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  1. Re:And another on the ban pile on Kingston and PNY Caught Bait-and-Switching Cheaper Components After Good Reviews · · Score: 1

    Yeah but by making a car that runs forever they are helping out the customer and undermining the car industry by creating fewer jobs in the future. Don't you know that our motto is to make a lot of crap, so we can keep busy making it? Everybody needs a job, and you are killing jobs if you make a quality product! You have to make crap, as a matter or honor, if you make a quality product, that's like pulling the bread out of someone's kid's mouth! Without a job you can't pay your bills! Having no bills, whoever heard of such a thing? Because there are some standard costs you can't avoid, unless you're a yeoman farmer with no property taxes, such as housing, utilities and food, and recently they are trying to shove insurance down on everyone's throat too (in the form of mandatory health insurance, when previously you could opt not to drive and not buy any form of insurance whatsoever, car insurance being the only mandatory one but only if you drive. Now they are trying to introduce a mandatory existence fee to Da Man (not even the government itself in form of some minimum tax per person, but to some private party in form of a health insurance premium)).

    I personally stopped buying car insurance too, and the only insurance I will limit myself to purchase in the future is the kind that is not mandated by law, such as rental car collision, if I find the price vs. risk is a good deal for me, but I will decline anything mandatory by law, even free health insurance from my employer (which means I'll lose my job pretty soon if they offer to hire me permanently), or car insurance, especially since they started raising the bloodsucking limits required by law to double what they used to be? Why they stop there? Why not have a minimum five hundred million dollar bodily injury limit, isn't even that too low? My only problem with mandatory insurance is the price, since I am willing to purchase car insurance if they can sell me one for $0.01 (i.e. 1 cent) premium payment for 6 months for minimum coverage limits set by law. That's my free market price, and if nobody is willing to match it, the government has no business telling me to buy it. Or are they gonna get involved in insurance price control too now?

    I'm waiting for the time they take me to jail over it, I want this stance of being against any mandatory purchase from a private party by law bullshit on my record. Put it there, I went to jail for not buying insurance that I did not feel was a good deal for me. The government can collect taxes, and set whatever the rates should be. That's it. Taxes are the only say they have in my financial dealings. Not ordering me how to spend my money, what to buy, what not to buy. Next they'll order me to buy tomatoes, or a smart phone, or a dvd movie, regardless of the price. If nobody is willing to sell tomatos to me for 99 cents/lb, I don't think I should have to buy it. Next they'll issue a booklet on when to sleep, how long to sleep, when to wake up, when to fuck, how long to fuck, how long to work, how long to sit on the toilet, what color to die your hair, what tattoos are appropriate, also what kind of piercings, etc, similar to Mao Tse Tung's Little Red Book instructing you how to live your life, how to be a good communist. I can't really find a good copy of it, it's been a while since I seen the booklet with the bs instructions on how to live life, but I found this link of quotes, some of them are like woah! Free speech extreme. Read only at your own risk: https://www.goodreads.com/auth...

  2. Re:remember when Walmart was all "Buy American!" ? on Kingston and PNY Caught Bait-and-Switching Cheaper Components After Good Reviews · · Score: 1

    The race to the bottom is also called free market price competition, and the race to the bottom in quality comes about as a necessity from the race to the bottom in price. If you don't participate, you're out of the game. It's like having good morals vs. being slutty. If you always have good morals and you are never a slut, you're out of the game too. How to find that magic balance point, ehh? Quality vs. price? Cuz either extremes get you out of the game. How to maintain quality in SSDs while winning the race to the bottom on price? How to maintain your good morals while also being a good slut?

  3. Re:Needless to say on Appeals Court Finds Scanning To Be Fair Use · · Score: 1

    By the way http://biblehub.com/gwt/ezekie... Ezekiel 23 is about prostitution. Good read.

  4. Re:I can't buy one on Are US Hybrid Sales Peaking Already? · · Score: 1

    Ezekiel 23:20, check out the wikipedia page on energy density to get a clue. Large caps are worse at energy storage than batteries, but are faster, and would be used if the batteries could not keep up with the breaking energy getting dumped to them. They store less and are more expensive than batteries per calorie stored. Batteries have the same problem compared to conventional gasoline - they are very expensive per calorie stored, and also have limited life compared to the engine. The biggest issue with hybrids is the super expensive deep cycled large storage capacity battery dying and needing replacement.

  5. Re:Regardless of any 'sensitivities'... on Humans Not Solely To Blame For Passenger Pigeon Extinction · · Score: 1

    A protected nature reserve is protected from whom or what? From nature? From predators? No, it's protected from people. So high diversity in a nature reserve means high diversity in a zone protected from people. Same dam thing.

  6. Re:So says the richest man in the world... on Bill Gates To Stanford Grads: Don't (Only) Focus On Profit · · Score: 1

    Preaching water while drinking wine. It's what you call a good sense of humor.

  7. Re:So says the richest man in the world... on Bill Gates To Stanford Grads: Don't (Only) Focus On Profit · · Score: 1

    I hate javascript and this xmlhttprequest stuff, cuz I never know if the typos up there I typed myself or someone snuck them in while I was down the page. I mean most of them I probably did myself, but some are weird and creepy, like no way!

  8. Re:So says the richest man in the world... on Bill Gates To Stanford Grads: Don't (Only) Focus On Profit · · Score: 1

    By the way you can hit the top score in that game if you construct a road running a bunch of Camels from Katsina to Novgorod, if you luck out with a Katsina with lots of diamonds, not just ivory, and you attack Cairo to lose access rights so you don't get a screen pop up every time you go through it. Every time you get an attack or storm and hit Esc you don't have to fight it, that's like a cheat. Also it takes forever if you get involved in politics, so if you just focus on one thing, trading, and nothing else, you'll end up losing half of everything when you have 400,000 florins, then 800,000 florins, every time Venice gets sacked, and the banks where you keep your money in there get sacked,(which you could have avoided by hiring private armies to defend the city and banks where you keep your gold) but can fairly easily get to 1,000,000 florins which gets you the Merchant Prince title in the score log. After that the game gets kinda boring, but it's a nice game to have for the next generations to learn.

  9. Re:So says the richest man in the world... on Bill Gates To Stanford Grads: Don't (Only) Focus On Profit · · Score: 1

    It's voila, not viola. There is this old DOS game, the Merchant Prince, where you can throw parties, etc, and the game is all about profit, difference is prices, also bribing cities, local rule, church, pope, silly corruptions, silly pirates, private armies, and it's all in the name of profit, how profit controls activity and seeking it makes the world a better place, and it does describe the best way to world ever functioned, right before the Lord Almighty, or powers that be, decided to take Columbus over to this other place called Columbia, and bring this kind of world over too - with churches, gunpowder, horses, sail ships, etc, colleges, sciences, etc. Now the Great Spirit regrets a lot of it, especially losing so many of his people, and I had this dream, like a year ago, where they say we lost so many of our brothers, there is only a few of us left, like you can count it on two hands, and they point up to the top of the cliff-hilltop, where a small white colored church with a cross on top is standing, as in, that is part of the problem, or cause, that christian brotherly love hypocrisy is what destroyed us because it's so powerful, and then there is an ambulance rushing, and cops, somebody got shot again, it's one of my people again, and you can see he is in tremendous pain and bleeding from the gut, but still alive, and they did it fighting over the women.

    Over a decade and a half ago I saw this PBS documentary, with a native american on a reservation saying he accepted the Lord three years ago, then. And you can tell on his face, his words, his body language what a rape-job that was, how that robbed him of everything that he used to be. Now he probably gets good food, an easier living, etc. But that kind of stuff is just plain wrong. Forced conversions of Great Spirit believers by the Judeo-Christian powers that be are not in accordance with the ways of God.

  10. Re:Needless to say on Appeals Court Finds Scanning To Be Fair Use · · Score: 1

    I was just thinking about this topic driving home today. How a local discount store used to carry Dorco Pace 4 shavers, and I've used them for like the past 5 years, and they last like 6 months a package of four at least, for something that used to be a lot cheaper than the standard Gillette or Schick or Bic stuff, but now they've switched to Dorco Pace 6, which is more expensive, and it sucks! I mean I used it but it does not go at it strong enough, you have to scrape your face a few times with the Pace 6 compared to the Pace 4 that used to like dig in, and the blades in it would last friggin forever, for months, with shaving 5 mornings a week. I'd go like a whole friggin year on a $3.xx-4.xx pack of 3 or 4, I bought the packs like 8 or 10 times my entire life and they've taken me through the last few years. So I go online, and go to these frugal advice webpages, and they talk about Dollar a Day shaving deals, how you can save a lot of money on it, or you can upgrade to Harry's razors for better quality. A whole friggin dollar a day for shaving? Are they out of their minds? If it comes with a blowjob, then yeah, I'd pay a dollar a day for a shaving deal, but I'd be paying for the shaving and get the blowjob part for free.

    So I was thinking how come when sex is bundled I'd be willing to pay more, but I would not be willing to pay directly for sex. See here is the ultimate dilemma, because once you start paying for sex, it degrades sex, it's not two free people interacting out of their free interest and free enjoyment of each other, (and in this case free as in beer translates into free as in freedom), and mutual respect, it's a most private personal thing degraded to an I'm doing this out of necessity not because I'm enjoying it. Like somebody held a gun to my head and told me to get naked, but instead it's like starvation is on the line, etc. So even in porn about the most important thing is that the person doing it be happy. If they look like they feel exploited, ashamed, unhappy in any way it's crappy porn. The best porn is watching somebody have an orgasm, and you have mirror neurons, and you can feel what they feel, so to speak, but when they are faking it, and it's obvious, and they are doing it for the money, that's horrible porn. It takes the authenticity of freedom, happiness, and mirror neuron shit out of it, because you were gonna get off on someone else getting off, but when they fake it that's like being betrayed. So the only porn or even prostitution, worth anything, is one where people like what they are doing and would be willing to do it even for free, or even pay to do it themselves, not because they do it for the money. And then giving them money on top of it, that makes them extra happy, so this is where it all gets really complicated. It's really hard to ask from real life prostitutes to enjoy what they are doing and do it for free or even pay for it themselves, instead of getting paid for it, in most cases real life prostitution is about desperation and needing to make an income or feed a family, and those are very inhumane things, so we erect laws against them, so nobody on welfare could be told, hey, why don't you go work the corner or suck some old fetid guy off and make a living that way, because she can say "it's against the law." It's a very private and personal thing that people shouldn't be forced to do no matter what the circumstances, even life and death circumstances. If someone tells me you either gonna sweep or mop this floor or you'll starve I have absolutely no objections against that, I'll mop the floor, but if they say here's a rich 80 year old man, and he wants to get a blow job for money, so you can buy food on it, and she'll be like no, that's not a viable option to make a living, for her. For her is what matters, because if she likes to do that stuff, she can, just because it's against the law it happens anyway, but she can cite the law to escape it, and have a personal choice. There are a whole lot of 80 year old men with some money saved up from their meager social s

  11. Re:Seriously? on Ask Slashdot: Best Rapid Development Language To Learn Today? · · Score: 1

    Amen to that, bro!

  12. Re:Seriously? on Ask Slashdot: Best Rapid Development Language To Learn Today? · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should leave driving to people who actually know what they are doing. Or talking, leave it to the lawyers, and don't ever talk. Hey, some things you gotta do yourself in life, unless you were born as nobility, with special birth privileges, and then you don't even have to do the walking yourself, because some people, called slaves, will carry you around in a box, called a litter, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

  13. Re:Not sure what they mean... on Microsoft Runs Out of US Address Space For Azure, Taps Its Global IPv4 Stock · · Score: 1

    Oh and Living with wolves, https://www.youtube.com/watch?... , alpha beta gamma delta epsilon etc... and omega. Back 15 years ago I saw some PBS program showing the decisions of an alpha, and how he never made a mistake, in the dead of the winter, through choosing mountain passes, where to winter, for how long, when to move on, and how much rested on his shoulders, and how much the pack has grown from correct decisions.

  14. Re:Not sure what they mean... on Microsoft Runs Out of US Address Space For Azure, Taps Its Global IPv4 Stock · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh yeah, and all humans originated in Africa when it was time to climb off the tree and walk upright on two feet among the tall grass when the trees and the colorful fruits they carry disappeared from a sudden environmental change, and monkey's having had the most excellent eyesight of the whole animal kingdom (except some predator birds, but nobody beating it on combination acuity and chromacity, even if some hexagonal vision bugs get better chromacity, at least wider range into UV, as some flowers only have UV color) and the visual cortex to go with it, judging from a mile whether a colorful fruit is just the ripe amount of ripeness or should it wait one more day, so these monkeys had to turn to hunting grass eaters with all the fruits gone, and hunting is always the most intelligent activity because you don't only have to predict your environment, you have to predict the environment predicting other intelligence around you, understand the way they think and feel and what they are gonna do next better than they can understand themselves. So anyway, all humans come out of a single mutation event in Africa where 99.9% of the old treehopping inverting thumb foot monkey genepool disappeared and some very marginal portion of upright walking hunters selectively remained, but all mammals come out of an ice age area, as it was always warm enough near the equator jungles for the 0.0001% hotblooded mutation not to get selected out but blended back into the major genepool, as opposed to in a glacier environment, where 99.9999% of all other coldblooded reptiles went extinct in the local domain, and only the two reptiles that developed internal temperature fever and hair with 37C or feathers with 42C made it, and these two mutations are most likely a single individual each (as you don't have mammals with 26C or 49C, or birds with 32C or 53C blood temperature), these individuals still being able to breed with the other sex of their ex-genepool, but the offsprings all carrying and maintaining the high temperature reptilian fever mutation. Evolution happens in sudden jumps, and only under dire selective pressure circumstances. When life is easy, any mutation blends into the general genepool and does not get selected for, well, other than say sexual aberration featuers, such as the peacock's large tail, that's a hindrance to survival but very enjoyable by the females, or colorful fish, or other such "beauty" mutations, like, pretty much the only selective pressure is on huge dicks and big arm muscles for males, small waists and big butts and tits for the females, but with silicone implants only the small waist part remains as a selective pressure. All sexual enjoyment features, during good life, in absence of war, and absence of hardship. Oh yea, and the mutation to shorten lifespans like other mammals, that are sexually mature by age two, and the elders die by age 15, as under easy conditions and no educational requirements, that's the fastest standard breeding cycle that prevails. Longevity, people living into the 110's is where educational requirements are obviously present, such as Japan, and Caucasus mountains, even if in Japan it coexists with the fast breeding pedophile group, and the final outcome is yet to be decided, and the longer the good and easy life goes on, the more the fast breeding low educational requirement group proliferates. I don't want an apocalypse, but the God's of Olympus, or the Great Spirit, or all the other names "we" as in "we" in the Quran go by, are starting to get fed up with things getting out of hand. Of course if you can invent mammals that can acquire and transfer an education worth 50 years in under 1 year, then sexual maturity and longevity in life expectancy are not a requirement, and old age and death may come at age 15, to hand over the cycle to the next generations, just like in case of cats, canines, etc. That's the downside of easy life and fast breeders, low longevity. In fact a lot of muslim origin women are mindblowingly hot at age 12, and by age 19 they go through a sudden transformatio

  15. Re:Not sure what they mean... on Microsoft Runs Out of US Address Space For Azure, Taps Its Global IPv4 Stock · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, so my post quickly gets a -1 offtopic rating. It's on topic too mofos, it's all about IPV6! Sigh. In any case no you know why muslims towel wrap their bitches - they try to hide their pedophilia and reproductive competition. It's nobody's business she's prepuberty 10 year old sucking 50 year old wrinkly muslim dick already. Cuz at least she's a guaranteed survivor, unlike them 40 year old "career" women of NYC who finally decide they've forgot about having a family, so how about that idea, who have a hard time hooking a 50 year old guy like Taro Aso who instead watches 12 year old anime cartoon porn.

  16. Re:Not sure what they mean... on Microsoft Runs Out of US Address Space For Azure, Taps Its Global IPv4 Stock · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Do onto others as thou would have them do unto thee. See if another advanced lifeform, like an alien, above my level, had to kill me, I'd prefer they do it in a kosher way. My favorite way to go would be in my sleep, without being informed about my death looming on the horizon, and then just gassed with anesthetics, then poison gas and never wake up. That would minimize my pain and suffering and mental anguish, but a lot of human executions carry a lot of anger and revenge feelings of wanting the executed to "pay" for his crimes and suffer, as some sort of consideration to exchange. If I had to kill somebody for whatever reason, I'd get passed this "hate" and emotional baggage, and uphold principles of kosher death, which should be rare, and if it gets really abundant, then you look into why we have so many kosher deaths and perhaps then the suffering part comes in. I can see how it has a deterrent effect on crime like murders.

    So anyway, Alien, the queen monster from the movie, she'd have a hard time upholding principles of kosher when it comes to killing. In her world ethical dilemmas are nonsense in the struggle for survival, and as a mother she has no other objective but life, to push on life, and fight for life, make new life, and survive, and all the ethics, such as dilemmas about other lifeforms suffering fall to the wayside when it means her life or her offspring's life being at stake. And in life one should seek balance in everything, even in self assertion, but then those that don't practice self assertion to the max go extinct like the Dodo, and ultimately arguments land on the topic of well, survival is overrated, and there is no inherent reason why one must survive, no matter what, and being a Dodo is part of the world too. She cannot comprehend such a concept. So a main issue with human competition in the struggle for survival is the mammalian female reproductive cycle, and fast breeders drive the slow breeders to extinction, unless there is competition on other fronts like killing or starvation from property, and then technology and property rights. Most mammalian life forms live on the order of a decade, and be gone by 20 years or so - cats, dogs, pigs, horses, cows. In humans reproductive maturity is not reached until age 13 for girls, (even later for boys, but as the females are the bottleneck, the reproductive speed is only dependent on them, and men don't have menopause, and stay as fast breeders til death, almost,) and then under circumstances of abundance of resources and peace (no warlike violent technology-murders) and freedom from disease, and communism with no property rights to create starvation (welfare food stamps compared to irish potato famine), the population with females hitting puberty at age 12, or 11.5, or even, say, age 8, will drive the slow breeders extinct. The earliest birth or sexual maturity for a female was like birth time, she was born sexually reproductive, and got pregnant too, but the parents raised her and her baby as sisters, so there has to be a certain time, before the actual mother can repeat the cycle and take over caring for the baby. But this drive for youth in females and males being fast breeders is engrained in things like japanese anime, or muslim sultan's harems of women, or even in this age muslims marrying girls at age 10-11, and already copulating by the time she actually hits puberty so she never really gets a chance for a period she instantly becomes pregnant, and then topics like is a 6 year old girl married to a 50 year old man immoral according to the Quran, as there are some exceptional but highly sought after cases when a girl matures at age 8, and is ready to be a mother, and actually cycle the generation as opposed to her parents raising both her and her child as both children. So in contrast to this mammalian internal nurturing of the egg for a long time, as opposed to releasing it into the environment right away to hatch externally, as practiced by almost every other life form, including fish, frogs, reptiles, birds, insects (this is not

  17. Re:Not sure what they mean... on Microsoft Runs Out of US Address Space For Azure, Taps Its Global IPv4 Stock · · Score: -1

    They want to run out of IPV4 addresses just to concoct yet another reason why you should upgrade. It's really hard to kill XP, so if you changed the internet to IPV6, that would be a good nail into that coffin that finally shuts it. I for one am gonna handle it like I did the switchover to the new tv broadcast system: the world can move on to a better world, but I'm not interested. The only place I watched on air programming under the new system is at my aunts, and it was pretty interesting, but I will not do it at home. It's like I eat meat all over the place, buy it at pizza shops, chinese food places, or free lunch at work, halfass vegeterian style, but I try to keep my fridge or my meal preparations free of it. (and instead I eat a lot of eggs, which are life, or potential life, but have no eyeballs lookin at me while I do the killing, or central nervous system modeling the world around it and feeling mental anguish, mental pain and suffering, in a state of conscience. Do onto others as thou would have them do unto thee. In a difficult world with low food resources I'd have no problem hunting and doing the killing with my own hands, eyeballs staring back at me or not, and even in a good world keeping up the practice and tradition and skill, while minimizing the actual killing, is agreeable.) I don't have a problem watching on air tv at other people's home, but I don't do it at home. It's gonna be like that with IPV6 internet, I won't have a problem with it at the library computers, but it's not coming onto my home computers, unless windows 95A/B/C or windows 2000 SP2/SP4 get an update for it. And even if the web stays IPV4 for a long time, I may still leave it for good with my home computers, especially when DRM and DMCA stuff really proliferates. It's like I have absolutely zero desire to turn into these smart phone punching monkeys everywhere around me, every time you say something way off or startling to them, like something offensive or racist, they pull out their devices and start monkeying around on it, to buy time for their own thoughts. It's like I worked at this chemical company back in the 90's, and there was this young engineer that acted really shy and stuff, so every time you asked him a question, he'd pull out his TI-82 graphing calculator and start punching buttons on it. Like, what do you think we should do to make our product better quality? And he'd pull out his calculator and start punching the buttons. Like, dude. Come on. And to top it off he had a girlfriend and talk about her all the time, invited people to go out with the two of them, and he was relaxed, except when it was discussing work issues and some questions got mildly mentally overwhelming. so I had this female coop coworker with a two-stooler booty (and I'm talking it'd be huge for even a black girl, and this one was a white girl) and she's like how come a loser like him got a mate but I don't ever since my boyfriend dumped me? She was asked on a weekend boat ride on the Lake by Mr Hero twice her age, but she was reluctant, or acted like that. I hope she went. You're 20 only once, and when you're 40 guys are not gonna flock around you like when you're 20, if you're a girl,(age is less severe for men, but some women, like Heather Locklear, must come from a really slow breeder wealthy general population background, cuz she hit the top of her prime a few years before menopause, and only started looking post menopausal after age 50, but at age 40 she was hotter than at 20, so there are some exceptions)

    So anyway, btw, I have yet to watch a DVD movie, after these dozen years that it's been around, and I abstain because of the DRM bullshit that comes with it, such as region codes and encryption. Though I slipped once when one of my friends played like 30 seconds of Black Superman and caught me off guard. I'm also thinking about buying George Carlin's "All my stuff", but it comes on DVD's, and I don't think I stand a chance trying to purchase it directly on VHS tapes. So what I could do is buy the DVD's, then pay some guy to transfe

  18. Re:A Question from a Stupid Foreigner. on The FCC Can't Help Cities Trapped By Predatory Internet Deals With Big Telecom · · Score: 0

    Anyone ever think about the tragedy of the commons (see wikipedia)? Free internet only last so long before it's overgrazed?

  19. Re:Needless to say on Appeals Court Finds Scanning To Be Fair Use · · Score: 1

    They are not showing the whole book, but a teaser, limited amount of text or pages. kind of like showing you a movie trailer is not like showing you the entire movie. If anything Google is engaged in free advertising to those who are bound to profit from new copy sales. And then again there are those who just get by on the promotional material, without making a full purchase. A lot pf porn picture samples are like that, it says on them they are a sample, and real images have superhigh resolutions. When was it the last time you paid for sex or sex related items? I bought a few ancient copies of Penthouse like two months ago off ebay because of the political messages and free speech abuses they contain on the front page, besides probably some good porn inside too, but I have yet to open and read them, for well over a month now, including other packages too of other kind of stuff. I left good feedback on ehaby.Maybe some day I'll feel like it and fancy opening them... also Naked News seems to be a dencent news program sometimes, and I'd not pay for the sexual part, and it may be difficult to enforce payments of sexual services or goods, because prostitution is illegal in a lot of places.

  20. Re:Trust but verify on Tesla Releases Electric Car Patents To the Public · · Score: 2

    Or get steamrolled by a legal team in a court in a whose pockets are deeper to stay in the game, irregardless of who's right or wrong? A world without any patents is just so much simpler. Like, these days there is an Australian patent on the wheel. It probably would not stand up in court, but to simply prove that, you may run out of funds before you get to prove it, and lose the case that way. Do you have deep pockets to be such a fan of patents? Cuz that's all they are, bullshit, and extortion games. They used to have something to do with inventions long time ago, but that's no longer the case. They are all pure raw bullshit. You can barely read them from beginning to end and make sense out of them anymore, unlike, say patents from 1960's or even 80's the latest, but by the 90's the shit hit the fan, and almost all patents are mile long nonsenses.

  21. Re:Small Question on A Scientist Is Growing Asparagus In Meteorites To Prepare Us For Space Farming · · Score: 1

    Water has to be contained in something, lest it instantly be vaporized in the vacuum of outer space. Do you propose the space station be made out of glass tanks of water, or steel/titanium, with a light concentrator sending the collected sunlight through a conduit to be distributed. If developed for the space station, such turn on the fiberoptic sunlight light and supplement it dynamically with electric light as cloud cover moves in and out of the way of the Sun, for constant lighting in the room, such things could be used on Eartian buildings too down here. By the way we could make glass too from Moon based materials, if that's what your heart desires. It's a matter of economics and function. I say steel/aluminum is cheaper and protects better from radiation and meteorites going 20 miles per second (well nothing really protects against that, so you need double walled cylinders with the two walls sliding against each other, so a fast meteorite piercing both leaves a hole through which the station leaks to vacuum, but if the holes get misaligned from unsynched rotation, it stops the leaking,., than a water filled glass cylinder spacing.

  22. Re:7.1a for x64 linux on Auditors Release Verified Repositories of TrueCrypt · · Score: 1

    It's like jazz, spontaneous - it has no paragraphs. If I had more time or were not as lazy, I would have had paragraphed it for you, and made it shorter too, to the point of unfollowable mentally. Euler or some other mathematicians, like Gauss, used to get off on just presenting the end results, without detailing how they arrived to it, or giving some inhuman, unnatural flow of thoughts official and strict proof, but where is the fun in that?

  23. Re:Why? on Google Engineer: We Need More Web Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    How come nobody talks about plain old asp, not aspx dotnet bullshit, but asp. VB Classic 6.0sp5 style. And if there were a way to make oldschool nondotnet delphi usable for webapps, that'd be great too. By the way oldschool PHP wasn't that bad either. And all of these should run server side. I'm tired of places like twitter or facebook running semi-inifite loops javascripts on my netbook, just cuz they can. You know what, you wanna spice up a webpage with code, do it on the server side, with me only sending back feedback like typing into a google search box sends me guesses. Don't fuckin hog my cpu and demand I run a supercomputer too as an end user. You wanna spice your pages up, you friggin buy a supercomputer on the server side and leave me alone. Javascript and DHTML are horrible ideas. Interacting with server side supecomputers, even if with a lag, is alright with me. ASP, PHP, CGI, what's ebay on, ISAPI.DLL, anything server side works for me. I used to be able to plain disable javascript separately from disabling java in oldschool nutscrape. And java was a horrible idea too, they could have picked a better language than one that keeps repeating things like milkywaygalaxy.solarisstar.earhtplanet.21stcentury.etc context, as in I could have friggin guessed that whatever you're talking about is supposed to be in this galaxy without you wasting my time with it, true, there are some minor chances that you're talking about something like NGC-3724 galaxy.

  24. Re:Trust but verify on Tesla Releases Electric Car Patents To the Public · · Score: 2

    Patents are all bullshit. I recommend going back to a completely patent free trade secret world. If someone reverse engineers your stuff, so be it. Patents are yet another limit on the freedom of do whatever you want as long as it does not hurt the children. It's like somebody is gonna patent having a job.

  25. Re:Protecting the Weak from the Strong on Interviews: Bruce Perens Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    A gun is a great equalizer. You can no longer just walk up to a woman who's physically weaker than you and attempt to rape her, because she might have a gun. Same with robbing an old grandma. You want to take away the right to self defense, so he or she has to fight with a knife, or a golf club, and possibly be subdued and murdered, simply because he or she is physically weaker? In fact poverty is the biggest enemy of gun ownership, people simply cannot afford a gun, like a lot of Latinos carry knives instead. In Switzerland every citizen is a gun owner - mind you it takes like 30 years to become naturalized and a citizen there as an immigrant.