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  1. Re:I'd like to know the odds on Canada Grants Bail For Arrested Huawei CFO Who Faces US Extradition (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    The way bail works, is that you're eligible to be released from your current state of incarceration in exchange for a surety, usually enough cash/property to ensure with decent probability that you'll appear in court to face the music. Bail does not guarantee freedom from a criminal hold by another entity, so if you want to bet on Canadian release to China over Canadian release to America, please don't wager the light bill money.

    For her sake, she'd hope the bail means release to her homeland...the Chinese gov't has already spoken publicly that they believe the incarceration is wrong. She would be welcomed home with no risk of extradition to foreign states for prosecution.

    Still, betting on extradition for prosecution.

  2. Standards are "a level of quality or attainment". Are you stating we've set the bar too high?

    Do the math. The research necessary to formulate opinions on important decisions has recently doubled from 140 line items to 280.... given the amount of additional research necessary to be current, who the frack can time-afford to keep up with that increased information flow.

  3. Re:Why the quotes? on NASA's InSight Lander Captures First 'Sounds' of Wind On Mars (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 0

    Recording the sound of the descent and landing sequence of an earth-built lander on another fracking planet would be pretty cool.

    Wasting our time and vision reading your post is more of a senseless tragedy.

  4. Re:No microphones on Mars on NASA's InSight Lander Captures First 'Sounds' of Wind On Mars (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1
    Quora

    The microphone was flown again on the Phoenix lander in 2007 as part of the Mars Descent Imager. However a potential data corruption problem had a small probability of causing an error with one of the gyros during the landing so the camera and microphone were never turned on.

    The Mars 2020 Rover will have microphones aboard.

  5. Re:I, too, once worked for another on 'Send Noncompete Agreements Back To the Middle Ages' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course... if the guy gets your daughter pregnant, spray paints your living room and then puts up billboards bashing your company.... I think then there's reason for enmity.

    That son of a bitch put up negative billboards? Cretin.

  6. Re:PowerPoint foils: Is there ANYTHING they can't on Huawei's CFO Is Being Accused of Fraud, and Her Main Defense Is a PowerPoint (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    If the developers had realized how versatile PowerPoint was as a proof bringer, there's a fair chance everything would be proven... kind of like any belief set on the internet... oh, wait.

  7. Re:I, too, once worked for another on 'Send Noncompete Agreements Back To the Middle Ages' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Hating people who leave you (and your tribe) is an instinctive, knee jerk reaction hardwired into the more primitive part of our brains.

    Overcoming it is the medieval equivalent of marrying you and yours to other noble families to consolidate alliances.

    Even if you work for yourself, there's a mighty good probability you once worked for others in the same field. Don't hate your employees for wanting the same opportunity.

  8. I, too, once worked for another on 'Send Noncompete Agreements Back To the Middle Ages' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    I've had several employees leave to start their own businesses doing the exact same thing we do. I'm friends with all of them. We steer work to each other, and collaborate on larger contracts to compete with the bigger firms.

  9. Re:Wrong, opposes regulation - not net neutrality on Trump's Pick To Be the Next Attorney General Has Opposed Net Neutrality Rules For Years (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    Hear hear!

    The market is continuously fluctuating between healthy competition and virtual monopoly... one end of the spectrum best benefits the consumer, and the other benefits the corporations.

    Government intervention, ideally, acts like finger on the scale attempting equilibrium. More often than not, the finger is clumsy, but its absence from the markets typically does not favor those rooting for healthy competition.

  10. Yes. Some things ought to be above the quibbling over political factions.

    The # of zip codes is not in question, perhaps just the % of them that have three options for internet service.

  11. Re:Could vs. Should on First Baby Born After Deceased Womb Transplant (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Spot on... is that you, mum?

  12. Re:Could vs. Should on First Baby Born After Deceased Womb Transplant (bbc.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Perhaps you should not be so judgemental. The mother and baby are both doing fine, so no harm was done.

    Perhaps. Yet, perhaps, three babies were autumn born to a mother who had access to resources that could only provide for the mother and one offspring this year... many maternal mammals have to choose a child to save, and two to recycle, to make the harsh winter.

    Perhaps the harsh winter is upon the humans and they're not quite aware of it as their lowly cousins.

  13. Could vs. Should on First Baby Born After Deceased Womb Transplant (bbc.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Perhaps and only maybe this is one of those things that we do without a great amount of consideration if we should?!?!

    I know the earth is critically short of humans, but marketing dead wombs to people with broken wombs seems a bit macabre... how does the doc begin that conversation?

  14. Local governments don't give discounts to ANYONE. Their goal is taxes Taxes TAXES and more taxes. If you think President Trump is an asshole, it shows you haven't sized up your local government lately.

    My local government is not too capriciously irresponsible, as expected, so the only surprise is you state: "If you think President Trump is an asshole, it shows you haven't sized up your local government lately" as if it's the only plausible justification for admitting the Commander in Chief is an asshole.

  15. We shouldn't be subsidizing luxury vehicles for the wealthy.

    Put the money into public transport and renewable energy instead.

    Electric vehicles and the associated technology necessary for their cost-effective development for distribution to the masses depends upon subsidizing its early research and advancement.

    Sure, the rich are the only customers early on, but as the R & D is paid for, before you even know it, microwaves and VCRs are available to the common folk.

  16. Re:The Logical Solution on Customer Service Agents Might Be Able To See What You're Typing In Real Time (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    Those few seconds can really eat into profits when you add it all up.

    The save-a-penny program:

    When they build your home, unless it's a custom build and you know what to ask for, even the contractors who construct the homes of the regionally better off are prone to shave costs that don't seem like much to the fellow who purchases just the one home. For instance, particle board (OSB), rather than incredibly more durable plywood, is used beneath the sinks in your kitchen and bathroom. Since you're always and eventually only one leak away from standing water on the bottom plate of your marble-topped cabinet, the additional tens of dollars for cellulose material that survives a leak or three without swelling up like a Football parent in Texas seems a worthy investment.

    Until you are building thousands of these houses.... then it's tens of thousands of dollars.

  17. Re:E.D. and squandered breadcrumbs of power on Influencers Are Being Paid Big Sums To Pitch Products and Thrash Rivals on Instagram and YouTube (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Fascinating.

  18. Celebrities also used to do this more subtle endorsement where they'd be paid to use products publicly without running commercials.

    I think we're splitting hairs where we're willing to say a celebrity's compensated public use of a product doesn't classify as commercial; although subtlety is an important component of advertising, since we all think we're too smart to be influenced by advertising.

    Influencers is an interesting tag, and speaking for myself and me only, I've also never quite understood why people who can act in movies are somehow qualified to make important contributions with their opinions that suggest preference for candidates and political positions.

  19. Re:Don't believe the hype on GitLab's Secret To Success? All Its 350 Employees Work Remotely (inc.com) · · Score: 1

    This is Age of Aquarius, where corporations formed in the nebula of the internet world are no longer required to sustain profits as long as they can continue to attract investment capital. This recent spate of positive spin in the financial news distribution network means they're golden.

  20. There are dozens of other companies on the Internet which collect your information without your consent. Facebook is not the worst offender and if everyone's so concerned, we must enact the laws which make information gathering illegal in general vs. persecuting Facebook alone.

    It's like your house after the holidays... maybe you had the pleasure of the company of a dozen relatives, half of whom drank and stumbled about ignoring their parental duties as their tiny offspring army used your humble abode like a rented mule.

    It's dirty a.f. You have to start cleaning up somewhere and the bathroom (Fakebook) is as good a place to start as any.

  21. Although the extra position left of the decimal point would improve recruiting efforts, I suspect you meant $1.0x10^4...

  22. It's Interesting that the approval by a bureaucratic agency in a single nation is all that's required to make significant use of the finite orbit of all the World.

  23. Trust Me... on Google Accused of 'Trust Demolition' Over Health App (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The check's in the mail.

    No, that dress doesn't make you look fat.

    Despite the fact that our entire history screams otherwise, we won't compromise your privacy to monetize your data.

  24. Re:Oh get real on The Problem Behind a Viral Video of a Persistent Baby Bear (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    This. Human interaction with almost any other species, whether direct like this video or indirect like anthropogenic environmental change, is the single greatest impact on that species' trend toward flourishing or extinction.

    It seems that cattle are an outbreak species, and the great bears are doomed.

  25. You clearly overlooked the quote U.S. officials tell me much more is going on that remains classified.

    Whenever the governors tell you there's more afoot than they are able to reveal because classified,aka:National Security, you can rest assured it's very much like the Saudis explaining Khashoggi's death as an interrogation accident, I mean a rogue operatives escapade, er, um, shit, we don't know what happened, but it definitely wasn't the fault of the Crown Prince.