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  1. Because they can't.

  2. Re:Winglets on Boeing's Folding Wingtips Get the FAA Green Light (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Longer wings create less drag for a given lift, everything else being equal.

  3. That saved some time! on German Test Reveals That Magnetic Fields Are Pushing the EM Drive (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    I thought I was going to have to add a chapter to my book Everything that Magic has done to improve the lot of the Human Race over the last 2000 years.

          I am stunned that this doesn't work - stunned, I say! OK, well, not all that stunned.

  4. Re:Anything not accepted by the echo chamber is cr on Did Octopuses Come From Outer Space? · · Score: 1

    Being crazy is not evidence.

  5. Re:utter scientific illiteracy on Did Octopuses Come From Outer Space? · · Score: 1

    Agreed, this idea is nonsense in the extreme.

        Panspermia is not entirely ridiculous in and of itself, and there's a reasonable possibility that some amino acids or other sub-cellular chemistry did come from space - but a complete complex organism in the form of a fertilized egg? That just happens to be ideally suited to the salinity and other chemistry and biology of the Earth's oceans? Oy gevalt!

  6. Battle of the morons on Anti-GMO Activists Slow Scientists Breeding a CO2-Reducing Superplant (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    I guess it was inevitable that one group of scientifically illiterate dimwits with a radical agenda would eventually butt heads with another.

    The important thing, and I really need to know this - how do I blame this on Trump?

  7. Re:Stupid Governments Everywhere : Invest in priva on 40 Cellphone-Tracking Devices Discovered Throughout Washington (nbcwashington.com) · · Score: 1

    What the heck are you talking about? The goal of all globalists/socialists is to create a totalitarian surveillance state, because they have to force people to act against their interests and being able to either dig up or plant dirt on them is the way you do it. This is *exactly* what you would expect them to do, and exactly the same sort of thing that has been done in similar situations in the past (Gestapo, Stasi, NKVD/KGB, etc).

  8. Re:It is dangerous to live in that place on Kilauea Volcano Erupts On Hawaii's Big Island (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Having said that, living close to Kilauea is probably more dangerous than most places, but Kilauea is high threat to property, comparatively low threat to life, as volcanos generally give you enough warning to be somewhere else (at least with modern technology they do.)

    Well. the sorts of volcanos in Hawaii are like that, tending to flow thin and gas-poor lava for a long time, which is pretty slow-moving and easy to avoid. Other types of volcanos (like the subduction-drivin types those in the Pacific Northwest, Krakatoa, etc) tend to explode violently, and are pretty dangerous in all respects.

  9. Right. Progressive at the time meant "eliminate slaverey", not "create a totalitarian surveillance state". I would remind you that the most aggressive group advocating for emancipation was *fundamentalist Christians*, arguing against slavery on Christian moral grounds.

        Progressive is a word adopted by the extreme left in the 60s and 70's because "liberal" has such negative connotations. They did very similar with the civil rights movement, co-opting it after Democrats opposed civil rights bitterly, Then, once they were unable to directly fight for racism and segregation, and the problem was effectively solved by Rebublicans, on principle. , they adopted it as their supposed creed, got a bunch of neo-overseers like Sharpton, Jackson, etc, to work to keep poor people poor and in need of permanent government handouts - that they were all too willing to provide.

         

  10. Of course. I have been modded down to oblivion whenever I have pointed it out, but this is sociopathic behavior, and we are training and indoctrinating kids with this sort of crap for decades now.

            This country was formed to prevent precisely this, and to favor individual liberty over the "collective good", precisely because at some point, someone or some group will come along and attempt to define "collective good" for everyone else - which then has to be enforced at the point of a sword.

        Liberalism/"progressivism"/socialism can only end in totaltarian behavior, it is part and parcel and the end game of any socialist activity.

  11. Re:I'm not a pod person on Lenovo Teases a True All-Screen Smartphone With No Notch (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I also have no idea what a "notch" is in terms of a cell phone, or why it is so terrible, and your snarky wise-ass post didn't exactly clear this up.

  12. Re:Of course on Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    As I said, sociopaths.

          Weapons systems are absolutely necessary for you to be able to sit around whining about how tough you have it, while perfectly safe and warm with mind-boggling technology all around you.

          And such a great humanitarian they are, basically refusing to work on a system *intended to reduce collateral damage*. You know what, it would be one hell of a lot cheaper and easier, and well within technology, to just carpet bomb. But no, they want to make the strikes more precise so they *don't have to to that*. So by all means, great heroes, refuse to participate, we still have to get the right guys and any additional collateral damage be damned to salve your precious fucking conscience.

          No one says they are supposed to work against their own conscience, they can absolutely do whatever they feel comfortable with. Apparently they either don't care about innocent bystanders getting killed unnecessarily, or they are such complete sociopaths that their own precious widdle sensibilities are more important than serving the country doing more-or-less the same work they would be doing anyway.

          Or they are sociopaths who just don't care that we might have to nuke a city instead of put one round of 30-06 or one missile into a terrorist camp and only get the bad guys.

  13. Of course on Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They were all in when it was a creepy private data mining operation, but do something to support the legitimate aims of government and defend the nation, and it goes against their precious principles.

        We are creating a generation of sociopaths, who have inverted their priorities and have no notion of right or wrong.

  14. Re: Time for other countries to step up on Trump White House Quietly Cancels NASA Research Verifying Greenhouse Gas Cuts (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    If you want to feel better, or at least less embarrassed, about the crappy life you lead in other countries, we know how to get you out of it, free of charge.

  15. Re:Time for other countries to step up on Trump White House Quietly Cancels NASA Research Verifying Greenhouse Gas Cuts (sciencemag.org) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Some of these morons cannot go through at day without saying something bad about Trump, or the USA. And how hard they have it in life - usually using technology developed by eithe US industries or the US defense department, in a clean, safe, warm, residence with an water supply, infinite supply of food, safety, and insane luxury that makes ancient Rome look like a favela.

  16. Not surprising at all, and not a "Tesla Problem" on Days After A Fiery Crash, a Tesla's Battery Keeps Reigniting (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    I am not Musk fanboy. If a smug and undeserved air of superiority would solve the issue, Tesla would have no problems at all. But this is hardly a Tesla-unique problem, and electric car using li-ion batteries is likely to have the same problem. This seems more like a problem with the wrecker service or scrapyard. You wouldn't leave gasoline-powered with a leaking full tank sitting around hoping it something didn't cause a spark, in fact the first thing you do is take out the (lead-acid) battery and drain the tank. There should be complete battery discharge and safing procedure before you even hook up the tow truck, and the company involved should provide for such an issue.

  17. Re: Instant hang-up on Google Executive Addresses Horrifying Reaction To Uncanny AI Tech (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Click!

  18. Instant hang-up on Google Executive Addresses Horrifying Reaction To Uncanny AI Tech (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Their only option is to make it mimic and impersonate human voice. If it sounds very good, and there is an announcement that it is robotic, no need, but people will hang up immediately just like any other robo-call. If it sounds obviously robotic, instant hang-up. The only way it works is if they can fake it long enough to get some information, and don't let anyone know about it.

        Essentially, the only value to Google is if they trick people into using it.

  19. Just like asbestos and lead abatement companies.

    The stupidity of the socialist mind never fails to disappoint.

  20. I was into reel-to-reel before reel-to-reel became cool - literally. The premise that it is a more accurate analog medium than vinyl is dubious enough, but there will never be enough content release on reel-to-reel to make it worthwhile aside from hipsters and millennials want to pose as "old-school".

              We went down all these roads long ago. People into audio in the 50's/60's/70's were not all morons, this was long hashed out in any detail necessary. That's why CDs exist and are in any objective way, superior.

  21. I think you should start wearing a one-size-too-small fedora, and claiming that you are doing it ironically, and I think you have achieved a very important goal. The hipster doofus serves a very critical role in society.

  22. Re:Find/Replace on Are Two Spaces After a Period Better Than One? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Hey, take it easy, he was snapchatting about his artisanal toilet paper business plan at the same time he made his post. Something about Sears catalogs...

  23. Re:please, do not break a language on Are Two Spaces After a Period Better Than One? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "But we had one certain thing about a human language, - that the words are separated with a space, with one space."

    I hate to break it to you.... people (like myself) were taught to use two spaces after a full-stop for DECADES. The predecessors of ubiquitous computing were all taught like that as the only reference was typewriters and which were often taught to double-space.

    Aside from the use of the Euro-ism "full stop" instead of period, exactly correct. This has been a rule of English for centuries, it's perfectly normal. and the study is entirely unsurprising.

            Unfortunately, proportional fonts compress these to almost undetectable, unlike fixed fonts like Courier, and unlike typewriters that effectively require fixed-width characters.

          This sometimes leads people to write code with TABS in it, which is something that should be stamped out every time it is found, as pure evil.

  24. Re:this is a mistake on Google Will Ban Bail-Bond Ads (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Opposition research. I would note that you didn't care when the DNC did it, and *then used it to falsely claim it was intelligence and get a FISA warrant.

            It is certainly not treason, nor a violation of the Logan act, to look for mud about an opponent.

    It certainly IS black-letter law violation of the Logan act for a private citizen to negotiate with a foreign government in contradiction the elected government. That is literally and precisely, and uncontested truth, that this is what Kerry was doing with the Iranians the other day.

        It is certainly treason to provide aid and comfort and negotiate with an enemy currently at war (declared or not) with the United States. Kerry did that with the North Vietnamese, and he does not dispute that it happened.

  25. Re:this is a mistake on Google Will Ban Bail-Bond Ads (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    John Kerry violated the Logan Act and committed treason, *for the 3rd time*, just the other day. After a year and a half of witch hunting, nothing aside from highly dubious "process crimes" has ever surfaced against anyone in the current administration. On the other hand, FISA warrants were acquired under false pretenses and used to spy on a presidential candidate and then predident-elect, while covering the now incontrovertible fact that the entire investigation was based on an opposition research paid for by the DNC and Hillary Clinton campaign.

          I don't think republicans are the ones who are going to need bail.