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  1. Re:Just 4? on New Jersey Removes Legal Impediment To Direct Tesla Sales · · Score: 1

    We have things like this already in New Jersey, such as the Lotus dealer in Hopewell.

  2. Re:Or even more... on Scientific Study Finds There Are Too Many Scientific Studies · · Score: 4, Funny
  3. Re:Shhhh! on Sugar Industry Shaped NIH Agenda On Dental Research · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not the sugar industry, the corn industry. High Fructose Corn Syrup creates more jobs in the midwest growing corn than sugar plantations in the Caribbean do.

  4. Re:"Dreaded"? on Major Museums Start Banning Selfie Sticks · · Score: 1

    The railings are designed to be far enough away that no matter how long your arm is you aren't going to be in danger of losing it to the roller coast zipping by.

  5. Re:Boston, in the winter? on Self-Driving Cars Will Be In 30 US Cities By the End of Next Year · · Score: 1

    This could be solved by a handheld the device for policemen to hold up that the cars can easily recognize, the same device could be used by construction companies (or built into new slow/stop spinny signs)

  6. Re:Fascinating ship on Paul Allen Helps Find Sunken Japanese WWII Battleship Musashi Off Philippines · · Score: 1

    They not have been economic for those roles in the 80s and 90s, but compared to the costs of developing the DDX there are extraordinarily more economic.

  7. Re:Default Government Stance on Feds Admit Stingray Can Disrupt Bystanders' Communications · · Score: 2

    Voting in the primaries is what is really important, there's usually an anti-establishment candidate in every party whether they be Ron Paul or Dennis Kucinich or similar. If you aren't in a "swing state" you may as well vote third party anyway. I have voted third party every presidential election I have voted in because my state always picks the one of the two top guys I would prefer regardless.

  8. Re:Way too expensive for my blood... on Games Workshop At 40: How They Brought D&D To Britain · · Score: 1

    Never understood why they don't offer pre-painted sets; then again their unpainted minis are so expensive I can only imagine what pre-painted would cost.

  9. Re:Last straw? on ISIS Threatens Life of Twitter Founder After Thousands of Account Suspensions · · Score: 1

    Our problem is that we believe the best way to stabilize Iraq is to force it to maintain unity under the borders dictated by the end of World War 1, while not recognizing there are three distinct cultures there who have a lot of bad blood betweeen them.

  10. Re:disclosure on How One Climate-Change Skeptic Has Profited From Corporate Interests · · Score: 0

    Honestly it is better that he doesn't, otherwise all the papers would simply be attacked ad hominem based on who pays the grants. You want to discredit his work, attack the science in it, not the funding for the science.

  11. Re: Big Data on Will Submarines Soon Become As Obsolete As the Battleship? · · Score: 1

    How are carriers cheaper to crew and maintain? Realistically we would only need two battleships in the Navy, and if we wanted to build new ones they could be much smaller than the Iowas and require a smaller crew while still wielding 6-10 16in guns

  12. Re:Big Data on Will Submarines Soon Become As Obsolete As the Battleship? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The purpose of the battleship is no longer for engaging in ship-to-ship combat but as a floating mobile artillery platform to support the troops on the ground. In our past engagements with them (the Gulf and Vietnam) they were praised for their immense usefulness.

    Our entire Navy is one of floating glass cannons anyway, the battleships are at least tempered glass.

  13. Re:Big Data on Will Submarines Soon Become As Obsolete As the Battleship? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The cost to modernize each battleship was estimated by the navy to be about 500 million dollars (back in the early 2000s), a Zumwalt class destroyer costs 3.45 billion (not including the R&D costs). Granted the Zumwalt is the F-35 of the navy, but congress loves blowing money on military equipment.

    Same goes for ammunition. A 16 inch shell is about $500, a tomahawk missile nearly 1 million. Missiles certainly have their role, but we have completely eliminated our naval artillery when it is still useful and cost-effective.

  14. Re:Big Data on Will Submarines Soon Become As Obsolete As the Battleship? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I assure you I know quite a LOT about battleships, and though all are decommissioned that doesn't mean the design or concept is obsolete. They are out of service in the US for purely political/lobbying reasons. They are out of the service in the rest of the world because everyone else gone with a sea denial strategy.

  15. Re:Big Data on Will Submarines Soon Become As Obsolete As the Battleship? · · Score: 0

    The idea that Battleships are obsolete is also rather dumb to be honest. It's too financially efficient though for the Gov't to keep ships we already built in service rather than spend hundreds of billions of dollars on new concept ships that suck.

  16. Re:By Statesman's cape! on DMCA Exemption Campaign Would Let Fans Run Abandoned Games · · Score: 1

    God I hope so, maybe one of the guys who worked at Paragon had created backups of the server code that could mysteriously appear somewhere.

  17. Re:As long as he isn't the focus of the MCU on Spider-Man Finally Joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe · · Score: 1

    I am cool with Spiderman joining in on the MCU but in all honesty the X-Men franchise I have always thought worked better as its own universe since it is more about dealing with civil rights and social issues.

  18. Re:Old stuff. on Sid Meier's New Game Is About Starships · · Score: 1

    Or FTL

  19. Re:I still think Pluto is a planet on Analysis Suggests Solar System Contains Massive Trans-Neptunian Objects · · Score: 1

    Is Australia a continent or a very large island?

  20. Re:Brazil has long had a very protectionist on Nintendo Puts Business In Brazil On Hiatus · · Score: 1

    Spend wealth on the local economy and infrastructure is not "destroying it". Wealth is supposed to be moved around to keep the economy going. Not horded like these companies are all run by fucking Smaug.

  21. Re:They (well some of them) are mental disorders on Russia Says Drivers Must Not Have "Sex Disorders" To Get License · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's only a disorder if it has a major negative impact on a person or society. The major negative impact from TG people is only that which society places on them and thus an unnatural impact. Simply being taboo is not a reason for discrimination against something.

  22. Re:"while not intended for production" on Mercedes-Benz's Self-Driving Concept Car Is Here · · Score: 1

    From what I've seen/heard the autonomous cars will never choose "swerve out of their lane" unless something another vehicle is heading right for them. For deer/pedestrians they brake and they do it damn well.

  23. If you really wanna go retro, use wax tubes.

  24. Re:megadrought theory old on Belize's "Blue Hole" Reveals Clues To Maya's Demise · · Score: 3, Interesting

    He is incorrect saying "before Columbus" but the first expeditions onto mainland America in the early 1500s showed massive populations that weren't there at the time of early colonization in the late 1500s/early 1600s.

  25. Re: I Always Liked the Cardasian Justice System on Prosecutors Raid LG Offices Over Alleged Vandalism of Samsung Dishwashers · · Score: 1

    But on Cardassia you don't get to mount your own defense