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  1. Re:Not my first choice on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Considering US Presidential Run · · Score: 1

    Bankrupt customers can't buy much.

  2. Re:she almost crashed both Lucent and HP on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Considering US Presidential Run · · Score: 1

    Infamously, Bush Sr. tried to both ride on Reagan's reputation and separate himself from it at the same time, saying "I am not Reagan."

  3. Re:Against Clinton? Good luck. on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Considering US Presidential Run · · Score: 1

    Elizabeth Warren is completely unhinged. She could be replaced with a random number generator.

  4. Re:Um, what? on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Considering US Presidential Run · · Score: 1

    You go ahead and tell everyone how to play nice with Russia...

    That you think "playing nice with Russia" could possibly work indicates a complete disconnect from reality.

    And now millions more have insurance that previously could not afford any

    ___Because they're forced to do so by law.

    ___In most cases, insurance rates are much higher than before

    ___Millions also have lost insurance coverage.

    ___It is now well established that Obamacare was brought into existence by threat and fraud.

  5. Re:Um, what? on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Considering US Presidential Run · · Score: 1

    There's a huge gap between leninism advertising and leninism practice. The latter is systematic murder.

  6. Re:Can Iowa handle a circus that large? on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Considering US Presidential Run · · Score: 1, Insightful

    H. Clinton's history is a mixed variety of leftisms, from the fascism of her commodity market fraud to the outright communism of "Hillarycare". She is a strident, race-baiting proto-dictator; like Obama, dodging responsibility for her actions at every step. There is good reason to believe she is brain damaged. She is completely unfit for public office at any level.

  7. Re:Can Iowa handle a circus that large? on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Considering US Presidential Run · · Score: 2

    Reagan eventually realized his support for amnesty was a mistake, a mistake based in part on fraudulent information given to him about the quantity of illegal aliens already in the country.

    The claims for Reagan being senile while in office are a hoax manufactured by his enemies.

  8. Re:Can Iowa handle a circus that large? on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Considering US Presidential Run · · Score: 2

    The Republican nut jobs are a very small portion. Of Republican politicians, a narrow majority is somewhere in the big government, semiprogessive, power hungry RINO morass. Most of the remainder is conservative or libertarian. Among the Republican non-politicians, the majority is conservative-libertarian; those more leftist tend to leave the party.

  9. Re:What about long-term data integrity? on How Intel and Micron May Finally Kill the Hard Disk Drive · · Score: 2

    RAID in acronym only. The R means redundant, and RAID 0 is not redundant.

  10. Re:It boils down to energy storage costs on Two Google Engineers Say Renewables Can't Cure Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Let's assume water pumping can have 50% efficiency, and your hypothetical low-human-effort method has 0.5% efficiency. 100 times the power generation capacity would be required to make your system work. You need a better measure of efficiency.

  11. Re:It boils down to energy storage costs on Two Google Engineers Say Renewables Can't Cure Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Energy density of beams to earth is known and not a problem. Read the literature.

    It's whom, not who.

  12. Re:One letter? on Attack of the One-Letter Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    Alternatively, use the Morse technique. The time between keypress and release determines dot or dash; The time from release to press separates the letters thus encoded.

  13. Dr, Seuss on Attack of the One-Letter Programming Languages · · Score: 1
  14. Re:The "Protesters" on Officer Not Charged In Michael Brown Shooting · · Score: 0

    The majority of the protestors have been paid to be there, and the people who are paying want trouble.

    Does anyone who wants to make his life better, or to improve the world, go to a trouble spot and inflame the situation? Even the peaceful protestors have as a goal tearing apart a peaceful and productive society.

  15. Re:Overall effect of phytoestrogens: Still unknown on Doubling Saturated Fat In Diet Does Not Increase It In Blood · · Score: 1

    Just what do you think phyto-estrogens are, if not hormones?

  16. Re: Consent of the Governed on Judge Unseals 500+ Stingray Records · · Score: 1

    Says the person too cowardly to identify himself.

  17. Re:Consent of the Governed on Judge Unseals 500+ Stingray Records · · Score: 1

    Corporations and government are one. You can't separate them.

    Skilling and Madoff are in prison, so they're not separated from the government. Still, the situation hardly seems to be to their advantage.

    Grow up.

  18. Re: Consent of the Governed on Judge Unseals 500+ Stingray Records · · Score: 1

    Hawaii became a state by the vote of its own residents. Germany and Japan gain tremendous economic advantage by not having to provide fully for their own defense; American forces would be gone quickly if either government insisted. American forces remain in Iraq for the same reason hospitals use disinfectant.

  19. Re:Consent of the Governed on Judge Unseals 500+ Stingray Records · · Score: 1

    Mexico turned itself into a shithole. It has been a country of corruption and robbery for centuries, and no outside influence can do much to change that, for better or worse.

  20. Re:AI researcher here on Alva Noe: Don't Worry About the Singularity, We Can't Even Copy an Amoeba · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Consciousness neither implies nor is implied by either emotions or desires.

  21. Re: At least if they come across to the UK on Millions of Spiders Seen In Mass Dispersal Event In Nova Scotia · · Score: 1

    What part of the difference between "race" and "religion" do you not understand?

  22. Re:Fair play. on US Gov't Seeks To Keep Megaupload Assets Because Kim Dotcom Is a Fugitive · · Score: 1

    Do you have some mechanism for seizing US government assets? Particularly if you aren't another government?

  23. Re:Turnabout is fair play on US Gov't Seeks To Keep Megaupload Assets Because Kim Dotcom Is a Fugitive · · Score: 1

    IIRC the UN World Court can only try cases in which both parties agree to take part.

  24. Re:Other fugitives on US Gov't Seeks To Keep Megaupload Assets Because Kim Dotcom Is a Fugitive · · Score: 1

    To a certain extent, there are 2 strong factors here.

    One is that high level politicians are a "Good Ole Boys Club" who won't jail one another without severe provocation. If that weren't true, there would be no photos of old presidents meeting one another and smiling, instead there would be photos of fistfights and stabbings.

    The other is that there's a recognition that the other party will someday get back into power: If Bush Jr had jailed Clinton for some of his obvious crimes, Obama would have jailed Bush Jr for his. Given that there are partisans on both sides trying to bring suit to jail leaders even when there is no justification, and given that there are bent judges who will proudly jail an innocent man, or free a guilty one, allowing such attacks to go forward promotes havoc.

    Still, it would be nice to see bad actions punished. Too bad there's not a lot of agreement on who the bad actors are.

  25. Re:Wait what? on US Gov't Seeks To Keep Megaupload Assets Because Kim Dotcom Is a Fugitive · · Score: 1

    His lawyer has to show up.