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  1. Could we? Sure. on Could We Abort a Manned Mission To Mars? · · Score: 1

    We could easily abort a manned mission to Mars.

    We just cancel the launch.

    If they've gone past more than the initial Earth-Lunar escape, however, the way you abort the mission is you vent the oxygen tanks remotely, after triggering the failsafe protocol.

  2. Could be worse on Nearly 2,000 Chicago Flights Canceled After Worker Sets Fire At Radar Center · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    In one workplace in Ohio a coworker chopped off someone's head after being fired.

    Fire is the least of your worries

  3. Re:OLEDs not generic LEDs on Breakthrough In LED Construction Increases Efficiency By 57 Percent · · Score: 1

    Perhaps, but in my personal experience, I have noted that traditional LEDs deal with vibration better than standard CFLs. However, have not read any papers on shock tests for either, or for organic LEDs.

  4. OLEDs not generic LEDs on Breakthrough In LED Construction Increases Efficiency By 57 Percent · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just saying.

    The main barrier to large scale consumer and commercial adoption of LEDs is cost per unit.

    That said, good news!

  5. Security is Big Business on How the NSA Profits Off of Its Surveillance Technology · · Score: 2

    And as we all know from Atty Gen Holder, Big Crime never goes punished.

    Can't lock up people for the big crimes.

    Instead we let them break the Constitution, like the NSA, and profit by their actions.

  6. There are serious issues around drone use on FAA Clears Movie and TV Drones For Takeoff · · Score: 0

    Using them during active filming on closed sets is a reasonable response.

    Using them for fighting fires is a reasonable response.

    Commercial everyday use is an unreasonable response and risk.

    Private use to peep on people is an unreasonable response and risk. Just ask people in Vancouver BC. There they have rights of Privacy. Or in Washington State - we have rights of privacy too, in our state constitution.

  7. this is news to Canada on Microsoft On US Immigration: It's Our Way Or the Canadian Highway · · Score: 1

    they claim they don't have any plans to ramp up skilled immigrants and in fact have CUT their Temporary Foreign Workers Programme.

    I think M$FT is just trying more of the FUD they always use.

  8. Want to press China on global warming? on Obama Presses China On Global Warming · · Score: 1

    It's easy, just stop shipping US and Canadian coal, oil, and LNG to China.

    Period.

    Everything else is sound and fury, signifying nothing but hot air.

  9. Little known fact on Before Using StingRays, Police Must Sign NDA With FBI · · Score: 1

    Even when you "turn them off" they can still be turned back on by any official at a higher government level.

    So if a city or municipality turns off theirs, the county or state can turn it on, and it will be turned on during high level fed visits.

    Naturally, they can neither confirm nor deny this occurs.

  10. Not like China India US create all Global Warming on Hundreds of Thousands Turn Out For People's Climate March In New York City · · Score: 2

    It's not like, since 2010, that China, India, and the US are responsible for creating all the increased climate change gasses for Global Warming.

    Oh.

    Wait.

    It is.

    Just end the fossil fuels subsidies and tax exemptions and cheap land and sea leases and the entire system will fix itself. This is why Adam Smith, the Father of Capitalism (and a Scot), warned against the anti-capitalist Mercantalists.

  11. Two questions on Canadian Regulator Threatens To Impose New Netflix Regulation · · Score: 1

    1. Did Netflix think it could get away without offering 1/3 Canadian content in Canada in both English and French?

    2. Why do they need subscriber data (unless it proves Netflix isn't addressing 1)?

    It's Canada. You don't want to deal with Canadian regulators, don't do business in Canada, it's that simple (and, yes, I do have a degree in business in Canada and have run businesses and worked for them there).

  12. Re:Non-Binding, right? -- Incorrect on Scotland Votes No To Independence · · Score: 1

    The referendum was a binding vote because it was approved by the Queen and Parliament in the confusingly titled "The Scotland Act 1998 (Modification of Schedule 5) Order 2013"

    For centuries, Canada was just something approved in "The British North American Act".

    Not that confusing.

    Canada was created in 1867, only was not considered Britain in 1947, gained independence in 1982 (yes, I know you don't know this, you're American, you probably think Canada is a state).

  13. Cascadia Forever! on Scotland Votes No To Independence · · Score: 2

    Oh.

    Wait.

    Too soon?

  14. I hear ISIS will require testing for Kindergarten on ISIS Bans Math and Social Studies For Children · · Score: 1

    Oh, wait, no that's us.

  15. Re:Easy solution! on New Global Plan Would Crack Down On Corporate Tax Avoidance · · Score: 1

    Walls can't be built higher than corporate jets can fly.

    That's what drones are for

  16. Re:Most taxes are legalized theft on New Global Plan Would Crack Down On Corporate Tax Avoidance · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why are you being modded down? The wars are almost entirely off budget. Maybe they'll make up for it with asset forfeitures..

    They can't handle the truth. They believe in fictions written by some old lady who collected social security and received other government subsidies she railed against.

    That's my guess.

    But, yes, the US has an unfortunate tendancy, since the War of Independence, and the Civil War, continued to the present, of always fighting wars off budget. Which is where the budget deficits come from. Social Security pays for itself and has always had a surplus, and still does.

  17. Re:Most taxes are legalized theft on New Global Plan Would Crack Down On Corporate Tax Avoidance · · Score: 2

    No we told you about those

  18. Re:Most taxes are legalized theft on New Global Plan Would Crack Down On Corporate Tax Avoidance · · Score: 2, Informative

    The debt is mostly from wars that were not paid for.

    It also ignores the 50 percent of military budget that is in the "black budget", as well as the NSA and the other four three letter agencies we don't tell you about.

  19. About time - next up - exemptions on New Global Plan Would Crack Down On Corporate Tax Avoidance · · Score: 3

    About time this happened.

    Next up: removing tax exemptions and tax exclusions for corporations.

    Corporations aren't People.

    People pay taxes and go to jail.

  20. Re:What's next? on The FCC Net Neutrality Comment Deadline Has Arrived: What Now? · · Score: 1

    Pitchforks. And torches.

    Don't forget the guillotines.

  21. Now the Monied Powers That Be Decide on The FCC Net Neutrality Comment Deadline Has Arrived: What Now? · · Score: 2

    Now that everyone has commented, the monied Powers That Be will weight it accordingly, and rule in favor of the Biggest Lobbyist donations to the corrupt Congress.

    What? You thought you weren't actually Serfs?

    Yeah, sure.

  22. Re:As a private citizen on Congress Can't Make Asteroid Mining Legal (But It's Trying, Anyway) · · Score: 1

    Kind of doubting we will see space wagon trains

  23. Re:As a private citizen on Congress Can't Make Asteroid Mining Legal (But It's Trying, Anyway) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Technically, no.

    You are bound by the treaties your country signed. In fact, they have more legal weight in the US than laws passed by your own Congress.

    As an example, the US has signed Data Treaties with the EU and with Canada that give citizens of those countries more rights to privacy than you as an American would have (exception: if you are also a citizen of an EU country or Canada, you gain those rights in the US as well).

    Same goes for any treaties signed for non-countries such as Antarctica (which you are bound to) and space (where those exist).

    That's the law. That you choose to be a space pirate, is your own problem. I recommend wearing a gold colored space pirate outfit, with a cape and a cool helmet.

  24. Re:Is the expense of electrolysis the main inhibit on Liquid Sponges Extract Hydrogen From Water · · Score: 2

    A stone's throw.... for a volcano.... maybe.

    I specified the delivery, not the mechanism.

  25. Re:This ignores the big problem of hydrogen, leaka on Liquid Sponges Extract Hydrogen From Water · · Score: 2

    Any form of gas has that problem. Methane and gas from wells also have a high leakage rate.

    Doesn't mean we don't use LNG or methane in fuel cells, though.