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  1. Re:Good Grief on Is the $400 Billion F-35's 'Brain' Broken? (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Uh, no. It's nothing, at all, like the DreamLiner. And who in the industry is saying they won't make money on it? They have years worth of production already sold.

    The problem is that they are trying to make this A/C do mutually exclusive things, which doesn't generally end well. Again.

  2. Re: Why do those Republicans... on Scientist Claims There's Even More Evidence of Planet Nine's Existence (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That's true, Texans always blame the Clinton WH.

  3. Re:At this rate on Twitter Shuts Down JSON API and Names New CEO · · Score: 1

    Well. Not ALWAYS.

    I kid.

  4. Re:Gee-zus on 9th-Grader May Face Charges After Homemade Clock Mistaken For Bomb · · Score: 1

    A Texan who can't see why this event is a problem, and blaming the media and teachers? How quaint.

    That, and the original story, puts me into stereotype overload, and I'm not even on my 2nd cup of coffee yet.

    Just an FYI: That's not at all "just like everywhere else". Feel free to ignore that info, though, as I am not a Texan and prolly can't be trusted. smh

  5. Oh, OK great!! on Proposed Regulation Could Keep 3D-printed Gun Blueprints Offline For Good · · Score: 3, Funny

    That should take care of it once and for all then. Glad that's resolved. (insert obligatory face-palm here)

  6. Re:Wouldn't time be better spent... on Cops 101: NYC High School Teaches How To Behave During Stop-and-Frisk · · Score: 1

    Nor by having a fire hose turned on you nor have police dogs set on you as you cross a bridge....

  7. Misunderstanding the situation on Cops 101: NYC High School Teaches How To Behave During Stop-and-Frisk · · Score: 1

    "It's unlikely that a high school student would come away with any other conclusion than the police are a fearful group to be avoided at all costs,"

    Of course they will 'come away with' that conclusion. The went IN having already concluded that, based on the evidence before them.

  8. Re:Why is Boeing responsible? on Boeing Told To Replace Cockpit Screens Affected By Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    "I'd assume it would be unambiguous too, it's implied that they will operate, and operate in the environment for which they were sold."

    That's a wildly flawed assumption. Almost comically flawed assumption. Boeing specs are exhausting. Their resistance to EMR would have been detailed and thoroughly tested, as would every other operating parameter.

    Boeing typically writes the specs and vendors build to those specs. Perhaps they should use the same displays that the 787 has. Those are quite nice.;)

  9. Re:Might cause a re-thinking of the F-35 on Long-Wave Radar Can Take the Stealth From Stealth Technology · · Score: 2

    "no one sends fighters against each other for a dogfight anymore"

    Every generation re-learns the falsehood of that kind of thinking at the expense of pilots and planes.

  10. I don't 'believe' in 2nd derivitives. on Belief In Evolution Doesn't Measure Science Literacy · · Score: 1

    That shouldn't affect my calculus or physics literacy, right? Freedom of religion and all.......

  11. It has a Certificate of Authenticity, right? on IAU To Uwingu: You Can't Name That Martian Crater Either · · Score: 2

    Otherwise it is just a waste of money. Learned that the hard way ........

  12. None and none on The Neuroscience of Computer Programming · · Score: 1

    All CS or Engineering here.

  13. Re:Shocked! Shocked I say! on More Bad News For the F-35 · · Score: 1

    Not to split hairs, but I meant 'Never,ever happen', not 'Never, ever happened'. Past tense vs present tense, and those examples are way past tense. I don't think that would ever happen now, that the AF would intend to let a A/C be developed for the Navy first and then adapt it for their use.

  14. Re:Shocked! Shocked I say! on More Bad News For the F-35 · · Score: 2

    "Did you know though that the excellent F-14 was built in large part from spare parts (radar, engines, etc.) from the turkey F-111 program?"

    Ya, vaguely familiar. Spent my 20's at Miramar working on F-14A+'s.

    "It makes a lot more sense to first build a plane for the navy, and then have the air force adopt it."

    Never, ever happen. AF is a bigger contract and has WAY more political clout. They always trump the squids.

  15. Shocked! Shocked I say! on More Bad News For the F-35 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When has this misguided notion that we can have 1 base A/C be all things to all branches EVER worked out?

    F-111 anyone?

    The F-14 was a great A/C. For the Navy. The F-15 is one of the best ever, but would be useless as a carrier based A/C.
    Anyone around fro all the fun and games that was involved in the F/A-18A rollout, and what was required for that to become a useful platform?

    This flawed paradigm is why the A-6 was around for so long, they couldn't field a suitable replacement.

    I expect that by the time the F-35 is out and working for everyone, it will cost the same as 3 well run, more narrowly scoped projects.

  16. Re:Swell. on Segway Inventor Turns To Environment · · Score: 1

    "So now, instead of a village in the Phillipines using relatively clean water that's been percalating through a forested area...."

    Having been to the Phillipines a couple of times I have to wonder WTF you are talking about. Clean water is a huge problem in the P.I.

  17. I am looking forward to joining the fight on NASA Public-Affairs Appointee Resigns in Disgrace · · Score: 1

    I just resigned from my position at a large bank last week. It pays well, but it is soul-sucking drag.

    I am going back to school (U of Iowa) to finish my Physics degree. It will be nice to get off the sidelines and join in the fight to help save the integrity of our scientific communities. Not sure how much I will actually add, but I will enjoy being on the side that is actively battling these knuckleheads who use the general populace' lack of scientific knowledge to confuse and pervert the body of scientific knowledge to advance thier pathetic political agenda.

    Oh, and Go Hawks!

  18. Re:Thou shalt not kill on Britons Unconvinced on Evolution · · Score: 1

    "So take your religion and shove it up your arse."

    No, no, sticking thing up the arse is not permitted. There isn't a Commandment or anything, but still not allowed.

    And as near as I can tell those 10 Commandments only apply to people you like. Killing, lying, stealing, etc seem to be OK if the victim doesn't go to your church.

    Hope that helps.

  19. Re:Philosophical Concern on Britons Unconvinced on Evolution · · Score: 1

    Jeepers, the degree of difficulty for the mental gymnastics today is impressive.

  20. Re:Evolution = the new evolved bigotry on Evolution Named Scientific Achievement of 2005 · · Score: 1

    I can never tell if these types of posts are serious or just a good troll.

  21. Re:News Flash! (??) on BBC Shuts Down Internal BlackBerry Service · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's not a bug. It's feature.

    AND, we didn't even charge you for it.

  22. That had to be a fun series of meetings. on Longhorn Drops 'My' Prefixes · · Score: 1

    "OK, glad we all could make it! Everyone on the phone hear me OK? Great! Ok, first we will start out with Bobs PowerPoint on the exciting history of the word "My" and its long association with MicroSoft, then Shelly will............"

    bang.

    Brains splatter against wall.

  23. Bah! Who cares, Hubble is irrelevant. on No Money For Hubble Service Mission · · Score: 0, Troll

    The damn thing isn't helping find Evil Dewers (tm). I hasn't promoted freedom or democracy to any oil rich Arab nations.

    The only people who use it are a bunch of aethist science guys, who only use science to undermine the rich Christain heritage of this fine country. Hell, who put that thing up there any? Probably Hillary Clinton behind the whole thing.

  24. Re:Rovers good, people better on Spirit Rover is One Year Old · · Score: 1

    "It's hard to take the "we don't need to send humans to Mars, we can explore with rovers" crowd seriously when our best and brightest rover covers only two miles of ground in an entire year."

    Uh, OK. That is because it was designed to cover more than 2 miles and didn't? Or is the traveled distance the limiting factor up there? Or a human based system would have been designed for 3 months and lasted for 12, or been less expensive?

    No point in knowing what the hell your talking about, apparently.

  25. How long......... on New Advances Bring Fusion Closer to Reality · · Score: 1

    I am just curious how long all the Limbaugh devotees are going to keep urinating all over themselves about the Clintons.

    They are out of the White House.

    Hve been for years.

    Grow up.