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  1. Re:Not sure what is new here. on The Boring Company's First Tunnel Is All Dug Up (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    And he hasn't done that yet- this came in over budget and about twice the cost of a conventional tunnel.

  2. Re:Not sure what is new here. on The Boring Company's First Tunnel Is All Dug Up (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    No cutting edge tools were used to build this tunnel. The boring machines were purchased from other projects, was even more expensive than other tunnels in a dollars per mile routine.

  3. Re:Since we're OT on Wildfire Devastates California Town of Paradise (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    It is when that industry is against the free market.

    Actually, the hard part is that I see both Republicans and Democrats as liberals. Anti-liberty people like myself are pro-regulation, because it restricts liberty. The only difference in the liberal republicans and the liberal democrats is that one is for fiscal liberty and the other for sexual liberty.

    I say the American experiment has proven that people can't rule themselves and stay moral.

  4. Re:Since we're OT on Wildfire Devastates California Town of Paradise (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, and I'm all for lefty liberal busybody regulations. I'm to the point where "liberty"="How can I hurt my neighbor today?"

  5. Re:Since we're OT on Wildfire Devastates California Town of Paradise (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    YES. Both of these. But there is a free market way to do it without regulations:

    Ban the insurance industry.

  6. Re:Since we're OT on Wildfire Devastates California Town of Paradise (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Boathouses only burn when the fire is started from the inside. A boathouse sufficiently away from shore is a great way to prevent your house from burning up in a forest fire.

    Another way is to build concrete bunkers instead of wood houses.....

  7. Re:Since we're OT on Wildfire Devastates California Town of Paradise (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    But they aren't, actually. The ones that happened in the 1860s were much larger and more deadly. Since 1900, global warming has been DECREASING the temperature differential and thus reducing the power of these storms.

  8. Re:Since we're OT on Wildfire Devastates California Town of Paradise (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The key to the later is to restrict building to OUTSIDE of the forests.

  9. Re:Since we're OT on Wildfire Devastates California Town of Paradise (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    You can build for those disasters. Heck, you can build for fire too.

  10. Re:Since we're OT on Wildfire Devastates California Town of Paradise (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    No, I blame the buildup of fuel on liberals. Forests burn quite regularly- you can either burn them yourself or have them start naturally, but burn they must.

  11. Re:Since we're OT on Wildfire Devastates California Town of Paradise (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Hmm... You build big cities on what is basically a spit of swampland sticking out into an ocean. What the hell did you expect would happen?

  12. Re: small town on Wildfire Devastates California Town of Paradise (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, as another pointed out, you can build for most natural disasters now. Even for fire.

  13. Re:Since we're OT on Wildfire Devastates California Town of Paradise (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, well, at least I'm not stupid enough to live in a fire prone desert. Oh, and I've NEVER voted Republican.

  14. Re: small town on Wildfire Devastates California Town of Paradise (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    That would work. I read about one man who lost two houses to forest fires, who then built himself a concrete castle. He actually welcomes in firefighters to use his house as an emergency shelter.

  15. Re:Since we're OT on Wildfire Devastates California Town of Paradise (apnews.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Why should he, this city and state got itself into this mess by building where they shouldn't and then not doing controlled burns.

    Wildfires are *CAUSED* by human liberals being stupid.

  16. Re: Aborigonals Didnt Live There on Wildfire Devastates California Town of Paradise (apnews.com) · · Score: 2

    That was the Chinookan people to the north, not the Aztlan to the south. The Aztlan used human sacrifice, a far less efficient method, to manage wildfires and weather.

  17. Re:small town on Wildfire Devastates California Town of Paradise (apnews.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If wildfire destroys your small town, it's a sign that you should never have built there to begin with.

  18. Re:I just saved $1000 on Samsung Will Put Notches On Its Future Phones (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm NEVER going to buy a notched screen. And if they're contemplating bringing back sliders instead, how about a thumb keyboard as well as the camera?

  19. Heck, why build the campus at all? Just grab the model and buy your people VR glasses to use in their houses.

  20. Re:The Franchise on Did You Vote? Now Your Friends May Know (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Dang, beat me to it!
    Was actually written in the 50s. Multivac was Asimov's prediction of what Univac would become.

  21. Re: I voted on Did You Vote? Now Your Friends May Know (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Voting, driver's license are the two most common ways to get on the list.

    Being a property owner and paying property taxes is another.

  22. Re:I will vote on Did You Vote? Now Your Friends May Know (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    As if I needed another reason to vote the day the ballots come out- to avoid getting hit by text messages from these apps.

  23. Proving once again that the only real difference between a libertarian and a crony capitalist is a bank account large enough to buy a politician.

  24. Re:Less money spent wooing lobbyists on Amazon In 'Advanced Talks' To Open Headquarters In Washington DC Area (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you are confused. The bribes are collected by the agencies from the corporations, not the other way around.

  25. Re:Less money spent wooing lobbyists on Amazon In 'Advanced Talks' To Open Headquarters In Washington DC Area (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Because if you can't piss off your front porch, the neighbors are too damn close.