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Comment Just punch in ... (Score 1) 68

*67 in the states to get around it and go anonymous. Nobody is likely to answer, but you can always leave a message or try again later. I recall (no pun intended) that a fella craiglisting some game I wanted to buy wouldn't answer his phone but posted it in his duplicate ad on FleeBay. I called, and called, and 2 months later the guy finally answered and explained why he had not been answering. I told him, hey, answer your damn phone if you post an ad with the number. Lesson is you can spoof, you can hike (Skype out has no real numbers associated with it) and of course you can just not call or answer if you choose. But stop wasting time with people if you ask to be called, and then don't answer your phone.

Comment Didn't is already get pumped and dumped in 1999... (Score 1) 210

Right around when we were all to be partying like it was 1999? There was in the hype of the .com boom, and subsequent bust the promotional idea that this was a great idea and someone came out with a 4000 smell combo unit for the market. Nobody wanted to smell that crap, so it never sold. I think the biggest market is to test the porn industry smells, get them perfectionarily perfected and then it is no longer a proof of concept vapor ware IPO POS.

Comment 7 Deadly Sins... (Score 1) 87

Pride is certainly one of them, and they spell it out in the promo. I have to hand it to the PR group at the UM that seem to have done a better job of actually finishing their project than the HPH have done to date. Setting up testing apps, fixtures are all great, but really what is the world is this going to do for practical aviation based on technology that is 100s of years old now? What is the economic and ecological footprint of this project? To achieve a goal, sure it is notable. But is it really worth it in the careers and advancement of education? I ask, wouldn't the money, time be better spent on more practical and useful applications? I say yes.

Comment Re:Part of a general pattern (Score 1) 426

The current status quo can continue to grow, demand is ever higher every day. The source of freedom will be some other form of fuel, sun, electric, gas, hydrogen, whatever. However limited, the world will demand personal travel freedoms and markets resulting. Its just the way it will be, and the poor or unable to afford the costs will be in the bus watching others eating at the diner they just passed.

Comment Re:Hire better people? (Score 1) 153

Its really sad to read this type of article, in fact companies have now completely commoditized the human element of the business. Get the economy in such a dire strait allowing companies and the people they 'employ' to gladly accept the Orwellian aspects of today's employment options. Its a win win win. Government loves it because the average intelligence level of employment is dwindling, less intelligence where daily (yes, meant this way, a job is just a day away from being unemployment checks), employer loves it because they can get rid of dodos without much resistance making for a 'dynamic' business model and finally the employee loves it otherwise they'd be out on the street where they belong due to lack of education or ability. See, it does work well in America. The downsizing and sell off of America to the lowest bidder via the free system, unregulated and open to competition is now in full swing.

Comment Today, the complexity of numbering continues... (Score 1) 207

10 years ago it was confusing enough with what could be seen as reliable product APUs fro AMD with 1.4 ghz here, and 1.23 ghz there, name changes to meaningless marketing numbers and names. So, I'll stay ignorant and simply ignore these 'breakthrough' numbers and buy product instead of specifications.

Comment Re:Pointless... (Score 1) 265

Unless your target is the side of a building. I'm betting that in 10000 shots from a big cannon type rifle (.50 cal or bigger?) the likelihood of a prone shooter hitting the head of a human like that of a fearless leader or not is going to be about none. I'm not worried about this being important for distance shooting like 2 miles. But .6 miles, it matters.

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