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  1. We can defund the rural electrification initiative to pay for it. They haven't done anything in decades and still suck down almost a billion$/year.

    That program should be a cautionary tale, not an argument for doing it again.

  2. Re:Isolation on Should The Government Fix Slow Internet Access? (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    20 miles outside Sac is Folsom, Elk Grove, Woodland or Davis. All have internet. Do you mean 20 miles outside the metro area? Duh, you're not going to get much internet in Grizzly Flats.

  3. Re: More lies from lying cock on Should The Government Fix Slow Internet Access? (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    I believe the acronym you're looking for is DSLAM. Someone who works in the industry will be along soon to correct us both.

  4. Re:Isolation on Should The Government Fix Slow Internet Access? (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    You're the same guy who claims he can shoot a rifle into the air without having to worry about the bullet landing on anyone?

    Get your stories straight.

  5. Re: Isolation on Should The Government Fix Slow Internet Access? (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    You have obviously never priced out a power line. Last time I looked (almost 20 years ago), it was about 10k$US per pole. That's actual cost, rural electrification administration is useless, though they suck up about a billion/year, they haven't actually done anything in decades.

  6. Re:Isolation on Should The Government Fix Slow Internet Access? (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    We're still wasting a cool billion/year on rural electrification. It hasn't wired a single new residence in 40 years. All wasted money absorbed by rent seekers. It's never done.

  7. Re:Nine more terrifying words... on Should The Government Fix Slow Internet Access? (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    Even if we accept your premise that all libertarians are dickheads, you'd have to be a moron to claim all dickheads are libertarians.

    One counter example is disproof. I submit slashdot user Maritz as a non libertarian dickhead.

    I've run rings around you logically...

  8. Re:Non-expansion states; repeal bills in Congress on Should The Government Fix Slow Internet Access? (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a tough problem. The ACA is a mess and is going to dump shit all over it's owners (the Ds).

  9. Re:Ahem. The UN (and everyone else. . .) is downhi on Luxembourg Just Passed A New Asteroid Mining Law (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    How would they even know someone was moving a rock to hit the earth six+ months later?

    The problem would be fine aim plus moving a big enough rock to matter.

    Getting nuked in the meantime? No, orbital mechanics don't work like that. Nobody has 'Expanse' level engine efficiencies. Everybody would be moving in high efficiency orbits.

  10. Re:Advertise to transsexuals on P&G Cuts More Than $100 Million In 'Largely Ineffective' Digital Ads (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    So it's Bruce Jenner until he gets 'the big chop'?

  11. Re:Not much of a loophole on Luxembourg Just Passed A New Asteroid Mining Law (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean western greater Germany?

    Old joke: During reunification all of Europe was discussing what to call the new Germany. Except Germany, who was discussing what to call France.

  12. Re:Well thank goodness on Luxembourg Just Passed A New Asteroid Mining Law (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    In a similar vein, Delaware is half the US economy, and Liberia has the world's largest commercial ship fleet.

    Flags of convenience have little to do with actual locations of economic activity. If the rest of the EU had more reasonable tax laws/rates, Luxembourg would have a much smaller economy.

    Whenever the Eurotrash start bitching about America's low tax rates, remember, in Europe, when you get rich, the smart move is to buy Monaco citizenship and get 0% income tax rates.

  13. Re:Well thank goodness on Luxembourg Just Passed A New Asteroid Mining Law (engadget.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Luxembourg is a tax shelter, like Monaco and Delaware. That's all.

  14. Re:trump won according to law on Feds Crack Trump Protesters' Phones To Charge Them With Felony Rioting (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    50 years from now, she will just be another bullet the nation dodged. Only historians will know her name.

  15. Comparing actual time served to maximum possible sentence...you can't be that stupid. The maximum sentence for murder is death or life without parole.

  16. Re:Let the Wal-Mart bashing begin! on Not Made in America, Wal-Mart Looks Overseas For Online Vendors (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The classic counterexample I goto is the Rubbermaid mop bucket and wringer. The one you get at Wallyworld is not the same as the one you get at Home Depot. It's cheaper, but absolute garbage.

    The one they _use_ at Walmart? The one from Home Depot. I gave the local Wallyworld manager a ration of shit over it. They should eat their own dogfood.

    Worse, you can now find the useless one at other vendors. Once they made the molds, they just run it, sunk costs. Rubbermaid aren't considering the cost of wrecking their brand...

  17. Don't have to. If they planned on violence, they are guilty of conspiracy. The planning is likely in the text/tweet/email logs.

  18. Re:If you're dumb enough to wear your tracking dev on Feds Crack Trump Protesters' Phones To Charge Them With Felony Rioting (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    nothing but a low-down, double-dealing, backstabbing, larcenous perverted worm! Hanging's too good for him. Burning's too good for him! He should be torn into little bitsy pieces and buried alive!

  19. Re: If you're dumb enough to wear your tracking de on Feds Crack Trump Protesters' Phones To Charge Them With Felony Rioting (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody is condemning them for socializing online.

    They are being condemned for being morons, both for the idiotic cause they support and for their stupidity in supplying the police with clear evidence of conspiracy.

  20. _Prison_ for any rioter that brought a molotov, a weapon or was involved in any text conversations about planned violence, arson or vandalism.

    _Prison_ for any rioter that actually struck a person, except in self defense (not 'defense' from 'hate speech').

  21. 'Conspiracy' spreads like herpes. One text: 'Let's break things...' and the phone owner is going for an extended vacation at state's expense.

  22. From your sources source...http://www.apta.com/resources/statistics/Pages/transitstats.aspx

    Only about 1/3 of those busses are run at 'maximum revenue generation'...run the wheels off them. Want to bet which ones those are?

    Your stats includes all buses that are available to the general public, the same statistic isn't available by vehicle mile, just by vehicle.

  23. Re:What If We Create a Better World for Nothing on German Automakers Formed a Secret Cartel In the '90s To Collude On Diesel Emissions, Says Report (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    We'll hoon them too, just not yet. They suck at _everything_ except 0-60. At 60 those motors are so hot they've got nothing left. The batteries weigh a ton, so they corner like old Cadillacs.

  24. It's not that much work to take out the X-pipe and reinstall the cats once every two years. It's not like I'm not already changing the intake for smog checks.

  25. So you're saying only use dark 'dehydrated hangover' urine?