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  1. slackers on Europe Has Added 1.1 Billion Stars To Its Milky Way Map (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    they're going to call it quits after only mapping 1 percent of the Milky Way's stars? 99% just left flapping in the galactic breeze? talk about unmotivated

  2. Re:Impressive on Europe Has Added 1.1 Billion Stars To Its Milky Way Map (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Not even doable with tomorrows tech, a fusion craft won't go that fast, maybe 10-12 percent C tops

    Not until we could produce tons of antimatter to use as fuel will we be able to get 30% or more of light speed.

  3. Re:Impressive on Europe Has Added 1.1 Billion Stars To Its Milky Way Map (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Er, no. I could even be called a "space nutter" but with current tech 10% C with fission fragment rocket is the best we could conceivably do, and about 3-5% C the more likely number.

  4. Re:Complete nonsense on Robots Will Eliminate 6% of All US Jobs By 2021, Says Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    even without AI trucks could be controlled in a kind of "train" on the big highways with one human driver in front (or maybe with two more such they take turns for 8 hour shifts), embedded computers of two decades ago could handle the tasks of the "train car" trucks

  5. Re:Another way to look at this is.. on Robots Will Eliminate 6% of All US Jobs By 2021, Says Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    you must be one ignorant lazy fuck if you can't and won't retrain yourself. I've done it many times over the years. Engineer, manager, sys admin, developer, project scheduler, etc.

  6. how can it be a good idea with a measly 120M euro ? that won't provide wifi to the towns of one country, let alone the EU. Do you have a magic EU Jeebzuz that breaks and multiplies euro coins like fish and loaves? what a load of bullshit

  7. Re: who pays? on New EU Rules Promise 100Mbps Broadband and Free Wi-Fi For All (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    yes and they never have banking crisis nor impending ones say in Italy and Germany, it's all wonderful.

    need I remind everyone the U.S. federal reserve has bailed out the european banking system a few years ago?

  8. Re:backing Hillary? on Facebook Co-Founder Commits $20 Million To Help Defeat Trump (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    I could edit that article to say she's guilty in the next 30 seconds.

    please cite better sources for defending Hillary's breaking of the law and lying about it

  9. Re:backing Hillary? on Facebook Co-Founder Commits $20 Million To Help Defeat Trump (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    depends on definitions, some of the enablers and planners and those that trained with the dead hijackers are still alive

  10. Re:Brazilians know that sound on EU Court Blocks Brazilian Company From Trademarking Sound Of a Ringing Phone (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    sorry, tens of millions of the POTS line phones made from 1980s onward where I live make that sound. I'm suspecting Globo ripped the sound off of AT&T

  11. Re:Brazilians know that sound on EU Court Blocks Brazilian Company From Trademarking Sound Of a Ringing Phone (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    sorry it sounds like generic touch-tone phone ring tone, I've two phones in a carboard box in the closet at home that make that noise

  12. Re:I think we noticed on Digital Wallets Have Yet To Catch On, JPMorgan Executive Says (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    er, no. I was talking about a first world country. Pull up the list of countries ordered by GNP, and let me know who is #3

  13. Re:Because it's unnecessarily complex on Digital Wallets Have Yet To Catch On, JPMorgan Executive Says (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    African country? bwahaha, no. I was talking about this first world country that is #3 in the world in GDP

  14. Re:Because it's unnecessarily complex on Digital Wallets Have Yet To Catch On, JPMorgan Executive Says (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    stolen credit card numbers can be sent anywhere by phone, fax if we're old school and snail mail, and people can use them to make purchases. happens all the time. waiters in restaurants snap pictures or make copies of credit cards and email them anywhere. been going on for decades

    hmmm, do you really have much of a point? I think not

  15. Re:Because it's unnecessarily complex on Digital Wallets Have Yet To Catch On, JPMorgan Executive Says (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    what you have one of those apple phones?, my phone is much slimmer than my wallet and lighter

    your wallet can be stolen and "hacked into" also...cash spent and credit cards used

    how did you get your credit card? through postal mail?....

    and do those credit card companies send you "checks" to use against your account with the credit card number helpfully written at the bottom for anyone that intercepts or loses or delivers to wrong block your postal mail? (I call those identity theft kits)

    I'm sure these other countries doing this stuff since 2004 have some tech we can look at to lessen the problems you fear...

  16. Re:Bigger but with less thrust? on Jeff Bezos Unveils the Design of Blue Origin's Future Orbital Rocket -- New Glenn (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    you're not looking at the big picture, fifty years ago our best rocket only had 7.9 million pounds of thrust and was only capable of sending 54 ton manned craft to the moon....
    uh, nevermind

  17. Re:Because it's unnecessarily complex on Digital Wallets Have Yet To Catch On, JPMorgan Executive Says (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    but smarter countries have been doing this for over a decade

    credit cards and cash can be stolen and lost

    you should be asking why you need to carry all that other crap in your wallet when phone could do all of it

  18. Re:I think we noticed on Digital Wallets Have Yet To Catch On, JPMorgan Executive Says (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    entire countries have been paying by phone for over a decade now

    why are we so backward?

  19. wrong, I had no role models for becoming interested in computers at age 10 in 1974, I did it myself

    Why does another group need role models, encouragement, unfair hiring practices, etc. to even some miniscule percent representation?

    maybe women in general don't like the tech side of IT. just putting that suggestion out there

  20. Re: already done on We Risk Programming Inequality into Our DNA (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    yes I looked up answer to 2nd question, hey look at that, some 8th graders found 41 out of 56 of those signers owned slaves at some point http://www.mrheintz.com/how-ma...

  21. Re:backing Hillary? on Facebook Co-Founder Commits $20 Million To Help Defeat Trump (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Those are facts. Also she is on record lying about facts. Nothing partisan about it, the facts are clear.

    Obama's political appointee, the head of the FBI, is unwilling to uphold the law

  22. Re:backing Hillary? on Facebook Co-Founder Commits $20 Million To Help Defeat Trump (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    wrong, the facts are known.

    the facts show breaking of the law and Clinton lying about it, it is public record

  23. Re:backing Hillary? on Facebook Co-Founder Commits $20 Million To Help Defeat Trump (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean Obama's 2013 political appointee James Comey doesn't agree with me. That Hillary broke the law and lied about it is fact. So we have a political buttlick that doesn't uphold the law leading the FBI.

  24. Re:backing Hillary? on Facebook Co-Founder Commits $20 Million To Help Defeat Trump (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    oh that would be the person occupying the appointed position placed there by Obama in 2013, right?

  25. Re: already done on We Risk Programming Inequality into Our DNA (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    are you joking? too easy: John Hancock and Benjamin Franklin (later changed their views)