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  1. Re:"Unpowered" Energy ;) on Ankle Exoskeleton Takes a Load Off Calf Muscles To Boost Walking Efficiency · · Score: 1

    The elderly and partially disabled need leg supports that keep you from falling. Occasionally my right leg gives out. I go to take a step and BOOM, I'm on the ground. It happens often enough my reflex is to put my hands to my chest and roll to land on my right shoulder. It's hard to get some exercise and yard work done when you spend a fair amount of time inspecting your lawn at eye level.

  2. Re:How to get 99% of ketchup out of the bottle on Scientists Create Permanently Slick Surface So Ketchup Won't Stay In Bottle · · Score: 2

    #6 In warmer climes the air has expanded in the bottle expelling the last bit with explosive force. There is no careful, just a blast of ketchup.

  3. Re:Wrong place at the wrong time.... on Public Records Request Returns 4.6M License Plate Scans From Oakland PD · · Score: 0

    Or it could exonerate you. Some years back a black office worker went to lunch. A crime was committed some miles away by a black man. The police zeroed in on this guy even though he would have to have driven over the speed limit all the way to and from the crime scene and had green lights all the way. Even though people swore they saw him have lunch a few blocks from his office he couldn't prove where he was.

  4. full responsibility on Greenpeace Co-Founder Declares Himself a Climate Change Skeptic · · Score: 1

    The tobacco settlement was 206 billion dollars. What would the claimed damages for climate change be? Of course the fossil fuel industry is going to fight tooth and nail.

  5. Re:Summer cooling? on France Decrees New Rooftops Must Be Covered In Plants Or Solar Panels · · Score: 1

    I put on a corrugated asphalt sheet roof. It has to be painted every three years. I think I have the only white roof in north east Florida. Makes my place easy to find on Google Earth.

  6. Re:How did we ever survive? on Chevy Malibu 'Teen Driver' Tech Will Snitch If You Speed · · Score: 1

    Driving at 12 on the farm, how about 7? 1958 John Deere 520 with a hand clutch. My first car was a 56 Ford then a one year old 68 Impala when I was 16. One little bumper bender with it and no speeding tickets.

  7. Re:Then ID would be required on Obama: Maybe It's Time For Mandatory Voting In US · · Score: 1

    Fraud can work many ways. Registering is easy, with forged documents a person can register many times under different names. Without voter ID anyone can claim to be one of the registered names and vote.

  8. Re:Pencils on Zuckerberg and Gates-Backed Startup Seeks To Shake Up African Education · · Score: 1

    Good cause, I made a donation. My wife uses my Galaxy Tab to display study materials for her nursing certificate. A world of information posted by others studying the same thing. The solar powered Kindles sound wonderful, I might get one for myself.

  9. Re:When you can't tell the difference... on Why There Is No Such Thing as 'Proper English' · · Score: 1

    That kind of thinking runs in my family. My daughter has a PhD in English literature and my son writes and negotiates contracts for 500 billion dollar power systems. You have to make sure that everyone thinks the word you use means what you want it to mean.

  10. Re:Wondering whatever happened to ... on World's 1st Penis Transplant Done In South Africa · · Score: 1

    Youtube "bobbit's song" you will laugh.

  11. Constitutional confetti on Mass Surveillance: Can We Blame It All On the Government? · · Score: 1

    Are you as worried about the first two? Does free expression only pertain to only what not where? Does shall not infringe only to apply active militia members?

  12. Who needs carbon? on In Historic Turn, CO2 Emissions Flatline In 2014, Even As Global Economy Grows · · Score: 1

    Much of the twenty first century's GDP is produced without burning something. Government borrowing is counted in the GDP. Telecommunications, financial, and medical services grow the GDP without smokestacks. Automation increases productivity without increasing energy usage.

    Renewables are coming online now. They have a carbon footprint but it shrinks as the energy used in their production is amortized over their useful lifetime.

  13. Re:Spider Robinson warned us 30-odd years ago... on $7.4 Million Blurred Lines Verdict Likely To Alter Music Business · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the link, good read. A much simpler solution would be to allow copying. There would be no fees or punitive damages, just an equatable share of profits. A panel of arbitrators would decide who gets how much.

    Allowing parts of old works in new works makes the art world pie bigger, not smaller. Artist should be glad for the extra exposure. Myself I never heard the Marvin Gaye song and I don't much care for Blurred Lines but I could watch Eimily Ratajkowski prance around all day.

  14. Re:Five Things To Consider on California's Hot, Dry Winters Tied To Climate Change · · Score: 1

    As a farmer you have to make the maximum profit you can otherwise you lose your land ( ask me how I know). Any practice that lowers your profit compared to your neighbors increases your chances of bankruptcy. Simply mandating all growers adopt the same practices may cause consumers to switch to less expensive foods.

    To have a sustainable economy everyone has to be forced to participate. Otherwise cheaters will make more profit. To stop climate change no country or individual can be allowed to cheat. Politics and money can force some change, it will take bullets and bombs to enforce the rest.

  15. Re:"an act of social provocation"? on Come and Take It, Texas Gun Enthusiasts (Video) · · Score: 1

    Under US law the lower receiver ( where the trigger is located ) is the part that has a serial number and has to be registered. The ATF does not consider one that is only 80% finished by the manufacturer to be a firearm. A person can buy one of these and finish it himself and not have to register it. All the other parts can legally be bought to create a working unregistered gun.

    This can be done with a simple jig on a small ordinary drill press without too much effort. The CNC machine will do it with no effort. It is illegal to sell the finished lowers or to charge someone for access to your machine. Polymer blocks can also be used and are even easier to machine.

    This is only for the .223 AR-15. This is a very popular kit gun and can be customized with different accessories.

  16. Re:How I stopped hating tax and learned to love it on French Nuclear Industry In Turmoil As Manufacturer Buckles · · Score: 1

    Bear with me, I lack a college education. So, for example, a utility is taxed one billion dollars for the pollution it produces. Then the utility raises cost to the rate payers by one billion dollars. Government then returns the billion dollars to the rate payers. This reduces pollution how?

  17. Why not both? on Google Wants To Rank Websites Based On Facts Not Links · · Score: 1

    Couldn't Google search results alternate between link based and fact based?

  18. Re:So live underground on Adjusting To a Martian Day More Difficult Than Expected · · Score: 1

    When I workedI always felt I needed an other hour of sleep. I'm retired and sleep a minimum of 9 or 10 hours a night. Go to bed at 12:00 and get up at 9:30 or ten. I hate the summertime, it gets bright way too early.

  19. Re:Interesing... on Lawmakers Seek Information On Funding For Climate Change Critics · · Score: 1

    Europe is more socialist, people believe any increased cost will be paid for with other people's money. I believe climate change is man-made but nothing can be done to stop it. The Peak Oil people claim the oil will run out soon anyway, then the problem will fix itself.

  20. Re:Gonna see a Net Neutrality Fee on FCC Approves Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    I live five miles outside a city with 11,000 population. Cable and DSL service ends a mile and half from my house. AT&T buried fiber the entire length of my road but did not hook it up. Dial-up or $80 a month satellite internet only for me. People three miles past my house have DSL because their phone lines come from the opposite direction. With only about 20 homes affected, without a subsidy it wouldn't pay to hook us up

  21. Re:Problem: breeding multiresistentcies brings mon on The Peculiar Economics of Developing New Antibiotics · · Score: 1

    I have chronic tooth abscesses. My dentist always proscribes Amoxicillin 500MG. Fish mox forte from Cal Vet supply is identical. At my last dentist visit he told me I had an anaerobic bacteria infection and proscribed something different. A few months later more tooth pain. A quick search for anaerobic antibiotics gives me Metronidazole for the treatment of anaerobic abscesses. $60 for 60 from the vet supply. I would pay less at a pharmacy but my insurance doesn't cover dental visits.

  22. Re:Sad For My Gender on Two New Male Birth Control Chemicals In Advanced Stages · · Score: 1

    Well, once your wife leaves you, she might let it get out that she did exactly that. We had a rotten marriage but two great kids, and she left me just when my current wife needed a great guy like me. Now everybody's happy.

  23. Re:AC Rant on DOT Warns of Dystopian Future For Transportation · · Score: 1

    Northeast Florida is growing by leaps and bounds. Fortunately the highway planers were ready for it. Forty years ago I-295 was built as a four lane connector between I-95 and I-10. Now it's six lanes and work crews are clearing the trees that have grownup on the extra ROW purchased back then to add four more lanes. No houses have to be moved because this widening was planed for.

    The two lane road between my town and St. Augustine was widened to four lanes ten years ago with extra land purchased for extra widening later. Most of it was farm land and the few people who lost houses along the route got enough money to build nice brick homes on the backside of the land they had left. Florida doesn't have to deal with freezes and road builders know that tourist and tractor trailers keep the state going and construct roads suitable for both. Some parts of I-4 through Orlando are getting a little rough I'm sure there is a plan to fix that.

  24. Re:Cue the libertarian fucktards on Confirmed: FCC Will Try To Regulate Internet Under Title II · · Score: 1

    I always wondered about that. I was a contractor doing hookups for Comcast. In some housing developments the main cable ran through the backyards of adjacent houses instead of in front down the street. I had to go into one house's backyard to hook up cable for the house next door. One homeowner was very angry with me and the cable company because by law I was free to walk into her backyard and dig in a cable to her neighbors house.

  25. Re:A different countdown on NASA Launches Satellite To Observe Soil Moisture · · Score: 1

    What caused the flash freeze that trapped all that methane in the then ice free, marshy Arctic in the first place? And what caused the partial thaw pushing the mile high ice sheet off the northern continents leaving barely frozen tundra?