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  1. Given the weight requirements of a drone, are the batteries and motors actually more dense than goose bones?

  2. Nobody gets injured, but you shut down the airport for fear of people being injured. If you use autonomous pre-programed GPS based drones, there isn't even necessarily a radio signal to trace back to the person who launched the drone, potentially from several miles away.

  3. Better yet, just hire Google to add a Cellular Radio Style Censor and let the data flow into the Maps database. Third party verification, and if the streetview photos I've seen of rural areas is any indication we should have a full map in 3-4 years, refreshed on a 4 year cycle.

  4. Re: Who would do this? on In Booming Job Market, Workers Are 'Ghosting' Their Employers (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow, that's one rather worthless HR department.......or maybe accounting......

  5. Re: Who would do this? on In Booming Job Market, Workers Are 'Ghosting' Their Employers (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. But when it's a reaction to being expected to work 80 hour weeks for that salary, one could look at it as collecting unpaid overtime on the way out.

  6. Re:Who would do this? on In Booming Job Market, Workers Are 'Ghosting' Their Employers (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would you leave a job if the employer hadn't already burnt the bridge?

  7. Re:Who would do this? on In Booming Job Market, Workers Are 'Ghosting' Their Employers (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Given that I've never even seen the same employer under 100 employees advertise the same job twice, it's pretty hard NOT to end up burning bridges, but this ghosting seems to take it to a whole new level.

    Although, for a salaried employee with automatic deposit whose manager isn't paying much attention, it could be a profitable move, as you'd likely get a couple of pay periods out before they notice your job isn't being done.

  8. Too late, we already have. Climate change is happening, whether we like it or not, and regardless of what we do.

  9. There is some evidence that there was an earlier tool using civilization that got wiped out when the Greenland meteor hit. Primarily in Northern Africa, but also around the world. The inventors of the Pyramid seemed to have had, at one time, a global culture- and methods of cutting stone that we still cannot replicate to this day.

  10. Re:Wrong answer. Correct answer is on Google CEO Admits Company Must Better Address the Spread of Conspiracy Theories on YouTube (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    All of which were arguably dealing with non-citizens who were not under Constitutional Law to begin with. It's "We the People, in order to form a more perfect union", not "We the Foreign Invaders who wish to destroy".

    However, the Patriot Act was different, for it destroyed the rights of citizens.

  11. Re:Wrong answer. Correct answer is on Google CEO Admits Company Must Better Address the Spread of Conspiracy Theories on YouTube (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Wasn't me who claimed that the "principles outlined in the constitution" had anything to do with any event after 9-11-2001.

  12. More, Africa and South America were less affected by the Greenland Crater they discovered last month. The one that was likely a mile-wide iron asteroid that reset human society back to the stone age.

  13. We have an interesting datapoint at 12,800 years back that is far more appropriate to look at: A time of extremely rapid climate change, one that our ancestors barely survived, and large numbers of species didn't. A combination wildfire and flood that left a black stain at that layer of the soil across North America, Europe, and Asia; that inspired flood legends around the world; that when things settled down resulted in a 1200 year ice age.

    Wouldn't knowing how our primitive ancestors survived that be worth more than playing politics?

  14. Re:Wrong answer. Correct answer is on Google CEO Admits Company Must Better Address the Spread of Conspiracy Theories on YouTube (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    As far as the politicians know, the Constitution was superseded by the Patriot Act in 2001.

  15. It's usually more a case of not having reported being abused by somebody in the first place.

  16. Re:With spinning disks, you do not know either on Why I'm Usually Unnerved When Modern SSDs Die on Us (utoronto.ca) · · Score: 1

    One way to improve his coping mechanism, would be to start publishing everything

    Including manufacturer names and his own mean time to failure numbers.

    Bet that will increase quality control real quick. Or at least tell us who not to buy from because they're cheap chinese crap.

  17. Re:Future Business Case Study on VW Says the Next Generation of Combustion Cars Will Be Its Last (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If you can't figure out how to charge a car at your home, it's probably because you're still using a horse and buggy anyway.

  18. Re: Why not vasectomy instead? on New Male Contraceptive Gel Enters Clinical Trials (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    It is more of an attack on the species of homo sapiens, with the same attacks on amphibians and other species that we've seen from female hormonal control pollution.

    Face facts, artificial hormones WILL be misused and WILL escape into the environment, where they will cause no end of trouble for species like frogs and salmon.

  19. Re:Horomones? on New Male Contraceptive Gel Enters Clinical Trials (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, that is the real point of these anti-creation initiatives. Only greedy people want to divorce sex from procreation, after all, normal people don't mind sharing the planet with other human beings.

  20. Concrete also gets rid of milkweed.

  21. Re:Not super toxic on Monarch Butterfly Populations In the West Are Down an Order of Magnitude (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    And milkweed is quite tall.....

  22. Re:Let me know when 3D XPoint "technology" takes o on Intel Sues Ex-Engineer For Trying To Steal 3D XPoint Technology On His Way To Micron (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It sure took off on Singles Day in China when Alibaba used it in their datacenters.

  23. Re:Literal butterfly effect. on Monarch Butterfly Populations In the West Are Down an Order of Magnitude (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep. They did.

    But can they survive an intelligent species waging a war on their food?

  24. Re:Literal butterfly effect. on Monarch Butterfly Populations In the West Are Down an Order of Magnitude (qz.com) · · Score: 0

    Milkweed is drought tolerant plant, it can handle a lot less moisture. I've had my lawn die but milkweed survive. So can monarch butterflies for that matter. Stop being an urban idiot.

  25. Re:Literal butterfly effect. on Monarch Butterfly Populations In the West Are Down an Order of Magnitude (qz.com) · · Score: 0

    Bullshit, this has more to do with urban sprawl. Both monarch butterflies and milkweed can easily stand a 1.5 degree increase in temperature.