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  1. My last pair cost upwards of 800 bucks!

    The prices touted as phenomenally expensive seem like a bargain to me.

  2. Someone somewhere is profiting from this. Who? Well, I don't know.

    Fact is that people are so busy fracturing society into groups by defining common enemies and lumping enough people in them through strawmen arguments to make it look like an issue to be concerned about...

    I'm wondering where people take the energy to be outraged into all directions at all times.

  3. Re:Spreading division is profitable I guess on 'Captain Marvel' Smashes Box Office Record, Laughs Off Review-Bombing Trolls (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 2

    I mean there is some measure you can get of the character of the Marvel company when you recall that they used Stan Lee's twitter account post mortem to push the movie.

    Can you more blatantly display that you have lost touch with your customer base?

    I don't exactly know about CM... I know that the l8ve of a fan shines all through Alita... I just don't get that vibe from a company necromancing a beloved old man for profit...

  4. Re:Spreading division is profitable I guess on 'Captain Marvel' Smashes Box Office Record, Laughs Off Review-Bombing Trolls (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Frankly I never had anything against the movie as such. I didn't KNOW enough about it to make that decision. I just didn't like the actress. And frankly, the only way Miss Marvel was ever relevant in my Nerdverse was as a power source for Rogue.

    So I'm not going to pay to see a human battery in the cinema.

    Also there was Alita, which rocked. Since I get to see about one film every quarter, that definitely had the more powerful lure for me.

  5. Re:Shit happens, things change. on Tesla Shifts the Goalposts For 'Full Self-Driving' Technology (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you seen what goes on in the current market? What you are proposing is integrity on a level never before encountered in an MBA... you should set realistic expectations, my friend :D.

  6. Re:I have a feeling there's more going on here... on A 60 Minutes Story on Gender Equality Accidentally Proved the Persistence of Patriarchy (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    This is the kind of painfully dry humor I appreciate :D.

  7. Shit happens, things change. on Tesla Shifts the Goalposts For 'Full Self-Driving' Technology (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So it's harder than Tesla expected. Big whoop.

    Now go ahead and reimburse your loyal customers for the functionality you cannot deliver and I see no issue.

    Don't do that, however, and I feel Tesla is just a bunch of lying scumbags...

    Being a good person is simple... just take responsibility for your fuckups. Oh, wait... that's hard, isn't it? Well, let's see whether Tesla rises to that challenge.

  8. I have a feeling there's more going on here... on A 60 Minutes Story on Gender Equality Accidentally Proved the Persistence of Patriarchy (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Let's be honest, this is about marketing. The interviewed people get named with their companies and their products, correct? How much do you want to bet someone just wanted to have their name front and center and paid a pretty penny for it?

  9. Re:What does that mean for humanity? on A Third Person May Have Been Cured of HIV (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    Thank you, that was the impression I had as well.

  10. What does that mean for humanity? on A Third Person May Have Been Cured of HIV (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    Is the killing of the current immune system necessary for bone marrow transplantations to work? Or for HIV to be cured?

    Either way, how dangerous and intrusive is the process and what does it cost?

    In effect, is this or is this not a method that is viable to eradicate the virus in this species? It sounds too complicated a procedure for that.

  11. Who dat and why does the rest of the EU care? :D

    Seriously though it's about time. But knowing my luck, they'll be using summer time. However, being constantly one hour off beats switching twice a year. By a long shot.

  12. Re:Nuclear power = Socialism on Pacific Northwest Relying On Nuclear Energy During Cold Snap (forbes.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    He/she/it is talking about Norway, completely ignoring that all European countries are running some mix of Socialism and Capitalism, and quite successfully so.

    At least compared to the US. The US is economically the strongest nation on the planet, but still has riots and disturbances over race. I mean, come on... You're South Africa on steroids.

  13. Did I miss it? on Sleep Helps To Repair Damaged DNA In Neurons, Scientists Find (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What are the exact effects of damaged neuron DNA?

  14. Re:German here. Dear Americans ... on Volvo To Impose 112mph Speed Limit On All New Cars From 2020 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm from Switzerland so I'm certainly not 100% sure about German OR US driving laws but I think a lot of what you've written is a bunch of wrong assumptions.

    The US has a higher death rate on roads. That is correct. It's a good 10 fatalities per 100k inhabitants per year. Yours is 4.7.

    However, Switzerland's is 2.6. Sweden's 2.8. Norway 2.2. Spain 3.7. The UK 2.9.

    So in the rest of Europe's eyes you're our United States. Both in terms of actual death rates on the road and in the way you cling to your traffic laws like they cling to their gun laws...

    So perhaps Ball flachhalten?

  15. At this point, I find that to be the only acceptable move forward to be honest.

  16. So double the speed of 3.2... But which 3.2? Will it be equal to 3.2 2x2 or twice that?

  17. ...they're certainly not gaining points through engineering and innovation lately, that's for sure.

  18. Since when is what the average bonobo thinks a guideline for anything?

    The dude is absolutely right, Tesla's autopilot does exactly what anyone ever having seen an autopilot would expect.

    If you operate heavy machinery, the law holds you accountable if you misuse the machine. Not having read or simply having ignored safety instructions does not make it the manufacturer's fault.

  19. When I spent 3 months in Toronto in 98, Canada was the better USA. American way of life without much of the negatives...

    And today Canada seems to be on the forefront of much that I despise.

    Sure, I've gotten way more conservative over the years... But I don't remember it being THAT leftist back then.

    I'm yearning for balance becoming the political agenda du jour but looking back in history, if it ever was a thing, it will likely take benevolent dictatorahip.

    And who wants to take those odds?

  20. Re:Not sure about Canada on Police In Canada Are Tracking People's 'Negative' Behavior In a 'Risk' Database (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Serious question: If the problem revolves mostly around aboriginals, what changed starting 10 years ago in their overall lives?

    One should think that shouldn't be too hard to determine...

  21. Re:Who's going to pay for it? on OneWeb Wants To Rebuild the Internet in Space, Connecting Billions Not on the Web (cityam.com) · · Score: 2

    Not quite.
    Ofzen enough it's local governments that steal from the people. The trade with first world countries is the first and foremost thing that can lift them out of poverty... But when the government is corrupt...

    As long as the populace lets that happen, there's little we can do about it. People cannot be freed. They need to free themselves. Gifts are worthless to the receiver most of the time...

  22. Do I u derstand that correctly... on Extreme CO2 Levels Could Trigger Clouds 'Tipping Point' and 8C of Global Warming (carbonbrief.org) · · Score: 1

    They are scared of clouds over oceans vanishing? If I u derstood that correctly, doesn't the also mean more water evaporates? And if more evaporates, doesn't that cool thi gs too?

    Not to mention that the water has to go somewhere. Seems to me the climate in Europe is getting dryer. Perhaps that would be impacted as well?

    The whole thing seems a tad too simplified. We're talking about global climate here.

  23. Re:silence: indeed on Starbucks' Music Is Driving Employees Nuts (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Psychologically speaking, a lot of people have issues with silence.

    One often effective method of getting a suspect to talk is just sitting across them and saying nothing.

  24. Playing devil's advocate I'll assume you completely missed how the actress has been playing the oppressed victim card and how half the marketing seems to revolve around how much white males suck.

    Good for you. Personally, I just don't want to give these people my money...

  25. I'm never buying an Apple computer again. Word on the streets is that it's so high quality... but then there's the issue with the keyboards they're not even willing to get fixed... and now my MacbookPro has like a yellowish corona on its screen.

    Googling that, the only thing to do seems to be replacing the screen. If you're still inside warranty, then at least that'll be free but from what I saw from the warranty process on a colleagues Macbook, that's gonna be a pain. And if your hardware is older than a year, you're SOOL?

    I am not impressed with these products. MacOS is an abomination. As badly as I despise Windows 10, the amount of babying this CrapOS is doing to its user is mind boggling.

    It's 2019 and there is literally no quality OS available on the market. It's a disgrace...