrong forum. Could someone point out where the Portal humor forum is?

  16. Re:Rhetoric is real on Tech Firm Creates Trump Monitor For Stock Markets (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem of face is a valid one, but the Chinese control of information within their nation is one reason why they won't have a problem with having to save face to their countrymen. I admit that I could be wrong on that though.

    The situation the Japanese faced was more than a matter of saber rattling, though. https://www.bing.com/search?q=... returns some nifty explanations of all that was going on, including https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  17. Nothing on Tech Firm Creates Trump Monitor For Stock Markets (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    He has done nothing. Exactly that. and that is the point. The problem of face is a valid one, but the Chinese control of information within their nation is one reason why they won't have a problem with having to save face to their countrymen. I admit that I could be wrong on that though, and the reply by dbIII goes into decent detail about what could go wrong.

  18. Re:alarming by any metric on Galileo Satellites Are Experiencing Multiple Clock Failures (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    PC's and consumer electronics must be especially alarming then. But turning them off and back on again usually fixes any failure.

  19. Only in the same sense that both are like saying most people eat three meals a day but I only eat one.

  20. Re:Ignorance is definitely not bliss on Tech Firm Creates Trump Monitor For Stock Markets (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It is neither incoherent babble nor some kind of stunningly profound insight that takes a keen mind to interpret. People just tend to have a limited vocabulary and tend to get things wrong. My mom has to write "verbally attack" or people come back thinking that she could possibly mean a physical attack, when the meaning should be clear from the context. People really are that dense.

  21. Re:Some Playstation VR titles... on 3D TV Is Dead (cnet.com) · · Score: 1
    He said,

    But the only way to do stuff is with this weird new controller that uses 3D gestures

    With the Playstation VR system, at the very least that is not the case. Why is it so difficult for you to understand the connection?

  22. Some Playstation VR titles... on 3D TV Is Dead (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Some Playstation VR titles use the regular PS? controller and some use the Move controllers. The Move camera is required in either case apparently, but all the Move accessories appear to be the same ones from the PS3 era.

  23. Large 4K TVs without Smart on 3D TV Is Dead (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    https://www.walmart.com/browse...
    Check the JVC and Sceptre out. https://www.walmart.com/browse...
    Probably the same Sceptre again and an Avera... a Changhong. Not top name brands but they do exist.

  24. Re:240hz on 3D TV Is Dead (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Except if I understand correctly the shutters are driven by the television itself. My version uses an external device to drive the shutters. The point is that there is little that needs to be done to make a 3d capable extened system with televisions that are still on sale.

  25. But is this a Byzantine failure situation? on Galileo Satellites Are Experiencing Multiple Clock Failures (bbc.com) · · Score: 1
    https://www.bing.com/search?q=... turns up better results.

    The multiple installation enables a satellite to keep working after an initial failure. All 18 spacecraft currently in space continue to operate, but one of them is now down to just two clocks.

    Would seem to indicate that they are solving the Byzantine General problem within the "clock" itself and the other "clocks" really are just spares, as would be expected of such satellites. Do you really think it is a good idea to launch satillites that rely on timekeeping without including clocks that really are just spares?

    https://www.bing.com/search?q=... turns up no result indicating that timekeeping is a Byzantine failure problem. That is, it is possible that a clock either always returns a correct result or an easily proven wrong result like returning a value 0. It is a bad search for this topic, but is the one I started with, so anyone reading this, learn from my mistake and do not use it for researching this topic.