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  1. Market-based Approach on How Much Does a Cable Box Really Cost? The Industry Would Prefer You Don't Ask (latimes.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, what's the going price for an FCC chairman?

  2. Re:Nuclear Power on Air Pollution Is the 'New Tobacco,' Warns WHO (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Again, you can build it if you can insure it on your own dime and pay for all follow-up costs.

    OK. Your offer is accepted. Provided you STFU about the solutions we choose. Follow up costs: Primarily spent fuel disposition has been solved by waste reprocessing. Lift the ban and we're good to go. Insurance: What insurance? Continue with the status quo, without a bunch of crazy hippies inventing new types of claims and the industry should be able to calculate the costs.

  3. Re:Nuclear Power on Air Pollution Is the 'New Tobacco,' Warns WHO (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    independent of the acceptance of any kind of particular remedy

    Not really. We have hydroelectric power now. The mere suggestion that we NOT decommission these dams is enough to silence the AGW fans. For a few minutes.

  4. Re:You Can Help on Humanity Has Wiped Out 60% of Animal Populations Since 1970 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    What does the World Wrestling Federation have to do with animals?

  5. when Apple's official website adds tech specs

    They are working on writing them up. But it's slow going on that damned keyboard.

  6. Not a member. Try harder.

  7. ... War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength.

  8. The Constitution restricts the power to arm militias to Congress. The Second amendment allows states to assemble armed militias (police forces, dog catchers, etc.) from a population guaranteed the right to bear those arms.

  9. Re:Not should it be. Saying "Jaywalker" should be: on In a Crash, Should Self-Driving Cars Save Passengers or Pedestrians? 2 Million People Weigh In (pbs.org) · · Score: 2

    Not really. The term jay-walker descended from jay-driver. People who would refuse to abide by the rules of the road when operating motor vehicles or horse-drawn carriages. Jay-walker was applied to people who had no 'sidewalk etiquette' as well as those who wandered into the roadway. Jay-driver dropped out of use as motor vehicle faux pas began to be referred to by official violation names. Whereas jay-walking remained in our lexicon specifically because the laws were slow to codify pedestrian misbehavior.

    The Adam Ruins Everything video is just one of a number of politicized anti-car rants

  10. The Second Amendment was written to ensure that citizens could protect themselves rather than becoming dependent on a police state. The police have no duty to protect individuals. In that, you are on your own.

  11. ... can't get their wieners up without slaughtering 160 elephants, let alone a high tech nano-fiber.

  12. You are quite obviously a noguns type. The number of rounds a weapon's magazine holds has nothing to do with its penetrating power. A .38 is pretty close to a 9mm.

    At least with a revolver, you have to engage your brain before you shoot.

    You know nothing about combat. With any kind of weapon, your target is moving. So your probability of missing with a few rounds is high.

  13. it's not that difficult to buy something like a .38 revolver in California

    Not enough rounds to be a viable self defense weapon. A semi-auto with 15 or 18 rounds is better. AR-15s are ideal for home defense. You don't have to 'pack' them anywhere.

  14. You must really be alienated from society

    Why do you think California has anything to do with 'society'?

  15. Know many women who pack an AR-15

    Yes. Several are expert marksmen (women?).

  16. Boise is becoming an alternative to traditional havens for Californians

    Fewer cry-baby gun regulations as well.

  17. "I don't want to go on the cart."

    - Hubble

  18. Like a lenticular cloud on Mysterious White Cloud Hangs Over Martian Volcano (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Lenticular clouds are also created by air currents being lifted over mountains (or other terrain features). But they tend to disappear a short distance downwind of this point due to the air descending and the condensation re-evaporating. Either meteorology and thermodynamics are vastly different on Mars than on Earth, or this appears to be some gas venting from the summit.

  19. ... you can unplug it.

  20. Re:If I were a cable company... I would be nervous on California Delays Net Neutrality Law's Enforcement Until After Court Case (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Is it really broadband if the only sites that load at advertised speeds are those of the ISPs' partners?

  21. Re:How did it work, I wonder? on Suspicious Packages Spotlight Vast 'Mail Cover' Postal Surveillance System (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    As for couriers, nope. They generally won't take shit with postage

    There exists a courier business that picks up and drops off US mail for business clients at the local post office. I see them all the time. They show up with a plastic tub full of mail and walk it up to the commercial service window. And they have keys to a half dozen PO Boxes to pick up clients' mail.

    It's possible that Sayoc hired one of these people to drop packages off. Hence the reference to a courier. And I imagine that postal workers drop their guard when they see the same guy they do every day hauling in a bunch of packages. "Sure Bob. Just pile them up in the corner and we'll get to them when we can."

  22. Re:They Might Be Giants. on Suspicious Packages Spotlight Vast 'Mail Cover' Postal Surveillance System (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    and they KNOW where YOU LIVE!

    That little box I have at the post office is getting pretty cramped.

    Interesting note: The post office will deliver mail addressed to their street address and my PO box number (as if it were an apartment address).

    Another interesting note: Federal law requires that I keep the post office informed of my actual residential address. Many years ago, when I moved, I went to my post office to fill out the requisite forms.

    Me: "I'm moving. What form do I have to fill out to update my residential address on record for my PO Box?"
    Clerk: "Oh, so you'll be giving up your box? Where would you like your mail forwarded?"
    Me: "No. Keep delivering my mail to my PO Box. I just need to update my address."
    Clerk: "I don't understand. What are we supposed to do with your mail?"
    Me: "Keep putting it in the little box over there. But I need to change my residential address, which is ... " (In an adjacent town)
    Clerk: "But we don't deliver to that location. You'll have to contact the post office in your town to arrange for delivery."

    After a few more minutes of playing 'Whos on first' with the clerk, I just thanked him and walked out. To this day, I'm not sure they know where I live. If this clerk ever came across a bomb, he'd probably start chewing on it.

  23. Re:Grasslands, not trees on Scientists Push For Government Research Program Focused On Sucking Carbon From Air · · Score: 1

    Bamboo. Bamboo is a kind of grass. It grows quickly and can be harvested to replace a lot of wood products.

    We will have to do something about those panda infestations.

  24. Re:Trees Decompose and the CO2 Goes Back Into the on Scientists Push For Government Research Program Focused On Sucking Carbon From Air · · Score: 1

    Trees sequester carbon every year.

    Until they die, fall down and rot.

    The only credit trees should get for carbon sequestration is the weight of the carbon removed from forests on logging trucks.

  25. Re:So Trump is EVIL but the ChiCOMS are Good on Worried About Trump iPhone Eavesdroppers? China Recommends a Huawei (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    No. It is military slang that dates back to the Vietnam era, or even earlier. To distinguish the Communist Chinese from the Nationalists (Taiwan).