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Comment Re:The Cult Leader will solve the problem! (Score 1) 124

There's a rapid diagnostic test that is developed and can be at West African airport departure gates in less than three months if the FDA gets out of the way. I know, it's only nutters like the NPR health sciences correspondent going on about this - was Dr. Paul also saying crazy things like the government is making the situation worse? Instead, they should totally go ahead and implement a travel ban so people sneak into the country with ebola instead of coming through the airports.

Meanwhile nobody in the US is infected with ebola and cattle are still far more dangerous, right? Wait - fear, fear, fear! Give us power and ... fear! Talk about cult leaders.

Comment Re:Can we stop trying to come up with a reason? (Score 1) 786

It's a bit of a chicken or egg thing. If women made up 90% of minecraft players, this probably wouldn't be happening/be permitted.

I hadn't seen that on the servers I played on (Madrealms) but maybe that's because I felt like I was with peter pan and the lost boys. There were no female players.

I was introduced to minecraft by a female player but she clearly couldn't comprehend the way I liked it. She was still spending 4 hours a day and building stuff when I was making redstone devices and spending 8+ hours a day on it. It was a serious addiction! (and it's running right now while I test some things for an adventure area in our survival server).

Comment Re:Lies, damn lies! (Score 1) 529

In Britain, for example, her family has given their land to the public for an annual stipend of £40m. The land generates £200m a year, so that's a pretty decent deal right there.

And while she might have power on paper, the last monarch who tried to screw people over got killed for it. She knows her place, and is a consummate statesperson.

How it is in Canada I do not know.

Comment Re:Spoiled much? (Score 1) 291

A household of two people trying to do something that requires 3.26Mbit/s each... Or a household of 3 each doing something that requires 2.17Mbit/s... Or a household of 4 each doing something that requires 1.6Mbit/s... "Large" family doesn't even come in to it - just "more than one person" is enough to show there are problems.

Comment Re:Is it open source yet? (Score 1) 124

It doesn't even do anything for me. It was working and then just stopped. No files synch for me and both the handset and the computer it's supposed to synch with are 'net reachable. Nothing changed in the config of the PC so I have no idea what happened. I've tried dorking with settings and updating every time something new comes out - doesn't help...

Comment Re:and speed was never the point of dropbox (Score 1) 124

Actually I'm pretty sure he never carries a cell phone. In the last episode one rings in his pocket, having been planted there, he's surprised, and he ultimately ditches it. One must wonder about his wallet though... Overall Forever hasn't been all that bad. Scorpion has also gotten a little less far-fetched but not much. It's still fun to suspend belief and just watch rather than trying to pick it apart.

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