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Comment Re:Enquiring Minds Want To Know (Score 1) 580

Heh. Maybe we should add some Klingon Opera to our repertoire!

Their reaction must produce, O2-, they must have to do something with it, it's not like you can put it into a bottle and forget about it, we are talking large-scale here.

Oh shit, my brain is clearly not working up to speed this morning.

O2- + O2- => O2

I guess we can release oxygen gas into the atmosphere without significant concern. :facepalm:

Comment Re:health care being tied to jobs hurts the USA fo (Score 1) 312

Most civilized countries have health care provided by the government, not [directly] the employer.

Employer-funded health care is lose-lose. It is a public health disaster. It turns employees with family members having "pre-existing conditions" into slaves. They might not be picking cotton or calling the boss man "massa", but they are slaves nonetheless, and slavery is WRONG. The only people who win are the plantation owners. Er, I mean, the top 1% of Romney's 47%.

Comment Re:Just socialise the damn thing already (Score 1) 294

Your observations with respect to the BBC are very astute. In Canada, Prime Minister Stephen Hilter has been actively gutting the CBC (starving it for resources) because unbiased news is absolutely his number one enemy. Several times during his reign he has to scrap legislation because the voters found out what he was up to. Luckily for him, it not longer matters, he has a majority of the house now; I am fairly certain that by the time he is forced to call another election that he will have figured out how to remove the right to vote for those who would oppose him.

Comment I wish I lived in one of those countries (Score 1) 466

I got ----ed last week in Montreal because at some point I had accidentally clicked on the "bus" icon.

I would have made it through just before rush hour, but that stupid phone directing me to follow bus routes got me behind schedule by 15 minutes, which was all that was needed to completely hose my schedule.

Comment You know what would be cool? (Score 5, Funny) 325

If you just want to learn to type, you could possibly provision some purely-mechanical keyboards.

The displays would not need to be particularly high-tech; you could go with a hemp or wood pulp WOD (write only display) that works by mechanically striking the pulp with an embossed pigment delivery die.

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