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Comment Re:The speaker of the House (Score -1) 110

Watch "Police State" by Dinesh D'Souza to learn about how Christians are being brazenly attacked by our government.

BTW: I am not a Christian myself, I am agnostic. But the persecution of Christians in our nation is obvious to anybody other than completely brainwashed leftists.

There are some people in the USA who want the USA to be some kind of Christian theocracy, but they are a small, persecuted, and powerless, minority.

Comment Re:FreeBSD usually out-performs Linux in my book (Score 1) 71

This has been my experience as well. I am presently using RHEL 8.5, and I find FreeBSD faster, and easier administration. My hardware is, at least, 5 years old, and I have no problem with drivers. I have never been a great fan of systemd. My favorite linux distro is Devuan. I use RHEL because I think I should be more proficient on something that is more widely used.

Submission + - FreeBSD Beats Linux on Raspberry Pi (0x.no) 1

walterbyrd writes: Believe me, when it comes to the Pi (at least until the 4), FreeBSD is better than Linux.

It's better because the performance of it is unlike any other Linux distribution I've ever seen, even with cpupower activated and overclocking. Nope, no match — FreeBSD's performance on the Pi is still way better, even without overclocking.

Comment We were overpopulated 55 years ago, but now . . . (Score 4, Interesting) 218

It's not just Japan, the underpopulation crises is hitting many nations. It is even used as an excuse to flood nations with immigrants who have values antithetical to those of the current population.

When the popular book "The Population Bomb" came out, over 55 years ago, the world population was about 3.5 billion and we were way overpopulated. Now the world population is about 8 billion and we are underpopulated. Care to do the math?

I am old enough to remember public service commercials that had messages like: "the easiest way to fight the population crises, is to have smaller families." It was about that time that China started their "one child per family" policy.

It's my understanding that, before 1945, Japan was desperate to acquire new territories because they believed their island nation to be overpopulated. I wonder what Japan's population was then, as compared to today?

Comment The stronger the helmet the harder the hit (Score 5, Interesting) 50

As far as US football goes IMHO Mike Ditka of people was right about helmets and concussions: the more advanced helmets get the harder players learn to hit with their heads. Make the helmets 30x more concussion resistant and players will learn to hit things [1] 35x harder. Ditka advocated going back to leather earflap helmets to reduce concussions and while it was said in a "back in the day we were real men" mode I'm not sure he was wrong about that.

[1] yeah, I know, there are rules changes in place to prohibit direct hits with the top of the head. We'll see how that works in the long run [prediction: it won't]

Comment Specific language (Score 4, Informative) 49

One thing about the FDA is that it uses very specific and, to the untrained reader, peculiar language in letters of this type. Which can lead those without the specific pharmaceutical and legal background to underestimate what is being alleged and what the consequences could be. "Unapproved new drug" and "misbranded", and "adulterated" are as bad as it gets in FDA letters and can lead directly to referral for criminal prosecution of both the organization and its officers as individuals. Civil penalties can include shutdown of the entire business, as well as oversight agreements, massive fines, etc. If you or an organization of which you are an officer or you as named individual [1] ever receives a letter of this type run do not walk to an attorney admitted to the Federal bar for both regulatory and criminal law and do exactly what they say.

[1] the FDA can issue orders barring specific individuals by name from working in the pharmaceutical or food industry for periods from one minute to life - any individual, not just an officer of an incorporated entity

Comment Never was a fan of Amazon's steaming service (Score 1) 227

The price for Amazon streaming service is all over the map. Unlike most models, where you a pay a fee and watch what you want, Amazon charges different rates for different videos. Sometimes you can only watch it within a 24 hour period. Sometimes there are different rates to "rent" or "own." The content is not great. HBO and Netflix at least some great shows.

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