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  1. "Too timid" is another word for "moderate".

  2. Re:Wind and solar cant provide base load on France To Close Four Coal-Fired Power Plants By 2022, 14 Nuclear Reactors By 2035 (cleantechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    OMG. I guess nobody ever thought of that. What WILL we do? The suspence is killing me.

    This is why we need coal. Because it causes huricanes and that means wind and thus free energy. That means no need for oil, so no need to fight wars over it.
    I have solved it. Worldpeace!

  3. Re:We need to consume less and better on France To Close Four Coal-Fired Power Plants By 2022, 14 Nuclear Reactors By 2035 (cleantechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    PETA? Well Fuck Peta Jensen!

  4. Re: I would just be happy on YouTube Will Remove All Pop-up Annotations on January 15 (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    And that included income.

  5. Re: I would just be happy on YouTube Will Remove All Pop-up Annotations on January 15 (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The few times I warched a YouTube video, I have not seen an add. Must be doing something wrong.

  6. Re: I would just be happy on YouTube Will Remove All Pop-up Annotations on January 15 (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    You can remove the video. Or take more time editing. Using a script helps a lot.
    There are two things that turn me off on YouTube videos. The first is bad sound. The second is no editing.

    You are not going live, so edit and reshoot if it is crap. It will shorten many 30 miinute videos where people shout "focus" to a 5 minute one woth actual content.

  7. Re: Everyone is completely exempt from personal re on 'General Motors, Sears and Toys R Us: Layoffs Across America Highlight Our Shredding Financial Safety Net' (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 2

    So what if some kid in the US rearns mote than most in the world. I could move and earn twice as mych. Cost of living would double or tripple. So I would be worse off with more money.

    I also know people who took a pay cut and have a better life, because where they now live it is dirt cheap.

  8. Re:This website does not allow proxy connections? on The FBI Created a Fake FedEx Website To Unmask a Cybercriminal (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    What I do, as I have my own domain, is to use a specific email per vendor. I would use e.g. ebay.com@example.net
    That way I will know that an email is actually from them. I will also know if they have sold my email or if they have been compromised.

    In the case of ebay, they give the email to the vendors, so I started getting spam from them. That email account is now gone as well as my willingness to do business with them in any for or way.

    I have cought some pretty nice scamming attempts that way. Just knowing it was not send to the right adress makes sure it is filtered out. So I sort on "to" more than on "from".

    And again: Ebay have been the sole offenders after a few years,

  9. Re:"people could handle that very easily" on Trump Suggests US Could Slap 10 Percent Tax On iPhones, Laptops From China (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    And a coward. Why stop at 10% or 25%? Why not go to 100% or 200% or 500%? I thought it was about moving production to the US, not about increasing (or lowering) prices.

    Or full on block all import, including oil.

  10. Re:Of course it's not a new low on Trump Says He Doesn't Believe Government Climate Report Finding in a New Low (apnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Look up where the name 'slave' comes from.

  11. just go to the competition on Comcast Raises Cable TV Bills Again -- Even If You're Under Contract (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    People will say there is no competition, but there is. They are competing for your time and your eyes.
    Once you understand that, you will know there is a lot of it. Start doing that thing you never had time for.

  12. I live in Europe. I have met nice and not so nice people. The French are nice. The Parisians are assholes. But then they hate everybody, even other Parisians.
    They can be compared to New Yorkers.

    And people in rural areas are all very nice as well. Just more closed to people from outside their comfort zone. I can see how some might think they are unpolite, because they do not go and chit chat with everybody. To me that is more polite than walking up to me and start a conversation.

  13. I do believe that many of the Trump voters where "protest voters" protesting to the current political landscape in the USofA.

    In other countries this happens as well.They are often smaller parties and often with a single or minimal agenda. However in most of these countries there are multy party systems. So instead of having one of the 'non-pol;iticians' be elected, the other parties will loose votes.

    That then sends a clear signal to the parties to start paying attention and better start changing their priorities. Such a party is The Pirate Party.

    In a way you can see them as lobyists that people are voted for.

    With the two-party system and both Republicans and Democrats unwilling to vote for the "other" party, the protest voters did not have a real choice, but vote for Trump.

    The thing is that in a multi party system, this would be seen as protest votes. In the US it is not seen that way.

    So I do think that there are plenty of peoplewho voted and they where stuck between a rock and a hard place.

  14. Let's ask Steve Jobs. Perhaps he has an answ...oh.

  15. Re:I'm guilty of it, but it's not good on China's Cashless Economy Threatens To Leave Its Elderly -- and Their Money -- Behind (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    That is why the Swedish Governement is trying to keep cash relevant.

  16. You will be shocked to hear who POTUS is. Just out of a coma and already on /.

  17. Besides it is leaning, what is so unique about it?

  18. The most I have open is 50 or so YouTube videos I want to see one by one. Watch one, close it, go to the next.

  19. Re:Loving the quiet again. on Ask Slashdot: What Kind of Keyboard Do You Use With Your Computer and Why? · · Score: 1

    Explaining the joke for people who did not get it. You are the real MVP!

  20. Re:Sounds like an excellent reason... on Amazon Workers in Europe Stage 'We Are Not Robots' Protests on One of Its Busiest Shopping Days (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    So what should they do the? Be happy to get a bowl of rice and that they are not beaten that bad?

    As your comment was so insightfull, I am sure you will have a solution.

  21. Re:Loving the quiet again. on Ask Slashdot: What Kind of Keyboard Do You Use With Your Computer and Why? · · Score: 0

    If the ceap is really cheap, I pick good and cheap as than when it vreaks, I can buy seevral new ones for the price of a Good and rliable one.

    Why buy a 200 USD one every 10 years if I can buy a 10 USD one every year?

  22. Re:What a bunch of motherfucking assholes! on Beijing To Judge Every Resident Based on Behavior by End of 2020 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Just a pity no governemend ever really tried it.

  23. Re:Why do you think that is a problem - for China? on Beijing To Judge Every Resident Based on Behavior by End of 2020 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Wait, could you explain the difference between the two systems again?

  24. I have one on US Asks Foreign Allies To Avoid Huawei (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a Huawei phone, so does this moean the NSA can't read my data? Bummer.

  25. You might think that is obvious. It is not. Where I live, AZERTY is the standard. So that means I have to hope a job will give me a qwerty portable, or allow me to bring my own keyboard.
    Buying a portable is also not as easy. Using qwerty is just a bit easier for php, html, bash and the like.