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  1. Re:No on Can Star Trek's World With No Money Work In Real life? (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Communism tended to look after it's own

    There are a number of millions of dead Russian peasants who had to try to eat weeds (and were shot if found doing so) because their communist overlords took all the food they grew "for the greater good" who would disagree with you.

  2. Re:No on Can Star Trek's World With No Money Work In Real life? (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    *This* turns out to be untrue. While there are currently a few primitive people who use gifting, there are also some primitive people who barter. You have absolutely no idea if barter was or was not the prevailing method before money came around. And, giving gifts with the expectation that a gift will be given to you sometime in the future is barter. It's just not immediate.

  3. Fantasy on Can Star Trek's World With No Money Work In Real life? (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    An unlimited source of magical power would as well. Just as feasible if you don't mind solving the problem with fantasy.

  4. Re:wetware will have to do for now . . . on Will You Ever Be Able To Upload Your Brain? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    have a vague idea how the underlying digital hardware works

    If that phrase refers to the human brain it is astoundingly wrong. Even using the term 'digital' is fundamentally wrong. The human brain is not digital.

  5. Re:core point on How To Make Messages Easy For an Alien Race To Understand (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    If they have an atomic model other than the concept of electrons and protons they don't have advanced electronics and so no means to detect the Voyager message other than after it impacts their planet.

  6. Re: FUCK OFF DICE on Getting More Women Coders Into Open Source · · Score: 2

    Quotas are not competition.

  7. Re:Back in July - of 2013! on Linux Kernel Dev Sarah Sharp Quits, Citing 'Brutal' Communications Style · · Score: 1

    Guys insult each other. It's how we communicate,

    No it isn't. Maybe you and your group but it's not at all universal.

  8. Re:Can't Take the Heat........? on Linux Kernel Dev Sarah Sharp Quits, Citing 'Brutal' Communications Style · · Score: 0

    Emotional content and aggressiveness are not indicators of caring.

  9. Re: Issue is more complicated on Linux Kernel Dev Sarah Sharp Quits, Citing 'Brutal' Communications Style · · Score: 1

    I will do my best to set them up for failure. People with that mentality don't usually plan ahead very well.

  10. Re: Why? on 4 Calif. Students Arrested For Alleged Mass-Killing Plot · · Score: 3, Informative

    By promoting that teachers should be armed to protect the children? Employment wise, it was wise of you to post AC. Hopefully, you don't write code with that kind of logic.

  11. Re:Safety on 4 Calif. Students Arrested For Alleged Mass-Killing Plot · · Score: 1

    What "law"? Perhaps you could like to it.

  12. Re:Negativity and the Subconscious on Google As Alphabet Subsidiary Drops "Don't Be Evil" · · Score: 2

    Neither does "Do the right thing".

  13. Re:136 lbs? on F-35 Ejection Seat Fears Ground Lightweight Pilots · · Score: 1

    Muscle development != muscle bound. That 'stereotypical' you mentioned is forty pounds lighter than we're talking about.

  14. Re:Add weights? on F-35 Ejection Seat Fears Ground Lightweight Pilots · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure I've known some rather tough four foot eight men who could toss you across the room. But no, it's not far fetched that it affects some of their pilots.

  15. Re:The F-35 is having problems? on F-35 Ejection Seat Fears Ground Lightweight Pilots · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately there are actually people who would believe this.

  16. Re:Boring on Artists Create a 1000-Year GIF Loop · · Score: 1

    Consider the person who would come up with the idea in the first place. No, they could not come up with something more interesting than a counter. That's probably their limit for tech science knowledge.

  17. Or a brick on San Francisco Still Among Most Dangerous For Pedestrians · · Score: 1

    When I lived in K.C. there was a crosswalk on a curved 4 lane street I had to cross. Cars rarely slowed down even though the crosswalk was larger than normal. I started carrying a brick raised high above my head. They then slowed down.

  18. Re:Plausible speculation, Nevertheless, speculatio on Apple Bans iFixit Repair App From App Store After Apple TV Teardown · · Score: 1

    You understand you're being trolled by an AC, right? Disregarding facts to gen ire is the foundation of Trolldom.

  19. Taste on Scientists Discover How To Get Kids To Eat Their Vegetables · · Score: 1

    I raised my daughter myself and we ate lots of veggies. Steamed or otherwise, you have to make them taste good. Learn to cook well, not just cook. If you put it in your own mouth and you don't close your eyes at the flavor the kid won't either. I never had problems with her eating vegetables.

  20. Re:Oh, that's ironic on Treefinder Revokes Software License For Users In Immigrant-Friendly Nations · · Score: 1

    Apparently you have no idea what the word racist means.

  21. Re:Bad data is worse than abstract data on Doctors On Edge As Healthcare Gears Up For 70,000 Ways To Classify Ailments · · Score: 2

    The problem with granularity is the same one as the problem with trying to describe each grain of sand.

  22. Re:It's amazingly simple to have economic growth on Mark Zuckerberg Issues Call For Universal Internet Access · · Score: 1

    Those babies aren't squealing because there's no food available, they're squealing because their shit for brains parents won't get it, preferring to satisfy their or immediate wants first.

    During an early hard period of my life I utilized food stamps. They are easy to get and actually a little difficult to get them to turn off. BUT, you have to get off your ass to do it.

    In other words, your argument is moot. Especially as the two activities are not at all mutually exclusive and the first will facilitate the second in short order.

  23. Re:Energy is the priority on Mark Zuckerberg Issues Call For Universal Internet Access · · Score: 1

    Why don't you spend some time talking to someone who has dealt with these issues on the ground?

    This is typically said by someone who hasn't "spent some time..." and posts AC so you can't check that they're being a hypocrite.

  24. Re:Easiest way to do this. on How To Clean the Cruft Left By a Windows 10 Upgrade · · Score: 1

    "As for privacy, it's dead, and has been for a while now." That, sir, is trolling. Basically, 'You aren't completely anonymous, so don't worry about someone snooping your every action.'

  25. Re:There are some businesses that might need to cl on Court Rules Batmobile Is Entitled To Copyright Protection · · Score: 1

    So, you're saying those *people* need to close?