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

    ""American" cars are now manufactured in Mexico"
    which ahd NOTHING to do with unions. See: NAFTA

    " Hostess had to stop making Twinkies"
    after years of mismanagement, and several rounds of paycuts. Oh, and the people who wanted to cut workers pay again? made a mint on the sale; which is a vulture capitalists real motivation.

    " the corporation doesn't have much of a choice but to give the workers what they want."
    workers don't want the operations shut down either., but when it becomes an excuse to continually cut jobs, not give pay increases, create worse and worse working conditions a line in the sane must be drawn.

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

    most negotiations aren't like that, and it's really yhr only leverage they have.

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

    Government.

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

    Wow, any excuse for your ignorant and hateful rant, eh?

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

    Someone using the anecdote to support their bias? Slashdot.

    Man see #6 sold car in America do some stuff, extrapolates it to everyone.

  6. Re:GPL trumps BSD as a usable open source licence on New Operating System Seeks To Replace Linux In the Cloud · · Score: 1, Insightful

    They are different and for different purposes. There is no 'trumping' there is which one is right for your purpose.

    Also, there are more BSD systems then GPL. Not that it matters, but I thought you should be aware of that. There are about a billion iOS devices alone.

  7. OMG! on Chinese DRAM Plant Fire Continues To Drive Up Memory Prices · · Score: 1

    my 50 dollar DRAM is now 52.50.

  8. Re:I don't believe that GM is serious about an EV on Can GM Challenge Tesla With a Long-Range Electric Car? · · Score: 1

    They weren't questionable circumstance; regardless of what that horrid 'documentary' claimed. I would call it a 'biasmentory', but it doesn't roll of the tongue.
    GM could not guarantee a long enough life cycle to justify a sales option.
    Plain and simple.

    "The oil and auto industries colluded to keep EVs and any other competitive technology from eroding the profits of Big Oil."
    That the stupidest thing you could say. GM divorcing themselves from oil would make them more money, more powerful, and give the global dominance in that there tech would be used by everyone. SO unless you believe GM, out of the goodness of their hearts' is helping oil companies in lieu of mkaing money, gaining power, and getting royalties from every other car manufactured, your statement makes no logical sense.

    and learn to read your links:
    "... New York Railways Company had entered receivership in 1919,[33] 6 years before it was bought by the New York Railways Corporation with funding from GM and others."

    Not that it matters. What are they doing now?

    Needing Gas is an albatross around automakers necks.

  9. Re:Chevy Volt 2013 owner on Can GM Challenge Tesla With a Long-Range Electric Car? · · Score: 1

    35,000 is now for millionaires?

    They aren't chasing Tesla, they are poring money into new battery technology; as is every other American Car company.

    This is a good thing. If they can improve the range by 25%, it will be huge.

  10. It's not an old excuse on Can GM Challenge Tesla With a Long-Range Electric Car? · · Score: 1

    It's a valid reason.

  11. Re:Not autonomous? on FEMA Grounds Private Drones That Were Helping To Map Boulder Floods · · Score: 1

    it as nothing to do with and perceived patent problem. However your statement does indicate that you have no idea what a patent actually is.

  12. Re:Not autonomous? on FEMA Grounds Private Drones That Were Helping To Map Boulder Floods · · Score: 1

    Drone: an unmanned craft that is self directed.

    You know, like a drone.

  13. Re:BFD on London Tube Cleaners Don't Want Fingerprint Clock-in · · Score: 1

    SO if you ahve a 9 to 5 job anything goes? really?

    Hey, why not chain them to a central post to be sure they don't leave.

  14. Re:BFD on London Tube Cleaners Don't Want Fingerprint Clock-in · · Score: 1

    I am a high paid professional. If they implemented finger print timekeeping would consider it demeaning and wouldn't want to use it.

    I'm sorry you can't see that tying a piece of you to your work is demeaning.
    Not to mention the gross security issues with using fingerprints.

    https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/demeaning

  15. Re:BFD on London Tube Cleaners Don't Want Fingerprint Clock-in · · Score: 1

    It's ok, no one will pay attention to your typos when you make such hatefully statements.

    Because apparently people who clean up are so low they can't be demeans..according to you.

    And what happens when the database is compromised? will they issue the workers new thumbs?

    But hey, anyone who wants to be treated decently it apparently a cheater and liar.

  16. Re:BFD on London Tube Cleaners Don't Want Fingerprint Clock-in · · Score: 0

    No, it's you:
    Educate yourself.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery

  17. Re:No thanks... on Ferrari's New Car Tech Idea: Make Car Go Really Fast · · Score: 0

    Its rude and insulting, but Sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on a person's sex.

    It's misogynistic.

  18. Re:No thanks... on Ferrari's New Car Tech Idea: Make Car Go Really Fast · · Score: 1

    Who says it's acceptable?

    to be a fair comparison small vagina isn't really an insult. But that besides the point.

  19. Re:and like many Italian sports cars on Ferrari's New Car Tech Idea: Make Car Go Really Fast · · Score: 1

    Since Top Gear has become biased whining, I don't understand why they are still relevant.
    The races they have are fun to watch,.

  20. Re:and like many Italian sports cars on Ferrari's New Car Tech Idea: Make Car Go Really Fast · · Score: 1

    I could find a single modern SUV with worse MPG(proper not the Imperial crap*)

    *see how pointless jingoism doesn't help?

  21. Re:mix and match on Ferrari's New Car Tech Idea: Make Car Go Really Fast · · Score: 0

    top speed means as fast as it can possible go under it's own power.

    You fail at pedantry.

    I like how you had to change top speed to high speed in order to try and twist the conversation to show people how smart you think you are.

  22. so finally on Ferrari's New Car Tech Idea: Make Car Go Really Fast · · Score: 1

    cars are using tech to go fast. It's about time~

  23. Re:Herpetology on Croak & Dagger: Following the Trail of a Herpetologist Spy · · Score: 1

    I know you form such shows as 'the Simpsons'.

    woefully esoteric?

  24. Re:Con CERN on Black Holes Grow By Eating Quantum Foam · · Score: 1

    " There was some concern of the hypothetical danger creation of such black holes might pose.
    not my anyone who know WTF they where talking about.

  25. Re:No thanks... on Ferrari's New Car Tech Idea: Make Car Go Really Fast · · Score: 2

    Boring person with boring care isn't interested in exciting things. News at 6 (past your bedtime)