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  1. Re:desalination plants on the coast on Engineering Firm Plans To Tow Icebergs From Antarctica To Parched Dubai (stuff.co.nz) · · Score: 1

    Both America and Russia have lost nuclear powered ships. Submarines.

  2. Re: Or they could build a desaliniization plant on Engineering Firm Plans To Tow Icebergs From Antarctica To Parched Dubai (stuff.co.nz) · · Score: 1

    GGP correctly pointed out that gas is flared all over the middle east's oil fields. Put simply, NG is INXS, available for the slightly more than the cap costs of a pipeline to the power/desalination plant.

    Which is why they do so much desalination.

  3. Re:Carbon footprint of this? on Engineering Firm Plans To Tow Icebergs From Antarctica To Parched Dubai (stuff.co.nz) · · Score: 1

    What are they teaching you kids in school these days? You should demand your money back.

    Archimedes' principle. Type it into Google and read.

  4. Re:Is this a good idea ? on Engineering Firm Plans To Tow Icebergs From Antarctica To Parched Dubai (stuff.co.nz) · · Score: 1

    You have never in your life run any sort of simulation model for a serious purpose. It is obvious.

  5. Re:Is this a good idea ? on Engineering Firm Plans To Tow Icebergs From Antarctica To Parched Dubai (stuff.co.nz) · · Score: 1

    If you look, you can find ultrapasturaized milk in the USA. You can recognize it by the 1 month expiration date. Walmart was the last place I saw some.

    It tastes _terrible_.

  6. Re:Less, not more on Net Neutrality Gives 'Free' Internet To Netflix and Google, ISP Claims (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    You don't even know the definition of net neutrality.

    Net neutrality doesn't make QoS illegal. It requires that all traffic of the _same_type_ be treated the same.

    Which is the downside of course. A bunch of clueless fuckwit, government lawyers are in charge of the definition of QoS.

  7. No, the ones that develop their skills _past_ code monkey will stay employed and in demand, same as me.

  8. With a battery and motor?

  9. CNN isn't a credible source, I'll grant that. They could just be lying.

    But the RNC establishment hates Trump and is afraid of the dirt dump being triggered.

  10. Re:It's simple.. on Why Is American Mass Transit So Bad? It's a Long Story. (citylab.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    I guess it IS time for you to all start sucking each others dicks

  11. Re:It's simple.. on Why Is American Mass Transit So Bad? It's a Long Story. (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    Again: You want to compare a tiny core of one metro to the entire area of another. Still bullshit.

    NYC metro area (where there is data) average density is 1800/km^2.

  12. Re:It's simple.. on Why Is American Mass Transit So Bad? It's a Long Story. (citylab.com) · · Score: 2

    Same problem, a little closer, but still bullshit...NYC area is 790 km^2. Less than half Tokyo's. NYC _metro_area_ has an average density of 1800/km^2. About a third that of the Tokyo prefecture. NYC itself is dense as fuck, but note no cars.

    Kyoto has an area of 830 km^2 and a population density of 10k/km^2. Boston isn't even close, in size of population density.

    OPs claim is bullshit.

  13. Re:It's simple.. on Why Is American Mass Transit So Bad? It's a Long Story. (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    You have never driven down I-5. Never. It's obvious.

    I exaggerate slightly, Germany is 500 miles, LA to SF is 400.

    Also you ignore the fact you are _wrong_ about Boston vs Tokyo. I bet you will repeat the claim again, next time this comes up.

  14. I've lost count of the number of physics PhDs I've supervised in code monkey roles.

    They're kind of mentally narrow, but the good ones can be trained.

  15. Re:It's simple.. on Why Is American Mass Transit So Bad? It's a Long Story. (citylab.com) · · Score: 2

    SF and LA have moderate population density with a reasonably high density core (more SF). But they also have a huge empty space between them (that you could lose Germany in).

    SF also has working mass transit.

    Tokyo is 2,000 km^2, Boston is 130 km ^ 2. The core of 'Boston' has a 20% lower population density than the entire Tokyo prefecture. In other words 'Bullshit on you'.

  16. Not 'Vespas', more like a kid's kick scooter with a battery and motor.

    Kids were making them for themselves about 10-15 years ago, was a minor trend.

  17. Re:It's simple.. on Why Is American Mass Transit So Bad? It's a Long Story. (citylab.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It IS simple.

    Population density.

    Yards kill mass transit. Which works for us.

    We can vote with our feet, but the social engineers don't like how we vote. Fuck them, right in the ear.

  18. Re:Use: Evading capital controls. on Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies Are Useless, The Economist Says (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    The services you are looking for are called 'Tumblers'.

  19. Re:So why not treat them well? on Software Developers Are Now More Valuable To Companies Than Money, Says Survey (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So now YOUR a 3+ standard deviation person? Bullshit on you!

  20. Re:Five billion [Re:No shit. That was the point] on Pretty Clear GRU's Goal Was To Weaken a Future Clinton Presidency, Former Facebook CSO Says (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Bullshit. They kept up the attacks, all day long, now they claim it helped him. Whatever gets them through the long nights.

    'No bad publicity' is when you are looking for name recognition. Both the clowns in the election already had that.

  21. They were co-opted by the religious nuts and the organization became worse than useless. Pretty much SOP for popular R movements.

    Of course, the people are still out there.

  22. What % of renters are experienced and smart enough to get that?

  23. That question speaks volumes, about you, middle schooler.

  24. Berlin is still rows and rows of Soviet era apartment blocks.

  25. Think of the money you'd save on taxes. Monaco has zero income tax. Always remember the top tax bracket in Europe is 'Monaco'. Citizenship is kind of expensive.