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Comment Re:Insects (Score 1) 47

I have an application for this where I'm using 365 to 395 nm older style to attract bugs efficiently.

Come on, give us a few details. Are you collecting the bugs for research or are you using the lights as bait for your backyard zapper? Or are you collecting bugs to feed to your pet iguanas?

That's too tantalizing a statement for you not to tell us a little more.

Comment Re:Go for it (Score 1) 43

Can you provide a sensible definition of 'bigotry', and an example of where you think Carson and Cruz have failed to live up to your proposed standard?
The 'b' word seems to be the all-purpose kiss-off, these days. You risk evacuating it of meaning, like Tarantino did the Bigger Digger Trigger in "Django Unchained", I'm led to understand.

Comment Re:outrageous (Score 1) 363

So arrest and prosecute the federal agent for attempted murder. He's the one who should be in jail. Not Ulbricht.

You don't think facilitating the transaction for a hitman for a percentage of the price should be a crime?

Remember, Ulbricht got a cut of the money for every single drug transaction on Silk Road. It's as if he bought a downtown building and rented it out to drug dealers (and hit men) and got a cut for every single transaction.

I know there's a belief that the Internet is a magical place where laws should not apply, because it's digital!, but that's just not how it works.

Comment Re:Easily fixed (Score 1) 90

Don't want to join the "rewards program?!?" -- great! You'll be spending more than I do every time you visit the store b/c I have a rewards card and you don't. You are subsidizing my purchases. Thank you!

Your "rewards program" allows your privacy to be violated. Your store thanks you.

Remember, you're personal information, spending habits, movement information, location, etc are worth something. And you're giving it away for pennies on the dollar. Have you ever read the EULA on your "rewards program"?

PT Barnum had a word for people who thought they were getting something for nothing.

Comment Re: Easily fixed (Score 1) 90

I'm enjoying my Friday lunch Burger and fries at a restaurant that offers me a free meal every 10. Deal?

You really believe you're getting a "free" meal?

I guess it's true there's one born every minute.

And to maximize my savings? Order water to drink.

The Chinese have a term for people like you: schnorrer.

Comment Re:Seriously? (Score 3, Informative) 366

These guys did not launch a satellite, ULA did. Basically LightSale simply took a ride on an Atlas 5 that was deploying the X-37B and was thrown out as a secondary payload. Pretty much anybody can do that. A lot of CubeSats are often made by college students.

Also, describing CSV and measuring files in songs makes me want to punch Bill Nye, and I love Bill Nye.

Comment Re:Easily fixed (Score 1) 90

You missed the key word: RETAIL. Tesla isn't a retail store. Tesla is a vertical market

"Retail" only means the products are sold to the end user rather than a reseller.

Tesla is most certainly a retailer of cars, because you can go buy one from them right now.

JC Penney doesn't make their own clothes, they sell other people's clothes for more money than they spent on acquiring them

JC Penney most certainly makes their own clothes. In fact, they started by making their own clothes in 1914 and today they're betting their future on their own house brands.

https://fortune.com/2014/12/22...

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