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  1. Re:Link to Location for Reading on Assange: Wikileaks Will Publish 'Enough Evidence' To Indict Hillary Clinton (rt.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Obama ignores laws he finds inconvenient _every day_.

  2. Bog standard 4 seat sand buggy with a currently imaginary drivetrain.

    400kg battery will near double the weight of a standard buggy. So expect performance comparable to 300hp IC engine.

    A 4 wheel buggy with a WRX engine is a much better buy, and real today.

  3. Re:The FBI getting in front of Criticism on FBI Director Comey: 'Highly Confident' Orlando Shooter Radicalized Through Internet (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually they did, no cop entered columbine until after both killers had shot themselves. People bled out. One group of students took it on themselves to carry out a teacher that was bleeding out, saving him.

    They were supposed to have changed cop training after that. Apparently not in Florida.

  4. Re:More likely idea: unbalanced and violent on FBI Director Comey: 'Highly Confident' Orlando Shooter Radicalized Through Internet (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Welcome, 75th trimester brother.

  5. Tax credits flowing to corporations through the hands of consumers is politically acceptable.

    Once the products are genuinely economic, they sell to business.

  6. 60% is combined cycle with heat recovery steam generators.

    Gas turbine is 40%.

  7. Re:Why does the media use the term "gay nightclub" on FBI Director Comey: 'Highly Confident' Orlando Shooter Radicalized Through Internet (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    His father claims that they walked into a bathroom that was an active gay cruise; 'men touching each other' were the words used IIRC.

    Still no reason to go crazy with a gun, but truth matters. Who started this 'edit' in the first place and why?

  8. The 'Natural Gas Range Extender' reduces their useful load to zero. It's a CNG tanker trailer.

  9. Re:"e-sports"? LOL! Come on, don't use that term. on AMD Announces Radeon RX 470, RX 460 Graphics Cards (gamespot.com) · · Score: 1

    One man's 'asinine' is another man's 'thats cool, I might start watching.'

    They aren't done until the bikes have V8s!

  10. Re:I don't really believe it on Programmer Automates His Job For 6 Years, Gets Fired, Realizes He Has Forgotten How To Code · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I can figure it out; Liberal arts major trying to write a parable about smartass techs and failing.

    Clearly invented by someone who can't code.

  11. Re: No it cannot on Ask Slashdot: Can Technology Prevent Shootings? · · Score: 1

    It's a terrible law, but if you have a restraining order on you as a result of domestic violence allegations, you cannot own or buy a gun.

    Permanent restraining orders are relatively easy to get.

  12. Re:Sweet on Android Ransomware Hits Smart TVs (trendmicro.com) · · Score: 3

    Switching powers supplies, reactance and the electric grid.

    Old school power supplies are resistive, they draw a little less power when the line voltage drops,

    Switching power supplies have complex reactance. When the voltage drops, they draw higher current.

    When the grids reactance as a whole stops being mostly resistive, the grid goes unstable. The higher current draw further pulls down voltage, which pulls more current...

    The choices are smart devices that know not to draw higher current (sometimes) or maintaining 51% of the load as resistive.

  13. Re: Omar Saddiqui Mateen? on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Never happen, in the real world socialism/communism is irreparable. Flush it and forget it.

    It's just incompatible with human nature. Even commie philosophers know this, why they think they can make a 'new communist man'.

    They know they need to remake human nature. But are too committed to their philosophy to realize that their own thinking has proven them wrong.

  14. Re:There is a tech solution. on Ask Slashdot: Can Technology Prevent Shootings? · · Score: 1

    From a Freak Brothers comic:

    When the government realizes that thorazine will cause an economic depression, they add amphetamine to the water.

  15. Re:Yes it can. We have to destroy ISIS. on Ask Slashdot: Can Technology Prevent Shootings? · · Score: 1

    No. We keep the middle east in stalemate until their oil is no longer significant. Ether from technology or because we've pumped it all.

    Sunnis fighting Shias is exactly what we want. Them going overseas is an issue, but we should solve it by increasing their need for fighters in Syria/Iraq.

  16. Re:The technology exists, it's called laws on Ask Slashdot: Can Technology Prevent Shootings? · · Score: 1

    We've got a long way to go to match Europe's WWII totals.

    Guns help us keep our government on leash. When you've gone 100 years without losing control of yours we can start to talk.

  17. Re:Guns, freedom and all the rest on Ask Slashdot: Can Technology Prevent Shootings? · · Score: 1

    Self defense is an inalienable right.

    But you are right about the number of newly invented 'rights' these days being insane. Partial list of non-rights: Healthcare, education, food, housing etc etc.

  18. Re:The gun deaths per capita in countries on Ask Slashdot: Can Technology Prevent Shootings? · · Score: 1

    Keep bringing in immigrants from the 3rd world. You will find out how wrong you are. You don't have many 'tribal' gangs, yet.

  19. Re:No it cannot on Ask Slashdot: Can Technology Prevent Shootings? · · Score: 1

    They were closed because they were already empty. The direct result of an ACLU lawsuit.

    There is no point in paying for empty loony bins.

  20. Re:Wrong question, different reason on Ask Slashdot: Can Technology Prevent Shootings? · · Score: 1

    What? The NRA passed laws _requiring_ them to use computers to do background checks.

    Before that the feds were dragging their feet for months at a time.

  21. Re:Smaller = meh on Microsoft Announces Xbox One S, Project Scorpio Gaming Consoles (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    You want a bigger pocket. Duh.

    Carpenters/painter pants have a great cell phone pocket.

  22. Re: An easier sollution on Ask Slashdot: Can Technology Prevent Shootings? · · Score: 1

    Atheism was an important aspect of their political leanings. So both.

  23. Re: Omar Saddiqui Mateen? on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Just like all communists.

    The political philosophy is irreparably broken. Excessive concentration of power leads inevitably to tyrannical dictatorship.

    Just drop it into the dustbin of history and forget about it.

  24. Re:Ok that sounds good, so... on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're born there, you are a native, don't let the scumbags redefine things.

  25. Re:Immigration on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    Progressive means a lot of different things.

    If by 'progressive' you mean like Sanders, then no, western society has _not_ made that choice. We aren't all reactionaries wanting to return to the 1930s.

    Western society is 'pro progress' but that is antithetical to 'progressives' who are just commies.