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  1. Re:If some idiot leaves a space heater running 24/ on Bug In Fire TV Screensaver Tears Through 250 GB Data Cap · · Score: 1

    Good point. So when you run out of bandwidth who gets cut off first, 20 Gig users or 500 Gig users? Or use a sliding scale like power utilities use?

  2. Re:If some idiot leaves a space heater running 24/ on Bug In Fire TV Screensaver Tears Through 250 GB Data Cap · · Score: 1

    Try plugging five space heaters into the same outlet. Wires have a limit on how many amps (or kilobytes) they can carry. A kilobyte may not cost anything but it does take up space. Once the limit is reached everyone's service slows.

  3. Re:Not a damn thing will be done. on Swedish Farmers Have Doubts About Climatologists and Climate Change · · Score: 1

    You left out sending 100 million people back to the farm. Or raising about 30 million draft horses. I'm sure we can get college students to help with the harvest. I will need all the help I can get.

  4. Re:No, they're replacing. on If Immigration Reform Is Dead, So Is Raising the H-1B Cap · · Score: 1

    One word, amnesty. Reagen did it, Obama wants to do it. Sure, only citizens can vote, in states where ID is checked. And what do Hispanic voters want? Immigration reform, which means virtually open borders. We already have "Dreamers". It's like a landlord trying to evict a deadbeat renter, they have "rights". The children get schooling until they get deported and the criminal element has already found "employment".

    Blacks, women, Hispanics, Millennials, each have a non-negotiable touch button. Affirmative action, abortion, open borders, gay marriage. We democratically elect our representatives and these groups are a majority. I just believe all these things are wrong and are destroying my country. As a good citizen if I am out voted I will comply but I don't have to like it.

  5. Re:No, they're replacing. on If Immigration Reform Is Dead, So Is Raising the H-1B Cap · · Score: 1

    I'm sure you have seen the "duck flood" video. Imagine if all the border patrol agents went home. That's what our border would look like for a month. These people come here for free school and know if they can't find work they wont starve. How can the Republicans politically satisfy these people without loosing the White non-Hispanic vote? Anytime I challenge someone about this it's discussion over, these are Democrat voters, the Republican platform has nothing for them.

  6. Re:No, they're replacing. on If Immigration Reform Is Dead, So Is Raising the H-1B Cap · · Score: 1

    Does not, most Americans are of Western European ancestry. How many immigrants come west across the Atlantic vs north out of Mexico? Mr. Gutierrez wants an Hispanic America. More Hispanics will mean more Democrat voters. Mr. Gutierrez knows that, otherwise he would be helping build and guard a wall. A falling white birth rate guarantees an Hispanic America anyway, they are just trying to hurry it along.

  7. Re:True in theory on Larry Page: Healthcare Data Mining Could Save 100,000 Lives a Year · · Score: 1

    Would this be a problem if healthcare didn't depend on insurance?

  8. Re:What choice do we have? on Workaholism In America Is Hurting the Economy · · Score: 1

    Eighteen hundred dollars doesn't go far in a American economy. I drive 15 year old cars, eat cheap food. My home is paid for and in good repair. If it wasn't for my wife driving 50 mile round trips four or five times a week to care for her parents I wouldn't use much gas either. There are skilled people getting several hundred thousand dollars a year keeping her mother alive but medical care for the elderly is a drag on the economy. For me a few cheap pills are all I need. I have never spent the night in a hospital my entire life.

  9. Re:What choice do we have? on Workaholism In America Is Hurting the Economy · · Score: 1

    What happens when all demand is met but 20% of the population is still unemployed? Not that many skilled people are needed and now many people only have enough money for basic needs. I just hope enough of you keep working so I can get my SS check.

  10. Re:Well unless... on Supreme Court Rules Cell Phones Can't Be Searched Without a Warrant · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't a well defended wall along the border alleviate that problem? There seems to be some asinine UN accord that some fool signed that allows any foreigner on our soil, who is not from Mexico or Canada, to claim refugee status. Many of those recent invaders have been coached to say that.

  11. Re:How do they prevent the money from being tracke on Banking Fraud Campaign Steals 500k Euros In a Week · · Score: 1

    There must be a good reason. If all it takes is account information any bank employee could make himself rich first week on the job. My take on it is banks move a lot of "questionable " money around so explicit details of every transaction are purposely not recorded.

  12. Re:And as a university professor in a non-USA coun on Teaching College Is No Longer a Middle Class Job · · Score: 1

    I do believe some immigration is good for the US. Unfortunately we are letting those wanting in make the policy. As a man of Scotch-Irish descent I see preferences giving to Indian and other Asian H-1 visas troubling. The what can only be called an invasion from southern countries is frighting. I know nothing can be done with this president but in two years drastic actions will have to be made. This doesn't even address the US caused "drug war". Sometimes I think neither government has the best interest of its citizens as a priority. Your best students rush off to the US and our best go to Wall Street. God help us all.

  13. Re:And yet on UK Man Sentenced To 16 Months For Exporting 'E-Waste' Despite 91% Reuse · · Score: 1

    This was over a five year period. It actually had a restart problem, as long as the power didn't go out or a software restart wasn't needed it was fine. The first year he used it without any upgrade. As he got older I put in a faster processor so his games worked better.

    Today the case, power supply, and old processor are part of a system he built for a friend. The video card and DVD writer are in my computer and the fast processor and new mother board are part of his new game rig. The only part tossed was the old motherboard.

  14. Re:And yet on UK Man Sentenced To 16 Months For Exporting 'E-Waste' Despite 91% Reuse · · Score: 1

    On a trip to our dump five years ago I found a perfectly usable Dell. It had a random reboot problem but as a project for my son it was great. We upgraded the processor and memory, then a new video card. I eventually had to put a new motherboard in it. Now when we go to the dump he plunders through the e-waste pile looking for a system he can refurbish for any of his friends.

  15. Re:And as a university professor in a non-USA coun on Teaching College Is No Longer a Middle Class Job · · Score: 1

    It would be nice if a small portion of your budget was spent on fences and walls to keep potential students from escaping into the US. I don't know if it a failing of your country or some unseen benefit that draws them here. I do understand that many of these migrants are not Mexican citizens either but why do these people not appreciate their homeland?

  16. Re:Most qualified and motivated candidates? on Yahoo's Diversity Record Is Almost As Bad As Google's · · Score: 1

    Can I assume you are not a tall, Black guy? Take your interview skills and try to "diversify" an NBA team.

  17. Re:Good Germs vs Bad Germs. on New Sensor To Detect Food-Borne Bacteria On Site · · Score: 1

    You know those small, white potatoes that are sometimes mixed canned green beans? Those are often the B sized (small) potatoes that are sized out of field loaded chip potatoes. They are kept in a hopper up to a week until enough for a pickup are collected. They can be slimy wet with rot with the processor paying on usable amount received after the load was washed and picked over. One day the driver of the semi picking up some of mine that were particularly pungent said he delivered a load like that to a hash brown manufacture. He said the rotten ones were NOT picked out before going into the cooker. It was years before I could bring myself to eat a hash brown.

  18. Re:Good thing we use less paper now on Study: Deforestation Depletes Fish Stocks · · Score: 1

    I'm sure your are intimately involved with paper at least once a day. My town has a mill that produces this product. Tens of thousands of acres of pine forest are harvested on a forty year cycle. It's called tree farming. My land was harvested in 1970 and now it's ready to produce another crop. You can't imagine the riot of growth that occurs when light gets to the soil that's been churned up by the logging equipment. Deer and other animals have a feast. Climax pine forest has no browse, the tall trees block all the light. This Florida where it's flat. Logging in mountainous areas requires strip logging to prevent runoff.

  19. Re:It's the securities, stupid. on NSA's Novel Claim: Our Systems Are Too Complex To Obey the Law · · Score: 1

    Didn't these loans have mortgage insurance? Where did that money go? I had a FHA farm loan. I couldn't pay it back so foreclosed and sold my property for half of what is was worth, which is exactly what I owed them. That's how you run a loan program.

  20. Re:War of government against people? on America 'Has Become a War Zone' · · Score: 1

    My God, I had to read a hundred post before I got to one that mentioned the root cause of America's gang problem. The drug war. Probation caused so much crime they had to create the FBI to fight it. This is a hundred times worse.

    Most homicides are caused by a minority of the population. I'm old enough to remember the South before welfare and integration and even those groups rarely killed anyone. If there was a disagreement over a dice game or a woman the knives came out but they only tried to cut the other guy.

  21. Re:Military industrial complex on America 'Has Become a War Zone' · · Score: 1

    The Naval aircraft plant near me just hired 400 people. I was a contractor there 5 years ago and people where walking around with their thumb up their a**s trying to look busy.

  22. Re:Gimmick on New Car Can Lean Into Curves, Literally · · Score: 1

    I was watching "Top Gear" with the guys trying to drift 10 wheel trucks. Jeremy Clark was in a right hand drive truck turning right. While still holding on to the steering wheel he was thrown off the seat and onto the center floor board and gearshift, hilarious.

  23. Re:Yes, good idea. on Fixing China's Greenhouse Gas Emissions For Them · · Score: 1

    Let's have a trade war. The US has an almost one half trillion dollar trade deficit. We buy less foreign manufactured goods, more Americans get jobs making them here, subject to our stringent air and water pollution standards. Most of our exports are not to countries we import from and what they do buy is low labor content raw materials. So the world's economy slows, that means less carbon dioxide is produced. Sounds like a winner either way.

  24. Re:Should not be China on Fixing China's Greenhouse Gas Emissions For Them · · Score: 1

    Everyone should have to spend a year growing their own food. You would willing to give your first born son to a Monsanto salesman for a few gallons of Round-Up. I started farming in 1970, before most herbicides were developed. Weeds everywhere, water gulping, fertilizer stealing, machinery tangling weeds.

  25. Re:Is this not the same as grass noise? on Astronomers Solve Puzzle of Mysterious Streaks In Radio Images of the Sky · · Score: 1

    I remember hearing a sizzling sound from a few meteors. There was no delay in the sound as the meteor whizzed overhead. I remember thinking to myself, "Did I just hear a meteor?" I have also heard lightning "crackle" many seconds before the thunder boom.