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  1. Re:Because Linux sucks. on Why Aren't People Abandoning Windows For Linux? (slashgear.com) · · Score: 1

    Parent might be flamebait, but it rings true.

  2. Re:Why the hell is he still in office? on Devin Nunes Faces an Uphill Battle in His Lawsuit Against Twitter (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    He is from one of the last Republican strongholds in CA.

    He won in 2014 by 40 points, but only won by about 5 points in 2016.

  3. Re: So, maybe not the best bedside manner on A Doctor Remotely Told A Patient He Was Going To Die Using A Video-Link Robot (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    And this is exactly why I bash Democrats who want to ban private health insurance and force all of us to go on shitty medicare.

    You are confusing Medicare and Medicaid and the vastly different reimbursement rates and coverage that they offer. Nearly every doctor and hospital accepts Medicare; in fact, if Medicare was abolished a large number of hospitals and doctors would go out of business.

    And the vast majority of actual doctors want Medicare for all, so there's that.

  4. Re:Intake manifold on Consumer Reports No Longer Recommends the Tesla Model 3 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    There's two kinds of people in the world, those who can spin a wrench and those who cry like bitches.

    It's 2019 bruh. I do both.

  5. Re:3rd world country law? on Judge Says Washington State Cyberstalking Law Violates Free Speech (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    This is actually happening to my wife right now.

    https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2019/02/01/lemoore-files-for-restraining-order-against-council-member-holly-blair/

    Only the dictator in this case is the town's Police Chief and his buddy, the City Manager.

  6. Re:Intake manifold on Consumer Reports No Longer Recommends the Tesla Model 3 (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    This specially applies to most cars with transversally placed V6 engines.

    Yep. In order to save $300 on labor, I replaced the spark plugs on my 2004 Hyundai Sonata, which involved taking the intake manifold off, which involved taking a bunch of other pieces around manifold off.

    I did it, but it was a nightmare and in the end I wished I'd spent the $300.

  7. Re:My issue with this on Second China-Bound Apple Car Worker Charged With Data Theft (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    "Intellectual Property *Theft*"

    Sorry.

  8. Re:My issue with this on Second China-Bound Apple Car Worker Charged With Data Theft (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    ...on civil matters.

    Intellectual Property is a federal crime in the U.S..

  9. Re: Get back to me... on Only Nuclear Energy Can Save the Planet (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    California had trouble just rerouting water due to a fish if i recall recently...

    The fish is an indicator of the overall health of the delta ecosystem that the water feeds into. The diversion of too much water could mean an ecological disaster that would devastate industries that rely on the delta ecosystem.

  10. It was common for people to check in with "only 2 people" but then secretly bring in...

    My wife and I do this with our five kids. We don't trash hotel rooms though.

  11. Re:A curriculum for the future on How Do Universities Prepare Graduates For Jobs That Don't Yet Exist? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    All of this, aside from maybe the teamwork and organization bit are covered in a traditional liberal arts education.

  12. Prop 13 is why taxes like this exist in California.

  13. Re:Because what better way to fund services on California Considers Text Messaging Tax To Fund Cell Service For Low-Income Residents (thehill.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You can thank Republican slumlord Howard Jarvis' Prop 13 for gutting a major portion of the states' tax revenue and making passing progressive taxes to fill the gaps next to impossible.

  14. Re:Wasted 15+ years of my life on that garbage. on FreeBSD 12 Released (freebsd.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nobody misses you.

  15. Re:California's Growing Imported Electricity Probl on Californians Have Now Purchased Half a Million EVs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    ...nor do I live there

    I can tell.

    They are funding a bullet train to nowhere

    Actually, it's going to connect the Bay Area and Southern California metro areas with each other and the Central Valley, but go on with the regurgitated talking points.

    They can claim they are 100 renewable as long as they do not count the energy they import from other states.

    The mandate does take into account energy coming from other states.

  16. Re:Power consumption on Californians Have Now Purchased Half a Million EVs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I've lived in California for 40 years in the hottest part of the state and aside from the early 2000's when Enron was creating fake power shortages in order to gounge the state, I've never been forced to turn my thermostat up, not have I experience a brownout or blackout due to power grid capacity issues.

    That is not to say that EV charging is insignificant, but right now EVs are a drop in the bucket compared to air conditioning, and EVs are typically charged at night anyway when grid usage is minimal.

    For the future when EV charging does make a large impact, California has already started to pilot programs were, like smart thermostats, EVSEs are tied into the grid and automatically ramp down during capacity crunches.

  17. Re:The problem on Californians Have Now Purchased Half a Million EVs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Close to 0% of California's energy comes from coal.

  18. Yeah, I'd really like to see some citations on that.

    I would guess it's the prison industrial complex and the war on drugs.

  19. Re:Future Business Case Study on VW Says the Next Generation of Combustion Cars Will Be Its Last (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Just on Sunday I drove from Phoenix to Salt Lake City in heat at the beginning and snow at the end, via middle of nowhere, in 13 hours.

    Good for you. I've driven that far one time in 22 years of driving.

    Your standards for what everyone must have in an EV are arbitrary.

  20. Re:Need to get battery lifespan up on Trump Administration Wants To End Subsidies For Electric Cars, Renewables (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    "Only" 200,000 miles?

  21. That's a bit of an exageration on 'The Supremacy of Japanese Cars Has Been 40-Plus Years In the Making' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    American cars are generally very reliable, but not as reliable as Japanese and Korean makes.

  22. During a recent study session, one of our local city council members was shocked to find out that low income housing existed in our city. We live in one of the most impoverished areas of the nation. He was incredulous at the thought and demanded to know where this supposed low income housing was.

  23. Re:If this is a vulnerability; my programs have a on Trivial Bug In X.Org Server Gives Root Permissions On Linux, BSD Systems (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    ...something more along the lines of "sender" and "displayer".

    It's Unix and open source. Naming things badly is a defacto requirement.

    "I have only been able to come up with one algorithm for creating Unix command names: think of a good English word to describe what you want to do, then think of an obscure near- or partial-synonym, throw away all the vowels, arbitrarily shorten what's left, and then, finally, as a sop to the literate programmer, maybe reinsert one of the missing vowels."

    -- Rachael Padman

  24. Re:Tesla deliberately being discredited as a compa on Tesla Reports Third-Quarter Profit That Beats Market Expectations (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Tesla absolutely was bailed out by the federal government. They were on the verge of bankruptcy in 2009 and only survived due to a fed-backed $465M loan from the Department of Energy. The loan program was not meant to bail out companies, but without it, Tesla most likely would not have survived 2009.

  25. Heyyyyy! on Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Dies of Cancer At Age 65 (cnbc.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Allen had nothing to do with systemd!