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  1. Not quite. You forgot a step

  2. manual transmission

    Mine has a knob on the dashboard labeled 'Choke'. I dare a millennial to figure that out.

  3. Altoids cans work.

  4. Got some. Big puddle under my truck.

  5. Re:I'm shocked, SHOCKED!!! on Samsung Caught (Again) Using DSLR Photo To Advertise Smartphone Camera (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I think this might be the last one.

  6. $2 billion industry on An Eye-Scanning Lie Detector Is Forging a Dystopian Future (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    I've got a warehouse full of surplus British bomb detection devices to move. How can I get a part of this action?

  7. Re:What another big company full of BS? on Amazon Promised Drone Delivery In Five Years Five Years Ago (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    and the consumers keep falling for it....

    That would be investors. Consumers are protected by laws and regulations. VCs are free for the fleecing.

  8. Re:Technical issues. on Amazon Promised Drone Delivery In Five Years Five Years Ago (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    And a range-extender battery.

    I'm going to invent a drone with current transformer charging built into claw-like feet. So when it's batteries get low, it can just seek out a power line, land on it and re-charge.

  9. Re:Technical issues. on Amazon Promised Drone Delivery In Five Years Five Years Ago (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Think "friendly neighborhood lets leave it on the porch", or: might be stolen if I leave it here, I'll come back tomorrow.

    My car's GPS system already has this rating system in its maps. Come to think of it, mortgage companies already have this geo data as well.

  10. Volkswagen had a very limited line of bro-trucks anyway.

  11. Re:Future Business Case Study on VW Says the Next Generation of Combustion Cars Will Be Its Last (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    So most condos/apartments/parking lots will have to adapt one way or another.

    EVs will be for people who can afford their own houses with garages. Seattle (for example) is pushing zero parking condominiums and apartments. Making the tenants scurry after limited on-street parking.

  12. Re:Page of revenge.. on Japan's Final Pager Provider To End Its Service In 2019 (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Not that. But when I carried a pager for manufacturing support, I'd have a cron job dial my pager with a factory number and append 9-1-1. Set it to call about 10 minutes into what was going to be a very long and boring staff meeting.

  13. Residents are entitled to use their ICE cars

    So, Madrid has discovered the next best thing to gated communities.

  14. Re:Gut reaction before reading the article or summ on Why It's Easier To Make Decisions For Someone Else (hbr.org) · · Score: 1

    "You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor."
    -- Exodus 20:17

    Made a lot of sense back when houses, oxen and wives were just property.

  15. I use axle grease. Whenever I come in from the garage with some on, there's no danger of conception.

  16. Come on now Felix. Be a good sport.

  17. Re:Societal ills on Dark Web Dealers Voluntarily Ban Deadly Fentanyl (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    That comes down to a failure of the healthcare/insurance industry. If you, as a doctor, prescribe opioids, then you should follow up 100% of those patients with post treatment care and counseling. To make sure they get off the drugs you gave them. If insurance companies and drug manufacturers were on the hook for such widespread coverage, perhaps they wouldn't be so quick to push their junk for any old complaints.

    If I broke my arm and my orthopedist put it in a cast, I'd expect him to remove that cast in a few weeks. As a necessary part of my treatment.

  18. Re:No Advent calendars on 2018 Advent Calendars Launched for Computer Programmers and Web Geeks (24ways.org) · · Score: 1
  19. Re:"Fuck" is not professional on Developer Misinterprets Linux Code of Conduct, Suggests Replacing F-Word with 'Hug' (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    Because if we put âoeFuckâ in quotes, nobody will even understand it here.

  20. when the PST in the BIOS is hugged.

    FTFY.

  21. This might work with Australia's smarter wildlife. But a similar technology used in the USA, involving illuminated signs at intersections with a big red hand have no effect the hobos.

  22. ... who is going to volunteer to give these people: https://map.what3words.com/reciting.state.comebacks their handy three word address?

  23. Because most people understand their location relative to a road, trail or intersection. The problem isn't to assign an identifier to each location in a town. It's to get people to remember and use something that they are already familiar with.

  24. Re:Very Slippery Slope on NYC Politician Wants To Ban Cashless Restaurants (eater.com) · · Score: 1

    Baring any local business licensing regulations, yes.

  25. How do I set my default reply to "Up yours!"