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Comment Re:Seriously? (Score 0) 203

This probably happens in real life. I got slammed against a brick wall when I was 23 or so by a cop for ... blah blah blah ...

I've seen lots of friends get slammed into a brick wall (or concrete floors) by the cops. Without fail it happened because they were drunk and belligerent and begging for a beating. If the cops hadn't gotten them first, some other guy at the bar would have fucked them up and left them far worse off than just a few bruises and having to go to court. Yet, again without fail, they all claim they were the innocent victims of police brutality.

There are certainly cases where police misbehave, and they should be held accountable for that. But the cases where idiots convince themselves that they were innocent victims of police brutality are far, FAR more common. You'll forgive me if I lump you into the latter category based on the odds.

Comment Re:Seriously? (Score 1) 203

There's definitely plenty of room for questioning police actions, but when you find yourself suggesting that they executed a grandmother in cold blood and then made it appear that she fired first ... you've probably gone a bit past the point of "reasonable questioning" and strayed into "fuck the pigs" land.

Comment Re:You'll want either AT&T or T-Mobile. (Score 3, Informative) 146

Prepaid service in Canada sucks ass.

Depends on your needs. In Canada I tend to go with Koodo mobile; pay $15 for the month as a base charge, then buy however much data or voice I'll need. I conserve my data usage so 1 gig of 4G data can cost me for 4-5 months. And both data and voice with them are "Canada wide", so no roaming or long distance charges, plus they never expire. I had my phone with them for a full year, and on average it's cost me about $25 / month, total.

In the US, on the other hand, I tend to shell out the $60 per month so I can have unlimited data and calling. Unfortunately you're right about Canada not really having any decent offerings for "unlimited use".

I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think Chat-R offers a nano sim, so if you have an iPhone 5/5S/5C or an HTC One M* you're SOL as well,

You can walk into any cellphone repair shop and have them punch your existing sim to a nano.

Comment Re:Who uses Perl anymore? (Score 1) 192

The next time someone asks "What good is Perl anymore?" or "Who actually uses Perl?" or "Why use Perl?" you can point them to this article. Perl is perfect for this type of quick development.

Kinda. But he could just as easily have written it as a VB Script. More easily, actually, since he was working on windows and ended up having to write Excel VBA for it later anyway.

Comment Re:Chicago Blackhawks too? (Score 0) 646

I can tell you I wouldn't switch. I seriously doubt they would either.

Depends ... if I make a switch to black, do I get reborn with a 12 inch dick?

The woman thing sounds tempting too ... I'm kinda tired of having to pay for my own drinks and meals. I think in your hypothetical scenario I'd like to be reborn as a black woman with a 12 inch dick.

Comment Re:Tesla's Mars Mission (Score 1) 455

Colonial Mars expands to other planets with the Utopian political system essentially consisting of a Technocracy [wikipedia.org]. Greed and religion are outlawed punishable by death. No person is in charge. Robots are programmed to rule.

So ... Mars becomes the USSR?

Talk about the Red Planet ....

Comment Re:And hippies will protest it (Score 1) 396

The same reason you shouldn't put next week's gas money into fusion energy research. Some problems are more immediate than others. We definitely do need to put more money into geo-engineering research but in the short term he have to cut fossil carbon use, or its going to hurt us in a way that will make it harder to do that geo-engineering research.

Except there is no "short term" here. Anything we do to reduce CO2 levels isn't going to make a measurable difference any time soon. It's going to take decades - at the very least - before we see any meaningful effect. More likely we'll never see any effect from it at all, given the pace at which India and China are making up for our reductions. So no matter how you look at it, it makes far more sense to look for other ways to control climate.

Launching sulphur into the atmosphere or other plans of reducing sunlight (I've also heard of using large clouds of particles in space) are just a band-aid that only addresses one aspect of CO2's effects. It does nothing about ocean acidification for starters, and will have many side-effects that reducing atmospheric CO2 wouldn't.

And reducing CO2 is just a bandaid solution because it doesn't address the natural cycles of warming and cooling. I would rather have a "bandaid" which covers many contingencies than one which covers only one specific hole.

Right now we sequester, if the planet starts to get too cold later we can burn the sequestered carbon to raise the temperature again.

That might make sense if you could sequester it in a "burnable" form. We can't do that without consuming more energy than we produced in the fist place. For that plan to be at all feasible we would have to develop a way to produce essentially limitless extremely cheap energy, at which point sequestration becomes somewhat of a moot issue anyway.

It's also a crappy way of going about it - the response curve to carbon is just too slow. I don't think anyone wants to live through 40 years of cooling, hoping that the trend will reverse before the temperature drops low enough for crop failures to cause mass starvation.

Lastly, think about the scale of what you're proposing. Sequester all the carbon which our entire species has produced over the last 100 years, then burn it all again as quickly as possible if an ice-age comes along. Do you have any idea how massive of an undertaking just the first part would be? You may as well scrap all other industry - this project will keep us all employed for decades to come. Better find lots of money trees to fund it all.

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