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  1. Which is much higher than the human driving on divided highways stat. This has been beat to death. You are wrong.

  2. Re:Great way to kill the competition by making it. on Tesla Bans Customers From Using Autonomous Cars To Earn Money Ride-Sharing (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's close to impossible to spend more on an old car vs a new one. Even if you hire the wrench. Just don't hire a criminal wrench.

    I've got about $6k in a Mustang *, which is better in every way (except resale value, and mercenary bitch pulling power) than a GT-350 R. Would likely have been about $10k+ if I hadn't turned the wrenches. But still a fraction of the cost of a new factory tuner. YYMV especially if you live in car cancer country.

    * I know, I know, 'blue oval of shame'. But parts are plentiful and cheap and the car is actually better than I expected. Which is understandable. The last Ford car I touched was a Mustang II (aka Pinto II).

  3. It's never too late to come to your senses.

    M1 rifles are a good choice. 8 round fixed mag, (not an 'assault weapon'). Not cheap at all, but you will always be able to sell it for more than you paid (assuming you maintain it).

  4. Re:Greeks are Lazy Fucks on Americans Work 25% More Than Europeans, Study Finds (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    24% VAT in greece, much less on some islands. Good luck making that 'automatic'.

  5. Re: Does anybody ... on Assange Internet Link Cut By State Actor, Claims Wikileaks (rt.com) · · Score: 1

    Good job, correcting the record.

  6. Re:working to offset expansion of the money supply on Americans Work 25% More Than Europeans, Study Finds (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no functioning market for US treasuries.

    A US treasury auction will never be allowed to not sell out. They aren't even being allowed to raise to a market rate.

    If the rate of US treasuries starts to rise the Federal reserve buys it all up. Which is why 'quantitative easing' is proving so hard to end. The fed doesn't control how much debt it buys at each auction. It buys _all that is leftover_, simple as that.

    This is what happens when government is the world's biggest debtor _and_ controls the mechanism for setting interest rates. If Treasury rates were 10% the US treasury would already be bankrupt.

    Everybody should borrow as much as they can to buy up any reasonably priced hard assets. Determining what constitutes 'reasonable price' in this environment is problematic.

  7. Re:Greeks are Lazy Fucks on Americans Work 25% More Than Europeans, Study Finds (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I've known some Greeks outside Greece. They, at least, are not particularly lazy. Says nothing about Greek government employees either, those people are lazy as fuck worldwide.

    Greece's economy is mostly underground. They learned that under the Ottomans. The problem is getting Greeks to pay taxes, even Greek government employees don't pay their taxes with impunity.

  8. It's been a long steady decline. FDR put us on this track. He's the one who arranged the original England spies on American and Australian citizens, Australia spies on English and American citizens and America spies on English and Australian citizens plan (Echelon). Abracadabra, no problems with any pesky privacy rights for any of these nation's cops.

  9. He's a leftist who supported _communism_. Like I say stupid and broken. Claims of 'social democrat' are bullshit. His history was being ignored in the primary as the Republicans would have loved to see him in the general.

    How many millions did people with his philosophy kill in the 20th century?

    Sanders couldn't have won Florida or the nation. No chance. Clinton didn't campaign against his idiocy as she wants his idiots to vote for her in the general.

  10. Re:That's the effect of socialism and no mobility. on Americans Work 25% More Than Europeans, Study Finds (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Everybody with ambition moves to America. Soon all that will be left is old money and bums.

  11. Re:We get vacation?? on Americans Work 25% More Than Europeans, Study Finds (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Managers get whatever they base their rewards on.

    Your managers are so stupid they can't come up with a performance metric better than 'face time'.

    Either learn to game it, or find a new job. It's one of the worst signs for a workplace. Says everything you need to know about the clue status of management. Everything else will suck too.

  12. Re:What have they got to show for it? on Americans Work 25% More Than Europeans, Study Finds (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    What does that tell me?

    That you make up 'facts'.

  13. Money supply is a crude tool to manipulate the economy.

    Because Money supply is always dominated by money velocity.

    Money supply is hard to change fast, money velocity is noisy as hell.

    What happens if all the overseas US cash reserves suddenly start moving out from under mattresses? We see the missing inflation from the last 20 years, holders of fixed rate treasuries get financially sodomized (that's all of us via the SS trust fund).

  14. He does have a solid and fully integrated belief system. But it's stupid and broken. Unelectable.

    You can't 'support Castro' and be competitive in Florida. Florida is a must win.

  15. He's a ghoul. Have you seen the price of human flesh lately?

  16. Re:Bad bands trying to hide a lack of talent on More Performers Are Demanding Audiences Lock Up Their Phones (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    On the one hand, every show was unique. On the other, they really only had one song, it just went on for hours.

  17. Re:Forest of hands on More Performers Are Demanding Audiences Lock Up Their Phones (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    They were safe enough. Only burnt for few seconds at 15 foot flame setting anyhow.

  18. It's just a tribe thing.

    Likely a god damn 'noodle dancer'. Fucking Hippie. Shakes fist at GP.

  19. The republicans would have gladly run against Bernie. There is a reason nobody had heard Bernie saying he supported Castro (every 15 minutes in prime time).

    If Clinton had not been so clearly demanding (with plenty of dirt on everyone to back it) 'her turn', the Ds would have run someone less obviously crooked as the establishment candidate.

  20. Your party put the first nail in the coffin for rule of law, not mine.

    FDR was a libertarian? Look up Echelon you halfwit.

  21. Re:Should be recording all the time on UK Police Begins Deployment of 22,000 Police Body Cameras (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Even with what government pays: About 2 days pay for the force of 30,000.

    I think they could drop the frame rate a bit as well.

  22. You forgot the Sarc dude. She's a skilled propagandist, I'll grant you that.

  23. Is there any way I can kill them in a slower and more painful way?

  24. It is unethical to let a sucker keep his money. So 'check'.

  25. Sales of non S class benzes remain a mystery to me.

    These days the very worst drivers have traded in their DL volvos for Prius.