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  1. We already did your Norse white guy hero on Marvel Cinematic Universe Has a CGI Problem (screenrant.com) · · Score: 1

    Who do you think Thor and Loki are?

    Now stop complaining about a box-office crushing epic movie that everyone of all races loved.

    No, we're not going to CGI in more Star Wars tropes like you want.

  2. Next up: Canada on Facebook Must Stop Tracking Belgian Users, Court Rules (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Trust me on this, the Canadian Constitution is very clear.

  3. Ooh, a warning! on UK Blames Russia For Cyber Attack, Says Won't Tolerate Disruption (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The only things Russia cares about are: cryptocurrency, and purchases of oil and natural gas.

    Quadruple investment in Renewables and cut them off at the knees.

  4. Re:Not all of it, actually on Seattle To Remove Controversial City Spying Network After Public Backlash (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    What if I'm wearing snowshoes?

    Grab on to a tree, and you better be really close to a good one, cause you probably won't survive.

  5. Re:Not all of it, actually on Seattle To Remove Controversial City Spying Network After Public Backlash (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't try to run uphill in an avalanche. Run perpendicular to it.

    Nope. Ski or snowboard at a 30-45 degree angle. I grew up in the area where you see people die in avalanches every year, because they try to either go perpendicular or outrun it, neither of which will work. You need speed to get out of the way.

  6. Re:Obviously they need to upzone to 65 ft MFH zoni on Even Apple and Google Engineers Can't Really Afford To Live Near Their Offices (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    That's why it needs to be citywide without design review.

  7. Obviously they need to upzone to 65 ft MFH zoning on Even Apple and Google Engineers Can't Really Afford To Live Near Their Offices (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    It seems obvious that they need to upzone all arterial blocks to 65 foot Multi Family Home zoning. This won't force any rich executives to sell their single family homes, but will allow condos to be built for families with 2 bedrooms. If they make the parking optional and not required, this will increase transit and bike use (or electric scooters) and eventually stabilize prices. I'd recommend they rezone any SFH citywide, just to be on the safe side, and not subject to design review.

  8. What most people don't realize is that the Feds use any location they own or lease to install similar surveillance, as does King County, and the State of Washington, and the Port of Seattle. Which gives you full surveillance over pretty much half of Seattle.

    Ask the correct questions. All they removed are the ones that were on city property.

  9. All borrowed rubles, no actual funding on Trump's Infrastructure Plan Has No Dedicated Money For Broadband (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Typical.

    Now you know why no US bank will do business with him.

  10. This will eventually happen in Canada too on German Court Rules Facebook Use of Personal Data Illegal (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It's fairly obvious that you can't have informed consent for babies and cats, let alone teens who pretend to be 18.

  11. Re:Markets are crashing, tulip farms burning on Bitcoin Won't Be the Dark Web's Top Cryptocurrency For Long (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The most amazing thing is you don't realize the non-statist people you idolize are the worst statists ever.

    You'll learn.

  12. Markets are crashing, tulip farms burning on Bitcoin Won't Be the Dark Web's Top Cryptocurrency For Long (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Look, you're going to be regulated.

    In China they're executing bitcoin traders.

    It's a thing.

  13. Bot what will the bots and scriptkidlings do? on Google Executives Are Floating a Plan To Fight Fake News on Facebook and Twitter (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Think of their poor unwashed (and unshowered) masses, yearning to distort truth free, consigned to the file 13 of history!

    For if truth is objective then they too shall pass away in a puff of logic.

  14. You know what's not an opioid? on FDA Declares Popular Alt-Medicine Kratom an Opioid (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    MJ. Seriously, it's not an opioid, but is very effective in pain management and not being addictive.

    But don't overdo it or you shouldn't drive.

    Problem is, pharmaceutical companies don't get rich off of this, so the FDA persists in the myth that it's Schedule 1.

  15. But I have all these warehouses of Tulip bulbs! on Get Ready For Most Cryptocurrencies to Hit Zero, Goldman Says (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Who could ever have predicted that tulips were just a pretty flower, and not worth $20,000 a bulb?

    Next thing, you'll tell me my South Seas investments aren't worth the paper they're printed on!

  16. If you tell a lie often enough, gullible people will believe it.

    Meanwhile, in a court of law, you'll get sued by the attorney generals of the states that know you're lying about broadband and competition. Because they deal in facts.

  17. Once the car leaves Earth orbit, it belongs to Mars.

    So, technically it will be a Mars Car.

  18. Too bad it doesn't include jail time for senior execs

  19. Re:Cryptocurrency correlates to crime/risk on US Regulators To Back More Oversight of Virtual Currencies (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    No, my point is to the subject, as to why they are regulating virtual currencies. The internal methodology of blockchain is a technical matter, and has nothing to do with the reason, true or overstated, that they are pushing to regulate the virtual currencies.

    It's like the Feds regulating how fast you can drive, or speed limits on highways. Neither depends on which fuel is used, although that is a technical performance matter. It may be easier to mask such "causes" using blockchain, but that's why they're regulating them.

    Think of it as me being the producer of high octane rum runner vehicle technology, and the feds cracking down on the legal sale or ownership of people having trucks or cars that can outrun state troopers. They don't actually care about how fast they are, they care about the payload being carried (the rum). Whether that is innately legal or not has nothing to do with why they crack down on it.

    It's similar to the debates on why the feds concentrate on banks/finance for MJ. They do it because they can't legally shut down non-exporting MJ on a state level, but they can harass them on banking and loans.

  20. Cryptocurrency correlates to crime/risk on US Regulators To Back More Oversight of Virtual Currencies (reuters.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Two things that are being looked at are:

    1. the higher correlation between cryptocurrency fiat assets and "dirty" money (e.g. crime or terror related sources/uses); and

    2. the lack of traceability of cryptocurrency allowing extra-national actors (primarily rogue states like NK, or banned individuals not permitted to participate in fiat exchanges, like Russian/Iranian/etc top execs/politicos) to participate even when supposedly excluded.

    Both are risk factors.

    Both tie in to the Tulip bubbles that pump up cryptocurrencies to artificial levels.

  21. Besides, if Russians like Trump can do it? on Lauri Love Ruling 'Sets Precedent' For Trying Hacking Suspects in UK (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    Just saying, if Russians like Trump can hack the fed, is it a crime if some schoolkid in the UK does it?

  22. And yet we see the exact opposite. The states which are legally requiring Net Neutrality have most of the US GDP and their economy grows faster than the rest of the USA. Objective fact tells us that.

  23. Remember, the most productive and efficient US states are passing laws to require Net Neutrality for all ISPs operating in their states, so even if the Feds don't take action, your state can force those doing business in their state to have full Net Neutrality if they want to have customers where you live.

  24. CO2 scrubbing and power inputs on Hoping That Sucking CO2 From the Air Will Fix the Climate? Good Luck (easac.eu) · · Score: 1

    One unnoticed thing is that China, and to a lesser extent India and Germany, have been converting their old coal power plants (which were very dirty), to both cogeneration (where you recycle the waste heat for home heating and other purposes) and CO2 scrubbing. It's really 1970s tech, but it's cut their coal emissions (especially components of acid rain like N02 and S04) by about 30 percent. They had to decommission around 20 percent of the coal plants that couldn't be converted, and replaced those, but it's had a major impact on their emissions.

    The only problems are: most CO2 scrubbers use water. This does not work very well in about half of China, and you have to collect the water and filtrate out the chemicals, but they're concentrated, so they do have some commercial uses. In desert areas you have to use things like underground wind trap systems, and they're very inefficient. But most of the coal plants are near water, so it's not as much of an impact as you'd think.

    Right now, bicycle sharing and electric bike/transit/car/truck usage would have more of an impact on the rest of their emissions, when you look at the total picture, however. The low hanging fruit has been picked already.

  25. Re:Look at British, Canadian Sci-Fi... on Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Sci-Fi Books, Movies, and TV Shows You're Looking Forward To? · · Score: 2

    Humans is quite good. It's on one of the other "channels" here, I think