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Comment Re:Dumb as a Rock (Score 5, Informative) 77

Your post is just nonsense.

Our stone house only cost to build $7,000. That is not expensive. It's so low cost that I built it out of pocket money without needing to get a mortgage to build my home. This means I'm not paying interest on that too. Additionally the taxes are lower than a comparable sized stick built house so each year I save on taxes. And the maintenance is almost zero.

Our house cost less to build, less to maintain, less to heat and cool and is taxed less. It's extremely affordable. Not only that it is simple so most anyone could build their own making it accessible.

Our house will also last for hundreds to thousands of years instead of the typical 25 to 50 years of stick built houses.

Dumb rock house wins again.

You may not like losing but at least make sense with your responses.

Comment Dumb as a Rock (Score 5, Funny) 77

I prefer a Dumb Home. Our home is built of stone. It has no brains. It is solid state. It stores incoming solar and wood fired heat and then releases it slowly. It never freezes despite our very cold northern mountain winters. It's too much thermal mass to freeze. Dumb wins. The doors are manual. The windows are manual. The security system is operated by a pack of local wolves - they eat predators. We have no thieves.

Comment Duh. (Score 1) 92

And why did you _every_ think it was otherwise.

If you care, code your data. This is easy to do with small spelling variations. Some address correction systems get rid of them but you can get it through if you're creative. Then you can track the flow of your data. It's fun. But there is no privacy. Welcome to 1984 all over again.

Comment Excellent Now Translate (Score 2) 78

An excellent idea. On a very closely related thought this same sort of idea can be used to translate software so that what ran on older legacy platforms or incompatible platforms can automatically be able to run on newer hardware. Imagine you buy the latest greatest Cray SuperComputer Watch and it will run all your Android, Apple Watch, iPhone, MacOSX, Windows, Unix, DEC, Exidy, TRS-80, CPM and other software. Suddenly you can upgrade your hardware without the worry of losing access to your data. We need this in a big way.

Comment What is this "Nude" you speak of? (Score 5, Interesting) 172

But what is this "Nude" you speak of?

Sex based: guy in a bottoms only swim suit vs a topless woman?

Country based: French nude beach vs USA prudes?

Era based: Someone from the 1920's looking at a 2015 bikini?

Age based: Young child (often completely nude in some countries is okay) vs post puberty (often requires hiding genitals and nipples on females in some countries)?

Religious based: Whoa! Some religions are very conservative and others require nude dancing around the May pole...

Seasonal: Have you ever tried being nude in a northern Vermont or Siberian winter!?! Don't even think about showing the tip of your nose!

Comment Drones are Small Fry (Score 0) 268

The drones are small fry. They're no worse than birds. These drones are small. Very small. Very fragile. Very light weight. These are not military style missile shooting drones but more on the scale of small model aircraft. This whole thing is over reaction.

The drone was 'in the air space' not in imminent collision, not collided.

The probability is the drone would not have been hit by the firefighter plane.

Had the drone been hit then the probability is the drone would be destroyed and the fire fighter plane would barely notice.

Had the firefighter plane noticed it would likely not have sustained any significant damage.

The drones are not a significant threat. Mow them down if they get in the way of the firefighting plane.

This whole thing is an over reaction.

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