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  1. Re: Unnecessary military slant on The US Government Is Building A 'Drone Dragnet' For Battlefields (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Or it could be used peacefully and be part of a system to manage drones used in peaceful pursuits. The FAA is currently ill-equipped to deal with civilian drones from my information gathering.

  2. Re:Is anyone really surprised? on How The FBI Might've Opened the San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone 5c (schneier.com) · · Score: 1

    Whether or not Tang is a garbage drink, there is such a great diversity of drinks out there that Tang doesn't matter.

  3. Re:Not good enough on China's Atomic Clock in Space Will Stay Accurate For a Billion Years (rt.com) · · Score: 1

    So if I am still alive by then, I won't be human anymore. Cool! I can live with that!

  4. Re: Dude on GM Commits To 100% Renewable Energy By 2050 (cleantechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    By paying money to companies producing renewable energy for the electricity they produce, then draw from whatever source is willing to do the exchanges necessary so that GM gets exactly that amount. It all works out the same.

  5. Re: liars gonna lie on House Committee: Edward Snowden's Leaks Did 'Tremendous Damage' (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The Bill of Rights were specifically written by that scoundrel James Madison to give the illusion of protecting stuff so that people like you and me could say that accordingly certain things are illegal while the government continues on its merry power grab. According to James Madison, if men were angels we wouldn't need government, but I say men don't need to be angels for us to have as little government as we can live with.

  6. We should be able to change our Social Security Numbers at will and they should increase the digits when they run out.

  7. Re: Constitutional integrity on House Committee: Edward Snowden's Leaks Did 'Tremendous Damage' (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Well maybe if the Constitution was created by people who actually meant the provisions to restrain government power to hold water, it might. I don't know about the other players, but the Hamiltonians who wanted strong government and advocated the hardest for the Federal government were believers in Thomas Hobbes' philosophy which promoted the notion of government with absolute authority. They accepted the restrictive clauses knowing that the rest of the document rendered them ineffective, such as not having grand juries determine whether government officials committed crimes while in office.

  8. For me what is more important than the classification of any of their emails is that both of them evaded their communications being entered into the public record subject to declassification.

  9. Re: Sharia law and craziness on House Committee: Edward Snowden's Leaks Did 'Tremendous Damage' (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I made the comment that the US government was already too close to Sharia law for my tastes and I got compared to a Muslim. Now that's crazy!

  10. Some other post made the same argument you did about there needing to be people who are free to make unpopular decisions, but this time it clicked why this is a bad idea. When you have a group who is free to make popular decisions, the system is freed from the obligation of educating people about the reality they have to live with.

  11. Re: Former CIA Officer: President Obama Should Pa on House Committee: Edward Snowden's Leaks Did 'Tremendous Damage' (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    We may be the slaves, but Thomas Hobbes reassures everyone that we really are our own worst enemy and need protection from ourselves by the government threatening us in order to keep us in line. Plato? Aristotle? Completely wrong according to Thomas Hobbes.

  12. Somalia? I hear there's no government there.

  13. The day will come when they shed their Pokémon skins and are revealed to the world to be Cybermen.

  14. Re:Doll. Fin. on Dolphins Recorded Having a Conversation For The First Time (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    For now. I refuse to conform to a stupid way of doing things when doing otherwise makes more sense. It seems that for the English-language, moves to enforce standards to the point where people are imposed upon to do things that hinder the language evolving usefully is fairly recent.

  15. Re: Dr Yang Chen-ning on China's Expensive Super Particle Collider Jeopardized By Criticism (scmp.com) · · Score: 1

    But that is not usually what is meant when it is said the way the previous post wrote it.

  16. Re: gasoline == old fashioned?? on Costa Rica Has Gone 76 Straight Days Using 100% Renewable Electricity (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Now that's the beginning of the reaction I'm looking for. Any stirrings within you that maybe this wasn't as good an idea as you originally thought? Or maybe you are just playing reverse psychology or something and actually want me to continue. Because as it stands, it looks to me like I am getting results. Instead of attempting to trigger a reaction, you appear to be now trying to put the genie you unleashed back into the bottle. I can keep this up better than you can. Ready to quit the game?

  17. Re: Dr Yang Chen-ning on China's Expensive Super Particle Collider Jeopardized By Criticism (scmp.com) · · Score: 2

    Being right most of the time, does not mean you should be listened to all of the time.

  18. Re: Not again! on IBM Launches New Linux, Power8, OpenPower Systems (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    No. I tried to sneak lyrics from Tim Minchin's The Fence into a conversation about whatever the conversation has drifted to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  19. Re: gasoline == old fashioned?? on Costa Rica Has Gone 76 Straight Days Using 100% Renewable Electricity (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, I remember. I'm back, but I'm still working on my banter so you aren't going to be as sorry as the next person. Now what was it that The Doctor said about the guy who had a bomb in him that he wanted to slip away because the bomb was no longer a threat and the value of one life was worth more than preventing technology from falling into the wrong hands? Oh, that's right- "Wheh we get back, you'll be so deactivated." Now that's memory, baby.

  20. And to clarify IT has more in common with HVAC and car repair than it does with retail management.

  21. No from service jobs to skilled work, The jobs you mention can be all called skilled labor, but nobody knows what anybody else means anymore because we've stopped defining terms and who knows what all the reasons are. The Bible documents a previous incident of this happening, but the situation wasn't seriously studied and the opinion was that it was God's doing.

  22. Re: All Cisco users had this problem? on Cisco's Network Bugs Are Front and Center in Bankruptcy Fight (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not even a troll, folks. You build using uniform well understood devices. When something fails or simply starts acting a little bit squirrelly, you swap it out with the exact same part, almost. And you have a small amount of replacement parts on hand that can go anywhere in the network, because it is all the same.

  23. Re: When will IT training become formal curriculu on Cisco's Network Bugs Are Front and Center in Bankruptcy Fight (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    QB64, doh.

  24. Re: When will IT training become formal curriculum on Cisco's Network Bugs Are Front and Center in Bankruptcy Fight (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The QuickBASIC language will never die. It lives on today in the most faithful adaptation with extensions, QB45. Want to write the least buggiest graphical applications for sale? QB45 libraries are all BSD/MIT licenses by design so you don't have to open source your code while reaping the benefits of open source.

  25. Re: Not marginalized, farmed on Who Is Getting Left Behind In the Internet Revolution? (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    All people are treated that way. FTFY.