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Comment Re:I'm not worried about poor students (Score 1) 390

if you are taking out 150k in loans you are doing it wrong. Plain and simple. Most folks, while not capable of paying for all of college, can take care of a large portion of the cost. And if you live reasonably close to a college (this is a lot of folks) stay local and it gets even cheaper. At least in florida, it is still doable for undergrad at 80k on the top end and as little as 40k if you are careful.

Comment Re:Isn't parody protected in the US? (Score 1) 169

This is the reason I don't vote.

I'm very saddened to hear that ... why throw away your vote? Vote for an independent, instead.

I've got to agree. A lot of people think that not voting for the Democrat or Republican is "throwing your vote away" because that third party candidate has a zero chance of winning. I do agree with the latter portion of the statement: Third party candidates, for the most part, don't have much chance of winning. However, this is *because* people vote for D or R (or don't vote at all) instead of voting for a third party candidate. It's a bit of a chicken and egg problem. People won't vote for a non-major party candidate unless they have a realistic shot at winning, but they won't have a realistic shot at winning unless people vote for them.

Why vote third party then? To send a message. If a third party candidate gets a large enough portion of the votes, the major parties will take notice and will rush to coopt the issue as their own. They aren't stupid. If there's a groundswell of support for an issue, they'll tumble over themselves embracing it. In essence, voting third party can change the two major parties.

Why not simply withhold your vote? Because not voting sends no message at all. You might think it's a grand gesture at the politicians but it's a gesture the politicians can't see. How do you tell the difference between "I'm protesting the two major parties" and "I just don't care enough about any issue to go out and vote"?

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Comment Re:As a Change Manager... (Score 1) 294

I was speaking in hyperbole... and of course I figured you and team and co take the data seriously... but no one was mentioning it; I thought it worth pointing out a different perspective. But still, compared to the data, the systems, as long as they are caretaking the data properly, are incidental, and from this perspective, irrelevant, as far as what the systems actually are. Thus it (or it should) follows that spending more time focusing on incrimental patches to incidental systems at the expense of spending due time or rational contemplation focusing on the persistence of the vastly more important data seems counter, or skew, to how time should be spent. (Fwiw, I think change management is a very "good thing," but also I think that having groups of employees spending time in meetings, any meetings, kill a company. Nothing ever gets done in meetings... its all "ok, here's reports, and here's what we want to go and do now," when anyone that has ever taken meetings knows that it never (ug, I mean rarely ever) has anything to do with how some initiative works/plays out... its just a way to synchronize intellectual capital of human resources, which can be done far more quicky, effectively, with an email.)

Comment Re:Not sure about the recovery test (Score 1) 125

Those boosters were hollow steel tubes, open at the back. Seawater partially flooded them, that's why they popped up. The Falcon 9 first stage is mostly empty tanks that aren't going to flood (barring severe damage from the waves). If held vertical, the weight of the entire stage wouldn't push it down even two meters into the water...its diameter is greater than that. The engines aren't that heavy, half the mass of the vehicle is in those very long tanks...it's going to float very high in the water, on its side.

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Comment Re:Licensed Software Engineer new in USA. Ethics o (Score 1) 183

Frankly, getting a PE license is not difficult, provided you are not a totally shitty engineer.

Cut the bullshit. The Texas Software PE license required among other things "At least 16 years of creditable experience performing engineering work" and "References from at least nine people, five of whom must be licensed engineers." Note that "creditable" means "experience working under a professional engineer".

Fortunately, despite the IEEEs push, very few states require licensing of any sort to write or sell software. If they do, I suppose I'll be forced out of my career, which has included working on medical devices. Fuck them and I hope they all die; they're certainly trying to kill me. Also note that the ACM split with the IEEE over this very issue.

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Comment Re:One hundred pounds is more than enough (Score 1) 165

My understanding is that modern or more modern versions of nuclear weapons are hundreds of times more efficient then the ones dropped in WWII. This is due primarily to a change in the ignition design from one that used explosives to ram fissionable material into another fissionable material called a gun type to one that used heat and X-rays from a more easily created fission reaction to ignite a second fission reaction in an enormously more efficient and reactive way. I think this second type is called a boosted fission reaction.

The same amount of total weight involved in little boy can be the total of 6 or 7 warheads from the 60s and 70s with 100 times as much explosive power or more. In the 80s and later, we see some more advancements that make some insane improvements. But the two types of ignition might make it impossible for a direct comparison of the weapons or number of weapons based on the amounts of HEU.

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Comment Re:"no indication ... site has been compromised" (Score 2) 81

If only it could have been prevented via a cheap, preventive program, instead of costing so much later! I know! We should lobby them to create a new agency, one tasked with the security of the nation, and when they knew about risks like this, why, they could step in and ensure that no one would unwittingly deploy vulnerable systems in the first place!

Perhaps we could call them the Responsible Agency for Intelligently Securing the Interests of the Nation... R.A.I.S.I.N., for short... or National Organization Securing You... N.O.S.Y. for short... I'm still working on the name.

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Comment Re:That doesn't really explain it (Score 1) 234

Have you never heard of the Helms-Burton Act which penalizes any company that deals with Cuba including the executives never being able to travel to the USA. This basically means every company has a choice, do business with the USA or do business with Cuba and guess which is more profitable or even possible (Canadian planes often fly over US territory and despite international law, America has these extra-national no-fly lists and can veto passengers)
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Comment Re:Figures (Score 1) 165

Oh?

From parent following statements are valid:

The adversaries of Israel are not above using a nuclear bomb to get what they want

The adversaries of Israel are not above using a nuclear bomb to get a tiny strip of land

The adversaries of Israel are not above using a nuclear bomb to get the whole western world

I don't know exactly who is considered "adversaries of Israel" I do know there are some dozen countries who don't recognize Israeli passports and more than half will either throw you in jail or not let you in if you so much as have an Israeli stamp on your passport. At least one such country already has nukes.

While I'm sure there really are people or groups of people who would actually Nuke x if they could for reason y this represents a tiny subset of "adversaries of Israel" .. the same statement probably holds true for just about every country in the world making it rather worthless.

Comment Re:Here's a trick: Don't live in the U.S. (Score 2) 390

When I lived in France, I would get in my car for two reasons: go to the Cora (big supermarket) once a week, and go on weekend trips around Alsace. During the week, it was public transportation all the way. I didn't know many people who commuted in their cars... the two that did commute did it on gas-sipping motorcycles.

Today I live in California, and drive 34 miles per day to get to work, my wife drives a bit less, in a different direction. Our commutes are shorter than most of the people we know. Comparing California to Alsace, the driving cultures are completely different. My daily commuter is a 24 year old 270hp Toyota Supra, the car I take to see customers a 460hp Volvo (I'm in IT, but I work for an aftermarket auto-manufacturer)

With cars like this, I would be regarded like a wasteful pig by most people I knew in Europe. Amongst the people I know in the US, my cars get good MPG.

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Comment Re:Will this effect markets? (Score 1) 234

In long term, massively. South Korea will get much cheaper gas, and it might have a stabilizing effect and North Korea will likely be even more closely tied to South through the financial benefits of the functioning pipeline, such as transit fees.

The main problem is that North Korea may start behaving like Ukraine with the gas, stealing it from the pipeline and even using it as a weapon against South Korea. But potential of getting gas pipeline in South Korea will likely far outweigh the cons.

Two questions:

  1. 1. Will North Korea agree to let gas pass through its territory to South Korea?
  2. 2. More importantly, is South Korea so stupid as to sign on such a deal that could leave them vulnerable to the Pyongyang regime?

Comment Re:Okay (Score 1) 29

I see. So the story, which would normally be very easy to verify if one is interested, is false then? More than one group was denied during the time in question? Or what?

What I'm trying to find out here is if the IRS is acting in any way different than it has in the past, aside from the fact that it was they who came forward in the first place this time around. So far, all indications are negative. Everybody is following the roles they were given when the universe came into being.

BTW, Walker is a republican. His nose ring is chained to the same big money. From his position he can say many things he can't possibly do. You keep on saying you learned something over the last five fears. When are you going to start showing it? You're still pimping the republican party. It only goes to show you're not against big government, only the people presently running it because you feel left out. I think it's not the concentration of power that bothers you, it's the proximity, or lack thereof in this case.

Comment Re:uh uho. problems.. (Score 1) 50

Yes, but... think about it, there are no more non-novel, original ideas. And there are other considerations, such as the purpose of the thing. For example, you just can't patent an electro magnet, but you can (or could reasonably recently) patent an MRI; you can't patent an automatic ball pitcher (anymore), but you can patent a gun that uses baseballs as amunition, also you could probably get a patent on a auto-baseball throwing "car denter and windshield breaker." My point is you can be validly awarded a patent on something that is not original or novel in any way, but it is being applied in a way that original patent did not specifically cover.

Comment Re:Having to know the URL, what security! (Score 2) 156

SeaFox, also if you use the search engine located at the link in this article, they all lead to yet another page where you are required to sign in. This is for each individual link that pops up when you do a topic search. Furthermore, all sign-in pages are identical. Seems this could be taken advantage of.

Comment Re:"Llets you find?" (Score 2) 156

that is soooo close -- almost spot on -- how did you guess?

actually, I wanted to rate it Funny and Coincidentally-I'm-Reading-Soul-Music-Riight-Now but I hit the the Overrated option instead -- the poster never deserved that so I had to post to undo it

(note to self; never drink gin+Campari+Cointreau+lemon while moderating)

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