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  1. Re:Professional attention whore strikes again on PewDiePie Calls Out the 'Old-School Media' For Spiteful Dishonesty · · Score: 1

    "Death to All Jews" one in particular is not remotely anti-semitic.

    I don't know what planet you're from or what your native language is - but here on Earth, in English, "Death to All Jews" is about as anti-semitic as it gets.
     

    But I do rather fear the consequences of proving Trump right, of validating the echo chambers of tens of millions of people who were right-leaning fence sitters until they saw the proof stack up that the mainstream media really is full of hysterical, baldfaced lies.

    First, present me with evidence that they lied. (And I think that's the real problem here - you don't even begin to grasp what PewDiePie did and why it's objectionable.)

  2. Re:Never Fails on Brazil Judge Rules Uber Drivers Are Employees, Deserve Benefits (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Someone comes up with an idea that's pretty good, is designed for people to work part time to pick up some cash, minimal regulations, etc. and it's a pretty good thing for everyone all around.

    I think you're posting in the wrong discussion - because there's considerable regulation both when it comes to hiring labor and when comes to transporting paying passengers. Regulation that Uber has consistently tried to circumvent, first with their nonsensical "ride sharing" claims, then with their equally nonsensical "we're just a tech company" claims. The only people it's "pretty good" for are Uber's investors, because they collect all the profit and shove all the risk onto the drivers.

  3. So much this. To take the actions he did, PewDiePie had to be either supremely ignorant of the world around him, or supremely egotistical (I'm so big they won't dare take any action against me), or both. (Or, well, an actual anti-Semite but that's also covered by the earlier cases.)

    A poster elsethread is trying to make the case that he actually didn't mean it... But misses that "not meaning it" doesn't absolve of him of responsibility for actually doing it. YouTube and Disney rightfully don't care whether he meant it or not - because he actually did it.

  4. Re:Dogfish Head - Chateau Jiahu on How Beer Brewed 5,000 Years Ago In China Tastes Today (thestreet.com) · · Score: 1

    In keeping with historic evidence, Dogfish brewers use brown rice syrup, orange blossom honey, muscat grape, barley malt and hawthorn berry. The wort is fermented for about a month with sake yeast until the beer is ready for packaging.

    So you have evidence of the fermenting time? And the yeast strain? No, you don't. So, no, you don't have a historical beer. (And that's setting aside the fact that 'brown rice syrup' isn't brown rice. Etc... etc..)

  5. Re:If your personal emails are released... on State-sponsored Hackers Targeting Prominent Journalists, Google Warns (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    Because our Masters have been exceedingly successful in divide-and-conquer. They convinced enough people (sheep) that electing their Angel Babies and keeping the Other Sides Hell Spawned Demons out of office is more important than anything else.

  6. Re:Something is missing on How UPS Trucks Saved Millions of Dollars By Eliminating Left Turns (ndtv.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The GPS in my Honda Odyssey also tries to eliminate left turns. I turned that feature off because it was sometimes doing a ridiculous amount of re-routing to avoid a single left turn.

    But you aren't a UPS driver, you're going to a single destination. A UPS driver is going to multiple destinations, which means the algorithm can use a trick you cant's - sequencing destinations. What's a "ridiculous" detour to you is an opportunity to deliver package "B" while avoiding a left turn on the way to delivering package "A". UPS's algorithms don't just arbitrarily eliminate left turns, they sequence the route (and choose which truck which package goes onto) so as to reduce the need for left turns and reduce the total number of miles traveled per package.

  7. Re:If your personal emails are released... on State-sponsored Hackers Targeting Prominent Journalists, Google Warns (politico.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    and there's nothing unprofessional in them, the more embarrassing some personal stuff may be the more sympathy you'll get from the public and against the hackers.

    Hardly. The embarrassing personal stuff will be turned into evidence that the journalist is unprofessional - or at least undesirable. ("Scott Mediapersonality is into $kink, how can we trust him!".) The goal here, on the part of the hacker's Masters is weaponize the email - and that's terrifyingly easy.

    "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."

    Dig into my email, and you'll find nothing unethical... But you will find a lot of otaku/anime material. A couple of quotes from those emails, put into an article with plenty of fanservice and hentai screenshots... and there's a lot of people who don't know who'll willingly believe I'm a rapist, a pervert, a pedophile. Hell, if they really wanted to, my SCA emails could be similiary spun - "here's a guy who gives fealty to a King! How can he believe in democracy!".

    Etc... etc...

    People in general won't believe the facts. They aren't even interested in the facts. All they know and think is what their Masters tell them to know and think.

  8. Re:He may not get to make the choice on Maybe It's Time For Jack Dorsey To Pick a Company (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    committing a federal felony in what you write, that's Twitter's idea of protected speech.

    [[Citation Needed]] Exactly what Federal laws have been violated and ignored by Twitter?
     
    And by citation - I mean from a reputable source (which Breitbart isn't).

  9. Re:Meanwhile, you can buy a Chevy Bolt today... on Tesla To Start Pilot Production of Model 3 This Month (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course, since the Model 3 will end up being more expensive than planned, I'm guessing many of those orders will get cancelled...

    And more expensive could be more serious issue than many might think - because the Model 3 is already in the range of a high end sedan.

  10. Re:It was announced too early on Tesla To Start Pilot Production of Model 3 This Month (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless Tesla can produce and sell a boat load of the Model 3's and have customers be satisfied.

    Telsa already has sold them. The only thing left is for them to be shipped to the customers.

    Um, no. Tesla has accepted deposits for them. Now they need to produce them and sell them.

  11. I bet those engineers don't get performance bonuses or commissions.

  12. Re:Who would sink a nuclear ship? on US Navy Decommissions the First Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carrier (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Nine nuclear ships have sunk at sea. None of them resulted in significant radiation release.

    Yet.
     
    And precisely none of them were sunk under attack. (And two of them aren't even in the ocean any more - they are salvaged.) That's an awful thin experience base on which to make long term judgements.

  13. Re:Gratuitous speculation on Police Use Pacemaker Data To Charge Homeowner With Arson, Insurance Fraud (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm reluctant to decry the science behind that evidence, but I'm much more reluctant to allow prosecution on the grounds, "You should have had a heart attack and you didn't"

    Why? How is this different from any other kind of evidence that shows a defendant's claim to be physically impossible? Say a defendant claims to have been thirty miles away from the scene of a crime - when eyewitness accounts place him a mile away five minutes before (or after) the crime?

  14. Re:But they use lithium-ion on Tesla's Battery Revolution Just Reached Critical Mass (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    This is a stationary setup. Weight and size shouldn't matter.

    Even in stationary setups size and weight matters - because these directly affect any number of design details of the building.

  15. More horseshit. on The US Border Patrol Is Checking Detainees' Facebook Profiles (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    President Obama neither wrote nor signed the order

    Indeed he didn't. I'm just pointing out that Obama determined that these countries were of special concern for the purposes of immigration, so Trump's choice of these countries isn't arbitrary.

    It doesn't matter if they were arbitrary or not. President Obama's role is completely irrelevant.

    The choice to create a ban was entirely President Trump's. The choice of countries to ban was President Trump's.

    (It you want to try and apologize for that fascist lump of shit, you'll find little sympathy from me.)

  16. Re:This Is What Happens When You Ignore The People on The US Border Patrol Is Checking Detainees' Facebook Profiles (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Then finally, after many years, a presidential candidate appeared who was also a racist bigoted xenophobe appeared and the public jumped at the chance to elect him.

    So now, after years of the left protecting human and civil rights over the racist bigoted xenophobe views of those of us on the right, we're now the ones in the driving seat of the steamroller.

    There, fixed that for you.

  17. Re:Well, yes. As they should. on The US Border Patrol Is Checking Detainees' Facebook Profiles (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Does anyone seriously advocate that someone who posts something like "Death to America!" and has images of ISIS flags all over their Facebook page NOT be stopped at the border??

    If we aren't arresting people who post "Death to $RACE!" on their Facebook pages - then no, we have no moral right to stop those people at the border. (Not the least of which, the US Constitution guarantees Freedom of Speech.)

  18. Horseshit. on The US Border Patrol Is Checking Detainees' Facebook Profiles (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Moreover, it's not a "ban" anyway; he is delaying visas by 90 days for people from seven countries of concern, countries incidentally chosen by Obama, not Trump.

    President Obama neither wrote nor signed the order - President Trump did. President Trump chose those countries.

  19. You oversimplify, vastly on Google Earnings Reveal $3.6 Billion Lost On 'Moonshots' In 2016 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The stock price of Tesla Motors is a fine example. Here we have a company investing hugely in physical plant, and Wall Street has no idea what to do with it, so the value of TSLA fluctuates by 50% of its value, all the time.

    It also fluctuates because it's investing hugely in physical plant far beyond it's projected needs - and because it's projected needs far exceed it's proven capacity. Then there's the doubts about about how many Model 3's will actually sell, and doubts about Tesla's ability to actually produce them in the large numbers ordered. Then there's their debt load (taken on to pay off the government loans 'early'). And their recent purchase of Solar City. And liability concerns over Autopilot. And their ongoing cash flow problems. And... Well, you get the picture.

    And the picture is much more complicated than you paint.

    Meanwhile, Amazon has barely been profitable, in a large part because of their enormous and ongoing investment in physical plant, with their ongoing net positive cash flow... and Amazon's stock prices have been doing just fine. Boeing, with a proven track record, has dumped billions into developing the 787 over the last decade - but their stock price has done just fine as well. Etc... etc...

    Wall Street knows how to handle companies sinking enormous sums for deferred payout just fine. Tesla may be the darling of the geek fanboy crowd, but said crowd isn't actually very business savvy or financially well informed.

  20. It is surprising the project comes from a nation with a relatively small territory: the benefits are much smaller than if it happened in for instance Russia, China, or USA.

    It's not just that it's a small country. It's a small country with essentially one destination - 20% of the population lives in the capital (and 50% in the capital's metro area). Also, the capital is the government, financial, commercial, industrial, educational, entertainments, etc... etc... hub of the entire country. (Also very much unlike the US.)

  21. Re:Should I care? on Netflix is 'Killing' DVD Sales, Research Finds (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    In a world where we were discussing obsolete technology - you'd have a point. Since we don't live in such a world, stuff it where the sun doesn't shine.

  22. Re:Hope he's right, but I doubt it on People Don't Realize How Deep AI Already Is In So Many Things, Salesforce CEO Benioff Says (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    This was the first time we didn't have a ready answer for what people could do next when they no longer needed a typing pool, etc.

    So much this. And it's not just semi-skilled work like pool typists. It's skilled work like accountants, draftsmen, and engineers. It's not just blue collar work, it's white collars as well. Our economy is in the process of going through a Second Industrial Revolution - and the first one tossed millions into grinding poverty for the better part of a century. I don't foresee the coming one as being much better.
     

    I hope executives like Benioff don't just assume everything is going to work out.

    The problem isn't just executives like Benioff. There's plenty of nit brained conservatives who quote the "80% to 2%" statistic you do, but don't follow through the logic. There's plenty of conservative nit brains who don't grasp how the earlier revolutions played out. There's plenty of conservative nit brains who claim that there will always be "plenty of manual labor required", but who can't grasp that most unskilled jobs are gone and most skilled jobs are filled - there's insufficient demand for the millions facing unemployment or underemployment, now or in the coming decades.

    And the worst are the conservative nit brains who presume that everyone un- or under- employed is only in that state due to their own personal choices.
     

    Maybe 10% of them have the aptitude to move up to the "robot repairman" level of employment, so where does the other 90% go? While growing up in the Rust Belt, I saw factory closures that dumped thousands of low-skilled workers out onto the job market all at once. Sadly, the answer to this question in that case was that the 90% ended up moving away, employed in menial minimum wage jobs like home health care aides and fast food workers, or perpetually broke.

    Ayup. And that's another problem with the upcoming deluge - the job market (at a national level) is already abrim with just that kind of people.

  23. Re:Should I care? on Netflix is 'Killing' DVD Sales, Research Finds (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    If dvd sales are replaced with streaming rentals, who is affected adversely?

    Those of use who do prefer physical media where possible.

    I know this may come as a shock to you - but there are other people in the universe than you.

  24. I'm far from alone in this.

    "Far from alone" != "Majority". Hell, it doesn't even equate to "significant minority".

  25. Re:No Gut no Glory on SpaceX Accident Cost it Hundreds of Millions (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    A particular aspect that concerns me about them getting failure rates down into the lower tenths of a percent is their use of unlined COPVs.

    The thing is... Even by the rather loose standards of the launch industry, that's not extreme reliability. It's only a modest improvement over the Other Guys. (And not worth very much unless they can also correct their ongoing inability to maintain schedule.)

    And the 'lower tenths' are nowhere near airplane like reliability - which is down in the lower millionth of a percent.

    And on top of that - they don't use unlined COPV's. There's not even such a thing as an unlined COPV NAICT.