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  1. Re: They have drone delivery! on Amazon Promised Drone Delivery In Five Years Five Years Ago (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I do care. The main reason I do not use self checkout in the supermarket is so some still have a job sure I pay more (npt getting .5 reduction) and I am happy to pay that.

    I know I am an exeption.

  2. Re: And yet no leaks showing rigged primaries on House GOP Campaign Committee Says Its Emails Were Hacked During 2018 Campaign (talkingpointsmemo.com) · · Score: 1

    I think California will be another.

  3. Re: Can't say I blame the Secret Service for this on The Secret Service Wants To Test Facial Recognition Around the White House (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, you are in their database now. No, not because what you wrote. You are just in their database, just like everybody else.

    It's not paranoia if they actually follow you.

  4. I doubt that it is that size. They use metric.

  5. Re: Bangs: Hair, Sex, and now? on Search Engine DuckDuckGo Removes 'Pirate' Site Bangs To Avoid Liability (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Hashtag Octothorpe

  6. Re: Neutral Search Engines on Search Engine DuckDuckGo Removes 'Pirate' Site Bangs To Avoid Liability (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    To be the devils, devils advocate. They should NOT report it, as it is not up to them to deciide if something is illegal or not. For that you have a legal system.
    The moment they decide if something is criminal or not.
    Be it a torrent link, childporn, terrorism or people using Emacs instead of vi.

  7. google does it differently on Search Engine DuckDuckGo Removes 'Pirate' Site Bangs To Avoid Liability (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Just use filertype:torrent on google. Works great.

  8. Re: Printers today, IoT tomorrow on Twitter User Hacks 50,000 Printers To Tell People To Subscribe To a YouTube Channel (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a Raspberry Pi. It has Linux. I am safe.

  9. Reminds me of many years ago when a Swedish or Danish person went to pre-wall Russia and did the nasty with his none-wife. Russia tries to blackmail, guy confesses to wife and media and explains blackmail atempt.

    The issue is that many things, while legal, are an issue. Iyou should be able to ask dor a t-shirt with your penis on it and sue them for copyright infrindgement at the same time.

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

    Is it more: Do as I say, not as I do decissions, or the oppsite?
    E.g. people telling othersnot to take drugs, while they do so themselves.or telling people they should go for it, while not taking it because reasons.

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

    Evolution MIGHT come into play ifyou are looking about making decissions for your kids. I could see that one would take different decissions and less risky ones.

  12. Re: In reality on In China, Your Car Could Be Talking To the Government (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    That EULA would not ve valid under GDPR.

  13. Re:I avoid loud restaurants on How Restaurants Got So Loud (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Salted peanuts. It's a foodgroup, right?

  14. Re:What is " Data Caps "? on Your 4K Netflix Streaming Is On a Collision Course With Your ISP's Data Caps (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Plenty of providers have datacaps. Even in Europe. You just need to look for them. That is the true vallue of an open market. If you WANT datacaps, there is a provider that can provide it for you.

    I am sure that if more people would ask for them, more competition in providing datacaps will be available. Just let the market sort out supply and demand.

  15. I have no data caps. Not hidden or otherwise. They even ask you "Ready to become a real Netflix addict? (n_n)".

    That is what you get for living in a communist country like Belgium where we have competition.

  16. Over a decade? They lost their innocence when they raped Dejanews.com.

  17. Re:"Restaurants" on How Restaurants Got So Loud (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    No idea where you live. I live in Belgium and eat and have eaten all over Europe and I do not find this to be the case. The last fine dining I went to had music, just not very loud. (Do not go to their website. It is horrible. The food and service is the best I ever had.)

    The "normal" restaurants where I go to, also have music.
    But they are almost always there that if there is nobody, (or if everybody just stops talking suddenly for some reason) it is not dead quiet. In those places I would not expect to pay as much as that one with the fine dining. Closer to 50EUR per person including wine instead. Like here It is just some background music, not some shredder metal set to 11.

  18. Re:I avoid loud restaurants on How Restaurants Got So Loud (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    It depends a lot on the atmosphere. (Disclaimer, I live in Europe) I would never eat in a pub, or sportsbar. For me a bar or pub is for drinking, not eating.
    I have been in loud restaurants where the atmosphere was extremely nice. I also have been in quiet places, where I felt as if I was at a funeral. Terrible.

    The dutch have a word for it "Geroezemoes". It means background noise, murmur, buzz and (not or) chatter. This can be almost silent, but also pretty loud.

    It absolutely depends on the mood I am in and the place. e.g. try to imagine a beerhall in Germany to be quiet. It would be depressing.

    I personally would walk away from too quiet mor than from too loud. That does not mean I like people shouting all the time. There are better places for that and I enjoy those as well. Just not to eat.

  19. "Restaurants" on How Restaurants Got So Loud (theatlantic.com) · · Score: -1

    This is a biased post form somebody living in Europe, where "restaurant" means not the same thing as a dictionary will suggest.

    A wine bar is, as the word sugests, a bar to drink wine. Not a restaurant. I would expect it to be louder than average. A food court is a court, not so much a restaurant. I expect that to be louder. And last, but not least a pub that is loud is my kind of place. I would hate going to a pub if it is quiet. If I want to eat quetly, I go to a restaurant.

    The thing is not that restaurants have become lauder, but that many places market themselves as restaurant.

    To me a restaurant is a place that is exclusively targeted at eating with waiting staff. It also does not include a bistro or a pizzeria. A fast food restaurant is fast food, not a restaurant.

    When I go out with friends, it is not uncommon to hear "I don't feel like going to a restaurant, let's have pizza instead." and go to a pizzeria with tablecloth, service and home made pizza. Have a bottle of wine (or more) and enjoy each others company for a couple of hours. Joey would have loved it. No shared pizza's. Each has their own.

  20. Re: Why not futurists on Nike and Boeing Are Paying Sci-Fi Writers To Predict Their Futures (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    More legroom? You mean more rows of people.

  21. Re: The felony part will change stuff from civil t on Music Industry Asks US Government To Reconsider Website Blocking (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    The fact that you loose these rights is a whole different discussion and gies againt: no taxation without representation.

  22. Re: Make website owners Responsible. on Music Industry Asks US Government To Reconsider Website Blocking (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    As an example, do a seach fot "metallica filetype:torrent" on Google.

  23. Re: Time for a tax on intellectual property? on Music Industry Asks US Government To Reconsider Website Blocking (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    As long as neither is enforced, theyycould be called, the three laws of Robotics. There as a plot device, not to be taken seriously.

  24. Re: Time for a tax on intellectual property? on Music Industry Asks US Government To Reconsider Website Blocking (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    If there is no copyrigjt, why would you need to acknowledge where it comes from? If I find a rock and paint it, and sell it as a pet rock, does it matter where the rock comes from?

    Unless it is science related, it dies not matter what the origin is.

  25. Re: Time for a tax on intellectual property? on Music Industry Asks US Government To Reconsider Website Blocking (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    So the little guy is srewed while the big guys can pay it. It will lower their price for bribery, er the legal one, as well. Great plan. /s