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  1. Re:FAA is not allowing Drone use in farming today on Drones Could 3D-Map Scores of Hectares of Land In Just a Few Hours · · Score: 1

    Somehow, considering the use of "hectares", I don't think they're concerned about what the *American* aviation authority allows or doesn't allow.

  2. Re:Low threshold = enormous rate of return on LAX To London Flight Delayed Over "Al-Quida" Wi-Fi Name · · Score: 1

    This is the way America ends. Not with a bang, but a whimper.

  3. Re:Tell me why I should care. on The Man With the Golden Blood · · Score: 1

    He probably has to store his own blood for just such a need. I have a friend whose daughter has to do this.

  4. Re:Tell me why I should care. on The Man With the Golden Blood · · Score: 1

    He was using it "literally".

  5. Re:Falsifiability on High Speed Evolution · · Score: 1

    I have not stated my beliefs. All I have done is state that the evidence does not support the No Designer conclusion. Modern science assumes No Designer from the outset, so it cannot validly conclude No Designer as an outcome. That's basic logic.

  6. Re:Falsifiability on High Speed Evolution · · Score: 1

    The most you can show through statistical analysis is that something is NOT random. And if natural selection is NOT random, if natural selection has some sort of imposed order, then what?

  7. Re:Falsifiability on High Speed Evolution · · Score: 1

    No, because we cannot determine whether natural selection is actually random, or purposeful. We assume it is random. But we cannot logically conclude that it is random from observations made under that assumption, because that is circular reasoning.

  8. Re:Falsifiability on High Speed Evolution · · Score: 1

    I would prefer that people don't claim conclusions that the evidence doesn't support. If P then Q says nothing about Q if P is false. We can find all the shaggy-haired, unkempt woolly mammoths we want. It doesn't prove that there wasn't a hair stylist.

  9. Re:How long is a human generation? on High Speed Evolution · · Score: 1

    How long is one human generation?

    From birth of parent to birth of child. 20 years is a nice round average-ish kind of number.

  10. Re:What? on High Speed Evolution · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of this.

  11. Re:Falsifiability on High Speed Evolution · · Score: 1

    Yes, we can sit there and observe how a new organism is produced from the parents. We can sit there and observe how this produces new things for natural selection to test, and we can set there and observe that the less successful ones don't get to breed. And yes, we can sit there and observe that in not breeding their genes become less likely to be present in the following generations, and that the following generations develop general traits based on the above.

    However, none of that is evidence that it is not designed.

  12. Re:Drafted prior? on Days After Shooting, Canada Proposes New Restrictions On and Offline · · Score: 1

    By keeping them in-country we are lessening the damage they can do. Over there he could receive real training, and be capable of wreaking havoc if he returned.

  13. Re:Baumgartner took too much credit on Computer Scientist Parachutes From 135,908 Feet, Breaking Record · · Score: 1

    The same reason there is for doing literally anything.

    To woo women?

  14. Re:May I suggest on No More Lee-Enfield: Canada's Rangers To Get a Tech Upgrade · · Score: 1

    I already admitted you trolled me. My ability to cite example is clearly no match for your ability to spout contradictory nonsense. No point in continuing the conversation.

  15. Re:May I suggest on No More Lee-Enfield: Canada's Rangers To Get a Tech Upgrade · · Score: 1

    I put my car in the summer sun all the time. It never gets that hot. Ever. You've had other people tell you the same thing. Website after website after website show temperatures levelling out at around 50C, yet you claim temperatures three times that. At first I thought you might be confusing Fahrenheit and Celsius, which is why I stressed on boiling water, but you persist.

    You ask what latitude has to do with solar heating of a car. At noon on the spring equinox, the sun is going to be beating straight down on the roof of a car. On the same day at the North pole, the sunlight is going to be travelling horizontally straight through the car. Even at the peak of summer, the sun is only 23.5 degrees above the horizon. The bulk of the sun's rays are going to travel straight through the car. Latitude is crucial to how much energy the car can absorb.

    You say that the air temperature is irrelevant to the heat inside the car. This is clearly false. Cars are not perfect insulators. Heat flows out of them, and the rate at which the heat flows out is proportional to the temperature difference between the inside and the outside temperatures. So, in the cold of the arctic, the heat is going to flow out faster than it would in the Arizona desert.

    You claim Siberia in the summer is one of the hottest places on Earth. You ask if the dash implies the outside of the vehicle. You claim that the windows of a car are always perpendicular to the sun.

    I can come to only one conclusion...


    I have been trolled.

  16. Re:Stone age? on British Army Looking For Gamers For Their Smart-Tanks · · Score: 1

    the tank can carry six men each up to 6'6" (198cm) tall and weighing up to 16 stone (101kg, 224 pounds)

    For such a modern tank the measurement units seem like they came from the stone age.

    Exactly. Tanks containing men? I thought they were all ROVs and UGVs these days.

  17. Re:People who play xbox are not tech savvy on British Army Looking For Gamers For Their Smart-Tanks · · Score: 1

    No, if they had technical skills they would be playing on a PC.

    No, if they had technical skills they would be playing on a linux or BSD box, with an arduino project on the side. FTFY

  18. Re:Sign me up on British Army Looking For Gamers For Their Smart-Tanks · · Score: 1

    One life? Tanks usually have a crew of three or four people: commander, driver, gunner, and ammo-jockey.

  19. Re:May I suggest on No More Lee-Enfield: Canada's Rangers To Get a Tech Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Video of temps well above boiling or it doesn't happen.

  20. Re:Security + Telnet on Cisco Fixes Three-Year-Old Telnet Flaw In Security Appliances · · Score: 1

    Oh? I was unaware that Cisco equipment came with netcat.

  21. Re:Parliment Hill != The White House on Shooting At Canadian Parliament · · Score: 1

    Actually, she is the Queen of Canada, and like it or not (and clearly, you do not), she is indeed your queen.

  22. Re:Dear Canada.... on Shooting At Canadian Parliament · · Score: 1

    Dont let your idiots in parliment go all panic mode like the Raving Morons we have running this place in Washington DC.

    This was a rare incident by a insane person, nothing more. Put more money into public mental health.

    That's funny! We were saying the pretty much the same thing to you back in 2001. Well, apart from the Washington DC part.

  23. Re:Already illegal on Michigan Latest State To Ban Direct Tesla Sales · · Score: 1

    I don't get why this would be illegal.

  24. Re:May I suggest on No More Lee-Enfield: Canada's Rangers To Get a Tech Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Gun stocks aren't going to warp unless they are heated long enough either. Stop clouding the issue. Video of temps well above boiling or it didn't happen.

  25. Re:May I suggest on No More Lee-Enfield: Canada's Rangers To Get a Tech Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Why should I show you a video that likely never was made?

    I have a car. I see the temperature on the thermometer.

    If you insist I make a video next summer. Rofl ...

    I do insist. Either make a video showing water boiling on the dash, or find one online.