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  1. insurance margins? on UK Plan Would Use CCTV To Stop Uninsured Drivers From Refueling · · Score: 1

    So what is the cost to payoff ratio in UK before and after? 2:1? 3:1? 4:1? In the US insurance companies pushed mandatory insurance laws to gouge people.

  2. FRAUD on European Parliament To Exclude Free Software With FRAND · · Score: 1

    All governments are a....

  3. voyeurs, stalkers, kidnappers wet dream on Commercial Drones Taking To the Skies · · Score: 1

    How long before we have these things peeking in our windows and scooting for "legal" airspace if noticed. Might even start a new forms of abusive kiddie pictures.

  4. risk and on EU Court Rules Social Networks Cannot Be Forced To Police Downloads · · Score: 2

    Prosecution: It's about time that an --AA type organization got acquainted with the concept of risk and accountability for massive frauds upon the public.

  5. electronic cash and records on Southwest Airlines iPhone App Unencrypted, Vulnerable To Eavesdroppers · · Score: 1

    This is so reassuring when state and Federal governments are so busy forcing us to use electronic cash. One day some hackers or a rogue nuke are going to scramble the system.

  6. hisssss or zap on Scientists Print Cheap RFID Tags On Paper · · Score: 1

    Aluminum? Guess I'll have to start humidifying or microwaving suspicious papers and documents. Humidity or steam should corrode aluminum on bleached papers.

  7. Re:In perspective on Robert Boisjoly Dies At 73, the Engineer Who Tried To Stop the Challenger Launch · · Score: 2

    The lives were lost unnecessarily due to politics at different times and levels. From the political contracts that needed segmented boosters for inland transport to repeated gross negligence on the design, monitoring and launch decisions way out of spec. Empty suits are getting away with more and more and more in America. Utterly no accountability.

  8. This is Chermany calling... on Text Message Brands Quebec Man a Terror Suspect · · Score: 1

    ...that is, Nazi Germany [see "Lord Haw Haw, WWII].

  9. intellectual poopery... on How the GOP (and the Tea Party) Helped Kill SOPA · · Score: 1

    ...my ass. MPAA and RIAA have been using the Constitution for toilet paper for a long time now. Individual rights? Bill of rights? Certain rights to Creators? Ex post facto? Perpetuities for starters (over 100 yrs? Intellectual - Hollywood?

  10. Krypton, 1956 or before on Is the Earth Gaining Or Losing Mass? · · Score: 1

    Dr. Herndon: I first came upon the idea of planetary-scale nuclear fission reactors by considering the Gas Giants.
    I first came upon the idea of planetary-scale nuclear fission reactors while reading Superman comics as boy. I think Krypton's uranium core was described by 1956. Hope we do better...

  11. going west.... on Tenative Ruling Against Kaleidescape in DVD CCA Case · · Score: 1

    Move to Asia, buy non US hardware. Problem solved.

  12. and... on New Privacy Laws Could Boost EU Cloud Industry · · Score: 1

    ...not a lapdog, bosom buddy US ally or wannabe government.

  13. Just another Mickey Mouse judge on Non-Copied Photo Is Ruled Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    The Disney Company surely blesses you, if it doesn't already own you.

  14. counterfeiters' innovation on Banks Using Mobile Phone Usage To Gauge Credit Risk · · Score: 1

    You're looking at another banker scam, er innovation. An excuse to hijack a fresh portion of the economy with more counterfeit credits. Think people would eventually learn, and shoot/jail them for counterfeit, on sight.

  15. Stake on Y Combinator Wants To Kill Hollywood · · Score: 1

    Kill Hollywood ?!? I thought a wooden stake was all that was needed...

  16. Max-Min on 2011 Was the 9th Hottest Year On Record · · Score: 1

    We are near solar max right now. By 2019 they will be saying "never mind about what we said about the hot weather, just get your mittens and coats ready when solar magnetic decline and solar minimum freeze (y)our (r)ears off in 2020".

  17. Re:science vs scams on Is Climate Change the New Evolution? · · Score: 1

    Obviously another US education product. duhhhhh. Mountains of selected, shaped bullchit data, crunched through petaflop GIGO models that aren't even fundamentally sound physics models. But most Americans don't finish their teen years doing graduate work with mathematical models of physcio-chemical systems in the real world.

  18. except for MBA and JD on US Losing R&D Dominance To Asia? · · Score: 1

    "...The U.S. is dumbing down because it doesn't pay to do anything else."
    The sheeple.

    The US has increasingly rewarded talent diverted into MBA and JD for a generation to wring nominal profits from stagnant industries. I figure it will end badly over the next ten years in the US.

  19. MBA, JD uber alles on US Losing R&D Dominance To Asia? · · Score: 1

    MBA and JD are sinews of our economy. Scientists and engineers are the peons. Value is added with high prices, overpricing is optimal, and is an important wellspring of power. More laws can microscopically manage and improve our economy. The US elite will fake the world out and rule supreme. Pigs fly and s--- smells good.

  20. science vs scams on Is Climate Change the New Evolution? · · Score: 0

    Climate change is old. Modern climate and weather science is about 150 years old. Current global anthropogenic climate change allegations linked to tax and trading schemes is about 95% a Piltdown Mann scam between some lousy academics and power/money hungry politicians riddled with overt frauds.

  21. Re:Propane is...light on Is E85 Dead Now? · · Score: 2

    Weight or energy says it all. Propane is about 4.25 lbs/gallon and gasoline is about 6.1 lb/gallon. Propane is more hydrogen rich, so 5-10% more energy per lb. Propane in the US tends to be overpriced local monopolies. Fuels need to be priced by the lb, kg or GJ (gigajoule~MMBTU).

  22. Re:Just more US corporate corruption on Is E85 Dead Now? · · Score: 1

    I don't think E85 was from oil companies, they could get methanol from gas overseas cheaper. Stick to Monsanto, Cargill, ADM, and BP (for the ingrained recklessness and criminality), you'll do fine.

  23. affordable white lightning on Is E85 Dead Now? · · Score: 1

    Whew. Hopefully the cost of white lightning will come back to earth, and be more available across the street. Imagine all these morons burning good 'shine. ;-)

  24. after a 2nd strike, self nuked on How SOPA & PIPA Could Hurt Scientific Debate · · Score: 2

    The US is hellbent on the way to being a "nuclear damage zone", to be routed around. Inside, people will need a encrypted channel to a "neutral" server outside the US in a freer country to surf from.

  25. evolution of slavery on Major Financial Groups Share Data To Fight Online Theft · · Score: 1

    Electronics, more secure and convenient than cash...Yeah right, back to gold and silver.