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Comment Re:What? (Score 1) 121

Nice attempt to move the goalposts.

The number includes those killed in the years between the Revolution and Stalin coming to power, and deaths after he left, which is why it says Stalin/Russia. But he owns the lion's share for the starvation and deaths cause by deportations, gulag, systematic political purges. etc.

I did not include deaths by war, soldiers take that risk.

And yes, the numbers swing wildly. The holocaust is estimated at 6 to 12 million. That is a lot of margin, and it exists for other events as well. The starvation events in China are estimated from 40 to 100 million, that is a big margin of error.

Then again, the Nazi's have killed anyone lately, but North Korea and China are still killing people today.

BTW, if the Nazi's were the National Socialist Party, are they communists?

Comment Re:What? (Score 2, Informative) 121

Villainized, sure.

But the hard facts are Communists make the Nazi's look like punters.

Mao: 70 Million
Pol Pot: 3 Million
North Korea: 1.5 Million
Stalin/Russia: 61 Million

Nazi's? 20 million in the various Concentration Camps and starvation campaigns. They do get "points" for being so efficient and doing it in such a short time I guess.

Comment Re:Seriously? (Score 1) 121

I call it the Humpty Dumpty argument:

“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’

’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’

’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”

Comment Re:Seriously? (Score 3, Interesting) 121

Of course it is not all thought out!

That is why we have Amendments and the Supreme Court.

The other side of the coin is "living document" where we change the meaning of the words to fit the current times.

I am much more in favor of using the tools given to us to change the Constitution vrs changing it's meaning based on current interpretation.

That "precedence" concept of common law should not apply to the Constitution, which is not "written in stone" but should be difficult to change to avoid repeats of Prohibition. The fact that Prohibition is one of the few "flip flops" in the Constitution shows that it works pretty well.

Comment Re:Address errors, hacking (Score 1) 615

More than likely, such trucks won't be used to local addresses, but to those huge distribution points along the freeway and possibly shipping ports if they are not in the middle of an urban area.

Having a limited number of well known spots and routes will likely be the first step, buy a company like Walmart that has the infrastructure and the need to move that much stuff.

And they will get robot guards, what could possibly go wrong?

Medicine

Turtle Receives First-Ever 3D Printed Titanium Jaw Implant of Its Kind 71

ErnieKey writes: A wounded loggerhead turtle showed up in Turkey, with significant damage to its upper and lower jaws. It was taken to the Sea Turtle Research, Rescue and Rehabilitation Center at Pamukkale University (PAU) for help. The PAU team, working with BTech Innovation, was able to make a 3D printed titanium jaw implant for the turtle. The operation was a success, and the patient — the world's first sea turtle to receive a 3D printed implant — is recovering.

Comment Re:Lieberman 2.0 (Score 1) 950

You aren't old enough to remember Tipper Gore getting warning labels on music in 1985, apparently.

In August 1985, 19 record companies agreed to put "Parental Guidance: Explicit Lyrics" labels on albums to warn of explicit lyrical content. Before the labels could be put into place, the Senate agreed to hold a hearing on so-called "porn rock".

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