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Comment Re:I support the guy (Score 1) 237

I would say the Declaration of Independence is the most important document in the USA and one of the most important in the world.

The Constitution...not so much. It has a fundamentally broken structure and format which has led directly to our current quagmire. It lays out numerous legal directives which MAY be done and which MAY NOT be done. That format is a recipe for disaster.

Essentially the MAYs and MAY NOTs have been arguing for generations over the intended meaning and each ruling has made things worse.

Stupid example: When you take your car in for service do you tell the mechanics what they CAN do or what they CAN'T do?

Implementing a 'CAN' Constitution would negate the need for most of the original Amendments and could move the 10th into 1st place.

Comment Re:Equifax settled for more than $575 million (Score 5, Insightful) 165

I would sign up for this in a nano second...:) I have a saying I like to use in these situations:

I am not a victim of identity theft. You are a victim of fraud.

The term 'Identity Theft' is some ridiculous fabrication created by politicians and corporations so they can shift the blame for fraud from themselves to the general public.

Comment Re:Yep. Options for Linux if your Windows is a VM (Score 1) 30

I use BackupPC running on a FreeBSD box with ZFS for all my backup needs. Each client gets rsync setup as a service and gets backed up daily. I use cygwin for Windows clients but the configuration is pretty standard from client to client.

I have a separate FreeBSD box for off-site backups and stream ZFS snapshots from the BackupPC machine weekly. The whole setup has a few manual steps but that keeps me connected to the process and more likely to catch any problems before they get out of control.

Comment SkyTran would be pretty cheap... (Score 1) 463

compared to all the alternatives. Also, self driving cars don't really solve our transportation problems. Your still stuck with too many cars on too few roads...roads which are in poor condition along with their bridges.

Cars are not very efficient when considering the personal transportation equation. Do you really want to 'ship' 1000s of pounds of plastic/steel/rubber everywhere your 200 pounds of flesh wants to go?

Imagine if CA canceled their stupid bullet train project and dumped a fraction of the money into a SkyTran system for LA/SD/SF. The potential is huge but it needs a billionaire champion or something to get it going...:)

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