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  1. Re:Awesome! on Australian Billionaire Wants To Build Jurassic Park-Style Resort · · Score: 1

    The day the government stops allocating tax money to research...is the day I send them dollars myself, I suppose. I don't see any reason why I can't do that, and it seems easier than revolting.

  2. Re:Wide range of bans, restrictions and prohibitio on Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing), Gun Control, and Patent Law · · Score: 1

    When the NRA is saying you gave out guns a bit too freely, that *might* be an indication of a problem with your policies.

  3. Re:Wide range of bans, restrictions and prohibitio on Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing), Gun Control, and Patent Law · · Score: 1

    You're missing the part where the dealers called the ATF to report suspicious purchasing, and wished to deny sales, but were instructed to make the sale anyway. This is something that would obviously have been actually better had the ATF not attempted in the first place. It's also mind boggling that merely being ineffective is considered acceptable, and is the desired framing of this issue by the left.

  4. Re:Already happening on Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing), Gun Control, and Patent Law · · Score: 1

    As long as you paid the $200 tax and got the background check, I imagine it'll turn out just fine.

  5. Re:do NOT start from an SUV. start from a smaller on Asking Slashdot: Converting an SUV Into an Hybrid Diesel-Electric? · · Score: 1

    Dacron is a lovely material for light weight. It's a much less effective material for stopping that 2000 lb vehicle from plowing through you.

  6. Re:Compressed Air on Asking Slashdot: Converting an SUV Into an Hybrid Diesel-Electric? · · Score: 1

    For a limited time filling of air. The amount of energy you're going to get out of those in say, two minutes, is pretty limited. And they'll typically have limits on what pressures they'll work up to, since they're meant for filling tires. This isn't really a practical or cost effective option.

  7. Re:Rich people on Will Speed Limits Inhibit Autonomous Car Adoption? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I suspect most of Libertarians considered bitcoin little more than an amusing curiosity with a strange amount of slashdot stories. I certainly didn't even attempt to use it for anything serious.

  8. Re:B&M Forever! on Why Amazon Wants To Pay Sales Tax · · Score: 1

    I hear that brand is so popular that there's always one in Winterfell.

  9. Re:Best Buy's "Internet showroom" claim on Why Amazon Wants To Pay Sales Tax · · Score: 1

    Why would you have to drive anywhere to use the Internet?

  10. Re:would i rather on Why Amazon Wants To Pay Sales Tax · · Score: 1

    It works just fine for peapod. I don't really go to the grocery store much any more...it all gets delivered to my front door. Where appropriate, they use coolers. I've never had a problem with the produce, either. It IS working. Right now.

  11. Re:Kill all cats. on Cat Parasite May Increase Risk of Suicide In Humans · · Score: 1

    Oh? And just how many serial killers have you associated with? Is this a statistically valid sampling, and if so, why do you keep such company?

  12. Bought one on Cubify 3D Printers Aren't Just for Squares (Video) · · Score: 1

    Well, just ordered one. Says they're backed up for six weeks...but that's acceptable. Built in wi-fi support and the generally finished nature of the printer are certainly worth a good bit, and the print cartridges are somewhat cheaper if purchased in bulk. Overall, it seems like a decently polished gadget to actually use, as opposed to spending a comparable amount of cash and a great deal of time building one. Reprap and the like look wonderful for those inclined to tinker with such things, but frankly, time is a commodity I never seem to have enough of. I'd rather get a finished one and jump straight into building crazy things. I do plan to post a review of it to slashdot after it arrives and I've had a minute to play with it.

  13. Re:Poetic Justice on Georgia Apple Store Refuses To Sell iPad To Iranian-American Teen · · Score: 1

    That statement could be technically true, and not in any way contradict the clerk's overhearing her saying this.

  14. Re:Same with their up/down voting on Reddit Cofounder Says Site Was Built By a Horde of Fake Accounts · · Score: 2

    People who post as you claim to are prime candidates for me to downvote here. I can't imagine that reddit is any different. Trying to work in personal insults or assuming the OP is a fool is a great way to come across as offensive.

  15. Re:Declining Meese Populations on Analyzing Climate Change On Carbon Rich Peat Bogs · · Score: 1

    I grew up in Minnesota, and hunting them didn't start until about a decade or so ago. Hunting continues despite lowering populations. I suspect that mismanagement of hunting licenses is a bigger issue than warming.

  16. Re:It's all about the money on The Art of Elections Forecasting · · Score: 1

    Didn't Perot also qualify for matching funds, but chose to forgo them?

  17. Re:It's all about the money on The Art of Elections Forecasting · · Score: 1

    As an individual, you can also donate to a PAC or form one, if you wish. Or you can spend your own money to advertise whatever views you want, just like a PAC does. There's no discrepancy here save for the likelihood that the corporation has a lot more money to begin with.

  18. Re:Still a bad guy on The Nice Guy At the World's Largest Weapons Expo · · Score: 1

    Former Air Force here. Look. You were wrong. You got called out on it. Admit you were wrong and let it go instead of getting into service rivalry pissing matches, aright? It's pretty irrelevant to the original conversation, and adds nothing to this article. Let it go.

  19. Re:Still a bad guy on The Nice Guy At the World's Largest Weapons Expo · · Score: 1

    Look, nobody wants to claim Hitler as one of their own. Self-admitted fascists look down on him for giving their ideology a bad name, and the Chaplin mustache will likely never be popular again. Reasonable. However, he was raised Catholic, and wasn't excommunicated. That makes him Catholic. The use of religious phrases and what not throughout his government indicated it meant something to him. Sure, he might not believe what you believe, but even a brief examination of the history of Christianity will reveal that the same is true of basically all of them, too. Belief is a varied thing.

  20. Re:Theories and estimates. YMMV. on NC Planners May Be Barred From Using Speculative Sea Level Rise Predictions · · Score: 1

    If you melted all ice, you'd get what, about 65meters? Given that Memphis is over 100m up, I suspect he's not great at math.

  21. Re:Barrier islands = unstable = checkmate. on NC Planners May Be Barred From Using Speculative Sea Level Rise Predictions · · Score: 1

    A 1m rise is not usually going to put you a few hundred yards offshore. Nor will it make you a hazard to navigation, as ships generally shouldn't be sailing in a meter of water.

  22. Re:And what exactly did we expect? on Soda Ban May Hit the Big Apple · · Score: 1

    So? I've made mistakes, fixed them, and learned from them. That's what you do. Also, I tend to have at least minimal planning ability. Every one of the things you listed up there is a consequence of MULTIPLE mistakes. How many mistakes do you have to make before it's clear that you have just never learned to deal with responsibility?

  23. Re:How is this legal? on Soda Ban May Hit the Big Apple · · Score: 1

    That may be, but here in the US, we have rather a lot more fatties, so it's a vastly larger concern. I have to imagine that our immense obesity problem is at least partially responsible for health care costs.

  24. Re:He doesn't understand the job he is applying fo on CS Professor Announces Run For VT State Senate On a Platform of Internet Polling · · Score: 1

    Er, I suspect that the bills acted on and enacted are also among the bills proposed. So, you're counting them twice. 9239 proposed, 9239 total.

  25. Re:Wireless thought on Bioethicist Jonathan Moreno Talks Jacked-In Soldiers And Military Neuroscience · · Score: 1

    Telekinesis exists. It merely requires a few electrodes and a wifi-linked manipulator. Google Mind Flex for an example.