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Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 289

the FCC unlawfully inserted itself between the State and the State's political subdivisions

Regardless of the merits of municipal broadband, and bought-and-paid for legislators, the powers of local governments are given by state constitutions and laws. The feds simply have no constitutional say in it.

They can stop states or local from outlawing various bands or having jammers, but they can't grant powers to localities against state wishes. The state authorizes the localities and gives them life.

Comment Re:I am not able to find that disproof (Score 1) 270

Well...ok then. "Statistically impossible" might be a better choice.

A (smallish) finite number of monkeys would be worse than a computer program to generate every possible text, since the monkeys rely on randomness and will repeat a lot of stuff, where an infinite number of monkeys will generate it in as long as it takes to pound out ~100,000 keys at random.

Still, the bottleneck is the evaluation function to sort out not just intelligible plays, but high-quality ones, applicable in both scenarios. This means humans for now, and far more than particles in the universe.

To be honest, the stench in a room filled with near-infinite numbers of computer and English geeks must be terrible.

Comment Re:"Cashless" is meaningless (Score 1, Informative) 294

You worthless, echo-chamber, meme-regurgitating sack of shit. India requires expats returning to pull all foreign accounts back into India at the theft-based government exchange rate. You get ripped off and the government gets your dollars.

Why do brain-dead buffoonery like you always think the opposite of pituitary gland tumor gigantism in government is solved by an anarchy? What lovely straw men you set up in your economic disasterbation fantasies!

Comment Re:Judicial rules? (Score 1) 191

Perhaps. I don't see their bailing out as the big thing, like it's a protest.

It's unseemly for jurists working for tue government to appear at a conference where a featured speaker is on the lam.

It says nothing about the issues being debated -- some may even privately support him, or at least Wikileaks.

It's like US supreme Court justices applauding at political statements by the president during the state of the union.

Comment Re:Walking advertisements (Score 1) 61

You don't need water reminders for daily life, nor do you need a water bottle. Nor, for the most part, water.

You get more or less enough from your food alone. "You need to keep hydrated" is a fraud along the lines of valentine's day stuff -- a complete creation of companies.

Hehe. You pay twice what you pay for pop...for water.

Comment Re:Interstate Water Sharing system (Score 1) 678

The Supreme Court has long ruled any federal plan to siphon from the Great Lakes requires the permission of the states on them, not to mention Canada by way of treaty.

I doubt they could do it without their permission, for that matter, as California is seen as a folly of its own making -- go let them hang. The Great Lake states vote, too, and are larger. May we assemble a multi billion dollar debt package payment for you, too? /sarcasm-this-is-about-as-likely-to-pass

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