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  1. Just wait until your rich customers realize they can get a better price by playing poor. Likely already happened, but wait until they all figure it out.

  2. Re:Translation: on Pentagon Reports 2000% Increase in Russia Trolls Since Friday (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Rose colored glasses. We've always been a 'propaganda society'. The Soviets were a bigger threat because they had a philosophy, which morons bought into, world wide. The Rusky's now are just another bunch of corrupt money grubbers, led by a corrupt money grubber.

    Gulf of Tonkin incident, Bay of Pigs, Pearl Harbor, Sinking of the Main, Shot Heard round the World, Caesar's Commentary on the Gallic Wars etc etc etc. Wars have always included propaganda.

    Syria is, IMHO, about maintaining a new Shia/Sunni war and keeping it stalemated. Which is a _good_ outcome. Just like the Catholics/Protestants, they need to kick the fight out of each other.

  3. Re: Short term the best carbon sink is rainforests on XPRIZE Projects Aim To Convert CO2 Emissions, But Skepticism Remains (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Wind blowing off the North American content has lower CO2 than air blowing onto it. Because we deforested the eastern half in the 1800s and it is now 'reforesting', or at least growing large trees in the 'burbs.

  4. Re:Short term the best carbon sink is rainforests on XPRIZE Projects Aim To Convert CO2 Emissions, But Skepticism Remains (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not obvious at all.

    The commonly taught greeny disinformation is that 'rainforests are the planets lungs', but it's completely wrong, propaganda.

  5. Re:Short term the best carbon sink is rainforests on XPRIZE Projects Aim To Convert CO2 Emissions, But Skepticism Remains (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    I did note that suburbs were a carbon sink.

  6. Re:Smokescreen on Pentagon Reports 2000% Increase in Russia Trolls Since Friday (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree. The current Sunni/Shia stalemate is very well done. We should be able to maintain it until oil is irrelevant to the world's energy picture.

    But I won't give too much credit to the Americans. The Sunni/Shia war is 1300 years old, all anybody really had to do was eliminate the dictators and we knew the war would restart. Muslims can't help themselves, comes with being that sure they are the 'right ones'.

  7. Re:Yeah, Slashdot has become wildly 'conservative' on Pentagon Reports 2000% Increase in Russia Trolls Since Friday (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    Very few people 'like Trump'. He _was_ just the lesser of two evils.

  8. Re: Sounds like a CYA distraction statement on Tesla Issues Strongest Statement Yet Blaming Driver For Deadly Autopilot Crash (abc7news.com) · · Score: 1

    Every cruise control I've ever owned did. Including one 46 years older than your 2006.

  9. Re:Oh right, the power question on A Coal Power Plant is Being Reopened For Blockchain Mining (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I know a lot of 'bitcoin' fans. I've never heard that claim. I think you just made it up

  10. Re:Translation: on Pentagon Reports 2000% Increase in Russia Trolls Since Friday (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Nonsense. You user ID says you should remember the level of Soviet propaganda during the cold war.

    Granted it didn't get much traction in the USA, outside liberal arts departments at universities anyhow.

  11. Re:Oh no on Pentagon Reports 2000% Increase in Russia Trolls Since Friday (axios.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    'every reason': No, it's just the narrative that has been pushed since the bitch blew the election.

    We have 'every reason' to be very suspicious of this narrative.

  12. Re:Do we trust the legal system? on Google Loses 'Right To Be Forgotten' Case (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know who you are.

    You are opposed to liberty exactly as much as you are for socialism. They are incompatible.

    Also note: You do have the _right_ to be a hateful left wing dick. But there are consequences.

  13. Re:lol.. on Comcast Is Bundling Netflix Into Cable Packages (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    That was, of course, Netflix's spin on it.

    Comcast on the other hand said: Netflix pays for _rack_space_, same as everybody else. Netflix wants/needs local servers on large ISPs networks, so their DRM can work. If they just used HTML5 video, caching proxies could server the purpose.

  14. Re:Do we trust the legal system? on Google Loses 'Right To Be Forgotten' Case (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Todays self identified 'liberals' are NOT if favor of liberty. That's just a fact. Twist all you want. The definition hasn't just changed, it means the opposite of what it used to mean.

  15. Re:God damn it on A Coal Power Plant is Being Reopened For Blockchain Mining (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Certainly money laundering does.

  16. Re: several hundred feet of visibility ahead on Tesla Issues Strongest Statement Yet Blaming Driver For Deadly Autopilot Crash (abc7news.com) · · Score: 1

    Load the paint with Beta emitters. Bonus: nuclear waste is now a resource.

  17. Re: Sounds like a CYA distraction statement on Tesla Issues Strongest Statement Yet Blaming Driver For Deadly Autopilot Crash (abc7news.com) · · Score: 1

    They've always lifted off throttle when you went overspeed.

  18. Re: Sounds like a CYA distraction statement on Tesla Issues Strongest Statement Yet Blaming Driver For Deadly Autopilot Crash (abc7news.com) · · Score: 1

    In older cars, always on the transmission, before the diff. Some aftermarket cruise controls had you epoxy magnets to your driveshaft and install sensors. Those sucked, but they were still reading the driveline speed. If your wheels spun, the cruise control lifted off throttle. If your wheels locked, you were on the brakes and the cruise control did nothing.

    Newer cars will have ABS and traction control watching every wheel.

    I actually own one of the very first American cars with a factory cruise control, 1960. It's really cool. It pushes up from under the gas pedal. You have to keep your foot on the gas, but it manages the throttle. Problem is, if it breaks, you have to manually retract it to get full throttle. You could stomp it and force it down, but worm gear, no ballscrew, bad idea. Easy enough to spin though. Pretty reliable.

  19. Re:God damn it on A Coal Power Plant is Being Reopened For Blockchain Mining (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    He just identified the 'useful purpose', evading government controls.

    If there is no mining there can be no transactions. The bad (power use for mining) has to happen to enable the good ('enabling of illegal activity' in the GP's parlance).

  20. Re:God damn it on A Coal Power Plant is Being Reopened For Blockchain Mining (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Like altcoin mining has driven down the price of GPUs?

  21. Re:Make it stop ... on A Coal Power Plant is Being Reopened For Blockchain Mining (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    One year restart time...One year is an eternity in cryptocurrency time.

    At the end of all that, they're competing in a world power market, with an area that requires AC for datacenter cooling. So they'll effectively have to have power rates on the order of half the rates in a cold area, just to make up for heat pumping costs. Which doesn't even get into options like heating an office building with waste heat.

    They could easily end up with a pile of coal, a refurbed plant and no customers. Hopefully the plant is right on the mine and the mine was still running. I can't imagine they're sticking their necks out too far.

  22. Re:Oh right, the power question on A Coal Power Plant is Being Reopened For Blockchain Mining (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Who told you that?

    There is no 'extra production' from any of the worlds dams. It's all pretty much sold off, within environmental constraints (you can't let rivers go dry or regularly put walls of water down them). Excepting perhaps Iceland, but they built the thing to make aluminium, so not even there.

    Whoever told you that bullshit had no respect for you. Terrible liar who thought you were stupid. Surplus power, in China?

    Either that, or you just made it up on the spot.

  23. In much of the world it is a crime to insult the prophet.

    I'm ready to say 'shut up you foreigners'.

    Also: Image of the prophet ----> (((:-{)>

    I'd insult the king of Thailand etc too. But you get the point. 'Shut up foreigners' is indeed the right answer. Our net, they can firewall at their border or get fucked, we shouldn't care.

    EU laws ARE'NT different. They can get fucked too.

  24. Re:Do we trust the legal system? on Google Loses 'Right To Be Forgotten' Case (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Lesson learned. British criminals: Don't start lying about your past until after the crime has been 'forced forgotten'. Then go for it.

  25. Re:Do we trust the legal system? on Google Loses 'Right To Be Forgotten' Case (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Liberal as defined when the constitution was written, not 'liberal' now.

    Liberal used to mean 'in favor of liberty', not for 100 years in America.