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  1. Re: They think small on Terraforming Might Not Work on Mars, New Research Says (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, if $magic, then you could stop the sun expanding anyway.

  2. Re:Try making your product usable again on Mozilla Is Rebranding Firefox and Wants Your Feedback (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Because really the only thing that bothers me is the UI, plus I want a browser and not a goddam applications suite.

  3. Re: Zachary Shahan said WindBourne sucked his cock on Tesla Model 3 Outselling Small, Midsize Luxury Cars In US (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm failing to see why per capita GDP would have any relevance to total sales of expensive things (which is what he was talking about).

  4. Re:Starting? on Fake News 'Crowding Out' Real News (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The Internet makes it easier to find diverse sources so as to not be in an echo chamber.

    It also makes it easier to find ones which agree with you.

    Want to take a guess which path most people choose?

  5. Re:Well, yeah. on Terraforming Might Not Work on Mars, New Research Says (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    That later what? Train, bus...?

  6. Re:Well, yeah. on Terraforming Might Not Work on Mars, New Research Says (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    And neither does Titan have any magnetic field of its own. Since it must be relying totally on Saturn's field, how strong and how nearby an external field would Mars need to retain a usable atmosphere?

    Stronger than Deimos, Phobos and anything that we could feasibly build would provide.

  7. Re: They think small on Terraforming Might Not Work on Mars, New Research Says (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 2

    A quick calculation shows that if we leave a safety margin of 10x the Moons orbit around each pair, we could fit 18 Earth/Moon pairs in the current Earth orbit.

    It doesn't quite work like that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  8. Re: They think small on Terraforming Might Not Work on Mars, New Research Says (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    Terra/Luna.

    Found the pretentious twat!

  9. Re:space nutters are nuts on Terraforming Might Not Work on Mars, New Research Says (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    Our sun, a primary sequence star, will one day expand and envelope earth

    The self-adhesive kind, or the type you have to lick?

  10. Try making your product usable again on Mozilla Is Rebranding Firefox and Wants Your Feedback (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I was trying to do something with Firefox on somebody else's computer and I just didn't have a clue how to do it.

    The first thing I do on my own machines is install classic theme restorer, which isn't perfect but it gets you 90% of the way to sanity.

  11. Re:People are greedy. News at 11 on More Than 60% of Tech Workers Feel They're Underpaid (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree. Bear in mind this is what they think, and I'm not sure if you can even get a reliable answer for whether they actually are or not.

    If there's a surprise, it's that the percentage is so low.

  12. Can't you? I remember creating a Kali respin (non-PAE) for my old T40 and it worked fine.

  13. Re:fristy froth pots on US Military Told To Move From 'Expendable' To 'Reusable' Rockets (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Because reusing is what hippies and leftists like. Therefore it is by definition bad.

    Have you never watched Fox?

  14. No mention yet ... had to do something on Pentagon Creates 'Do Not Buy' List of Russian, Chinese Software (defenseone.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe they had trouble finding it because systemd didn't mount the drive correctly?
     

  15. Your original premise didn't mention the government.

    It merely stated that people who get paid for doing nothing don't achieve anything. It's wrong, as my counterexample shows.

  16. Re:Dock vertically? No way. on The Next iPad Pros Will Shrink and Lose Their Headphone Jacks, Says Report (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 2

    Apple would basically be negatively impacting usability simply because it canâ(TM)t solve an engineering problem.

    Like making something that's extremely finicky about how you hold it? Say it isn't so!

  17. The red lights don't count if you're on the sidewalk!

    Signed,
      Every hipster uber-eats deliveroo tard ever.

  18. fristy froth pots on US Military Told To Move From 'Expendable' To 'Reusable' Rockets (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    *Froth froth*. It's political correctness gone mad. *Froth froth*.

  19. Paying people not to work destroys the ability to achieve.

    In Victorian times there was an occupation called "gentleman". It was a person who had so much wealth - usually inherited - that he could just live on the investment income.

    Plenty of them were absolute tossers but some actually did achieve things.

  20. Re:Well sort of, but you're missing a key point on Can Hoover Dam Become a Giant $3B Battery? (cleantechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    If I pump it up twice as far it costs twice as much energy to pump it up, but I get twice as much when it comes tumbling back down.

    Is there something I missed here, something that doesn't scale linearly?

  21. Re:Perfect solution: Boil the ocean on Can Hoover Dam Become a Giant $3B Battery? (cleantechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The thing is, this unused energy that would go to waste is quite some distance from the ocean.

  22. Re: Cool. They are going to cap normal cabs too t on New York City May Cap the Number of Uber, Lyft Vehicles On Its Streets (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I can see you regularly needing transportation, especially to and from parties.

    What with you being such an utter fucking hoot and all that.

  23. Call me "Sherlock Hog" on Can Hoover Dam Become a Giant $3B Battery? (cleantechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I deduce from the TFA's suggestion to use Elon Musk's batteries that the anonymous submitter is none other than yourself.

    How do you plead?

  24. The US did tend towards "fit in or fuck off". How many second generation immigrants speak the old language properly? How many third generation ones speak it at all?

  25. people fleeing catastrophe

    Some of them are. A lot of them clearly aren't. I mean, if I can't find a job in Barnsley can I just fuck off to London and someone will put me up? Don't get me wrong, Barnsley can be a bit rough but it's not quite a war zone.

    Are you sleeping on the couch so one can have your bed?

    Britain still holding Gibraltar indicates that the long-term goal of "managing" the Mediterranean is still in the national interest

    Britain has had Gibraltar longer than two of the most populous states in Europe have existed, and what's more we won it fair and square. But if we're playing the reset game, can we have Aquitaine, Denmark and Hanover back? Oh, and that bit between Canada and Mexico?

    Going back to your thing about great powers ignoring ethnic divisions, Czechoslovakia is another example of that. And yet the Czechs & Slovaks went their separate ways without even a pub brawl.

    What's stopping other ex-colonies from going "OK, you have this bit and we'll have that bit. Let's fix a date for a football game"?