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  1. Maybe they'll fire three hundred rounds into in a Xerxes-like fit of rage.

  2. Re:I wonder how the USA would rate... on Over 80 Percent of China's Well Water Is Polluted (voanews.com) · · Score: 2

    So your statement is, "Both major parties are at fault, but we'll blame just one because it fits my narrative."

  3. Re:Other cats on Tiger Numbers Rise For First Time In a Century (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 2

    Maybe their counts are up, but it's hard to tell. It's easy to catch a tiger by the toe, but cheetahs are really fast.

    EENIE MEENIE MINEY MOE!

  4. Well, ABC did...

  5. Philadelphia
    April 8, 1974: high 14c, low 7c.
    April 8, 2016: high 7c, low 5c.
    GLOBAL COOLING!

    Weather is not climate. Two data points mean nothing. Don't hurt the issue by using bad science.

  6. That's no more disingenuous (although admittedly a bit more stupid) than people who point to a photo of a polar bear on an ice floe and say, "Look! The polar bears are going extinct!"

  7. Bill Nye isn't strictly a scientist, either. He's an engineer.

    It's not that he doesn't know anything. He knows a lot of stuff. I would be annoyed if people disregarded everything I said that wasn't part of my core occupation. But he's not a researcher-- he depends on other people's data and results.

  8. Re:Six of the ten biggest companies... on Bill Nye: Climate Change Denial Is 'Running Out of Steam,' Thanks To Millennials (mic.com) · · Score: 1

    Then off with the heads of the people who took off the heads of the first group.

  9. Re:President has pen, can write exec order to FBI on White House Declines To Support Bill That Would Let Judges Order Tech Companies To Break Encryption (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    You got modded down, but this is clearly true. He ordered the INS to stay away from the parents of anchor babies in November 2014. This is "phone and pen" stuff. The truth is not up for debate.

  10. Of course, we'd plunge much of it into malnutrition due to lack of B12 and lose a significant portion of people's cultures to your fascist ideal, but yeah-- we could do that instead of family planning.

  11. The problem is that people who love liberty are mostly nonviolent people. The evil people know that, and take advantage of the fact that they will get a very, very long leash. Meanwhile, they will purposely stoke up the crazies, so they can point to them and say, "Look! The people who love liberty are theocratic, racist, gun nuts!"

  12. Re:They are avoiding the right way on White House Declines To Support Bill That Would Let Judges Order Tech Companies To Break Encryption (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Your mistake is expecting the government to have third-party keys, and not abuse them.

    Various levels of government have already shown they abhor the minor inconvenience of requesting a warrant. They don't like having their activities be public, lest the people question them. W had a virtual rubber-stamp FISA court, but he still went around it because he didn't want his anti-terrorism activities exposed. And they really hate when they're told no.

    A 21st century Clipper chip is not happening.

  13. Re:Oh crap... on Google ReCAPTCHA Cracked In New Automated Attack · · Score: 2

    I already tried to do that, but in order to sign up for the bot, the company made me solve a captcha.

  14. Re:Diane Feinstein on FBI Telling Congress How It Hacked iPhone (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    And we common peons don't need protection.

    That's hypocrisy. Learn what it is.

  15. Re:Scientists playing GOD on Researchers Keep Pig Heart Beating In Baboon Belly For 2 Years (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    OK, don't feed the trolls, and that includes by trolling them.

    Protip: not everyone in the NT is a "hero", and just because God thought Lot was righteous enough to save doesn't mean he thought Lot was a sinless paragon of virtue. FYI, it's written that he was dead drunk, so blaming him for that incident is like blaming a date rape victim. Getting flat-assed drunk was his sin here.

  16. I remember on ST:TNG Dr. Crusher remarking on Klingons having a third lung and extra ribs, presumably due to natural selection in a warlike species.

  17. If the "problem" is that the state doesn't own the people, living or dead. If people elect to selfishly take their bodies with them to the grave, you have to deal with it because as "progressives" like to tell us when it suits their arguments, you can't legislate morality.

    If you believe that the state actually owns the life, liberty, and property of its subjects, then there's no point in discussing any of this with you.

  18. Re:Ew on HP's New Logo Is the Awesome One It Never Used (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The previous line of Elitebooks (the ones with the silver cases) was quite good. Solidly made, and reliable. This line, with a flimsy feeling plastic case, no CD-ROM drive, and no latch for the lid... not so much.

  19. Re:The unrelenting march of technological progress on Australian Man Uses 1TB of Mobile Data in a Single Day (stuff.co.nz) · · Score: 1

    Awesome find!

    RIP, Walnut Creek. Loved picking up CD-ROMs of the archive at Micro Center when my download speed was 50Kbps...

  20. Re:This. on Australian Man Uses 1TB of Mobile Data in a Single Day (stuff.co.nz) · · Score: 1

    I want to know what kind of phone he has. I assume mine would ignite if I tried to push that much data through it.

  21. Re:I'm good with this. on AP Style Alert: Don't Capitalize Internet and Web Anymore (poynter.org) · · Score: 1

    We need to avoid labels, so from now on don't call them "thieves", call them "undocumented re-possessors".

  22. Re: "Affordable" on Elon Musk Announces $35,000 Tesla Model 3 Electric Car · · Score: 1

    The thousand pounds of rock, if that's how much it really was, was certainly far over your load capacity. My Dodge Dakota has a limit of about 1400 pounds. I think I had about 1200 pounds of brick in it, and it was riding low even as a 4x4.

    I doubt whether you actually had 1,000 pounds of rocks because, where would you put it? There really isn't room, unless they were actually gold nuggets or something.

  23. Re:"Affordable" on Elon Musk Announces $35,000 Tesla Model 3 Electric Car · · Score: 1

    You can't be giving that Fusion price in US$. It's off by about $10,000. That's a Fiesta price, and that's a subcompact.

  24. Re:May spur automation on California's $15-an-Hour Minimum Wage May Spur Automation (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know what the hell milk is actually worth on the market, because I live in Pennsylvania. This is one of the top dairy producing states, and the bureaucrats decided they have to protect the industry from its own internal competition. So while milk was $2.30 in most of New York state in December, it was from $3.40-3.80 here.

    Nice racket, if you can get it.

  25. Re:Shitty standard on Amazon.com Now Bans USB Type-C Cables That Aren't Up To Spec (google.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't understand. There isn't any logic in the cable; it's just one set of pins to another. The problem is with the quality of the materials and their construction. Or do you suggest that someone one should be able to connect a bundle of wires attached randomly and let the devices sort it out somehow?