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  1. Re:If you don't know why they're doing this... on Sweden's Cash-Free Future Looms -- and Not Everyone Is Happy About It · · Score: 1

    Other than having to *get* the cash, then carry around the cash, then arrange to meet the person and give them the cash. Or i could just txt and use the phone i already have.

  2. Re:Well, "yes". And "ish". on Star Wars Pulls In $1 Billion At Record Speed (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you even watch the originals? There are the very definition of a plot hole. It is fucking star wars, with swords and magic in space! What the fuck did you expect?

  3. Re:Not a movie on Star Wars Pulls In $1 Billion At Record Speed (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Imagine a movie of that. The Shrike, the best bad/good guy "who side is that thing on anyway?" charater EVER. Would be soo cool. It also would be R18.

  4. Re:Not a movie on Star Wars Pulls In $1 Billion At Record Speed (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Black hole was more accurate. Really. I should know, i have a Masters in Astrophysics.

  5. Re:Not a movie on Star Wars Pulls In $1 Billion At Record Speed (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I couldn't agree more. I saw a quote on the internets recently attributed to George lucas (probably fake but meh), "i make movies for 12 year olds, if adults watch them, that's their problem".

    Some of the older sci fi/fantasy movies that stand up are: Total Recall (1990?), Alien, Aliens, The Running man , and Terminator. Even Dune the movie was good. Can't think of others of the top of my head. More recent ones that i think are good would be: Minority Report, Edge of Tomorrow (yea groundhog day should be in there somewhere), The Martian, Moon (little slow and predictable), Apollo 13(it just good), Firefly/serenity. Clearly i have taken liberties on what i define as sci fi. Yes 2001 is *not* on my list because that movie is stupid.

    Over all i feel that any hard sci fi is very poorly represented. This is true in books as well. So i have learned to turn that part of my brain off as much as i can.

  6. Re:Not shocking but mildly disappointing on Star Wars Pulls In $1 Billion At Record Speed (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It is star wars. It is right there in the franchise name. Star wars. What the fuck did everyone expect? Shawshank redemption in a galaxy far far away?

  7. Re:Squeezing the theaters probably helped on Star Wars Pulls In $1 Billion At Record Speed (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Disney, as a distributor, does this all the time. They are also the worst to work with, with the reels turning up really late, to be even more strict with returning the prints. I worked as a projectionist back when it was still film. Fun times.

  8. Re:Not my money, yet on Star Wars Pulls In $1 Billion At Record Speed (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    WTF is wrong with you? You feel cheated? By a movie franchise? Let me guess, you take a lot of meds. Get a life and keep your movie experiences in perspective.

  9. Re: Not my money, yet on Star Wars Pulls In $1 Billion At Record Speed (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Its fucking star wars. It doesn't and never had anything deep about it. It is literally "dark side bad, hope bad guys don't win" with all the mentality of movie for 10 year olds. The reason the old ones were good was because you were 10 years old!

  10. Re:Not my money, yet on Star Wars Pulls In $1 Billion At Record Speed (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The dark side always has encouraged getting angry and using that as the "power of the dark side".

  11. Re:Not my money, yet on Star Wars Pulls In $1 Billion At Record Speed (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Yea, and those kids better not play on your lawn either right. You probably shouldn't make it so obvious your just an old grumpy person who doesn't like company.

  12. Re:A super-intelligent machine might not care on The AI Anxiety (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Define "care".

  13. Re:If humans have free will on The AI Anxiety (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The universe is *not* deterministic. That is what Einstein was going on about when he was stating that God doesn't play dice. It turns out God does play dice and the universe is *not* deterministic. Perfect knowledge of the present state (also theoretically impossible), does not imply perfect knowledge of future states.

  14. Re:AI is just a stepping stone to the "problem" on The AI Anxiety (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    You really have no idea what your talking about. You don't understand entanglement, you don't understand information. You just don't understand. Here is a hint. Just because you can connect words together to sound all star trekey, doesn't make it true.

  15. I live here. No it really doesn't need a big consensus. It just has to be a majority.

  16. Re:Republic vs Democracy on Ask Slashdot: We've Had Online Voting; Why Not Continuous Voting? (iamnotanumber.org) · · Score: 1

    You may want to read up on the details. Your missing important ones.

  17. And you think they do understand a bill they have zero intention of reading? Did you say that out loud?

  18. They don't even read the bills they pass! Why not? Because the don't give a shit, and know that you don't really either.

  19. Have you tried it? Switzerland seems to work fine with it.

  20. Generally, the electorate isn't informed enough on issues to make good decisions.

    And you think that congress is? I mean the internet all tubes invented by Gore right? shesh. You guys deserve your corrupt leaders.

  21. Re:Republic vs Democracy on Ask Slashdot: We've Had Online Voting; Why Not Continuous Voting? (iamnotanumber.org) · · Score: 1

    You know that Switzerland has a direct democracy and has had it for a long time. We do not describe Switzerland as much of an anarchy you know.

  22. Re:There are reasons behind that "trap" on Cold Fusion and the Reputation Trap (aeon.co) · · Score: 1

    You can read what i posted. I dont have to back pedal anything Dip shit, it is right there in the first post, D+D=>He4, you can't even read. I have published plenty and have quite a lot of citations as well. Do you? Yea that is what i thought.

    There is just no way you can be a real physicist. You simply don't even understand high school physics. There is no way you should have passed Matura. Yea we (not you) established that you really aren't a physics person since you really clearly don't understand anything about physics. I assume your a recluse fat german teenager who likes to talk to much about what you think your good at.

  23. Re:Two birds, one stone on Schneier: We Need a Better Way of Regulating New Technologies (schneier.com) · · Score: 1

    Only thing is, everyone is just going to switch to a different app. They are playing whack a mole with a thousand holes.

  24. Re:Wonder if this can be used for some more items on ORNL Restores US Capability To Produce Plutonium-238 (ornl.gov) · · Score: 1

    I stand corrected. That pretty .. well cool. Time for my humble pie.

  25. Re:There are reasons behind that "trap" on Cold Fusion and the Reputation Trap (aeon.co) · · Score: 1

    D+D=>He4 without a gamma violates the standard model because all the different quantum numbers are not conserved. D+D=>He4+gamma has a very very low cross section because it gains a fine structure constant^2. The most probable outcome with D+D fusion is D+D=>He3+n and D+D=>T+p with approximately 50% branching ratio. In cold fusion they claimed D+D=>He4.