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  1. Re:Quality? on Tesla Sending New Wall-Charger Adapters After Garage Fire · · Score: 1
    I don't know what a jemmy is, but it sounds like a tool of last resort.

    For us, a request for the force multiplier will get a hammer in your hand.

  2. Re:Modus Operandi on Tesla Sending New Wall-Charger Adapters After Garage Fire · · Score: 1
    Indeed.

    There's another common denominator in the construction or remodeling process. Occasionally a competent electrician is used, one who understands load calcs, amp draw, and wire sizing. Many more times than you would want to know about, you get the other kind of electrician.

    Apprentices training on the public, contractors who have perennial negative cash flow problems, and workers right in the middle of not giving a damn.

  3. Re:Privacy My Arse on Ford Exec: 'We Know Everyone Who Breaks the Law' Thanks To Our GPS In Your Car · · Score: 1
    Sure. Good catch.

    I do agree, however, with the multitude of posts in this thread that anything Ford has is available to the government upon request.

    The government buys a lot of vehicles.

  4. I assume they are bidet controls.

  5. Re:If I ever own a Ford.... on Ford Exec: 'We Know Everyone Who Breaks the Law' Thanks To Our GPS In Your Car · · Score: 1
    Crafty. It is important, though, to be principled.

    With or without a side of ignorance.

  6. Privacy My Arse on Ford Exec: 'We Know Everyone Who Breaks the Law' Thanks To Our GPS In Your Car · · Score: 1

    With the slow erosion of the written in stone personal freedoms associated with the Bill of Rights, it is not astonishing an implied freedom is being phased out.

  7. Where have we seen this before? on Ford Exec: 'We Know Everyone Who Breaks the Law' Thanks To Our GPS In Your Car · · Score: 4, Interesting
    OnStar has used Madison Avenue to convince auto purchasers of the safety and security advantages of always being monitored,

    completely failing to mention the compromise in freedom.

  8. Just wow. on The True Color of Ancient Sea Creatures · · Score: 1
    Dark skin pigment is favored in natural selection where it offers a camouflaged appearance in dark seas.

    Scientists everywhere are astonished.

    This will likely be evidence enough to countermand deeply convicted religious objectors to evolution.

  9. Re:We could not make them on Weapons Systems That Kill According To Algorithms Are Coming. What To Do? · · Score: 1

    Of course there's the flip side of the responsibility argument that, at press release time, sounds like, "Though we're deeply saddened by today's events, it was an unforeseen malfunction bordering on an act of God that killed those innocents. We are delegating investigative authority to a special counsel composed of industry experts."

  10. Re:It seems a poor comparison. on Weapons Systems That Kill According To Algorithms Are Coming. What To Do? · · Score: 2

    I think that I find the glee we as a species have in building better was of killing each other to be really depressing on the whole.

    The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done." ~George Carlin

  11. Re:"feeling like I had violated my patient's priva on The Other Exam Room: When Doctors 'Google' Their Patients · · Score: 1

    Granted, I'm an adult and I can decide but for medical guidance to be accurate and worthwhile you have to be honest with your doctor and his pointing out the embarrassing truth might be what it takes to get a patient to straighten up and fly right.

    This is probably accurate in many cases.

    The geriatric coke addict in the summary not withstanding.

  12. Re:Patients Lie on The Other Exam Room: When Doctors 'Google' Their Patients · · Score: 2

    And it can harm doctors. With the spread of viral diseases like hepatitis, patient deception can lead to infection of medical personnel.

  13. Or not a plot on Cartels Are Using Firetruck-Sized Drillers To Make Drug Pipelines · · Score: 1

    And I'll wager the guy who introduced this technology to the smugglers has his Eureka moment in line at the drive-through teller. Hmmm...tubes, huh?

  14. Re:A recommended practice? on Carmakers Keep Data On Drivers' Locations From Navigation Systems · · Score: 1
    Enough to object, enough to make it a deal-breaker at the POS.

    Most people are busy with their petty little lives as their freedoms slink away as subtly as a frog slow boiling in water.

  15. Re:A recommended practice? on Carmakers Keep Data On Drivers' Locations From Navigation Systems · · Score: 1
    The sad truth is not enough people care.

    I'm a law abiding citizen so I have nothing to hide. And I'm getting the new Eddie Bauer/Denali edition regardless!

    Fool's logic.

  16. Re:But of course on Carmakers Keep Data On Drivers' Locations From Navigation Systems · · Score: 1
    I, too, see right through that sort of thing on the phone or off it, but these companies keep doing it, so there must be some less suspicious people out there who buy this load of crap

    How else do they stay in business to keep doing it?

  17. Re:3D printing hype nonsense on The $100 3D-Printed Artificial Limb · · Score: 1
    Let's see... how does this go again?

    Hey dawg! We heard you needed a robotic arm so we're sending you a robotic arm for your robotic arm.

  18. Re:Comparison to conventional prosthetics? on The $100 3D-Printed Artificial Limb · · Score: 1
    About two weeks pay.

    Average annual inccome for Sudan is $2400 U.S.D. > $46,000 in the States.

  19. Re:I didn't RTFA or TFS on The $100 3D-Printed Artificial Limb · · Score: 1

    Ironically, when you reside in a living hell, there are no personal injury lawyers.

  20. Re:I didn't RTFA or TFS on The $100 3D-Printed Artificial Limb · · Score: 2
    What is the premise for which it is illegal to substitute cheaper parts, he wondered aloud?

    And a good post=very informative.

  21. Re:What happened to "networks are overloaded"? on AT&T Introduces "Sponsored Data" Allowing Services to Bypass 4G Data Caps · · Score: 1

    So, the original reason for data caps were that a few unscrupulous users were hogging all of the bandwidth and making everyone else suffer through a poor network experience... I guess either that wasn't the real reason or AT&T doesn't mind if you have a poor network experience as long as they get more money...

    Your post rminds me of the George Carlin bit on "Where Did All The Oil Come From?" here

  22. Re:Good news for me on China Lifts 13-Year-Old Foreign Console Ban · · Score: 1
    Heh heh...nice.

    On the plus side, it's going to make a lot of average-looking Chinese girls instantly more palatable.

  23. Re:just consoles? on China Lifts 13-Year-Old Foreign Console Ban · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes. If by restricted you mean pirated faster & furiously.

  24. These aren't the facts you're looking for. on AT&T Introduces "Sponsored Data" Allowing Services to Bypass 4G Data Caps · · Score: 3, Funny
    So you mean the people with the money (corporations) would prefer to censor the information the average citizen has access to?

    This would be unprecedented.

  25. Re:Nothing new in essence on Are New Technologies Undermining the Laws of War? · · Score: 1
    There are still multitudes of Vietnam era soldiers who will die swearing the proportionality used by America is the reason the war was lost.

    The U.S. nearly lost the taste for war after that debacle, and was relegated to Paper Tiger for a generation.

    The unbridled ability of humankind to forget any lesson, given enough time, is astonishing.