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  1. Re: Ideal vs. All Driving Conditions on Elon Musk: Tesla's Autopilot Software Could Save Half a Million Lives Every Year (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    Calm down Elon. You're about to go cornholio.

  2. Re:So the end of the perfectly optimised console g on Microsoft Xbox Project Scorpio Puts Out 6 TFLOPs On Par With Current Gaming PCs (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    I know you cannot connect a keyboard and mouse to a console and play.

    Because the controller people would cry like babies after getting their asses handed to them.

    We understand, you dislike choice.

  3. How much would it cost to hook good controllers (keyboard and mouse) to a PS4 for gaming. Infinity?

    Reduce the PCs cost by $25 by matching the PS4s 8Gig of ram. Remove 'free console' game as you usually get a better PC one with the video card.

  4. It's much worse than that.

    Highway driving is by far the safest, about 1/4 the death rate of all driving. So for the USA highway driving death rate is about 1 per 380 million miles.

    Based on current data, everybody driving Teslas would more than double the highway death rate.

  5. Re:Ideal vs. All Driving Conditions on Elon Musk: Tesla's Autopilot Software Could Save Half a Million Lives Every Year (fortune.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's pure bullshit. Highway driving has about 1/4 the death rate of all driving.

    Highway driving is all the Tesla 'autopilot' can do. It's more dangerous than human driven for now.

    Please, take 5 mins and do the bloody math before you write an article that misleads the public.

    Back at you, summary author.

  6. Re:Pay for music? on That Digital Music Service You Love Is a Terrible Business (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I am advocating piracy. The music industry has made a business of generally not paying acts, while giving the 0.00001% of acts most willing to slob music industry knob a lottery win.

    But do pay for music direct from your local musician.

  7. Re:Pay for music? on That Digital Music Service You Love Is a Terrible Business (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Never at the 'record store'. But at live shows, absolutely.

    Often opening acts.

    It all gets ripped and shared.

    On the other hand what can you say about acts like 'Finntroll'. Without the net, they likely wouldn't exist. I certainly wouldn't be able to buy their CDs. I don't feel guilty downloading a discography, I likely listen to 5%. If they ever make it to CA they'll have an audience.

  8. Re:Buy very used... on New Cars Are Too Expensive For The Typical Family, Says Study (gulfnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Both, but much more the car.

    The trick is to project 'I can afford a lawyer'.

    Skip the 'feral stig' bumper stickers.

  9. Re:Cars Are Not More Expensive--BS!!! on New Cars Are Too Expensive For The Typical Family, Says Study (gulfnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Diesel saloon?

    No thanks, tequila!

  10. Re:Luckily music files are relatively small on That Digital Music Service You Love Is a Terrible Business (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Recently learned it's now Dr Methane. Bet someone gave him an honorary music doctorate.

  11. Re:because star wars is swords and sorcery fantasy on Why Did The Stars Wars and Star Trek Worlds Turn Out So Differently? (marginalrevolution.com) · · Score: 1

    A genre the excludes 99% of ST.

  12. Re:Labels FIND artists, PRODUCE quality sound, PRO on That Digital Music Service You Love Is a Terrible Business (fortune.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Should have warned us at the beginning of your post that you were a DJ.

    Would have saved us a lot of reading.

  13. Re:Pay for music? on That Digital Music Service You Love Is a Terrible Business (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    We've seen more than enough of the second...it sucks balls.

    Everything good in the last 30 years has been done by independent labels with bands full of people working day jobs.

    You can keep the Beiber.

  14. Re: Wrong Problem on Spain Runs Out of Workers With Almost 5 Million Unemployed (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It depends on the _fields_ maturity.

    A civil designing storm drainage does an awful lot of 'cookbook'. But just following the cookbook requires an engineering background. Keeping up with best practices would be impossible for someone just trained to mechanically follow the steps.

    Further nobody would take responsibility for the results like PE/SEs do if they were breaking new technological ground.

    Most surgery is 'cookbook', doesn't make surgeons 'script kiddies'. The most cookbook engineer is also not a script kiddie. The difference is understanding the scripts.

  15. Re:Pay for music? on That Digital Music Service You Love Is a Terrible Business (fortune.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Mozart had to take on private students to pay his bills, so can Justin Bieber, if he can find any paying students.

    Musicians getting rich was a historical aberration caused by the technology of the day. They can all get day jobs and cover their beer with tips when playing at night for all I care.

  16. Re:Luckily music files are relatively small on That Digital Music Service You Love Is a Terrible Business (fortune.com) · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Most of everything is crap.

    Find something you like. The last 20 years has seen a huge increase in independent recordings.

    I don't care what you like, there is something out there for you.

    Try searching for 'Mr Methane' to get you started. LePetomane reborn, musical genius.

  17. Pay for music? on That Digital Music Service You Love Is a Terrible Business (fortune.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Seriously...pay for music?

    Why would I do that?

  18. Re:internal training on Spain Runs Out of Workers With Almost 5 Million Unemployed (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Bull. The standards have risen. Poor today is middle class or better 100 years ago.

    Mexicans in front of Home Depot get $100/day with no English, they do work hard as long as you watch them.

  19. Balls on Amazon Gobbles Downtown Seattle, Builds Biospheres (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've always thought high rise structures should have balls.

    I applaud Amazon for choosing an unconventional number.

  20. Re: Wrong Problem on Spain Runs Out of Workers With Almost 5 Million Unemployed (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    So impossible without a 'drive to learn'. That lets out 99.9% of the adult population and 100% of the whiners.

    You expect 100% of the adult population to still be capable of learning independently? At least 25% were never capable of learning when spoon fed.

  21. Re:I don't believe that to be true!! on Elizabeth Warren Says Apple, Amazon and Google Are Trying To 'Lock Out' Competition (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Not even close. The only socialist even running is Sanders.

  22. Re:Academic and member of the Democratic Party? on Elizabeth Warren Says Apple, Amazon and Google Are Trying To 'Lock Out' Competition (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    I don't. My scum is the worst of the worst. I'm living in CA.

  23. Re:Just like the DNC an GOP on Elizabeth Warren Says Apple, Amazon and Google Are Trying To 'Lock Out' Competition (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Neither are dumb, just incredibly crooked.

    The people that vote for them on the other hand are fucking morons.

  24. When a franchise just asks you to suspend disbelief at every turn, it's fantasy. Lazy fantasy.

    Science fiction asks you to suspend disbelief about a few things, then constructs consistent stories in that world.

    Space opera's are just adventure stories with special effects.

  25. Re: Wrong Problem on Spain Runs Out of Workers With Almost 5 Million Unemployed (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The reality is that most positions in a company need little for skills.

    Says more about your jobs than anything else. Are you surprised that jobs requiring 'little for skills' pays 'little'?