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  1. Re: This is better than an ICBM because...? on Russia Is Building a Nuclear Space Bomber (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a precision aiming technique if I've ever heard of one. Somewhere east of perigee on an orbit between 1020 and 1025.

  2. Re: muricans = idiots on Russia Is Building a Nuclear Space Bomber (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Pakistanis aren't that incompetent. Don't assume stupidity based on belief in a stupid religion. There are even smart Mormons, Seventh Day Adventists and Scientologists.

    I don't doubt the Pakistanis know little about maintaining nukes and a significant percentage would be duds.

  3. Re: Would his opponent be Ron Johnson? on Patriot Act Expansion Fails In The House (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    The fact the ACLU is with you two pinheads is exactly my point.

    Does the first also only cover printing presses available in 1776?

    Do the clear words (e.g. 'the right of the people to') not mean anything concrete in the other amendments as well?

    Fuck your apologetics.

  4. Re:I hate it when companies decide what's good for on Starbucks and McDonald's Announce Porn Blocks On Their Wi-Fi Networks (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Orthogonal to the issue. You can download without watching and watch from local storage.

    They could conceivably watch porn with a very narrow angle filter or glass and you'd never know.

    But yeah, you can't walk around with a goat.se t-shirt ether.

  5. Re:Heading off problems before they happen on Starbucks and McDonald's Announce Porn Blocks On Their Wi-Fi Networks (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Download it there, fap to it in private. Kids aren't stupid...Not that stupid anyhow.

  6. Re:Would his opponent be Ron Johnson? on Patriot Act Expansion Fails In The House (thehill.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You feel the same way about the ACLUs ignoring the 2nd amendment?

  7. Re:Dude the threat is china on Russia Is Building a Nuclear Space Bomber (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    You think they lie to pollsters?

    There is no way about 25% of the US population are actually commies. Many were protest votes from day 1.

  8. It's warning you that you are about to be jumped. Listen to the fan.

  9. Re:Great, yet another format war on Google Decided To Nix Its Oculus Rift Competitor (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Devs are abandoning Rifts APIs.

    Why would they code to a closed standard and limit their market, when they can code to SteamVR and play on both headsets.

    It's the cost of Rift trying to leverage their APIs before they achieved any kind of dominance. Also Rift was just in the middle of reworking their APIs anyhow. If devs have to recode, why would they recode for the smaller closed market?

  10. Re:The Market Quickly Crowded with Competitors on Google Decided To Nix Its Oculus Rift Competitor (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Development has moved to SteamVRs APIs which work with both. Rift fucked itself by trying to use their APIs for lockin. Nobody in their right mind would touch them again and Rift was only about halfway through forcing game devs to use their newer API.

    If you have to recode the VR parts anyhow, you'd be crazy not to code to the SteamVR standard.

  11. Re:Standalone Has No Competition on Google Decided To Nix Its Oculus Rift Competitor (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Sony phones are already setup to be remote screens for PS4s, allowing you to hook up a controller and play your PS4 games on the go.

    Won't have the frame rate for VR, but it's close.

  12. Re:Standalone Has No Competition on Google Decided To Nix Its Oculus Rift Competitor (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    It's all down to content.

    Driving games are here today. iRacing and AssetoCorsa both do mostly pukeless VR today. (the exception being very windy tracks like 'hill climb' in AC)

    Fixed wing flying is OK. No puking.

    But Descent? I don't think anybody involved with the decision to make a new Descent work in VR ever played Descent 2 on the VR headsets of the 90s. If they had they would have known just how bad an idea it is.

    VR games have to leave up mostly up or the disconnect between inner ear and eyes makes you sick.

  13. Re:Tired of it on Russia Is Building a Nuclear Space Bomber (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 2

    How do you account for the observed increase in invention rate when a nation is at war?

    Funding is part of it, but motivation is the other part.

  14. Re: History-altering nuclear first-strike capabili on Russia Is Building a Nuclear Space Bomber (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Launch detection is done with satellite infrared sensors. You couldn't fly to orbit without being detected. The IR sensors have to ignore large ground based fires, they can see hypersonic exhaust plumes.

  15. Re: I don't think that's enough on Leak Shows PlayStation 4 Neo Is Expected To Have Twice The Graphics Horsepower (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Or maybe not. How many current PS4 games get 60fps at 1080p?

  16. Re:I don't think that's enough on Leak Shows PlayStation 4 Neo Is Expected To Have Twice The Graphics Horsepower (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Current PS4 does good to hit 30fps in most games.

    30fps isn't enough for VR. They will have to downgrade graphics with software to make it work.

  17. Re:Defensive Weapon on Russia Is Building a Nuclear Space Bomber (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    The next war with Russia will likely be with another former Soviet state.

    IIRC the independent Georgian state that Russia setup after that invasion is on the verge of collapse. That would be my guess for the next place Russian soldiers will die (but of course not be at war).

  18. Re:Physics ? on Russia Is Building a Nuclear Space Bomber (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no way on earth you could land the thing without dumping the orbit fuel. Which would pretty much have to be really nasty room temperature liquid rocket fuel (what the word I'm looking for?).

  19. Re: muricans = idiots on Russia Is Building a Nuclear Space Bomber (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    _One_ of those countries has nukes, Pakistan.

    You can bet we know exactly where they are and have plans in place to drop an airborne division in and take them. Likely aided by a simultaneous Indian attack

    Ask yourself, what happens when the muslim brotherhood takes over Pakistan? Do we just let them keep their nukes?

    But that all changes when Iran finishes their nukes. Which won't be long now.

  20. Re: This is better than an ICBM because...? on Russia Is Building a Nuclear Space Bomber (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Hint: Star Trek is _not_ science fiction, it is fantasy. You don't fall out of orbit when you lose power. You need to do a deorbit burn.

  21. Re:Dude the threat is china on Russia Is Building a Nuclear Space Bomber (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Bernie would never have gotten as many protest votes if there had been a single good candidate running in the democrat primaries.

    All the Bernie voters that are now planning on voting Trump (last poll I saw over 25%) were just protest votes from day 1.

  22. Re: So this is Russia answer to the ,, on Russia Is Building a Nuclear Space Bomber (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    IMHO This story is intended for domestic Rusky consumption.

    The Russians I know wouldn't believe it, but they are all technical professionals now living in the west. Don't know if a Russian 'tractor driver' would buy this.

    Opinions from Russians?

  23. Re: A local dead one. on Do You Have A Living Doppelgänger? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Tweaker.

  24. Re:Yes on Do You Have A Living Doppelgänger? (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    All ACs look alike to me.

    Does that make me racist?

  25. A local dead one. on Do You Have A Living Doppelgänger? (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    Cops hassled me, thought I was him. He had a 'colorful' life. Almost got dragged in and fingerprinted, eventually they were convinced. The car was registered to me and my doppleganger could have never afforded it.

    Later I met his sister, found out he died. She was freaked out by me. She was a freak show all her own.

    No I didn't fuck her.