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  1. Re:Shoot Them? on Meet Canada's Goosebuster Drone · · Score: 1

    It's not even effective and has been tried in the past. The ONLY method that works is management with Border Collies. It's expensive and time consuming but it is by far the most effective method there is.

  2. Re:Want to swim with dolphins? Better do it now. on Orca Identified As 103 Years Old · · Score: 1

    You could take her to Dolphin cove in Jamaica where the dolphins are wild and can leave any time they want and come back.

  3. Re:Breaking news on Zuckerberg's $100 Million Education Gift Solved Little · · Score: 1

    The money we spend on school children in NJ cities (20-34k/year) we could send them all to private boarding schools around the world and they would receive much better educations and be away from the gang culture.

  4. Re:Animal cruelty? on NYC's 19th-Century Horse Carriages Spawn Weird, Truck-Size Electric Car · · Score: 1

    The ponies in assateague are not wild. They are feral. The only wild horses are zebras.

  5. Re:Ancient? on 'Accidental' Siberian Mummies Part of Mysterious Ancient Arctic Civilization · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I see they are truky 800 years old, so ancient is a pretty dumb term to use. Ancient is generally reserved for BCE.

  6. Ancient? on 'Accidental' Siberian Mummies Part of Mysterious Ancient Arctic Civilization · · Score: 4, Informative

    800 years is not ancient. It is medieval. If they meant to say 8000 thats really damn impressive they kniw about the religious beliefs about spells emanating from skulls.

  7. Re:Smaller Blocks on Kids Can Swipe a Screen But Can't Use LEGOs · · Score: 1

    Sony is taking a crack at the Minecraft market with Everquest Landmark as well. None of those games really appeal to me, but compared to Minecraft Landmark is certainly prettier.

  8. Re:shenanigans on UN Report Reveals Odds of Being Murdered Country By Country · · Score: 1

    The biggest problem is integration. Where minorities are integrated with the white population (East Asians, Arabs and Indians for example) their children thrive just as well as white children. When the population is split off into its own communities (Blacks, Hispanics, orthodox religious) not so much. When I visited London last year with my (gay) husband I never once feared for my safety near a minority. If I did the same in NYC, even parts of Manhattan, there would be at least a little unease.

    It was easier in England for them to integrate their minorities (having fewer of them) but it really is the key to success.

    There's basically two choices, give them a state to call their own and let their culture persist there, or fully integrate them by spreading out the mix.

  9. Re:If you're going to screw... on FWD.us Wants More H-1B Visas, But 50% Go To Offshore Firms · · Score: 2

    People who hire illegal immigrants don't want immigration reform. If the illegals all of a sudden had a legal status and had to pay income taxes and be on the grid, etc they would not be able to work so cheaply.

  10. Re:Been twenty five years on Why Darmok Is a Good Star Trek: TNG Episode · · Score: 1

    B5 wasnot intentionally excluded, I just tossed that post out before bed, nor was that a list of the only shows, just a sampler to prove the point.

  11. Re:Worst: when they use magic on Why Darmok Is a Good Star Trek: TNG Episode · · Score: 1

    That is how it gets by something like Heisenberg though, by basically vacuuming up the matter and turning it into energy rather than the cut/paste method of file transfer today that just scans/copies.

  12. Re:Been twenty five years on Why Darmok Is a Good Star Trek: TNG Episode · · Score: 2

    Deep Space 9, Falling Skies, The 4400, Kyle XY, Doctor Who relaunch, Firefly, SG1, Battlestar Galactica, X-Files, Mutant X, The 100, Star Wars The Clone Wars, these are all at least as good as TNG. Some much better.

  13. Re:Bullshit Made Up Language on Why Darmok Is a Good Star Trek: TNG Episode · · Score: 1

    Or that none of the trained Federation linguists and xenoanthropologists could figure it out until Picard spent a weekend with one.

  14. Re:Surprised? on Overuse of Bioengineered Corn Gives Rise To Resistant Pests · · Score: 1

    No the correct response is to explain that god actually hates figs. Easy mistake to make.

  15. Re:Shill on Meat Makes Our Planet Thirsty · · Score: 1

    The absurdity is that they aren't removing the water from the cycle, just delaying it a few days til they use it to wash their car/horse/whatever.

  16. Re:heliport on Drone Pilot Wins Case Against FAA · · Score: 1

    Active heliport just means a registered landing place with the FAA.

  17. Re:he was being a dick on Drone Pilot Wins Case Against FAA · · Score: 1

    Active helipad means "concrete slab where we can land a heli for a medivac". It wasn't the penn station of helicopters.

  18. Re:model plane != plane on Drone Pilot Wins Case Against FAA · · Score: 1

    So if he stuck a camera on a kite the FAA should step in too?

  19. Re:Keeping the peasants in line on Google Funds San Francisco Bus Rides For Poor · · Score: 1

    I never realized how windfall got its meaning until your post. Neat.

  20. Re:Poor? Let me guess on Google Funds San Francisco Bus Rides For Poor · · Score: 1

    It said poor students, which I took to mean college students.

  21. Re:Stop the emotion, use logic next time. on Google Funds San Francisco Bus Rides For Poor · · Score: 1

    That is why you have fixed term contracts.

  22. Re:Lucky on Using Google Maps To Intercept FBI and Secret Service Calls · · Score: 1

    I am thinking you never actually read that story.

  23. Re:Completely Foolproof on Inside Boeing's New Self-Destructing Smartphone · · Score: 1

    Yes, it is possible to set it up so it explodes like a grenade if it is tampered with too, that is not what it is being advertised. The feature is that unscrewing it will make it erase the data.

  24. Completely Foolproof on Inside Boeing's New Self-Destructing Smartphone · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So...take a dremel and cut the case around the screws.

  25. Re:Irrelavant and inept. on N. Korea Could Face Prosecution For 'Crimes Against Humanity' · · Score: 5, Funny

    I propose a Grand Army of the UN. Worked well for the Old Republic.