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  1. So? That doesn't mean it's run by the government.

  2. Re:Everything is shit on Microsoft PowerShell Core For Linux Now Available as a Snap (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    /|\ Hey, I think I found Lennart Poettering!

  3. Re:Face Palm on New Zealand Firm's Four-Day Week an 'Unmitigated Success' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If only by 5%, then what benefit is that? It'll mean that employees are effectively getting a 25% bonus and little to show for it

    If they're producing 5% more, than that's still more. I don't see how it's hurting you, the employer, or anyone else if they're spending less time doing it.

    "employeesÃ(TM) motivation and commitment to work increased because they were included in the planning of the experiment, and played a key role in designing how the four-day week would be managed so as not to negatively impact productivity."

    Perhaps it went up precisely because they spotted and worked around things that could have pulled it down?

    Example, based loosely on real life. Dave works with customer X and Sally works with customer Y. They each know all about their own customer. Customer Y calls on Sally's day off. OMG, what do we do? You implement better record keeping and information sharing, that's what. Then when Dave quits to go to a commune in Vermont new dude Fred can pick his stuff up more easily.

  4. Heist (2001) starring gene Hackman on Russian Shipwreck Allegedly Carrying $130 Billion In Gold Has Been Rediscovered (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    It could if only [takes off shoes & socks] 2100 tons of the ship was iron & steel.

    This would also explain why it sank.

  5. Look at it another way. HMS Dreadnought was launched soon after and was the biggest baddest battleship in the world at that point. Normal load, 18,120 tons, 20,730 long tons at deep load giving 2,610 to play with.

    I can't find a definition of normal load but let's assume it includes optional little luxuries like fuel, booze, crew, ammunition and more booze. You'd still need two of the buggers to carry that much.

  6. If an oil tanker has a sack of letters on it does that make it a mail boat?

  7. The one peaceful way to demolish North Korea and unify the peninsula would be wide-open free trade.

    And clearly the lack of a railway is what's preventing that. They like totally want to do a customs union and all that, but it just can't possibly work with roads & trucks.

  8. I mean, for one billion they could send navy ships there and say "no" and then what?

    And then the salvage specialists say "Fuck you" and sail away and the treasure stays on the bottom.

  9. Re:Coconut juice is not milk and never was on Should the Word 'Milk' Be Used To Describe Nondairy Milk-Alternative Products? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Pour what through them? Gravy?

  10. So is coconut cream the stuff left over when they make skimmed coconut milk?

  11. That's udderly impossible you know...

    FTFY.

  12. Typical cargo tonnage of a warship around 1900 is in excess of thousands of metric tons.

    Typical cargo tonnage of most warships at any point in history is close to bugger all. You cram every inch that isn't guns or engines with ammo and fuel. Fortunately half the crew are working at any given time because there isn't room for them all to even sit down at once, let alone sleep.

    According to TFA this here Donuts Donaldski was a cruiser. Given that WW2 cruisers were typically under 10,000 tons the thing probably weighed half that *in total*.

  13. Not if they're the Cybermen from Doctor Who; they're allergic to it.

  14. Russia is somewhat larger than the UK. If they wanted to stop invaders from getting something simply moving it to the other end of the country would be more than adequate.

  15. He said far far away from Russian. He left out the actual thing. A Russian hat, perhaps?

    Or perhaps he meant a Russian. Pretty unlikely, I'd expect there to be at least one in the crew.

  16. Re:New Improved Summary on EU Regulators Fine Google Record $5 Billion in Android Case (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    So why isn't the response "fix these abusive practices, or be denied access to our market" rather than "give us a bunch of money".

    For the same reason that when you're caught shoplifting the response isn't "pay for that or put it back".

  17. Re: What if.. on EU Regulators Fine Google Record $5 Billion in Android Case (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    ITYM subsidiaries, you gomer.

    Subsidies are what Tesla runs on.

  18. However Terra/ Luna orbit each other

    1) No they don't. The barycenter is inside Earth.
    2) Only aspie dorks use those names.

    P.S. Roxy bodies? Like Bryan Ferry?

  19. Re:National Security? on The US is Facing a Serious Shortage of Airline Pilots (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought that. Then I remembered seeing a few documentaries where they had to commandeer civilian transport aircraft in wartime.

  20. Re:Here's a thought: on The US is Facing a Serious Shortage of Airline Pilots (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    If there was actually a shortage of pilots then flights would have to be cancelled.

    Cancellations happen due to short term unpredictable things.

    For long term predictable factors there's no need to cancel, because you wouldn't (and couldn't) schedule it in the first place.

  21. Re: plus data collection, telemetry and courage on Skype 8.0 Launches on Desktop With Full-HD Video; To Soon Get Encryption and Call Recording Features (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, running a hispter distro that supports snap apps.

    I never had much luck with it on RH type systems. IIRC it worked on 5 but then an update borked it.

  22. I'm surprised there isn't [sic] in front of it.

    Putting [sic] is all the rage now lomography is totally mainstream and McDonalds are selling artisan toast. #culturalappropriation.

  23. No doubt Rei will be along shortly to defend the fucking Jaapie cunt.

  24. Re:plus data collection, telemetry and courage on Skype 8.0 Launches on Desktop With Full-HD Video; To Soon Get Encryption and Call Recording Features (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    You can block all those things by running Linux.

    OK, it means Shyte won't work at all, but them's the breaks.

  25. Re:Governments should not allow abuse. on The EU Would Very Much Like Airbnb To Know That the Rules Are Different in Europe (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    The U.S. government should not allow companies to manipulate, trick, and otherwise abuse customers.

    Any U.S government that stopped companies manipulating, tricking, and otherwise abusing customers would be voted out of office for being cawmanusts. Because freeduhm and markets!