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  1. Re: Going out in style on Elon Musk Shows Off the Tesla Roadster That SpaceX Will Send Beyond Mars (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    This is clearly a way for Musk to funnel money from Tesla to Space X for this marketing opportunity. Downside for investors when there is such a clear conflict of interest. Musk profits though.

  2. Re:self checkout not promising. on Walmart Is Planning a Store Without Cashiers (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Human intervention is frequently required over here as well. However unlike America we don't have our minimum wage be under the poverty line, so our humans actually do come and help. I have never once seen them on their phone. Your problems say a lot more about your culture then they do the software used.

  3. Re:self checkout not promising. on Walmart Is Planning a Store Without Cashiers (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Unlike the OP, I can go through the self checkout with those tampons and not have to ask someone with an IQ over 10 on how to pay for it.

  4. Re:self checkout not promising. on Walmart Is Planning a Store Without Cashiers (recode.net) · · Score: 2

    If a single item that couldn't detect the weight of it caused you to have to go to an entirely new line there is only one possible answer out of three options:
    (1) you're over 60;
    (2) you're a retard; or
    (3) warlmart's self checkout software is so bad that a single incorrectly weighted item causes it to delete all progress up to that point with no chance of recovery.

    Given you post on slashdot I think that rules out you being over 60. So I'll let readers who are more familiar than me with walmart's self checkouts to determine whether or not you're a retard.

  5. And thus the zombie apocalypse was born on FDA Approves First-Ever Gene Therapy For Inherited Form of Blindness (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 0

    How many zombie movies have we had where gene splicing was the cause of a new breed of human that behaved identically to zombies?

  6. The founding fathers would disagree that you are powerless to do anything about the megacorps who own your government.

  7. Yes, they are part of Obama's administration. It should give you an idea of how bad the other side is when people look upon Obama favourably even AFTER he renewed those terrible laws.

  8. Re: Not animals on Robots Are Being Used To Shoo Away Homeless People In San Francisco (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope. The robot is rented at a rate below minimum wage. RTFA

  9. Re:Good and Stop Reviving Them When They OD on Robots Are Being Used To Shoo Away Homeless People In San Francisco (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    The SPCA is a classic example of that. See TFA

  10. All talk, no follow through on Trump Administration Calls For Government IT To Adopt Cloud Services (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump is all talk, but at the end of the day he will go along with whatever he gets told. He recently signed in a new regulation without removing any, going against his own Executive Order. He can safely ignored domestically for the next 3 years. Congress are the ones to watch.

  11. I'm sure the founding fathers would disagree.

  12. Re:That's easy on Why Google and Amazon Are Hypocrites (om.blog) · · Score: 1

    America wasn't founded by people who hoped good politicians would eventually look after them. It was founded by people who tool the matter into their own hands.

    The founding fathers would be disgusted by you.

  13. So demand better politicians who can't be bought. Use whatever constitutionally protected methods you have at your disposal to tell the tyrants in government that the American people will not stand for this.

    Or keep bitching on the internet and see how nothing ever, ever changes.

    The solution to corrupt politicians isn't unelected officials doing an end run around the politicians. Because then all you get is corrupt unelected officials. Fix the problem at the source or die trying. Stand up for your rights and put your money where your mouth is.

    Bet you won't though.

  14. That has nothing to do with Net Neutrality. As the Obama administration passed the NN regulations, Google would still be free to do that. Funny how Google and co were never harmed by NN. Wonder whose pockets they line.

  15. Above Trump should read Obama.

  16. As it should be. It is not the Presidents job to get creative and enact laws that Congress explicitly has said it does not want. The president' s job is to ensure Congress has to meet a higher burden then 51% vote to pass controversial laws.

    I know the Constituion is seen as a thing of the past. But it is the very fabric of what American society is built upon. The American people gave Trump a Republican Congress because it did not trust Obama to stop a Democratic Congress from going crazy. What Obama did was give the American people a middle finger and replace their judgement with his own. Now you are suffering the consequences of that.

  17. Re:I've Mentioned This Before in Other Threads on After Automating Order-Taking, Fast Food Chains Had to Hire More Workers (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would they have humans pick, fill and load customer orders? Amazon's been making significant progress in getting robots to do that.

  18. Re:Meaningless statistic on After Automating Order-Taking, Fast Food Chains Had to Hire More Workers (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Even that's not valid. Projected employees per store is the only valid metric. And if you really want to see whether more jobs were created, compare that with employees in the same markets for non-Starbucks coffee.

  19. Re:Great idea on Trump Is Looking at Plans For a Global Network of Private Spies (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    When will you Americans learn to spell. It's cheque. FFS

  20. Re: In other words on Tesla Switches on Giant Battery To Shore Up Australia's Grid (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    It doesn't help deal with the problem that occurred. It helps deal with the propaganda put out by the Federal government.

  21. Re:It's the hiring process... on Why Do Employers Require College Degrees That Aren't Necessary? (thestreet.com) · · Score: 1

    Whichever IT Manager let's HR screen their staff is a moron. Most of the time HR knows nothing about the skills or mentality that makes a good IT person.

  22. Re: Elon loves envelopes filled with stolen tax mo on Tesla Completes World's Largest Battery Project In Half the Time Promised (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Bet the AC is an African American. It'd explain a lot.

  23. Re: Musk completes largest tax drain on Earth on Tesla Completes World's Largest Battery Project In Half the Time Promised (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Then we'd just have dupe accounts.

  24. Re:This solves SO many problems. Awesome! on Living In Nuclear Disaster Fallout Zone Would Be No Worse Than Living In London, Research Suggests (bristol.ac.uk) · · Score: 2

    My wife changed her name from "Jane" to "Wife" in my phone. Not everyone see's traditional labels as ownership.

  25. Re:Flowing liquid water was never that plausible on Flowing Water On Mars' Surface May Just Be Rolling Sand Instead (theverge.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Exactly. That is a government website. The science is settled, Mars has flowing water on the surface. This is clearly propaganda sponsored by the oil companies. Guess someone told them there aren't any fossil fuels on Mars.