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  1. Re:GO UNIONS! on Hostess To Close; No More Twinkies · · Score: 4, Informative

    The CEO, Greg Rayburn, cut his and the three other top executives salary cut to $1 this year. How much more of a concession do you want?

    As for the private equity firm, Ripplewood Holdings is going to lose most, if not all of the $170 million investment it made in Hostess.

  2. Re:Fuck those greedy bastards. on Tesla Motors Sued By Car Dealers · · Score: 1

    So does it apply to ATVs?

    It can cover ATVs, along with snowmobiles and boats. The law calls them out as examples of motor vehicles, however the law also allows the commissioner to exempt things other then cars, trucks, and motorcycles.

  3. Re:Drones are dirt cheap and no pilot dies. on Air Force Foresaw Fatal F-22 Problems; Rejected $100,000 Fix As Too Expensive · · Score: 2

    The Me-262 that Yeager shot down was preparing to land, it wasn't a dogfight.

  4. Re:Ain't technology great? on Implant Gives Grayscale Vision To the Blind Using Lasers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is super cool, if it works, but I'll shit golden sunshine before I let someone near my eyeball with a knife!

    If you were blind would you care?

  5. Re:even more savings on Power-Saving Web Pages: Real Or Myth? · · Score: 3, Funny

    But the characters are black, so each one represents energy saved.

  6. Re:Autism on Lack of Vaccination Sends Babies In Oregon To the Hospital · · Score: 1

    He wouldn't have been insane when he chose to not take his meds.

  7. Re:Autism on Lack of Vaccination Sends Babies In Oregon To the Hospital · · Score: 1

    Vaccinations aren't 100% effective. Eliminating the herd immunity effect raises the risks for everyone.

  8. Re:What? on Do Tablets Help Children Learn? · · Score: 1

    With crayons you can colors to make new colors which allows you to far exceed the 16k colors, and they let you work in a larger color range. Layers are easily done by coloring with one crayon over another. You change the opacity of the drawing tool by changing how hard you press on the crayon. You can undo and erase by coloring over what you've already done.

    Now it's my turn: What do I select in sketchpad to make a color change with temperature? Pressure? UV light? Indoor vs outdoor light? Water? 'Invisible Ink' that shows up under acids (lemon juice)? These are all things that I was able to do with crayons when I was a kid.

  9. Re:What? on Do Tablets Help Children Learn? · · Score: 2

    How does connect the dots with a crayon increase creativity more than an iPad where they can learn to play music, finger paint, and read.

    The crayon is only limited by the imagination of the kid (and reality), while the iPad is limited by both the imagination of the kid and the programmer.

    For example: When I was in first grade we learned about the primary colors and how mixing them would give other colors. Our 'homework' was to color in this venn diagram type thing, so there would be a 'red' circle and a 'blue' circle and where they overlapped was purple. Now just about every kid in the class used a red crayon to color in the red part, a blue crayon for the blue part, and a purple crayon for the purple part (I think this was how the task was presented to us). One kid however used the red and the blue crayons in the purple area to make it purple, and it worked pretty well. If he had been doing the same sort of thing on in an app then he would have only worked if it was something the programmer thought of and took the time to put in.

  10. Re:You're looking in the wrong place on TSA Shuts Down Airport, Detains 11 After "Science Project" Found · · Score: 3, Informative

    If it was a White Extremest Christian my money is on property damage, or arson at most.

    Yep, everyone refers to the 168 dead from the Oklahoma City bombing as "property damage" and no one ever refers to Timothy McVeigh as a terrorist.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/oklahoma/stories/ok042597.htm
    http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0106/09/pitn.00.html
    http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=93055&page=1

    Unless you don't count CNN, ABC and the Washington Post as "MSM".

  11. Re:So what? on Forensic Experts Say Screams Were Not Zimmerman's · · Score: 2, Informative

    Really?
    From Florida Statute 776.032 Immunity from criminal prosecution and civil action for justifiable use of force
    "(1) A person who uses force as permitted in 776.012 [Use of force in defense of person] is justified in using such force and is immune from criminal prosecution and civil action for the use of such force..."
    "(2) A law enforcement agency may use standard procedures for investigating the use of force as described in subsection (1), but the agency may not arrest the person for using force unless it determines that there is probable cause that the force that was used was unlawful."

    Sure sounds like they can't be arrested to me.

  12. Re:I hope he realizes he did more harm than good on Foxconn "Glad That Mike Daisey's Lies Were Exposed" · · Score: 1

    Except there wasn't any evidence of workers being poisoned at the factory. Rather there was a previously reported story that occurred several years ago and a thousand miles away that Daisey put into his monologue.

  13. Re:Never happened before..nope on This American Life Retracts Episode On Apple Factories In China · · Score: 2

    This American Life isn't a news program, in fact they specifically point this out if you go to their web page. The best way to describe TAL in a sentence is a program that presents a series of stories (I'd call them essays) around some theme for the purpose of entertaining the listener. Some of the stories are based factual information, but others are total fiction.

  14. Re:Hiding vs. Removal on The Fallout From a Flickr DMCA Takedown · · Score: 1

    Hmm. Isn't that behaviour (hiding rather than deleting DMCA-challenged content) exactly what Kim Dotcom did and is now facing criminal charges for?

    No. In that case the content was still available, you just had to take a different path to get to it.

  15. Re:45 meters? on Asteroid Will Make Close Pass To Earth · · Score: 1

    So does that mean it was about 50 meters across in space, or about 50 meters across when it slammed into the earth?

  16. Re:Graft on FTC Attorney Joins Microsoft · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well the US is not one of those places. People are pretty much free to quit one job and take another.

    Not necessarily. As a random example, if you're an FAA safety inspector you have to wait two years before you can be hired by an airline for a job that involves interacting with the FAA.
    http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=mro&id=news/avd/2011/08/30/04.xml

  17. Re:Japan and Europe is where the industry is on Chevy Volt Meets High Resistance, GM Suspends Sales · · Score: 1

    Kia is Hyundai.

    No they aren't.

  18. Re:what is an imminent threat? on FCC Inquires Into Its Own Authority To Regulate Communication Service Shutdowns · · Score: 1

    How are bombs blowing up randomly rather then at times when the bomber judges that they'll be most effective increasing the threat?

  19. Re:True that on Children Used To Steal Parents' Data · · Score: 1

    there should be an auto-logout capability.

    There is. It's under Settings->General->Restrictions

  20. Re:Why is there throttling in the first place? on After Complaints, AT&T Solidifies, Increases Data Limit · · Score: 1

    What would you do if I sold "unlimited monthly data" internet access at 300bps?

    Not buy it?

  21. Re:Dumbest fucking idea evar on Japan Creates Earthquake-Proof Levitating House System · · Score: 1

    Imagine a house (10mx10m), i.e. 100m^2. 1000Pa pressure (1/100 atm) would lift 100 Tonnes, which is probably about what a modern house of that size would weigh.

    Ehh? A Pascal is a Newton/m^2. So:
    100m^2 * 1000Pa = 100,000N
    100,000N / 10m/s^2 = 10,000 kg = 10 Tonnes

  22. Re:Important to note on LightSquared CEO Resigns Amid Appearance of Bribery · · Score: 3, Informative

    F&F began under Bush.

    No, "Project Gunrunner" began under President Bush. "Operation Fast and Furious", while part of Project Gunrunner, didn't begin until 2009.

    And I'm aware only of one solar company that received a grant, yet later failed

    I can think of three off the top of my head: Solyndra and Beacon Power who both received DOE money, and Evergreen Solar who received Massachusetts money.
    While they are still around I personally don't have high hopes for 1366 Technologies, who also received DOE money. They appear to be repeating the same mistake Evergreen made, specifically, betting that the price of silicon isn't going to go down. They may also be falling into the non-standard panels problem but I don't know enough about their final process to be sure.

    Also, while not a solar company, Ener1, another DOE recipient filed for chapter 11 about a month ago.

  23. Re:Union Carbide on WikiLeaks Begins Releasing Stratfor Internal Emails · · Score: 3, Informative

    The company acquiring Union Carbide has also acquired all the liabilities along with the assets. Dow has pretty much everything to do with Union Carbide and the Bhopal disaster. If Dow did not want the "baggage" that came along with the Union Carbide purchase, they should have stayed away from it.

    How exactly did Dow have "pretty much everything to do with[...] the Bhopal disaster" when the the closest they come is owning the company that at one point in the past owned the company that owned the plant? The Bhopal plant was run by Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL), and UCIL was sold to an Indian company back in the early 90's. About 7 years later Dow came along and bought Union Carbide. So not only is there a few layers of ownership in between, there is also a gap of several years. Why doesn't Eveready Industries India Ltd (the company that UCIL turned into) get the "baggage" associated with Bhopal?

  24. Rayon isn't synthetic on Carbohydrate-Based Synthesis To Replace Petroleum Derived Hydrocarbons? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Out of all the examples you could pick you picked rayon? Rayon is produced using cellulose (wood), sodium hydroxide, carbon disulfide and sulfuric acid. It isn't a synthetic fiber, and there isn't any petroleum involved in the process. Rayon is just cellulose that has been dissolved and regenerated as a fiber.

  25. Re:Happened to me on 4G Phones Are Really Fast — At Draining Batteries · · Score: 1

    Sounds to me like you didn't put ANY effort into preserving the battery.

    "a lot" of effort would have involved learning what kinds of things drain the battery beforehand and then avoiding them. Apple has a web page devoted to eeking the most you can get out of your iphone battery at http://www.apple.com/batteries/iphone.html

    A minimal amount of effort would have been turning the thing off, because turning a battery powered device off to save the batteries isn't exactly a revolutionary idea.

    So what exactly did "a lot of effort" entail?