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  1. The bay area has the homeless industrial complex. Which already extracts millions/month. Why would they end their gravy train by fixing it, even if they could?

    People's basic mistake is ascribing good motives to the 'homeless advocates'. Their motive is _greed_, pure and simple. The homeless themselves are the 'muscle', the 'advocates' collect the payoff, the homeless get their share in cash for drugs. Everybody is happy, except the poor SOBs who own property.

  2. The swiss changed their banking laws.

    Only numbered accounts opened before 1960 (or so) are still kept secret. Only old money families are in the cool kids club anymore.

    You and I can't get a secret swiss account for love or money, but the Kennedy account will never be divulged.

  3. You're only fired for cause if they built a paper trail of written warnings etc.

  4. Re:Evidence please. on Samsung Ships Flameproof Boxes For Note 7 Returns (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The charge circuit does not go away when it isn't charging. It could still be the problem. As you say it is all conjecture.

    Something is shorting (or nearly shorting) the battery.

  5. Re:Evidence please. on Samsung Ships Flameproof Boxes For Note 7 Returns (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    A quality charger will detect that one of the cells in a pack isn't holding charge as well as the others and exercise that cell automagically, it won't generally fix the cell, but will extend its life.

  6. Re:Evidence please. on Samsung Ships Flameproof Boxes For Note 7 Returns (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    They're almost the same voltage/cell.

    Anybody know the pack voltage for this thing?

  7. Re:Evidence please. on Samsung Ships Flameproof Boxes For Note 7 Returns (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Battery packs often contain current limiters.

    If you're installing cells permanently, you will be tempted to do cute things with the charge circuit.

    Individual cell charging is common in the RC world. (Chargers are complicated, the market is mostly junk.) It is also common to charge batteries in fire-proof bags.

    Lithium batteries in consumer products need to be handled with caution. They aren't $300+ jumbo airplane batteries. If one dying cell kills the pack, that's a fair tradeoff for simplicity plus another level of current limiter.

  8. Re:He's not wrong. on Mobile VR Is 'Coasting On Novelty', Says John Carmack (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd add, up staying up.

    Driving good, Heli good, fixed wing OK, 3d space sucks.

  9. Re:Yiannapolis = be the best keeper of free speech on Milo Yiannopoulos Wants To Buy 4Chan, Promises Free Speech Haven (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    Just indent each one an additional tab and we're good.

  10. Hard to say. Every time there is a mass shooting a bunch of /b-tards fake up a screen caps of the supposed shooter posting plans.

  11. Re:Why do I even Fucking Bother? on Sprint To Provide 1 Million Students With Free Internet, Mobile Devices (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Who forced them to pick a useless degree?

    At least they had a nice four or five year party.

  12. Re:Serious question on Clinton Responds To WikiLeaks During Debate, And Blames Russian Hackers (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Statement two doesn't follow from statement one.

    The current executive branch is campaigning for her. Nothing they say can be trusted

  13. Re:Serious question on Clinton Responds To WikiLeaks During Debate, And Blames Russian Hackers (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Sunnis have been fighting Shia for over 1000 years. Sorry if that pops your world view.

    We need to maintain the stalemate between Sunni and Shia. It is not to our benefit for this war to end. See also the 'Iran/Iraq' war. That was a _good_ war.

  14. Re:@Russians aren't out to get us on Clinton Responds To WikiLeaks During Debate, And Blames Russian Hackers (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Current score in Syria (for those keeping track). 1 Ancient obsolete Russian plane shot down by a NATO member over their own territory.

    Don't know how to rank that again the Ruskies shooting down a 777 full of civilians, but of course that wasn't Syria.

  15. Re:Serious question on Clinton Responds To WikiLeaks During Debate, And Blames Russian Hackers (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course cyrillic code compiles into cyrillic opcodes.

  16. 'He came right at me, I was in fear for my life' Denny Crane. After shooting a child rapist/killer in both knees after being ordered to defend him.

    You're the one who brought up TV.

  17. Get your talking points straight. It undisputably happened, but even alleged rapists are entitled to a legal defense. Laughing about it was just 'locker room talk'.

  18. What? The judicial branch are the judges.

    The executive branch controls law enforcement and prosecution. Obama's federal cops/prosecutors didn't prosecute Hillary, despite piles of evidence and many other convictions with much less. She hasn't yet faced legal jeopardy for her many crimes.

  19. Re:No pukey here... on Zuckerberg Teases An 'Affordable' Standalone Oculus VR Headset (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I put the VFX dedicated machine in the closet with the VFX1. It should just boot once I hook a battery to CMOS and setup the motherboard. Didn't need to be reminded of all the effort I put in finding an early VooDoo (rush) ISA board with a VESA feature connector. Waste of time, couldn't render in 256 color mode.

    IIRC the VFX did stereoscopic by suppressing the interleaved images on either side.

    I never get motion sick, but Descent 2 on the VFX1 was 10 minute maximum playtime. The lack of 'up' was the killer. The 30 Hz frame rate (from deinterleaving the left/right images) on the screen couldn't have helped.

    They are making a new descent, with Oculus support. No chance in hell of getting the old one to work.

    Yes I am a packrat. Also have a pre-release Amiga and dev kit. Someday it might even be worth something.

  20. For decades now, the only people who could run for president were those who knew they would be politicians at a very early age and lived lives of deceit from the start.

    The positive way to look at this is that weasels won't be able to hide their dirt in the future. But the way the media is handling Hillary doesn't make me optimistic though. It only works if you have honest reporting.

  21. Re:Who you calling KGB? on WikiLeaks Posts 2,000 More Emails From John Podesta (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course you are. The KGB archives are full of facts that blow up a 'liberal's' worldview.

    The Rosenbergs were guilty, Heiss was a KGB agent, so was Allende, the CPUSA was paid for and worked for the benefit of Stalin, etc etc etc.

  22. Re:You would think science could help on Can We Really Stop Climate Change By 'Capturing' Carbon? (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Jesus tits, you're being even denser than usual.

    Go back up the thread, find the first person talking about coal, it was you...

    Cellulose was formed in recent growing periods. It's short cycle carbon. Perhaps I should type slower, so you get it.

  23. Re:Managers like to stalk on The Real Reasons Companies Won't Hire Telecommuters (oreilly.com) · · Score: 1

    If you had used the word 'scrum', it still wouldn't have been funny, but at least you wouldn't have come off sounding clueless.

  24. Re:how about you do what your employer asks on The Real Reasons Companies Won't Hire Telecommuters (oreilly.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody dictates, everybody negotiates.

  25. Re:How is this news? on The Real Reasons Companies Won't Hire Telecommuters (oreilly.com) · · Score: 1

    I know a dude that, whenever he drinks, will expound at length about 'always shit at work, hold it on the way in, last year I got paid $10,000 for shitting.' He's a blue collar union fuck, so it's true, he's strictly hourly.