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  1. Re:I'll Always Want To Own on In a Self-Driving Future, We May Not Even Want To Own Cars · · Score: 1

    So you cart all that around all the time, wasting fuel all the while? Genius.

  2. Re:I don't want to live in your future, mister. on In a Self-Driving Future, We May Not Even Want To Own Cars · · Score: 1

    If public transport went wherever it wanted to, and no-one had any say on where their train goes, you'd have a point. But clearly as that's not how it works, you are engaging in arguing against a strawman.

    No matter how much you say it isn't so, you are doing an incredible impression of a Luddite.

  3. Re:Understanding cars. on In a Self-Driving Future, We May Not Even Want To Own Cars · · Score: 1

    What does being left-of-centre have to do with it? It many places public transport is fast, pleasant, effective, and great value for money. Just because where you live doesn't have that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. The only people forcing other folks to use public transport are those who make it unaffordable to own a car, and those pressures come from either side of the political spectrum (either taxes on the car itself, decreased spending ability, and so on).

  4. Re:Metrosexuals on In a Self-Driving Future, We May Not Even Want To Own Cars · · Score: 1

    So you feel so powerless and oppressed, and driving a car fixes that for you? And you think the problem lies with other people? You need help.

  5. Re: No Control on In a Self-Driving Future, We May Not Even Want To Own Cars · · Score: 1

    Stay away from the hyperbole if you want people to pay attention to you. I'm not recommending they do, though, as your childish opinion of anything different to what you see in the mirror is tragic, and your incorrect assumption that you are not ignorant of a great many things causes you to be confused with some rather simple concepts, rendering your posts more tragic than dangerous.

  6. Re:In a Self-Driving Future--- on In a Self-Driving Future, We May Not Even Want To Own Cars · · Score: 1

    It is the norm in some places. The public transport you describe sounds nothing like that where I am. Don't confuse your poor implementation of public transport with decent implementations. The limitations mainly exist in your head.

  7. Re: In a Self-Driving Future--- on In a Self-Driving Future, We May Not Even Want To Own Cars · · Score: 1

    There are plenty of fully-automated trains out there. What? You are ignorant of something? No waaaay!

    Then you go and end your post with a guess about how these cars will be implemented, and expect people get just as upset with it as you do? You're so weird. It's like you know you are confusing your opinion with demonstrable fact, but don't care. Hubris, much?

  8. Re:In a Self-Driving Future--- on In a Self-Driving Future, We May Not Even Want To Own Cars · · Score: 1

    And the pilot to feed the dog.

  9. Re:In a Self-Driving Future--- on In a Self-Driving Future, We May Not Even Want To Own Cars · · Score: 1

    If you don't need a car every day, yes, renting when you do need one can be far, far cheaper. You also get the benefit of being able to rent a van instead of a car should you need one, or a minibus, or whatever.

  10. Re: In a Self-Driving Future--- on In a Self-Driving Future, We May Not Even Want To Own Cars · · Score: 1

    Yes, but plenty with exceptional firmware. If you think all embedded systems are comparable, you are wrong. But it's epyT-R, so of course you are wrong, as you frequently get your opinion confused with fact.

  11. Re: In a Self-Driving Future--- on In a Self-Driving Future, We May Not Even Want To Own Cars · · Score: 1

    You don't really know much about aircraft safety if that's what you believe. It's shocking, actually, how incorrect you are. Wow.

  12. Re:Good grief... on Prospects Rise For a 2015 UN Climate Deal, But Likely To Be Weak · · Score: 1

    B) PLEASE read the scientific papers on this subject, as they do not claim that. The only possible way you can believe those claims to be true is if you go elsewhere for your science education. The land ice is shrinking massively, and sea ice is expanding, and temperatures have been increasing for 20 years, just not as much as expected, which has been countered by the rise in sea temperatures.

    Please enlighten yourself, as you seem intelligent, but you get your science information from non-scientists.

  13. Re:Temperature? on Prospects Rise For a 2015 UN Climate Deal, But Likely To Be Weak · · Score: 1

    If you actually read the site you'd see that the definition comes from the EPA. Linking to that particular page when this nonsense crops up saves time, as that page shows that calling CO2 is accurate in the English language, and also under EPA guidelines.

    If it's clearly so wrong, debunk it. We can wait.

  14. Re:no hope for political solution on Prospects Rise For a 2015 UN Climate Deal, But Likely To Be Weak · · Score: 1

    You simply saying that all the research into AGW is poor and that it's all spun etc. doesn't make it so. You really are a denialist, and it's tragic that you are so caught up in this game you can't even use your own brain. You are a real human being who has handed over their thought processes to others. Again - it's tragic.

    I could point you to many sources which show you're wrong, but I've seen others do just that and you still come back as if those interactions never happened.

  15. Re:Too weak because humans are not the cause on Prospects Rise For a 2015 UN Climate Deal, But Likely To Be Weak · · Score: 1

    They don't, and I have a suspicion that you know it, otherwise you really need to reappraise where you get your information from and your understanding of "scientific method".

  16. Re:blah, blah ... on Blame America For Everything You Hate About "Internet Culture" · · Score: 1

    If the US didn't have such a messed-up political system maybe you'd have a point. As it is, it looks like maybe the US public isn't spending nearly as much time "obsessing" over politics as they should... Childish partisanship, a "left" party squarely in the right wing, pathetic smear campaigns, appeals to all sorts of cultural banalities, and so on. So yes, it is bad if you ignore politics when your politics are screwed. Very bad, in fact.

  17. Re:Hmpf on Blame America For Everything You Hate About "Internet Culture" · · Score: 1

    And America was so much better before the French... invented it! You should read where the ideas the Founding Fathers had came from, and whose armed forces were pivotal in the creation of the US. These "but we invented it" arguments are pointless.

  18. Re:Probably some truth to that ... on Blame America For Everything You Hate About "Internet Culture" · · Score: 1

    There are many measures of 2) which are not subjective, and the US doesn't usually fare very well compared to Western Europe and Scandinavia on them.

  19. Re:The French are the world's Standards Board on Blame America For Everything You Hate About "Internet Culture" · · Score: 1

    Save your breath. That guy loves to hate on women, minorities, socialism, the left in general, and anything else he perceives as threats to his insecure, pathetic, scared, ignorant little world. You can point him at actual studies outlining why he's incorrect, and he won't change his opinion. He might think of himself as, and even present himself as, a wonderful sceptic, but he's clearly a cynic, as nothing can change his mind.

  20. Re:The French are the world's Standards Board on Blame America For Everything You Hate About "Internet Culture" · · Score: 1

    The "African American" thing is actually just a case of the US being the US. In sane countries people are free to use "white" and "black" to describe people. It has nothing to do with multiculturalism or "leftism", but the ridiculous nature of US politics. Sweden didn't force the use of "hen", but simply said it can be used in various situations within school. It doesn't help your case if you make stuff up and get offended at it, but it doesn't surprise me, as you have a history of being a small-minded, hate-drenched muppet.

  21. Re:Ads on Google Launches Service To Replace Web Ads With Subscriptions · · Score: 0

    Seeing as you visit every site you visit, you are costing every site money, and so you really should pay them, or admit that you do, in fact, freeload occasionally.

  22. Re:Everyone is all over Bill Cosby right now on Swedish Court Refuses To Revoke Julian Assange's Arrest Warrant · · Score: 1

    Seeing as the women are saying Assange didn't rape them, and the accusers of Cosby are sticking to their claims, it seems you are not applying your own standard.

  23. Re:Swedish Puppets on Swedish Court Refuses To Revoke Julian Assange's Arrest Warrant · · Score: 1

    For someone who thinks they know so much about this, it's pitiful that you don't recognise that he's in a foreign embassy in the UK. Seriously, the fact you didn't know that speaks volumes of your hubris. Didn't God say something about not bearing false witness? Or is that fine when it's for a good cause?

    Grow up.

  24. Re:Rape Apologetics Go Here on Swedish Court Refuses To Revoke Julian Assange's Arrest Warrant · · Score: 1

    He hasn't been convicted of anything, which shows you are either woefully ignorant of this case, or don't understand the concept of due process. Either way you don't exactly look like a budding Einstein for posting such blather for all to see. You complaining about amateurs wading in is priceless. You are what you despise, but your arrogance can't let you see it.

  25. Re:Subterranean BS. on Leaked Documents Show EU Council Presidency Wants To Impair Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    You can answer all of those questions with a couple of quick Google searches. You only have yourself to blame for your ignorance.