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  1. Kill Whitey

    Kill the Infidels

    Just who is it that's excessively willing to use violence?

  2. Why don't you just say "true", instead of using more sophisticated concepts that don't apply?

  3. Re:someone is rather out of touch on DragonflEye Project Wants To Turn Insects Into Cyborg Drones · · Score: 1

    It was spun off due to left-wing protests and pressure and hatred of all things military. The cowardly action by MIT administrators damaged MIT, Draper Labs, and the nation.

  4. Have you been on LA freeways at rush hour? Tripling effective capacity by means of automated vehicle control might temporarily end tie-ups, until the population grows again or more people realize that it seems OK to travel at 5 PM and jam up the roads again.

    The pinch region is the Sepulveda pass, and traffic backs for 20 miles.

  5. Re:... to fix the traffic jams on roads on Elon Musk Says He'll Start Digging a Tunnel From SpaceX HQ Next Month (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Los Angeles used to have a trolley system; I'm not aware of any old subway system. The current light rail system goes a substantial distance, but LA is a very sprawled-out city, so the lines are not convenient to much of the population. Two of the lines are subways, but go nowhere near LAX.

    The Green Line, a surface rail, runs down the center of the 105 Freeway and has stops at the airport in Hawthorne and the commercial services area of LAX.

  6. Re:Gouge the middle class to make them poor on Ask Slashdot: Should Commercial Software Prices Be Pegged To a Country's GDP? · · Score: 1

    Representative starter houses for families in the 1950s are the Levittown houses: about 700 square feet. Tiny bedrooms, a living room not big enough to swing a cat in.

  7. There used to be alltheweb.com, before one of the majors ate it. Also ask.com.

  8. Affiliates might get preferred placement near the top of a search page.

  9. I'm not going to search through federal statutes for you. The overriding issue is having classified documents on an unsecured server, which in itself is criminal. Note that (not that it matters) this was deliberate, not an ignorant or accidental action.

  10. All Congress has to do is not appropriate money. Of course, that's not effective for growing or maintaining the size of government, but it works really well for shrinking government. Too bad it never happens.

  11. Re:Not so innocent after all on Humans, Not Climate Change, Wiped Out Australian Megafauna (phys.org) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Do you understand the idea behind "three strikes" laws? Do you know why doctors insist that patients take an entire course of antibiotics, and not just stop when they feel better?

    Islam is a melanoma on civilization.

  12. Re: Not so innocent after all on Humans, Not Climate Change, Wiped Out Australian Megafauna (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Then as now, Muslims were murderous expansionists. The Crusades, in part, were a response to aggression.

  13. Re:Shipping and Handling on NASA Is Planning Mission To An Asteroid Worth $10 Quintillion (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    I've got a neutron star for sale. Pick up on site, no delivery available.

  14. Re:Shipping and Handling on NASA Is Planning Mission To An Asteroid Worth $10 Quintillion (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Just in case somebody actually thinks you're serious, consider this: At 6 km, you've already left half of the atmosphere behind. The 200 km diameter asteroid will already be completely embedded in the Earth' crust before any hypothetical parachute touched the atmosphere.

  15. The boiling off of impurities may also be a problem.

  16. Re:How large?!? on NASA Is Planning Mission To An Asteroid Worth $10 Quintillion (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    The moon seems like it would be the optimum place for solar-powered rail guns. Conventional fuel is only needed to get there

  17. Re:How large?!? on NASA Is Planning Mission To An Asteroid Worth $10 Quintillion (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't bet my life on the structural integrity of an asteroid.

  18. Re: What complete nonsense on NASA Is Planning Mission To An Asteroid Worth $10 Quintillion (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    The car ownership rate in Manhattan is 23%. Car ownership is not necessary in many densely populated areas. Cell phones are unnecessary toys.

  19. Re: What complete nonsense on NASA Is Planning Mission To An Asteroid Worth $10 Quintillion (usatoday.com) · · Score: 0

    There is a point where raising the minimum wage continues to be beneficial; we have not reached that point

    We are already at that point and well beyond. High minimum wage is one of the reasons that the unemployment rate among young black males exceeds 50%. That in turn leads to the drug trade and gang violence, and the high murder rate in cities like Chicago.

    In addition to such immediately practical considerations, there's the more fundamental problem that enforcement of minimum wage is a violation of several freedoms.

  20. Re: What complete nonsense on NASA Is Planning Mission To An Asteroid Worth $10 Quintillion (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Money is also a commodity. The amount of other things that money can be traded for depends in great part on the ratio of money to other things. There is no need to expand the currency supply provided that it is adequately divisible; however keeping the price of things stable is generally beneficial. That does make the expansion of the money supply roughly the same as population growth a good thing.

    "without the monetary supply being able to expand there would be no money for poor <rude language> like you." is demonstrably false.

  21. Re:Zoze Zwiss on Galileo Satellites Are Experiencing Multiple Clock Failures (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I can see it now. Centrifuges in space so that weight driven clocks will work.

  22. Re:Just a guess.. on Galileo Satellites Are Experiencing Multiple Clock Failures (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So much for Nietzsche.

  23. Re:The funny thing about infrastructure on Neuroscience Can't Explain How a Microprocessor Works (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    We already have flash, which performs the same system function as memristors. I don't see any dramatic advantage coming from the incorporation of memristors in commercial CPUs.

  24. Re:There are some interesting ramifications. on Neuroscience Can't Explain How a Microprocessor Works (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Even if you connected a billion artificial (or regular) neurons together you wouldn't have a brain. We don't know how the brain works.

    You're close to a contradiction between your two statements. If you don't know how the brain works, how do you know that connecting a billion neurons won't make a brain?

  25. Re:Intelligent design on Neuroscience Can't Explain How a Microprocessor Works (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    The 6800 was the missing link between the 4 bits and the 6502.