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Comment Re:Iphones Work (Score 2) 68

I found most mainstream 3rd party Android manufacturers loaded up their phones with ads and bloatware. My OnePlus was pretty good about this, but I gotta say the Pixel phones that are made by Google are the best. Try one of those so you can compare phone platforms made by the manufacturer, they're pretty good :)

Comment For those of you who don't grok Calvinball: (Score 1) 113

Calvinball is described on the Wiki thusly (emphases added):

Calvinball is an improvisational sport/game introduced in a 1990 storyline that involved Calvin's negative experience of joining the school baseball team. Calvinball is a nomic or self-modifying game, a contest of wits, skill and creativity rather than stamina or athletic skill. The game is portrayed as a rebellion against conventional team sports and became a staple of the final five years of the comic. The only consistent rules of the game are that Calvinball may never be played with the same rules twice and that each participant must wear a mask.

When asked how to play, Watterson stated: "It's pretty simple: you make up the rules as you go." In most appearances of the game, a comical array of conventional and non-conventional sporting equipment is involved, including a croquet set, a badminton set, assorted flags, bags, signs, a hobby horse, water buckets and balloons, with humorous allusions to unseen elements such as "time-fracture wickets". Scoring is portrayed as arbitrary and nonsensical ("Q to 12" and "oogy to boogy") and the lack of fixed rules leads to lengthy argument between the participants as to who scored, where the boundaries are, and when the game is finished. Usually, the contest results in Calvin being outsmarted by Hobbes. The game has been described in one academic work not as a new game based on fragments of an older one, but as the "constant connecting and disconnecting of parts, the constant evasion of rules or guidelines based on collective creativity."

Also, that is such a perfect description that's how I'm gonna refer to SCOTUS from now on: The Calvinball Court.

Comment Actually no there is precedence case (Score 1) 187

1) bar are requested to check ID and refuse alcohol for minor
2) porn store and porn selling/renting out fit have to check for ID and refuse sale/renting to minor

All that is a precedence case that the government can and do restrict sales of certain material to minor and thus can enforce ID checks.

Comment Re:coincidentally such maneuver are never shown on (Score 2) 106

read my post better : "claims, claim all over the place, and zero evidence. Same as the lazar guy and many other, they are all cooks." Emphasis mine. I know of Bob Lazar and a few other with their "building sized UFO in plain sight" shit : they are all claims and bluster , zero evidence.

Comment coincidentally such maneuver are never shown oncam (Score 1) 106

look at the gimbal stuff or the other vids : they show exactly the same maneuverability and speed as our current airplane or drone are able to. Sure people TELL they saw it doing super incredible maneuver impossible for current plane, but we have only their word, because coincidentally it is never shown on cam.

And the conspiracy that the US gov hide stuff, make zero sense. That suppose that 1) UFO only lands/crashs in the US, and no other country OR 2) everybody including US's enemy agree to not pipe a word (feel free to add a 3rd scenario not that I fall into false dichotomy fallacy) , either of those scenario make no sense, and would involve way too many people. And then the retired people having seen any of those alien/NHI/whatever never speak up ? Snowden blowed the lid on NSA spying , and alien/NHI get people seriously clam up ? No way.

And before you bring up Grusch : he had a LOT of claims from third party reporting him having seen stuff. Under oath he precised he never saw anything himself. Sooooo again, claims, claim all over the place, and zero evidence. Same as the lazar guy and many other, they are all cooks.

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