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  1. Re:It's how you define the 'utility function' on Is A Rational Nation Ruled By Science A Terrible Idea? (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    But strip twister does.

  2. Re:It's better than what we have now... on Is A Rational Nation Ruled By Science A Terrible Idea? (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    Old fiction condemning idolatry?

    What does that have to do with money. It's not like they could 'spend the golden calf', especially once they made a idol of it.

  3. Re:Well...You on Is A Rational Nation Ruled By Science A Terrible Idea? (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    Some science from the USSR was unbelievably bad (Lysenko). Which points out the fundamental problem with running a government by science. The government will just redefine science for their purposes.

  4. So because you cannot have perfect knowledge of the future you can't plan at all?

    You CAN'T KNOW anything. Does that stop you from putting gas in your car when the gauge reads near E.

    Some traits are _clearly_ unequivocally maladaptive, (example in the news: pin head). But we don't let government do anything about it because we can't trust the bastards with that much power.

  5. Re:Science is still vague and unsettled on Is A Rational Nation Ruled By Science A Terrible Idea? (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    You are the one who is skipping the critical step. How does this workers paradise form? How has it failed every previous time it was attempted?

    The problem with pie in the sky solutions is they don't work and when they are tried the results are terrible. Going back to the pie in the sky philosophising doesn't change history or human nature.

    Communism requires a command economy. Command economies suck.

  6. Re:Science is still vague and unsettled on Is A Rational Nation Ruled By Science A Terrible Idea? (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    10 years it too short for infrastructure.

    Look how long it took the government of Flint to fuckup their water system (and the effect the predatory behavior of Detroit's water system had) and how long countries like Peru had no water systems to speak of.

    Let's not even look at the real messes government overreach have caused, 'Owens Valley' anyone? 'Salton Sea' anyone? If those had been perpetrated by business they would be closed and the water would still be where it belongs.

    You can't really run the experiment.

  7. Re:Science is still vague and unsettled on Is A Rational Nation Ruled By Science A Terrible Idea? (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    They self identified as commies. Now other commies say they aren't 'true commies'.

    Guilt by association would be taking someone with a similar philosophy (say the NAZIs) and call them commies instead of just socialists.

  8. Re:It's the people, not the organization. on Is A Rational Nation Ruled By Science A Terrible Idea? (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    No. business has two insurmountable advantages regarding trust:
    1. They have to turn a profit in the long term, government has no such constraint.
    2. They have competition, if WalMart started to tap our phones we'd just vote with our money and put them out of business. Try that with the federal government and see how long it is before they have liens on everything you own.

    I've said it before: Compared to 'power grubbers', 'money grubbers' are good.

  9. Re:and we can replce people with H1B's as HR will on Seagate Fires 6,500, Or 14% of Workforce, Stock Soars (zerohedge.com) · · Score: 1

    You think Seagate still has American employees? Maybe 10.

  10. Re:Lay them all off! on Seagate Fires 6,500, Or 14% of Workforce, Stock Soars (zerohedge.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    110% = 25% (mon-thur) + 10% (fri)

  11. Re:Without discounts on PC Gaming Is Still Way Too Hard (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    30fps...screaming for console.

  12. Re:PC Builds vs. Car Builds on PC Gaming Is Still Way Too Hard (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple would be buying a 'sporty' car, not a sports car. Apple doesn't do fast. There video card offerings put them into 1200 cc 4 banger territory.

    The car analogy fails though. There your best bet is to buy an old lightweight sleeper (for insurance rates) then turn it into a crazy fast car with pure race parts. You select vehicles based on their performance parts aftermarket.

  13. Re:"Unreasonable" amount of disposable income? on PC Gaming Is Still Way Too Hard (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't that nut exposed through the center of the wheel? Break it loose on the ground, with all tires chocked or with the bumper up against a retaining wall/tree.

    Use a longer cheater bar, lots of PB blaster and heat. Good luck.

  14. Re:An article in search of a problem on PC Gaming Is Still Way Too Hard (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Got a 1 gig Celeron that I keep around to run legacy ISA hardware. Fastest ISA slot machine I found at the time.

  15. Re:Not everyone should be a PC Gamer. on PC Gaming Is Still Way Too Hard (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Typo: You obviously meant Decant. The chem lab simulator.

  16. Re:But! on PC Gaming Is Still Way Too Hard (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    There are a bunch of 'cross end' screwdriver standards, not just philips.

    Philips screwdrivers will back themselves out if 'over torqued', JIS (Japanese Industrial Standard) won't. There are others, but their names escape me at the moment. In the USA I see 99% philips, 1% JIS (mostly in OS model airplane engines).

    If you use the wrong one, it might work, but it might damage the screw beyond use.

    Cross might be recognized globally, but it's ambiguous. Phillips is a standard not a manufacturer, it's long in public domain. (Originally bought by Ford, which made it the popular standard.)

  17. Re:more gifts from the party of small government.. on Congress Is Trying To Expand The Patriot Act (rare.us) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's completely in line with her 'fairly-progressive stance on many social issues'. She has never met a government power she doesn't like, just like all 'progressives'.

  18. Re: My tax dollars at work, coming to arrest me on Congress Is Trying To Expand The Patriot Act (rare.us) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How do you turn bitcoin back into cash or gold without a paper trail?

  19. Re: My tax dollars at work, coming to arrest me on Congress Is Trying To Expand The Patriot Act (rare.us) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you haven't already done so, move as much economic activity as possible underground ASAP.

  20. Re:Ask yourself this question on Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Banned From Owning a Lab (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    8 point swing is a lot for a poll that claims 1% error.

  21. Re:You should be posting on StormFront on Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Banned From Owning a Lab (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Both choices are terrible.

    I suppose you support the unindicted criminal.

    Also: Salon? Seriously? Might as well link to Pravda. (USSR Pravda was less yellow than Salon, New pravda is more serious news than Salon.).

  22. Re:"Unreasonable" amount of disposable income? on PC Gaming Is Still Way Too Hard (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It's worth more than that. Any German Beetle is. You got a deal 3 years ago.

    Assuming it's not rusted and wasn't fixed with Mexican or Brazilian body parts. Bug people are kind of purist these days.

  23. Re:Compared to what? on PC Gaming Is Still Way Too Hard (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You can't find a cheap non-rusted out CRX anymore, much less one with a B engine.

    The ones you will find will already have been beat to death and will cost. Time to move on.

    Right now, 5.0 mustangs (post fox1 body) and parts are almost free. I know, I know, blue oval of shame...mines faster than a Cobra R with about $5k spent.

    What it really needs is a LS motor and matching trans. Ford's 5.0 will only get you too about 400hp while remaining streetable, weak.

  24. Re:Huh? on PC Gaming Is Still Way Too Hard (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    For $4k I can get a stripper to come over and assemble the PC while holding the screwdriver in 'an unusual way'. It's turning the screwdriver that's truly impressive.

  25. Re: Really? on PC Gaming Is Still Way Too Hard (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    When was the last time you bought a DFI motherboard? A $25 power supply? AMD?

    Problems are only a thing of the past if you stick to quality hardware.