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  1. Re:Damn, I thought it was a game! on Touring a Carnival Cruise Simulator: 210 Degrees of GeForce-Powered Projection · · Score: 1

    Bring the nose candy, she's into it.

  2. Re:clarity - wrong assumption on Vinyl Record Pressing Plants Struggle To Keep Up With Demand · · Score: 1

    Are you serious? How are "the software police" going to track down a rip I posted on usenet in 2008 from a CD I bought for cash in 1997? Do enlighten me.

  3. Re:does that mean American workers? on Canada Waives Own Rules, Helps Microsoft Avoid US Visa Problems · · Score: 1

    Exactly. The two talking heads on the TV news both said it was about getting more foreign workers into the US.

  4. Re:Got you, Mrs. Sampson on R. A. Montgomery, Creator of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" Books, Dead At 78 · · Score: 1

    My 5th grade science teacher told us all about airplanes and Bernoullis principle and how that produced lift. I asked her how airplanes could fly upside down. She couldn't answer the question, and was most annoyed at me.

  5. Re:Kids (boys) get EXTREMELY violent on Long-term Study Finds No Link Between Video Game Violence and Real Violence · · Score: 1

    Tyrant or Victim of Changes?

  6. Re:No need to go to Romania on Early Childhood Neglect Associated With Altered Brain Structure, ADHD · · Score: 1

    It's the baddest part of town........

  7. Re:Have you ever been to Canada? on What Will It Take To Run a 2-Hour Marathon? · · Score: 1

    What's with the made up numbers? BC is about 65% Caucasian, 25% Asian and South Asian, 5% Aboriginal. Black Africans are less than 1% here.

  8. Re:hahaha on Court: Car Dealers Can't Stop Tesla From Selling In Massachusetts · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I had a friend who worked in the finance dept of a car dealership. People would spend 2 hours trying to wangle the best possible deal from the salesman, beat him down, get free floor mats, whatever. Then they would walk into my friends office. How does $400 a month sound for payments? OK sure. And in 2 seconds they would agree to a loan at 12% where the banks would have given them 5%. And the dealer would earn an extra $3k on the car loan.

  9. Re:Simple Solution - Exam Mode on How the Outdated TI-84 Plus Still Holds a Monopoly On Classrooms · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Because no smart teenager would ever find a way to fake exam mode. PKI notwithstanding, it just needs to fool a high school teacher. We hand wired fake reset switches into our HP-41CVs back when,

  10. Re:Open Source Integrated email/calendar/phones/et on Munich Reverses Course, May Ditch Linux For Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Alas, no. I hate M$ as much as the next geek, but I have to admit there is nothing like that. There are all sorts of open source mail clients and some calendar tools and IM clients, and some will connect to an Exchange server, but sadly, nothing open source can touch MS Outlook + Lync. Individual products have some of the functionality, but nothing has it all, and nothing has it integrated like MS. Doesn't seem like an itch that the open source devs want to scratch.

  11. Betteridge's law of headlines - finally broken on Can Our Computers Continue To Get Smaller and More Powerful? · · Score: 1

    The one word answer is "Yes". Betteridge's law of headlines is finally broken.

  12. Re:The new and improved buggy whip on Type 225 Words per Minute with a Stenographic Keyboard (Video) · · Score: 1

    All broadcast TV in North America must be captioned. Pre-recorded shows can be captioned in advance. Anything live, news, sports, award shows, current events shows etc are all captioned live and in real-time using steno. While you are watching the show, someone with a steno machine is watching the same broadcast and transcribing it live. The steno goes to a computer that translates it to English, and then by modem or vpn to the studio's caption encoder and on to the tv. A small but thriving industry.

  13. Re:Ingrates on Silicon Valley Doesn't Have an Attitude Problem, OK? · · Score: 1

    Rent control? No wonder there is a shortage of affordable housing.

  14. Re:SF Rents on Silicon Valley Doesn't Have an Attitude Problem, OK? · · Score: 1

    Do what my friends did. (not SF but another city where single family homes can cost over $1 mil). Three of them pooled their savings, put 10% down on an older larger house. It's at the fringes of a gentrifying area, not far from downtown. They live in the basement, and rent out the upstairs. The rent pays over half the mortgage. In a year or two they will have enough equity to put a down payment on another house. Moral of the story - pay yourself rent, not a landlord.

  15. Re:Coley's Toxins? on Injecting Liquid Metal Into Blood Vessels Could Help Kill Tumors · · Score: 2

    Liquid Metal --- Cyanide.
     
    One of these things is not like the other.

  16. Re:I guess they won't need any more foreign Visas? on Microsoft CEO To Slash 18,000 Jobs, 12,500 From Nokia To Go · · Score: 2

    Are programmers willing to work for $45/hr? Then that is what they are worth. Did you think the laws of supply and demand don't apply to you (you precious thing)?

  17. Buy some? on Biohackers Are Engineering Yeast To Make THC · · Score: 1

    Or, you could just go to the store and buy some.
     
    Guy from Seattle

  18. Re:Amen man on NASA Approves Production of Most Powerful Rocket Ever · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nasa 2014 - about $18 billion
    Iraq + Afghanistan - $4 to $6 trillion
     
    So about 200 to 300 times more for the war than what NASA gets this year.

  19. Re:Good? on Mayors of Atlanta & New Orleans: Uber Will Knock-Out Taxi Industry · · Score: 1

    What Taxi owners enjoy is a system of "Supply Management". It artificially creates scarcity, eliminates competition and keeps prices high. The owners of the medallions make a fortune, the taxi drivers make less than minimum wage, and the consumer gets a bunch of problems including waiting far too long for cabs at peak times (bars close or cruise ships arrive). As with many things done with good intentions and counter to market forces it has the opposite effect of what you claim is intended.

  20. Re:The central tenet of atheism on U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Religious Objections To Contraception · · Score: 1

    No. Wrong.
     
    Not believing in a deity (because perhaps you see no convincing evidence of one) means that one possible explanation - "God made everything" is rejected. There are any number of other possible explanations of how the universe came into existence, and you might choose one based on observation and evidence rather than faith. Or do you think that belief and faith are the same thing?

  21. Re:Burn the heretics! on Swedish Farmers Have Doubts About Climatologists and Climate Change · · Score: 2

    Anthropocentric global warming is being forced down our throats. But not in the way you meant.

  22. Re:Gilbert U238 atomic energy lab was a "kids toy" on That Toy Is Now a Drone · · Score: 1

    How is it not a kids toy?

  23. Re:bitcoin has to much fluctuation for them to hol on Expedia To Accept Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    1. "bitcoin has too much fluctuation for them to hold it" - correct
     
    2. Do you want to show up at the hotel and be told you have to pay more to make up the short fall - What shortfall? See #1.

  24. Re:Non News on Brownsville SpaceX Space Port Faces More Regulatory Hurdles · · Score: 0

    Mod the hell up and close the thread. Not much left to say.

  25. Re:Bravo! on Solar Impulse 2 Makes First Flight · · Score: 1

    Windmills do not work that way. Good night.