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Comment Re: You don't get how it works... (Score 1) 89

Pooh. I was being fairly serious but a little too cryptic I suppose. I get tired of people running warfare using shills and trolls so everyone can know that my neighbor is more terrible that I am. The last straw was the "taken care of" threat in a parent.

Looking harmless can be safe. Being the most terrible around can be safe. We have not decided which works better.

Comment Re: You don't get how it works... (Score 1) 89

I enjoy the Mormons and i enjoyed Ender's Game. Oh. If I am inclined I can enjoy being more poly the thou. And I admire the author of Ender's game. Yah.

Let us think for a bit. I think a bit of good sense is to be as nice to your OTHER as you can afford to be. Then your OTHER can maybe do something similar without worrying so much about being "dealt with".

Comment Re: no surprise (Score 1) 256

Relying on the jury system Is silly. First of all, the DA only wants a jury trial if it helps him get reelected. Otherwise it clogs up the underfunded court system. If you get there you really will get slammed if you try for jury nullification explicitly which is pretty much what one of the GGP thought was what he could rely upon. I suppose he looks like a solid upstanding sort. Probably can afford a good lawyer.

oh well. I have read of a local case where a family was out camping and one of their nude kids ran through the camera frame. So they did get off eventually.

Moving on. If you do refuse the plea bargain then when you are in court everyone is already mad at you because you are not playing by the rules. Now you get convicted. Better be deeply remorseful even if you were completely innocent.

yet the above description may be the best system we are able to put together and defending it may prevent it from getting worse

Comment Re: What is wrong with pedals? (Score 1) 166

In my state you have to pedal your bike even if it is otherwise fully powered. So it is not fully powered. The trick here may well be a way for the manufacturer to avoid the legal restrictions.

i of course did not RTFA but a nice electric is 3500$ and that one i just looked at is worse than backordered. Hmm. Faraday bike?

The lesson here is that almost all of us, me especially, should shut the fuck up most all the time. But you also especially because you are a snarky ass. See what i just did there?

Comment fraud (Score 1) 146

Being a little unhappy here. These people are in bankrupcy. Their tech is 70 years old and they cannot figure out the tech to do better. Their senators just got done raping me and everyone in the Northwest in order to try to keep them afloat.

reactor fuel is easy and cheap to come by. And I am sure if we need some the iranians can supply us.

But we are not even getting close here to the real deal. Damn.

Comment Re: Well for once I agree with religious crazies (Score 1) 363

Curious. Military types get suicide missions. In the day there was always a plan to get home, even though it was folorn. Some one always really serious tried to show up at the pickup point for the extraction. Can you say: I hate human space flight? I am a shill? I will say anything to get my agenda? You agenda may be the best thing since sliced bread but I think I need to invent a difference news site that 86s you just for irritating me.

Comment Turing test success1 (Score 1) 137

Look at the original proposal by Turing. I imagine Turing was very conscious about gender issues since after winning wwii for the old boy network they decided he was a felon. It seems to me the five eyes gives us Turing test success and...wait for it ... means that is not really what we meant by human intelligence.

Comment Re: I need NASA's permission to mine the moon now? (Score 1) 251

Also us yanks cannot orbit without permissions as I recall. Some treaty with a sort of traffic control formalism plus maybe some other reasons about flocks of geese and nuclear spasm. I think the details say that even the feds have to let the neighbors know the initial orbit before hand. It does not quite say we cannot sort of cheat on the orbit a little bit later.

Comment Re: "Not Reproduclibe" (Score 1) 618

Maybe. But science has problems. Science + public policy is something out of hell. Add that a lot of good science ends up conflicting with other good science. Sorting it out takes lifetimes.

I will support this provided the GOP applies it to all agencies and branches of the federal government. :-)

Comment Re: It's incredibly frustrating... (Score 1) 535

Just like the occupiers the way it worked well was a lot of ordinary sane concerned people took to the streets, in a sense. These sort of people are not so much around anymore.

The OWS types did actually do street demos. And their camp out in that private park was nicely legal. Took a bit to push them out. This is in the home of concentration camp free speech zones.

The tea party mainly went to public meeting with their reps and had the silly idea that they had free speech. Hmm. Okay. But no more open public meetings in local publicly owned venues for years.

i imagine occupy people voted dem and the other people voted republican. I am sure both sides are so pleased with how well things worked out.
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The only bad thing i will say about the tea types is that they should have leaders. And for occupy the bad thing is they thought they should not have leaders .

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