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  1. Re:Regulation? on Davos 2015: Less Innovation, More Regulation, More Unrest. Run Away! · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is this a standard Fox/Rand template? Every place with more government has more of this problem (easily proved to be not true in 5 minutes), so the obvious solution is to have less government (also easily proved in about 3 minutes). Are you all utterly impervious to reality?

  2. Re:Free energy on How Close Are We To Engineering the Climate? · · Score: 2

    WRONG - otherwise my heat pump would not work. Take a heat pump and put one end in outer space to radiate heat away from us. The only issue I can see is procurement. Where oh where are we going to get 48,000 miles of copper line, 24,000 miles of electrical cord, and 10 million tanks of Freon? Also have ot look into voiding the warranty for putting the compressor end out in space.

  3. Re:And? on Unbundling Cable TV: Be Careful What You Wish For · · Score: 1

    I am talking about gas for an AIRPLANE!

  4. Re:Give Uber a dictionary on Over 30 Uber Cars Impounded In Cape Town · · Score: 1

    So I wasted how much money getting a commercial pilot's license when all I needed was a sign saying "adult giving other adults plane rides - all aboard"?

  5. Re:Don't put cameras on everything on Connected Gun Lets Anyone Watch What Or Who You Are Shooting · · Score: 1

    I am deer hunting and my buddies are watching? How is that "sick" other than the aspect of some people hate hunting? They could even give me hints like COW DON'T SHOOT NOT A DEER YOU MORON or similar LOL ;)

  6. Re:And? on Unbundling Cable TV: Be Careful What You Wish For · · Score: 2

    OK - but WHEN is gas going down? I am still paying $5.50/gal at the airport!

  7. chicken and egg on Toyota Opens Patents On Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology · · Score: 1

    Tesla wants others to use their tech so charging stations get built everyplace and make their cars more useful. Toyota wants everyone to use their tech so hydrogen filling stations are built everyplace and make their cars more useful. In some Frankenstein experiment someone will get around to buidling a Tesla-Ota with batteries AND a fuel cell.

  8. Nixon was going to start a nuclear war over freaking "East Pakistan"? Link please!

  9. Re: Marketing? on Anonymous Claims They Will Release "The Interview" Themselves · · Score: 1

    I swear I did a good job tying the boat up. I have no freaking idea why it got loose and drifted over Niagara Falls LOL. Sure - there are any number of creative ways to not notice. Sins of ommission and very hard to get caught. Well very hard if every email you ever send isn't on 4CHAN or CNN within the hour ;)

  10. Re:Cartooney. on 'Citizenfour' Producers Sued Over Edward Snowden Leaks · · Score: 1

    Wow - that is a GREAT conspiracy/truther/nutjob post. I cannot be anything but impressed as to how many elements were seamlessly woven into the whole. BTW - the real life not-insane version of this is sovereign immunity. If you go to sue the *government*, the first part of the suit is to determine if the government feels like being sued. If the answer is no - then you get to pound sand. THIS issue is the opposite. The suit here is trying to do what the plaintiff thinks the government should be doing and is not - trying to confiscate profits from this movie. I guess his damages are the 0.0000000001% increase in taxes because of this lost revenue or some other nebulous reasoning the judge will toss.

  11. Re: Marketing? on Anonymous Claims They Will Release "The Interview" Themselves · · Score: 1

    FYI - Both my aircraft and boat insurance require me to secure the boat/airplane in event of a loss to prevent further damage as much as can be done safely. I could not just wander off if they were on fire and do nothing and still make a claim if they knew about it. The claim would rightly be denied.

  12. Re:About Fucking Time on In Breakthrough, US and Cuba To Resume Diplomatic Relations · · Score: 1

    Yes - going from a $100K job to $30K job still counts you as employed. Just not quite so WELL employed (rolls eyes)

  13. Meaningless on Uber Limits 'God View' To Improve Rider Privacy · · Score: 2

    My though is - who cares? SOMEONE still has access to it and they can turn it back on for everyone any time they want to.

  14. Re:$700k a year? on NASA's $349 Million Empty Tower · · Score: 1

    The last two posts are not mutually exclusive. Do ALL of that and be set for TWO years :)

  15. Re:LA public transportation sucks on Waze Causing Anger Among LA Residents · · Score: 1

    So Roger Rabbit was true?!?

  16. Re:Ride sharing? on California Sues Uber Over Practices · · Score: 1

    The FAA version of this law to tell airplane ride-sharing apart from charter aircraft is the following - Common purpose, cost sharing, and prior relationship. This means you both want to go the store, not you asking your passenger where he wants to go, you are not charing more than a pro-rate share of the cost of the trip, and you knew each other prior to this trip.

  17. Re:H1-B debate? on Displaced IT Workers Being Silenced · · Score: 1

    The point of systems like the H1B scheme is (meant to be) to expand the labour pool when there are more jobs for competent people than there are competent people, not to drive down local wages by displacing people ... NOT! The poitn was always cheap indentured servants no matter what BS the lobbyists spewed to get the laws passed.

  18. Re:A tech gloss over racial profiling? on 'Moneyball' Approach Reduces Crime In New York City · · Score: 2

    This is the eternal rabbit-hole of political correctness. I'll leave racist police asside for the moment. If the given starting point is that cannot POSSIBLY commit more crimes than any other group because even thinking this thought is racist, then any kind of data set that shows this HAS to be racist on its face.

  19. Re:plenty of aliens I bet on Aliens Are Probably Everywhere, Just Not Anywhere Nearby · · Score: 1

    Good point - we are probably on some galactic list of bad hoods or something.

  20. Re:good on New Effort To Grant Legal Rights To Chimpanzees Fails · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Emotion and suffering are not remotely unique to Chimps. What is perhaps unique is how they can be made to suffer. A nice cage with a habitrail and some good mouse-chow (tm) will make for some happy mice. No cats in here and all the free food I can eat. To a chimp it is just being in jail. Either one will be in agony if you put acid in their eyes.

  21. plenty of aliens I bet on Aliens Are Probably Everywhere, Just Not Anywhere Nearby · · Score: 1

    Considering the recent discoveries right here on Earth of life forms that live in incredibly harsh environments like geothermal vents and the ongoing discoveries of planets in other solar systems, I bet something that counts as alive lives all over the universe. Finding a technological civilization OTOH, that one looks tough. Pretty sure no one has yet got a >C starship going or they would be here and everywhere else too. We will likely be the first if it can be done at all and then the aliens we find will be selling us New_Manhattan for $24 worth of old DVDs and regretting it soon after....

  22. Re:Part of the Solution on Obama Offers Funding For 50,000 Police Body Cameras · · Score: 1

    Have to agree. I see no evidence at all that anyone cares anymore what actually happened. It is just a blank canvas to paint your own prejudices on.

  23. Re:I don't care on Ask Slashdot: Non-Coders, Why Aren't You Contributing To Open Source? · · Score: 1

    I rarely respond to ACs, but yes - PAY ME. This is kind of like how plumbers don't get home from work and start digging up pipes in the yard for a hobby.

  24. Re: fight it out in court on Cops 101: NYC High School Teaches How To Behave During Stop-and-Frisk · · Score: 1

    True as far as that goes, but not all police departments are afflicted with criminal cops or tolerate them. I knew a Baltimore COUNTY 911 dispatcher that totally hated dealing with calls about Baltimore CITY cops that lived in the county beating their wives or getting in fights off duty. The county cops hated dealing with violent offenders that assumed they were arrest-proof. They were not and not happy to find that out.

  25. Re:fight it out in court on Cops 101: NYC High School Teaches How To Behave During Stop-and-Frisk · · Score: 1

    Advice for the real world dude. Dealing with an aggressive armed psycho one-on-one is a losing bet. Don't give Bufort T. Justice and Dirty Harry an excuse to go off on you. Sir I do not consent to search works jsut as well legally as fuck off. YMMV