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  1. Re:And you choose the NFL as your example? on NFL: National Football Luddites? · · Score: 1

    Except that football doesn't really have a defined length of play. Sure, there's 60 minutes, but there are all sorts of rules about when the clock runs and when it doesn't. Much different than basketball and hockey, which don't have the problem of running over.

  2. Re:What about Google driverless car? on Software Bug Caused Qantas Airbus A330 To Nose-Dive · · Score: 1

    That's not murder in any place, unless you're alleging (and assuming your other assertions are true) that Nader's intent was specifically to kill people. Good luck proving that.

  3. Re:Want! on The Most Dangerous Toys of 2011 · · Score: 1

    Citation needed.

  4. Re:Or, translated in plain english on Renault Opens Up the 'Car As a Platform' · · Score: 1

    The Prius has a jump terminal under the hood.

  5. Re:Jihadis are as dangerous as Kamikazes on Was Russia Behind Stuxnet? · · Score: 2

    They aren't counterexamples because nation-state conflict is completely different than what happened on 9/11.

    You can insist all you want, but the American public was not up for nuking Afghanistan after 9/11. You'd have seen that 91% evaporate pretty quickly, a majority of Americans believe that the US should only use nukes only in response to a nuke attack.

  6. Re:Users disagree with him on The Condescending UI · · Score: 1

    It's amusing, every time the ribbon comes up you get comments like this, but they never seem to mention just what they're trying to find.

    The only thing that I remember having to actually search for was Protect Document. It got shoved at the end of the Review tab for some reason. It also shows up on Developer (which you have to specifically enable).

  7. Re:There are certain inevitable trade-offs on The Condescending UI · · Score: 1

    A classic +5, insightful post..

    "I never use the product, but I can tell you that I hate the ribbon"

  8. Re:Ohhhh shit on GM, NHTSA Delayed Volt Warnings To Prop Up Sales · · Score: 1

    You would have been the fucking idiot in the 1880s saying "Benz, you dumb shit, why did you make this run on gas? Where am I going to get gas? Some magical fictional place? Who is going to build all of this?"

  9. Re:It's a trap: Next step: Proprietary battery on Bluetooth Keyboards With a 10-Year Charge Promised · · Score: 1

    Do you also use a ball mouse with no scroll wheel?

  10. Re:Ha! on Bluetooth Keyboards With a 10-Year Charge Promised · · Score: 1

    Zenith Space Command.

  11. Re:Raise money by giving up a couple of lattes on Netflix CEO Comments On Recent Decisions · · Score: 1

    Assumes that there's still a blockbuster convenient to you. I live in one of the most populated cities in the country and it's now a 20 minute drive.

  12. Re:TV ain't broken? on TV Isn't Broken, So Why Fix It? · · Score: 1

    Then there's all the timewasting adverts. You might think a show starts at 10:30 but the broadcasters see the schedule time as a way to get you sitting down to watch a few adverts, nothing more. You might waste 20 minutes before it actually starts (at least, that's what they do around here).

    The only one that really does this is primetime football, where programming starts at x:00 but the game doesn't start until around x:20. Every other program starts pretty much exactly on time.

  13. Re:Netflix on USPS Ending Overnight First-Class Letter Service · · Score: 1

    USPS will accept your own packaging, but the cheapest rates use their boxes. You can reuse old boxes as long as they're still sturdy and you've removed all old packaging and labels.

  14. Re:Netflix on USPS Ending Overnight First-Class Letter Service · · Score: 1

    This. It's amazing how people will call for the end of decades or centuries of policy without ever considering why the policy was started in the first place.

  15. Re:Should X be mandatory? on Should Composting Be Mandatory In US Cities? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Organic stuff rotting in a landfill, under anaerobic conditions, generates significantly more methane than aerobic decomposition, and takes significantly longer to decay.

  16. Re:Should X be mandatory? on Should Composting Be Mandatory In US Cities? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Exactly. What's sad is that this opinion is not unique at all.

  17. Re:Should X be mandatory? on Should Composting Be Mandatory In US Cities? · · Score: 1

    Get over yourself. You're not working the line in a 300-seat restaurant, you're preparing one meal. I can guarantee that you have 5 seconds to think about where to put your refuse (or just set it all aside and sort it before you do the dishes).

  18. Re:Great on Anonymous Threatens Robin Hood Attacks Against Banks · · Score: 1

    If they live better, then why not go that route? Probably because you'd quickly find that it isn't at all better than what you have.

    For a 1-person household, you have to make less than $14,160 to be eligible for "free food".. and you get a max of $200 for a month. After 3 months, if you don't have a job (or children), say goodbye to your benefits for at least 3 years.

    Housing is a bit more complicated but Section 8 isn't usually "free housing" (it's a partial subsidy unless you have literally zero income and assets) and "projects" have a negative connotation for very good reasons. There's also multi-year waiting lists in most areas so good luck with that, assuming you can even get on the waiting list.

    Free basic education is not predicated on income levels. Pell grants for higher education rarely cover all costs.

    If you make "happy meal an hour" wages then you should be getting most of your income taxes refunded, and likely qualify for other refunds (e.g. some jurisdictions have property tax refunds).

  19. Re:Mod up parent on Why America Doesn't Need More Tech Giants Like Apple · · Score: 1

    There's a lot more nuance to the vegetable picking than laziness. First, the farms are not always close to the people. So sometimes you're throwing away a bunch of that wage (and time) just to get to the job. Second, and much more importantly, is that it is actually piecework, not a true hourly wage. It only works out to $10/hr if you can meet the rate that they specify. And the expected rate is very high because they're used to migrant labor that they can just abuse without repercussion. It's nearly impossible to meet the rate without experience and even with experience it's backbreaking to maintain it for a 8-12 hour day in the sun.

    If you don't make the rate, you get paid a pittance.. an inexperienced group in Alabama got $24 for a day's work.

  20. Re:Time on California Going Ahead With Bullet Train · · Score: 1

    One big flaw with your reasoning is that society/economy can never be stable. People are always being born and dying. Natural processes affect the economy (weather/disasters). And the actions of other societies/economies have an effect on your own.

    And then there's the further problem of where and when you decide that the laws are "stable" and can no longer be changed. The Constitution by itself doesn't really do anything. It expects the legislature to pass laws to implement it.

    [Insert useless analogy]

  21. Re:The bond measure was for $98 billion on California Going Ahead With Bullet Train · · Score: 1

    While Nevada and Florida went for Obama in 2008, they are not typically considered "blue states".

  22. Re:The legitimate projection of force. on The Future of Protest In Panopticon Nation · · Score: 1

    Bloomberg is one of the richest people in the world and he's 69 years old. He doesn't need to go anywhere after his term is up.

  23. Re:the new att same as the old what next for them on AT&T/T-Mobile Merger 'Not In the Public Interest' · · Score: 1

    With the exception of rural areas, a land line was not a luxury in the 70s and 80s. Penetration was just above 90% by 1970.

  24. Re:F2 for Search on Bill Gates Takes the Stand In WordPerfect Trial · · Score: 1

    I can't say I've had many problems with list formatting, and format painter makes it easy to get things consistent. But the more advanced option would be to turn off auto formatting of lists, and use styles like the other reply discusses.

  25. Re:But there was no controversy on New Batch of Leaked Climate Emails · · Score: 1

    "I would just publish the raw data, and move along on my way"

    Except that's not how it works. You publish the raw data and they'll start cherry-picking it to make you look like you're doing something devious. It'd be no different than the emails, really.