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  1. Re:good idea on NYC Asks Google Maps For Fewer Left Turns · · Score: 1

    That's a supremely good idea. Left turns from/to two-way streets are difficult and disruptive in New York City.

    Except... don't pedestrians fall under threat from right turns, too?

    Short answer: when drivers finally find a gap in oncoming traffic while turning left, they are likely to be much faster at the pedestrian traffic than when doing a right turn.

    Long answer - TLDR: accidents with pedestrians are >3 times as likely on left turns as on right turns.

  2. Re:Waiting for that first "Nanny state" comment... on NYC Asks Google Maps For Fewer Left Turns · · Score: 1

    It's Political Correctness gone mad!

    BTW, did you notice this story is literally NYC asking Google Maps to have a leftward bias?

    Because they say "three rights equal a left"? Or isn't it the exact opposite: more turns to the right?

  3. Re:or... on NYC Asks Google Maps For Fewer Left Turns · · Score: 2

    they could just put up "no left turn" signs

    That wold be fine, if Google cared. Hey, they fixed the "turn left" where there's a "no left turn" they send me the last time - but the U-turn they want me to do on the next intersection where there's a "no U-turn" sign is hardly better. At least in Germany Google Maps' database is still lousy.

  4. Re:So we need to accelerate global warming? on Double-Dynamo Model Predicts 60% Fall In Solar Output In The 2030s · · Score: 1
  5. Re:Excuse to keep using oil on Double-Dynamo Model Predicts 60% Fall In Solar Output In The 2030s · · Score: 1

    Oh I see, you're just a dick.

    No, I have one - you don't. That's your problem, you dickless denialist.

    Which BTW has nothing to do with you also being wrong (but since you are a denialist, that's a given), which is why you went all looney with claiming my decline started at the decline.

  6. Re:Excuse to keep using oil on Double-Dynamo Model Predicts 60% Fall In Solar Output In The 2030s · · Score: 1

    Ah, I see what you're saying. You start at the beginning of the downward trend in the solar cycle and not during the sharp decline that is the century and a half of the Maunder Minimum.

    Well, It looks like you mistake me for the Little Ice Age. You are even more wrong than TFP is.

  7. Re:Excuse to keep using oil on Double-Dynamo Model Predicts 60% Fall In Solar Output In The 2030s · · Score: 1

    The grand solar cycle

    When you Google a term, and the first two hits are YouTube videos, you know you are in for something hilarious.

  8. Re:Excuse to keep using oil on Double-Dynamo Model Predicts 60% Fall In Solar Output In The 2030s · · Score: 1

    You mean this wikipedia?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_Minimum

    I don't see anything about it starting in the 1300's

    Quote your link: "The Maunder Minimum coincided with the middle part of the Little Ice Age" - Yeah, that Wikipedia. Either TFP doesn't know the difference, or they just don't care.

  9. Re:Link to the original Siemens letter (English) on Siemens Sends Do-Not-Fly Order For Pipistrel's All-Electric Channel Crossing · · Score: 1

    Hi!

    The German article leads to the letter from Siemens, written in English:

    > https://www.pilotundflugzeug.d...

    Seems like the motor was just a loan and flying over water was specifically not agreed apon in the terms and conditions. But what's actually worse: Siemens terminated the loan and want's to have the motor back, immediatly!

    Informing Pipistrel that flying over water violates the loan terms is on thing, but terminating the loan immediatly is another. I would recommend Pipistrel to look for another supplier and never look back!

    Well, I'm sure the NSA has supplied the necessary information to build an identical motor to an American company. OTOH, they may not be allowed to export it so terrorists can build a Electric Motor Glider Of Death.

  10. Re:So why won't he rule on the Newegg case? on Judge Tosses Jury's $533M Patent Verdict Against Apple, Orders New Trial · · Score: 1

    Newegg Asks Appeals Court For Help After Waiting Nearly Two Years For East Texas Judge To Actually Rule In Patent Case

    Well. there was no decision yet either in the cases from the same Patent Troll against Samsung, Google and Amazon (and more) over the same patents. Which somehow never get mention here.

  11. Re:It's a strange thing on Judge Tosses Jury's $533M Patent Verdict Against Apple, Orders New Trial · · Score: 1

    Live by the patent, die by the patent. Apple has been know to abuse patents also. The irony is so heavy.

    Yeah, esp. considering your username: By the early 1980’s Tramiel’s Commodore was so ‘law suite happy’ that a joke inside the company was that the legal department had become a profit center. And yes, that was about patents.

  12. Re:It's a strange thing on Judge Tosses Jury's $533M Patent Verdict Against Apple, Orders New Trial · · Score: 1

    The new trend seems to be that Apple puts "Apple" in front of the word, rather than "i". For brand new products (to them), anyway. Do try to keep up.

    Yeah, for things like Apple TV, Apple Macintosh, and Apple I.

  13. Re:So does this qualify as 'organic'? (probably) on Philips Is Revolutionizing Urban Farming With New GrowWise Indoor Farm · · Score: 0

    The problem here is that neither of us has a fucking clue what you are babbling about, Care for some coherence?

    Neither of us? Speak for yourself. You might want to seek professional help - especially about that stalking delusion.

    Get Help. Both of you.

  14. Re:Advanced users do not use Apple products on How Apple Music Can Disrupt Users' iTunes Libraries · · Score: 1

    Get help.

  15. Re:So does this qualify as 'organic'? (probably) on Philips Is Revolutionizing Urban Farming With New GrowWise Indoor Farm · · Score: 0

    The problem here is that neither of us has a fucking clue what you are babbling about, Care for some coherence?

  16. Re:iOS is toys, OS X is Unix. Learn the difference on How Apple Music Can Disrupt Users' iTunes Libraries · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Whinging. You're losing it, boy.

  17. Re:Advanced users do not use Apple products on How Apple Music Can Disrupt Users' iTunes Libraries · · Score: 1

    Get help.

  18. Re: Advanced users do not use Apple products on How Apple Music Can Disrupt Users' iTunes Libraries · · Score: 1

    Yeah, whatever. You only show the usual signs of not knowing the fuck what you are talking about. For your benefit I'll assume you are just a moron, not a hateboi.

  19. Re:So does this qualify as 'organic'? (probably) on Philips Is Revolutionizing Urban Farming With New GrowWise Indoor Farm · · Score: 0

    Take it up with the OP, if you aren't just here to stalk me. If you have a brain, it should be obvious why - I'm sure as hell are not going to explain, after I futilely tried to explain something quite obvious to you just a few hours ago.

  20. Re:So does this qualify as 'organic'? on Philips Is Revolutionizing Urban Farming With New GrowWise Indoor Farm · · Score: 1, Informative

    "Currently I'd bet yes, this meets the necessary requirements for Organic"

    No, Organic certification forbids the usage of artificial irradiation.

    Indoor lighting != natural radiation.

    Indoor lighting == non-ionizing radiation. Irradiation == ionizing radiation (usually, and most certainly here).

  21. Re:iOS is toys, OS X is Unix. Learn the difference on How Apple Music Can Disrupt Users' iTunes Libraries · · Score: 1

    No no... A couple of them whined and cried. It is obviously effective just by your emotional response. Knee-jerking silly responses about me, the person who did not do it, shows how emotional it makes you. It is funny, really. Do go on about idiocy...

    I sure couldn't hear me whine and cry when I replied to your post, because I was laughing so hard at your stupidity. Do go on proving how dumb you really are.

    If you are lucky, I'll laugh myself to death, and you can imagine one whine less amongst the many voices in your head.

  22. Re: Advanced users do not use Apple products on How Apple Music Can Disrupt Users' iTunes Libraries · · Score: 1

    I've only seen a couple of Apple TV ads over the years,

    Apple invest heavily in product placement advertising - so you've seen lots of Apple advertising in movies, entertainment news, slashdot stories, and music videos.

    Ohh, so how many product placed Apple TVs did you see?

    Apple make TVs?

    Wow, for an Apple Hater you sure know little about Apple. OTOH that probably helps.

  23. Re:Difficult decision? on How Apple Music Can Disrupt Users' iTunes Libraries · · Score: 1
    http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/29494/force-google-music-player-to-refresh-album-art

    I use Google Music Player for a lot of my music (the stuff that required bulk-upload; for new music I greatly prefer Amazon). It's decent.

    What drives me absolutely crazy though is that all my albums are imported with the wrong art. It would be one thing if most the albums showed up as "art not found", but instead, 10% of my albums show up with the album art for "Pulp", another 10% with album art for "Nick Jaina". It's just darn distracting.

    Gee, and again Apple copies Google.

  24. Re:iOS is toys, OS X is Unix. Learn the difference on How Apple Music Can Disrupt Users' iTunes Libraries · · Score: 1

    The bonus is I have learned something new today. I can irk Mac users with a simple / in the name. If I were into trolling that would be my new favorite thing. OS/X!

    You don*t "irk" Mac users that way, you just look like an even bigger moron. IOW do go on.

  25. Re:Looking to move off of iTunes on How Apple Music Can Disrupt Users' iTunes Libraries · · Score: 1

    and what about when i dont want to use itunes anymore? i have thousands of songs in a single directory with no logic behind it???

    And you got that knowledge where the you got the rest of your knowledge, straight out of your rectum. You would only have thousands of songs in a single directory if you put them there. iTunes doesn't do that of its own, you have to make it accept that you want it that way.

    But of course it was predictable that of all people complaining that you couldn't do something on an Apple product, you'd be the one to increase the complaints when shown that you could in fact do that,culminating in the claim that nobody would want what was originally asked for.