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Comment Super Capacitors (Score 3, Interesting) 296

The idea to store all excess electricity is already being investigated. But they're planning to use super capacitors rather than batteries. The idea to buy it cheap at night and sell it back to the grid during the day when theoretically, your consumption is lower (not at home, etc.) is too good not to be exploited.

Comment You cannot reason with a madman (Score 1) 1293

Why do you all persist in thinking that you can change the mind of a zealot? It doesn't matter whether that person is waving a bible or a Kalashnikov. As long as they think that "God" wants them to act a certain way, they are going to do so. Short of killing them there is very little you can do to stop them. Forget about convincing them not to kill all us infidels or stopping them from forcing their distorted world view upon everyone else.

There's nothing more dangerous than a religious zealot and a bomb. That fact holds true the world over and it doesn't matter where or how that person prays. Bombs are the chosen weapons of God.

Submission + - What to do when your Government is out of control 1

buss_error writes: I've been watching the NSA and related stories. All I can say is that my personal feeling is that our government is completely out of control, ignoring our rights, and doing what ever they want. I hate to say this, but it seems that no matter who we vote for, it doesn't affect the out of control cowboy moves made by the minions of Bureaucracy. Peaceful protests are ignored. Legal challenges, directives, and congressional orders are shrugged off with less effort than rain. They do what they do when they want, how they want.

No one sane wants to see a city vaporized by a terrorist's atomic bomb, but it that any worse than a society where we have no secrets from the Government? "I've got nothing to hide" is a mind set that trusts that someone won't find a rationale that something you did was harmful. Then make your life a living hell with "secret evidence" you are not able to see or refute.

To quote Ben Franklin: "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

How do we, the citizens, reign in the over broad, overzealous surveillance culture? Normally I'd say "cut off the money" but that depends on elected representatives to pass a budget to do just that. Time and again, they have failed to do so.

Comment There's a more reliable system than lie-detectors! (Score 3, Funny) 374

Lie detectors have the inherent problem in that they can be duped by one who has been schooled to do so. But there is one science that is 100% accurate and relies solely on something that the subject cannot hide: Their skull! Using the science of Phrenology, a trained scientist, a scientist, mind you, not simply some quack wearing a tie, can measure the subject's skull in detail and provide a 100% accurate assessment of the subject's reliability, honesty, intelligence, and propensity to commit crimes or to engage in perverse behaviours, as well as many more important traits that one must consider when entrusting an employee or government official charged with protecting our families and making our nation safe!

Be safe! Rely on Phrenology!

Comment Re:Proud? (Score 1) 1233

Flee? LOL. If I was in mind to flee, I would have done it 40 years ago. I would have fled instead of heading to bootcamp the day after graduating from high school.

I'd like to support you in your desire to fight, but why? You don't even know who to fight. Who are you going to attack? You don't know, do you?

You give me a shout when you've managed to figure out that pressing question. You won't get anywhere until you have the active military on your side. Because they are the only ones who will be able to stop the police from shooting you down like a dog.

Comment Re:Proud? (Score 1) 1233

Yeah, yeah. Don't blow so hard, you;re kicking up dust.

I did my time in the military, did the shit jobs that no one else wanted, while pussies like you and your parents were home safe in bed. I've earned the right to say whatever comes to mind. Right now, it's that I'm probably going to the Canadian consulate on Monday to begin the process of invoking my right to a dual citizenship.

I have had my fill of lying, scumbag politicians and the loud braggarts who support them, crying out their patriotism without regard for the foulness of their actions.

So you feel free to spout whatever nonsense you wish. I've been here quite awhile. Unlike you who turned up here a million users after me.

Submission + - Filesharing increased after block of The Piratebay

Zappy writes: Number of internet users sharing files increased from 15% at the start of the blockade to 18% six months later a study done by Universiteit van Amsterdam show. Full artike in Dutch
http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2013/08/22/ondanks-blokkade-pirate-bay-neemt-downloaden-toe/?utm_source=email&utm_campaign=nieuwsbrief-20130822&utm_content=Media&utm_term=hoofdartikel

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