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  1. Re:Too bad they did not ask for 16 on Facebook Asks Users: Should We Allow Men To Ask Children For Sexual Images? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    This is the assumption in a shithole like the USA.
    How should young people actually catch diseases when they are basically beginners doing sex? And if you don't know it: we have health insurance ... you realize very quickly if you have a sexual transmitted disease. You get treatment.
    And: how to prevent pregnancy is taught in schools, at age of about 12. For girls the pill is cost free.

  2. The rest of the NATO can do just fine without America.

  3. asking ANYONE for a sexually explicit picture over the internet is clearly wrong according to Christian morality
    Why should that be? Because asking via phone is ok? Or via paper mail? Or in whispered words in the ear of the other party?
    There is no christian morality against nudeness, it is just a made up thing in modern times ... and if you as a christian find it wrong, you have not much knowledge about your religion and honestly likely a mental problem, too.

  4. People are migrating to https://steemit.com/ anyway and other platforms like tumbler which are now more or less FB clones or Line, the chat app, where you have a time line in your user profile.

  5. So because he thinks americans are assholes you conclude he is a pedophile? Can you explain that in simple steps of logic, it is not obvious to me.

  6. a 14 year old is breaking the terms of service of the facebook website.
    Which can not be enforced on most places where the law disagrees.
    OTOH FB hardy realizes if a "customer" is below 13.

    I know a girl who was about 7 when she used my iPad to surf on FB, all her class mates where there, but they used fake names and grany and granddad photos for their profile.

    Her father watched and took care that the privacy settings were right, and she explained me: you know, we little girls can not use our real names and real pictures, to many creepy men out there (well, I forgot the correct words)

  7. FB can block messages for violating TOS whether they're violating laws or not.
    In your country perhaps. Not in the EU and other sane countries, when do you guys finally understand: LAW > TOS

  8. Re:This is the way it's supposed to work on Uber Challenges Study Suggesting Its Drivers Earn $3.37 Per Hour (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would a taxi driver rent a taxi for 24h when he legally only can drive it 8h a day?
    Most taxi drivers in my country are employees of the taxi company.

    If a taxi driver is idling for a fare, that's because he chose to not because his employer made him do it.
    No, he is idling because he has no customer, you moron. And as you said above: he has no employer anyway in your county ... how fucked up is that?

  9. Re:Wtf Oracle? on 'Java EE' Has Been Renamed 'Jakarta EE' (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 1

    Of course the other points are false.
    Just because you have Java installed on your machine it does it not make accessible for remote executbel code.
    You would need a program like yours, that listens on an USB port and accepts incoming messages, or on a socket.
    So: it is a problem of the programmer, just as in your example. If you use OS specific C libraries to access an USB port obviously your program is tied to that OS. What has that to do with portability of the language? Or their cross platform abilities?

  10. Re:This is the way it's supposed to work on Uber Challenges Study Suggesting Its Drivers Earn $3.37 Per Hour (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    they want people to be paid minimum wage just for turning the app on.
    That is just silly sorry.

    On the other hand: if the people are "full time working" and not just ride sharing and sitting with a magazine or espresso in a caffee, then yes: they should earn minimum wage during the time they have the app on.

    What else would you suggest?

  11. Re:Late to the party on Google's Slack Competitor 'Hangouts Chat' Comes Out of Beta (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah,
    and it is the ugliest chat program I have ever seen, and discontinued on my old iPad ... what the fuck can you make to build in a timer into your software and deactivate it? It is a damn chat software, they did the same bullshit whatsapp and line did on my iphone.

    I'm lucky so, they did not buy telegram and destroyed it.

  12. Re:Four four years? on Apple To Release a Cheaper MacBook Air Later This Year (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you sure you can put an Ubunto on it?
    That would be a reason to get a second one.

    that's not handcuffed to Google?
    If I would care about that I had not bought it ...

  13. Re:Is America's infrastructure that delicate? on 2M Americans Lost Power After 'Bomb Cyclone' (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    You talk about a third world country ...
    They will fix it so that it barely works and next storm with similar size will nock it out again.
    Then they will cry how much stronger their Hurricanes are versus a Taifun or an Orkan ... and that is going on since half a century or longer like that :)

  14. Re:Wtf Oracle? on 'Java EE' Has Been Renamed 'Jakarta EE' (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 2

    Except for 7) everything false.
    I work with Java since 1995, I never had any cross platform problem. However I never wrote code for the micdro edition.

    No idea what you have against oo, probably you are to dumb to use it properly?

  15. Re:Wtf Oracle? on 'Java EE' Has Been Renamed 'Jakarta EE' (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 1

    That is not how trade marks work ...
    So good luck suing a busines in a foreign country that happens to be on in Island with the same name like your product ...

  16. Re:Four four years? on Apple To Release a Cheaper MacBook Air Later This Year (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    It is not.
    Why would it?
    it is much smaller, has no real keyboard.

    It is nice, because of the wacom digitizer in the keyboard and in the screen, but it does not compare in any way to a iPad or Mac.

    However it is 100times better than a windows laptop, unless you are so dumb and buy the windows version of the Yoga Book.

  17. Re:Why would I upgrade? on Your Love of Your Old Smartphone Is a Problem for Apple and Samsung (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, I use an iPhone 4 ... and if it gets stolen or lost, I buy another iPhone 4(s or what ever it is) ...

  18. Re:The Green Virtue Signaling / Politics on Relying on Renewables Alone Significantly Inflates the Cost of Overhauling Energy (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Interesting idea about radioactivity of coal, but wrong.

    Perhaps you want to google it?

    No, I meant reliable. As in we can rely on the nuclear power to be available when we need it.
    And that is called "dispatchable".

    Nuclear power is not considered dispatchable
    Actually it is considered dispatchable and also treated like that, see France e.g.

    because nuclear reactors are very expensive to run and only make money if they are making energy.
    Strange, a few posts back you claimed Nuclear power would be the cheapest ...

    Reducing the power output of a nuclear reactor is a very long and expensive process in normal operation and is therefore only done as a last resort
    No it is not.

    Reducing power output quickly from a nuclear reactor is also possible but could result in it being off line for days, and therefore not making money for days.
    That is wrong.
    The question in old nuclear reactors is: how quickly do you power it up again after you have reduced the power.

    Because no one has provided anything that tells me otherwise.
    Then you are bad in reading. The threats about power on /. point that out every time. Solar and wind is now so cheap they decommission coal plants because they are to expensive. Nuclear always was the most expensive power in traditional mixes, hence there are not many countries that produce more than 20% - 40% of their load with nuclear power.

  19. Re:This has to be the dumbest thing I've ever read on Children Struggle To Hold Pencils Due To Too Much Tech, Doctors Say (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Well,
    a friend of mine had an interesting father, too.
    He forbade them to read certain books in his library ...

    Guess which books they read first :D

    As they all where lazy readers, not reading much, he made them interested in the "forbidden books" ... and it worked.

    But they are still all lazy readers ...

  20. Re:For those unfamiliar with memristors... on 'Memtransistor' Brings World Closer To Brain-Like Computing · · Score: 1

    Depends what you mean with state :D
    Perhaps you should define that first?

    A resistor has plenty of states to me: resistance in Ohm (which is changing with temperature), a rated max current etc. Current amount of current flowing through it as a function of currently applied voltage, current temperature, current effective resistance ... you could include its size etc. p.p.

    Anyway, I guess your point was rather theoretical? If you remove it (the inductor) from a circuit, there is no change in current in a direct voltage circuit, yes. So why would you have one in a direct voltage circuit? Probably to combine it with a capacitors to form a "resonant circuit" ... so: the current through the inductor changes all the time.

  21. Re:For those unfamiliar with memristors... on 'Memtransistor' Brings World Closer To Brain-Like Computing · · Score: 1

    Anyway,
    in computer science we have a different definition between active or passive.
    And pulling the electric engineering definition when it is not relevant (and as far as I can tell an american thing) is pretty pointless.

    And your long answer shows: you don't grasp that.

  22. Re: also high fees and long transaction times on We Will Regulate Bitcoin if Risks Are Not Tackled, EU Finance Head Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The US dollar is semi backed by oil ...
    Since Nixon forced the arabic countries to sell oil only for dollars.

    And you could say it is semi backed by Chinese Renminbi, because it is bound directly to the dollar.

    Anyway, inside of an economy that works, it is not relevant if a currency is backed. It is actually close to impossible to back a currency in our times to anything. The economies are to big and the goods you could back it with are to scarce. That is why we only have fiat currencies in our days.

    There is not enough gold on the planet to even back the smallest economy with it.

  23. Re:Tarmac Time on Airlines Won't Dare Use the Fastest Way to Board Planes (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean a flight that departs from a different gate?

    No, I guess I fly not often enough for that.

  24. Re:The Green Virtue Signaling / Politics on Relying on Renewables Alone Significantly Inflates the Cost of Overhauling Energy (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 0

    The ash contains usually no radioactive material.
    Only certain coal types do.

    You know: coal is made from dead trees that died a few million years ago ... where exactly should the radioactivity come from?

    Coal ash is usually used as building material, e.g. for roads. The ash that contains radioactive material is far less radioactive than e.g. uranium ore ...

    Because nuclear is safer, cheaper, and more reliable than any renewable energy.
    Why do you repeat this nonsense every of your posts?
    It is wrong on all three terms: "safer, cheaper, and more reliable" ... you mean dispatch able, not reliable. There is a reason why dictionaries have words in them: look them up sometimes.

  25. Re:Inverting an old joke on Forget Learning To Code, Bosses Value Collaboration and Communication (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess you were aware that the Divas in this case were male and it would be 'less gay' to fire the male gays with the biggset tits?
    Appologizes if I mistyped gay and gys again ... keepining mixing that up.