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  1. Re:d20? on Physicists Discover Geometry Underlying Particle Physics · · Score: 1

    I've played D&D for a good while (though not as long as some) and I've always seen and used 10 sided d10s.

  2. Re:Non US on Sailfish OS Gains Two-Way Android Compatibility · · Score: 1

    You can only affect their monitoring policies if you know about them. And they have that sewn up quite nicely, thankyou.

  3. Re:betteridge's law of headline on Can GM Challenge Tesla With a Long-Range Electric Car? · · Score: 1

    Conversely, I have the ability to fire my company at will.

    Of course, I've done my best to structure my finances such that should either event occur, I have a bit of leeway on finding alternate employment but I know that's out of fashion these days.

  4. Re:betteridge's law of headline on Can GM Challenge Tesla With a Long-Range Electric Car? · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, other unions have failed pretty badly on that front also.

    If you rely completely on any other entity to take care of your future, you're insane. *You* will be the one left holding the bag.

  5. Re:betteridge's law of headline on Can GM Challenge Tesla With a Long-Range Electric Car? · · Score: 1

    Germany has a huge welfare state. But your statement has been shown to be incorrect anyway so...

  6. Re:betteridge's law of headline on Can GM Challenge Tesla With a Long-Range Electric Car? · · Score: 1

    It's a mistake to try and blame any one thing for catastrophic failure. No doubt there were many causes in this particular case including changing consumer tastes and management failure. However, they were at the edge of the cliff and the union pushed them over (or more accurately, grabbed on tight and went over with them).

  7. Re:betteridge's law of headline on Can GM Challenge Tesla With a Long-Range Electric Car? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Have a twinkie.

  8. Re:betteridge's law of headline on Can GM Challenge Tesla With a Long-Range Electric Car? · · Score: 1

    Apples to oranges and besides the point.

  9. Re:betteridge's law of headline on Can GM Challenge Tesla With a Long-Range Electric Car? · · Score: 1

    You'd be surprised at what I've worked at. One production line I worked on was so awful I terminated the contract I had with the employer the first day. I had a new job the next day.

  10. Re:betteridge's law of headline on Can GM Challenge Tesla With a Long-Range Electric Car? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yes. Negotiations made under thread of crashing a company into the ground financially are much fairer.

  11. Re:betteridge's law of headline on Can GM Challenge Tesla With a Long-Range Electric Car? · · Score: 1

    I work near Nissan USA's HQ and see them every day. They're fugly.

    It wouldn't have taken much to make them not so which is the tragedy. Several of Nissan's vehicles even look good except for one irredeemable feature. I'm thinking specifically of the 350z's door handles.

    OTOH, I'd love a G37. It's just a shame it's so boring looking.

  12. Re:betteridge's law of headline on Can GM Challenge Tesla With a Long-Range Electric Car? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I take it that's the slogan for the union you are a member of.

  13. Re:betteridge's law of headline on Can GM Challenge Tesla With a Long-Range Electric Car? · · Score: 1

    To be fair to Nissan, the Leaf isn't utilitarian but to be fair to you, it's still damn fugly.

  14. Re:betteridge's law of headline on Can GM Challenge Tesla With a Long-Range Electric Car? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Though perhaps the more relevant question is "Is GM going to continue to be GM". To which, the answer is "Yes" and all flows forth from there.

    Also, electric car batteries may be really expensive but union workers (or more particularly, non-workers) are even moreso. Whatever you're paying for a few pounds of Li-ion, you're probably paying just as much for someone to sit on their duff and watch their 60" plasma.

  15. Re:Links ! on Wireless Charging Start-Up Claims 30-Foot Radius · · Score: 1

    It's less crispy and fatty than American science.

  16. Re:Links ! on Wireless Charging Start-Up Claims 30-Foot Radius · · Score: 1

    I live next to a cell tower. Given how much I have had to cut my grass this year. I can say the conclusion of their experiment is wrong. That's SCIENCE!

  17. Re:Not going back on Seagate's Shingled Magnetic Recording Tech Boosts HDD Capacities to 5TB and Up · · Score: 1

    Except I have a couple of sub-500GB hard drives that are soldiering on as drive after drive of 1TB+ falls by the wayside. It's actually kind-of annoying as I'd like a space upgrade but don't want to swap out that reliability. They're not even kept in a particularly healthy environment either (80-90F temperatures)

  18. Re:clearly I don't understand something... on Seagate's Shingled Magnetic Recording Tech Boosts HDD Capacities to 5TB and Up · · Score: 1

    I'd imagine with some creative techniques, it would be possible to attempt to write in such a way that rewrites are minimized. If you can write next to unused sectors etc. That could be bad for something like truecrypt though depending on the algorithm.

  19. Re:How about... on Java 8 Developer Preview Released · · Score: 5, Funny

    No one appears to be answering the really important question:

    Which shitty toolbar(s) will this come bundled with?

  20. Mammoths on Study Suggests Weather and Not Hunting Killed Off Wooly Mammoths · · Score: 1

    Have you seen the size of those things? They must have driven *HUGE* SUVs. No wonder climate change wiped them out.

  21. Re:Videos for Internet articles are Stupid on Is It Time to Replace Your First HDTV? (Video) · · Score: 1

    Gotta love video tutorials where someone is typing something you'll have to type in yourself, especially if it's something where it's fiddly and have to get it right. With text, it's just cut & paste.

  22. Re:TV? You mean, single-use device? on Is It Time to Replace Your First HDTV? (Video) · · Score: 1

    I watch it on TV. I just don't see the need to have the people on the screen be the same size as me (which will also be dependent on their distance from the camera, zoom and other things in any case).

  23. Re:TV? You mean, single-use device? on Is It Time to Replace Your First HDTV? (Video) · · Score: 1

    Such a chore...

    If I used it anything like as much as the TV, I'd use some kind of stand. The complaint was about the picture quality.

  24. Re:Here's your debate on Linus Responds To RdRand Petition With Scorn · · Score: 1

    Which would tell you whether the generator *was* supplying good or bad random data at the time you ran the test. Then a preset alarm is triggered or a certain sequence of instructions is executed in the correct order or whatever and the NSA is in your data, eating your cheeseburgers.

  25. Re:Wonder how GhostWatch would have done now? on British TV Show 'Blackout' Triggers Online LOLs · · Score: 1

    Great show. Showing its age a little last time I watched it though.