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Comment Re:I know why it failed....or is failing... (Score 1) 258

850 sq. ft? That's okay for one person, or a young couple that doesn't own anything yet, but it's cramped for anyone else. Oh, it might be okay for small people. But not the average 'merican.

Speaking for myself, I'm not living in a city again until they abolish cars. Cars are what make cities suck.

Comment Re:Smart guns... (Score 1) 814

Estimates are in the range of 2M defensive gun uses a year. Most of these may not even involve the criminal seeing the gun, merely hearing it or hearing the owner yell he has one. Very few involves actually shooting a gun.

Studies have consistently shown the conceal carry permittees commit fewer crimes than off duty cops, and conceal carry permittees kill more criminals with fewer side effects than cops.

Anyone who still thinks ordinary people can't be trusted with guns has blinders on.

Comment Re:Anti-JavaScript Rant (Score 1) 107

Programming languages may be sufficiently describable via English, but graphics and GUI's seem to be a different animal. It's hard to treat many features independently such that describing all the possible interactions and potential overlap behavior may be too much for text.

And how does a reference standard make for "inflexible code"?

Comment Re:Humans evolved over time (Score 1) 814

Adam and Eve is a cute story but from a biology standpoint it is quite impossible.

Well, when the alien YHWH created them, they had nanotechnological mechanisms to prevent the inbreeding from becoming a problem. They were passed down generationally until eventually there was a break in the process. This led to the tradition of consuming corpses, to gain their remaining nanobots...

BECAUSE... ALIENS. No, I don't believe any of this stuff, but it would make a cool story. It's more creative than nine tenths of what's coming out of hollywood anyway :p

Comment Re:Its just a dumb idea (Score 1) 814

I agree with you on all points, but a delay is not a reasonable concern because we're just talking about additional safeties at this point. Either the gun fires or it doesn't. That's not going to be a concern until we go to caseless, and even then the gun can still be designed in the same basic way, but with electronic safeties rather than mechanical ones. By the same token, though, I don't want to involve even electricity with anything on my gun except additional targeting systems or other tacticool gadgetry because it's not necessary. It doesn't make any sense until you need a battery in the gun just to fire it.

Comment Re:UN is not the governmemt, its the planet. (Score 1) 275

You have got it precisely. Indeed, there is in fact no need whatsoever for centralized control of anything save perhaps IP address allocation. Each nation ought to be solely responsible for the details of implementation within their borders, and each nation can decide whether it wants to accept traffic directly from each other nation, or whether their citizens will have to do some tunneling (and perhaps break some laws) in order to access those addresses. It's nobody else's business.

Comment Re:Only applies to EU citizens, presumably (Score 1) 153

They make a good deal of their income from advertising and services in the EU; have facilities, offices and data centers there; most have daughter companies in the area.

If those facilities, offices, and data centers are owned by the American company, then perhaps Germany should be looking into laws which permit that instead of trying to make other nations' corporations behave by their laws. You can't even _do_ that in China, you have to partner with a Chinese firm to even have that kind of presence there. If Germany wants that level of control, perhaps they should institute it.

There's no inherent need to permit a foreign corporation to own land and an effective business; force them to incorporate in Germany, in which case they can be regulated. If they haven't already, in which case they can be regulated, and this whole conversation is stupid. But it's stupid anyway, because this is what corporations do, and it makes more sense to control them from that angle.

Comment Re:no, no it won't (Score 1) 719

Do you mean organic? There's not enough nitrogen in the organic cycle to feed the Earth's population on the currently arable land.

That's a load of dingo's kidneys. It has been shown repeatedly that Green Revolution farming does not increase yields. As compared to USDA Organic, which is total fucking bullshit, maybe. The biggest fundamental problem is that we are throwing away poop which should be returned to the fields after composting.

Comment Re:What about new talent? (Score 1) 1501

take into consideration what you could be learning from involving yourself with that community. i've learned many things from assholes; you don't have to agree with their methods, and you certainly don't have to let words from a stranger on the internet mean anything to you. you can choose to get over the delivery and focus on the message.

here's some mostly-on-topic george carlin on speaking directly, and the lack of it in modern america. nsfw, probably, because george carlin.

Comment SchrodingerScript (Score 1) 107

Yes. Where is this grand Wonderland of yours where it all just works (or at least breaks consistently). I wanna go there now!

Current browsers are powered by drunk Schrodinger cats on treadmills.

Or do you think GUI's in general are a hard problem to get right on a mass scale? Most GUI idioms have been around for 20+ years , so it's not like it's a moving target (although portables are stirring things a bit).

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