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  1. Re:Number 1 choice of american car dealers on Mikhail Kalashnikov: Inventor of AK-47 Dies At 94 · · Score: 1

    ... or promoting self defense or plinking tin cans.

  2. Re: Hmm. on Protesters Block Apple and Google Buses In California · · Score: 3, Interesting

    North Dakota has the nation's hottest economy, with a growth rate five times the national average.

  3. What if windshield has a minor crack on Next-Gen Windshield Wipers To Be Based On Jet Fighter "Forcefield" Tech · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Will the vibrations exacerbate the crack?

  4. Re:Is it just me, or ... on US Treasury Completes Bailout of General Motors · · Score: 1
  5. Re:Theft on EV Owner Arrested Over 5 Cents Worth of Electricity From School's Outlet · · Score: 1, Funny

    Right. Lets ticket everyone that takes a drink from the water fountain too.

  6. Re:Biased Media Coverage on SpaceX Launch Achieves Geostationary Transfer Orbit · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When you accomplish something of this complexity for near half the price of the competition the media better be extolling the accomplishment.

  7. Re:Speed? on Is the Porsche Carrera GT Too Dangerous? · · Score: 1

    It wasn't the speed per se, it was the lack of skill for the situation.

    Sebastian Vettel may have had no trouble with the circumstances, but that is a different skill level.

    Your grandma at 25mph in her Camary is probably at the edge of her skill level.

  8. For the US/NSA trust is a one way street on European Commission Outlines Steps To Restore Trust In EU-US Data Flows · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The EU tried going the trust route and it got burned. This situation is indicative of the scorpion and the frog.

  9. Taxing is not going to fix the problem on EU Plastic Bag Debate Highlights a Wider Global Problem · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This gets fixed by developing a better bag. Better means comparable cost and strength, with handles and environmentally safe.

    Jumping straight away to a tax makes it look like nothing more than a money grab.

  10. Don't appease aggression on China Creates Air Defence Zone Over Japan-Controlled Islands, Issues War Threat · · Score: 2

    It only makes the aggressor more aggressive. If you want a history lesson see Munich 1938.

    I have to wonder if the Chinese are using Obama's appeasement of Iran's nuclear program as an opportunity to test the west.

  11. Re:The problem is collecting the bounty on Meet the 'Assassination Market' Creator Who's Crowdfunding Murder With Bitcoins · · Score: 1

    ... That you know of.

  12. Drive a diesel? on Can the US Be Weaned Off Ethanol? · · Score: 1

    Not sure if US diesel fuel contain ethanol.

  13. Re:If it's for the 1%, why advertise it? on First Arab Supercar Costs $3.4 Million, Has Diamond-Encrusted Headlights · · Score: 1

    1%? 1 out of 100 can afford this? Right.

    This is for the 0.001%.

  14. Good idea, bad execution on EPA Makes Most Wood Stoves Illegal · · Score: 1

    The same wood burning stove rules would apply to both heavily air-pollution laden major cities and far cleaner rural regions with extremely cooler temperatures. Families living in Alaska, or off the grid in wilderness area in the West, will most likely have extreme difficulty remaining in their cold, secluded homes if the EPA wood stove rules are approved.

  15. Lost its way on Ninth Anniversary of Firefox 1.0 Release · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They got off track when the goals stopped being about speed, standards, stability and security.

    At that point it became just another app.

  16. Law of unintended consequences on OSHA Wants To Post All Workplace Injury Reports Online · · Score: 1

    The result will be more robots or shipping jobs overseas.

  17. Re:Automatic pistol? on Solid Concepts Manufactures First 3D-Printed Metal Pistol · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "journalists are morons."

    And they have agendas.

  18. Maybe they caught whatever bug Boeing had on Third Tesla Fire Means Feds To Begin Review · · Score: 1
  19. Re:National Interest? on Republican Proposal Puts 'National Interest' Requirement On US Science Agency · · Score: 2

    A significant chunk of military spending is forced on them by Congress.

  20. Re:T-38 being replaced anyway on The Feathered Threat To US Air Superiority · · Score: 1

    Never gonna happen. The resulting AC will be another camel deigned by committee. It will over-budget, over-weight and a decade late in delivery. It will also be designed for a 20th century mindset where human pilots actually flew the planes.

    The only way it will get through congress is if the manufacturer can find a way to have its parts made in all 50 states.

    The T38 with all its flaws is simple and effective.

  21. Re:So when they rebuild it, it'll be new and bette on Syria Completes Destruction of Chemical Weapon Producing Equipment · · Score: 1

    Paid for by the Iranians.

  22. Re:The answer is SIMPLE on Why Can't Big Government Launch a Website? · · Score: 1

    Filibuster-proof is 60, not 2/3. And the dems had 60 seats in the US senate when Obamacare was passed.

  23. Re:Hangings on US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures · · Score: 1

    May I use a bazooka?

    Overkill is underrated.

  24. If French intelligence had tapped US phones ... on NSA Intercepted French Telephone Calls "On a Massive Scale" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I suspect many Americans would be demanding that Versailles get nuked or we name french fries to freedom fries.

  25. $400M on a $93M contract? on Obamacare Website Fixes Could Take Two Weeks Or Two Months · · Score: 1

    Hopefully the costs of obamacare are a little more accurate or this could be a very short trip.