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Too bad there's no such thing:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1005120803779

On a different note, I can't help but wonder if Lucas is in poor health

He's pissed off because everyone keeps bitching at him. Nobody liked the Star Wars prequels, nobody liked Indiana Jones 4 (a.k.a. Indiana Jones and the kingdom of just how stupid do they think we are?), and Red Tails. He's declared he's going back to directing art films.

My opinion is that the Star Wars prequels not only showed that Lucas was making it up as he went along for the prequels, but in episodes 4-6 too. All that wondering about why Obi Wan would lie to Luke about Darth Vader killing his father? It's because Lucas pulled it out of his ass because he needed to make another movie after Star Wars was a hit and wanted some sort of continuity and dramatic tension to bring the characters together. Meh, he's still brilliant in terms of special effects, etc., it's just a pity he could never recognize that he should work with someone to get less silly storylines.

... Your now at 202kW, or 271HP. That's probably around 10% of the cruising HP of an actual jetliner...

Looks like you're off by 2-3 orders of magnitude:
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_horsepower_of_one_engine_in_a_Boeing_747
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080124191508AAxnhMi

And NASA's numbers for cruise speed:
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/pao/History/SP-468/ch10-2.htm

So 60K-160K HP, depending on who's counting what.

Betteridge's law of headlines
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states:

  "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no". ...

All it takes to disprove that statement is a headline ending in a question mark that isn't a yes/no question.
Well, technically you can still answer with no but that doesn't make it an appropriate answer.

Consider the following headline: Who Will Win the November Election?
Do you consider "No" to be a reasonable answer to that question?

I like what Yahoo Breakout says.."If I have to start over and learn all over again, why stick with Microsoft?" and they nail it I think, if you have to start over what is the selling point of MSFT over Apple? WinRT don't run legacy,no selling point there, so why should we care?

A New York City police officer was charged on Thursday with conspiring to kidnap, torture, cook and eat women whose names he listed in his computer. In a criminal complaint unsealed in Manhattan federal court, Gilberto Valle III, 28, of Forest Hills, Queens, was charged with conspiring to cross state lines to kidnap the women and with illegally accessing a federal database. The charges carry a maximum sentence of life in prison.

You mean like what they use for MRIs?

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060902235859AAjZ7gx

Bank accounts with high interest rates which hold currencies with high inflation. Not so useful as you'd imagine.

That's a matter of perspective. If you compare the Australian Dollar to the US Dollar, you'll see that with the exception of a big dip in 2009, the two have kept pretty steady exchange rates. I have seen Australian savings accounts paying 8%, which is well above the annual fluctuation of the two currencies against each other.

Ahh...and the good old days before assigned fucking seating....

Hell Yeah! I'd walk over you to see The Who.

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These guys probably are among the best and brightest.

Actually, probably not.

Nagel concluded that democracies rarely or never elect the best leaders. Their advantage over dictatorships or other forms of government is merely that they "effectively prevent lower-than-average candidates from becoming leaders."

Fuck the low res police video. How about the pictures taken by police on the night of the shooting or the doctor notes from the day after? http://gma.yahoo.com/warning-graphic-photo-possible-evidence-shows-george-zimmermans-050145810--abc-news-topstories.html

196 years?

First of all, investing is not the same thing as protecting your investment (savings) against inflation. For 100 years now the Fed is printing currency. Since 1971, the gold link is broken. For more than 40 years now USA is in an inflationary spiral caused by the government creating fake money out of thin air to grow government spending and to try and grow economy, while actually destroying economy with inflation.

Gold, aluminum, etc., these are inflation hedges. You buy these when you do not believe the economy is productive or can be productive based on government actions and you just want to protect yourself against theft.

In 2000 S&P500 was about 13000-14000 and today it's somewhere there as well, same level (set chart to max).

Gold was about 300 in 2000 and today it's about 1730 or so.

In terms of gold S&P lost plenty, 5-6 times. Same with DOW. Bonds were in a long secular bull market for a few decades, but not anymore. Now it's a bubble, it's irrational, people jump into bonds when they are afraid of inflation as well and that's irrational behavior because bonds are paid in those same dollars. As dollars go so do bonds. The only way to protect your money is either to be in very well positioned equities or other assets, such as commodities, monetary metals, etc.

Democratic Society already ignores religion when it is inconvenient, and that is a good thing. Divorce, adultery, abortion, and contraception are all legal, but against pretty much all religions. Ham and Alcohol are against some major ones. What makes you think that there is some form of religion in the laws or government today? When religion becomes wrong because society has changed, the laws follow society, not religion. In court swearing to tell the truth is enough. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080218134708AAgMfKQ. Until 1956, Americans didn't trust God, but eachother: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_God_we_trust

When the market is saying "This is the best company to ever exist!", start selling.

There's a risk to that, too. I did exactly what you describe and sold most of my Apple shares back when I started thinking that investors were overhyping the stock. That was at around $185/share. It seems I missed out on just a little bit of money that way.

The bottom line of the stock market is that professional investors will throw money at anything that is growing its revenues/profit, and run away from anything that's shrinking - regardless of the health of their balance sheet. If you can pick who's going to grow a lot, and who's done growing, then you will do just fine in the stock market. Avoid everything in the middle, since that's wholly unpredictable and more or less just an exercise in chaos theory with some game theory thrown in for fun.

Who said anything about conservative talk radio? The fact is, used car prices are about 50% higher today than they were in 2008. A lot of that is due to the recession, but in a tight market taking even 2% of the volume off the market is going to have a disproportionate effect.

Also consider that that when you factor in the energy it takes to produce a vehicle, it's greener to run an old car into the ground than it is to replace it with a brand new high milage model. These were not clunkers, these were usable vehicles that should have been given to someone who could use them. If you're going to pay people to do useless work (and make no mistake, manufacturing cars to replace the cars they destroyed is useless work), then use tax money to pay people to dig holes and fill them back up. At least that's not bad for the planet. As it is, Cash for Clunkers was nothing more than a hidden tax on vehicles, paid by those who could afford it the least.

Cash for Clunkers was bad for everyone except car dealers. You don't have to be a conservative to see that.

It may be more routine than you think.

Yes, quite OK to shoot a little girl in the head for asking for an education but really bad if you allow someone to post an opinion that someone else might find offensive.

He also apparently tries to sell Nokia's Finnish HQ building, and has sold 500 mobile phone patents for $20 million to an unknown USA company called "Vringo" that used to sell video ringtones but is now focusing on sueing ZTE with Nokia's patents: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/08/idUS97477+08-Oct-2012+HUG20121008. This Vringo previously sued Apple for $700 million (probably with other patents, not Nokia-related), so maybe Vringo rather than Nokia is going to extract <insert_pinky_in_mouth>1 BILLION DOLLARS</extract_pinky> from it.

Hmm... odd. I want to see this mythical Android virus.

Don't worry, sooner or later you'll bump into one.

Sure taxation played a part in pushing for independence but it eventually took a war to force the issue.

And what was the motive for the Revolutionary War? It pretty much boils down to onerous taxes and trade monopolies. Those existed pretty much because of the numerous wars that England was involved in. At the rate of growth of the American colonies, they would have revolted successfully sooner or later.

It's worth noting, for example, that what became the US had something like 2.5 million residents compared to 7 million residents in England in 1776. I gather that while England had a tremendous population growth rate at the time, the US was growing much more rapidly due to massive immigration (same link claims 9 million in England and 5 million in the new US in 1800).

England just didn't have infinite amounts of power to contain a rapidly growing colony (with a slight edge in military technology!).

More seriously, though, China has its own spy satellites and certainly has detailed aerial imagery of Taiwan probably in excess of the quality available to commercial imaging satellites. This information being known to the public isn't really going to change anything -- it's not like the average person is going to be able to do anything to a radar installation on a military base.

You don't say?
How about an above average militant?

There is quite a leap from protester (or militant) with access to low resolution imagery and state military with access to state-launched spy satellite high resolution imagery. For instance, the state military is unlikely to launch an attack unless the leadership of that country has decided instigate a de facto war. The "average person," on the other hand, has little other means for obtaining details concerning internal security fences, obscured lines of sight, illuminated and non-illuminated areas, etc. The sort of information that you'd need to plan an infiltration in advance.

There is quite a difference, but you either fail to appreciate it or do not care. Military personnel both appreciate the difference and care. Most people with a passing knowledge of military history apprecite the difference and care.

So... no.

This should be old news to well...everyone. They also have no shortage of links to domestic terrorist groups, also shown on Bullshit! but there's also a pile of links on it available.

Well you know what they say about slippery slop arguments

It's not invalid because it's a "slippery slope". Don't be stupid.

Fun fact, we've already slid down that slope! Both peanuts and perfume have been the subject of bans and, in the case of perfume, petitions and vocal protests -- complete with signs, chants, and picketers in gas masks. There's a whole anti-perfume movement!

Peanut examples:
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26124593/ns/today-back_to_school/t/schools-peanut-bans-spark-backlash/
http://parentables.howstuffworks.com/health-wellness/schools-banning-peanuts.html

Perfume examples:
http://shine.yahoo.com/beauty/perfume-ban-hampshire-state-explains-why-193100759.html
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-07-02/fragance-ban-allergies/55988704/1

Peanuts do not jump right off your clothes and affect those around you,

In a way they can. Imagine peanut oil from some greasy fingers finding it's way around the office -- that can actually kill someone.

Contrast the smell of tobacco smoke on clothes -- that won't harm anyone beyond a mild annoyance. Perfume comes off in higher concentrations and, yes, does cause harm.

So according to your logic getting drunk during lunch should be allowed on the job?

No. Where did you get that?
I'm starting to think that you're just an anti-smoking zealot, and not someone interested in a legitimate discussion. I have no time for zealots.

The total US debt is much higher than 50K per person.

50K per person is only tip of the iceberg, that's just the outstanding public debt. However this does not include the 222Trillion USD of unfunded liabilities.

16Trillion / 300 Million is about 53K, that's true.

However another 222Trillion / 300 Million is another 740,000 in debt per person. Now, those are obligations that include SS and Medicare and various other pensions.

But this doesn't even include all the mortgage guarantees and all the student loan guarantees that the government makes! How about all the bank guarantees? FDIC? If everything is counted in, that's all sorts of money that the government promises to pay in case things go South, and that's all kinds of money that government does not have. There are no assets like that, there is no tax revenue that can cover that either.

In USA the federal taxes cover what, 2.4 Trillion of spending a year? That's just over half the spending, which is 3.8 Trillion (also, not counting various other off-budget items). Oh, and the States and municipalities and counties are fighting for the same tax payers' revenue. The real debt in USA per capita is ridiculous and can never be repaid.

Funny that this appears one day after Josh drops a popup in the season finale and missed some games earlier blaming caffeine.
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/josh-hamilton-rangers-blame-vision-problems-too-much-215150810--mlb.html

But the iPhone 5 has huge scratch problems all over the back of the phone, especially compared to the iPhone 4, this has been widely reported, even on arrival of the product. Every other manufacturer did the smart thing as far as the actual camera lens is concerned, and recessed it so it couldn't be scratched. Not to mention even if the iPhone 4 has a similar problem it is far less visible. E.G http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/apple-says-iphone-5-scratches-normal-aluminum-products-222413716.html http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/apple/schiller-says-iphone-5-scratches-are-normal-as-light-leaks-reported-1099691 http://www.extremetech.com/electronics/136835-apple-responds-to-iphone-5-scuffgate-scratches-and-chips-are-normal http://www.metro.co.uk/tech/913150-iphone-5-users-complain-about-scratched-phones http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/24/3381462/iphone-5-scuff-damage-aluminum That enough evidence, or are you saying you would rather a scratched case with a clear lens than no scratches at all (as on the iPhone 4)

So slashdot was sold to Andover.net on n June 29, 1999 for $1.5 million in cash and $7 million in Andover stock at the IPO price (see ultra depressing GeekNet stock chart)

Winamp was sold to AOL on June 1999, for $80m.

With CmdrTaco's bitterness, I can't help but see this quote apply from Justin Frankel (founder of Winamp and later gnutella):

"For me, coding is a form of self-expression. The company controls the most effective means of self-expression I have. This is unacceptable to me as an individual, therefore I must leave." - from a blog posting announcing his resignation from AOL

Cmdr, you should sit down with Justin and compare notes...

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=FIO+Major+Holders

I'd love to be able to invest in a venture with which you are associated but I can't tell if they are giving you adequate compensation...

3. Your example about "OMG EBIL REPUBS ARE TEARING UP REGISTRATIONS!!11! " is from 2 YEARS AGO.

Here's one from right now.

The pricing is set to create excellent profit margins.

Streaming 100 different DVDs to 100 different people was already ruled illegal.

http://news.yahoo.com/zediva-permanently-shut-down-forced-pay-mpaa-nearly-042405420.html
http://www.wired.com/business/2011/08/zediva-shuts-down/

It would be ironic for a proper new organization.

Fox News Climate Coverage 93% Wrong, Report Finds

Uh oh, Fox fanbois runnin' around with mod points...

It would be ironic for a proper new organization.

Fox News Climate Coverage 93% Wrong, Report Finds

Yes, it does.

And we all know how highly accurate slashdot summaries are.

After doing a little looking this is what Obama has said regarding this incident.

http://news.yahoo.com/obama-condemns-violence-tied-anti-muslim-film-145204587--election.html

President Barack Obama is condemning an anti-Muslim film and the violence in the Middle East that has followed its release, saying there is "no speech that justifies mindless violence."

Obama says in a speech Tuesday before the U.N. General Assembly that "there are no words that excuse the killing of innocent" and "no video that justifies an attack on an embassy."

Obama says the video "is an insult not only to Muslims, but to America as well."

The president was speaking in the aftermath of violent protests in the Middle East and North Africa connected to the release of an anti-Muslim video produced in the United States.

Now for whatever reason the group think seems to be that Obama is doing his best to prosecute this without actually prosecuting this. That is complete bullshit, just look at that asshole preacher who got a bunch of innocent people killed by burning a koran, do you see his ass in jail? Btw, that pastor is doing his best to inflame this issue also.

It is quibbling over meaning, but:

http://news.yahoo.com/woman-survives-rare-internal-decapitation-203608311.html

FYI, your "fact" that "the only growing sector of the economy is government" Is utter bullshit.

- it is a fact. The government is spending more money than any company, the government has more employees than any company, the government has more contractors than any company, the government is entangled in more businesses than any company.

Government should be vilified, every pay raise anybody in government gets is a pay cut for people in the private sector, because they are paying for those pay raises with taxes paid out of actual production.

Government today is nearly half of the US economy, government is crowding out ALL of the credit and prevents borrowing for private businesses. Actually it's not only a USA problem, it's a problem around the world. Nobody can get a business loan while governments are in more debt than ever. Just the federal government in USA has 16 Trillion debt on the books. 222Trillion in debt is in unfunded liabilities.

Well let's see: On his visit to Israel, he made disparaging remarks about the Palestinians. If he were to become President that's not exactly a way to get them to a bargaining table. As for Syria, I meant Libya where (on 9/11) he launched a critique of the President after it was learned the the Libyan ambassador had been killed. Even other Republicans were telling him to keep shut up during a national tragedy.

Here's why you and Romney misunderstand simple facts. 47% (or 46% according to the independent accounts) of American household pay no federal income tax. 49% of Americans receive some sort of government assistance (like Social Security and welfare). These are not the same groups of people. Confusing the two as a candidate shows a lack of knowledge over important details.

For the 47%, the main groups in this category are (1) elderly, (2) working poor, (3) households with children with income credits, and (4) soldiers who receive combat pay. There are other groups but these four comprise more than 75% of the 47%. Romney stated these groups pay no taxes which is untrue. They pay federal payroll taxes, state and local income taxes, and state and local sales taxes. These groups are exempt mostly because of tax initiatives by Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. The motivation behind removing these groups from taxation was that they simply don't make enough and that taxing them would lead to more poverty. According to some estimates, the a majority of people who are exempt are conservatives so Romney insulted his base.

But of course this nuanced understanding is beyond the knee jerk reaction of Romney and you. As for the 49%, a large number of those are the elderly on Social Security, Medicaid. A large chunk is Medicare. That number also includes groups like farmers who receive subsidies. They are not the welfare group that you and Romney think they are. That number is about 24% if you include children.

Please include any numbers or facts you have instead of misconceptions that you are spouting.

Those aren't Superchargers though. So it's going to take substantially longer than 30minutes to charge your EV.

Looking at this

http://www.greenretaildecisions.com/news/2011/12/01/walmart-to-install-ev-charging-stations-

All participating Walmart stores will have two Blink Pedestal chargers installed, except one store in Oregon that will install a Blink DC Fast Charger. The Walmart locations were selected based on the EV Micro-Climate process, which takes into account traffic patterns, regional attractions, transportation hubs, guidance from Walmart and input from regional partners.

http://www.blinknetwork.com/brochures/l2-pedestal-charger/page02.html

Input Voltage 208 VAC to 240 VAC +/- 10%

Input Phase Single

Frequency 50/60 Hz

Input Current 30 Amps (maximum); 12A, 16A, 24A available

So this is a 240V*30A = 7kW charger.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-motors-launches-revolutionary-supercharger-032000226.html

The Supercharger is substantially more powerful than any charging technology to date, providing almost 100 kilowatts of power to the Model S, with the potential to go as high as 120 kilowatts in the future. This can replenish three hours of driving at 60 mph in about half an hour, which is the convenience inflection point for travelers at a highway rest stop. Most people who begin a road trip at 9:00 a.m. would normally stop by noon to have lunch, refresh and pick up a coffee or soda for the road, all of which takes about 30 minutes.

Now a 100kW charger can charge a car in 30 minutes or half an hour. So a 7kW charger can do it in 100/7*0.5 7 hours.

Fancy hanging around Walmart for 7 hours?

http://www.greenretaildecisions.com/news/2011/12/01/walmart-to-install-ev-charging-stations-

The EV Project is a public-private partnership, funded in part by the U.S. Department of Energy through a federal stimulus grant made possible by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

Sounds like the taxpayer ended up paying for infrastructure no one is going to use.

Actually the Blink Fast Charger would have been a better bet.

http://www.blinknetwork.com/brochures/dc-fast-charger/page02.html

60 kW Max (Setting Adjustable 30kW - 60 kW)

So you'd charge in 100/60*0.5=0.83 hours or 50 minutes. Then again I'm not sure I'd fancy hanging around Walmart for an hour while my car charges. And if people leave their cars charging while they get lunch, isn't that going to lead to queue?

I could see exchanging batteries working. But how do I know I'm not going to swap a brand new battery worth tens of thousands of dollars (Tesla won't even cite a replacement price) - for one which is worn out?

Exchanging 60kWh batteries is like swapping a $30K (based on âTesla ostensibly charges $10,000 for 20 kWh of capacity' from here) vehicle with a stranger and trusting them not to give you a knackered one.

— Android (Google Inc.) — 104.8 million units, 68.1 percent share (46.9 percent a year earlier) — iOS (Apple Inc.'s iPhone) — 26.0 million units, 16.9 percent share (18.8 percent a year earlier) — BlackBerry (Research in Motion Ltd.) — 7.4 million units, 4.8 percent share (11.5 percent a year earlier) — Symbian (mostly used by Nokia Corp.) — 6.8 million units, 4.4 percent share (16.9 percent a year earlier) — Windows (Microsoft Corp.) — 5.4 million units, 3.5 percent share (2.3 percent a year earlier) — Linux — 3.5 million units, 2.3 percent share (3.0 percent a year earlier) — Others — 0.1 million units, 0.1 percent share (0.5 percent a year earlier)

Yeah....

There will be tweets (or weibos as the case may be), until the government gets around to blocking them. For example this one and these.

It's pretty clear that this wasn't just a little fight, but it seems to be under control at this point. The cops were out in force, and there appear to have been military personnel on the scene as well.

As memory serves McAfee did this about 8-10 years ago with an update.

Try 2 years ago. Months later, Intel announced that they were acquiring McAfee.

http://m.yahoo.com/w/legobpengine/news/calif-man-arrested-espn-post-killing-kids-193325522.html

Right in the middle of the article: "The online post on ESPN said that a shooting would be like the one in Aurora, Colo., where 12 people were killed and 58 were injured in July, authorities said."

That's not a comment on business practices - that's a threat.

That's what just makes me gasp in the stupidity of the "authorities" acting that way on this matter: "The online post on ESPN said that a shooting would be like the one in Aurora, Colo., where 12 people were killed and 58 were injured in July, authorities said."

Wait, wait, wait a second here. There's a big difference between someone saying "my shooting will be like the one.... etc etc" and "a shooting will be like the one... etc etc."

It looks to me like a predictive statement regarding the future actions of others. I make predictive statements all the time and not once has anyone suffered from receiving the statement. BECAUSE IT'S THIRD-PERSON FUTURE TENSE, not first or second party anything.

Now, if the quote above isn't direct and unedited, then I didn't say anything. :)

Right in the middle of the article: "The online post on ESPN said that a shooting would be like the one in Aurora, Colo., where 12 people were killed and 58 were injured in July, authorities said."

That's not a comment on business practices - that's a threat.

Correct link http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/post/california-man-arrested-for-threats-made-in-espn-com-comments?urn=top,wp583

"Without technology providing additional food, or transport from farms to tables, I believe the balance point for hunter-gatherers or subsistence agriculture has already been exceeded."

I agree that human population now likely exceeds the capacity for traditional hunter/gatherer lifestyles (maybe by several times). Increasing population density leading to more structured bureaucratic militarized societies is probably a big reason most hunter/gatherer societies were lost (attacked or assimilated or pushed away onto marginal lands to fade away). But that does not invalidate the truths that according to Marshall Sahlins hunter/gatherers had *more* free time than most of us today, and what work they did was very self-directed, often more like professional work of today.

Most (95%?) of the labor hours expended today in the USA tend to be about guarding, engaging in non-productive make-work, or is just destructive or competitively wasteful, or is trying to compensate for the other ills of the society from the previous problems. For example, most heart surgery is apparently worse than useless according to Dr. Joel Fuhrman:
http://www.drfuhrman.com/library/PCI_angioplasty_article.aspx
Most schooling is harming kids according to John Taylor Gatto:
http://www.newciv.org/whole/schoolteacher.txt
Most farming (mainly for animal product production) is killing us and destroying our land:
http://www.ravediet.com/reviews.html
http://www.westernwatersheds.org/watmess/watmess_2002/2002html_summer/article6.htm
Much policing related to drug laws is destroying our communities:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States
Most of US military use is making us less safe:
http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/our-work/law-and-security/torture-on-tv/less-safe/
http://www.cato.org/store/books/power-problem-how-american-military-dominance-makes-us-less-safe-less-prosperous-less-free-har
Most computer software development is unneeded; for example IBM had a perfectly good in-house Forth they could have used as a command line interpreter rather than pay Bill Gated for MS-DOS which he bought from someone else. Most Wall Street computerized trading is of little-to-negative social value (just high stakes zero-sum horse racing and putting the whole unregulated derivatives system at risk of systemic collapse).
Most college degrees are not worth it either economically or educationally:
http://shine.yahoo.com/work-money/why-college-may-not-worth-133900551.html
I could go on... And on.. And on...
http://www.kurtz-fernhout.com/oscomak/AchievingAStarTrekSociety.html

So, figure out a way that we can stop doing all that 95%+ of excess wasteful labor, and we then would indeed have free time, and our collective standard of living would go up. But then how would people be able to afford to buy food and pay rent? (Thus a basic income or other alternatives become needed...)

My point is not that hunter/gather low-tech is better than high-tech. It is that both our current high-tech existence and our historical low-tech existence have different good and bad points. There are many forms of technology, too, (e.e.g the "appropriate technology" idea) so even high-tech and low-tech is a crude distinction when we are talking about com