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You fucking ignorant Chritopher Dale Reimer, shell script are not written in python you dumb fool!

Creimy Dumpty sat on the wall,
Creimy Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses
And all the king's men
Couldn't put Creimy Dumpty
Together again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Guy who thinks he can write shell scripts in python:
https://school.discoveryeducat...

And his chair, of course:
http://www.keynamics.com/image...

Yep, as long as the Irish aren't allowed...

Often to look for untoward influence you look for subtleties in the message. The very notable one, straight off the cuff "The International Trade Commission" vs the reality "United States International Trade Commission" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., straight away smell a rat in that difference. So what is really going on in https://www.youtube.com/watch?... a country that has declared it wants to be globally energy dominant, a truly sick goal. Well, I guess solar panels must be evil until such time as US corporations are allowed to block the sun and sell access to it, to ensure US energy dominance of the Sun. This is nothing more than another story about protecting fossil fuel profit margins. The more expensive solar panels are, the higher fossil fuel prices can be pushed and this in conjunction with the US trying to force through corrupt sanctions to shut down competing fossil fuel countries to drive up the price.

Upgrade the firmware from 4,1 to 5,1 -- it's unsupported by Apple, but it convinces the 2009 mac pro that it's a 2010 mac pro, and can accept High Sierra.

http://appleinsider.com/articl...
https://arstechnica.com/gadget...
how-to video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Hope this helps.

Hey Creimy-Dumpty!

How did that transition feel?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

No transition occurs here:
https://school.discoveryeducat...

About when you transitioned to your adult chair?:
http://www.keynamics.com/image...

The government just *LOVES* to buy votes. You know what also negatively impacts government revenues? Tax deductions on electric and natural gas cars. Why do you suppose those were ever created? Any tax deduction negatively impacts tax revenues. That includes deductions for children, mortgages, education loans, and on and on. The government deducts taxes on things they want you to do, like buy solar panels. It's how the government effectively pays people to do things it wants people to do. The government wants people to have kids, get an education, and buy a house. They also want people to get solar panels.

You're operating under the false pretense that gov't has your best interests in mind. They don't. They have THEIR bests interests in mind. Kids are future tax revenue generators. Mortgage and student loan payments force you to seek full employment, generating income and fuel tax revenues.

You got one thing right though, gov't loves to buy votes. If they can create the IMPRESSION that they are trying to help you with a TAX DEDUCTION, but meanwhile undermine you with bureaucracy and hidden PRICE INFLATING, then they can buy your vote without actually helping you at all.

Prior to 2010, solar panels were so expensive that few people would even consider buying. The tax deduction bought votes, but didn't negatively impact tax revenues because nobody used it.

When the prices of solar panels suddenly started dropping like a rock after 2010, the gov't quickly stepped in with import duties on solar panels and permitting regulations to prevent people from adopting them en masse. Meanwhile, they still CLAIM to be helping you with a tax deduction while artificially inflating the price!

A tax deduction only helps if you have significant income tax bills in the first place. By propping up the purchase price (tariffs) and installation costs (permitting) of solar panels, the gov't makes solar electricity less available to people who don't have significant income - people who might be interested in solar. Meanwhile, many high income folks don't care about the cost of their monthly electric bill and won't bother with installing solar panels!

It's quite devious what the gov't has done here. I don't blame you for falling for their Jedi mind trick.

Think about what a portable gasoline generator is used for. I emphasize "portable" because that's the kind you are going to pick up at a big box store, as opposed to a stationary one that would be a special order item that's not stocked on a shelf. A portable generator is very useful because it is portable. It can be put on the back of a truck or on a trailer and brought just about anywhere.

Much the same could be said for solar panels. Only they don't make any noise, don't require engine maintenance, don't require continuous fuel purchases, and don't have any nasty exhaust to breathe while working under them.

My 5KW array generates electricity on cloudy days. It's not as much electricity on such days, but it's still usable energy.

The reason you can't just stop at a big box store and get a truckload of solar panels is the same reason you cannot just stop at a big box store and get a truckload of shingles. Neither are a high volume item.

Uh, say what? I've never had a problem walking into Home Depot and picking up a pile of roofing shingles. They've got TONS of that. No solar panels though.

A bit of searching the internet tells me that a 5kW solar panel system will take up about 500 square feet, weigh about a half ton, and cost about $20,000.

And it would cost much less than half that if the gov't wasn't manipulating things with import duties and regulations.

Do a little more searching and price out that system if you could do the installation yourself (bypassing the permit requirements and fees) and purchase panels at world market prices outside of the US solar panel import tariffs. The gov't is NOT helping.

The government just *LOVES* to buy votes. You know what also negatively impacts government revenues? Tax deductions on electric and natural gas cars. Why do you suppose those were ever created? Any tax deduction negatively impacts tax revenues. That includes deductions for children, mortgages, education loans, and on and on. The government deducts taxes on things they want you to do, like buy solar panels. It's how the government effectively pays people to do things it wants people to do. The government wants people to have kids, get an education, and buy a house. They also want people to get solar panels.

You're operating under the false pretense that gov't has your best interests in mind. They don't. They have THEIR bests interests in mind. Kids are future tax revenue generators. Mortgage and student loan payments force you to seek full employment, generating income and fuel tax revenues.

You got one thing right though, gov't loves to buy votes. If they can create the IMPRESSION that they are trying to help you with a TAX DEDUCTION, but meanwhile undermine you with bureaucracy and hidden PRICE INFLATING, then they can buy your vote without actually helping you at all.

Prior to 2010, solar panels were so expensive that few people would even consider buying. The tax deduction bought votes, but didn't negatively impact tax revenues because nobody used it.

When the prices of solar panels suddenly started dropping like a rock after 2010, the gov't quickly stepped in with import duties on solar panels and permitting regulations to prevent people from adopting them en masse. Meanwhile, they still CLAIM to be helping you with a tax deduction while artificially inflating the price!

A tax deduction only helps if you have significant income tax bills in the first place. By propping up the purchase price (tariffs) and installation costs (permitting) of solar panels, the gov't makes solar electricity less available to people who don't have significant income - people who might be interested in solar. Meanwhile, many high income folks don't care about the cost of their monthly electric bill and won't bother with installing solar panels!

It's quite devious what the gov't has done here. I don't blame you for falling for their Jedi mind trick.

Think about what a portable gasoline generator is used for. I emphasize "portable" because that's the kind you are going to pick up at a big box store, as opposed to a stationary one that would be a special order item that's not stocked on a shelf. A portable generator is very useful because it is portable. It can be put on the back of a truck or on a trailer and brought just about anywhere.

Much the same could be said for solar panels. Only they don't make any noise, don't require engine maintenance, don't require continuous fuel purchases, and don't have any nasty exhaust to breathe while working under them.

My 5KW array generates electricity on cloudy days. It's not as much electricity on such days, but it's still usable energy.

The reason you can't just stop at a big box store and get a truckload of solar panels is the same reason you cannot just stop at a big box store and get a truckload of shingles. Neither are a high volume item.

Uh, say what? I've never had a problem walking into Home Depot and picking up a pile of roofing shingles. They've got TONS of that. No solar panels though.

A bit of searching the internet tells me that a 5kW solar panel system will take up about 500 square feet, weigh about a half ton, and cost about $20,000.

And it would cost much less than half that if the gov't wasn't manipulating things with import duties and regulations.

Do a little more searching and price out that system if you could do the installation yourself (bypassing the permit requirements and fees) and purchase panels at world market prices outside of the US solar panel import tariffs. The gov't is NOT helping.

Perhaps now we can start teaching students about Tau (2Pi) and replacing Pi in our math texts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Bottled Life - Nestlé's Business with Water (English with some German commentary, YT auto-translate of subtitles may help)

This docu is about Nestlé's bottled water operations in (mostly) poor countries. But with some parts about this subject as well - taking a public resource & selling that for profit.

Taking a "public" resource then filtering the fuck out of it then putting back in a measured amount of specific needed minerals then sealing it tight from contamination then shipping it near me.

They are providing exactly the service for pay that they claim to, and it is very much worth it. If not them then I would pay someone else for that service. What is wrong with you people?

Look at the teardown videos of their competitors. For example the 2015 Blackberry Priv, has a curved screen with display to the edge, wireless Qi charging, magnetometer, gyro, gps, barometer, QWERTY slide-out keyboard.., The teardown to replace the battery takes about 1 minute. Pulling out the main board keyboard, and everything until you get to the screen, another 5. But then the tech mentions that it is also possible to replace the curved screen from the front in about 5 minutes. And compared to cars, appliances, commercial technology, home entertainment systems, sewing machings, my 1999 Pismo... the Priv isn't easily repairable.

Apple simply chooses planned obsolescence over serviceability. And so I've chosen not to buy into their environmentally wasteful products.

Ha ha creimer!

You see what happens when you talk against the King, his horses and his men.

They, and all the 3 letter agencies your little mind might be able to imagine will let you down.

That's exactly the story in this video that I just uploaded to my Isuck:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

All you care about is yourself:
https://school.discoveryeducat...

And your chair, of course:
http://www.keynamics.com/image...

He lucked into a field, going from phone phreaking (an occupation that was illegal but made up for it by not paying well) to making premade computers.

He was well aware of that, too:

I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time historically, where this invention has taken form.

Pinky and the Brain? For a minute, I thought you meant Yarp.

No creimer, the GP is right!

We all know that you don't even care about your siblings nor about your girlfriend:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

All you care about is yourself:
https://school.discoveryeducat...

And your chair, of course:
http://www.keynamics.com/image...

Video Game B-Roll by My Life in Gaming have been doing this for over a year and have almost 50 full promo videos on YouTube, in HD, with no commentary: https://www.youtube.com/user/V...

H1-Bees?

WE'RE BREAKING THE CONDITIONING!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Byte magazine? Here is something better, there is 2 more than in a byte as a bonus just for you. Just like bits and yourself, they only have two possible states, bragging and broken:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

https://school.discoveryeducat...

You are so dumb creimer!

Anyway, don't forget to put that video as well on your useless iPad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

As well, this picture:
https://school.discoveryeducat...

Campaign contributions from corporations are illegal; however, you're quite right they can buy influence. They can pay full-time lobbyists to represent themselves. They can legally own PACs which, so long as they don't coordinate with any campaign committee, can do whatever they want--and the corporation can put as much money as it wants into a PAC it owns.

Using the right terms there, chief.

I'd love to see political lobbyists outlawed, period. There's no reason someone should get paid just to try to win a politician's favor on an issue when that's the job of the voting public to decide.

It'd be a hard thing to ban without causing a lot of downstream damage. Beyond that, individual citizens aren't very good at getting their ideas organized, and so communication doesn't exactly happen.

I wonder if there's a way to fix that. I'm starting to realize that the broad masses can tell me what hurts, but can't tell me how to fix it--they just don't know how. They try: they propose solutions which are really, really terrible ideas; but they don't say anything useful about good policy. The best I've got so far is to try to organize the pain points and get any expertise I can get my hands on to explain why exactly these things are happening, then search for a solution.

The UBI crowd is a good example of that. I responded to Charles Murray's interview recently, where he suggested we cut every welfare benefit, every tax deduction, Medicaid, every mobility program (e.g. education grants, things to help the poor fight their way out of poverty successfully), the lot, and just give people $10,000/year. It's all stuff like that. Georgists are on the fringe of even the UBI crowd, although I still cringe whenever someone starts going on about a land value tax.

The clear pain points are that our welfare system doesn't do what it's supposed to do; Social Security is going insolvent in 2034; people are going homeless and hungry; technical progress creates transitional unemployment (somebody loses their jobs) which, given the above, doesn't drop you onto a very strong safety net; taxes are too damned high (government spending out of control) and yet none of this works; and we have poor inner cities with broken economies, failing school systems, and resulting crime and opium problems.

Okay, so I fixed it. After four years, I've given up getting any elected official's attention; I'm just running for my district's seat myself, because damn.

So when it's my turn, how in the hell do I not miss the one guy who mows lawns for a living but has the solution to poverty? The pain points--what's broken in our system--are easy to sort out of the volume of noise; but anyone who has a real solution is a very weak signal.

My brain's already working out a potential approach. That might go nowhere, but I can already see it trying. The end result is always lobbying--a filter that sorts out the signal from the noise--but the question is... who controls the input to that filter?

Hmm....

Campaign contributions from corporations are illegal; however, you're quite right they can buy influence. They can pay full-time lobbyists to represent themselves. They can legally own PACs which, so long as they don't coordinate with any campaign committee, can do whatever they want--and the corporation can put as much money as it wants into a PAC it owns.

Using the right terms there, chief.

I'd love to see political lobbyists outlawed, period. There's no reason someone should get paid just to try to win a politician's favor on an issue when that's the job of the voting public to decide.

It'd be a hard thing to ban without causing a lot of downstream damage. Beyond that, individual citizens aren't very good at getting their ideas organized, and so communication doesn't exactly happen.

I wonder if there's a way to fix that. I'm starting to realize that the broad masses can tell me what hurts, but can't tell me how to fix it--they just don't know how. They try: they propose solutions which are really, really terrible ideas; but they don't say anything useful about good policy. The best I've got so far is to try to organize the pain points and get any expertise I can get my hands on to explain why exactly these things are happening, then search for a solution.

The UBI crowd is a good example of that. I responded to Charles Murray's interview recently, where he suggested we cut every welfare benefit, every tax deduction, Medicaid, every mobility program (e.g. education grants, things to help the poor fight their way out of poverty successfully), the lot, and just give people $10,000/year. It's all stuff like that. Georgists are on the fringe of even the UBI crowd, although I still cringe whenever someone starts going on about a land value tax.

The clear pain points are that our welfare system doesn't do what it's supposed to do; Social Security is going insolvent in 2034; people are going homeless and hungry; technical progress creates transitional unemployment (somebody loses their jobs) which, given the above, doesn't drop you onto a very strong safety net; taxes are too damned high (government spending out of control) and yet none of this works; and we have poor inner cities with broken economies, failing school systems, and resulting crime and opium problems.

Okay, so I fixed it. After four years, I've given up getting any elected official's attention; I'm just running for my district's seat myself, because damn.

So when it's my turn, how in the hell do I not miss the one guy who mows lawns for a living but has the solution to poverty? The pain points--what's broken in our system--are easy to sort out of the volume of noise; but anyone who has a real solution is a very weak signal.

My brain's already working out a potential approach. That might go nowhere, but I can already see it trying. The end result is always lobbying--a filter that sorts out the signal from the noise--but the question is... who controls the input to that filter?

Hmm....

Bottled Life - Nestlé's Business with Water (English with some German commentary, YT auto-translate of subtitles may help)

This docu is about Nestlé's bottled water operations in (mostly) poor countries. But with some parts about this subject as well - taking a public resource & selling that for profit.

This guy is just making stuff up.

Yep.

...And finally, it doesn't send that (irreversible) hash anywhere - it stores it internally in the Secure Enclave ...

Very informative details for those thoroughly interested in how "Data Protection" on iOS actually works.
Presented by Ivan Krstic, Head of Apple Security Engineering and Architecture

Apple Technical Presentation at Black Hat 2016

--

Why didn't anyone hate on Samsung for *actually* taking pictures?

The enemy of my enemy is my friend, or something.

Apple's secret to success isn't hardware. It's software.

Steve Jobs said almost verbatim that "Apple is a software company" and he was right. Apple designs nice hardware but it's not really terribly different from their competition and they don't actually make much of it themselves. I could put Windows 10 on a Mac and if you didn't see the badge on the front of the box you'd have no idea you were using an Apple product. You could put Android on the iPhone hardware and you'd never know it was an Apple product. What makes Apple distinct and what enables them to charge the margins they do is the software. Apple is a software company first and foremost. They just sell their software in a pretty box with some nice hardware.

Think about what parts of the business Apple has kept. Software and design. They don't actually make any hardware themselves so they cannot be a hardware company. They have some services but really they are just to support Apple software. Apple is at their core a software company and the rest of it is just tactics to make that work.

What about those of us who want to imitate Bill Gates' life?!

I want to start with being born a son of the richest banking family in the state of Washington. After all, being born rich is a good way to tweak the odds of success in life.

The problem with my plan is Doc forgot the flux capacitor and so the time machine won't work...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?... This is a great example of the problem of requiring "disruption".

Of this? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...

There's no doubt you get a certain security through obscurity from using such an unfashionable OS. Following your logic though, your should probably be on BeOS or TempleOS.

Hey creimer!

A condition to join the creimer's merry band of wanker trolls is to score a good one replying to you.

We are an underground organization with ties with everything your empty head could imagine and more.

I am the chief representative AC handling your case and I would like to advice you that the GP has made it.

Therefore, in further official posts from our organization, his link will be added, so, it will go like this in the future:

creimer siblings:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

creimer himself:
https://school.discoveryeducat...

creimer's chair:
http://www.keynamics.com/image...

Thanks for your time my dear friend.

Sincerely,
The chief representative AC.

Not everybody has been sucking at the tit of Microsoft, Sony, or Nintendo. In the PC space

In the PC Space? You mean in the Windows space? The MICROSOFT Windows tit?

The first to support 22-bit graphics (Voodoo), 32-bit graphics (RGBA), 4K, 120 fps, SSD, etc, consoles are always playing catching -- signified by the "PC Master Race" slogan.

Son, consoles had graphics back when home computers were using 40 column text and customized character sets for most of their displays. And I distinctly remember the PSone version of DOOM having TRUE transparency aka 24bit+8bit 32 bit color when the PC version didn't. The PSone had 24bit True color in 1995, the Voodoo 3 came out in 1999 and wasn't actually true color but 24 bit dithered down to 16 bit for output (which 3Dfx called 22-bit)

The keyboard + mouse blows the gamepad away for any sort of precision.

The PS2/PS3/PS4 have USB ports for a reason.

http://s.hswstatic.com/gif/ps2...

http://farm5.static.flickr.com...

http://www.gadgetguy.com.au/cm...

I also must have imagined using a keyboard and/or mouse with various games for the PS2/PS3/PS4.

i.e. I'll seriously doubt we'll ever see StarCraft (1 or 2) on a console anytime soon

http://starcraft.wikia.com/wik...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

because console peripherals never sell well.

Who says? How many MILLIONS of mics, drums, and extra guitars have been sold for the various Rock band style games. how many millions of network adapters and eyetoys/playstation eyes has Sony sold. How many MILLIONS Of Dual Shock 3's, which wasn't the original PS3 controller, were sold. How many headsets?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Worked out for this guy...

Arrrrrr

Right. Reread what you wrote.

Uh, you first, Slick. Hillary Clinton was a complete and utter trainwreck of corrupt warmongering incompetence. Anyone with two neurons to rub together would want her as faaaaar from any position of power as possible. Now you take that, plus an alleged crack about getting someone murdered - it wouldn't be the first time - and you think said person wouldn't have a perfectly valid self-interest in seeing that person lose an election?

And that's assuming his decision was in any way influenced by threatened by a drone. Most of the commentary on Assange's character and motivations is mindless, drooling character assassination. This is not an exception.

The fact that he's a knight means he was of service to the empire. And now he's being of service to another empire...What's happening here is that Berners-Lee and Jeff Jaffee have convinced themselves that by making this a standard, they will make the injustice of DRM smoother and less annoying in minor ways. And they've convinced themselves that that's the purpose of their lives...

He should handle it by saying no. But he can't really. And the reason is he set up an organization which is controlled by the businesses that want to put in the most money... By structuring it so it's controlled by the businesses, they've structured it so it wouldn't defend us from those businesses.

He is right, and TBL is an evil asshole destroying what he helped to create (he didn't create it alone like people like to say).

"Richard Stallman" - Lunduke Hour - Apr 14, 2017 the interview.

People expressing their opinions as foreign nationals, and specifically stating that they are from another country, is not even in the same ballpark as: the son of a presidential candidate having clandestine meetings with Russian spies, or a campaign manager taking millions of dollars in Russian mob money, or the National Security Advisor having to literally register as a foreign agent; or Russian agents making bot accounts to leave thousands of pro-Trump messages on various forums pretending to be Americans. Take your false equivalence elsewhere.

Foreign influence is foreign influence, no matter the circumstances. If you want to go about it your way, then you can argue that a private citizen in another country can just go ahead and buy ads for political messages, which will be legal even if this person was bankrolled by a government entity.

While I am no fan of HRC, to say that she ignored the wants of the states that she lost dismisses the fact that she had a lot of plans in place, and that she communicated those plans quite well time and time again. The problem was that she was perceived as having no empathy for the plight of these people. It's the same problem I have with my wife sometimes. If she tells me about a problem she is having, I always jump to, "here is how we can solve this." All she wants to hear is, "I understand what you are saying, and that this problem is important to you." Although I'm sure that if Hillary tried her husband's "I feel your pain" shtick, she would have been lampooned for that as well. She was just an atrocious candidate.

If somebody repeatedly refers to you with terms like 'a deplorable', you won't give a flying fuck what their plans are for you. Besides, during her campaign, Hillary didn't bother visiting these states, instead holding rallies in states with people she liked. Guess who did visit these states?

Now Trump on the other hand, did a great job of empathizing with people. It's just that the solutions he offered, and the solutions he's trying to deliver, won't actually help the people who got him into office.

Most voters have not a clue about what their guy plans on doing, so this doesn't matter. In fact, I recall during the 08 election, most people I spoke to who were voting for Obama just said that they were voting for him because their friends were voting for him. Practically none of them knew what his campaign was all about. This lady certainly didn't:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

For most voters, emphathizing and understanding is all that matters.

For the record, I think that marginalizing racist assholes is a way better solution than saying they are "very fine people."

Actually the thing about that...it won't work. In fact when you do this kind of thing, it tends to backfire. Look at the anti-vaccine movement; the more you tell them that it's stupid, the more they hold firm in their beliefs.

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyl...

Even then, most of the people you're talking about aren't racist. Hell, I've had people on slashdot label me a racist just because I think black lives matter shouldn't be allowed to block freeways, and that the "unfair campaign" was retarded.

But even with them, I do not tolerate statements about how impressive it is that he has the balls to break apart Mexican families by arresting parents at a children's hospital, or how funny it would be if you had to eat a bacon sandwich to get through the TSA checkpoint.

Usually statements like these are in jest, in my experience. The person wouldn't actually do these things themselves. I've heard people say they'd force a kid with peanut allergies to eat peanuts rather than ban peanut butter sandwiches f

It tends to make things inconvenient for people who legitimately bought a song or movie while failing to stop piracy.

A Brittish kayaker was killed by pirates this week, so it is very clear that they do the most serious of harm.

To compare pirates to people who infringe copyright is a travesty which dishonors the real victims of piracy. It is the equivalent of Colbert calling Mitt Romney a murderer. Only Colbert isn't serious when he makes the accusation.

msmash's continued insistence on using the word pirate in lieu of copyright infringement in article after article reinforces the framing language desired by the MPAA and RIAA. It is used to demand harsh punishments for minor crimes. It is also indicative of the biases which tarnishe the reputation of objective news reporting as a whole.

A Brittish kayaker was killed by pirates this week, so it is very clear that they do the most serious of harm.

To compare pirates to people who infringe copyright is a travesty which dishonors the real victims of piracy. It is the equivalent of Colbert calling Mitt Romney a murderer. Only Colbert isn't serious when he makes the accusation.

BeauHD's continued insistence on using the word pirate in lieu of copyright infringement in article after article reinforces the framing language desired by the MPAA and RIAA. It is used to demand harsh punishments for minor crimes. It is also indicative of the biases which tarnish the reputation of objective news reporting as a whole.

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There will always be a minority who reject even massively accepted facts (ie: climate change deniers) . Whether it be cogitative dissonance or simple lying because you’re a paid greedy prick (ie: the 7 dwarfs who perjured themselves before congress claiming cigarette smoke does not cause cancer )
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Sitting on a park bench....

With creimer and cdreimer accounts modded down into oblivion, this puts ILoveFatCashews on the ropes!

ILoveFatCashews is one of the many accounts creimer has opened to manipulate Slashdot mod system in order to get his spam modded up.

He thinks he is really smart but the realty is here:

His siblings:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Himself:
https://school.discoveryeducat...

Agreed, it's like creimer and his siblings, all from the same code base:

Siblings:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Empty headed creimer:
https://school.discoveryeducat...

Of course, he is dumb as fuck!

I mean, look at his siblings:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

And look at him:
https://school.discoveryeducat...

Tell me about it!

Creimer's siblings all had CCleaner installed on their computer!:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

That's no surprise if you look at creimer picture:
https://school.discoveryeducat...

As a side note, you actually can use a mouse to control the infotainment system in Teslas by plugging it into a USB port ;) Sadly, USB keyboards don't work.

Hope this helps

Think of the children?!?! They're one of the things that make flying suck!

Has it ever occurred to you how amazing it is that we were able to figure out how to engineer a gigantic metal bird that can transport large amounts of people to remote areas of the earth in a relatively short period of time? Is it amazing to you that flying is actually safer than driving? Is it amazing to you that this has enabled families to live in remote locations from each other and still be able to visit each other. It is truly REMARKABLE! And yet, here you are, complaining about something that is truly amazing as though you are entitled to some ideal thing without an ounce of gratitude.

Obligatory Louis C.K.

You are assuming that we do things the same way in the US that they do in China where labor is cheap. If US companies lose China as a source of cheap labor, they will hire a big team of engineers to design and build the robotics/automation necessary to make their goods economically in the US.

You assume China isn't doing things as cheaply as possible. China is highly-interested in and heavily-invested in the forefront of manufacture technology, and wants to automate their factories as soon as the technology is cheaper than labor.

If you don't automate your factories because your labor is $3/hr and the automation is equivalent to $7/hr, then moving the factories to an $8.25/hr-plus-benefits (about $11.50/hr) labor country and automating means you're running at the equivalent of $7/hr labor. That's more-expensive.

Quality goes up

Hah, no. We're not skilled at cutting corners efficiently here, and the brands are racing to the bottom on price. The Chinese can make to any quality level you want; our American importers ask for cheap and they get cheap. For the Americans to squeeze out those last few dimes, they have to cut entire limbs instead of just corners, because we're not skilled at this--not like China, anyway. So either prices go way the hell up or quality goes down.

robotics have better yields, lower amortized production costs than Chinese labor even now, don't make mistakes, get sick, need to sleep, commit suicide, etc.

No, because whenever that's true, China starts implementing the new technology to cut back on labor. That's what's actually happening. It's what global economists are talking about. It hits the news now and then, but nobody except economy nerds cares, so it quickly goes away.

The net result is cheaper, higher quality products, more high paying engineering jobs, more middle class technician/maintenance jobs, a net positive for the consumer and for the US job market.

If that were true, we'd already be manufacturing these things in the United States, selling them cheaper, and undercutting the idiot Chinese importers who were bringing in highly-expensive products. The first company to push Made in America and Cheaper than China would practically corner the market and become a multi-billion-dollar megacorporation like Disney.

Your tone isn't one of facts and strong economic arguments; it's one of conjecture and magical thinking. You've got an imaginative view of how the world works, and it's cute, but it's wrong!!!! .

This awkward moment comes to mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?... I am sure Bill wanted to strangle that guy.