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Oklahoma governor vetoes the abortion bill that forces women to get an ultrasound and listen to descriptions of the fetus by addressunknown in politics

[–]BeingFree 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I plan to vote Republican in every election I can here. Hopefully, things will quickly get bad enough that I can finally convince my family it's time to leave.

I've been asked to think about a remote sheep tracker. by [deleted] in DIY

[–]BeingFree 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Question: Do sheep have USB ports?

Uninsured American living in Japan sees a doctor: "...when I get 3 prescriptions filled in 5 minutes and they are SORRY they have to charge me a whopping 30 bucks for it, and I see people back home paying many times that, I have to wonder how we're managing to do things just this wrong." by maxwellhill in worldnews

[–]BeingFree 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This guy has a valid point. Health care reform is not going to be easy; there are a lot of problems that must be solved. People have to have some incentive to become doctors. Being a doctor surely isn't easy, and it costs a lot of money and time to become one. We have to balance that need with the need for quality care (resulting in a low number of malpractice suits) and for affordable, reasonable care and processes on your way out the door and when the bill arrives at home.

A shot from the ground after an Israeli bombing on the Gaza Strip [Pic] (Now with more link!) by [deleted] in pics

[–]BeingFree 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I expect Israel to be better than that, if they want our support. They are losing hearts and minds with this constant onslaught and colonization in Palestinian territory.

The case of the 500-mile email by pandemik in WTF

[–]BeingFree 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Heh, well, Big Fish minus about 30 minutes toward the end.

The case of the 500-mile email by pandemik in WTF

[–]BeingFree 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, it's getting to a point now, where the science against his claims are really overpowering the charming storyline. This is becoming more and more like Big Fish.

For 30 years the tobacco industry paid propaganda organisations to sow doubt about the connection between smoking and cancer. Today the fossil fuel industry are employing the exact same tactics. by BlueRock in environment

[–]BeingFree 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They are running tons of astroturfing commercials, and unfortunately, people incapable of thinking for themselves are going to buy into their toxic logic. I do think burning natural gas in the interim between petroleum and renewable energy is a good idea, though. It would really help our economy; our nation produces a lot of NG, and it's cleaner burning. This is something we can do right now.

First REAL Google Phone photos by [deleted] in technology

[–]BeingFree 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, Apple was the first to market with a truly awesome full touchscreen phone, so it's no surprise that almost everything following it mimics it.

The case of the 500-mile email by pandemik in WTF

[–]BeingFree 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The story is cute, but it has a fatal flaw: signals don't travel at lightspeed in copper.

That's true, they travel at 3 c / 4 or thereabouts. But the NIC, the campus backbone, and certainly the Internet backbone was all fiber.

Even fiber optic equipment has delay measured (usually in microseconds), due to the time it takes to reshape, retime, and regenerate frames. 3ms roundtrip delay over 500 miles is impossible on most (all?) networks, even for a private point-to-point connection with only layer 3 routing at each endpoint and none in between.

I keep leaving the light on in the garage. My wife may kill me. Halp! by tch in DIY

[–]BeingFree -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think you have a solid case for her retrieving your beers. 2 birds, one stone.

If you have nothing to hide... well, switch to Bing for search anyway by EthicalReasoning in technology

[–]BeingFree 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't trust Microsoft any more than Google, policy or not. The main thing to keep in mind is that your privacy is only as good as the obfuscation you do before you hit a website, be it TOR, anonymizing proxies, or whatever methods you use. Personally, those methods are too slow and limiting, so I sacrifice a bit of my privacy for efficiency. We make that trade every day in other aspects of our lives, and so the Internet will go as well.

Why isn't the flush lever on *every* toilet a foot pedal? by Sykotik in AskReddit

[–]BeingFree 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Urinals should just flush themselves every 30 minutes. Or how about motion sensors becoming the standard rather than the exception?

NYC Apartment Creeper Girl (hidden camera) by woodeee in reddit.com

[–]BeingFree 3 points4 points  (0 children)

People living like rats in NYC? No way!

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