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  1. Re:Invading privacy? on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Like I said upthread, if we adopted Canada's immigration policy that would make us 'nazis'...

  2. That was also, more or less, my experience. Except I had a bunch of Jr college credits in general education (e.g. required US history) type courses on top of the APs. Started college as a sophomore, lawyered my way out of freshman dorm living requirement.

  3. Mueller lost that motion. Discovery is proceeding. The clock is ticking, soon the lack of evidence will be open and known.

    Mueller is now looking for a reason to drop the case ASAP. But even he realizes that although Hillary's supporters are dumb, cognitive dissonance has limits. Granting it will be cause psychotic breaks for some...

  4. Re:"Decimate"... I don't think that means what you on Killing Rats Could Save Coral Reefs (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You completely missed the Roman politician (Suetonius) quoted using 'decimate' in the comments section below your cite. He died in 122 AD...

  5. Re:"Decimate"... I don't think that means what you on Killing Rats Could Save Coral Reefs (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It _meant_ have 9/10 members of a group beat 1/10 (selected by lot) of the group to death.

    Now it means 'devastate'. Think of all the letters they are saving.

  6. Re: Not "progessives" pining for President Hillar on The First Real Boom in Virtual Reality? It's Pornography. (wsj.com) · · Score: 0

    Bill won't touch it, nobody else will ether.

    Bet it you caught her mid seizure, it would feel 'interesting'.

  7. Re:Invading privacy? on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Imperialist! They will start shooting at you if you even try to fix their mess. They are currently in a 'make it worse' phase, having elected a socialist.

    Mexico has fairly strong anti illegal immigration laws. They allow passage to America, via a traintop, but Guatemalans aren't welcome in Mexico.

  8. Re:Some people see inexistent hidden meanings? on Game Company Fires Two Employees Who Complained About 'Mansplaining' on Twitter (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    A debugged LP solver has literally _person_decades_ of work in it. Applied math PhD types. If your not considering them, do, they're really useful.

    Granted not everything is a linear problem. Most non-linear problems can be squeezed into the solution with a few approximations. That's where the skill lies, setting up the matrixes to feed the solver.

    Nobodies 'inner teen' will ever really go away. It's simple, don't 'tilt at windmills'. Unless it's in your job description. Push someone's 'teenage buttons', they will react.

    It's hard to twist your experience as anything but a failure of diplomacy in a job hunt. You took yourself off a list, for no benefit to anyone. HR drone learned nothing, your resume was discarded and no further thought was given the discussion. Pick your battles.

  9. Sure many colleges have to teach their students computer basics (along with high school math and english).

    I know of none that give the students credit for a remedial 'computer skills' class in pursuit of a CS or Engineering degree.

    All these students are doing is avoiding having to take a basic computer skills course in pursuit of an underwater basket weaving degree.

    If you want to keep girls interested in math and science, you have to do it the age they stop doing the work. That's basically at puberty.

  10. Re:AR is stupid on Magic Leap Finally Demoed Its Headset And It Is 'Disappointing' (digg.com) · · Score: 1

    They exist. The graphics cards to render a complicated scene on them doesn't. Perhaps if you SLIed a couple of, brand new, high end professional rendering cards.

    You can put a 4k phone into a Google glass, don't expect much framerate.

  11. Re: Not "progessives" pining for President Hillary on The First Real Boom in Virtual Reality? It's Pornography. (wsj.com) · · Score: 0

    Total darkness fixes a lot. But not that.

  12. Re:AR is stupid on Magic Leap Finally Demoed Its Headset And It Is 'Disappointing' (digg.com) · · Score: 1

    The fastest video cards in the world don't render fast enough for 4K VR. Two 1080Tis SLIed together wouldn't get you 60fps on anything but very simple scenes.

    Moore's law is on it though. Give it a few years.

  13. Re:Last I checked... on NASA Commercial Crew Program for Space Station Faces Delays, Report Says (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Last I heard they were still planning on fueling with the crew onboard. Which NASA is still saying no to.

  14. Re:So, "immigrants"? on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    So what?

    Green card holders could get sent to jail, then deported. The rest of us can just get sent to jail. To many unenforced laws is a separate issue.

    Green card holders can become naturalized after a few years, it's their choice.

  15. Re:Invading privacy? on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure that made sense in your head.

  16. Re:Respect Tata's Vision on RIP Tata Nano, the World's Cheapest Car (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    They bought Land Rover and Jaguar. They are doomed. Perhaps if they amputate the limb attached to british cars manufacturing the contagion can be stopped. But I doubt it.

  17. Re:So, "immigrants"? on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    They have decisions to make, live with green card laws or get naturalized. Consequences of that decision are their problem, not ours.

  18. Or maybe your just like the rest of the worlds nations. Opposed to unchecked immigration.

    There isn't room for everybody that wants in (duh), same as every other developed nation. So to get in, you need skills/money and no criminal record, same as every other developed nation.

  19. Re:Good for you sir! on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    If only you could look at the actual laws illegals are breaking. It's _criminal_. Second time's a felony.

  20. Re:Good for you sir! on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    You can't immegrate into Canada with any misdemeanor conviction that could be considered a felony in Canada. DUI is an example.

    You don't build a strong economy by letting in deadwood and criminals.

    The end run is 'refugee status'. Which is why that's lied about so much. Canada (for example) regularly rejects refugee applications. Sends them _home_.

  21. Re:Good for you sir! on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    And they wiped out the previous population when they got here. Who were genetically distinct, related to an ethnic population in Northern Japan.

    Nothing new. If you were born here, you're native.

  22. Re:Invading privacy? on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Your vote is for 'bring that here'.

    Every nation has the right to control its borders and decide who gets in.

    You freaks love Canada, America should just adopt Canadian standards, but that would make us Nazis.

  23. Re:Invading privacy? on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Every tire sold in the USA for 10 years has had an embedded RFID.

    Once they correlate those to your license number, it's over.

    But what do you care? You carry a personal spying device in your pocket.

    BTW repo men spend all day driving the streets/parking lots and automatically reading and recording every license number they pass.

    I'm considering just collecting a large bag of RFIDs and storing them inside a fender liner. That or a spark gap generator hooked to the ignition.

    I understand a ring of bright UV LEDs in a license plate frame will prevent most CCD cameras from getting readable data.

  24. We can laugh at them now. The Supreme Court being secure, gun rights are secure for 50 years.

    Neener gun grabbers, cry some more!

  25. Re:I don't think it's just "the wealthy" on Are the Wealthy Plotting To Leave Us Behind? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    So we've provided an equal number of cites.