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  1. Re:head transplant, or body transplant? on Neuroscientist: First-Ever Human Head Transplant Is Now Possible · · Score: 1

    Eyes are my favorite example. Why did we get the backwards wiring and the blind spot?

  2. Re:As if Windows8 wasn't having enough problems on Microsoft To Add Ads To Smart Search · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What makes you think that was not the idea all along?

    Have you seen Xbox home?

  3. Re:head transplant, or body transplant? on Neuroscientist: First-Ever Human Head Transplant Is Now Possible · · Score: 1

    "Where's the Coffee?" you mean. Otherwise you got a grey market English one.

  4. Re:head transplant, or body transplant? on Neuroscientist: First-Ever Human Head Transplant Is Now Possible · · Score: 1

    It gets 24x7 maintenance is prone to an entire list of defects, the timing mech often fails before the rest.

  5. Re:head transplant, or body transplant? on Neuroscientist: First-Ever Human Head Transplant Is Now Possible · · Score: 1

    You're going to be sad, it's not real. Same as Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.

  6. Re:head transplant, or body transplant? on Neuroscientist: First-Ever Human Head Transplant Is Now Possible · · Score: 1

    Why those contraints?

    This pump get 24x7 maintenance, and flow rate is all that matter not how often it pumps.

  7. Re:The body can affect the mind on Neuroscientist: First-Ever Human Head Transplant Is Now Possible · · Score: 1

    Sure it can impact your mood and such, I take a drug every morning that most people make their own of that does that.

    This does not mean the drug changes who I am.

    I have no interest in discussing souls or chakras or other BS.

  8. Re:Yet another great argument... on D.C. Awards Obamacare IT Work To Offshore Outsourcer · · Score: 1

    If the maids are forced onto the street they need something. Like maybe a hotel.

    So why are they staying in the street if they have these options? Sure looks like that 24 hour rest period does not include something.

    I am not a big fan of silly conspiracy theories. Him being an ideologue who ignores facts is far more likely.

  9. Re:Yet another great argument... on D.C. Awards Obamacare IT Work To Offshore Outsourcer · · Score: 1

    The market failed in the past. I am basing this on history. Go look it up.

    I would allow people to drink in a shelter if it was up to me. Many european nations already do this. Harm reduction is what we should shoot for. I would not allow living on the street by choice. This is nothing new, vagrancy is normally a crime in the USA.

    The market failed to do that in the past. Instead we got workers abused and consumers lied too. If I can just say I give masks to my painters at my car factory I can pocket the extra you are paying me.

    We change the government all the time. The change is slow as it should be. I am very happy you cannot institute your changes. They are foolish short sighted and proven wrong by history.

    Switching nations for someone like you is not too bad. The poor are who generally illegally immigrate.

  10. Re:Some things should not be.. on Neuroscientist: First-Ever Human Head Transplant Is Now Possible · · Score: 1

    Never, she is always Grandma.
    I am hoping for that for me in the future, I doubt it will be available.

  11. Re:head transplant, or body transplant? on Neuroscientist: First-Ever Human Head Transplant Is Now Possible · · Score: 3, Funny

    Or like a terrible pump design. Intelligent design my ass, more like idiotic design.

  12. Re:Some things should not be.. on Neuroscientist: First-Ever Human Head Transplant Is Now Possible · · Score: 2

    Please explain how this would provide eternal life.

    Your brain no longer functioning properly is not going to be solved by getting a new body, that will happen with age. Go read a science book!

  13. Re:head transplant, or body transplant? on Neuroscientist: First-Ever Human Head Transplant Is Now Possible · · Score: 2

    What are you trying to say?

    You think the sack of meat below your neck has anything to do with your consciousness?

     

  14. Re:So just a more expensive Gigabit Ethernet then on Alcatel-Lucent Gives DSL Networks a Gigabit Boost · · Score: 1

    How is it cheaper to run new fiber than to use the existing copper?

    A considerable amount of cost is tech time, which has to mesh with time when users are home. That means doing a single block can take a week or more.

  15. Re:GNSS on Russian Rocket Proton-M Crashes At Launch · · Score: 1

    Newer phone are much faster than that.

    I am not going to carry another GPS device everywhere I go. Even if I had to wait a couple minutes. I have had one in the past and it failed in both urban canyons and real ones.

  16. Re:So just a more expensive Gigabit Ethernet then on Alcatel-Lucent Gives DSL Networks a Gigabit Boost · · Score: 1

    You run fiber to the curb, then use this to deliver that to the home.

  17. Re:What an improvement over gigabit ethernet! on Alcatel-Lucent Gives DSL Networks a Gigabit Boost · · Score: 1

    Which you have to run to each house, sounds not very practical.

    Phone lines are already going to each home, so this is great for fiber to the neighborhood then use the POTS line since it is already there.

  18. Re:Why hasn't the board fired Ballmer? on Steve Ballmer Replaces Don Mattrick As Xbox One Chief · · Score: 1

    Unless you think they have not hit bottom yet. If it takes another decade you probably don't want to buy in now.

  19. Re:Well, on Steve Ballmer Replaces Don Mattrick As Xbox One Chief · · Score: 1

    Which would be great for microsoft. As much as I malign them, they really do deserve a better leader.

  20. Re:Disagree on Firefox Takes the Performance Crown From Chrome · · Score: 1

    For me it is because of vimperator. I wish chrome had proper support for it. That means stripping out all the normal UI. no URL bar, no back and forth nothing.

  21. Re:Adblock plus on Firefox Takes the Performance Crown From Chrome · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Real addons period.
    Chrome still can't really be customized. A great example is vimperator.

  22. Re:Yet another great argument... on D.C. Awards Obamacare IT Work To Offshore Outsourcer · · Score: 1

    The free market is not providing them with any alternatives. If it was so glorious why would they need those welfare and social benefits? I more meant to indicate that they can't find any place to stay like hotels that are affordable for them. Which seems like the sort of thing roman_mir would suggest.

    Yeah, he would be pretty surprised about switzerland if he ever actually visited it too. I get the impression he is not exactly a world traveler.

  23. Re:GNSS on Russian Rocket Proton-M Crashes At Launch · · Score: 1

    True, it would also be nice if we could expand GPS. More sats would really help.

  24. Re:Yet another great argument... on D.C. Awards Obamacare IT Work To Offshore Outsourcer · · Score: 1

    It is a balancing act, but just because it is harder does not make it worthwhile.

  25. Re:Yet another great argument... on D.C. Awards Obamacare IT Work To Offshore Outsourcer · · Score: 1

    Go to Hong Kong.
    People are living in cages, on Sundays the maids are forced out to live on the street. You can't possibly be serious about Hong Kong as an example. It is a classic example of the horrors of the race to the bottom. Very few very rich and loads of barely getting by or totally impoverished.
    The 19 century in the USA was horrible. People died in the street for lack of money. Extreme poverty was visible everywhere.

    Northern Europe is a good example of the alternative.