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  1. Oracle Will Sue Amazon By End of 2019, Says Experi on Amazon Will Be Off All Oracle Databases By End of 2019, Says AWS Chief · · Score: 1

    Oracle Will Sue Amazon By End of 2019, Says Experience

  2. Re: Environmental impact of a tunnel? WTF? on Elon Musk's Boring Company Cancels Los Angeles Tunnel Following Lawsuit (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Guess all existing commuter rail, subways, and surface rail should pack it in. They'll be happy to know that after 150 years of doing this, their mode of operation is all bullshit

    Guess you're a retard.

    The Hyperloop is a train in a vacuum tube. It's worse than a plane and worse than a train in just about every way. The only good thing it promises is speed, but you'll never get the speeds they promise because you'd need a very long, very straight run with no stops. No such run is even planned.

    There are three Holy Grail routes in US travel:

    LA to Las Vegas
    LA to San Francisco
    LA to New York City

    The "easiest" to do is LA to San Francisco. Every city along the way demands a stop at their city. If there's no stop, the city gets no benefit from the tunnels. If you want an express line, you have to shut down huge sections of the tunnels at a time, or build multiple, parallel tunnels for each major destination (in pairs). If there is a stop, then you spend time accelerating, traveling, decelerating, waiting for passengers to get off, waiting for passengers to get on / the next departure time, then accelerating again as you travel toward the next stop.

    LA to Las Vegas will be worse with regards to getting approvals and crossing state lines, but may have to deal with fewer stops in between. LA to New York won't happen unless the feds eminent domain the whole damn thing.

    And if such routes ever prove viable (i.e., popular enough to build and operate), they'll have to deal with all the security theater bullshit airports have. Meaning you have to get to the station well in advance to deal with that.

    The whole thing is a farce.

  3. Re: Environmental impact of a tunnel? WTF? on Elon Musk's Boring Company Cancels Los Angeles Tunnel Following Lawsuit (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    The Hyperloop will never happen. It's bullshit.

    The way to test this assertion is by actually trying to get one working.

    Many years and hundreds of millions of dollars later and we have a few dozen meters of test track/tube, an empty tin can with no propulsion, seats, etc. for the car/pod/coffin, and abandoned starts of tunnels.

  4. Re:Call me when they roll it back on Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Build 18290 With Start Menu Improvements (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    That could be because Devices and Printers doesn't exist on Windows 10 any more...

    Wrong, as usual.

    Go ahead and repeat the exact thing I showed.

  5. Re:Environmental impact of a tunnel? WTF? on Elon Musk's Boring Company Cancels Los Angeles Tunnel Following Lawsuit (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0

    Nothing will happen to the Hyperloop in an earthquake because the Hyperloop isn't ever going to be built.

  6. Re:Environmental impact of a tunnel? WTF? on Elon Musk's Boring Company Cancels Los Angeles Tunnel Following Lawsuit (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0

    Yeah...since I've lived here we went from worlds 10th to 6th largest economy and my income has gone from $110,000 a year to $300,000.

    I am crying about California failing. Really.

    Uh, CA went from Nth to 5th and are now sliding down to 7th and below.

  7. Re: Environmental impact of a tunnel? WTF? on Elon Musk's Boring Company Cancels Los Angeles Tunnel Following Lawsuit (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    As opposed to commuting to the Hyperloop station with SUVs on the freeway, then getting in the Hyperloop which, despite common misconceptions, still requires dirty power to run, then get out of the Hyperloop and renting a car or calling an Uber/Lyft/etc.?

    The Hyperloop will never happen. It's bullshit.

  8. IS NOT NATIVE TO CALIFORNIA. So there should be no negative repercussions from wiping it out.

    Humans ARE NOT NATIVE TO YOUR STATE. I suggest we wipe out humans in your state. There should be no negative repercussions.

  9. Re:Call me when they roll it back on Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Build 18290 With Start Menu Improvements (betanews.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Besides having a weird time delay (experienced on many systems) where the OS doesn't pick up the first couple of letters in the password field, start menu, etc. So you have to 'wait' for it to catch up after pressing alt-ctrl-del when logging in, pressing start to search, and all number of actions that should be quick and thoughtless...

    You have to wait for the "telemetry" service to wake up sometimes.

  10. Re:Call me when they roll it back on Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Build 18290 With Start Menu Improvements (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    90% of the time it can't do a simple search.

    For example, I'm remotely connected to a box that brings up only web searches and unrelated store apps for:

    D
    De
    Dev
    Devi
    Devic
    Device
    Devices
    Devices
    Devices a
    Devices an
    Devices and
    Devices and
    Devices and P
    Devices and Pr
    Devices and Pri
    Devices and Prin
    Devices and Print
    Devices and Printe
    Devices and Printer

    But returns the expected result for:
    Devices and Printers

    This same box will list Adobe Acrobat DC as a tile when I open the start menu, if I'm lucky fo rit to be chosen. But if I open it and it's not chosen, or if I open it and start typing Adobe Acrobat DC, it will not be shown.

    And I've encountered the "Start menu won't open; programs won't run; reinstall, bitch." bug on fresh, clean installs plenty of fucking times.

    Windows 10 is shit.

  11. Re:U.S. is way ahead of them. on EU Aims To Be 'Climate Neutral' By 2050 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I see you also haven't traveled anywhere outside of the US.

    I have. Try again with your weak attempt at trolling.

  12. Re:U.S. is way ahead of them. on EU Aims To Be 'Climate Neutral' By 2050 (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    Why not come over here and see for yourself? Afraid to discover that you've been parroting complete horseshit?

    Because I don't want to get stabbed by the terrorists you let take over your cities.

    I've seen countless videos of what's happening in places like Paris. Europe is DONE.

  13. Re:Assuming.... on EU Aims To Be 'Climate Neutral' By 2050 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Europe in total war with whom? Internally? No. The animosity between modern European nations is like the animosity between cities with American football teams;

    Yes, internally. Europe wars with itself. Pick up a history book.
    Funny that you use an analogy of football teams. Europeans literally riot and sack cities based in soccer matches.

  14. Re:Look on the brighter side of life on Large Genetic Study Finds First Genes Connected With ADHD (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You also get to think faster, act faster, and generally outperform the muggles who are deluded into thinking the next evolution of humanity is a disease.

    "I drive better when I'm a little buzzed."

    "I take weed and acid to open my mind. I'm much more lucid and effective when I'm high."

    And the real world sees you spazzing about, wrecking shit.

  15. Re:U.S. is way ahead of them. on EU Aims To Be 'Climate Neutral' By 2050 (bbc.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Wake me up when the EU has a standard of living beyond shitting in the street of your newly-occupied, "no-go" city that the host nation has abandoned.

  16. Re: Assuming.... on EU Aims To Be 'Climate Neutral' By 2050 (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    Did Russians vote, switch votes, or prevent votes from being counted?

    No? Then what influence, precisely, did they have? You said there's plenty of data. Show it.
    Please also show data for influence against Brexit from the UK's government, media stations, and allies.

    The UK voted. The vote was fair. You don't get to call a do-over because you don't like the result, regardless of what bogeyman you point to.

  17. Re:Assuming.... on EU Aims To Be 'Climate Neutral' By 2050 (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    If the UK doesn't cuck itself (which it LOVES to do), they will pull out with no deal.

    After that, you have France and Germany supporting the rest of the EU. Every other nation is a net drain and security risk, or has a half-in half-out deal like the UK had (either from an actual deal, or from not meeting certain criteria when joining).

    If Brexit actually happens, the EU is dead within a decade, and Europe in total war by 2035.

  18. Re:"people could handle that very easily" on Trump Suggests US Could Slap 10 Percent Tax On iPhones, Laptops From China (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It's true what they say. The left can't meme.

  19. Re: Cool! Let's MAGA, baby! on Trump Suggests US Could Slap 10 Percent Tax On iPhones, Laptops From China (cnbc.com) · · Score: 0

    Trump has lowered the tax rate of the very people who got rich offshoring while at the same time increased the cost of goods that ordinary people buy

    And anyone with a functional brain realizes now is a good time to buy whatever Chinese-made crap you had your eyes on, because soon it's gonna cost more.

    Anyone with a functional brain realizes that the Chinese-made crap is rarely worth buying.

  20. Re:Cool! Let's MAGA, baby! on Trump Suggests US Could Slap 10 Percent Tax On iPhones, Laptops From China (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The US is one of the few nations in the world that can feed itself. I think we're fine.

  21. Re:Worked so well with the car industry... on Trump Suggests US Could Slap 10 Percent Tax On iPhones, Laptops From China (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, those Tariffs sure showed China that we are willing to screw ourselves to screw the world.

    For whoever is keeping track:

    Bush / Obama - Saved the car industry
    Trump - Destroying the car industry

    China's two biggest stock markets are down 22% and 29% over the past year.

    GEE, I WONDER WHY!

  22. Re:2nd amendment rights on Trump Says He Doesn't Believe Government Climate Report Finding in a New Low (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yea! The election process is too democratic! Who cares what the ordinary people of the country wants! They should only elect who I want to be in charge!

    Thats what you just wrote. I just took all the bush beating out of it.

    Uhm, you do know that over 2.8mil more people voted for Hillary right? Right?

    The people voted for Hillary. The electoral college voted for Trump.

    https://www.270towin.com/2016_...

    The people don't vote for the President. The electors in the electoral college do.

    Will you ever get tired of winning a race that nobody runs?

  23. Re:2nd amendment rights on Trump Says He Doesn't Believe Government Climate Report Finding in a New Low (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump is only president because the elections aren't democratic enough.

    Wrong. They're exactly as democratic as they should be.

    States elect the President. Not you. Your state can pretend to listen to you, but most only do so to placate you, which is why they almost all have a winner-takes-all system for their electors. States get as much representation in this nation as individual people do. See the house vs. the senate and the wording of the constitution and its amendments. This is by design.

  24. Why don't the companies just make their own internal bots that buy out their own inventories and then resale them as independent scalpers?

    This is Ticketmaster's entire business model. They have other sites they completely own, but run as if they were independent. They give those sites (like TicketsNow) the bulk of the tickets to scalp. If for whatever reason they don't sell out, they shuttle some back to Ticketmaster, Ticketmaster emails people alerting them of a new wave of tickets becoming available on a certain date, and they repeat the process.

  25. Re:lol...Blind Signatures on Richard Stallman Criticizes Bitcoin, Touts a GNU Project Alternative (coindesk.com) · · Score: 1

    3-4-50 when dealing with Oracle.