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Comment Promises, Promises (Score 5, Funny) 574

She also set a goal of installing half a billion new solar panels within her first term

Come on, even working four years straight there's no way she can install that many solar panels!

On the other hand, if she's doing that there's no way she has time to screw up the country like past presidents... OK, i'm in, as long as she keeps her promise to just install solar panels.

Comment Just mobile? (Score 2) 259

After years of abuse, I just instantly close a website now if it decides an interstitial ad is needed. Regardless of where I am browsing.

No content is worth the suffering, no video can have enough cats to justify the anguish.

I have no idea if my own droopy matters at all, but I like to think window closure after interstitial presentation is a metric tracked and at least I am increasing it.

Comment Would you not? (Score 1) 149

There is likely more radiation is food grown in various parts of America than from Fukushima.

In fact if you eat bananas at all from anywhere, you are absolutely getting way more radiation than from any produce grown in Fukushima.

There are so many natural sources of radiation you deal with every day, including the sun...

It's really a shame people can't be at all rational around radiation and apply the same kind of one-drop rule that racists use to justify their own crazy statements and thoughts.

Comment Re:Even More Sanity (Score 0) 272

Far, far more people are injured and killed by balls used in sports than R/C models.

Well that sure seems like a bold statement to make with no links. Can't help but notice you have links for everything else...

Although it agrees with what I said about baseballs and common sense, so thanks for that.

That's the difference - common sense. People playing in a park are not using the velocities those balls reach during sports.

Drones though are just one mechanical failure away from lethal force given the height and mass they generally have during operation, all without any effort. To move a ball with enough force to hurt someone requires conscious action.

Your comparison of drones to balls is absolutely absurd.

I imagine that significantly more people have been injured and killed by kites than R/C models.

Common sense... *sigh*

Comment Even More Sanity (Score 0) 272

Presumably, you also think that kites should be treated the same way?

I'm not sure why anyone would think that given how much less mass they have, and the fact they are almost entirely physically controlled. If a string breaks they flutter to the ground, not plummet.

And baseballs, footballs, soccer balls?

These objects basically hug the ground and don't have the ability to rapidly change course, nor are they generally operating at speeds that can cause much harm. Note however that baseballs ARE dangerous enough that people batting generally confine themselves to specific areas for that purpose, because they could in fact hurt someone.

When's the last time you saw someone playing baseball (with a bat, not throwing) in the middle of a festival or crowded park? You are basically saying you would do that if given a choice?

If drone operators had 1/10 the common sense the average baseball players had you wouldn't see regulations like this.

Comment More Sanity (Score 5, Informative) 272

How is it not sane to think that the people who could be potentially hit by your craft would have something to say about it flying over them?

I find this a perfectly reasonable law. Don't forget it means that could could fly on private property NEXT to the public property and film from there, as long as you are not directly over the public area...

Comment The crisis was always over (Score 0) 174

Organic honeybee producers never had much of a real problem, it was really only large scale agricultural bees that had issues - it never really was at the point of crisis, like everything else these days it was just being used to scare you for someone else's gain.

Lots of government money happily funneled to useless bee research...

As an aside honey is really good for you, you should have some when you can - it's great to replace sweeteners in things like tea or cereal. It has lots of health benefits and never goes bad. Believe it or not it also relieves pain from bee stings when a bit is applied topically to the stung area (I know that that sounds absurd but all I can say is that it works and works quickly).

Comment Never said have to (Score 1) 634

The real question is why ANYONE would think you have to like all the people you work with.

You don't have to of course. You are just an idiot if you don't seek that out when you have the ability - which all developers do because of the ease of finding work currently. I feel sorry for people who have more trouble finding work, who do not have that flexibility...

If you think about it, if you are working with a lot of people you don't like as a developer you are spitting on the less privileged. Or you are a masochist, which is fine - I also don't have to work with you.

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