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Comment Re:STDs? (Score 1) 369

"The onyl solution to pregnancy and STDs is common sense, unfortunately this "solution" will only act as a smoke screen for many."

My girlfriend menstruates 24x7x365 when on birth control. Others affect her blood pressure severely or cause enormous weight gain and acne.

We've been monogamous for years and rely on condoms.

Your opinion that people in our situation don't matter is misguided and immoral.

Comment You buy cheap stuff... (Score 2) 248

...and what do you expect?

If you want a proper "smart home" solution, you have to get an integrated package. Those aren't cheap and aren't things you can generally get via amazon.com.

I spent way too much on mine. But my outdoor lights turn on at 15 minutes before sunset and turn off at a random time between 10 and 11pm. I've got a couple thermostats which will warm up the first floor on weekdays to 66 degrees on weekdays half an hour before I go downstairs in the colder months. Also have a music system that can play any playlist off my server in any room of the house, or play a radio or internet radio station or even the audio of a TV station. Everything via physical switches or via a phone app.

Systems in the future will do more and cost less. Hopefully they'll be as secure and integrate as well or better than what I have now.

Is it worth it? Of course not. (Well, it may be worth it so that I don't have to turn off the outdoor lights when I'm already in bed. Because there's no way my wife's getting out of bed for that.)

Comment Re:300 mil... what about womens wages? (Score 1) 254

There's evidence that women are more discriminatory against women, so it's possible that an increased female workforce would encourage a greater wage disparity and fewer management opportunities.

https://web.archive.org/web/20070318083402/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/newspapers/sunday_times/britain/article1265356.ece

Comment Re:Peanuts (Score 1) 411

Heck I don't even like using or import statements and would rather fellow programmers type out the full classpath everywhere. I started doing that years ago and found it helps learn the full api and helps other more green programmers figure it all out quicker.

Comment Re:Most. Transparent. Administration. Ever. (Score 1) 136

"Sorry, he lost me with his stance on vaccinations"

You mean the stance that vaccinations should be voluntary? Which is how they have pretty much always been?

So you are for the position of forcibly strapping people down and injecting them with drugs against their will? Sickening.

Comment One-shot motor (Score 4, Insightful) 73

So it's super-efficient and all... if you intend to move no farther than 10 ft forward.

For greater distances, you could, say, keep the balloon constantly inflated with some kind of pump. And then, to save unnecessary weight and complication, you could do away with the balloon and let the pump shoot out the back of the vehicle directly.

I shall call my invention a hydrojet. Genius!

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