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  1. Re:Patton vs. Bradley on Rubber Tanks and Sonic Trucks: the Ghost Army of World War II (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Apparently the American spooks fell for this as well

    No. Don't you remember that the "intelligence" had to be mocked up by a PR agency because nobody in the CIA etc would put their name on anything?

  2. Re:Patton vs. Bradley on Rubber Tanks and Sonic Trucks: the Ghost Army of World War II (hackaday.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    MacArthur however was treated with barely concealed contempt by the Australians (in particular)

    Very obvious lies inspired that. Taking credit for the actions of Australian forces long before he even turned up didn't go down well, but his entire career was like that - whatever real success he had did not seem to be enough for him to boast about.
    I don't know if it's true or not but the history taught to Chinese kids about the Korean war says that the Chinese decided to join in when MacArthur looked across the river into China with binoculars. Reality is likely to be different since the initial North Korean soldiers were the many Koreans that fought in the Chinese army in WWII anyway, and still in units, so effectively China was in the war on day one even if the force committed was a lot less than later.

    Petreus' end speaks for itself.

    Ironically due to wanting to "get his end in" with a journalist.

  3. Re:Patton vs. Bradley on Rubber Tanks and Sonic Trucks: the Ghost Army of World War II (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    The last did the same as Snowden but just because he wanted to fuck a journalist - he shut himself down after being promoted to one of the highest posts in the USA.

  4. To ride with that analogy on British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt To Block Wind Farm (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Reality is nobody knows if he can drive or not

    He's crashed his own bicycle four times recently so it's a pretty good bet that he'll fail if he tries.

    If reality was a novel the editor would have thrown the Trump plot out by now as ridiculous unless he was secretly working for Hillary. Unfortunately reality is full of far more stupidity than anyone would be bothered to read.

  5. Re:Did you say "fascist"? (Re:Hypocrisy) on British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt To Block Wind Farm (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Try looking at the Italian example instead of the dumbed down short description.

  6. Re:History? Really? on British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt To Block Wind Farm (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    However, for an equivalent MWe of generation capacity

    You are comparing apples to aardvarks - wind does not fill the base load niche. Unless you have a square wave of demand with huge jumps then you need something other than base load.

  7. Re:History? Really? on British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt To Block Wind Farm (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It's hard to quantify the damage as well. What value is put on a large pit left to slowly fill with water for decades if ever?

  8. Re:History? Really? on British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt To Block Wind Farm (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Gas fired plants are big things too

    Typically jet engines so they are tiny in comparison.

  9. Re:History? Really? on British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt To Block Wind Farm (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    The Harford website has a bit about radioactive waste that you probably should read instead of guessing.
    The short story is lots of neutrons zipping around make everything they hit in large numbers radioactive, so there is a hell of a lot more to worry about than the fuel rods. In a lot of ways the fuel rods are easier to deal with than very large volumes of medium and low grade waste.

  10. Re:No rational arguments on British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt To Block Wind Farm (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2
    It's the USA - everyone bad is "Hitler". Even Saddam who self-identified as Stalin FFS was called "Hitler".
    Back to the topic, I find it very strange that Trump and tollbooth guy are still in the running - it's as they decided Romney was nowhere near toxic enough for the voters so it's time to put up someone that makes even Hillary look good in comparison.

    People don't seem capable of making the rational arguments, they'd rather point out how ridiculous his hair looks.

    It goes well with the clown act.

  11. Re:Trump on British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt To Block Wind Farm (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Worse, there's studies that show

    Yes, exactly like those studies that show that a special pixie dust from a naturopath cures cancer and sometimes even done by the same people!
    From looking at what the "victims" all have in common it looks like redneck corrupt crony politics is the major cause of windmill syndrome. The instant cure is being able to make money from a windmill.

    you can't raise red flags without being called an ignorant

    There's a good reason for that with the stupid charging at windmills using invented anecdotes, which is what the "studies" that show a problem all turned out to be. There are a large number of professionally run investigations into the matter that didn't turn up any problem, but those are conveniently ignored by either real or pretended ignorance.

  12. Do you have a flying car? on North Carolina Town That Defeated Solar Plan Talks Back (newsobserver.com) · · Score: 0

    The panels point up at a steep angle so your analogy completely fails if you don't have a flying car.
    It's this sort of pitiful excuse as a fig leaf on a political line forced by donors that is why the Chinese are making a fortune selling US developed technology. Congrats, an entire industry driven offshore and selling back to us at a huge markup. Doesn't it make you proud that you put your politics ahead of your country?

  13. So only small businesses in suburbia do actual work?
    Fair enough, but other places are printing less than a couple of years ago.

  14. Re:Joke is on Daesh with the 6.blow... on Texas Plumber Sues Car Dealer After His Truck Ends Up In Videos of Syria's Front Lines (mashable.com) · · Score: 2

    The problem with European makes is that they assume that one is going to have a garage with the exact tools needed to do upkeep, the exact spec lubricants

    LOL - I suggest you set eyes on a Land Rover in the real world, you'll never compare it to a Mercedes after that.
    The long story is that it's a British upgrade of a wartime Jeep and it hasn't changed a lot since.

  15. Re:Next step, specific brands of batteries only on Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out of 3rd-Party Bulbs With New Firmware (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    It was pretty close to that for phones a while back, even for only slightly different models from the same manufacturer.

  16. Re:Aren't Philips the anti-DRM people historically on Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out of 3rd-Party Bulbs With New Firmware (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    The name sounds like something out of Lensmen, and so does the grubby little conspiracy! I wonder how much of the business and crime practices of the day inspired it?

  17. Re:Philips just fell off my vendor list on Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out of 3rd-Party Bulbs With New Firmware (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably the same genius that decided to sell CFLs in a globe shape so they would look like an incandescent light. It wasn't until I got one of those from Phillips instead of the normal loopy nameless brand things that I understood where all the bitching about slow startup times for CFLs came from.

  18. With respect, the last time we fired up the 42 inch roll laser printer here the dust was so thick on it that a lot of smoke came out. A lot of people are happier with PDFs. The large format stuff has pretty well been replaced and document size is heading that way.

  19. My only complaint is that they could have designed the refill bottles better ... so you have to be rather careful when filling tanks

    I just decided to live with it as a tasteful splash of yellow dye on a cheap k-mart Abby Road t-shirt.

  20. Steve had a good side. Absolute losers like Trujillo (who couldn't even win in a government enforced monopoly) are not high profile enough while everyone has heard of, and is STILL hearing of Carly.

  21. Re:Joke is on Daesh with the 6.blow... on Texas Plumber Sues Car Dealer After His Truck Ends Up In Videos of Syria's Front Lines (mashable.com) · · Score: 2

    I didn't say "reliable". Also Land Rovers are very simple compared to the British cars that have the reputation of being hard to work on. Many owners typically do work on them themselves.

  22. Re:Wayland only uses the 2D driver, but ... on The Ups and Downs of AMD (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    So what was the purpose of this tedious thread since you do not appear to care at all about the subject matter?

  23. Re:Understand the diagram on The Ups and Downs of AMD (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    What's with the language fixation? If you think you can't get a native speaker to understand you then it's not their problem is it?
    Now you've seen the pretty picture, that's a start, the red bit is Wayland - instead of wasting all this time on ignorant posts baiting me you could have found out something about the subject matter. Please do so instead of bothering me and hoping I'm some child with English as a second language that you can bully by denigrating their level of comprehension.

  24. Re:cracked in about two years. on Developer Claims 'PS4 Officially Jailbroken' (networkworld.com) · · Score: 2

    PS3 clusters made economic sense if you were in the market for a cheap distributed computing platform

    Sadly only if you didn't need much memory for what you wanted to do, but it seemed like the only way to get to use the Cell for under $10k.
    I tried to get a very low end Cell machine around that time - about three weeks of the very slimy vendor carefully weighing my companies wallet and strongly hinting at kickbacks finally resulted in a quote that was about the same as buying three similar x86_64 machines. Very few vendors offered it and they had drawn up a map of who could sell to where so the other vendors just referred me back to the slimy guy that kept me waiting. It turns out they mostly sold to the military and had very few commercial sales.

  25. Re:Joke is on Daesh with the 6.blow... on Texas Plumber Sues Car Dealer After His Truck Ends Up In Videos of Syria's Front Lines (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do you think old-model diesel Toyota LandCruisers are so popular out in the Aussie Bush?

    Because Land Rovers cost a LOT more. For those that don't know better I don't mean a Range Rover, I mean something simple and solid like a Defender.