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  1. Expect the others to follow on Nissan Creates the Ultimate Distracted Driving Machine · · Score: 1

    Sadly I expect the others to follow. I want a car with less crap in it, not more. I want a car with a good radio (AM, FM, aux in, USB, weather band) and that is about it for the infotainment system. If they have to put in a fucking screen (since everyone is doing the backup camera thing and I hare rumors of wanting to make it mandatory) then give me the option to use that screen to display all of the diagnostic info the car pukes out instead of needing some special vendor specific tool beyond just a bog standard OBDII scanner. I don't want stupid OnStar, your shit sat nav, the ability to talk to my car, your trash touch interface, etc.

  2. Re:I'm all for trade deals on Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached · · Score: 2

    Next decade?

    They are building them now.

  3. Re:Apples-to-Llamas on American IT Workers Increasingly Alleging Discrimination · · Score: 1

    Sounds like one of the recruiters that I got a call from. Was for a position doing basically what I do now but instead of in a low cost area in the midwest it was in the Philadelphia area. When I was told the pay I laughed. The recruiter asked if that was good, I told here it was fucking awful and that I made almost 3x that living in a cheaper area that also was a lot nicer. I told here that to get me to move out there they would have to double my current pay.

  4. Re:Two Free Years! on Experian Breached, 15 Million T-Mobile Customer's Data Exposed · · Score: 2

    I just want to know if the credit monitoring is going to be through Experian? Also do I get to decide when the credit monitoring starts as I already have a couple of other services monitoring my credit and I don't think I need another concurrent one. It would be nice if these things stacked instead of ran concurrent.

  5. Re:Gun-free zone? on 10 Confirmed Dead In Shooting at Oregon's Umpqua Community College · · Score: 1

    Anyone can purchase a vehicle provided they are old enough to enter into the transaction. The vehicle and owner only need to be licensed if thy are going to be using it out on public roads. This is also fairly similar to most states and firearms. If we look at Minnesota if I wanted to go hunting, even on private property, I need to have a license to do and if I was born after December 31, 1979 I would have to go through a training course. If instead I want to carry a firearm in public I would need to go through and get a permit that requires training. Having gone through both of those trainings they are sadly lacking much like drivers education in the US. The best training I have ever had with firearms is the Boy Scouts Rifle and Shotgun shooting merit badges, I don't know how it compares to US military training but both of those merit badges were more comprehensive than either the basic firearm safety course, or the MN CCW course. Then again I am not the firearm owner anyone would need to worry about as I am the one who stores ammo separate from the guns and the guns are kept locked up in a nice safe when not getting cleaned or out begin used as tools for hunting.

  6. Re: Gun-free zone? on 10 Confirmed Dead In Shooting at Oregon's Umpqua Community College · · Score: 1

    Although back then parents taught their kids how to properly handle and store a firearm. Having firearms myself I feel I need to do the same with my children especially to remove the fascination with them. Then again the firearms I own are all for hunting purposes and are all pretty boring and don't look cool even if the rifles are all former military rifles and the shotgun is the same type used by the US Army.

  7. Re: Gun-free zone? on 10 Confirmed Dead In Shooting at Oregon's Umpqua Community College · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure I want a "war on guns" like the "war on drugs" given our previous attempts at wars on concepts or inanimate objects.

  8. Re:Gun-free zone? on 10 Confirmed Dead In Shooting at Oregon's Umpqua Community College · · Score: 1

    This is why I never rode public transport when I was in Israel and I'm not anti gun. All of the solders ride it and and their rifles just get in the way and if the bus is full you might have the stock of one squished into your ribs so it was a physical comfort thing. They don't piss around with security theater there either, and have a very dark sense of humor. In talking to one of the guys I worked with over there he was shocked when I mentioned that when my party goes out deer hunting we go through about 1000 rounds of ammo. His question was "Doesn't it only take 1 to kill a deer?" I responded that yes it only takes one to kill a deer but there are lots of cans that need holes in them before they go off to be recycled.

  9. Re:Let's get this out of the way on Yelp For People To Launch In November · · Score: 1

    I think you've found the magic to summon him.

  10. Re:How would we code ... on Doctors On Edge As Healthcare Gears Up For 70,000 Ways To Classify Ailments · · Score: 1

    I think you actually need to search under rectum.

  11. Re:Of course, this is natural. on Europe Agrees To Agree With Everyone Except US What 5G Should Be · · Score: 0

    commenting to undo bad mod.

  12. Re:WordPerfect? on LibreOffice Turns Five · · Score: 3, Informative

    My guess is probably better than opening the previous version of a Word file in the current version of Word.

  13. Re:How long will the company stay up? on Volkswagen Diesel Scandal Spreads To Porsche and Audi · · Score: 1

    From my experience with VWs it seems like the ones made in the 90s and early 2000s that were built in Mexico are the shit ones and have all sorts of random dumb problems. The ones built in Germany from that time period don't seem to suck.

  14. Re:Endgame on Obama Administration Explored Ways To Bypass Smartphone Encryption · · Score: 1

    I don't think they meant technological attacks but political attacks.

  15. Re:Finally on Phone Passwords Protected By 5th Amendment, Says Federal Court · · Score: 1

    This is what I have often wondered. What obligation is someone under to help the prosecution interpret evidence against them?

  16. Re: Science! on A Call To RICO Climate Change Science Deniers · · Score: 1

    I vaguely remember watching Jurassic Park 3. That was time and money I will never get back. All I wanted was to see some dinos get blown away and I would have been happy instead the Marines' hovercraft just lands scoops up the survivors and off they go.

  17. Re:That'll teach you... on Volkswagen CEO Issues Apology Over Emission-Cheating Software · · Score: 1

    I saw a documentary on the one around LA almost 20 years ago. It was a follow up to an earlier documentary on New York

  18. Re:A discussion of constitutional limits of power? on George W Bush Made Retroactive NSA 'Fix' After Hospital Room Showdown · · Score: 2

    What that article fails to explain is that before it was found to be a tax after it was found to not be a tax within the same ruling mere moments before. I say it was a shitty ruling because it contradicts it self. There were 3 parts, the first was to decide if there was standing and that hinged on weather the penality/tax of the individual mandate was actually a tax. If it was a tax then the plaintiffs didn't have standing, if it wasn't the plaintiffs did have standing. So the court ruled that it wasn't a tax and therefore plaintiffs had standing. Then there was the medicare ruling, followed by the the ruling in which they reversed their previous decision saying it is a tax.

  19. Re:I wish Hollywood would get their nukes right on Forget Hashtag Activism: a Millennial's Guide To Nuclear Weapons Realism · · Score: 1

    What about Dr. Strangelove?

  20. Re:To the other Republicans... on HP To Jettison Up To 30,000 Jobs As Part of Spinoff · · Score: 1

    payback is a bitch

    Now that is just mean to female dogs.

  21. Re:To the other Republicans... on HP To Jettison Up To 30,000 Jobs As Part of Spinoff · · Score: 1

    At least he is honest about his beliefs. I think that is also part of the appeal of Trump is he at least seems honest.

  22. Re:Stupid people are stupid on 9th-Grader May Face Charges After Homemade Clock Mistaken For Bomb · · Score: 1
  23. Re:Stupid people are stupid on 9th-Grader May Face Charges After Homemade Clock Mistaken For Bomb · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've seen enough Looney Toons in my life to know that is generally a bad idea. What if some rascally rabbit comes by and switches the sticks on me.

  24. Re: Here's one suggestion. on NYU Study: America's Voting Machines Are Rapidly Aging Out · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Add in that just about anyone can figure out how to fill in a scantron and that just about everyone has filled out some form of one previously and it simplifies a lot of things as well as having a nice audit trail and can be recounted by hand with ease. Although I really wouldn't call a scantron electronic voting as the vote casting is still done with pen and paper and just electronically counted.

  25. Re:Make the TV Media pay for it on NYU Study: America's Voting Machines Are Rapidly Aging Out · · Score: 1

    Well the media could actually go out and conduct some exist polls but that would require paying some people to go to some polling stations and question some people.