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  1. Re:Depends on your definition of "life" on Maybe There's No Life in Space Because We're Too Early · · Score: 1

    who in his sane mind would send out self replicating probes, that need millennia if not millions of years to reach a single star/plane when he himself will die a few decades later?

    A person who isn't as short-sighted and selfish as you apparently are?

  2. Re:Copernican principle on Maybe There's No Life in Space Because We're Too Early · · Score: 1

    If expansion is accelerating, we could be in the mid-point now.

    Yeah, or any other point.
    The truth is, we simply don't know. Period.

  3. Re:Copernican principle on Maybe There's No Life in Space Because We're Too Early · · Score: 1

    The Copernican principle says we are more likely to be roughly average in space and time.

    Nonsense.
    If you were forced to make a guess as to where we are in time and space, "average" would be a reasonable bet.
    But that says nothing about where we actually are.

    You can't synthesize information when you don't have any.

  4. Re:This is unadulterated bullshit on Delta Air Lines Grounded Around the World After Computer Outage (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Or is it always the evil MBAs?

    Well, given that it's PHB's (who are mostly MBA's) who hire the IT staff, and decide whether to pay for the best IT talent available, then yes it is always the incompetent MBA's fault.

  5. Re:Incompetent IT on Delta Air Lines Grounded Around the World After Computer Outage (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    How could this happen?
    I've never heard of a server farm that wasn't powered by an uninterruptable power supply.

  6. Re:Online Voting on 32 States Offer Online Voting, But Experts Warn It Isn't Secure (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    Good thing we're aiming for a Republic.

    Which, if you know what the term means, is also a democracy.

  7. Re:How about a law? on Robocalling Scourge May Not Be Unstoppable After All (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Most are based in third-world countries that lie far outside of your laws.

  8. Re:Would love to see something done on Robocalling Scourge May Not Be Unstoppable After All (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Almost all the robocalls I get are from overseas (can tell from the accents), but spoofed to look like a local call.
    Good luck going after spammers in Vietnam.

  9. Re:Would love to see something done on Robocalling Scourge May Not Be Unstoppable After All (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Similarly, I once got a spam call where the caller ID was that of my son.

  10. Re:How do you take a turn? on China Builds 'Elevated Bus' That Drives Over Cars (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm figuring that this would mostly be used on freeways, so the uber-bus can go ahead and ignore traffic jams while being much cheaper than overhead rail.

  11. Re:They'll profit by selling in volume on Tesla Posts 13th Straight Loss, Says On Track For Second-Half Deliveries (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Accounting for dummies

    Like you?
    Richard explained the whole thing very clearly.

  12. Re:Ready to on US Air Force Declares F-35A Ready For Combat (defensenews.com) · · Score: 1

    It's primary purpose is to be an economical delivery truck

    ECONOMICAL???
    You can't be serious.

  13. Re:Good thing you have a choice on Bar In UK Uses Faraday Cage To Block Mobile Phone Signals (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    in the UK these have almost all been sold off as garden furniture for the wealthy or converted into starter homes for the poorer.

    Only if they are bigger on the inside than the outside.

  14. Re: What's the big problem? on The Chip Card Transition In the US Has Been a Disaster (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Which is it? A "few" or 10? In my experience it takes at least 20 seconds.

    In my experience, it takes less than 5 seconds. Of course, that is not in the U.S.

  15. Re: What's the big problem? on The Chip Card Transition In the US Has Been a Disaster (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    My unlocked phone was $52 Canadian from Amazon.ca, and I pay $100 a year for no-frills prepaid.

  16. Re:What's the big problem? on The Chip Card Transition In the US Has Been a Disaster (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    and in this one case the credit card companies have gone with the more consumer-friendly option.

    How come the rest of the world finds chip-and-pin to be more consumer-friendly?

    Additionally the U.S. legal limitation of $50 of responsibility (commonly waved to $0 by most credit cards) applies only to signature transactions.

    Ah, the answer. Chip-and-sig is more retarded-US-bank-friendly.

  17. Re:Welp, I know what I'm going to do. on Maximizing Economic Output With Linear Programming...and Communism (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Do I have a right to point a gun at a doctor and demand that he heal me?

    No, but you do have a right to revoke his medical license if he won't.

  18. The effects of socialism are already rotting out the core of Sweden.

    Do you have proof, or is this just more of your fantasy crap?

  19. Re:Prove it! on Maximizing Economic Output With Linear Programming...and Communism (medium.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    most countries in Europe who have gone full Socialist, see Canada. There are various extremes of brutality and freedom, but all of the examples you find have a rapidly diminishing standard of Freedom if one ever existed (China/Russia) to begin with.

    Huh?
    Apart from the relative difficulty of committing mass murder, Canada and most of Europe are less brutal and more free than the U.S.

  20. Re:Where did the money come from? on 'The Wolf of Wall Street' Movie Was Financed With Stolen Money, Says DOJ (nydailynews.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is that they feel the need to investigate. Its none of their business.

    That's right. Crime is none of the justice department's business.

    Retard.

  21. Re:Where did the money come from? on 'The Wolf of Wall Street' Movie Was Financed With Stolen Money, Says DOJ (nydailynews.com) · · Score: 1

    (perhaps because he was a very outspoken young earth creationist)

    No, it was because he was a fucking crook.

  22. Re:Where did the money come from? on 'The Wolf of Wall Street' Movie Was Financed With Stolen Money, Says DOJ (nydailynews.com) · · Score: 1

    If it's not poorly defined then why can't people who are supposed to be professionals in preventing money laundering patently unable to explain it effectively?

    That's easy.
    They can explain it effectively, just not to a retard like you.

  23. without these details being intrinsic to the actual, abstracted meaning.

    And what gives you the ability to know the "actual, abstracted meaning"?
    And don't quote your education.
    That means nothing apart from a reflection of the intellectual circle-jerk that is contemporary "critical theory".

  24. That does not resolve the reason why Huxley included Deltas and Gammas

    So that Alphas and Betas would have someone to look down on.

  25. Re:Not surprising.... Whooah There Cowboy! on DOJ Will Not File Charges Against Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    I have doubts as to whether or not she really put any truly sensitive information in jeopardy.

    Despite the fact that Comey stated explicitly that eight of the exposed emails were marked Top Secret?