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Comment Re:Voluntary participation? (Score 1) 168

His shotgun also spreads pellets throughout the sky with no idea where they might land -- might be OK if he lives in a rural area, but it's going to cause more problems than it solves in any populated area.

Bird shot falling from 100 ft would feel like heavy rain or maybe light hail at most. And I do live in a more spread out suburban area.

Comment Re:Lasers are easy to stop (Score 4, Informative) 517

What plane has 11 inches of steel?

Ships are killed by planes and subs, by missiles and torpedoes. Big ship to big ship combat just doesn't happen much anymore. Missiles take care of that.

Ships can launch surface to surface missiles and torpedoes as well. Ships are still perfectly capable of killing other ships. They just don't line up and broadside each other with 15 inchers anymore.

Comment Re:"Over the top" (Score 1) 155

In case you don't know what "over the top" means in this context, this is from Wikipedia:

In broadcasting, over-the-top content (OTT) refers to delivery of audio, video, and other media over the Internet without the involvement of a multiple-system operator in the control or distribution of the content. (A multiple-system operator or multi-system operator (MSO) is an operator of multiple cable or direct-broadcast satellite television systems.)

So, apparently, it just means streaming media over the Internet.

I like to think it meant they were going to climb out of their trenches and charge across no-man's land to attack the Germans(Google?). I can picture a bunch of people wearing Apple Genius uniforms charging across a muddy, crater filled field waving iPads to confront a bunch of Glass-wearing Google developers. And then suddenly a few Google self-driving cars slowly lumber onto the field sending the Apples back in a panic while flights of Amazon delivery drones buzz overhead dropping 1-2lb hand grenades.

Comment Re:Two things... (Score 1) 208

The 14th street bridge isn't adjacent to any college campus. Georgia Tech is 4 blocks away (starting at 10th Street), but this was Georgia State University project, which is nowhere near there.

SCAD has a building fairly close to the bridge. I honestly assumed it was a project from there when I heard it was a camera.

Comment Re:Two things... (Score 1) 208

If I'm envisioning the location of this bridge properly, it's adjacent to the school. I-75/85 is basically the east side border of their campus.

Nope. GSU is roughly 2.25 miles from 14th Street. Now, if they had a camera in Hurt Park or Woodruff Park, or on 75/85 near I-20 and the state capital, then maybe. Someone screwed up and should have notified GDOT and GHP (probably though GSU campus police) that they were intending to put a camera on the bridge.

Comment Re:...on intelligence and technological advancemen (Score 4, Insightful) 333

Followed by a permanent appearance of Michael Crichton on Faux news lying about how this is just like Andromeda Strain or some other hack novel he put together

Then he himself would be causing greater headlines than aliens, seeing as how he died about 4.5 years ago.

Comment Re:Crontratulations to some of you (Score 1) 147

If your impression is based on just what you can see driving by at 50 mph on Scott Boulevard (or on Roswell Road, in the case of Sandy Springs) then you don't know WTF you're talking about.

My grandmother lived in Sandy Springs off Johnson's Ferry near Roswell Road my whole life, and I grew up of Roswell Rd near the 120 loop. I know exactly what I'm talking about. Like I said, in Sandy Springs you have older, nicer homes surrounded by horrible run down apartment complexes. Head towards perimeter and Buckhead and yeah, you have mansions. People live in places like Woodstock precisely because they can afford $.5 million homes but want something bigger than a ranch or bungalow. Why pay half a million dollars for an 1800 sq foot 30 year old house when you can buy a brand new 3500sq ft house for the same price? You wold fit in real good with one of my sister's friends who is spending $1400 a month for an 800 sq ft apartment in Brookhaven (just so she can say she lives in Brookhaven) while I pay $1300 a month to rent a 1700 sq ft house out in Woodstock.

Now, I know Google is doing it on a neighborhood basis, so I doubt that most places in these cities won't get it as there are probably not enough people that can afford the $300 up front investment to make a whole neighborhood viable, so it will still be only the rich ones that get this. It just seems to me that picking areas where the income distribution isn't so large would open them up to more customers. Plus it would be much easier to add in fiber to new neighborhoods under construction than existing, older locations; they should have just partnered up with builders and promoted Google fiber already installed in the neighborhood and probably added $5k easy to the house prices.

Comment Re:Crontratulations to some of you (Score 1) 147

Congratulations to all the upper-class and upper-middle-class neighborhoods in Atlanta,

College park is a shithole. Most of Decatur and Smyrna isn't much better. Sandy Springs has some nice areas but has really bad ones too. As a 28-year metro Atlanta resident, I am really wondering what Google was going for with this selection, as they could have done much better. Peachtree City, Woodstock, Roswell, places like that with 300k+ houses extremely common makes sense; not areas with horrible infrastructure and full of run down apartment complexes and old (not "nice" old either) houses.

Comment Re:Sports MAKES the money. (Score 2) 153

Wouldn't that cut into sports team funding?

Does Johns Hopkins have a sports team? I don't know.

I was being recruited for Hopkins' football team, which was Division III. They are actually well known for their lacrosse team, which is Division I and is one of the top collegiate lacrosse teams in the country.

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