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  1. The problem is that when you say you are a Nationalist, as Trump did, the Left automatically adds, "White" to the beginning.

  2. Re:Airline scheduling on Why Airlines Make Flights Longer On Purpose (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    The ATC system is definitely pushed to the limit.

    If anything, the constraints on the ATC system and physical airport infrastructure, as you mention, is what drives most delays.

  3. Re:Airline scheduling on Why Airlines Make Flights Longer On Purpose (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    I don't give a fuck about "on time".

    I care about "in one piece".

    Dickheads who bitch and moan that the plane leaves late because the mechanics were checking something out, or they need to de-ice, or wait for weather, or because the plane has to divert for weather, etc. deserve to die in a ball of flame.

  4. Re:Airline scheduling on Why Airlines Make Flights Longer On Purpose (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, This is just stupid bitching from someone who had to write a column.

    Airlines aren't flying slower to pad the schedule. Flights don't take six hours, they take the same about of time. The schedules just allow for unforeseen circumstances...weather, maintenance, etc.

    I have no problem at all waiting for the plane to be made safe and ready to go, delays for weather, etc. SAFETY is what is important, not getting there on time. An airliner is not a fucking bus. You can't just pull over and unload people while you deal with a mechanical issue. If they want to add an hour to the schedule and then get there early, so be it. You shouldn't be scheduling your activities so tightly to flights.

  5. Re:I'm sure this will have no unintended consequen on Australia Passes Law To Punish Social Media Companies For Violent Posts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Zukerberg is nervously asking his lawyers if there is an extradition treaty between Australia and the US.

  6. Bah ... one word ... Socialism.

    The corruption and mass murder is 100% guaranteed to happen.

  7. Learn to do Journalism? on Bay Area Tech Firms Laying Off 1,200 Workers By Memorial Day (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    After all, the journalists are constantly encouraging others to invade the tech fields. Maybe it's time to encourage people to invade the journalism field.

  8. Impose a fee on Universities and other places that harbor research staff sufficient to support a small staff of editors and the like to coordinate and distribute papers.

    The very same researchers, etc. commit to reviewing studies for free.

    Papers are submitter, the paid staff categorizes and sends out for review, reviews classify not only if they are publish worthy, but also their normal review process.

  9. Re:"The world's most pressing problems" on Paywalls Block Scientific Progress. Research Should Be Open To Everyone (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    WTF?

  10. Re: Stocks Will Skyrocket on Mueller Report 'Summary' Delivered to US Congress (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    I usually browse at -1.

    For this thread, I set it to 1.

    Amazing how much batshit crazy goes away.

  11. Re:Theater on Airline Passenger Walked Past Security With a Loaded Gun Magazine (apnews.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Imagine the carnage if that guy decided to start throwing cartridges at people!

  12. Re: Flying by Instruments? on The Other Recent Deadly Boeing Crash No One Is Talking About (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    From a real Voice recorder transcript:

    Pilot: "What is the MOCA altitude around here?"

    Co-Pilot: "Its about Four Thou...."

  13. They should just come across the the southern border. A slight delay for some paperwork and you are on your way.

  14. Re:34 participants to prove an effect this subtle? on Humans Might Be Able To Sense Earth's Magnetic Field (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    I can sense it just fine with my compass.

  15. Maintainability/Efficiency Need to Balance on Coders' Primal Urge To Kill Inefficiency -- Everywhere (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    The most efficient code in the world is useless if it is broke because it can't be maintained.

  16. Re:This is going to be one of the biggest lawsuits on Flawed Analysis, Failed Oversight: How Boeing, FAA Certified the Suspect 737 MAX Flight Control System (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The relevant deregulation happened under Obama, you butthurt cock sucker.

  17. Re: Science Disagrees... on Jury Finds Bayer's Roundup Weedkiller Caused Man's Cancer (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Science said otherwise and Silicon implants are being sold again.

    Twelve layman cannot accurately blame Roundup of anything else in similar lawsuits.

  18. Re: Science Disagrees... on Jury Finds Bayer's Roundup Weedkiller Caused Man's Cancer (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    A jury found that silicon breast implants cause all kind so bad shit and the plaintiffs got hundreds of millions.

    Science later conclusively disproved that silicon was the cause.

  19. Re:Science Disagrees... on Jury Finds Bayer's Roundup Weedkiller Caused Man's Cancer (reuters.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Prove a negative?

  20. Here's How the Game is Played on Britain Could Run Short of Water by 2050, Official Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Idiot activist says something idiotic...like polar ice caps could completely disappear by 2004.
          The AGW activist community repeats again and again.
          It makes its way into official reports
          News papers publish breathless articles.
          People chain themselves to shit in protest.

    Scientists say nothing

    When the idiot prediction fails, activists mutter, "..said no scientist."

  21. Re:Six Months at Least on Hacked Tornado Sirens Taken Offline In Two Texas Cities Ahead of Major Storm (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Again with the, "if you leave your door unlocked, I'm entitled to take your shit".

  22. Hod my Redbull and Watch this!

  23. Re:This is going to be one of the biggest lawsuits on Flawed Analysis, Failed Oversight: How Boeing, FAA Certified the Suspect 737 MAX Flight Control System (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The dumbest thing about all of this is that they chose to use a computer to compensate for a trim issue that could have just been handled manually. Instead of setting the trim to X for take off, set it to X+more.

    Unless the initial pitch up resulted in wild oscillations that required a computer to deal with, let the pilots fly the fucking plane.

  24. Re:In before... on US Reveals Details of $500 Million Supercomputer (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    But not before it reports the answer:

    42

  25. Ca has been in a "drought" for 50 years on California Declared Totally Drought Free For First Time in Seven Years · · Score: 2

    I was raised in CA and every year there was some idiot politician talking about how we were in a drought.

    It's as if they don't understand, "average" rainfall. We'd get creamed in the winter, nothing in the summer, and they'd call it a drought.