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  1. Re:Paradox of intelligence on Why People Dislike Really Smart Leaders (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting
  2. You added the "manager payroll" into a talk about raising minimum wage.

    That makes you simply a liar. That proves me right. if you didn't think I wasn't right, you wouldn't be lying to try to make me look wrong. Go on, read the link. It's clear. Though, the source is a reddit post from NZ, so the numbers are not confirmed, and may not be right for US. And the link you quoted mentions NZ, which has a $15/hr minimum wage, so how can McDonalds operate in places with higher minimum wages when they are paying more than the margin you indicate makes it unprofitable? The NZ owner mentioned sold his store for $1.4M. Not something pays for something unprofitable.

  3. The value of labor in a fast food restaurant is around $50/hr. The owners lie to increase profits. McDonald's would still be profitable with a $50/hr minimum wage. The only reason to pay less is to increase profits to the harm of the employees or customers.

  4. Re:Not obsolete on Apple Investigated By France For 'Planned Obsolescence' (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And no security updates.

  5. Re:Proposition Bet on Google Sold 6.75 Million 'Google Home' Devices In the Last 80 Days (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    US regulations? There are no US regulations. Do you know what you are talking about?

  6. Re:Proposition Bet on Google Sold 6.75 Million 'Google Home' Devices In the Last 80 Days (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure why you're defending this.

    I'm defending the truth. Home automation doesn't allow for any of that. It will be impossible by August 2018 to disable the pilot light to make if flame out. Currently, the home automation controls the thermostat and such as if you were home, and there's almost nothing you can do that isn't what you are restricted to in the regular controls. The IoT refrigerators keep inventory and allow for minor temperature changes. The IoT thermostats allow you to control a thermostat, not the furnace itself. There's no consumer IoT device that can do any of what you talk about. SCADA is different. SCADA was designed for hard-wired connections in secure on-site systems. SCADA allows settings that will break things. SCADA being ported onto the Internet has no relaltion to IoT.

  7. Re:Proposition Bet on Google Sold 6.75 Million 'Google Home' Devices In the Last 80 Days (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Cancelling prescriptions?

    So? You go to pick up your prescription epi-pen, needed to save your life in case of a bee sting. Oops, the prescription is canceled. So you wait 5 minutes to get it filled.

    How is that life threatening?

    Causing epileptic attacks through blinking lights?

    "home" automation doesn't apply to the car. So, what, they'll be flashing billions of lights in the hope that they can cause one epileptic person to fall in the shower? Not to mention that such an attack could have no effect on 99% of the population, so it's a pretty poor attack that would be found out long before there's an issue.

    Recording one partner having an affair, then playing it back later when the other partner is home?

    Recordings of infidelity don't kill people, guns kill people.

    Calling 911 for a swat team?

    You don't need home automation for that to happen, so that seems to be unrelated to home automation.

    There is no reasonable attack that could harm the average person. Maybe eventually there will be a real risk, but for any death to be cause by home automation in 2018 is a joke. 2028 at the earliest. Though I expect it will be attributed earlier. Maybe done idiot who has an unsafe power strip plugged into a "smart home" outlet. Sets his home on fire while he's not there. Swears it was turned off, blame hackers for the fire. That'll be the first report, but it was a lie for the man to cover up an attempt on his wife's life. 2021 at the earliest.

  8. Re:Proposition Bet on Google Sold 6.75 Million 'Google Home' Devices In the Last 80 Days (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    How? Causing a home fire? Freezing someone to death in August? The WiFi router picks up a gun and shoots someone?

  9. No rules on Why Twitter Hasn't Banned President Trump (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Twitter rejects its own rules. The Twitler in Chief is the best advertisement they could have. They'd never shut him down, he's making them millions. Money trumps contracts or ethics.

  10. Re: Always the left pushing "hate speech" laws. on Germany Starts Enforcing Hate Speech Law (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    which "Nazi reasons" are there for a "Nazi" to drive a car into a crowd of random Democrats?

    You said he had no motive.

    No, that's not even close to what I said.

    Seems close enough. And I know you know you are wrong because you spend all your time attacking me, rather than clarifying what you meant.

  11. Re: Always the left pushing "hate speech" laws. on Germany Starts Enforcing Hate Speech Law (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You said he had no motive. Now you say it's a motive, and I was right all the time, but you want to stop playing. Got it. You know what they called Nazi apologists after WWII? "Nazi."

  12. Re: Always the left pushing "hate speech" laws. on Germany Starts Enforcing Hate Speech Law (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    sweetheart, which "Nazi reasons" are there for a "Nazi" to drive a car into a crowd of random Democrats?

    Fucknut, you said they were violent protesters. So yes, why wouldn't Nazis attack violent anti-Nazis?

  13. Re:Lets fly the last one into a skyscraper on US Airlines No Longer Operate the Boeing 747 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Michael Bay did.

  14. Re:747 not the Only One on US Airlines No Longer Operate the Boeing 747 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    True. AA had a massive base at DFW, and if a plane needed work, they'd waive all the safety issues to get it to Dallas, then fix it. All the groundcrew worked for AA. Probably the idea of groundcrew being per airport rather than per airline probably came from that. Non-AA airlines would contract with AA for groundcrew. Rather than paying a competitor, pay an independent contractor.

    The big ones still schedule scheduled work for specific spots, but will be more flexible if necessary. Often working with the maker to send out mechanics to the airplane.

    Outsourcing and computers changed the routes more than the airplanes themselves.

  15. Re:Lets fly the last one into a skyscraper on US Airlines No Longer Operate the Boeing 747 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Too soon.

  16. Re:747 not the Only One on US Airlines No Longer Operate the Boeing 747 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Funny how unrelated things change everything.

    Computers changed the hub model. Before computers, linking 3 hops for hundreds of people was impossible. So if you flew everyone into a hub at 11 a.m., then out of the hub at 1 p.m., you had a 2 hour window, and could get anyone from anywhere to everywhere.

    With early computers, you could have more flights, and more complex connections. Today, with more powerful computers, you optimize passengers, not routes, and we learn that mesh routes are best, and the demand/sales is analyzed to predict where to put planes to minimize costs for a passenger (remember, a old hub style required two flight, unless you lived in, or were flying to, a hub). Also, as you fly mesh routes, you cut travel time, which increases demand.

    Hub makes sense for flying from US to Europe, where you fly JFK to Heathrow, But within a market, hubs are dying.

  17. Re: Always the left pushing "hate speech" laws. on Germany Starts Enforcing Hate Speech Law (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    No, I wouldn't denounce octogenarians, because your strawman question doesn't indicate that there's any octogenarian movement in existence, and in reality there isn't. So it would be as logical as denouncing people with size 10 shoes, as that's the most common size of killers.

    A self-identified Nazi killing for Nazi reasons would be linked to Nazis. Also note, when the media linked the killer to Nazis, the Nazis didn't denounce the killing. Octogenarians condemned the murderer in your strawman.

  18. Re: Always the left pushing "hate speech" laws. on Germany Starts Enforcing Hate Speech Law (bbc.com) · · Score: 1
    No. I did not lie. He defended a Nazi by indicating that the victim deserved it - "both sides" when one committed murder implies the victim was a murderer, and the killing could be seen as justified.

    I'm curious if you would try to use the same "logic" when consisting my hypothetical scenario. That's not a strawman, that's just trying to figure out how exactly your mind ... "works".

    If the octogenarian was found with anti-Nazi materials and statements to the effect of pre-meditating the murder, then yes, I'd denounce the murderer. If the President defended a murderer, I'd denounce the evil murderer-supporter.

    If someone is both anti-murder and anti-Nazi, you can't comprehend what would happen if the two conflicted?

    Turns out it "works" by making shit up and then just dodging uncomfortable questions.

    The question wasn't "uncomfortable" just stupid. And you are the only one making up things. What do you think "hypothetical' means? Since you obviously don't know, it's a big word for "made up". Turns out, you should know the definitions of words you use. You literally make shit up, then your very next post complain that I make up shit. Pot, meet mirror.

  19. Re: Always the left pushing "hate speech" laws. on Germany Starts Enforcing Hate Speech Law (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Read again, slower. Donnie John defended a murdering Nazi. I said nothing else, the rest is your strawman.

  20. Re: Shouldn't they, of all countries, know better? on Germany Starts Enforcing Hate Speech Law (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It wasn't a "real war" when many of the killings happened. The holocaust denier is an idiot, but he was right in that many of the killings came after long-term storage. It's also quite clear that the public at the time thought the Jews were going into refugee camps, awaiting deportation to Israel (or similar, as Israel was created after).

    But, to your point, the USA has let "enemies" go. Indians, Japanese, and others were rounded up into concentration camps, then later released after hating the US more on release than entry.

  21. Re: Always the left pushing "hate speech" laws. on Germany Starts Enforcing Hate Speech Law (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    When one person is standing, and someone else deliberately runs them over, blame on both sides clearly takes the side of the one driving the car. "both sides" is not hate speech, but was used with the intent and effect of supporting those who were using actual hate speech.

  22. Re:Always the left pushing "hate speech" laws. on Germany Starts Enforcing Hate Speech Law (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    the Nazis were socialists)

    The Nazis were right-wing fascists. Never anything else. They named themselves Socialist for marketing reasons, not functional or factual ones. Like DPRK is not more democratic than the US (who doesn't even have democratic or republic in the name). Often the evil people will name themselves the opposite of what they are, trying to play both sides.

    So what happens is, often the right will criticise the left by pointing to the earliest and most regressive stages in the left

    The real trick the Right likes to use is to label someone with an obvious lie long after the changes. The Republicans are for minorties because Lincoln was Republican and the Southern Democrats in the '50s rejected integration. When today, the situation is obviously not related to the history (even if some of the names haven't even changed).

    The other "favorite" is to call every dictatorship socialist. DRPK, Cuba, USSR (after Lenin died). Those 3 are dictatorships, but none of those 3 are socialist, even if they claimed to be, when they are not.

    Though today, they give up all logic. anti-fascists are fascists by the definitions used by the American Right. How is that even possible? When North and anti-North (South) are the same direction, the problem isn't with South, but with the compass you are measuring them against.

  23. Re:Why would you do that? on Google Maps No Longer Lets You Post Negative Reviews About Your Crappy Job (gizmodo.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Then leave a review on an employment site, not a fraudulent one where you pretend to be a customer.

  24. Yes, but I have scripts and things that need consistent mounting of the USB as a drive. Android loves to ask after you tell it not to ask, and other things, but if you put it in developer mode, thins just work.

    I understood what they did and why, but it eliminated the game for many people.

  25. Your premise is wrong. Your logic is wrong. And so, your conclusion is flawed at best.