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

    Both names should be in this article. /. not being subject to eurotrash laws.

  2. Re:I respect the NTSB, but.. on NTSB Boots Tesla From Investigation Into Fatal Autopilot Crash (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    A tank full of gasoline fumes is much more dangerous than a tank full of gas. That's the right way to test, in the most dangerous condition.

  3. Why are you on this thread?

    We're arguing with an open fascist...I quote: 'Hate speech is a hate crime'

    This isn't about platform, this is someone ready to lock people up for 'hate speech'.

  4. You plant fast growing softwood and build more burbs out of the wood. Then start again. What we're already doing.

    That "carbon equilibrium" of a climax burb is really quite a massive amount of carbon. Especially if full of crazed hoarders.

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

    Rainforests are carbon neutral.

    Yes they absorb a large % of the carbon absorbed by the biosphere, they also emit a large % of the carbon emitted by the biosphere, when the leaves/wood rots.

    Unless an area is 'putting down' carbon, it's carbon neutral. That's rare: Only example I know of is the Okefenokee swamp.

    Some areas that are currently reforesting (e.g. the eastern half of the USA) are short term carbon sinks. Will only last until the tree cover reaches the new equilibrium. Landfills and suburbs are also short term carbon sinks. Until that wood and paper burns/rots it's locked up.

    The earth has been sinking carbon since the uplifting of the Tibetan plateau. Exposed limestone is a carbon sink. But slow.

  6. Re:Free speech doesn't mean only the speech you li on Reddit Continues To Protect Racist Language In Favor of Free Speech (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 0

    Nonsense. You obviously prefer CryptoCommies to Commies. CryptoNazis to Nazis.

    We _want_ them to speak, so they can be appropriately marginalized.

    That includes letting Commies call everybody they disagree with Nazis, and vice versa. Who cares? They've already made it clear, they are MORONS, they're carrying (swastikas/hammers and sickles).

  7. Sure, but left libertarians are crazy and deluded.

    You cannot have a command economy (aka Socialism) and economic freedom at the same time. Just doesn't work that way.

  8. Fuck you.

    We _want_ people to talk. Especially people with bad ideas. (e.g. You.)

    Nobody gets to shutdown free speech by saying 'hate speech'. I don't care if you don't like it, 'hate speech' is meaningless.

  9. Re:Some real context on Reddit Continues To Protect Racist Language In Favor of Free Speech (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    None of that changes the reality that, if you curate, you're responsible.

    Picky advertisers are expensive to support.

    Everybody says '4chan' when they mean /b. /b (specifically /bTards) hasn't been on 4chan in years, except when they come back to troll.

  10. When done badly, it's hilarious. Cite: /. Trump hating trolls.

  11. Re:Free speech doesn't mean only the speech you li on Reddit Continues To Protect Racist Language In Favor of Free Speech (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    The Marxist SJWs.

    For those that prefer to argue from '10,000 pages of fallacy': Marx himself said that about 10% of the population would have to be 'reeducated' or liquidated.

    For those that know history, there is no argument.

  12. Re:Some real context on Reddit Continues To Protect Racist Language In Favor of Free Speech (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    It's real simple: If they curate their content, they are responsible for it. A smart web site doesn't take that responsibility, unless it can keep it's operators out of court (civil and criminal).

  13. Re:ALL SPEECH.... on Reddit Continues To Protect Racist Language In Favor of Free Speech (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Fuck you! Hate speech IS free speech. Fuck you again, ghost pepper lube.

    I don't want to shut down commies speaking, no matter how high their megadeath count is. Why? Commies are better than crypto commies. Same as Nazis are better than crypto Nazies.

    The one you have to worry about is the Stalinist that has the sense to keep his plans private. Not the drooling street screamer.

  14. 'Ethical' is part of 'bullshitter', the key part. To para: 'Once you can fake that, the rest is easy.'

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

    At 25k$/unit it's kind of a deal breaker.

  16. Re:several hundred feet of visibility ahead on Tesla Issues Strongest Statement Yet Blaming Driver For Deadly Autopilot Crash (abc7news.com) · · Score: 2

    Teslas don't have lidar. Your thinking of Google cars.

  17. Re:Auto-copilot would be more appropriate on Tesla Issues Strongest Statement Yet Blaming Driver For Deadly Autopilot Crash (abc7news.com) · · Score: 1

    It's nothing but smart cruise control and lane assist (that kills you).

    Established car companies have both available. Not so much the 'that kills you', but after enough miles, you can bet it has.

  18. It makes me far less likely to assert any right of way as a pedestrian.

    Then something has been gained.

    We need more autonomous car testing around critical mass rides! Particularly Uber, but all should participate, no matter how poorly funded and/or engineered. We should see at least a few pigeons driving heavy trucks.

  19. He was a geek. He was testing an edge case. He had told Tesla about his test results, they logged them as complaints. This time, the barrier was damaged, the autopilot went straight in. He wasn't expecting that.

  20. Won't stop them. They can slow down the screen scrapers, cost them money, but that's all.

    Especially now that facebook is restricting it's API. So now phone apps will scrape directly and upload to their servers. Especially unauthorized by facebook phone apps.

  21. I was a founding member of Pagans for Reagan.

    SJWs have nothing to do with 'what's right'. Your an idiot if you take them at their stated word.

  22. So, your saying they were looking for bullshitters and you supplied exactly their flavor?

  23. Re:Much as I hate to say it on Backpage Founders Charged With Money Laundering, Aiding Prostitution (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Who were the last two D presidents? Think hard...

  24. So every married man in Sweden is hiding from the cops?

  25. Re:...as opposed to not complying? on Twitter Says It Will Comply With Honest Ads Act To Combat Russia Social Media Meddling (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Ship has sailed. Everybody's a felon.

    Once you accept it, your free again. Laws, schmaws.