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  1. Re:They used to be made in Germany on Volkswagen To Spend Over $40 Billion on Electric and Self-Driving Cars (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you're right, since most cars are made by robots and automated machinery anyways these days what difference is it what country they come from. It's nothing new, even Harley-Davidson motorcycles have had Japanese electronics going back to the 70s. But Mexico?

  2. Re: Fukushima was older than Chernobyl on Six Years After Fukushima, Robots Finally Find Its Reactors' Melted Uranium Fuel (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Er, east of the Rockies ... most are east of the Mississippi.

  3. Re: Well... on 46% of Americans Now Have High Blood Pressure (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd like to travel around North America sampling all the pizza and write a compendium of my findings. Do you think an idea like that would fly on Kickstarter?

  4. Re:Fukushima was older than Chernobyl on Six Years After Fukushima, Robots Finally Find Its Reactors' Melted Uranium Fuel (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    The following 23 U.S. plants have GE boiling-water reactors (GE models 2, 3 or 4) with the same Mark I containment design used at Fukushima, according to the NRC online database:
    Browns Ferry 1, Athens, Ala., operating license since 1973, reactor type GE 4
    Browns Ferry 2, Athens, Ala., 1974, GE 4
    Browns Ferry 3, Athens, Ala., 1976, GE 4
    Brunswick 1, Southport, N.C, 1976, GE 4.
    Brunswick 2, Southport, N.C., 1974, GE 4.
    Cooper, Brownville, Neb., 1974, GE 4.
    Dresden 2, Morris, Ill., 1970, GE 3.
    Dresden 3, Morris, Ill., 1971, GE 3.
    Duane Arnold, Palo, Iowa, 1974, GE 4.
    Fermi 2, Monroe, Mich., 1985, GE 4.
    FitzPatrick, Scriba, N.Y., 1974, GE 4.
    Hatch 1, Baxley, Ga., 1974, GE 4.
    Hatch 2, Baxley, Ga., 1978, GE 4.
    Hope Creek, Hancock's Bridge, N.J. 1986, GE 4
    . Monticello, Monticello, Minn., 1970, GE 3.
    Nine Mile Point 1, Scriba, N.Y., 1969, GE 2.
    Oyster Creek, Forked River, N.J., 1969, GE 2.
    Peach Bottom 2, Delta, Pa., 1973, GE 4.
    Peach Bottom 3, Delta, Pa., 1974, GE 4.
    Pilgrim, Plymouth, Mass., 1972, GE 3.
    Quad Cities 1, Cordova, Ill., 1972, GE 3.
    Quad Cities 2, Moline, Ill., 1972, GE 3.
    Vermont Yankee, Vernon, Vt., 1972, GE 4.
    This was from five years ago. Didn't check to see how many ar still operational but they're definitely old.

  5. CIA approved on Cringely: Amazon Is Starting To Act Like 'Bad Microsoft' (cringely.com) · · Score: 2

    "If it's good enough for the CIA it's good enough for you." Now if that doesn't close the deal nothing will.

  6. Re: Well... on 46% of Americans Now Have High Blood Pressure (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Pizza is truly one of life's great pleasures.

  7. Precisely, no woman is going to come out and say "As a group we are pissed off at Trump beating Hillary in an underhanded manner and therefore everyone with a penis is going to pay." They're even going to make a federal case when Al Franken pretends to feel some bimbo's tits through a flack jacket. There's one big difference, what men find funny and what women find funny. And finally men think they're smarter and women think they're smarter, been that way since day one and will never be reconciled.

  8. Here's my take. After the 2016 election, all the women were very upset. All the things they were going to do, a new society, breaking the glass ceiling and all that gone. So now they're mad. Call it sour grapes or whatever and they're going to take it out on the men. We don't like it and therefore we're going to upset the apple cart. As demonstrated here, men are arguing among themselves at who's fault it is and walking on eggshells trying not to make the situation worse. This Damore guy just got caught in the crossfire. Too dumb to duck when he should have. Takeaway: Women have always been poor losers, or that old chestnut "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."

  9. They don't work? on CNBC: Google's New 'Pixel Buds' Suck (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    So if the slaughterbots work as well as the pixel buds we should have nothing to worry about. It's reassuring to know it was all just advertising B.S.

  10. Re:Because they were too slow. on Apple Is Served A Search Warrant To Unlock Texas Church Gunman's iPhone (nydailynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course we can only speculate ...

  11. Re:Because they were too slow. on Apple Is Served A Search Warrant To Unlock Texas Church Gunman's iPhone (nydailynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Why doesn't the FBI just go directly to the Israeli company that unlocked the last iphone for them. Celebrite? Apparently they're the goto for that sort of thing.

  12. Master Craftsman Of Rock on Tech Companies Try Apprenticeships To Fill The Tech Skills Gap (thehill.com) · · Score: 0

    R.I.P. Malcolm Young, founding member of AC/DC. Rocked the world for forty years. Sad.

  13. This is what happened to the Rutles on FOSS Community Criticizes SFLC over SFC Trademark War (lunduke.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    In 1970, Dirk sued Stig, Nasty and Barry. Barry sued Dirk, Nasty and Stig. Nasty sued Barry, Dirk and Stig, and Stig sued himself, accidentally. It was the beginning of a golden era for lawyers.

  14. "There is nothing about China that is communist in any way."
    If you told that to a dead horse, he'd get up and kick you in the head.

  15. Does anyone here think there could be an equal or greater number of teens who became happy from excessive screen time? And that ultimately, computers and the internet are a force for good and the key to understanding ourselves and all things? Could happen ... ;^)

  16. Re:Just Come to Canada on The House's Tax Bill Levies a Tax On Graduate Student Tuition Waivers (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Better not tell them too much or everyone in the U.S. will want to move here.

  17. It's (always) just around the corner ...

  18. And here's a video of a plasma speaker interfering with an AM radio
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  19. I'm no electrical engineer, but what do radio waves have to do with their mobile phones picking up static?

  20. 1950s technology on A Stable Plasma Ring Has Been Created In Open Air For the First Time Ever (futurism.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "Gharib’s team also noticed another peculiar phenomenon: the plasma ring emitted distinct radio frequencies, as evidenced by the high levels of static the engineers’ mobile phones picked up during the experiment. “That’s never been seen before. We think it’s because of the piezo properties of the materials that we used in our experiments,” Pereira explained."
    Sounds to me like he's never heard of the plasma speaker.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  21. Re:Just Come to Canada on The House's Tax Bill Levies a Tax On Graduate Student Tuition Waivers (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    And if you like hockey you can watch it seven nights a week.

  22. Re:You know we're importing tons of graduate stude on The House's Tax Bill Levies a Tax On Graduate Student Tuition Waivers (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    It's a lot cheaper for those in charge to bring in university graduates than to educate them here. Isn't this tax bill a disincentive?

  23. Re:So, like every other write-off then on The House's Tax Bill Levies a Tax On Graduate Student Tuition Waivers (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    If you're doing it to yourself it's subject to entertainment tax. Make America Great Again.

  24. Could be worse on The House's Tax Bill Levies a Tax On Graduate Student Tuition Waivers (nytimes.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's not a complete loss. You can still research new ways to flip hamburgers at McDonalds. They called this "trickle down economics" in the 80s. You've just been trickled on.

  25. Re:They used to be made in Germany on Volkswagen To Spend Over $40 Billion on Electric and Self-Driving Cars (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, when I'm right, I'm right.