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  1. 2045! Just in time... on Sweden Passes Bill To Become Carbon Neutral By 2045 (newscientist.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Northern Caliphate.

  2. Re:Casting and milling are well understood on 3D Printed Airliner Parts Face Regulatory Headwinds (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    To date there is no reliable way to find a single weld failure in all those thousands of layers.

    I'll stipulate that because I don't know enough to make an argument. Perhaps the desire to drive the high cost of aerospace manufacturing will motivate some innovation here. Shouldn't it be possible to use machine vision to analyze the build of a component in real time and capture defects? One imagines that an item built in this way could eventually be considered more safe than a traditional part.

    Anyhow, "regulatory headwinds" are fine; it isn't as if airlines are infeasible without incremental manufacturing. There are plenty of fields with far lower consequences of failure where 3D printing can earn a track record.

  3. Re:They'll complain on Offensive Trademarks Must Be Allowed, Rules Supreme Court (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    unless the 'potentially offensive' trademark is anything even remotely liberal-leaning. Then the alt-right will scream bloody murder and lawsuits will ensue.

    We're use to it bro; been catching your hate all our lives. Right now there is a twitter tag: #HuntRepublicans, created by a (D) operative named James Divine. Nothing new; been going on forever. Hate filled liberals say whatever they want without consequence.

  4. Re:That makes me MAD! on Google Fights Bay Area Housing Prices With Pre-Fab Housing (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    The site survey was performed by NASA and they don't seem to have a problem with Google's plan.

    This is the most uptight, litigious place on Earth. This scheme will get injuncted before Google can shack up its first H1-B. We're you born yesterday?

  5. Re: One of the reasons I pay extra at whole foods on Amazon Plans Cuts to Shed Whole Foods' Pricey Image (bloomberg.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Here in flyover country most of the people encountered in Walmart are decent and ordinary.

    Uhm, no. Most of flyover country is redneck. The characterization of the GP is dead on correct; angry, goateed, tattooed, shirtless redneck trash walking around looking for trouble, surrounded by a passel of morbidly obese women and filthy kids smelling of pets and urine, shamelessly yelling at each other. They can't make it from the exit to their neglected, clapped out vehicles without a squabble and if you make eye contact while not wearing an MC cut you stand a non-zero chance of getting assaulted. If they find out you own anything they can carry off and trade for a hit of meth they'll dwell on it till they think you've left the place unoccupied and come through a window. Have a traffic altercation and you'll end up shooting a couple to survive, so you best get a CCW.

    I live in it bro. Same shit for 50 miles in every direction.

    You snowflakes best stick to your urban jungles and find someone to deliver your groceries.

  6. Re:That makes me MAD! on Google Fights Bay Area Housing Prices With Pre-Fab Housing (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 2

    Google has the right to it, because the government signed a sixty year lease handing it to them to use as they see fit.

    So this lease obviated the Endangered Species Act? Google could frack for oil there because fuck you we have a lease?

    I suspect someone is being naive. Not sure if it's you or Google, but this doesn't add up.

  7. Re:New Rule on Louisville's Fiber Internet Expansion Opposed By Koch Brothers Group (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Worked for Stalin and Pol Pot.

  8. Kentukywired on Louisville's Fiber Internet Expansion Opposed By Koch Brothers Group (usatoday.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Kentukywired intends to wire the whole state. The Kochs have strategically chosen to pick this fight in Louisville, a classic (D) run bed of corruption.

  9. Re:Jaguar Mark II? on Atari CEO Confirms the Company Is Working On a New Game Console (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    He's talking about the era before graphic accelerators like the 3dfx.

    If so then my original point stands; gaming PCs have been kicking it since the mid to late 90's and there has been a continuum of very popular consoles that have "made sense" in the marketplace concurrently with those gaming PCs from then till now.

    Consoles are about surviving kids/pets and their slobber. Consoles are about optimizing for very specific hardware and getting highly consistent results with no effort on the part of the end user. Consoles are about zero hassle plug-and-play. None of these prerogatives are going away regardless of how cheap one can cobble together a low end, fragile, complex, malware ridden gaming PC.

  10. Re:Jaguar Mark II? on Atari CEO Confirms the Company Is Working On a New Game Console (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    $5,000 - $6,000

    That's a huge exaggeration. I built machines with dual 3dfx, dual coppermines, adaptec SCSI gear and all manner or other crazy stuff and I have never spent more than about $1600. I could have saved at least 40% easily with slightly more modest gear a still have played every title on the market, and I built such machines for family members. There has never, EVER been a time when $5000 was needed to game on a PC. That's fable. Pure fiction. You either don't know what you're talking about or you're making stuff up.

  11. Re:Jaguar Mark II? on Atari CEO Confirms the Company Is Working On a New Game Console (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Consoles only really made sense when PC gaming was laughable.

    ??

    My last console was a ColecoVision in 1983; all the subsequent gaming that I've done has been on a PC of some sort. Yet I can see that consoles have "made sense" for a vast number of people, and indeed have succeeded in the market concurrently with powerful gaming PC equipment being widely available since at least the late 90's, conservatively.

    I don't know what your definition of 'making sense' is, but it bears no relationship to the marketplace of paying customers that have been buying generations of consoles in the millions despite the wonders of gaming PCs.

  12. Hastings must be figuring that Comcast, Charter et al. might try to squeeze him for peering costs. High flying CEO types don't make public about faces like this on a whim.... this is a pocket book issue.

  13. Re:How much money... on Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs (stackoverflow.blog) · · Score: 1

    Good question. Not 100% sure I'd notice what some of the tools I use are doing wrt spaces vs. tabs. If a good formatting tool is available I will NOT manually format code. Don't care how unfortunate the result is; bang on the 'format source code' key and stop thinking about it. I don't think any one of webstorm, qtcreator, visual studio, vscode or netbeans are using tabs, but as I said; it's possible I might not notice if they did. The one thing I can affirm with metaphysical certitude is set ts=4;set sw=4;set expandtab.

  14. Re:exaggeration on We Could Have Had Cellphones Four Decades Earlier (reason.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It was certainly possible to modulate analog signals on today's cellular frequencies by the late 40's and early 50's (at least the lower SHF frequencies,) but it required several stages of tuned circuits; lots of hot, fragile, temperamental tubes. Without precision VFOs and digital control there is no frequency agility, so you manually tuned everything. Filtering was laughably bad by today's standards, so the sort of narrow band operation we rely on today was not feasible. Digital would be right out for at least two decades and fabulously expensive even then, and good ADC/DACs simply didn't exist. Without that stuff there is no cost effective way to implement time division multiplexing in an robust manner... So the best you might have done is a large, costly, fragile analog "phone" stepping on/crosstalking with others on some sort of duplexed repeater system, I guess.

    The premise of the story is BS. The FCC was not the reason there were no iphones in 1955. Just more clickbait.

  15. Re:And gun violence in the USA is up... on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The stats are the stats.

    And our rights are our rights.

    Keep it up though; the more you gun grabbers mouth off the further you get from power.

  16. Re:Hate filled libtard on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It's assholes like you that caused this mess

    "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun"
    -- Barack Hussein Obama

  17. Re:Hate filled libtard on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    We don't know that this was a libtard.

    Actually we do. Hodgkinson was a Berniac that wrote letters to the editor for years citing Maddow, Reich and all the other usual libtard suspects. The archetypal hate filled leftist.

    Just turn off the Internet for the day. Colbert will be on tonight to mollify you with another dose of Trump derangement. Just stay clear of the news till then.

  18. Re:Gun laws on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    *Now* that leftists are using firearms to deal with political opponents we they finally stop trying to outlaw guns?

  19. Re:And gun violence in the USA is up... on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Almost every place in the world has seen gun violence go down in the last 20-30 years. Almost... the USA is the exception as usual

    Allow me to inject a little reality using a source you doubtless regard as truth incarnate: Washington Post, 2015: We’ve had a Massive Decline in gun violence in the United States. Here’s why

    This decline in gun violence is part of an overall decline in violent crime. According to the FBI's data, the national rate of violent crime has decreased 49 percent since its apex in 1991. Even as a certain type of mass shooting is apparently becoming more frequent, America has become a much less violent place.

    You're worldview is fictional. You've been inculcated with fictional nonsense about the US and you're regurgitating it all over the interwebs.

    You'll note that wapo at no point credited gun control for the "massive decline." You'll then dismiss that as it fails to align with the fictions you prefer to indulge. The massive decline corresponds to a period in which firearm ownership and concealed carry in the US have both grown at phenomenal rates. There is no correlation between the growth of firearms and gun violence; exactly the opposite. Another reality you'll need to subsume under your preferred bullshit narrative.

  20. Hate filled libtard on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Own it.

  21. Re:performance/price comparison? on Intel Announces X299, Skylake-X, and Kaby Lake-X Release Schedule (anandtech.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What we really need here is a clear display of how much bang you get for your buck.

    What we really need here is some patience. Intel's new products are borderline incoherent; they've been caught flat footed by the return of competition in the x86 market and now they've gone and made some marketing blunders.

    We've been here before. It took Intel a while to figure itself out when AMD blew everything up with Athlon 64.

    So chill. Don't waste money on any hastly cobbled together Intel white elephants, and try to remember that these 'problems' you're having with Intel et al. are really just rich people problems; lots of disposable income chasing after the best entertainment machines ever made.

  22. trolling libtards on Pepe Is Banned From the Apple App Store (vice.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Valley Values triggered and out comes the ban hammer...

    "But Apple is a private company and can cens^H^H^H^H do what they want herp derp."

  23. Is storage not an option?

    No. It's crazy expensive whichever method you advocate, and there are many. This is why traditional base load power systems match supply with demand. There has always been an incentive to store because it would greatly simplify many difficult problems. If it were feasible it would have been done long ago.

  24. Re:Another perspective on this... on Former FBI Director Admitted He Was the Source Of At Least One Leak To the Press (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    This political witch hunt should be obstructed. If the people and their representatives don't like it they can impeach. Otherwise fuck off.

  25. Re:Another perspective on this... on Former FBI Director Admitted He Was the Source Of At Least One Leak To the Press (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    it is the duty of that official to take action.

    Perhaps. However, I'd like to know what part of the FBI manual that enumerates that duty prescribes playing "anonymous" source footsies with the press. Pretty sure it doesn't say that. You play that game you're playing politics and when LEOs play politics they flush their credibility right down the shitter.