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  1. AR vs flying hazards and pervs on In Ireland, All RC and Drones Over 1kg To Be Registered (suasnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Most people are not live firing their assualt rifles up and down the street in the their urban neighborhoods every weekend. No AR owners are looking at my daughter sunbathing in our atrium through their gunsights. No one sees weekly reports of AR being dropped from a height on passersby. There are traceable gun records for original shop sales, too.

  2. two faced coin on How the FBI Can Detain, Render and Threaten Without Risk (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Part of the problem is a Kenyan in the White House....

  3. in 1994 on The Return of OS/2 Warp Set For 2016 (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    That would be OS/2 2.1 or 2.11, released May 1993 or July 1994, respectively.

  4. same ol' same ol'. on Virginia Radio Station Broadcasting Chinese Propaganda (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Apparently it is difficult for them to separate Chinese communist propaganda and lies from the normal content coming out of DC.

  5. freezing on NASA Study Shows Net Gains For Antarctic Ice (google.com) · · Score: 1

    By 2020, people will curse you when they are freeing their arses off. Partly colder weather with the solar/sunspot declines, and partly poverty.

  6. GW on NASA Study Shows Net Gains For Antarctic Ice (google.com) · · Score: 1

    Look up in to the sky. See the big shiny thing. ~2 x 10^24 gigatons of slightly variable plasma fusion reactor. Incidental energy transport modulated by various astrophysical, terrestial and geologic factors.

  7. free giveaway on Chinese Hackers Targeted Insurer To Learn About US Healthcare (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    If you (China) want it for free, you can have it.

  8. wasting time & money on NASA's Bolden Claims NASA Is 'Doomed' Unless It Stays the Course To Mars (spacenews.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Expensive science NASA wasted it's slim credibility on the CAGW scam. We need a different funding and reward model for ***successful*** science talent. More prizes, fewer sinecures. Let industry tackle Mars, asteroids and / or the Moon for profits, we already have the basic technologies. A smaller NASA should focus on science beyond Jupiter or inside Venus orbits, and the stars.

  9. 4 - 5 cent pill ... now "only $1" on Drug Firm Offers $1 Version of $750 Daraprim Pill (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The two drug combo tablet, Pyrimethamine 25mg + Sulfadoxine 500mg, has many generic suppliers in India, for under 4 cents a tablet, with a lot more sulfa drug added in. The aseptic pilling and blister packaging probably cost more than the pyrimethamine at 1 cent.

    $13.50 per tablet of 25 mg pyrimethamine was a joke and an utter ripoff. The $750 makes the French Revolution more understandable when they started shortening corrupt financiers and government royalists after a short trial...Sort of a closer shave with that super sized Gillete thing.

  10. small historical samples vs measurement on Landfall Nears For Strongest Hurricane In Recorded History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think this will be the strongest hurricane in history. It might be the most intense hurricane measured in the post 1850 era..

    The Great Hurricane of 1780 will likely be bigger, longer and perhaps more intense, but the surviving observations are crude measures. Recorded human experience is very, very limited on monstrosities observed, survived and recorded at all. In other periods, who knows, perhaps some lucky geologist for some "Cat 6" beach stuff will find the evidence.

  11. Re:the medical industrial complex on Disruptive Bloodwork Startup May Offer Mostly Vaporware · · Score: 1

    I'm quite sure you are closer to homeopathy than us. The RDA for vitamin D in America was 200 iu, some % of people require 5000 iu + to have adequate blood levels, as just one example. How about you? There are cheap, effective cancer drugs unavailable in the US under the FDA because they are too nice, literally not nasty enough. Saves a bundle, feels good and extends survival more than their way overpriced US counterparts.

  12. Re:Hey, Iran promised too! on Despite Promises, China Still Targeting US Firms (crowdstrike.com) · · Score: 2

    A big part of the problem is this BO administration. Worse that Jimmy Carter, this one is frankly, in-your-face anti-American, trying to trash the country.

  13. Re:Thank you, Captain Obvious on Despite Promises, China Still Targeting US Firms (crowdstrike.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Mainland China takes obnoxious, cheating and invasive nonsense to a whole new level, whatever the sins of the US. Just like the island building in the So China sea, grabbing coastal waters from nations a 1000 miles away.

  14. the medical industrial complex on Disruptive Bloodwork Startup May Offer Mostly Vaporware · · Score: 0

    The medical industry and insurance in the US are diseases unto themselves. We don't have US medical insurance. I won't buy it. Hyped US medicine has failed my family so many times, I've learned to step into the breach to keep people alive and doing well, long after their alloted time by "std" US medicine. We do use modern technology e.g. 256 slice CT, PET, MRI, often labs more than "std". But US stuff is dramatically overpriced and over regulated, you can't get some important medicines in the US (corrupt FDA failures). Most US doctors know beans about applied natural biochemistry (e.g. theraputic essential nutrients, herbal extracts and "mega"vitamins) to stay alive and healthy with otherwise fatal states (age, cancers).

  15. Re:Anything to disrupt Quest Diagnostics on Disruptive Bloodwork Startup May Offer Mostly Vaporware · · Score: 1

    When I compare Asian blood labs for tests' prices using new US-Euro equipment, the Quest prices are 10x higher. Rip off.

  16. our Big Brother just keeps getting bigger.

  17. slight engineering rework on New Concerns Over Earthquakes In Oklahoma Near Vast Oil-Storage Facility (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The Trans-Alaska Pipeline and the huge oil tanks at Valdez Alaska are designed for 8.5 magnitude earthquakes. Anything the Okies can imagine is a lesser engineering problem.

    Set the required earthquake and containment parameters, give the tank farm operators 3-5 yrs to start phasing in upgrades, and 5-10 years to finish. Done.

    Zzzzzzzz.

  18. chemo erasure on The Payments World Really Wants To Know Who You Are (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Some chemotherapies sometmes erase fingerprints.

  19. Your "laws" (legislation) ignore my rights on EFF: the Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    Right off the bat, legislation is confused with natural laws, a prime error. Then legislation that contradicts foundational principles in increasing degree is still called "law". In the end, we have chaos and tyranny. Such legislation has no inherent moral authority, but suckers enough people to create hesitation over the resistance and counteraction needed to really put an end to "enforcement" of such (tyrannical) "laws".

  20. which contract water treatment companies? on Legionnaires' Bacteria Reemerges In Previously Disinfected Cooling Towers · · Score: 1

    ... do they use, if any ? Nalco, Betz, Evoqua are big national brands. What changed? cost cutting, the organics into the water, management/technical experience

  21. inadequate on Experian Breached, 15 Million T-Mobile Customer's Data Exposed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They need to make more reparations than that, as actual remedy, compensation and punitive damages with a positive, non govt funding goal.

    In corporatese, "I'm sorry" are empty words with no meaning without restitution and money.

  22. Re:Just maybe on East Texas Judge Throws Out 168 Patent Cases · · Score: 1

    Naw, they probably didn't do enough dinners at Jakes (county or downtown's only good food, upscale).

  23. without Europe on Uber Raided By Dutch Authorities, Seen As 'Criminal Organization' · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Europe is going extinct or replaced by real throat cutting criminal species. Who cares.

  24. laws are now political, "crimes" arbitrary on Police Program Aims to Pinpoint Those Most Likely to Commit Crimes · · Score: 1

    In the US, crime has become pretty much arbitrary in definition and enforcement. So this will be very bad, and it will breed massive crimes.

  25. combo tablets under 4 cents in India... on Another Pharma Company Recaptures a Generic Medication · · Score: 1

    The two drug combo tablet, Pyrimethamine 25mg + Sulfadoxine 500mg, has many generic suppliers in India, for under 4 cents a tablet, with a lot more sulfa drug added in. The aseptic pilling and blister packaging probably cost more than the pyrimethamine at 1 cent.

    $13.50 per tablet of 25 mg pyrimethamine was a joke and an utter ripoff. The $750 makes the French Revolution more understandable when they started shortening corrupt financiers and government royalists after a short trial...Sort of a closer shave with that super sized Gillete thing.