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Comment Re:Senate likely to pass treaty (Score 1) 239

Yeah it'll be up there on Thomas. For the last five minutes before the vote because no one wants anyone to know what it says until it's too late. People always get after our Congress for moving so slow. In situations like this, I think they move too fast. It is becoming increasingly clear that the checks and balances of our government are buckling and eroding as a result of two parties that have become experts at gaming the system. The ability of the people to control their government is but a shadow of what the framers designed, for the government has learned how to effectively control the people.

Comment Re:Scalzi on Stross on ST (Score 1) 809

May have been? No, it absolutely was. The story of how Romulus got destroyed, and everything surrounding it, was EPIC laziness on the part of JJ Abrams and his backwards retarded science advisor. Black hole juice has got to top the list of bullshit technologies I've seen in ALL of star trek, including Endgame. Not to mention a whole host of rife inaccuracies with the rest of the universe which should have remained the same, reboot or not. Abrams made a great movie (seriously!). But it wasn't Star Trek.

Comment Re:Scalzi on Stross on ST (Score 1) 809

Actually, as a HUGE star trek fan, I tend to agree with him. Although I'd take it further and say that Star Trek, Star Wars, BSG, Babylon 5, and more recently Stargate have all done this. Writers insert crazy technology into a current writing without any thought as to the implications to the universe theyre creating or to the universe they already have. For instance, how about that "Wormhole Drive" McKay pulled out of his ass in the series finale of Atlantis?

Comment Re:Apple is ass (Score 1) 425

Seriously, I cannot agree with you more. Apple, in its tradition of being a full 10-15 years behind MS, is what MS was 10-15 years ago. A monopolistic, money hungry, competition destroying block of crap. The thing is, Apple does it while appearing "hip and cool" to the retarded masses (that's you, jack ass fan-tards!). Somebody in the PC market should have litigated against them when they switched to intel back in 2005 because they were "damaging the PC architecture brand". Cause that's what a Mac is. A PC with a stupid case and a bad OS that costs way more than the alternatives.

Now. Watch THIS get modded as troll or flamebait, despite it being true.

Comment Re:Summary is incorrect (Score 1) 277

Well you can get 200 kW of draw from the ISS if you drain supplementary stored energy from the batteries at the same time as using the space station's solar panels. This is the same way Electrothermal Augmentation works when applied to chemical engines. The 120-130 kW is an on-orbit average to my knowledge, which means that you're actually generating an extra 100-200 percent of that when in direct sunlight to account for eclipse.

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