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Comment Re:Story is false (Score 2) 117

I recently started a new tech company. One of my business cofounders knows essentially nothing about engineering, tech, or production - but he is a heck of a sales and marketing guy. Just because he cofounded a tech company does not mean he understands tech - at all. Just like being a CTO does not mean you know anything about marketing and sales.

Comment Re:No-Fly List, TSA, nudeo scanners. it's all thea (Score 1) 248

That Act will go down in American history as the single, most damaging, threat to liberty in this country. Billions spent, law abiding people treated like criminals without due process. It truly makes me ashamed and angry at DC and the retards that reside there.

Huh. Same could be said for the Income Tax amendment. Except I bet more people have not only been inconvenienced, but arrested, jailed, and penalized under the IRS codes than the Patriot Act.

Comment Re:Unintended consequences ... (Score 1) 233

Exchanges/telcos are regulated and controlled at the State and Federal level, levels well above local police. Your local police officer can get a part-time magistrate in traffic court to approve bricking your cellphone. To do that with an exchange would take a State or Federal circuit court judge (something well above the reach of your average police chief).

Comment Re:This helmet scares me. (Score 2) 126

You really should learn a bit about polycarbonate - better known as Lexan (that's the Sabic trademark for PC). It's extremely durable, very shatter resistant, highly UV resistant, and generally THE choice for fighter aircraft canopies (which have just a little bit of UV exposure). Snell itself says there are many polycarbonate, Snell-rated helmets on the market.

Additionally, all Shoei shields (as well as pretty much everyone else's shields) are polycarbonate. In testing, polycarbonate helmets tend to transmit less energy into the brain, because it flexes better than fiberglass/carbon fiber. It's a great material, great for impact resistance, stable, and fairly lightweight.

Comment Re:Oh good lord. (Score 1) 225

How much mass would a Dyson sphere require? My guess is a few orders of magnitude beyond that of a star. Consider the volume occupied by a sphere at 1 AU from its star. That would be a rather large amount of mass on its own. And that would reduce the number of Dyson spheres required to exist to account for the dark matter.

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