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  1. Re:What are... on US Airlines Say Smaller Carry-Ons Are Not In the Cards · · Score: 1

    A foot-long hotdog is about a foot long. Upper and lower legs, upper and lower arms, are each about a cubit. If you need a 1:1 conversion, a hand is about a decimeter,

  2. Re:Depends on your perspective and tastes on Jimmy Wales: London Is Better For Tech Than "Dreadful" Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    Poverty, as a whole, is not fixable Excessive immigration is. Reducing the quantity of non-natives reduces both the quantity and severity of poverty.

  3. Re:Must be the British self-deprecation? on Jimmy Wales: London Is Better For Tech Than "Dreadful" Silicon Valley · · Score: 2

    New York City is nothing like Los Angeles. NYC is indeed a city, whereas LA is an enormous suburb.

  4. Re:Most influential individual economic force... on Linus Torvalds Says Linux Can Move On Without Him · · Score: 1

    Scott Walker is perhaps the most obvious recent conter-example. As governor, he turned around the economy of a failing state. In part, he did this by preventing other politicians from screwing things up, which is a much more substantial task than him personally not screwing up.

  5. Re:Well, yes... on Linus Torvalds Says Linux Can Move On Without Him · · Score: 1

    http://www.fastcompany.com/1838481/6-leadership-styles-and-when-you-should-use-them
    Pacesetting, authoriative, affiliative, coaching, coercive, democratic.

  6. Re:My personal journey on this issue on Restaurateur Loses Copyright Suit To BMI · · Score: 1

    I became anti-corporatist.

    So you have no objections to sole proprietorships or partnerships? Only corporations? How strange.

  7. Re:Trifling on Restaurateur Loses Copyright Suit To BMI · · Score: 1

    Before intellectual property there was secret science, and frequently when the inventor died the idea died with him. Is that what you want?

  8. Re:Good on Restaurateur Loses Copyright Suit To BMI · · Score: 1

    "Very carefully crafted" by whom? Jackhammer operators? Helen Keller? Screech owls?

  9. Re:How many times? on Restaurateur Loses Copyright Suit To BMI · · Score: 1

    Having paid to hum the song, you are distracted by your humming, trip, fall, and break your leg. Now sue BMI because their product is an attractive nuisance and a danger to public safety.

  10. SF on Woz To Be Immortalized In Wax · · Score: 1

    Nothing says San Francisco like Emperor Norton.

  11. Re:Why did archive go beyond domestic surveillance on Report: Russia and China Crack Encrypted Snowden Files · · Score: 1

    All major countries spy on all other major countries, friend or foe. They would be negligent of their duties to their own citizens to do otherwise.

  12. Re:Two questions need to be asked on Report: Russia and China Crack Encrypted Snowden Files · · Score: 1

    The concept of human rights developed gradually, with the Englishman John Locke perhaps making the most significant advance.

  13. Re:Two questions need to be asked on Report: Russia and China Crack Encrypted Snowden Files · · Score: 1

    More violent American thugs have been killed by police officers than by terrorists this year. FTFY.

  14. Re:If it is the Chinese on SF86 Data Captured In OPM Hack · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Democrats in general and Obama particularly have already demonstrated that they think the primary purpose of security is to CYA. They don't take national security seriously. A Republican president would have been more likely to have at least attempted to keep such information out of enemy hands.

  15. Critical government computers on German Parliament May Need To Replace All Hardware and Software To Stop Malware · · Score: 2

    Don't connect the computers to the internet. Eliminate all inputs to computers (except for desktop systems, where they hardwire the keyboard and mouse.) Requests for information outside the network are sent to IT, and IT sanitizes all data that goes into or out of the system.

    Government security means lives, this is no place for half measures.Legislators need to learn that they have to put up with the nuisances of a truly secure system.

  16. Fraud on Why Our Brains Can't Process the Gravest Threats To Humanity · · Score: -1, Troll

    Keep pushing the hoax, asshole.

  17. Re:Why am I not surprised... on How Today's Low-Power X86 & ARM CPUs Compare To Intel's Old NetBurst CPUs · · Score: 1

    The AMD price advantage is an illusion. You pay the difference in higher power consumption.

  18. Re:Completely irrelevant on G7 Vows To Phase Out Fossil Fuels By 2100 · · Score: 1

    Through a little communism towards manufacturing

    Why to I even bother replying to someone who hasn't achieved literacy? ... Communism destroys human action, including manufacturing.

    make designed obsolescence illegal

    1.Try proving that obsolescence had been deliberately designed. Well, you favor communism, so a communist level of proof (i.e. zero) would be considered adequate.
    2.Please learn about the "time value of money".

    set much higher minimum efficiency requirements

    And the hell with freedom, or whether the legislatively determined efficiencies are even possible.

  19. Re:Replace with what? on G7 Vows To Phase Out Fossil Fuels By 2100 · · Score: 1

    You do realize that even the dessert is a complex ecosystem of micro flora and fona that would be greatly harmed by being permanently covered in solar cells.

    Mars is covered with a reddish dust that would be greatly harmed by painting it green. The importance of that damage is about as great as "harming" a desert.

  20. Re: Noocular on G7 Vows To Phase Out Fossil Fuels By 2100 · · Score: 1

    The Western world has negligible development of nuclear power technology because leftist anti-nuclear panic mongers, in league with lawyers, have made it impractical or impossible to build new nuclear power plants.

  21. Re:No, not really on G7 Vows To Phase Out Fossil Fuels By 2100 · · Score: 1

    Did you really not understand the point, or is your misdirection deliberate?

  22. Re:No, not really on G7 Vows To Phase Out Fossil Fuels By 2100 · · Score: 1

    Money is an evil upon our world.

    Such arrogant stupidity completely disqualifies you from rational discussions.

  23. Re:Six Weeks on Jewels From an Ethiopian Grave Reveal 2,000-Year-Old Link To Rome · · Score: 1

    Next time you're in Los Angeles, mosey on down to the La Brea tar pits: a worthless pond of old sticky muck. Hey, what's that just north of the pond? A shiny museum with a video and displays of dire wolf bones. No, the research there can't be of any monetary value.

    Only 1000 feet away there's the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, occasionally featuring artifacts dug from Egyptian sites. People pay to get in to see that stuff.

  24. End mandatory insurance on Self-Driving Cars To Transform Insurance and Other Industries · · Score: 1

    With self-driving cars and collision damages gradually becoming insignificant, legally mandated insurance should end. This would be a huge boon to the economy, as a parasitic and unneeded cost is removed.

  25. Re:Social mobility was killed, but not this way on Writer: "Why I Defaulted On My Student Loans" · · Score: 1

    I might allow military history. The military academies can only handle a limited number of people, and other colleges should fill the gap.