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  1. Can we quit it with the hair spitting to separate equivalent things? Even if Obama had more willing co-conspirators, not everybody who's data was collected volunteered.

  2. Fair enough, he was only a cop for the first 30 rapes. After that he was an ex-cop with lots of cop friends.

  3. Re:You mean we won't drive electric cars on the mo on Trump Administration Plans To Freeze Obama-Era Fuel Standards (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Laws of physics aren't just suggestions. 50 mpg requires the car to suck.

  4. Re:Wait a minute on Trump Administration Plans To Freeze Obama-Era Fuel Standards (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Another option: Russia has been trying to interfere with American politics for 100 years, but largely ineffectively as their bullshit doesn't sell here.

    Now they are being used as an excuse for why the most corrupt politician in modern American history lost the presidential election. Also to keep attention away from her open and notorious corruption.

  5. That is the pattern, happened to Clinton and Obama.

    Yeah gridlock voters! Good work.

  6. Re: Big surprise.... on Trump Administration Plans To Freeze Obama-Era Fuel Standards (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    You should be penalized for driving so goddamn slow.

  7. Re: Big surprise.... on Trump Administration Plans To Freeze Obama-Era Fuel Standards (theverge.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    What you gonna do about it?

    I put the CARB parts back on, once every 2 years for a smog check.

  8. Re:Big surprise.... on Trump Administration Plans To Freeze Obama-Era Fuel Standards (theverge.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    You realize your repeating Russian propaganda?

    Fracking is a 100 year old technology, it's just been demonized by hydrocarbon producers who's profit margin is threatened.

  9. Re:maybe it will at least help sales of electric c on Trump Administration Plans To Freeze Obama-Era Fuel Standards (theverge.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Kill yourself.

  10. Re:maybe it will at least help sales of electric c on Trump Administration Plans To Freeze Obama-Era Fuel Standards (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    You can't give away Frog cars in America. Which is why they are all branded Nissan.

  11. Re:Politics in the US on Trump Administration Plans To Freeze Obama-Era Fuel Standards (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    She cut off the air to other candidates as part of the setup to make her the winner. Turning that around in 4 years will be a challenge. Likely the Ds will pivot left, giving 2020 to the Rs on a platter.

    The Ds will be paying for her campaign for decades, especially once the trails start. It will worse for them than Nixon was for the Rs.

  12. Re: Do theaters not sell tickets at the entrance on MoviePass Changes TOS To Prevent You From Seeing the Same Movie More Than Once (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I was a rotten kid, I had a dozen 'battery of the month' club cards. Collected batteries like cordwood, but siblings, so never lasted.

    '4 free game tokens every time you come in' cards! Went in the token machines. On the bike ride to/from school. They had to buy more tokens, then more. Then we got smart, started selling bags of tokens at school. After a while the cards stopped working, what a ripoff.

    Same tokens worked at fancy, expensive (4/dollar), 'puke got cleaned up' arcade, years later.

  13. Re:You mean we won't drive electric cars on the mo on Trump Administration Plans To Freeze Obama-Era Fuel Standards (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Plus there is a stack of awesome V8s all over the used market. 75% of the motors in useless mall utility vehicles, so the good cars will be going for the foreseeable future. Lots of cheap parts for miles and miles.

  14. Re:You know, it's not a bad thing on Trump Administration Plans To Freeze Obama-Era Fuel Standards (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Expect to disassemble your intake and heads weekly. Find a soak that takes off crusty carbon and creosote.

    Still considering, if I had a spare gutted pre-smog chassis.

    Engine would have to be carbureted. Injection car computer couldn't deal with no control of mix. Perhaps a computer controlled carb (1980 era), rewired and replumbed somehow to control wood gas with the mix solenoid. Keeping the O2 sensor working will be a challenge. I'd make those quick change and learn to clean them.

    Obviously, in CA, have to be pre-smog. Even then, your going to get grief, lots and lots of grief. But the reaction will be priceless.

  15. Re:What does he need them _for_? on Two Koreas Agree To End War This Year, Pursue Denuclearization (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    There would be an insane artillery dual. But N Korea's guns are in fixed implacements that have been zeroed for decades. They wouldn't get off more than a few rounds. Less, if they were shooting at the civilian areas rather than the S Korean guns.

    The people I've known that served in the Korean DMZ are of the opinion that they were there to keep the South from going North, for decades now. Look at the relative size of the economies.

    If it wasn't for China, the second Korean war would have happened in the 1980s and wouldn't have taken but a couple of days.

  16. Re:Camp Humphries on Two Koreas Agree To End War This Year, Pursue Denuclearization (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    They built an artificial island. Their Navy is still relatively weak, just not as weak as it was 10 years ago. In a 'shooting war' they are toast.

  17. Re:Nobel Peace Prize Winner on Two Koreas Agree To End War This Year, Pursue Denuclearization (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    They've been a joke for a long long time. There is a lot of that going around.

    Pulitzer prize is another good example. It was given to 'Red Star Rising' which was pure propaganda in hindsight. Never rescinded.

  18. Re:Do theaters not sell tickets at the entrance on MoviePass Changes TOS To Prevent You From Seeing the Same Movie More Than Once (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    If you get 4 subs and get 4 tickets/day, you could sell them for half and supplement your income to the tune of $20/day.

    If I was a kid and already had a shit job near the theater, I'd have been all over it. Wouldn't have limited myself to 4, at least once I saw they were paying off.

    Theaters rarely check you're going into the movie you paid for (sometime requires a bathroom detour). Just scalp them as 'general admission'.

  19. Information that came from the opposition candidate isn't 'credible'. It's beyond unreliable.

    Enjoy it when the next D candidate is FISA surveilled and incomplete, unverified, uncredible information is leaked during the campaign.

  20. Re:Higher height is just terrible on Ford To Stop Selling Every Car In North America But the Mustang, Focus Active (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The car makers have fixed their engines lasting too long. 20 weight oil makes 150K issue academic. But you do get an extra 0.1 mpg.

  21. Re:Abandoned samples? on Genealogy Websites Were Key To Big Break In Golden State Killer Case (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The south park vice cop was on the job.

  22. Re:Transmission Install on The Auto Plants of the Future May Have a Surprisingly Human Touch (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    They're just two old school 3 speeds stacked front to back.

  23. Re:Performance? on Apple's Working on a Powerful, Wireless Headset for Both AR, VR (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    More vapor...

  24. Re:Unexpected Costs on NASA To Pay More For Less Cargo Delivery To the Space Station (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Two orders of magnitude was your claim. Nothing in your link supporting that.

    Also cost of raw materials is small % of total. Metal machined away is recycled, further reducing costs.

  25. Re:Such good access on Genealogy Websites Were Key To Big Break In Golden State Killer Case (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Send them a tube of saline with a crime scene sample dissolved in it. Duh.