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  1. Re:No Alternatives??? on US Tests Nuclear Power System To Sustain Astronauts On Mars (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    So, napkin math..consider mars has a (thinner) atmosphere, a lil dusty, and is a lot father than us from the sun... how many football fields of solar panels will a habitat require to be operable considering Mar's diminished solar intensity (half), and choice of landing zones (best for light might not be best for base)?

    Not saying it's not viable, but they really will need to be frugal with power requirements if they went full solar for the first while. That said, 'why not both'.

  2. Re:actually pinching nose? on Why You Shouldn't Stifle Your Sneeze (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    It's.. coffee. Coffee is meant to be made with water around 91is degrees, 'off the boil', like black teas (greens are lower).

    Now if some of you prefer to have your drinks sit there for a while and cool off, fine. When I ask for fresh coffee though, I'd expect it to still be cooling down to drinking temps. But no, personal responsibility is hard, coffee should be served lukewarm. People already suing over nacho cheese and pizza cheese though, so screw accountability.

    Now if the cup had a fault and burst, or the staff had spilled it on her, sure. Not the case here though.

  3. My first thought reading this had been: "That's nothing, had this happened in Canada, people would probably have TIPPED the car"

  4. Re:People look like apes, black people more so on When It Comes to Gorillas, Google Photos Remains Blind (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    What do they call Monkey Bars at an inner city school?
    And you're spot on about the playing. Nephew used to love just clambering all over people to get onto their shoulders, or hanging upside-down off things.

  5. Re:In defense of Google on When It Comes to Gorillas, Google Photos Remains Blind (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure it's more because it can bend your limbs like a pretzel than intelligence. Though actively avoiding being bent like a pretzel is a case for being intelligent.

  6. Re:Alternative on NYC Sues Oil Companies Over Climate Change (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    When genuine arguments are self-evident to anyone lacking a vested interest in a side... they aren't so much 'appeals to absurdity' as they are 'mockery of hypocrisy'.
    Virtue Signalling is rather abhorrent. Being environmentally responsible... that, that I'll support. This is just pathetic (un)populism though.

  7. Re:Alternative on NYC Sues Oil Companies Over Climate Change (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Don't forget the total removal and banning of all plastic-related products as well. Come on NYC, show us the way!

  8. Re:Another "great" article on The Lower Your Social Class, the 'Wiser' You Are, Suggests New Study (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 2

    "Alpha children wear grey They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. "

  9. Because Nick said we needed to know. Now were it a THREE-year-old, no. That's sick and wrong. Journalistic standards, yo.

  10. Thank god. I was wondering how I'd get my 4-year-old sex-tape fix.

    Thanks Nick!

  11. iow: Coming Soon: Tollways, the Everywhere ?

  12. Re:So it's not gambling if you get *anything* back on Belgium Denounces Loot Boxes as Gambling; Hawaiian Legislator Calls Them 'Predatory' (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Japan has that with pachinko parlours. Take your payout of prizes. Go next door, exchange your prizes for money. Ta-da! No gambling involved.

  13. Re:Simple guidelines for parents on YouTube To Implement New Guidelines To Protect Minors From Disturbing Content (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Heh, I'm not of the mind you 24/7 hover the child...it'll annoy the brat, it'll annoy yourself, and stuff DOES need to be done... but I know people who just hand their brats (at 4 and 7) tablets, and tell them to 'go be quiet in another room'...and that's the extent of most the kids' days.

    Karmic hilarity hit with the shitstorm of 'omg they were watching porn [on youtube no less] for the last few months'... with the tirade on THAT interrupted with the younger walking in, parrot racist phrases like some Goatee-universe Olsen twin...

    *still not sure why kids that young would even WATCH porn, but eh, it happened

  14. Re:Simple guidelines for parents on YouTube To Implement New Guidelines To Protect Minors From Disturbing Content (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Never! Youtube has replaced the tv as the babysitter for kids.

    Used to be you plunk them infront of the idiot box and let Disney/Tubbies/PolkaDotDoor occupy them while you did housework/cooking/fucked off to the store/entertained adult friends. Now it's you hand each kid a tablet and maybe tell them to use headphones...while you did housework/cooked/fucked off to store/chatted with people online on your own device.

    Don't criticise! They have *reasons*

  15. Re:Good can we ban all street lights now? on Night Being 'Lost' To Artificial Light (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Which is why Canadians never ever hit racoons, deer, moose, the odd bear, cats, dogs, etc, no matter the hilly/bendy terrain. Imagine if Canada was actually filled with PEOPLE!!

    How'd you install the highbeams to get the angle to cover a sharp turn and kid darting across the road?

    *also lives rural canada, and joy the fun of idiot teens on a midnight walk dressed in head-to-toe black. the small towns and cities around though have street lights all over

  16. Re:Folks, we are in big trouble on FCC Will Also Order States To Scrap Plans For Their Own Net Neutrality Laws (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey now, I can hurl a baseball bat pretty far. Definitely farther than the distance Joe Average can be accurate at :P

  17. ...read that in the voice from 'Terrible Secret of Space'. It fit.

  18. Calling oneself anti-something doesn't necessarily mean you're anti-something, or even that you aren't the something you claim to hate.

  19. Re:Alleged white supremacists actually,... on Twitter Bans, Removes Verified Status of White Supremacists (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    But they DO call people 'white supremacist'..even if they aren't white, as long as they are right-wing. Alongside Nazi, Literally Hitler and so forth.

  20. Re:So, people think the check means on Twitter Bans, Removes Verified Status of White Supremacists (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 2

    So the people who became unverified... it is because it turned out it really wasn't them? Or was there some global amnesia and they stopped being famous?

  21. Re:Nope on Slashdot Asks: Have You Switched To Firefox 57? · · Score: 1

    *helping Old Man with some issue on his computer
    "I'll just load up firefox to che..."
    "No! I don't use that. I use that blue moon one"

    My only complaint with Pale Moon atm is with regards to Youtube and live streams: having to kill Asynch MSE for WebM MSE gets annoying fast, and seems to not always work either.

  22. Re:You don't even know you're quoting the NRA on iPhone Encryption Hampers Investigation of Texas Shooter, Says FBI (chron.com) · · Score: 1

    Magazines. And there are two separate interviews with the person who stopped him in the church, traded fire, AND pursued him (same person), so if you want the story, it is there to be heard.

    Or you can just take third-hand media reports gleaned from the ether, as the poor man is secluding himself to avoid harassment.

    Here's one of the interviews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... . Feel free to claim that because the interviewer is right-leaning, that the person must be lying.

  23. Re:You don't even know you're quoting the NRA on iPhone Encryption Hampers Investigation of Texas Shooter, Says FBI (chron.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hero in quotes... so the guy that ran barefoot to the scene, and DROVE OFF the shooter (as attested by the shooters 'to be next' victim), read again: STOPPING THE SHOOTING IN PROGRESS, and then chased him down before he could get to the NEXT place (because you always leave guns/ammo/running vehicle behind when making a last stand, right?)... you're not sure he's a hero? Why, because he didn't come out as gay on tv like 'real heros'?

    Personally I'd take it as the fact the hero used an AR-15...which is the gun media and california whine about as being super evil and only used to kill defenseless immigrant schoolchildren that have cancer. Especially with chainsaw attachments. So yes, if certain idiots had their way, our NRA-certified trainer that does Santa-Claus for impoverished children, he'd not have had his gun that day - and the shooter would have at the very least claimed one more victim.

  24. There were a series of /pol/ strawpolls: if at any point you had voted in favour of banging the crypto-jew, you lost your White Nationalist cred and went into the "Nice try, Shlomo" pile.

  25. Re:I'm not surprised on Nearly All of Wikipedia Is Written By Just 1 Percent of Its Editors (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    And it still won't matter. They'll argue your sources are bad (even if those sources are considered acceptable in other articles), that you're not using proper secondary sources (the author of a novel is not a valid source of what the novel is about, it must be some 'appropriate magazine' or such), that you're being contentious and not listening, that it's 'original research', then have a wiki court toss your stuff out if you persist in taking it up. Controversial just means 'against what the policing group wants', doesn't actually require being something most people would have considered debatable or political.