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  1. Re: Gee another NASA fail; nope. on ISS Crew Stuck In Orbit While Russia Assesses Rocket · · Score: 1

    NASA did not choose that. Nixon did.

  2. Re: Just like commercial airline delays on ISS Crew Stuck In Orbit While Russia Assesses Rocket · · Score: 1

    NASA is not the one to blame. The GOP have forced NASA to be an underfunded jobs program for themselves.

  3. Re: Always have a redundancy on ISS Crew Stuck In Orbit While Russia Assesses Rocket · · Score: 2

    No. All of the V1 have been full cargo. It would have been expensive to waste that volume with seats since the dragon is volume constrained. However, the first couple had windows and all have life support.

  4. Re: honey, where'd you hide the spare key? on ISS Crew Stuck In Orbit While Russia Assesses Rocket · · Score: 1

    That would be the Chinese. Does not matter. They are likely getting the classified information in other means.

  5. Re: Get SpaceX crew-rated soon. on ISS Crew Stuck In Orbit While Russia Assesses Rocket · · Score: 1

    Lol. F9R would have nothing to do with manned launch until it was vetted.

  6. Re: Get SpaceX crew-rated soon. on ISS Crew Stuck In Orbit While Russia Assesses Rocket · · Score: 1

    Yes but narishma is one of those types that would take Stalin or Putin over a black president .

  7. Re: Get SpaceX crew-rated soon. on ISS Crew Stuck In Orbit While Russia Assesses Rocket · · Score: 1

    And yet, dragon 2 could be used in an emergency right now to bring astronauts down. In addition, it could be fully vetted in under 3 months, if NASA wanted the vetting.

  8. The real problem is NOT the climate change deniers on Ice Loss In West Antarctica Is Speeding Up · · Score: 1

    The real problem are ppl like you.
    You KNOW that there is an issue.
    You crack down on a nation that is at 15% of the CO2 and dropping.
    Yet, you do not say squat about a group of nations that represent about 12% of all emissions.
    Worse, you allow the nation that is at 33% of emissions, and growing, to continue growing it and claim that it is smart to do.

  9. Re: screw the slow expensive trains; go hyperloop on Examining Costs and Prices For California's High-Speed Rail Project · · Score: 1

    How is hyperloop a scam?

  10. Kill H1B, make them all green cards on FWD.us To Laid-Off Southern California Edison Workers: Boo-Hoo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Seriously, the H1-B is about companies being able to control the price. IOW, it is a local communist approach. All competition disappears.
    With green cards, the employee is free to move around, and as such, they can find the best companies to work for.

    That is how we get REAL competition.

  11. screw the slow expensive trains; go hyperloop on Examining Costs and Prices For California's High-Speed Rail Project · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Seriously, this is a joke that it is being built. It is a jobs bill similar to SLS for Space.
    Hyperloop is where America should focus and push. It is obvious that we can go not only 500 MPH in the tubes, but even higher speeds should be possible.

  12. only one is to own business on Ask Slashdot: Moving To an Offshore-Proof Career? · · Score: 1

    Seriously, you have to own the business. Oddly, america has load of ppl with great skills that should be focused on starting their own company as opposed to working for others.

  13. Re: As long as you don't count CO2... on 25 Percent of Cars Cause 90 Percent of Air Pollution · · Score: 1

    even better is to buy a much faster electric car. You do not worry about pollution (directly, anyways), and the new ones are going to be blowing the doors off production ICE vehicles. Yeah, they will not do 200 MPH, but OTOH, they will get to 60, 100, and 120 much faster than nearly all ICE vehicles. And that is what matters on the roads.

  14. Re:Cold war is over on Export Ban Drives Cuba To Non-US Analytics Software To Boost Tourism · · Score: 1

    How could anybody in England own land here, when it belonged to the native Americans?
    You can not.
    As to the business/buildings, we never took them away. In fact, it would go against everything that America stood for back then.
    Now, Castro took over the businesses/posessions, etc.
    Is that anything like what America did? Nope.
    However, IMHO, that was foreign soil and it is NOT America's place to protect businesses and possessions on foreign soil. It IS our place to protect our citizens, even on foreign soil, but, that is a different issue. I do not recall Castro killing Americans, just grabbing the businesses.

  15. Re:Cold war is over on Export Ban Drives Cuba To Non-US Analytics Software To Boost Tourism · · Score: 1

    Oh, I believe that the land 250 years ago absolutely belonged to the Native Americans. What Europe did to them (spain, portugal, england, france, germany,etc) was genocide.

    Now since America was formed, that means that we yanks are responsible for what happened after that point. And I believe that we owe a lot fo them.
    Even now, the GOP continues to steal from the native Americans, over and over.
    It makes zero sense at 'giving' land back to them. However, it does make sense that we prevent any more theft, esp by our government. As it is, reservations here are their own gov/nation. If somebody goes onto a reservation, unless it is a federal offence, we have to treat it as a foreign nation. We actually have to send in extradition, etc. And that is how it should be. Likewise, we should be doing more to help them.

    However, these are OUR issues to solve. But the idea that ANYBODY in Europe is owed land from here is a total fucking joke. Even the Mexican/New Spaniards, who were fighting the native Americans and committing genocide against them. But while the N.A. had many 10s' of millions here in mid 1800s, the Mexicans were less than 10,000 throughout the entire area that is consider USA.

  16. Re: He's Right on Top Advisor To Australian Gov't Says Climate Change is a UN Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    The fact that he is an ar-15 owner while running around as AC testifies to what he regards as his marksmanship.

  17. in a way, he is right. on Top Advisor To Australian Gov't Says Climate Change is a UN Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    There is no doubt that AGW is real. Anybody that says otherwise with no clear proof is simply a blowhard. .

    But that does not negate the fact that there is a UN conspiracy. The UN and far left are pushing for america and somewhat the west to drop emissions. Yet, all of the developed world, minus China, is less than 33% of emissions. China alone is more than 33% of all co2 emission. In addition, they surpass america in total emissions since 1860. And the one measurement that all ignore is that Europe has more than double America,s emissions for the last 1000 years, while China is more than double of Europe's.

  18. Re: As long as you don't count CO2... on 25 Percent of Cars Cause 90 Percent of Air Pollution · · Score: 1

    Actually, their mpg drops so more fuel required to go same distance.
    However, the side reactions, such as increased CO, would be from incomplete burning, therefore for the same amount of fuel, you would have less CO2.
    BTW, to get that, the car would not have a working catalytic converter.

  19. Re:Cold war is over on Export Ban Drives Cuba To Non-US Analytics Software To Boost Tourism · · Score: 1

    really? Show me some proof. NOBODY in England owned ANY LAND HERE.It belonged to the Native Americans.

    But what businesses did we steal? And what horses? Did Americans go running through the home of redcoats stealing and murdering the same way that red coats had done to Americans?
    Somehow, I doubt that we did.

    More importantly, I suspect that you can not back up a SINGLE word of what you are claiming, except by claiming that stolen items belonged to your citizens. Kind of like when Germans claim gold fillings.

  20. Re:Short memories, repeated freak out. on Global Carbon Dioxide Levels Reach New Monthly Record · · Score: 1

    You seem to have a comprehension issue.
    The SA article was that in 2013, 1 sensor in the northern hemisphere recorded 400 for a day. THen it dropped.
    The next article is that ALL sensors in the northern hemisphere records 400 and above for the month of April.

    And if you think that ANY of those earthquakes has produced a single TICK in the total CO2 levels, well, it is obvious that you have not just reading comprehension issues, but logic as well.

  21. What a joke on Global Carbon Dioxide Levels Reach New Monthly Record · · Score: 1

    more than 33% of all CO2 comes from 1 nation. Later this year, it will move into the nation that has emitted the most CO2 since mid 1800s. Note that if we were REALLY serious about CO2, then we would go back at least 1000 years ago, in which case, China ALONE has emitted more than 1/2 of all CO2 that man has EVER emitted.

    Now, we have far left freaks that scream about America which currently emits less than 15% of all CO2. In addition, it is DROPPING fast.
    OTOH, China's continues to grow unabated. By 2020, China will account for more than 50% of all CO2 that is emitted yearly.
    Not sure about this? Then look at the OBJECTIVE map of this as shown by OCO2 satellite.

    CO2 will continue to climb until the far left and politicians will look OBJECTIVELY at the issue and quit trying to use it for their own purposes.

  22. You do not have to look at Venezuela. I would say that the old GOP would never have anything to do with Communist China. Now, the new GOP have more in common with them, and love to move companies there, even though they have no legal footing afterwards.

  23. Re:Cold war is over on Export Ban Drives Cuba To Non-US Analytics Software To Boost Tourism · · Score: 1

    how exactly did any of that land belong to the duke? Just because they declared it? Did the duke develop it? Or did he steal it from the native Americans here?

    Keep in mind that many Mexicans claim that America stole their land as well. Yet, there were some 100 million Native Americans here, that New Spaniards/Mexicans kept fighting with, and trying to exterminate them. Finally, when USA came across the west, USA succeeded only because the Mexicans had been committing genocide for so long against the native Americans.

  24. Re:Cold war is over on Export Ban Drives Cuba To Non-US Analytics Software To Boost Tourism · · Score: 1

    Really? What exactly did America steal from Britain back then?

  25. Re: Right place, right time. on Why Was Linux the Kernel That Succeeded? · · Score: 1

    In general, this is the right answer.