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  1. Re:More gentrification? on Toronto To Be Home To Google Parent's Biggest Smart City Project Yet (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    That should be rat infested, flood prone, empty, former industrial land. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/rats-toronto-population-increase-1.3627395

  2. Re:Correlation or Cause on Smartphones Are Killing Americans, But Nobody's Counting (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Accident avoidance is what it's called. Any vehicle which can brake, accelerate or change direction quicker will be more likely to prevent the collision in the first place. Of course you have to be paying attention and know what you're doing.

  3. Re:Anyone know for sure on Microsoft Surface Book 2 Puts Desktop Brains in a Laptop Body (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    Now that Microsoft has joined the Linux Foundation and claims to support Linux they should offer it pre-installed as Dell does on their XPS 13. Shouldn't they?

  4. Re: I can't fathom... on Google Photos Now Recognizes Your Pets (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    I read last week that pet toothpaste is a $2 billion a year industry in the U.S.

  5. Re:A lot of money does not make you a good person on Nobel Prize Winner Argues Tech Companies Should Be Changing The World (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Cosby was my second guess. Almost forgot he used to be funny forty years ago.

  6. Easier said than done on Nobel Prize Winner Argues Tech Companies Should Be Changing The World (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Technology is too busy causing problems to be solving problems.

  7. Re:A lot of money does not make you a good person on Nobel Prize Winner Argues Tech Companies Should Be Changing The World (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    George Carlin?

  8. Re:Union busting? Naw, not Tesla! on Tesla Just Fired Hundreds Of Workers (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Facts? What is this the American Journal of Science? No, I based my thinking that most management types are born liars on years of experience. The fact that only 7% of private industry jobs are unionized means nothing more than the rich have been sticking it to the poor since Ronald Reagan. And now we have more of the same. Oh, and your link didn't work, it's 404.

  9. Re:Union busting? Naw, not Tesla! on Tesla Just Fired Hundreds Of Workers (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    The law is supposed to prevent people coming from other countries and working here illegally, yet millions are doing it. And yes there are rules in place. So let's say John gets a job where there's unsafe conditions. John reports said problem to boss who does nothing. Then John reports it to the authorities. Then John gets fired for not being a team player. That's how it works. We can both probably agree that for good or ill, the Unions are on their way out and have been for over 30 years.

  10. Crows can be entertaining on Startup Plans To Clean Up Cigarette Butts Using Crows (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    There used to be a crow that turned up where I lived at the time who would take the bread thrown out for him and dunk it in a puddle before eating it. Kind of like dunking a doughnut in your coffee. Another time there were a bunch of crows flying around, they looked younger, and one of them did a barrel roll. It was very impressive.

  11. Re:Union busting? Naw, not Tesla! on Tesla Just Fired Hundreds Of Workers (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    You make it sound like I kicked your parent's door in and took their pension checks. My only point is that without a union you have zero protection. Not that with a union you have 100% protection from all eventualities.

  12. Re:Union busting? Naw, not Tesla! on Tesla Just Fired Hundreds Of Workers (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, the United States is known all over the world for it's fair play. What was I thinking??

  13. Re:Union busting? Naw, not Tesla! on Tesla Just Fired Hundreds Of Workers (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    It ain't freedom either.

  14. Re:Union busting? Naw, not Tesla! on Tesla Just Fired Hundreds Of Workers (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Agreed, if management played fair you would never need unions. Unfortunately it seems that management almost never plays fair. That's the law of the jungle.

  15. Re:Union busting? Naw, not Tesla! on Tesla Just Fired Hundreds Of Workers (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    No, communism would be what they have in China. When the people there tried to organize as a group, as I remember it, they ran them over with tanks.

  16. Re:Union busting? Naw, not Tesla! on Tesla Just Fired Hundreds Of Workers (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It was true 100 years ago and it's true today, the only way for workers to get a fair deal is to organize as a group. Let's see how Elon Musk deals with this earth bound reality. Maybe he can get Mars declared a "right to work" state.

  17. Re:Why not just put them inchocolate on Magic Mushrooms 'Reboot' Brain In Depressed People, Study Suggests (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Or boil them in water and make some tea. Put a dash of sugar in it and drink it down fast.

  18. Re:Not Another Story About Driverless Cars on Driverless Cars Are Giving Engineers a Fuel Economy Headache (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    My favorite car was a 1989 Volkswagen Scirocco 16V, which was only available with a five speed manual transmission. Loved that car. Driving is fun.

  19. Re:Not Another Story About Driverless Cars on Driverless Cars Are Giving Engineers a Fuel Economy Headache (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Well none of you can be working too hard, you all seem to have plenty of time to waste on this site.

  20. Re:Not Another Story About Driverless Cars on Driverless Cars Are Giving Engineers a Fuel Economy Headache (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Them and people with fecal nicknames.

  21. Re:Not Another Story About Driverless Cars on Driverless Cars Are Giving Engineers a Fuel Economy Headache (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Let me guess, couldn't pass the driver's test now you have a grudge against motor vehicles?

  22. Re:Not Another Story About Driverless Cars on Driverless Cars Are Giving Engineers a Fuel Economy Headache (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You have my sympathy for your drab existence.

  23. Not Another Story About Driverless Cars on Driverless Cars Are Giving Engineers a Fuel Economy Headache (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    What kind of a person gets excited about a driverless car? What's the fun in that? I just don't get it.

  24. Cue the next disaster movie on Evidence Suggests Updated Timeline Towards Yellowstone's Supervolcano Eruption (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What would happen if "some nutjob" like in North Korea had one good missile and one good nuclear bomb attached to it and lobbed it right into the middle of the Yellowstone caldera? Would that possibly set it off or just make a mess? Or they could just throw a bomb in the back of a cube van and drive right in there. Precarious times we live in.

  25. Everyone has a theory on A Giant, Mysterious Hole Has Opened Up In Antarctica (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    There certainly seems to be no shortage of bizarre stories in the news recently. Of course they can't all be right, is the stargate in Antarctica or at CERN in Switzerland? Both? Neither? Are we to be invaded by both Nazis and aliens at the same time we're hit by Nibiru? Or my favorite is that there must be something going on in Antarctica otherwise why did Buzz Aldrin at age 86 go there last year? Has to be aliens. The human imagination is a wonderful thing, sometimes.