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  1. Re:Speculating is fun! on AI Will Create 'Useless Class' Of Human, Predicts Bestselling Historian (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    where people buy shares in Australia and move there to live in the wonderland of robot and vr plenty

    Don't forget the crocs. We've got plenty of crocs, jellyfish, snakes, spiders and even a flightless bird that kills joggers.
    Why would you move when you have robots and vr in a climate controlled environment?

  2. Re:Speculating is fun! on AI Will Create 'Useless Class' Of Human, Predicts Bestselling Historian (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    The problem is, creativity is optional in the short term

    Very good point, and it's not just artist but artisans too.
    All those people going on about "increases in productivity" in manufacturing ignore that it takes time and effort to make improvements and plan for new products. If, as a group, you are doing nothing other than turning out widgets that people will eventually get bored with then you'll have wonderfully high "productivity figures" right up until the time the company goes broke because everyone is buying somebody else's stuff.

  3. Car manufacturers learned pretty early on that making cars which lasted wasn't a good business

    You've been fed bullshit. By the time that was being said US car companies were run by the disappointing trust fund babies instead of the first generation that built things like the Model-T that was both cheap and built to last. A car my father bought new in 1977 summed up the problem and explained why the Japanese and Germans took over the market - it had the same engine as a 1937 Chevy! Easy to work on, but still the cheapest Japanese crapwagon had features that US cars did not - better brakes for a start.

    The problems were entirely due to decades of doing little while expecting the money to keep on rolling in.

  4. Most judges don't like being willfully lied to... repeatedly.

    How about you provide that evidence that you have not been lying to me repeatedly?

  5. Re:Genocide... when's it OK? on Why Don't Scientists Kill The 'Demon In The Freezer'? · · Score: 1

    My God it's full of Ads!
    Being able to shoot wild dogs or even a family pet that has decided to go to a farm and eat sheep is a pretty essential right for farmers.

    While the brushtail possum is cute I suspect it's far more of a nasty handful than the opossum. I've had a tame baby one walk on my shoulders and it was like getting poked with a lot of needles. My mother still has scars on her arms from when her brother said "I'll distract the possum while you grab it" back in the 1940s.

  6. Your post was about job titles on LinkedIn User? Your Data May Be Up For Sale (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1
    A lot more than that. You dared to use your HR granted title to try to pretend you knew about what happened with structural steel in fires - "I'm an engineer" you wrote when questioned about how you "knew" that steel doesn't soften with heat like every kid that's seen a horseshoe made would know. Such actions damage the reputation of those who have the title of engineer granted to them by a professional body.

    dishonoring the dead

    Indeed - using them as an excuse to rant against the government and pretend the government murdered them all as some sort of elaborate plot is doing exactly that.

    Questioning is worthy of a punishment by years of trolling

    I only point out how deranged you are to other each time you write something worthy of it. You post a LOT but get the consequences of your former actions infrequently.


    Your post was about job titles so it's perfectly ontopic to discuss the title you turkey slap into the face of every reader despite it being worthless and misleading outside of the office you work in.

  7. Re:Sad but true on LinkedIn User? Your Data May Be Up For Sale (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    He isn't one - leading hand of a group of programmers. HR gave him a fancy title.

  8. What is it with the ignorant "correcting" people? on Superjet Technology Nears Reality After Successful Australia Test (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah yes.
    I used to work at the place you linked FFS but not in hypersonics.

    The project has been ongoing for YEARS. I first saw a shock tunnel test there in 1987 (long before the 1997 mentioned in the link) and the project had been running for some time before then.

  9. Re:Genocide... when's it OK? on Why Don't Scientists Kill The 'Demon In The Freezer'? · · Score: 1

    Where's the line, exactly

    Normally local versus introduced species. For example the Australian Brushtail Possum is about as cute as a Koala but the greenest of the green New Zealanders don't bat an eyelid at people selling possum fur to tourists. An introduced pest in large numbers is an introduced pest no matter how cute it is.

    That said a lot of people object to culling feral horses and it caused a bit of a scandal near where I live when a Park Ranger didn't get rid of the bodies before some tourists came through.

  10. Re:Don't need it for just-in-case on Why Don't Scientists Kill The 'Demon In The Freezer'? · · Score: 1

    If someone releases smallpox and you need to vaccinate, then you still don't need to have any smallpox

    Until it develops into a strain that is different enough from cowpox that the current vaccine does not work.

    Come on people, influenza mutates every single year to that point and it makes all of the major media outlets - surely you can connect the dots.

  11. Re:Still need a rocket for a satellite on Superjet Technology Nears Reality After Successful Australia Test (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. It's not for a single stage to orbit system, but since there has never been one of those it's a little odd to be critical of it for not being capable of that.

  12. Re:ah scramjets on Superjet Technology Nears Reality After Successful Australia Test (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    This was a NASA project for a while despite being based in Australia. An ex-NASA person was running it with NASA putting up some of them funding is sort of a NASA project, at least in terms of them getting their name on published papers.

  13. Re: People don't need supersonic anymore... on Superjet Technology Nears Reality After Successful Australia Test (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The Boeing 747 was a response to Concorde and that created the environment you described.

  14. Re:That's not the only thing wrong with it, either on Superjet Technology Nears Reality After Successful Australia Test (cnet.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Outer space starts at an altitude of 100 km. Why the fuck would they make a test of an air-breathing engine suborbital?

    Because they want to use these things as a stage to take objects into orbit and save on carrying a lot of extra oxygen. The idea of this test is to simulate conditions that the engine is being planned to be used for, which involves going through the atmosphere and then to very high altitude. Level flight has been simulated in a shock tunnel for these since the 1980s (I watched a test in 1987) but rapid change in altitude is a different story.

  15. Richard Nixon was a flower child? on Pfizer Blocks The Use Of Its Drugs In Executions · · Score: 1

    One more thing I thought of that should have been in other posts - by 1970 the death penalty had been suspended in the USA and it was only reinstated in 1977 due to a serial killer in Washington DC causing a change in opinion.
    Think about who you are calling "the flower child generation" - Richard Nixon and a bunch of criminologists who had built up their reputation before the flower children even turned up. Outside of political nepotism it takes years before a person is considered an expert good enough to listen to when setting policy - even more so in the conservative corridoors of power in 1970.

  16. Re:Sad but true on LinkedIn User? Your Data May Be Up For Sale (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes but you do not turkey slap readers with your HR granted job title every post or say "I know about steel in fires I'm an engineer" in 9/11 conspiracy threads - which would be fair enough if he actually was an engineer and in the correct field since I've helped with a fire investigation myself.

  17. None anywhere near my discussion with you on Pfizer Blocks The Use Of Its Drugs In Executions · · Score: 1

    Incorrect. I kept going on and on about the topic and you kept going on and on about the email triviality with some odd stuff about governors not having anything to keep secret.

    Are you mixing me up with a different person or being dishonest?
    Either way, it's a little odd that you are consuming more time claiming that you provided that information than the time it would take you for a quick cut and paste. Not a good look.

  18. Re:Good on Pfizer Blocks The Use Of Its Drugs In Executions · · Score: 1
    Stalking? It's entirely on topic since I wasted many posts attempting to get the Pfizer point across to you and then I saw your name here on this Pfizer article with a post not being critical of them in any way despite their bribery scandal with Hillary Clinton who you frequently demonize for trivia instead of several real crimes she appears to be guilty of.

    I suggest you learn to read where I said I was familiar with the accusations

    I did not read anything by you along those lines - link please.

    Is the evasion of this issue to avoid opening the bribery can of worms that may taint people you support or can you really supply that link and you have not been evading the issue, just ignoring me many many times when I attempted to bring it up with you?

  19. Economists - is there nothing they cannot do? on Pfizer Blocks The Use Of Its Drugs In Executions · · Score: 1
    From your link:

    "said Naci Mocan, an economics professor at the University of Colorado at Denver"

    I think I'll go with the subject matter experts on this one instead.
    If it was global warming, astronomy, brain surgery or rocket science maybe - seems they are experts on everything according to some:)
    Maybe I'm wrong and a Turkish economics degree is equivalent to a doctorate in criminology elsewhere, but I doubt it and I'd trust someone with the latter instead.


    Where would an economist even start in researching something like this and who is going to pay them as they being themselves up to speed in a totally different field, and presumably spend the years required to get to the top of that different field?

    If you stop and use the smell test a bit it stinks does it not?

  20. Doesn't work like that on Pfizer Blocks The Use Of Its Drugs In Executions · · Score: 4, Insightful

    However, if you are thinking about murder, and you start imagining the needle is waiting for you

    Do you really think a mugger or whatever is thinking that far ahead?
    Sure, it's going to stop the honest people who consider their actions and consequences but they already have plenty of things to stop them.

    Criminals have a bad habit of not doing what they are told to do so your "sending a message" is unlikely to work. Maybe those "flower child researchers", some of who served in Korea and Vietnam, fit your definition of "a real man" more than any of the readers of this website and thus did not arrive at "flower child conclusions". Criminology isn't for the faint of heart after all.

  21. Re:Corporate conscience on Pfizer Blocks The Use Of Its Drugs In Executions · · Score: 1

    How can a corporation have feelings?

    You are looking at it as a monolith instead of an organ that obeys the will of a very limited number of people who have feelings to express. Sometimes it's only a single person using a corporation to express their will.

    Corporations exist to nullify the interference of human emotion in business

    Usually only in fiction. That's a common line to take for those who wish to evade responsibility though. It's kind of like blaming the gun and not the person who lined up the shot and pulled the trigger.

  22. Re:one of two conditions has arisen. on Pfizer Blocks The Use Of Its Drugs In Executions · · Score: 1

    3: They are neck deep in politics and are pushing the agenda of the person they are donating to.

  23. Re:Good on Pfizer Blocks The Use Of Its Drugs In Executions · · Score: 1

    I suggest you look into their dealings with Hillary Clinton if you want to see a real scandal instead of Party endorsed talking points for useful idiots, like the email storm in a teacup that you are so obsessed about.

  24. Your sig gives a better answer on Pfizer Blocks The Use Of Its Drugs In Executions · · Score: 0

    Instead of treating guns as "a human right" how about keep some perspective about what they actually are. They are very good tools for killing and are used to humanely kill animals worldwide.
    So there you go - useful tool and not surrogate flag or ego booster.

  25. Re:Sad but true on LinkedIn User? Your Data May Be Up For Sale (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Also don't forget to distinguish between the title that girl in HR gave you and your actual qualifications. A leading hand among a group of programmers that you have no authority over is not an "engineer" outside of your little bubble.