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Comment Re:John Hurt (Score 1) 249

1. They're also on Amazon.
2. Really? The ones I've seen are comparable. BluRay is more. And you get them the next morning.
3. And you call yourself a fan. Pshaw.
4. I haven't tried.
5. Don't know if it's identical to the BBC version, but it's definitely not the lame, hacked apart SyFy edit.

Comment Re:How many more? (Score 4, Insightful) 249

It would still be nice for them to actually acknowledge this major point of the Doctor Who universe and do something clever with it. Yes, we know that it's possible for Time Lords to achieve more than 12 regenerations. They gave the Master a whole new set (somehow) at one point. But don't just ignore it and pretend like it's not there. Also, they tacitly acknowledged a regeneration limit when River Song used up all her "remaining" regenerations to save the Doctor's life, and then got angry when he "wasted" regeneration energy (which he can apparently just tap at will now) healing her hand. I understand that they're not just going to dump this cash cow once they reach 13 because of an artificial limit they set like 35 years ago. But at least acknowledge it and do something with it.

Comment Re:How will they be compensated? (Score 1) 382

The police have incentive to cover their asses by saying "bomb" was included in the couple's search history.

And "the couple" can have an incentive to make a sensational story by changing the details, too. Where's the fun in saying "yeah, my husband used his work computer to search for information about pressure cooker bombs, and the police came and talked to us about it because he wasn't even smart enough to clear his browser history when he left the company." Much more fun to leave things out and claim police brutality and NSA wiretapping and Google reporting searches to the feds.

What remains as a question for this "wife searched for pressure cookers to buy one" story is why the wife was using her husband's work computer to do this instead of a personal one.

As for inference, no, I think an explicit statement that the word "bomb" was used precludes calling it an "inference".

Comment Re:John Hurt (Score 2) 249

If they kept us on a nine-month cliffhanger and reveal said crimes to be how he ended the time war (which we've known for years now), so help me, I'm starting the Revolutionary War all over again...

Not much of a cliffhanger. Of course he's some between-eight-and-nine version that ended the time war. The interesting thing will be to find out how he did it. What is the "Moment?" How did it simultaneously destroy both the Timelords and the Daleks? Well, most of the Daleks. Actually, he screwed up the bit about destroying the Daleks pretty bad. How many managed to slip through? Plus like a million hiding in the Void. Plus Davros survived.

Okay, let me start over. Of course he's the one who ended the Time War by destroying the Time Lords and probably at least a majority of the Daleks. The question is, how did he do it? What exactly did he do? What is the "Moment," and how come it worked so well against Time Lords and so poorly against Daleks?

Comment Re:Rupert Grint? (Score 2) 249

She would make an awesome Doctor. And she's ginger. If it's Rupert Grint, I may just have to stop watching. I was willing to give Matt Smith a chance, and he was much better than I had feared, but I'm tired of this race to prepubescence. And while we're talking crazy paradoxes, I actually kind of liked Paul McGann. His TARDIS console room was easily my favorite of all time. If they're not going to give us Catherine Tate, bring back Eight as Twelve. Make it have something to do with the Valeyard if you want. Just give me an actor who doesn't look like he's twelve.

Comment Re:Newer OS, means the shipping manual fails (Score 1) 238

Calendar issue, Not sure, but I'd wager there is a setting like you said using the wrong timezone. there are 300 calendar apps. I use google's and have never had an issue.

If he thinks that Pacific Standard Time is 9 hours off of UTC, then yes, he's using the wrong timezone, and it probably isn't the phone's fault. PST is UTC-8. PDT is UTC-7. He's somewhere out in the Pacific between San Francisco and Hawaii, which means, all wet.

Comment Re:Be constructive (Score 1) 435

Companies don't create jobs, customers do. Customers are created when companies pay employees a living wage. In the long term, everyone suffers in a mindless race to the bottom.

Entrepreneurs & companies create the innovative ideas that allow customers to benefit from voluntary economic transactions with them. Without that innovation ("I should build a store in this location","I'll make a phone with a touchscreen"), the latent desires of the customer can never be fulfilled.

On the other hand, if companies are forced by government not to pay market wages, basic economics shows that leads to either shortages of jobs (if the price is forced to be too high) or requires some kind of non-economic rationing (if the the price is forced to be too low). This applies to jobs, cars, gasoline, etc.

Manipulating the price signal damages economies and leads to less economic production ("deadweight loss") that hurts everyone in the long run.

It may feel nice to believe that wealth can or should be created out of nothing or by fiat by god or government, but in fact wealth is only created by people being able to voluntarily exchange goods and labor in the market.

Even before there were "jobs" or "money", people were voluntarily trading goods to enhance each other's wealth.

Comment Re:2005 Energy Act (Score 1) 233

Keep in mind California has a $3 billion solar subsidy, and there is the $18 billion in incentives for clean and renewable energy technologies and energy efficiency improvements from the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act.

You may want to look at a historical perspective on US energy subsidies.

Since 1950, renewable energy (solar, hydro power, and geothermal) has received the second-largest subsidy - $171 billion (21%), compared to $121 billion (14%) for natural gas, $104 billion (12%) for coal, and $73 billion (9%) for nuclear power.

Earth

A Climate of Violence? 184

Rambo Tribble writes "U.S. researchers have come to the conclusion that a changing climate can drive increased violence in human society. Their findings are to reported in Science (abstract). 'They report a "substantial" correlation between climate and conflict. Their examples include an increase in domestic violence in India during recent droughts, and a spike in assaults, rapes and murders during heatwaves in the U.S. The report also suggests rising temperatures correlated with larger conflicts, including ethnic clashes in Europe and civil wars in Africa.' Marshall Burke, one of the authors, said, 'This is a relationship we observe across time and across all major continents around the world. The relationship we find between these climate variables and conflict outcomes are often very large.' Add this to the developing scarcity of water due to global warming and the prospects for a peaceful future do not bode well."

Comment Re:already passing it (Score 1) 414

> > 2x2 for lowercase. Right. That's 16 possible "characters"
> Correct.

> > with one of those being empty space and 4 of them being single pixels.
> Wow you figured out not every possible combination is -> useful - all on your own? Here is your sticker.

So how does one display 26 letters of the alphabet with only 16 different combinations even possible, many of those being useless?

Ah. It looks like those lower case letters are 3x3, not 2x2.

Comment Re:Refuse the search? (Score 1) 923

If they want to ask you questions, it's up to you but if you have *anything* to hide, I'd recommend you decline.

You may want to watch this video and then take out the part between the commas. It's 48 minutes well spent. tl;dr (or dw) version: Never, ever talk to police. Ever. It can't help you. (Of course, as my .sig says, this isn't legal advice.)

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