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  1. Re: Stephen who cares? on Stephen Hawking Wants To Find Aliens Before They Find Us (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Yawn. Well, some of us have no intention of remaining a wretched human being forever.

  2. Re: Aliens fear us on Stephen Hawking Wants To Find Aliens Before They Find Us (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Just wait until you hear the one about the alien mother who left her son with his planet bound dad and her father with the story that she died then comes back pretending to be his half-sister with nonsense stories about how she nearly died when he asks how his mother died and all these alien girls want to marry him including his half-grand-aunt (same [great-grand]father, different mother) and one of his other alien relatives arranges for him to have a fiance. Meanwhile otyer alien relatives show up and know the truth about the mother and decide they also want to be referred to as relatives usually younger than their true relationship. (My take on the third season of Tenchi Muyo!)

  3. Re: Proof smart people can be stupid on Stephen Hawking Wants To Find Aliens Before They Find Us (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    What do you mean "may be" possible. It is a fact. Mass warps space, or rather spacetime. You may mean to the degrees possible for faster than light travel, but many people are unaware of or forget the initial situation, so this is my blunt way of drawing attention to the fact. All the stuff about GR that is generally poorly understood and poorly communicated being that way is a continuous source of frustration for me.

  4. Re: With all due respect to Mr. Hawking and us... on Stephen Hawking Wants To Find Aliens Before They Find Us (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't plan on being a wretched human being forever so the various mes that are variations on a common theme that have descent from me in a similar fashion as I do to anything formerly me should be just fine.

  5. Re: With all due respect to Mr. Hawking and us... on Stephen Hawking Wants To Find Aliens Before They Find Us (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    That sentence pattern was a thing before Game of Thrones was a thing. I think I have had someone say that to me before 1995 at least.

  6. Re: With all due respect to Mr. Hawking and us... on Stephen Hawking Wants To Find Aliens Before They Find Us (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Well if tunnelling electrons are anything to go by, you might be able to go faster than the speed of light, but what happens from the outside observer's perspective is that you wink in and out of existence am ng the path.

  7. Re: With all due respect to Mr. Hawking and us... on Stephen Hawking Wants To Find Aliens Before They Find Us (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, the only thing about what he said that made it clear what he meant was the distress in his voice. I hope "To Serve Man" is a cook book filled with delicious recipes to serve to man because I can actually interpret the different ways all the vague statements made in that episode can be given meaning.

  8. Re: With all due respect to Mr. Hawking and us... on Stephen Hawking Wants To Find Aliens Before They Find Us (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Well the common version I've seen involves both people with life spans in the thousands of years and suspended animation. People to whom pretending to be your non-existant equally long-lived daughter to your son you left in the care of your planet-bound non-long lived husband isn't a big deal.

  9. Re: You'd think someone as smart as Hawking ... on Stephen Hawking Wants To Find Aliens Before They Find Us (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    All I know is something about radio waves bouncing off the ionosphere. HTH.

  10. Stupid on Taiwan Asks Google To Blur Its Military Facilities In South China Sea (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Taiwan actually believes that China relies on Google Maps for its military intel?

  11. Re: The U.S. ain't perfect, but... on Trump Opposes Plan For US To Hand Over Internet Oversight To a Global Governance (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You're right. Pretending to have maturity when I don't is beyond my capabilities, but I see that as a virtue not a vice.
    I don't know the infrastructure they had to begin with, what infrastructure they have left, what the body counts are, what people are better off dead when it comes to the rest of the people, but I do consider the potential for such things and it isn't as black and white as you make it out to be, and I don't care if you think I have nothing to contribute to your so-called adult conversation.

  12. Re: It's missing the full picture on Germany Unveils a Hydrogen-Powered Passenger Train (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, people are a little short sighted on the fungibility of energy details and you addressit better than most.

  13. Re: The U.S. ain't perfect, but... on Trump Opposes Plan For US To Hand Over Internet Oversight To a Global Governance (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    When you need your house renovated you hire a person who subcontracts the parts of the job out and I think that Trump is better at subcontracting than Clinton.

  14. Re: The U.S. ain't perfect, but... on Trump Opposes Plan For US To Hand Over Internet Oversight To a Global Governance (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    In the real world, broke isn't an absolute term. The stereo's tape deck may be broken, but the radio, turntable and CD changer may still work. The nations the United States went into weren't the model of working order when the United States went in, but the United States didn't leave them better off. Blame doesn't matter as much as you think it does. Whoever is to blame for me getting into my situation, I still have to recognize that it is my situation to deal with and my decisions that ultimately matter. When I was a kid, the neighborhood bully persuaded me to trade my good toy for his broken toy. Eventually he broke the toy I traded him and gave it back to me. Now I had two broken toys. I think it is a lot like the current situation. I did not make a fuss about what he did and just made the best of the then current situation.

  15. Re: The U.S. ain't perfect, but... on Trump Opposes Plan For US To Hand Over Internet Oversight To a Global Governance (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I have issues with him saying America isn't great now, but he is finally getting down to details and one of the things that he proposes that stands out to me is tariffs, which I don't have that much of a problem with. He doesn't appear to understand the meaning of the word free trade because support for free trade were words out of his mouth after talking about implementing tariffs, though.

  16. Re: The U.S. ain't perfect, but... on Trump Opposes Plan For US To Hand Over Internet Oversight To a Global Governance (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Any time I hear normal, I think wrong, because normal isn't normal. It's like that statistic about the average American family having 2.5 kids. There is no normal, at least the way people use the term.

  17. Re: The U.S. ain't perfect, but... on Trump Opposes Plan For US To Hand Over Internet Oversight To a Global Governance (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    You are correct that is not how it works in the real world, but how you think it works in the real world is equally wrong too. In the real world, only the people who actually want something and are willing to do something about it actually get it. There's no getting the bad next-door neighbor kid who broke your toy to pay for a new one as you seem to think happens.

  18. Re: Why does anyone trust Google anymore? on Google Backs Off On Previously Announced Allo Privacy Feature (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you misspelled Farcebook.

  19. Re: Wrong decision on Google Backs Off On Previously Announced Allo Privacy Feature (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you have confused users with customers. The users are the people who are using the software to hold conversations. The customers are the ad people.

  20. Not everything of value, maintains value once monetized.

  21. All I know is that most of the build tools out there need Apple's tools as part of the build setup in order to make binaries that run on Apple hardware, thus necessitating owning Apple hardware to give someone a binary that will run on their Apple computer while there are more options for cross-compilers to the Windows platform.

  22. Re: Chimneys on The Ham Radio Parity Act Unanimously Passed By US House (arrl.org) · · Score: 1

    No, the chimneys the HOAs put in despite no one having an actual fireplace and you are legally obligated to not remove despite them making a situation where the section leaks because it adds just that bit of charm.

  23. Re: a chemical reaction generates a signal on Vanity Fair Blames The Failure of Theranos On Silicon Valley (vanityfair.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Then may I interest you in a chemistry that when performed uses twice as many chemicals in half the time and is therefore 4x as correct?

  24. Re: Nuked from space on Robot Snatches Rifle From Barricaded Suspect, Ends Standoff (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, of course! It's the only way to be sure...

  25. Re:A drone version of NEACP on The US Government Is Building A 'Drone Dragnet' For Battlefields (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    This could have so many useful civilian purposes to enhance GPS and FAA systems, but no, they had to go military with it.