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  1. Assuming you don't intend to still work for your employer under contract, and your benefits are guaranteed, why not just give 2-3 weeks' notice as is standard? Your employer's happiness isn't your problem -- unless you're in a life-critical field like medicine where there are also patients involved.

  2. Re: It is easily replaceable on Apple Confirms iPhone With Older Batteries Will Take Hits On Performance (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    If Samsung had put out a new battery that was user-swappable and 0.1mm smaller in all dimensions, it would have fixed the issue without having to recall the phones. Compensate the users $25 each for slight loss of capacity.

  3. Re:Makes me happy i'm not a French Citizen on France Passes Law To Ban All Oil, Gas Production By 2040 (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The government. The market. Whoever.

    If something is too environmentally dirty to be allowed to survive, it should be killed off. If something doesn't pay (like coal -- natural gas is much easier to handle and maintain equipment), it should be allowed to die.

    No support for obsolete, dirty industries.

  4. Moto Android phones on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Alternatives To Android Or iOS? · · Score: 1

    Removable battery.
    Removable SD card.
    Easily bootloader-unlocked.

    The G4 Play and G5 rock socks, and are some of the best phones for the price -- $100-200 -- out there.

  5. Re:When the resource wars start on France Passes Law To Ban All Oil, Gas Production By 2040 (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Electrolysis. Powered by ... nuclear reactors. Or even renewables.

    I never said it was an energy SOURCE, just a good way to store energy.

    How to store it? Engineering problem that's been solved in multiple ways. Read about hydrogen-powered aircraft before yipping and yapping sarcastically.

  6. Re:Makes me happy i'm not a French Citizen on France Passes Law To Ban All Oil, Gas Production By 2040 (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Colloquial for a job. No one is entitled to a job in an industry that will soon be consigned to the toilet of history.

    Same goes for all those former coalies in West Virginie. Trump might provide a temporary boost, but their jobs are dead as Marley in 5-10 years. They might as well get used to it.

  7. Re:When the resource wars start on France Passes Law To Ban All Oil, Gas Production By 2040 (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Hydrogen will work for aircraft.

    Ocean freighters could be nuclear-powered. See also the Otto Hahn and NS Savannah.

  8. Re: When the resource wars start on France Passes Law To Ban All Oil, Gas Production By 2040 (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Perfect excuse to reduce unnecessary use of plastic drastically.

  9. Re:Makes me happy i'm not a French Citizen on France Passes Law To Ban All Oil, Gas Production By 2040 (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Largely a myth about the 20 million people -- bugs were developing DDT resistance, and DDT is not banned in countries that actually need it. Glad the US stepped up and banned it, though. Humanity without a clean ecosystem and healthy plants/animals is nothing.

  10. Re:They will riot anyways and repeal it on France Passes Law To Ban All Oil, Gas Production By 2040 (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    LOL! They actually have a good safety record because their plants aren't based on 50 year old American or Soviet tech. I'll bet that we'll see another meltdown in the US sooner -- the US is too ignorant to replace its 40-50 year old nuclear plants with newer, safer nukes.

  11. Re:what form of government is this? on France Passes Law To Ban All Oil, Gas Production By 2040 (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Doubt it will happen -- they know which power source makes them independent from foreign control. Nuclear for life!

  12. Re: what form of government is this? on France Passes Law To Ban All Oil, Gas Production By 2040 (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Bzzzzzt! Bzzzzzt! Trump troll spotted, 12 o'clock, dead ahead! Awoooogah! Awooooogah!

  13. Re:When the resource wars start on France Passes Law To Ban All Oil, Gas Production By 2040 (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No, the French will be happily reprocessing nuclear fuel and laughing at the schmucks who are still reliant on fossil fools.

  14. Re:They will riot anyways and repeal it on France Passes Law To Ban All Oil, Gas Production By 2040 (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The French don't need it -- they're the world leaders in nuclear energy production. If their industries and cars can be cut over to electric power in 25-30 years, they'll be fine. In fact, better off than being hostage to the rest of the world for oil and gas.

  15. Re:Makes me happy i'm not a French Citizen on France Passes Law To Ban All Oil, Gas Production By 2040 (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 2

    People working in industries that pollute the planet and endanger public health aren't automagically entitled to "jerbs." Bet you'd have said the same about workers who produced DDT pesticides and lead paint.

  16. Re:what form of government is this? on France Passes Law To Ban All Oil, Gas Production By 2040 (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    France is basically the world leader in nuclear power plant design and power production -- no worries there. Not all carbon-free energy has to be wind/solar.

  17. Re:The WhatsApp app (somewhat off-topic) on WhatsApp Ordered To Stop Sharing User Data With Facebook (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Happy medium: allow export of the chat history to a new phone via WiFi, bypassing the "clown." No need to save data on WhatsApp's servers.

  18. The WhatsApp app (somewhat off-topic) on WhatsApp Ordered To Stop Sharing User Data With Facebook (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The WhatsApp app is terrible -- it demands that you give it access to all of your phone contacts before you're allowed to start sending messages with it. You can't block contact access and just tell it to message a specific number.

    Bad design, but fits right in with FB's data mining plans.

  19. Re:The tax bill reverses this trend again on America's 'Rent Crisis' May Be Ending (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Jobs crisis? Not if we socialize the fixed costs of employment and reduce working hours to say 30, on average, for everyone.

  20. Re: Banning them won't work on Ban Sale of Mini Mobiles, Says Justice Minister (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    That's basically what happened under the Bloody Code. To show how well it worked, the penalty for repeated pickpocketing was hanging, yet pickpockets were quite active at public hangings.

  21. Re:I'm a landlord and I think I may rent soon on America's 'Rent Crisis' May Be Ending (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Flip it? Nah.

    I'd rather hold on to it and have more boring, predictable rental income so I can work less.

  22. Re: "Designed to..." on Ban Sale of Mini Mobiles, Says Justice Minister (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Devil is in the details -- US only counts violent felonies as violent crimes, whereas UK counts even simple assault as violent crimes. UK has it right -- tightly control availability of firearms to civilians, so most police don't have to go armed. This limits the ability of UK police to push around and outright murder members of the public.

    (As recently happened in Mesa, AZ, if you've followed that case.)

  23. Re:Millennials having kids on America's 'Rent Crisis' May Be Ending (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Hedge against future repeal. Also, the American people gave a mandate for healthcare reform via a Democratic House, Senate, and President in 2010.

  24. Re:Buying is often cheaper on America's 'Rent Crisis' May Be Ending (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    The issue isn't income, it's to make your living arrangements cost-free, so you can save more $ per month and have a choice of jobs vs being locked into one by circumstances.

  25. Re:Millennials having kids on America's 'Rent Crisis' May Be Ending (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    In a civilized society, people shouldn't have to pay $2000+/mo just to live because they got the short end of the DNA lottery. I see nothing wrong with subsidies -- far better than subsidizing more military murder or jails.