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  1. Re:Cue the hipocrisy... on NSA's Best Are 'Leaving In Big Numbers,' Insiders Say (cyberscoop.com) · · Score: 1

    Interservice rivalry.

    Once it became apparent that the FBI was in the sack for Hillary, other intelligence services couldn't openly support her.

  2. Bill Clinton did many of the things your list. Only #3 is an exception. Because Bill never held an honest job in his life and had no holdings.

  3. Re:I'm an "all the above guy" on Why Apple Just Invested in Wind Turbines In China (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The local 'coal store' isn't convenient to me.

    We know you are lying.

  4. Re:Half assed... on Why Apple Just Invested in Wind Turbines In China (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    You underestimate how broken China is.

    China has problems with days long traffic jams of single rear axle trucks hauling coal. Because powerful people own the obsolete coal plants near the cities, transmission lines from the coal producing regions are not being allowed to be constructed. Eventually they will build them, but not until the sons/daughters of central committee members make more money (and the power transmission companies fall into their hands).

  5. Re:Doesn't work that way on Why Apple Just Invested in Wind Turbines In China (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody cares that Bush's house uses more energy than Gore's. Because Bush isn't a self righteous hypocrite but Gore is.

  6. Re:Because "bad" taxes on Why Apple Just Invested in Wind Turbines In China (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    By definition: Evading is against the law.

  7. Re: Because "bad" taxes on Why Apple Just Invested in Wind Turbines In China (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Hydro ramps well, within limits, you can't routinely sends walls of water down most rivers, you also don't want to strand all the fish in a river by slowing flow too fast. Ramping over transmission lines has issues related to system stability, it's not undoable, but has hard limits.

    Most ramping (unless in a very wet mountainous region) is done with combustion turbines burning natural gas.

  8. Re:The Honeymoon is over I guess? on Alphabet Donated Its Employees' Holiday Gifts To Charity (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    You've never worked for a 'United way partner'?

    Seriously; _never_ work for a 'united way partner', it's a symptom of a much deeper disfunction. Just don't do it.

  9. in for?

    Have you been asleep for the last 20+ years?

  10. Re:Camping in a tent behind work? on Struggling Workers Found Sleeping In Tents Behind Amazon's Warehouse (thecourier.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    He'd live in the body cavities of a decomposing cow.

  11. Re: They could always work elsewhere. on Struggling Workers Found Sleeping In Tents Behind Amazon's Warehouse (thecourier.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Europeans tend to be a bit wimpy.

    FTFY

  12. Re:Geniuses don't wrack up debt at Harvard on Inside Peter Thiel's Genius Factory (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    1600 SAT?

    Old man.

  13. Re:Yet another attack on public education on Inside Peter Thiel's Genius Factory (backchannel.com) · · Score: 0

    For most of human history, studying science or medicine required the person to first waste years and fill his mind with useless trivia about a 'holy book' written by goat herders. Also about the convoluted interpretations of same that allow followers to believe/behave anyway they want anyhow.

    At least engineering education came out ot military schools. Much more practical.

    Let's not forget that all the 'educated' had to transact their business in a long dead language.

  14. Re:Yet another attack on public education on Inside Peter Thiel's Genius Factory (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    No. The most likely difference was that you took a technical subject, so you were too busy receiving a 'vocational education'* to be properly indoctrinated.

    * As we are constantly reminded by liberal arts majors: University is for brainwashing, not for job training.

  15. Re:White on Inside Peter Thiel's Genius Factory (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Europe needed Americans after WWII. To avoid speaking Russian. They knew it too.

    Same with Japan and the Philippines, only to avoid speaking Chinese.

  16. Re: Russia Hacked the GOP too on Inside Peter Thiel's Genius Factory (backchannel.com) · · Score: 2

    As opposed to the fact that they definitely had blackmail power on Hillary?

  17. Ludes.

    Ludes are gone. The DEA did win one skirmish.

    Of course, today there is, no doubt, a very similar test chem. Saying they had a positive effect is a big stretch.

    Ludes are just one of very many 'staggers'.

  18. Re:Carl Sagan on FBI Relents, Confirms Previously-Denied UFO Investigation (muckrock.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    UFOs are often convenient cover for secret flight tests.

    That gives the government an incentive to encourage UFO nuts. There are a few documented cases of UFO nuts being worked for years.

    The types of Aliens people encounter varies around the globe (S. America, Africa; Eaters, giant jaws, football heads, Europe, N. America; Anal prober greys, Asia; another pattern which escapes me). So either most are culturally acquired or the earth is subdivided by continent/alien species.

  19. Re:How on earth is this policy enforced? on Uber Asks Everyone To Stop Making It The New Tinder (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    You can get front/rear dashcams built into replacement rearview mirrors...you're not intending to make volunteer porn, you just wanted to protect yourself from liability.

    Put a sticker on the camera. Check your local laws/examples.

  20. Re:How can they stop this on Uber Asks Everyone To Stop Making It The New Tinder (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    Did 'supper' include lobster?

  21. Your proposal is to not tax rich people driving status symbols while not subsidizing public transport?

  22. Re:IL had free rides to all senior citizens 2008-2 on Paris Makes All Public Transportation Free In Battle Against 'Worst Air Pollution For 10 Years' (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Don't even look at the pay extorted by the port of Oakland longshoremen. They get paid more than senior developer/project leads.

    You have to inherit the job from a family member though.

  23. What's your plan for dealing with stankpuss?

  24. VR is fine, so long as the content keeps up more or less up and doesn't deliberately make the user sick...Making Descent work will be a huge challenge. Descent 2 was the most puky VR game ever.

    VR also has it's killer app. Porn. Though, how anybody making any type of porn expects to get paid these days is beyond me. VR porn recording glasses will put the pros out of business, no professional porn starlet can compete with an equally hot exhibitionist. I digress.

    Let's hope nobody makes AR porn.

  25. Re:Theory without any empirical data to back it up on Engineers Explain Why the Galaxy Note 7 Caught Fire (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Engineering work. PEs are allowed to (slop paint/wrench their cars/fuck their wives) at their homes, just like anybody. Even if they aren't very good at it.