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  1. Re: Not Americans on Americans Are Lining Up To Work For Amazon For $15 an Hour (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    He wasn't a moron.

    Didn't trigger firing. Just a ref check that HR was too lazy to do routinely.

  2. Re: Not Americans on Americans Are Lining Up To Work For Amazon For $15 an Hour (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Liar. I have never grown weed, for a living.

    I grow six plants/year. About six pounds. Personal use.

  3. Re:Corporate America's way... on The World's Biggest Spice Company is Using AI To Find New Flavors (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Spice mixes are all at least half salt and cost more than their most expensive constituent spices.

  4. Libertarians are the natural antagonist to the right AND the 'liberal', who hate freedom.

  5. A Nissan Sentra was not going to spin its tires going around a left turn.

    Its not safety, it's MPG. I don't need an 'idiot in the middle' telling me I don't need the pitiful amount of power that POS makes. Someone has no doubt already been t boned because of that safety feature. Won't be me.

  6. That's the beauty of the whole drive being encrypted. But they will still be found, when they check what wallet he transferred funds into form the hot one.

    If he used a tumbler between hot and cold, we know he's running.

  7. Re:Did he REALLY die? on Digital Exchange Loses $137 Million As Founder Takes Passwords To the Grave (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Likely easier than after you're dead. Bribes don't pay themselves.

  8. Re:So what? on 'The World Might Actually Run Out of People' (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Somebody invented the word 'archology' and drew a big book of pictures back in the 1960s.

    I don't think he lived near the sea. Certainly never maintained a boat on salt water. Too much acid.

  9. Re:Riiight. And I have this bridge for sale. on 'The World Might Actually Run Out of People' (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Unintentional?

    You suck, try harder.

  10. 'Liberal' generally keeps its original definition in Europe.

    Americans have redefined it. Think Libertarian. Liberal = in favor of liberty, more or less, the opposite of American 'liberal'.

  11. We're still not back to lean burn efficiency of the very late 80s. IIRC NOx killed it. There were a lot of tiny cars then, I miss the original CRX. Sure deathtraps, so?

    Basically no cars of the 10s do a throttle stomp right. Computer is 'helping' you keep up the MPG...You don't really want that power, right now. I rented a Nissan (pronounced 'Renault', spit) that didn't apply power until the steering was straight.

  12. Every two years, I spend a weekend installing CARB parts, another removing them.

    I limit my post CARB tuning to one vehicle. No point for the city car or the 4x4. Neither needs more than two or three hundred ponies. The classic is smog exempt, but unmolested anyhow. The 1970 Fiat 850 sport, rat powered 4x4 is going to be a trailer queen, should also be smog exempt. The state ref is never going to see it...nothing good could come of that.

    CA has a new loud exhaust law, doesn't change the standard, just the fine. Just keep your foot out of it when passing cops. Still lots of fun to be had.

    I as recall, potholes took a lot of fun out of driving, back on the flyover tundra. My brother has to remind me that _everybody_ drives slow, 'cause they're scared of cops.

  13. Clearing the private cars, might make deliveries easier.

  14. It's confirmation bias. The population was 'TDI car owners' (truck owners couldn't care about clean), 90% VW or rebadged in America. Once they spent their money, the TDIs were clean, they HAD to be. There were more TDI owners in Europe, but they were in many populations.

    I got it from the other side. IMHO VW 'diesels' aren't the problem, it's all water cooled VWs that suck!

    First step in the brake master cylinder replacement procedure for a new 'bug'...Remove front bumper...Run away! Gas engines don't 'fix' VW. VW just sucks big old donkey balls.

  15. Re:OK, you lost me... on 'The World Might Actually Run Out of People' (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean Joe Biden isn't worth voting for? Damn.

  16. Tech for the region? on Foxconn Says It Will Build Wisconsin Factory After All (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Wisconsin?

    Some form of high tech booze? Perhaps an autonomous glass, that keeps pouring it down you, after you (pass out/puke/piss yourself)?

  17. Re: Not Americans on Americans Are Lining Up To Work For Amazon For $15 an Hour (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry about all the horrible bean counting jobs you've been stuck with.

    If you used an occasional float, you might have found calcuseless, useful.

    I actually had an employer (after discovering someone with a pure BS resume) who walked the office asking for the first derivative of 1/x and making a list. If you couldn't answer, he had HR go back and check your refs and education.

  18. Re:NN definition in summary is broken. on New Net Neutrality Bill Headed To Congress (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    From another thread: EFF's take on the rules that are proposed for reinstatement. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/...

    TLDR. It's as fucked as I expected. Appears designed to be unclear and to generate billable hours for beltway law firms. You won't like what comes out the other end of that process.

  19. Re: Net Neutrality is a red herring on New Net Neutrality Bill Headed To Congress (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Caching saves Comcast bandwidth. Receiving data is generally free, under most peering agreements. But bandwidth is finite, but a sunk cost...not a simple question.

    At most you can say, 3 cases in increasing cost order for comcast.
    1. (a) Let Netflix resolution downgrade (b) charge them fair market for racks (c) Netflix streams in HTML video, gets cached automagically.
    2. Give up valuable rack real estate.
    3. Upgrade bandwidth for peak evening Netflix.

    The fact you trust Netflix on this one, is a huge red flag. When did they say they would pay? After their publicity blitz or before? They are in fact now paying, as is fair. The ended on option b of cost 1

  20. Re:NN definition in summary is broken. on New Net Neutrality Bill Headed To Congress (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    People should read your cite. Especially this: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/... (cited by your cite).

    A list of problems the EFF has found with the 'legalize' of the rules that are proposed for reinstatement (and that you appear to support).

    For those that won't read: They punted, like the shyster that they are. 'Reasonable Network Management' with no definition is an invitation for legal shenanigans and many many billable hours. More or less, what I would expect. Good to get confirmation from the EFF.

  21. Re:NN definition in summary is broken. on New Net Neutrality Bill Headed To Congress (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Read the title of your post. The definition in TFS would ban QoS, as would many of the simple minded rules that have been floated.

    I'm pointing out that leaving the definition of NN in the hands of fucking government lawyers is a bad idea.

    We geeks can't even agree to a clear definition here (through the noise). There are some that defend the broken definition (bet they're Java or Javascript programmers)

  22. Re:NN definition in summary is broken. on New Net Neutrality Bill Headed To Congress (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Packet prioritization by type is as old as hills.

  23. Re:NN definition in summary is broken. on New Net Neutrality Bill Headed To Congress (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Bullshit.

    The internet has had QoS almost since the invention of the router.

    NN was a set of proposed rules that WERE NEVER ENFORCED or even legally passed.

    Bet you can't even define QoS, nor give an example where it helps your daily internet use.

  24. Re:NN definition in summary is broken. on New Net Neutrality Bill Headed To Congress (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Legalize being clear and correct about technical subjects is your expectation?

    What planet have you been living on?

    How much would you bet on that?

  25. Re:NN definition in summary is broken. on New Net Neutrality Bill Headed To Congress (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You're not supposed to say things you don't believe and are unwilling to defend.