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  1. Re:Illigal or not? on For Now, UK Online Pirates Will Get 4 Warnings -- And That's It · · Score: 1

    Soon they will be called Undocumented Owners. Then they get immunity. Problem solved.

  2. Re:costly concentration on MIT Combines Carbon Foam and Graphite Flakes For Efficient Solar Steam Generati · · Score: 1

    This process still requires some mirrors; it starts to work at about 10x maximum solar light. But that's still a couple of orders of magnitude better than any other system using mirrors.

  3. Re:Grow up under Socialist system on Experiment Shows People Exposed To East German Socialism Cheat More · · Score: 1

    Interesting stories. Thanks for posting.

  4. Re:We need competition, not mergers on Rupert Murdoch's Quest To Buy Time Warner: Not Done Yet · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with AP and Reuters? Most news outlets (including Fox) get most of their news stories from the wire services.

  5. Re:No Decent Solution on Activist Group Sues US Border Agency Over New, Vast Intelligence System · · Score: 1

    In 2013 almost a million people immigrated to the US legally.

  6. Sacremento? on California In the Running For Tesla Gigafactory · · Score: 1

    Sacremento is out in the California Delta. There's already a severe water shortage, plus that crop land is among the best in the world. Bad place to build a huge factory that will draw thousands of people into the area.

  7. Trust, but verify on High School Students Not Waiting For Schools To Go Online · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Did they bother to check if any of the students had really taken a course? Most likely the students were just picking the check box that made them look good. I would bet that the actual % who took a course is far lower.

  8. East is East, West is West... on Russian Government Edits Wikipedia On Flight MH17 · · Score: 1

    Those of us in the West can't understand why Russia doesn't just admit that it was a mistake.

    Meanwhile those in the East understand that Russia will never admit it screwed up.

  9. Re:bringing booze to a thirsty frontier on Exhibit On Real Johnny Appleseed To Hit the Road · · Score: 1

    Whiskey was also a convenient way to market corn. Ferment it, distill the alcohol, and sent it down the river to St. Louis or New Orleans. Then feed the leftovers to the pigs.

  10. Re:Local testing works? on States That Raised Minimum Wage See No Slow-Down In Job Growth · · Score: 2

    You can't put the blame on Republicans for US drug policy. Both parties have been pushing it hard since the 1930's under Roosevelt.

  11. Re:And today on Apollo 11 Moon Landing Turns 45 · · Score: 0

    The space program is languishing because Democrats cut budgets everywhere they could to fund Obamacare. You can't blame Republicans for this one.

  12. Recent experience on "Intelligent" Avatars Poised To Manage Airline Check-In · · Score: 2

    A few minutes waiting for a kiosk to be available, couple of more minutes tapping the screen. Had the boarding pass and baggage claim ticket in hand. Then waited at least 15 minutes for a person to wander by and take the bag I had checked (for a $25 surcharge). Maybe the avatar will recognize the annoyance building and ping someone to come over.

  13. Re:Was there really an increase? on States That Raised Minimum Wage See No Slow-Down In Job Growth · · Score: 1

    True, they are different. But growth is (usually) followed by inflation. My point was that the increase in minimum wage came about because of inflation, which was (probably) the result of growth.

  14. Was there really an increase? on States That Raised Minimum Wage See No Slow-Down In Job Growth · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nine of the 13 states increased their minimum wages automatically in line with inflation

    In other words, in most states there was no increase. The minimum wage wage boost followed the economic growth.

  15. Re:Why isn't the U.S. doing things like this? on Japan To Offer $20,000 Subsidy For Fuel-Cell Cars · · Score: 1

    The question was whether an SUV should be treated as a truck or a car under Section 179, just a different way to calculate depreciation.

  16. Re:What caves? on NASA: Lunar Pits and Caves Could House Astronauts · · Score: 2
    FTFA:

    Most pits were found either in large craters with impact melt ponds – areas of lava that formed from the heat of the impact and later solidified, or in the lunar maria – dark areas on the moon that are extensive solidified lava flows hundreds of miles across.

  17. Re:Carbon impact is misleading on Japan To Offer $20,000 Subsidy For Fuel-Cell Cars · · Score: 1

    It's a shame they don't have a few nuclear power plants to generate cheap and clean electricity.

  18. Re:Why isn't the U.S. doing things like this? on Japan To Offer $20,000 Subsidy For Fuel-Cell Cars · · Score: 1

    Maybe, but I have to believe the real motivation is to capture world market share.

  19. Re:Tough call on $10 Million Lawsuit Against Wikipedia Editors "Stragetically" Withdrawn · · Score: 1

    Yea, same as O.J. Oh wait.

  20. Re: Drug use versus crime on World Health Organization Calls For Decriminalization of Drug Use · · Score: 1

    Do you really think the only crime in the US is selling and using illegal drugs? Things like robbery, extortion, prostitution, gambling, etc. don't exist in your world?

  21. Re:Why isn't the U.S. doing things like this? on Japan To Offer $20,000 Subsidy For Fuel-Cell Cars · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The US is already doing this. There are plenty of tax credits and other subsidies for hybrid vehicles, ethanol, etc.

  22. Drug use versus crime on World Health Organization Calls For Decriminalization of Drug Use · · Score: 1

    The social cost off allowing the use of certain drugs (alcohol and marihuana for sure, maybe a few others) is preferable to to the cost of trying to ban them. But anyone who thinks legalizing drugs like cocaine or opiates will reduce street crime is living in a dream world; take away selling drugs to earn a living and it will be replaced by a different crime.

  23. Will Google visit his site? on 'Hidden From Google' Remembers the Sites Google Is Forced To Forget · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What happens when Google visits his site? Is that another take down request? I see the possibility of infinite recursion here.

  24. Banks, etc. on Obama Administration Says the World's Servers Are Ours · · Score: 1

    Suppose this was a Wall Street bank being audited. Suppose they just said "We store our financial records on a server in Ireland. NA NEE NA NEE NOO NOO, YOU CAN"T CATCH ME"

  25. Re:oh, please, it's never "leaked" on Leaked Build of Windows 9 Shows Start Menu Return · · Score: 1, Troll

    It's always, without exception, a strategic move by the PR department, to encourage public chatter about some product.

    Yes, that's probably who leaked it. Kinda like those prototype Apple phones that get "lost" at bars and turn up in the hands of a tech gossip writer.