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  1. People may be leaving CA, but the population is increasing and CA just became the 5th largest economy in the world, overtaking the UK.

  2. Re:Technology exists today on UK Car Industry On Alert Over Reports Some Hybrids Face a Ban (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    ... and you just showed your ignorance.

    There isn't actually much Lithium in a Lithium-ion battery. In a Tesla, for example, there is somewhere around 10kg total in the battery pack.

  3. Re:To the anthropology professor... on The Rise of the Pointless Job (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't understand how "health and safety" has taken over the workplace (and many other situations) in the UK.

    It's quite possible that the carpenter was also a lazy shit. The two are not mutually incompatible.

    It's easy to be an Internet blowhard when you are ignorant.

  4. Re:To the anthropology professor... on The Rise of the Pointless Job (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I would be willing to bet that it's just the same in the private sector in the UK.

    In fact, in my first job in the UK, I wasn't allowed to wire up a 240V plug (at that time, appliances never included a plug), despite the fact that I was working with voltages of 20kV and above at my lab bench.

  5. If you hate it so much, then move to another state, one which doesn't have ballot propositions. Problem solved!

  6. Re:To the anthropology professor... on The Rise of the Pointless Job (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Who would know if he didn't scream for help?

    Eventually, the carpenter is going to come back, and he will either:
    1. See that his work has been done and go away, saying nothing.
    2. Complain, likely resulting in a written warning to the professor.

    Is it worth the risk? Or did you forget that he already asked for help?

  7. Re:To the anthropology professor... on The Rise of the Pointless Job (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The anthropology professor could have got his/her pretty little lily-clean hands dirty and fixed the shelf him/herself. Just because you're in academia doesn't mean you're not allowed to work with your hands.

    This was in the UK. Without a full risk assessment, the idea of anyone touching the shelves is laughable. So, no, he wasn't allowed to work with his hands.

    In fact, it's probably because of "health and safety" that the carpenter would not do the job until the books were stacked.

  8. "Just trust us"! on Criminals Used a Fleet of Drones To Disrupt an FBI Hostage Operation (fortune.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    'The incident remains âoelaw enforcement-sensitive,â Mazel said Wednesday, declining to say just where or when it took place. But it shows how criminal groups are using small drones for increasingly elaborate crimes.'

    Just trust us that this took place.

    This, from the same organization that keeps claiming that encryption on cell phones should be open to the FBI and that this doesn't present any risk to normal users' security.

  9. Re:Paper junk mail is very lucrative for the Post on Forty Years of Spam Email (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You have to go to your post office and tell them that you consider the catalogs "sexually provocative" and, after they finish laughing at you, point them to Rowan v. Post Office Dept., under which they have to accept your judgment about the catalogs and may not substitute their own opinion.

  10. Are you being paid by WDC? Because the stats published in TFA don't support your contention that WDC is the king.

  11. Re:Patent Trolls on Nikola (Motors) is Suing Tesla (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "Loser pays" doesn't have to be set up that "Rock Star" attorneys are paid their full rates. In fact, in the UK, where this exists, I think it happens some times that the loser only has to pay legal aid rates.

    Also, the definition of "loser" isn't so simple as one might think. In the UK, if the defendant offers to settle the case for a certain amount of money and actually pays this money into escrow, then the loser is defined by whether the judge awarded an amount that was larger or smaller than the settlement offer.

  12. Re:I think we're being unfair to T-Mobile/Sprint on Will the T-Mobile, Sprint Merger Be Bad For Consumers? (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    On the news over the weekend, a news program reported that the proponents of the merger claimed that it would create jobs. I laughed so hard at that.

    Create jobs: right! So they are going to merge two companies and their combined costs would increase. That is the reason to merge: so that they can lower their profits. Yeah, right. In other news, I hear that the merger proponents are selling some fine land in Florida.

  13. Re:Buddy of mine finally moved to a nice place on Wages Aren't the Only Reason Teachers Are Striking (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    California has some historical inequalities. Districts that, decades ago, were rural low cost of living places, but are now high cost of living, don't get the same level of funding as parts of LA.

  14. Re:Big surprise.... on Trump Administration Plans To Freeze Obama-Era Fuel Standards (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, hydrogen can be electrolyzed from water using any form of energy.

    Very inefficiently, yes.

    Then there is the complexity of compressing it and recovering the heat produced by compression, etc..

  15. Re:Big surprise.... on Trump Administration Plans To Freeze Obama-Era Fuel Standards (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hydrogen is merely the last gas of the fossil fuel industry's attempt to prevent the imminent irrelevance for cars.

    Most hydrogen is produced form fossil fuels, so it isn't green.

    Developing the infrastructure for refilling hydrogen fuelled cars is going to be very expensive, while most of the infrastructure for BEVs already exists (in the form of electrical grids).

    Hydrogen fuelled cars need a small battery anyway, because regenerative braking back to hydrogen fuel isn't effective.

    The only reason hydrogen fuel cell vehicles exist is because of a mandate from the Japanese government. Even then, only one company has actually produced one in volume (and, in the USA, only sells it in part of California).

  16. As one woman tweeted (and Paul Ryan re-tweeted) it will pay for her annual Costco membership.

    To be fair, Paul Ryan probably thought the Costco membership was like his exclusive golf/country club membership: many thousands of dollars per year.

  17. What has cable Internet got to do with it?

    Pure Cable TV (multichannel) bills have increased by 74%. Not including any charges for Internet services or Netflix.

  18. Re:I’m shocked! on CEO Doesn't Know if MoviePass Will Offer a Movie Per Day Plan Again (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    More shockingly, this company with no real business plan isn't based in California!

  19. Re: Electric cars are still toys on Ford To Stop Selling Every Car In North America But the Mustang, Focus Active (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Tesla makes plenty of money on the S and X. It's just that they are investing that money on bringing up the Model 3 and other projects.

  20. Re: Electric cars are still toys on Ford To Stop Selling Every Car In North America But the Mustang, Focus Active (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Plus, you had better hope there is a Supercharger on the way home somewhere, I might add.

    1. Why?

    2. Even if you do need a Supercharger, Tesla has the best network of chargers along highway routes.

  21. Re:There's actually another, unintended effect. on EPA Proposes Limits To Science Used In Rulemaking (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    but it will may also force pesticide companies to publish trade secrets in order to have their products registered for legal use. At present this data is treated as confidential by the EPA.

    Very funny!

    No. Your prediction is wrong. Approvals for pesticides are not "rulemaking".

    Here is a hint: if you think that a change that the administration is making isn't intended to benefit large companies, you are almost certainly wrong.

  22. Shareholder lawsuits typically target the company, not the execs.

  23. It's not clear to me how this protects investors. The company pays the SEC, the company value goes down. The stock price goes down.

    It's bullshit. The penalty should be levied against the C-level executives who hid the breach, not the company.

  24. Re:Facebook/Google or...MS? on Who Has More of Your Personal Data Than Facebook? Try Google (wsj.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I am not so worried abut Facebook and Google holding data on me.

    I am worried about companies getting access to the data collected by Facebook and Google. For example: Cambridge Analytica.

  25. The *real* problem is that the frunk is too small to fit the Ducati.