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  1. Re:I've been saying for a long time about autonomu on Mining Companies Are Using Autonomous Trucks, Drills and Trains To Boost Efficiency, Reduce Employees (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    So this could be part of the Trump Infrastructure Program? It will put people to work building it until it is built and they have nothing else to do.

  2. Because they are coming after your job and not someone else's?

  3. Yep, all we need are printing presses or computer number generators, we'll all be rich with all that extra money to spend.

  4. Damn, there goes all those coal industry jobs we were going to have.

  5. nah, they just added the Ancient Astronauts Believers to their list of easily duped readers. They should have interviewed the Greek guy with the electric hair for the article, he's always good for a stupid quote or two.

  6. Re:Proof negative on 8,000 New US Jobs? Trump Takes Credit For Sprint, Startup Decisions (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Easily answered, Trump could keep his name the headlines longer by stringing rubes like you along who somehow believe he's something better than Sgt. Bilko. Check your wallet and your bank account, with insight like yours, he'll have those with no trouble.

  7. Re:That investment has been in the works for a whi on 8,000 New US Jobs? Trump Takes Credit For Sprint, Startup Decisions (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Tell you what, as soon as Trump says something that is true, then we'll give him plaudits for saying it.

  8. Re:That investment has been in the works for a whi on 8,000 New US Jobs? Trump Takes Credit For Sprint, Startup Decisions (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Not any longer, ever since Trump figured out the Republican voters didn't believe Republican economic theory further than they could spit a two-headed rat. And as it turns out, the Republicans in Congress were only spouting it because it sounded good at the time. Now it sounds good to suck up a lying sack of shit, they recognized him as one of their own.

  9. Re: Florida Senator: No Permit Needed For Driverle on Florida Senator: No Permit Needed For Driverless Cars In Florida (politifact.com) · · Score: 1

    The moronions will still deny Climate Change and attribute it to a nefarious plot by Clinton to deny the golf course of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named its rightful proceeds to Presidential Graft.

  10. Re:The first tweet was right on Sony Music Apologises To Britney Spears, Fans After Fake RIP Tweet Sent (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    Her career has gone where all careers go to die, Las Vegas.

  11. Re:What does this have to do with tech? on Cheetahs Heading Towards Extinction as Population Crashes (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    What do you think a condom is?

  12. Re:The days of high taxes on corps are numbered on After Brexit, More Than 100 Firms May Move To Ireland (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I think your assessment is true, but it could stand a bit more nuance. Trump is a publicity junkie with a deep-seated fear that he's dumber than a box of rocks. You can see the junkie come out when there is a period of political stories that are not about him directly. He responds with a twitter-gasm saying something stupid because he knows that will get him on the radar of the new organizations again. It doesn't matter to him what he says, only that he get air time.

    The constant references to himself as smart is a stupid Streisand move. If he'd never raised it, he'd be better off. Instead, the picture that comes out is that he's not very bright, has the attention span of gnat, and has no strategic vision. Well, he couldn't have the latter with the attention span of a gnat. He repeats whatever it was that he last talked about to an adviser.

    The only measures that he can apply to himself with any sort of value that he's capable of understanding is publicity and money, and he's not all that good at the latter given his bankruptcies. He doesn't run a public company and has no investors, only debts. As a consequence, he's rarely held to account for his screwups, his lawyers protect him from his stupid money moves. He's also learned being a reality-show host all the time, on camera or off, pays off.

  13. Re:The days of high taxes on corps are numbered on After Brexit, More Than 100 Firms May Move To Ireland (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Technically, Trump is isn't part of the Far Right Wingnuts, he's merely using those rubes. End result is the same though.

  14. Re:It reminds me of those auto battery de-sulfator on Flickering Lights May Illuminate A Path To Alzheimer's Treatment (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    And this setup of your generates the light at the proper frequency and holds it there consistency without variation?

  15. Re:More Evidence of my GW Dissent Hypothesis on The Recent Changes In Earth's Magnetic Field (esa.int) · · Score: 2

    Sen. Inhofe, could you please go back to Oklahoma and guard your snowballs? I have evidence scientists want to steal your magic snowballs and claim their disappearance as evidence of man-made global warming.

  16. Re:Correlations? on The Recent Changes In Earth's Magnetic Field (esa.int) · · Score: 1

    There is, they show that if the lava is magnetic first, the you get large balls-O-fire, and Jerry Lee Lewis starts to sing.

  17. Re:Build a wall! on The Recent Changes In Earth's Magnetic Field (esa.int) · · Score: 1

    At least get the quote close to being correct: We need to build a beaauuuuuuttifuuul wall to protect ourselves from these particles, and we need to build it quick.

  18. Re:Robo-waiter recommends water and a salad on China 'Smart Restaurant' Uses Facial Recognition To Make Meal Suggestions (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Robot-waiter: (musing to itself) looks like Kim Jung-Un.

    Lil'Kimmy: I'd like a salad and a diet coke.

    Robot-waiter: Whoa there, Big Guy, would you feel better with a supersized Mc-Steak-O-Fat sandwich, lard induced fries, and an 80 ounce Jolt cola.

    Lil'Kimmy: Hehehe....just kidding, I'd like 800 McDoubleQuarterPounders with the extra layers of cheeze and a case of Jolt....to go.

  19. Re:And this ladies and gentlemen on Store Adds Donald Trump's Picture To $150,000 Gold-Encased iPhones (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, grasshopper, socialism has been such a raging success that countries the world over are adopting it. Forgetting that it leads to authoritarianism in many cases, it doesn't generate higher living standards. Ah, but you say "Sweden". Look at Sweden a bit more closely and you'll see them giving up their socialist mantra in favor of free market reforms. They started doing that in the 90's when it was clear their economy was circling the toilet bowl. For a faster flush, see Venezuela, and that even with enormous oil reserves. Even Cuba is going market because, errrr, the revolution just isn't delivering the goods now that they squeezed most of the initiative out of the people. Oh, and Venezuela cannot supply them with oil any longer in payment for their doctors and nurses.

    There is also a question of staying power. Socialism doesn't wear very well in the long term. Well, it wouldn't seeing as it drives down standards of living due to no one wanting to work harder than anyone else. Why should they? What's in it for them?

    A current example is the election Trump by people who will take it in the neck when the ACA goes away. The general feeling among those voters was that the ACA was good for them and they expected Trump and the congressional Republicans wouldn't take it all away from them, what they really expected was it would be taken away from those "other" people who clearly didn't deserve it.

  20. Re:Just so everyone knows on Store Adds Donald Trump's Picture To $150,000 Gold-Encased iPhones (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    It is possible that Trump self-implodes after he finds that no one believes anything he says due his rather mystical relationship with facts and truth.

    There's another affect of Trump. He is addicted to publicity. The way he gets it is by making outrageous statements and then roils things further by his over-the-top responses. After awhile, he'll have run out of big ticket concepts he can stick pins into, news organizations will become jaded with covering his inane pronouncements as "There he goes again". What makes it particularly bad for him is that he has the attention span of a gnat. So he's incapable of executing any long term plan because he can see no further than the next 5 minutes and even that depends upon whom he's talked to last.

    You can see the effect of this with his statement on a nuclear arms race. None of the news of the transition was coming out as particularly favorable and he wasn't seen as doing anything other than handing out favors. Most of the press was on the nominees, not Trump. He needed something to get the spotlight back on him.

    He delivers rallies where he still whining about Clinton because he basks in the warm glow of his followers getting excited, its part of the fix he needs. The promotion of Putin isn't well-thought out or even in his best interest, it just generates news with Trump in the picture.

    The composition of his cabinet shows just what an unguided missile he really is. It isn't a team as other administrations have sought to put together. It is a scattershot grouping of people he's run into that support him. He has no vision, no intellectual depth, no strategic vision.
     

  21. Re:Just so everyone knows on Store Adds Donald Trump's Picture To $150,000 Gold-Encased iPhones (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, that explains their support for Daesh and al Qaeda.

  22. I'm waiting for the Trump Bobble-Heads he'll be flogging for "special" access to the White House.

  23. Re:I see potential problems with this. on Voice Is the Next Big Platform, But Amazon Already Owns It (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Especially if you also have a highly impressionable robot. The consequences could be quite serious.

  24. Re:sanity? on US Congressional Committee Concludes Encryption Backdoors Won't Work (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    It isn't just U.S. politics, it is politics the world over. Actually, come to it, it is the human condition.

  25. Re:A backdoor would be in the wild in a week on US Congressional Committee Concludes Encryption Backdoors Won't Work (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, have they been sending you the memos saying what's secret and what's been leaked, or are you just talking out of your ass.