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  1. Re:Fortunately will not effect me. on EU Set To Mandate Speed Limiters In All New Cars (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm sorry have I posted a bunch of rants about how people with cars should leave cities to be a utopia for bike pricks? You seem to be very bothered that people have the audacity to drive around in cities. All I said was the ability to travel is a a good metric for freedom as it lets you go further, quicker and gives you more options. I never said you can't ride your bike or suggested the be excluded from anywhere or told anyone to do/not do anything. You go ask any kid itching to get their first car and ask them what it means to them then offer them a bike instead and see how that goes.

  2. Re:Invest any state with great care on 'Making Amazon Look Bad': Microsoft Is Backing a Major Tax On Itself and Amazon (geekwire.com) · · Score: 2

    Do your homework before investing in any part of the USA. The politics, laws, SJW, homeless populations, education levels, power prices, political activism. Rank each state/city by the tax and costs they create for a larger brand. Dont allow your band to become a flow fo money for city and state SJW projects and state/city virtue signalling. Once a city/state wants to extract your profits to fund their political virtue signalling have the ability to move to a really great state. A state tat welcome investment and that has low crime and less of a homeless problem. That allows your brand to keep your profits, invest in your brands growth. Avoid the state/cities that want to extract more of your money for their own side of politics. Find the states with good housing prices for your workers, good eduction so your workers can work. Stay away from union and political demands to hire in set parts of a city. To "create" new jobs for random people after community talks. Low 24/7 power costs, low tax, less political activism and fast networks.

    Basically what you're saying is move in, take everything, give nothing, move out.

  3. Who employs more degree-holders in the US?

    • Amazon - 600K worldwide, but only about 60K it calls US corporate workers (likely to be degree holders) - the rest are low-wage fulfilment workers. Will pay tax on gross of 230 billion (2018).
    • Microsoft - 130K worldwide, with 80K in the US, likely to be virtually all corporate workers. Would pay tax on gross of 110 billion (2018).

    So Microsoft is likely to hire more degree holders than Amazon, yet forces Amazon to contribute twice as much to boosting the graduate pool.

    When amazon is so profitable the owner can have his own fucking space program yeah, maybe they should be paying more tax.

  4. Re:Fortunately will not effect me. on EU Set To Mandate Speed Limiters In All New Cars (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    "No, it's being able to go where and when you want. If you're stuck on foot or relying on others you're not going to get far."

    Your freedom to go where and when you want, unfortunately, contradicts my freedom to go how I want. I'd like to have a quiet, peaceful, unpolluted city, with high quality pavements and good bike routes for long distances.

    My car and your bike are not mutually exclusive. Maybe they are if you want to ride around without any consideration for what everyone wants to do, but if you are only concerned with what you want and not anyone else then you can go fuck yourself really,

    You're the snowflake who opined rather self-importantly that your FREE-DUMBS are more important than other peoples freedoms.

    If your freedom from city life is so fucking important to you, move out of the damn city. Your freedom to swing your fist end where everyone else's nose begins.

    What do cities have to do with anything? Seeing as you don't seem to be willing to share, why don't you move to the countryside where no one can bother you and you can keep your impotent rage going forever.

  5. Re:Fortunately will not effect me. on EU Set To Mandate Speed Limiters In All New Cars (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    "No, it's being able to go where and when you want. If you're stuck on foot or relying on others you're not going to get far."

    Your freedom to go where and when you want, unfortunately, contradicts my freedom to go how I want. I'd like to have a quiet, peaceful, unpolluted city, with high quality pavements and good bike routes for long distances.

    My car and your bike are not mutually exclusive. Maybe they are if you want to ride around without any consideration for what everyone wants to do, but if you are only concerned with what you want and not anyone else then you can go fuck yourself really,

  6. Re: Sensors are physical objects on Boeing Unveils 737 Max Software Fixes (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You're right here, Johnny, dying in a crashing 737 is the very definition of the adventure of a lifetime.

    And what if you survive while paraplegic and burned up?

    You'd hate your children missing that opportunity, if you could have them.

    Your chances of dying in a car crash are still waaaaaaaay higher? Do you not drive anywhere either?

  7. Re:Sensors are physical objects on Boeing Unveils 737 Max Software Fixes (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It should also check with other sensors. Like the plane would see the dodgy AoA data and think shit we're going to stall, except our speed is fine and out altitude isn't changing. Maybe our AoA isn't a problem after all and I shouldn't nose dive this thing to prevent a stall that doesn't seem to be happening

  8. Re: Sensors are physical objects on Boeing Unveils 737 Max Software Fixes (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Medical device certification in the EU is a joke compared with the US.

    That must be why practically every EU country has life expectancy higher than the US.

    The shitty medical device certification.

    We found the cure for old age, let's party.

    I'd say that's probably more because healthcare is actually affordable across most of europe rather than the quality of the machines. Plus we don't run around shooting each other all the time.

  9. Re:Fortunately will not effect me. on EU Set To Mandate Speed Limiters In All New Cars (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Real freedom is not needing to own a car (and not have it affect you in the slightest). The best cities are car-free.

    No, it's being able to go where and when you want. If you're stuck on foot or relying on others you're not going to get far.

  10. Re:Why would they? on Apple Still Hasn't Fixed Its MacBook Keyboard Problem (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    My 2018 MacBook Pro had the keyboard problem and they fixed it for free. In our office three out of four were totally fine.

    So you have a 25% failure rate? Amazing.

  11. Why would they? on Apple Still Hasn't Fixed Its MacBook Keyboard Problem (wsj.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why would they? Suckers keep buying them and then they can make extra on the repairs.

  12. "Two mediums existed on the ISS, but only one was prepped for a spacewalk. Instead of devoting extensive crew time to make the extra medium-sized suit space-worthy by Friday, NASA decided to restaff"

    Alright, have you got that announcement ready?

    Yeah. We have made sure we have everything we need for this right?

    I'm sure it will be fine.

  13. Re:Quick! Send up another one! NOW! on First All-Female Spacewalk Canceled Because NASA Doesn't Have Two Suits That Fit (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    So with it being a known thing should they not really make sure say 24hrs in advance what size they need.

  14. NASA director reads the memo again:

    by any means necessary

    Hrmmm, clickety clickety clickety...Wall funds diverted to NASA!

    Just tell trump that they are going to put all those scary foreignese "invaders" on the moon and he'll go right for it.

  15. To meet with the aliens. Duh.

    There are no aliens on the moon, idiot. That's where the nazis went.

  16. If not for pork, what is the purpose of landing on the Moon ?

    Nice beach holiday at the sea of tranquility?

  17. Re:and NASA tells Mike Pence - on Mike Pence Tells NASA To Accelerate Human Missions To the Moon 'By Any Means Necessary' (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    With half the military budget they could probably put a starbucks on mars.

  18. Re:Urgency must be our watch word. on Mike Pence Tells NASA To Accelerate Human Missions To the Moon 'By Any Means Necessary' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Gotta get it locked down before the chinese get any more ideas.

  19. Try a rocket, I hear that's the best way way to accelerate moon missions. Or any kind really.

  20. INB4 newspapers "waaaaaah no is visiting our site anymore"

  21. Re:So long and thanks for all the fish on Europe Passes Controversial Online Copyright Reforms (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    You do realise that youtube had upload filtering for quite a while and it had nothing whatsoever to do with the EU?

    So reversed images and pitch shifted audio from here on out then?

  22. Re:What do the remainers in the UK think about thi on Europe Passes Controversial Online Copyright Reforms (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    Or did they think about this, or think anything through at all?

    This is pretty shit but it's not worth burning everything to the ground over, and if you don't expect the uk gov to follow suit under the smallest amount if pressure then you're as deluded as farage et al.

  23. Re:Not democracy on Europe Passes Controversial Online Copyright Reforms (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    The EU is the most incorruptable institution on the planet.

    Ummmm, no.

  24. Re:Not democracy on Europe Passes Controversial Online Copyright Reforms (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Using comparison algorithms, it is possible to pre-filter content that gets uploaded to large platforms like YouTube, etc and have it automatically blocked. So if an image was used to create a meme, it could be cross-referenced with a database and blocked.

    To implement a system to do this today may not be cost effective but in 5 years time it could be a lot cheaper with advances in technology and software.

    There are all kinds of ways to quickly detect even small parts of copyrighted media now. If something is modified to the extent that it doesn't at all resemble the original content, it could get past these comparison filters.

    All of these changes to EU laws will result in censorship. If it's successful in the EU it will spread to all countries.

    How long do you want to wait as the picture you want to post is crosschecked against every frame of media ever produced?

  25. Re:Not democracy on Europe Passes Controversial Online Copyright Reforms (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Laws not written by the people for the people, the EU showing it doesn't give a fuck about democracy.

    And yet, morons still think BREXIT is stupid.

    This situation might be fucked up but brexit is fucking stupid.