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  1. Re:Good. You shouldn't have the right to work... on Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Companies pay, at maximum, what a job is worth to them.
    Or they pay the minimum required by law or trade unions, and on top of that if they want to keep the employee.

  2. Re:Good. You shouldn't have the right to work... on Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It is actually not so difficult to have fun at work and be payed for fun.
    Dance or Yoga teacher, martial arts teacher, heck even a trainer in software processes/languages etc.
    Engineer/Developer(software), Scrum Master, or even PO, if the product idea does not suck
    Pilot
    Artist
    Captain on a boat/ship ... or even smootje
    Cook ... depending ofc what you cook or where
    Medical doctor

    Even a mere sys admin might be fun, you read stuff while there is no incident ... e.g. /.

  3. In times of BREXIT, it will be a bit difficult for an UK institution to call a foreign CEO in front of an EU/european institution.

  4. Re:Rewarding bad behavior on Singapore Airport May Use Facial Recognition Systems To Find Late Passengers (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    You are an idiot.

    It would be extremely humiliating to be called via loud speaker: Mr. Snyder, last and final call, you are missing flight AH106! Yes, that is you Mr. Snyder, sitting at Mac Doof, spitting out burger parts while goggling that 14 year old!

    There is probably no better way in hell to get travelers behave.

    On the other hand I never caused a delay ... latest time was 5min before docking off. It was an Air France flight, so I apologized while entering, and the flight assistant said: "No Problem, Sir. You are not late, we have time ..."

    Funnily it was a flight from BBK to CDG, and we had a strange tail wind, gifting us 2h flight time. Very unusual in that direction of flight.

  5. Which, pretty much, is an incredibly safe way to deal with it.
    No, it is super dumb.

    The waste is not going away but directly into the food chain ... no more fish for you. No more cattle fed with fish remains.

  6. Re:All those Nuke aircraft carriers and subs on Russia Launches Floating Nuclear Power Plant That's Headed To the Arctic (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Because the Russian bark has two reactors and yield in total 140MW, and it will be connected to the heating grid and provide steam/hot water to heat the town.

    It is actually all in the summary.

    Then again it is traveling 5000km from St. Petersburg to its final deployment
    Then again they first wanted to fuel it in St. Petersburg, but decided to fuel it on the way, and now have to tow it as it can't move under its own power.

    Towing a megastructure like this ... is nerdy. You obviously are not a nerd and neither a geek.

  7. Re:That's head to the Arctic on Russia Launches Floating Nuclear Power Plant That's Headed To the Arctic (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    It is replacing an existing plant.
    And ... it is 2 times 70MW. That is enough for a 50,000 people village, if at all. Probably less.
    So much to "boosting economy" ... in the arctics.

  8. Re:That's head to the Arctic on Russia Launches Floating Nuclear Power Plant That's Headed To the Arctic (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    If it would be a new benefit and boost, that version would be ok.
    But changing existing offers for internet service only and removing the speed boosts that one might have if he also purchases TV, is a different kind of thing.

  9. Re:BC: 1885, math on A Mass of Copyrighted Works Will Soon Enter the Public Domain (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah and German copyright, with minor changes, are as old as that.
    That was my point.

  10. Rofl, it would made more sense if you had reversed the meaning.
    Why should a sJW be an asshole? Just he wants to stop global warming and give women a fair chance for jobs or a fair pay or a free kindergarden place s/he is an asshole?

  11. I guess the question if one is an asshole is in the eye of the beholder?

    I'm most of the time correct, and I never was intentionally an asshole. How about you?

  12. Wow, it's really easy for you to make a horrible accusation.
    No I did not.
    The authors of the article did (perhaps) and the guy I commented, too.
    Because: I have no clue about the issue and I'm not particular interested if the directors of movies are male or female.
    However my parent demanded unreasonable evidence for stuff that is common sense. I attacked his logic, not his opinion, because I have no opinion about that.

    In a poor, traditional country like Poland the sex differences in most professions, including technical, are very small.
    I only know one Poland. And that is not a poor country.

    But in a rich, feminist country like Sweden
    Sweden is not feminist, how do yo come to such a brain dead idea?

  13. There are dozens of series that finally are also shown in Europe were the races of the actors make no sense in relation to the races of the people they play.
    But well, that might be an actor guilds thing, or other things influencing casting.

    It just comes over extremely displaced when you watch such a movie, I mean, usually they play in a historical context. I remember a Robin hood variation, which was actually not bad, where they landed as a group of 3 or 5 at the coast of England. One guy was black. They actually gave a reason, why he is on the team. Good ...

    But later they live in Sherwood Forrest and a black lady is an important person there ... how does a black lady end up in the woods of England in the year 1100? Anyway after a while you get used to it, but you always shake heads the first moment.

  14. No, but I think people who use SJW as an insult are assholes by definition.

    Interesting acronym: MGTOW, never heard about it before.

  15. Re:for the love of science: Donâ(TM)t mix uni on Blue Origin Launches Its First Test Flight of 2018 (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, pointing out that landing on Mars is hard, is not really a joke.

    http://www.russianspaceweb.com...

    Most to of the attempts failed on earth or in earth orbit. The only european project that failed was the UK Beagle landing. The main goal of the mission is/was the orbiter.

    I guess the problem (at Mars, not in Earth orbit) is meteorology. Air pressure has probably a much wider swing range than "scientists" think. So the difference between landing in a near vacuum, and using parachutes for "predetermined X seconds" and then launching rocket boosters, versus landing in a high pressure zone ist probably to high.

    I guess the only reliable way is to have a kind of ground radar to get a better judgement about how to use the parachutes and if/when to use rockets.

    The mass issue or unit conversion issue is a minor one.

  16. No I did not realize that.
    But looking at the distancce of Seoul from the boarder and this article, it sounds rather unlikely: http://nationalinterest.org/bl...

  17. Re: Next Step on All Indian Villages Now Have Access To Electricity (indiatimes.com) · · Score: 1

    That works for an outhouse, but not for a toilett used by hundrets or more a day.

  18. Re:We need to fix those statistics! on Sci-Fi Is Still Working on Its 'Stale, Male, and Pale' Problem, Says James Cameron (indiewire.com) · · Score: 2

    Well, it is quite funny to see an american made serial playing in the early middle ages, like "Beowulf", and high percentage of woman in the "wrong jobs" as smith e.g. but much more funny is that 30% are black or asian. In the european middle ages! When you get used to it, it does not change the story much, but well, if I would made a movie about King Richard and Saladin, I make sure all europeans are as white as they can (or contain some spanish or italian warriors) and all of Saladins warriors are "arabic" with perhaps a few mixed in Nubians.

  19. Well,
    and I don't even know the names of the actors ... especially female ones, I have a hard time to remember their names, regardless how hot I find them.

    Looking at the internet paradigma shift aka HBO, Netflix I mostly watch some of the really good serials, like "Travelers" right now.

    I can't remember when I was the last time in a cinema ... was years ago. Last movie I wanted to go was Blade Runner II, but the cinemas have modern contracts that let them not run it as long as they want. So the movie was suddenly no longer in the cinema. Chances are I see it on youtube in a year or two, because the cinemas that run their own programs can not afford to "rent" the rights.

  20. Re:Who cares about race and gender? on Sci-Fi Is Still Working on Its 'Stale, Male, and Pale' Problem, Says James Cameron (indiewire.com) · · Score: 1

    Avatar is whilst successful on release is widely regarded to be a bad movie and I don't see it having any legs in time.
    Never heard about that.
    Why would anyone consider it a bad movie? To much Tolkien like heroism?

  21. The story was not bad either, but forseeable ...

  22. Just stroll around on Youtube, there are hundreds of good SF movies.
    Especially short movies from "dust" (a yt channel).

    And if you need a name, Alien 1 -3 are in my opinion good, after that (especially Prometheus) they are super bad.

    The first version of Dune is excellent, in my opinion. And then there are some serials like Star Gate (well, I liked the original movie), the story evolves quite nicely. Of course it is arguable if that is SF or techno fantasy.

    Then we have Babylon 5 ... also a nice show.

  23. Because they don't care who (which gender) makes the money for them.

  24. Better to be a SJW than to be an asshole, don't you agree?

  25. Male authors might be dominant in terms of making money.
    But if you go onto an eBook selling site it is 50%/50% between males and females with probably a slight shift to females.
    OTOH both genders tend to use pseudonyms of the other gender.