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Comment Re:Reality (Score -1) 235

Last couple of hundred years? The first maritime chart showing the name "The Great Gulf of Mexico" was a British map from 1700. Here are some of the names that were used for that body of water: Sea of the North (Mar del Norte) – Used by Hernán Cortés in the 1500s. Gulf of Florida (Golfo de Florida) – Used by Spanish explorers. Gulf of Cortés (Golfo de Cortés) – Possibly honoring Hernán Cortés. Gulf of St. Michael (Sinus S. Michaelis) – Found on some Latin maps. Gulf of Yucatán (Golfo de Iucatan) Yucatán Sea (Mare Iuchatanicum) – Referencing the Yucatán Peninsula. Great Antillean Gulf (Sinus Magnus Antillarum) – A broader Caribbean name. Cathayan Sea (Mare Cathaynum) Gulf of New Spain (Golfo de Nueva España) – Reflecting Spanish control. Great Bay of Mexico – Used on English maps from 1700. The name is colloquially used since 1900's. That is barely ONE hundred years. As all leftists you don't know your facts.

Comment Wikipedia is woke (Score -1) 235

I stopped using Wikipedia long time ago. And I stopped sending money to Wikipedia even longer ago. Wikipedia has stupid things like this: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F... It's Wokepedia, not Wikipedia. If Musk manages to create something good, I'll gladly switch. He did a good thing with Twitter. For almost a decade I've been sending $50/year to Wikipedia. I stopped 8 years ago when I checked pages about white privilege and trans stuff like this: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F... I am sorry, but trans women are men. Trans women are deluded men. Leftists will have to debate the issues, not just put them in Wokepedia.

Comment Re:Exploded? From what? (Score 1) 95

What is in a commercial communications satellite that can go so badly it will explode and send 20+ chunks of debris in all directions?

I'm going with hypergolic rocket fuel for station keeping and enough lithium ion batteries to keep it powered through maximum eclipse duration of around 72 minutes, especially when either of the above is hit by a micro-meteor.

Comment Re:Misinformation/Censorship (Score -1) 217

Policing by other users is an invention that was brought to /. by the leftist idiot who calls himself "Cowboy Neal". I know this because he was kind enough to brag about that on Slashdot. The net result is that I no longer visit, except very occasionally, and always with ad block on, so that they don't get to profit from my visit. Slashdot is a cesspool of boring leftists, hardly anything here worth attention. Good riddance!

Comment Less a privacy, and more a security issue (Score 1) 124

Government is after these companies for encryption, which the companies claim it is about privacy. But this really should be about security. By using these services, you are nearly guaranteed that end user is who they say. What is needed is for governments to hand out a packet of vetted digital certificates and then use these in various services/applications.

Comment Google needs to split into 2 groups (Score 1) 143

China is pushing massive amounts of effort on AI for industry and military. Doing this should not be an issue. However, these ppl are likely to be a detriment to this. So best thing would be to do a NASA/USAF kind of thing. Split the group into 2 with those that fighting military involvement and put them in a group devoted to industry, pure development while other group continues to do pure development but in all areas including military. For this 2nd group, put in ppl with security clearance.

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