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  1. This is like me claiming to have 100.5 percent on NHTSA Tells Tesla To Stop Exaggerating Model S Safety Rating · · Score: 1

    This is like me claiming to have a grade of 100.5 percent on one of my courses.

    While technically correct, the system limits it to 100 percent, so even though I had bonus points that put me above 100 percent, I can't claim to have 100.5 percent, even though that is my technical measurement.

    Otherwise my GPA would be 4.025 ...

    In short, they're both right. Consumer Reports says (source: CNN Money) that Tesla S owners have the highest ratings for their cars, and a certain sedan has the lowest. So, if you were wondering what to buy for Xmas, I'd say a Tesla should still be on your short list ...

  2. Re:Oh please - real states already fixed it on Project Rescue Expert Todd Williams Talks About Healthcare.gov (Video) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Dude - we don't use the national exchanges - we use the efficient state exchanges.

    I get that you, being a typical Red Stater, support Big Government solutions like your comrades, but we Blue Staters just make things WORK.

    I had to explain that to a stupid national reporter in DC who posted a chart showing WA had 6000 signups - yeah, 6000 that used the NATIONAL messed up system.

    Now, stop living off the subsidy for your Pay Contractors More solutions.

  3. Re:I had one of these calls. on Microsoft Customers Hit With New Wave of Fake Tech Support Calls · · Score: 1

    The script they used on me was like that one. Really funny since I was a MCP and various other certifications.

  4. At least four of my friends in Seattle got these on Microsoft Customers Hit With New Wave of Fake Tech Support Calls · · Score: 1

    At least four of my friends, including myself, already got these calls.

    Bad luck for the "service" we already know what real tech support is.

    Someone needs to hunt these people down and destroy them with no prisoners.

  5. Re:30 to 40 percent of it has yet to be constructe on Project Rescue Expert Todd Williams Talks About Healthcare.gov (Video) · · Score: 2

    Oh please - we already implemented it in the True West - CA and WA are way ahead of you.

    Stop pushing your Big Government Red State solutions when Blue States have solutions that already work.

  6. Re:Battlefield Medicine on Project Rescue Expert Todd Williams Talks About Healthcare.gov (Video) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Agree with the concept of triage. We know what works - CA and WA already did it.

    Do that, or go to an even simpler single payer national healthcare system like Medicare and Medicaid or the VA model.

    Those work.

    Big Government Red State solutions don't. They just lard up the contractors.

  7. Oh please - real states already fixed it on Project Rescue Expert Todd Williams Talks About Healthcare.gov (Video) · · Score: 0

    Look, you can either go with your Big Government Red State thinking or you can do what we in the True West in the Blue States did - CA and WA already fixed it and rolled it out.

    OR just needs to stop believing Red Staters.

    We did it. You keep trying to do complicated plans.

    Now, wouldn't single payer national healthcare have been CHEAPER and SIMPLER?

    Yes.

    There's your solution for inefficient Big Government Red States. You can't code your way out of a paper bag, so you might as well do that.

  8. Re:Privacy Aside on Students Tracked In UK College Via RFID For 1-3 Years · · Score: 1

    Actually, it is illegal.

    It is illegal to do it in the EU and it's illegal to do it in Canada and it's illegal to do it in Washington State.

    Excellent. Punish them as the law allows and move on.

    Let them take volunteers who drop off their trackers when they're done with them at the end of the day next time...

    You're confusing a Constitutional Right with a Legal Penalty.

    Lot's of things are illegal, but are unpunished.

  9. Re:Privacy Aside on Students Tracked In UK College Via RFID For 1-3 Years · · Score: 0

    Actually, it is illegal.

    It is illegal to do it in the EU and it's illegal to do it in Canada and it's illegal to do it in Washington State.

    In the latter two, due to their Constitutions.

    Constitutions have a greater force of law than any excuses or permissions, in that they are inviolate.

    Britain deposed a King over this and the Barons forced him to stop such actions.

  10. I remember that on BP Hired Company To Troll Users Who Left Critical Comments · · Score: 1

    I just thought it was an unusual number of trolls.

    Now I find out they were PAID trolls.

    Funny part: I used to own shares in BP/PLC.

  11. Do you think you're a Serf yet? on Texas Drivers Stopped At Roadblock, Asked For Saliva, Blood · · Score: 1

    I just ask, because I went to grade 5 just outside of Fort Worth, and you sure look like Serfs to me.

  12. Re:Money again... on Software Patent Reform Stalls Thanks To IBM and Microsoft Lobbying · · Score: 2

    Actually, I think IBM, Microsoft, and other companies are trying to make the argument that money causes innovation.

    Oh the lies we tell ourselves...

    I think you meant to say "money crushes innovation"

    Fixed it for you.

  13. In Soviet Amerika people have no rights on Software Patent Reform Stalls Thanks To IBM and Microsoft Lobbying · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Welcome to serfdom, comrade!

  14. Re:How to interpret results on Affordable Blood Work In Four Hours Coming To Pharmacies · · Score: 1

    That chart provides no interpretation whatsoever. It only says if results are within range. Someone can have a result out of range, but be a normal result for them.

    Exactly. You need a baseline to "compare" results.

  15. Re:advice from a former fainter on Affordable Blood Work In Four Hours Coming To Pharmacies · · Score: 1

    Actually, there are different lipid levels depending on fasting cycles and resting cycles.

  16. Main problem is knowing what risks actually are on Affordable Blood Work In Four Hours Coming To Pharmacies · · Score: 1

    I know a lot of people who buy diagnostic tests on their genome and their blood.

    The problem is that you don't know what the risks "mean".

    Knowledge is not always wisdom.

  17. Re:Cue Zynga code steal in 3 2 1 on 2-D MMOG Glitch Released Completely Into the Public Domain · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How exactly would one steal a public domain work, even for a loose definition of "steal?"

    I see you're unfamiliar with Zynga.

  18. Cue Zynga code steal in 3 2 1 on 2-D MMOG Glitch Released Completely Into the Public Domain · · Score: 4, Insightful

    and ... copied.

  19. Re:Go Canada on How Perl and R Reveal the United States' Isolation In the TPP Negotiations · · Score: 1

    :Go Canada

    I don't think it can. I looked at a map and its sort of suck between the USA and the arctic as far as North South moves go and between Greenland and Siberia East and West.

    Um, actually, much of the Arctic is Canada. No matter what those filthy Russians say.

  20. Re:Aaaaand... queue the Microsoft slamming... on AMD To Launch a Windows 8.1 Gaming Tablet · · Score: 1

    Ballmer is gone.

    Why would we slam MSFT today of all days?

    "Ding dong the witch is dead, which old witch, the Ballmer witch ..."

  21. Re:With integrated graphics! on AMD To Launch a Windows 8.1 Gaming Tablet · · Score: 1

    The same as Xbox One and PS4, so none of them can actually run any games!

    No word yet on if it spies on your unit like the xBox One does ...

  22. Re:What The Holy Fuck? on How Perl and R Reveal the United States' Isolation In the TPP Negotiations · · Score: 1

    In statistics we use R and S as packages, mostly R.

  23. It all comes down to the US Constitution on How Perl and R Reveal the United States' Isolation In the TPP Negotiations · · Score: 1

    13 years for patent with one renewal during the life of the human who patented it (corporations were not mentioned in the US Constitution even though they predate America).

    17 years for copyright with one extension during the life (or year of death if married or having children) of the human who wrote something.

    All else is fiction.

  24. Re:I feel the need - the need for fiery speed! on Musk Lashes Back Over Tesla Fire Controversy · · Score: 1

    seriously, though, we get a few hundred car and truck fires on I-5 every year. Let alone the other highways.

    Why should Tesla cars be exempt from that?

  25. I feel the need - the need for fiery speed! on Musk Lashes Back Over Tesla Fire Controversy · · Score: 1

    Turbo thrusters on 11, BatKid!

    That's a feature, not a bug.