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  1. Re:battery flattery on Toyota's Battery 'Breakthrough' Can Lead To More Range, Longer Life (cnet.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    No, they are not the same. Battery is hitting someone. Flattery is complimenting them to excess.
    Very different acts with very different results.

  2. "People died in those fights. But they'll be back before long."

    Reincarnated perhaps?

  3. Re:Carbon vs Silicon on For the First Time, Living Cells Have Formed Carbon-Silicon Bonds (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    That's exactly what we were taught - the number one reason that silicon was never part of biology was silicon dioxide.
    Period. End of story.

    It isn't even that hard to figure out.

  4. Photo voter ID - definitely

    Too many people voted more than once. Too many non-citizens voted. Too many dead people voted.

    For example: I know several people who retired to Florida from a northern state. They vote in person in Florida and vote by absentee ballot in their home state. If I know several, how many thousands are doing the same that I don't know about?

    We need a nation-side system to identify registered voters to make sure they're registered in only one state. The system would also check to make sure they're not deceased.

  5. Re:Incentivized vs fake? on Amazon Makes Good On Its Promise To Delete 'Incentivized' Reviews (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Incentivized reviews are supposed to say somewhere in the review something like: "I received this product free or at a deep discount in exchange for this review."

    Fake reviews generally all sound the same, using the same language with the same grammatical mistakes, sometimes in broken English. They're easily spotted.

    You can always copy the url of the product and run it through fakespot.com to see if the reviews are real or not.

  6. All of the breakers in my house are at least 20A, with larger ones for appliances that draw more power.

  7. Can we at least speak the same language? on Google Sends State-Sponsored Hack Warnings To Journalists and Professors (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    "These warnings are being sent by Google since 2012 . . . "

    No, it should be:
    These warnings have been being sent by Google since 2012 . . .

    Please learn to write or don't call yourself a writer.

  8. Be very careful what you ask for on Clinton Urged To Challenge Election Results Due To Possible Hacking [Update] (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    You may just wind up with a civil war that your side cannot possibly win.

    Nobody wants a war like that, but if you keep pushing and pushing and pushing, that exactly what you'll get.

    Just remember, our side is better armed than your side.

  9. Re:Interesting side effect: No pardon for Hillary on President Obama Says He Can't Pardon Snowden (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If 0bama doesn't pardon Hillary, the next administration most certainly will prosecute her. You can't let crimes like she committed go unpunished. When people see the upper class (especially the political class) get away with doing what the lower and middle classes cannot, the rule of law goes out the door. I don't think most Americans will stand for her not being indicted.

    The accusations against her are not coming from Trump. They are coming from Congress and the FBI.

  10. Re:Solved! on Maths Zeroes in on Perfect Cup of Coffee (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, brewing coffee is far more involved than just the size of the particles. I can think of - country of origin, altitude where the coffee is grown, kind of soil the plants are grown in, variety of the plant, how the beans are processed, water temperature, water quality, roast, size of the coffee grains, and the time it take for the water to go through the coffee.

    Charbucks ain't perfect coffee by any stretch of the imagination. Maybe perfect for those who are willing to pay too much for a cup of swill, but nowhere close to what you can get if you roast your own beans at home.

    And for the coffee gods' sake, stay away from Keurig.

  11. Re:Poor Nazis on Twitter Suspends American Far-Right Activists' Accounts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    From my point of view most of the hate is coming from the other side, aka Democrats. They're all for tolerance until you disagree with them, and then they get very, very violent. Peaceful protests devolve quickly into riots. Property is destroyed and people get hurt. That's hateful behavior by any definition (and crossing state lines to riot is a Federal crime).

    Everybody always calls Republicans "Nazis", without even knowing what the word means. The left in this country is way closer to the definition than the right is.

    I'm sorry, but ignoring hate from the left is ignorance.

  12. Bill?

  13. Sorry. It's my fault on US Drought Brings A Surprise Benefit: No Tornados (cnn.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    I live just outside of Birmingham, AL. Back on September 18th I bought the best umbrella I've ever owned. It works so well that it won't let rain come within a hundred miles of me.

    That's the honest truth and I don't know what to do. I really want to keep the umbrella, but my yard needs rain. The grass crunches when I walk across the yard. It's drier than my ex-wife.

  14. Re:BBS on Re-Discovering The 'Lost Civilization' of Dial-Up BBS's (ieee.org) · · Score: 2

    In the mid-to-late 90s I WAS the parent.

    But I was the one on the computer all the time. Finally had to get a second phone line. Wound up with three phone lines before it was all over.

  15. Re: good for them on Earth's Plants Are Countering Some of the Effects of Climate Change (economist.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I just received this text:

    That's how I planned for it to work.
    ~God

  16. Shades of Monty Python . . . on Facebook Bug Tells Users They Are Dead (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    The Dead Collector: Bring out yer dead.

    [a man puts a body on the cart]

    Large Man with Dead Body: Here's one.

    The Dead Collector: That'll be ninepence.

    The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I'm not dead.

    The Dead Collector: What?

    Large Man with Dead Body: Nothing. There's your ninepence.

    The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I'm not dead.

    The Dead Collector: 'Ere, he says he's not dead.

    Large Man with Dead Body: Yes he is.

    The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I'm not.

    The Dead Collector: He isn't.

    Large Man with Dead Body: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill.

    The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I'm getting better.

    Large Man with Dead Body: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment.

    The Dead Collector: Well, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations.

    The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I don't want to go on the cart.

    Large Man with Dead Body: Oh, don't be such a baby.

    The Dead Collector: I can't take him.

    The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I feel fine.

    Large Man with Dead Body: Oh, do me a favor.

    The Dead Collector: I can't.

    Large Man with Dead Body: Well, can you hang around for a couple of minutes? He won't be long.

    The Dead Collector: I promised I'd be at the Robinsons'. They've lost nine today.

    Large Man with Dead Body: Well, when's your next round?

    The Dead Collector: Thursday.

    The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I think I'll go for a walk.

    Large Man with Dead Body: You're not fooling anyone, you know. Isn't there anything you could do?

    The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I feel happy. I feel happy.

    [the Dead Collector glances up and down the street furtively, then silences the Body with his a whack of his club]

    Large Man with Dead Body: Ah, thank you very much.

    The Dead Collector: Not at all. See you on Thursday.

    Large Man with Dead Body: Right.

  17. Re:Oh, one more point about the law's creation on Judge Refuses To Block New York 'Ballot Selfie' Law (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    rsilvergun, the country is older than you are. History goes back a lot further than the day you were born. Didn't they teach you anything in school?

  18. Re: Oh, god damn it. on Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic To Lead EPA Transition (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    None of us alive now will live long enough to see any seriously negative consequences. Humans will still be around in a hundred years, a thousand years, maybe in ten thousand years. We adapt.

  19. Not me. I intend to live forever . . . . or die trying!

  20. California doesn't need to secede. It will be part of Mexico before too much longer anyway.

  21. Re:yes they should on Slashdot Asks: Should The US Abolish The Electoral College? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You must live in one of the more populous states. We who live in smaller states would never have a say in who becomes President if it were based only on popular vote.

    While we're at it, let's go back to letting the state legislatures choose their Senators so that states would be represented in Washington. That was the way it was for much of our country's history and we need to have it again.

  22. Re:Donald Trump? on New Theory of Gravity Might Explain Dark Matter (phys.org) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You've just explained how we got Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, and Obama.

  23. What a world, what a world! on Teachers 'Unwittingly' Spying On School Children With Surveillance Software (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Is this really the kind of world you want to live in?

    Well, unless you do something pretty soon, this is the world you're going to have and it will be getting worse not better.

  24. A thousand times NO.
    Would I trust Google or Snopes or whoever to give me the truth? No way in hell!

  25. Re:white supremacy on Nvidia Adds Telemetry To Latest Drivers (ghacks.net) · · Score: 1

    There are beautiful, sexy women in every country on this planet, and their color has nothing to do with it. My personal favorites are from India and Sweden.

    You need to expand your horizons a little bit and open your eyes. You're missing so much in life.