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  1. Re:No one is flipping to the Russians...sheesh on Computer Scientists Believe a Trump Server Was Communicating With a Russian Bank (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    You NEVER court crazy, even if that crazy seems to be helping you

    The truly ruthless have at times in the past - Stalin and the anarchists come to mind and there's another example that will Godwin this thread. In both of those the crazies courted were not just sidelined afterwards, which doesn't work, but killed outright. What we have here is a bunch talking like gangsters but without being the thing they are acting like (thank God).

  2. Re:No one is flipping to the Russians...sheesh on Computer Scientists Believe a Trump Server Was Communicating With a Russian Bank (slate.com) · · Score: 1
    Trump is the fucking oligarchy incarnate.
    Hillary has just been working with them, as has nearly every President. The Dynastic thing is a real worry just as it was with Bush (and look where that go us on the second run) but at least it's a real worry not your complaint about the oligarchy that applies far more to Trump and even Putin than Clinton.

    any positive qualities of Putin

    Ask all those murdered journalists, the guy poisoned by Polonium and so on if you want someone like Putin in charge of anything near you. Scratch that, you can't, which makes a bit of a point.

  3. Re:Ar you people insane? Why is this in any way sa on Computer Scientists Believe a Trump Server Was Communicating With a Russian Bank (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Gangsters up to no good yes, but look at Hillary, the bitch uses email! Burn her!

    I think this has been the most stupid Presidential race ever.

  4. Re:Putin and Trump bromance on Computer Scientists Believe a Trump Server Was Communicating With a Russian Bank (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Nice straw man, but the US policy in Syria

    You know the policy?
    Then tell us, and more importantly tell people in Washington because they don't know either. It's seat of the pants while on fire "policy" being allied with a bunch one day and bombing them the next. Early on it seemed to be about working even with Daash/ISIL against Assad. Now it's working both for and against Assad, plus for the Kurds but against them if Turkey is involved.

  5. Re:I trust Russia MORE than I trust the DNC on Computer Scientists Believe a Trump Server Was Communicating With a Russian Bank (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah... a real estate developer and entrepenuer is a communist.

    Remember that there are still people who believe that Charlie Chaplin (that guy who was a far more successful capitalist than Trump) was one because McCarthy and crew accused him of it.

  6. Re:I've seen things at least that strange on Computer Scientists Believe a Trump Server Was Communicating With a Russian Bank (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    “The parties were communicating in a secretive fashion. The operative word is secretive. This is more akin to what criminal syndicates do if they are putting together a project.”

    That makes sense if you are communicating with a bank run by foreign gangsters because even if your business with them is legitimate you don't want anyone reading about it on a newspaper front page.
    Personally I've thought Trump was an outright crook ever since he was nothing but an Atlantic City casino boss, but this could be legit.

  7. Yes but you are applying one dimensional thinking.
    Try filling a glass of water with sand and pebbles.
    Next pour out the water.
    Now try to find the cavity.
    Not so large as initially expected is it?

  8. Re:this is why they need to drop test it and then. on Bad Code May Have Crashed Schiaparelli Mars Lander (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    If you have some incredibly huge jet engines (to compress that not very dense air) that can pivot why not, but rockets sound easier. It's not so much a plane then as a "flying bedstead" like the Eagle lander simulator of the 1960s.

  9. In that case you use something else that is not a roof tile if you want this sort of thing. It's not the fucking USSR with a single choice of product.
    Just because Musk is doing this (and he's not the first) doesn't make it a bad idea.

  10. Re:I'd better add in a clarification for the dim on Renewables Overtake Coal As World's Largest Source of Power Capacity (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you suggesting I should cite myself to prove that I have an opinion? What a loser.

  11. Re:I'd better add in a clarification for the dim on Renewables Overtake Coal As World's Largest Source of Power Capacity (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    They happen to be true unlike your ideological attacks on any machinery that can possibly be painted green.
    How about learning about this topic instead of just attacking blindly like an idiot? I am sure you are nowhere near as dumb as you appear.

  12. Re:easier to fix? on Bad Code May Have Crashed Schiaparelli Mars Lander (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    So not just the ESA, but you want to concede defeat in Korea and watch Seoul burn?
    I think you are a little messed up.

  13. Re:The year of the Linux Laptop? on How Linux Saved A School's Failing Windows Laptop Program (opensource.com) · · Score: 2

    and that is the first "Linux" laptop that really works

    Sadly (by stating that you've only had it working when someone else did it for you) you've just revealed you've done this far too few times to know much about it. It would be more convincing to hear from people with dozens of successes who are then able to blame the tools instead of their workmanship in the cases when they failed.
    Me? I piggybacked on the success of others by choosing models that were reported as working so I don't have much to add either and my zero failure rate with about twenty of the things is really due to the work of others.

  14. Re:You bet your ass they are on Uber Loses Right To Classify UK Drivers as Self-Employed (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Read Bluestrat's other posts from the last few weeks to get some comprehension of your own. I thought it was obvious but perhaps I should have written that I was referring to more than his posts in this thread and was instead referring to his other posts evangelizing anarchy.

  15. Goalpost shift on Uber Loses Right To Classify UK Drivers as Self-Employed (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1
    That "effectively" is a goalpost shift from "handguns are banned in the UK".

    You started the condescending tone

    You kicked off with what looked like a very obvious lie - there is no total ban.

  16. Re:Typo corrected on Uber Loses Right To Classify UK Drivers as Self-Employed (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey bystander - why don't you either find out about a conversation you are butting into or stay out of it? It's easy to find out just look up a few of Bluestrat's dozens of posts here about why he shouldn't pay tax. You'll see all the connections.

  17. Re:this is why they need to drop test it and then. on Bad Code May Have Crashed Schiaparelli Mars Lander (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    The xplane software has an interesting Mars atmosphere simulation mode that shows how wildly different things are.
    Having to fly near the speed of sound to avoid stalling and controls not having much of a grip on the air to respond are two things that rub in the many differences.

  18. Re:easier to fix? on Bad Code May Have Crashed Schiaparelli Mars Lander (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    I've been doing a lot of reading about the early space programs of the US and the Soviet Union, and that context the meaning is clear: you can use the same approach in the next Mars landing attempt; you don't have to redesign an entirely new system.

    You can't if the people who did it before and were helping since 2009 pull out in 2012, take their bat and ball and go home.

    NASA pulled out due to budget cuts and IP restrictions meant the ESA couldn't use their stuff after they pulled out.
    So in this case politics was the enemy of your common sense idea.

  19. Re: Guess what Elon has never seen on Tesla Unveils Residential 'Solar Roof' With Updated Battery Storage System (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    No.
    It's the flaws on the surface of the glass and it's brittleness that result in a low average tensile strength of a typical piece of glass. With a smooth surface, such as in glass fibres it is very, very strong, around 4 GPa while low end mild steel is one sixteenth as strong at 250MPa.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_fiber#Tensile

  20. Typo corrected on Uber Loses Right To Classify UK Drivers as Self-Employed (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I mean your cries about how the world has done nothing for you so you don't need to give anything back.
    "I've got mine" is not a philosophy. It is a character flaw.
    As for the shit you are always going on about with needing guns to overthrow your country - look up Hungary 1956 to see how you would just end up as a small read smear on the ground if you want to do things in such a stupid way. Guns don't win countries. A lot of people working together as well as an army win countries. That lone wolf anarchist shit you push is insane, greedy and sociopathic.

  21. Re:You bet your ass they are on Uber Loses Right To Classify UK Drivers as Self-Employed (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I mean your cries about how the world has done nothing for so so you don't need to give anything back.

  22. Re:It makes sense on Uber Loses Right To Classify UK Drivers as Self-Employed (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I suggest you follow the link and find out about their events, which show that you are incorrect instead of posting such an incredibly insulting and condescending link of your own. WTF did I do to you that merits a tutorial on moving a mouse?
    By the way if you had followed your own condescending link you would have found three classes of pistols legal in the UK.

  23. Re:Renewables will never work on Renewables Overtake Coal As World's Largest Source of Power Capacity (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    One of the reasons you make me laugh so much is that I reread Don Quixote last year.

  24. I'd better add in a clarification for the dim on Renewables Overtake Coal As World's Largest Source of Power Capacity (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    You may not be stupid but you appear to pretend to be very frequently - the above line is missing an "only", which should be obvious but you are bound to jump on it as if it was not.
    Consider that wind and solar are currently ONLY occupying the niche above base load almost everywhere other than in people's dreams.

    Your charging at windmills is pointless - the "green" stuff you hate so much is just another collection of useful tools to add to the energy mix.

  25. Re:The second graph shows reality on Renewables Overtake Coal As World's Largest Source of Power Capacity (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    You are starting to learn grasshopper but have still made a major mistake.
    Now consider that wind and solar are currently occupying the niche above base load almost everywhere other than in people's dreams - or in you case, nightmares.
    Get a grip!