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  1. Re:Anandtech Fucked Up on AMD's Radeon R9 290 Delivers 290X Performance For $150 Less · · Score: 1

    Oh yes, I still remember the Delta fan of that particular Globalwin copper CPU cooler. I have built the PC for an almost deaf gramps and he actually complained about how loud the PC was. Vacuum cleaners pale in comparison.

  2. Re:Yeah, right... on Feinstein and Rogers: No Clemency For Snowden · · Score: 1

    Yeah, right.

    Just like I said, would never happen.

  3. Re:Yeah, right... on Feinstein and Rogers: No Clemency For Snowden · · Score: 2

    If he gets sanctuary in Germany

    That would, unfortunately, never happen. Right until it came out that Merkel was spied on, our minister of the interior accused all the NSA critics of anti-Americanism and insisted that USA never has spied on Germans. Our current government is quiter far up Obama's arse and the next one won't be that much different.

  4. Re:We need a workers government on Full Details of My Attempted Entrapment For Teaching Polygraph Countermeasures · · Score: 1

    Well, that is the thing, the majority of the people in Russia back then was free in name only. The law framework for abolishing serfdom (and a very unfair one as it is) was established in 1861, but the serfdom itself continued in different parts of Russia for up to 20 years later, and even in the parts of Russia where serfdom was actually abolished, the Emancipation Reform of 1861 basically converted serfdom to peonage, not dissimilar to the Black Codes in the past Civil War United States, with the difference that the former serfs were the majority of the population.

  5. Re:Relying exclusively on electronic technology on RAF Pilots Blinded At 1000 Mph By Helmet Technical Glitch · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The pilot is already a single point of failure.

  6. Re:Good life on Edward Snowden's New Job: Tech Support · · Score: 1

    Who knows. Personally I wouldn't want to live in Russia voluntarily even though I speak the language and mostly grok the culture I don't like the attitude of many Russians.

  7. Re:IT support on Edward Snowden's New Job: Tech Support · · Score: 1

    maybe, maybe not.

  8. Re:Good on Drive With Google Glass: Get a Ticket · · Score: 1

    Bushwhack through the forest? Awesome, either hiking or with a mountainbike. Snowpack? Even more awesome, I wish it would snow so much over here, my three sets of backcountry ski are sitting in the closed most of the winter.

  9. Re:Good on Drive With Google Glass: Get a Ticket · · Score: 1

    Well, you don't exactly have to use roads when you walk. That is what I meant by "in many places a car cannot".

  10. Re:Good on Drive With Google Glass: Get a Ticket · · Score: 1

    No that is not a technicality. Walking can get you everywhere a car can and in many places a car cannot.

  11. Re:Good on Drive With Google Glass: Get a Ticket · · Score: 1

    You have a right to travel. By walking. And while walking you can use your cellphone as much as the battery charge allows you.

  12. Re:Good on Drive With Google Glass: Get a Ticket · · Score: 5, Informative

    What in FSM's name are you talking about? There is no basic human right to hold a cellphone in the hand while driving. In fact there is no basic human right driving a motor vehicle on a public road, it is a privelege. Otherwise you would not need a driving license.

  13. Re:Technology is hard and dangerous on Toyota's Killer Firmware · · Score: 1

    This sort of proves you wrong.

    A Volga GAZ 3110, which is basically a 90ies facelift of a 70ies mid-size car frontally crashed into a Daewoo Lanos (a 90ies subcompact). Both drivers died, the passengers of the Lanos (a mother with her child) have survived. Russia is actually the best place to test your hypothesis, because there is an awful lot of cars there that are just facelift (at best) versions of cars that were built in the 70ies and there is also a lot of awful drivers due to several reasons.

  14. Re:Technology is hard and dangerous on Toyota's Killer Firmware · · Score: 1

    What kind of a car locks the steering wheel when you turn the key off? In every car I've used the steering wheel only locks when the key is out of the keyhole.

  15. Re:Why? on Why Is Broadband More Expensive In the US Than Elsewhere? · · Score: 1

    US GDP is overinflated by the financial sector.

  16. Re:The shooters aren't supposed to notice the reco on US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures · · Score: 1

    Or maybe because you have used blank rounds with a blank adapter which functions as a recoil amplifier?

  17. Re:How safe? on How Safe Is Cycling? · · Score: 1

    that's cayenne8 to you. he is a borderline alcoholic and encourages drunk driving.

  18. Re:It would be safer if cyclists followed traffic on How Safe Is Cycling? · · Score: 1

    Cyclists are a menace? Last week I was cycling on a bicycle lane, following the traffic code correctly. One fucker of a van driver nearly ran me over when driving out of some parking spot and when I complained about it he punched me in the face and drove away. I cycle a lot and every day there is at least one idiot in his thrice damned tin can who cuts me off even though I've the right of way, parks on a bicycle lane, passes me within a few centimeters, runs the red light or blocks the crosswalk.

  19. Re:The sad thing is... on Germany: We Think NSA May Have Tapped Chancellor Merkel's Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    What happened in Lybia was a good thing. This way the EU governments will think twice before they try another pointless military adventure. Participating in the Yugoslav gang warfare was bad enough, Iraq and Afghanistan even worse.

    Besides, NATO should have been disbanded two decades ago.

  20. Re:30Km isn't space on Company To Balloon Tourists To the Edge of Space For $75,000 · · Score: 1

    Well, duh, if you choose MiG-31, it will be a Mach-2 flight in a jet fighter. And, to be honest, I'd rather try that out than a Concorde flight. Besides, have you ever been inside a Concorde? The aisle is very narrow and everything is sort of cramped. It kind of actually feels worse than a cattle class A320. Not much walking around there.

  21. Re:30Km isn't space on Company To Balloon Tourists To the Edge of Space For $75,000 · · Score: 2

    You can book a flight in a MiG-31 to 28km up for a third of the stated price. The stay at the altitude is way shorter, though.

  22. Re:Muslims on NSA Intercepted French Telephone Calls "On a Massive Scale" · · Score: 1

    Right in your link other sources say it is 7 millions in the USA. When numbers vary that much, they are worthless.

  23. Re:Muslims on NSA Intercepted French Telephone Calls "On a Massive Scale" · · Score: 1

    Neither was Stalin, by the way. He was a Georgian Orthodox and even went to a seminary to become a priest.

  24. Re:Wall-builders on Building an Opt-In Society · · Score: 1

    Why reclaim? This would be the perfect place to send all the antisocial elements.

  25. Re:Not Surprising on A Ray of Hope For Americans and Scientific Literacy? · · Score: 1

    Acually, the corruption is especially rampant in the small local governments. That is where nepotism grows because the smaller and less important governments are under less scrutiny and people are more likely to know each other and do each other favours locally as well. A central government is way more faceless.