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Comment Re:Why are the number of cabs [artificially] limit (Score 1) 92

maybe we should think about stupid regulation versus smart regulation

YES thankyou for saying this, you are amazing. Everytime I hear someone engaging in an argument saying, "regulation is bad!" "no, regulation is good!" I hang my head in wonder at the stupidity involved. Couldn't it possibly be that there are some good regulations, and some bad regulations, and that the wise choice is to both oppose and favor regulations at the same time?

Comment Re:Thanks for the detail (Score 1) 389

Putting aside feasible vs reasonable, etc., I think you've made your case quite well, as well as anyone could have. Based on my prior research, I was under the impression that photovoltaic simply wouldn't, couldn't ever happen other than special situations like a research station in the middle of nowhere, or some very low power applications. You've changed my view somewhat, which means something after all the research I've done. It appears street prices in 2014 are significantly lower than "national average" prices reported in studies from 2012. Thanks for the information.

Thanks also for your intellectual honesty. You started by saying I was full of shit about pumped storage, then when I "showed my work" you acknowledged that perhaps I was right. Few people have the intellectual honesty, or intellectual integrity, to do that. I admire and appreciate that.

Comment Re:Creepy (Score 1) 188

I don't think the materials science is there to deal with forming/deforming a projectile on the order of 300,000 rpm (presuming a 1:7 twist & 3,000 fps).

Piezo actuators should have no problems working at up high tens of KHz, and even up in the hundreds. Peizo elements are used in tweeters, where they have to react up to at least 20 KHz, in the right range for this project. Piezos do not have much distance that they can travel, but at that speed, you might not need much distance. All you really need is a little paddle that can stick out an slow the bullet down on one side.

Comment Re:Alternate use for this technology (Score 1) 188

And here's a clue for you. NO one over there wants peace at all, ever.

Sorry, but many Muslims are taught to hate Jews from a very young age:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

There are other examples, but this is the most famous one that I could think of.

From what I understand (and I know many American Jews who have visited Israel), the Jews pretty much just want to be left alone.

Comment Re:Donate (Score 1, Insightful) 101

First of all, OpenSSL problems are not ''getting fixed''.

http://www.openssl.org/about/r...

Third, the amount of code that has been cleaned up, improved, deleted and just plain scrubbed is simply amazing. You can say whatever you want about OpenBSD cranky devs, they know their stuff and they know their way around C code.

Nothing structural has changed.

Heartbleed didn't arise from confusing seas of preprocessor macros or broken allocators we've been hearing so much about. It was allowed to happen because there were no structures in place mandating early data validation up front.

Comment Re:my jimmies are clearly rustled. (Score 1) 1330

Says the guy commenting on the issue without knowing anything about the treatments objected to by other regions - objections just as "sincere" as those from the owners of Hobby Lobby.

Do you seriously think that the sincerity of the beliefs is the only thing the court takes into consideration?

Comment Re:iOS developer program is NC-17 (Score 1) 608

For one thing, how would the child go about convincing the parent to buy the certificate? For another, once the child turns 18, how does the parent transfer his or her interest in the developer account to the child? Or is the parent supposed to take the apps down from the App Store, forfeit the remaining months of iOS Developer Program membership, and have the child buy a new certificate and put it up as a brand new app?

Comment Police in the adjacent lot (Score 1) 443

I live in Boulder, I bet you don't.

That'd be correct. I live a few states east of you.

I stop, check the road, make sure no cars are coming, and if it's clear, then I'll go

This is the stop sign maneuver, also used at a flashing red signal or a right turn at a steady red signal. At a stop sign, I make sure to slow enough to put weight on my foot before proceeding.

but only have waited twice what the usual time it takes for that light to change (yes, I keep track of that).

I too keep track of how many cycles have elapsed, and I report problematic intersections to the city's hotline once I do arrive. But in the 35 states without a dead red statute, even waiting an hour isn't good enough for the letter of the law. Until about a week ago, it was 36; Indiana's dead red statute took effect on July 1 of this year. Before that, there was one intersection on my way to work where I often had to wait over five cycles for some SUV to pull up behind my bicycle. Oncoming traffic kept getting green left turn arrows while I got an eight-minute steady red in the straight lane. I reported that one to the city and the state, which kept pointing fingers at each other.

But if you do all that, then they won't ever see you do it, and there will be no grounds for them to complain.

Treating a red light as a stop sign works unless there happens to be a police car parked in a nearby parking lot.

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