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Comment Re:Or Stop Using Google (Score 1) 70

I have started to use duckduckgo.com for searches when I'm looking for actual articles or information. I have found that I get better results. On a Google search for some information on SaaS billing integration for example, all I got from Google were spiels from companies selling shit. No articles.

Same here. I found little of value, and when using Google, almost never want to go to the first results. So DDG is how I roll.

And they can fornicate themselves if they think they can dictate how I design my site.

Comment Re: In other words (Score 1) 305

I still want the land the Saxons stole from my British ancestors. And let's not even mention the Romans and Vikings.

Basically that's all it in a nutshell. How on earth do we determine ownership of land. Land lasts a long time, and we don't. Dynasties come and go. Sometimes terrible atrocities are committed, like the "smallpox blankets" matter.

But the fact remains, at this particular moment, that is US land.

And if the Hawaiians wish to claim native status, I would have to say unless they owned the land for all time, they are not natives. Can they prove there were no humans there ever before they arrived?

Comment Re:Luckily no one died (Score 2) 268

Millions of drone operators? I think that's a little generous.

What? People have been flying remote control hobby aircraft for well over half a century. And between companies like Blade and DJI alone, people are buying over 200,000 of the devices per month.

There's a always a risk a drone will fall out of the sky conk someone on the head.

Yup, and indeed there have been a handful of minor injuries along those lines. Statistically what amounts to zero, of course, compared to the number of people who are actually killed attending motor sports events as spectators, or while skiing, or while commuting to work... or while flying as actual licensed pilots in vehicles excrutiatingly regulated in their form, maintenance, and use by the federal government.

I think the best way to handle the drone situation is to requirement to carry a light and transmitter as well as obey automated instructions to avoid areas (basically a flight unit with a GPS can be set to have "no-go" areas).

Or, people could simply follow existing laws, and stay under 400', away from airports, and use a simple app on their phone to be made aware of FAA NOTAMs so they no when specific areas are off limits. And people who don't care about laws and rules? You're not going to be able to do anything about them (unless you can catch them after the fact of having done something stupid) than you are about people who illegally parachute off of tall buildings, or illegally drive their ATV off-road in parks, or operate their boats too fast in a no-wake zone.

Comment Re:Luckily no one died (Score 2, Insightful) 268

Drone owners are idiots.

Really? There are literally millions of them. Are all of them idiots? People driving cars have a wildly worse track record when it comes to deaths. For that matter, licensed media helicopter pilots have caused more deaths. and there are merely thousands of them, not millions. What's your point?

Comment Re:Two hours lost in fighting the fires (Score 1) 268

What's it going to take before these idiot drone operators come to their senses?

Yeah! And what's it going to take before these idiots who start the fires in the first place come to their senses! We should definitely regulate matches, hot catalytic converters, hibachis, and magnifying glasses. Oh, right, it's already against the law to start wildfires. Just like it's already against the law to interfere with firefighting operations. We don't need new regulations (since that won't stop idiots from being idiots anyway) - we need substantial penalties for being a jackass. Like we already have. Enforce the laws we've got, problem will be reduced as much as it can be.

Comment Re: In other words (Score 2) 305

I imagine that even many atheists may be upset if, for example, the grave of a family member were dug up because someone wanted to build a power plant or casino or parking lot. Same deal. It's not ignorance - it's an important place to them and they don't want something built there.

Not as many as you might think. Old organic material is just that.

Comment Re:The Declaration of Causes of Seceding States (Score 2) 305

Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was in fact a punitive action relative to the secessionists only, and only applied to the ten states then currently in rebellion. It is widely regarded as the proverbial "straw that broke the camels back", and was issued under the president's war powers, and thus necessarily excluded those areas not in rebellion.

You gotta explain how the ""straw that broke the camel's back"" occurred in the third year of the war.

Comment Re: In other words (Score 1) 305

They are fighting for their land, sovereignty, and culture. It's all being stripped from them day in and day out. Not 500 years ago, still today.

Now they know how Southerners feel.

Oh Noes! Wonder how your black slaves felt?

Seems a lot of "southerners" have an entitlement issue. They feel entitled to own other humans, and entitled to force their religion on others. And when they can't remove other people's rights, they claim it is removing one of their rights.

Cry me a river.

Comment Time for (Score 2) 18

My plug for the Atlantis exhibit at KSC.

If you are at all engineering minded, you will be completely blown away by it. I was rendered completely speechless for 30 seconds, and I saw people with tears in their eyes - I knew who the engineers were in the group. Even then, it's a glorius exhibit for all.

Do not miss this, just don't

Comment Re:WAT? (Score 1) 219

No pink model? And that blue enter key is a mark of the oppressive patriarchy.

Insensitive clods.

Actually, in the heyday of IBM Thinkpads, pink was the colour of choice for young boys. Chaste young ladies would often prefer light blue to signify a lack of earthly desires, until the steam-powered vibrator came and ruined it all.

Been a long long day. But darn it - I enjoyed that comment! Well done.

Comment Re:GMOs have so many different problems (Score 1) 188

That is a misconception. They do not have to withstand 'big doses' of the herbicide; do you honestly think that farmers are spending extra money on seed so they can spend extra money on herbicide?

They are no tilling, and spraying herbicide to kill the weeds among the roundup ready corn, which is generally tolerant.

But aside from jumping on my use of the "big doses" perhaps you can proofread this page and let me know what is incorrect.

http://www.gardenguides.com/12...

But to your question of what they can do......

One of the interesting methods of killing weeds among crops is being developed by the USDA, and it sounds crazy, but works.

Oragnic farmers have a real problem with weed control, as you might imagine.

So some USDA researchers have found a weird but very effective way to "weed" without any chemicals.

They blast the bastards with fertilizers or soil conditioners.

http://loe.org/shows/segments....

Depending on the grit used in the blaster, it also acts as fertilizer, Or if you live in an acidic soil area, you can use a soil conditioner like limestone. It's an interesting read, and while at this time expensive- ~100 dollars an acre, there are a lot of offsets when a fertilizer or soil conditioner which will be applied anyhow. Just with more vigor. They are working on automating the process as we write. Not a perfect solution, but then again, neither is eating herbicide.

Not many plants can develop resistance to being sandblasted. I couldn't say this is the wave of the future, but it was sort of a headpalm moment for a lot of people, myself included.

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