Whack-kneed
Re:Franky Zapata: Flyboarding Frenchman crosses English Channel
on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @10:54AM (#20625673)
Zapata in an interview after the crossing indicated his invention calls on lots of core muscles, I assume in order to stay on top of the device. So forget about shouldering a gun on that thing.
Re:There is no evil like reCAPTCHA
on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @10:26AM (#20625420)
Recaptchas audio option for the visually impaired (the headphones icon) is relatively very fast compared to clicking store fronts.
Recaptcha will sometimes deny me the audio option, for unspecified reasons which I venture to guess could be challenged in us courts under the ADA (disabilities act.)
Re:Google Discontinues Hangouts on Air
on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @10:16AM (#20625338)
Tutanota.com
Re:Google Discontinues Hangouts on Air
on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @10:15AM (#20625328)
Going one step further you can have an archaic email address using Juno (still laying, not that you asked) or Bigfoot.com (still works but company resold many times)
Re:An F-22 Raptor’s Crumbling Radar Absorbent Skin
on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @11:24AM (#20575143)
Less than you might think.... Drones are (over)priced like jewelry (because they can!)
For example, the drone shot down by Iran last month was valued at 85 mil.
Re:Filling hospitals with art reduces patient stress, anxiety and pain
on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @11:19AM (#20575097)
There are superbeneficial (US-IRS) tax laws that let corps shelter money in fine art. Tax advantage is the prime reason you see fine art hanging in office hallways....
Re:Engineered phages help teenager with antibiotic-resistant infection
on Friday May 10, 2019 @12:24PM (#19879300)
Perhaps not, but the market for industrial antibiotics in everything from cattle-feed to shredded-cheese is huge and begs if not deservesdeserves to be taxed to make page therapy economically feasible.
Unless you have another approach to fighting antibiotic resistant infections.
Re:Diabetes complications soar in US, but not Canada, as teens become ...
on Thursday May 09, 2019 @10:07PM (#19874460)
Big Pharm also gets to deduct it's r+d expenses in full. Name an other private industry with that kind of a crutch....
Re:Malaysia seeks $7.5B in reparations from Goldman Sachs
on Sunday December 23, 2018 @02:38PM (#18747882)
Even the Romans worried. About "who would be there to clean after the janitors"
Time for a financial death penalty: state imposed maximum impoverishment as penalty for such corruptions.
It's GS types only real fear...
Re:Repair cafés waging war on throwaway culture
on Saturday March 17, 2018 @07:26PM (#16609630)
Imagine a marketplace where manufacturers had a duty to fairly disclose their longevity specs to the end user.