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  1. Which will hurt the far left in the long run. Right now they are still throwing a tantrum. They'll cry themselves out.

  2. Re:How is there "net neutrality" now? on Steve Wozniak: Net Neutrality Rollback 'Will End the Internet As We Know It' (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would you put your servers in reach of Canadian human rights commissions? That's just stupid. Pseudo courts with no presumption of innocence, no free speech defense. Not just no. FUCK NO!

    I'm not putting up a version of my site in broken incorrect frog for the quebecees either.

  3. Re:1990s rollout of the Internet on Steve Wozniak: Net Neutrality Rollback 'Will End the Internet As We Know It' (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Just like twats (twitter users) today. You're making the GP's point better than anyone.

  4. Propane is easier to store at higher temperatures and lower pressures. /Hank

  5. Re:I like those odds! on Elon Musk Proposes City-to-City Travel By Rocket, Right Here on Earth (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    It is my opinion that failure rates way below 10% are too high for passenger transport. The safest, most proven rocket, on the planet, (Soyouz IIRC) isn't safe enough for routine passenger use.

    That will very likely change. The more launches SpaceX gets the better their confidence will become.

    Having a backup (parachute and heat shield) on the capsule could potentially make rocket flight safer than current jets. But weight could be a deal breaker. Still, marketing, if it cut the capacity from 4 to 2, and doubled the cost, I still think they'd sell more tickets. Might change once they had 10,000 flights.

    For now, they'ed be booked out years ahead, on just tourists, zero g porn productions (amature and professional) etc. Like barnstormers selling hops on surplus airplanes in the 1920s.

    The first crash would be the inflection point, they didn't have ubiquitous video and 24 hour news cycles when the Comets crashed.

  6. Don't schedule flights over Crimea, check.

  7. Re:Physical Fitness on Elon Musk Proposes City-to-City Travel By Rocket, Right Here on Earth (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    30 minutes of zero g, for an 80 year old man, in a private compartment with his 22 year old girlfriend. Died smiling.

  8. Re:I like those odds! on Elon Musk Proposes City-to-City Travel By Rocket, Right Here on Earth (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    When they were saying it, they were right. Things change, duh.

  9. Re: Flight and passenger prep on Elon Musk Proposes City-to-City Travel By Rocket, Right Here on Earth (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Lots of couples looking to get their zero gee pins.

    Plan for it, partitions can be cheap and lite, claim they are puke barriers. They will limit spread of bodily fluids. Make the cabin 'hose outable'.

  10. Re: This is never going to happen. on Elon Musk Proposes City-to-City Travel By Rocket, Right Here on Earth (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Is there some secret way you tip?

    Also opportunity. Combo checkpoint/nudie bar. Of course in the interest of inclusivity, the other side has male strippers/TSA agents. You choose, of course to get into the girl side you will have to say you identify as a woman, fold a dollar bill into a bow and put it in you hair.

  11. When did they build one of those?

    Kerosene/LOX is common, H2/O2, I've even heard talk of Propane/LOX (granted it was Hank), Methane/LOX? Who?

  12. Re:Massive Sea Level Increases on 'Lost Continent' Rises Again With New Expedition (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 2

    No. That would be 'A Boy and His Dog'. Greatest movie ending of all time.

  13. Re:CARB can't even keep my hotrod off the roads. on California Considers Banning Internal Combustion Engines To Meet Emissions Goals (sacbee.com) · · Score: 1

    Come visit California sometime. Then you might understand what I said.

  14. CARB can't even keep my hotrod off the roads. on California Considers Banning Internal Combustion Engines To Meet Emissions Goals (sacbee.com) · · Score: 0

    Every two years I reinstall the cats and stock intake, takes less than a day. Neener, neener!

    If they try this, it will finally break the Ds hold on state government! Don't mess with Californian's cars, especially the old ones.

  15. Re:He's right. on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Rejects Trump Bias Claims (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Vermin Supreme certainly had a better, more reasonable, platform.

  16. Re:Database locks don't exist? on Refresh Is Sacred (tbray.org) · · Score: 1

    Lockless transaction less database designs? One of us is clueless. Hint: It's you.

  17. Re:Yes, TFS is all straw man. *Consistently* wrong on Is Project Management Killing Good Products, Teams and Software? (techbeacon.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you saying you also know how to spot bad 'scrum/agile' shops? That was my main point.

  18. Re:Good luck, HR. on More Than Half of American Workers Can't Sue Their Employer (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    HR is clueless. Use it.

    When asked to sign updated agreements, tell them 'I'm busy right now, I'll have to get back to you', then never get back to them. At least half the time they will drop the ball.

  19. Re:Just Say No on More Than Half of American Workers Can't Sue Their Employer (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're going to say no, just write 'I don't agree' on the signature line and hand it across the desk. No reading is common on both sides, HR is clueless. Use it.

    The worst that can happen is they notice.

    This all presupposes the job is worth taking without the arbitration clause.

  20. Re:Yes, TFS is all straw man. *Consistently* wrong on Is Project Management Killing Good Products, Teams and Software? (techbeacon.com) · · Score: 1

    To refresh your memory. I have dual American/German citizenship, but am an American (who drives, drinks and skis like a German). Extensive power industry experience. I have relatives working in IT in Germany. (Particularly banking, we talked a lot of risk management shop.) I know for a fact that Germany is not some ideal world where there are no hacks (proof: SAP) or death marches.

    I'd put your experience down to 'power industry' rather than 'Germany'. Rare 'engineer focused' industry.

  21. Re:Database locks don't exist? on Refresh Is Sacred (tbray.org) · · Score: 1

    You'd be better at criticizing locks/transactions if you knew how they were used. But don't let that stop you.

  22. Re:Database locks don't exist? on Refresh Is Sacred (tbray.org) · · Score: 1

    They absolutely work. Ask your bank. If banks worked like most web sites, you could get rich by using two atm cards.

    But you have to know what you're doing.

    Your comment on 'the 90's' is on point, though not in the way you mean it. Kids are walking the same path that led to that design in the first place.

  23. Re:No Bias? on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Rejects Trump Bias Claims (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If the other viable candidates hadn't stepped back because it was Hillary's turn, Bernie would have been in last place.

    The Ds have gotten the exactly wrong message from the loss, they will pivot left, giving Trump 8 years.

  24. Re:He's right. on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Rejects Trump Bias Claims (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Hillary's #s?

    You choose to ignore that the Ds nominated the worst candidate for president in recent history. Why did they do that?

  25. Re:He's right. on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Rejects Trump Bias Claims (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Never look in the mirror at midnight and say 'APK' three times.