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  1. Re:It's a Trap! on Elon Musk Offered Chinese Green Card (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    What is the difference to shooting people with war weapons?

    From the point of view of the Chinese, the people "run over by tanks" could have walked away ...

  2. Re: Nobody uses it on Earth's Magnetic Field Is Acting Up and Geologists Don't Know Why (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    Obviously he was scanning the water, or how do you think he noticed the rocks were misplaced?

  3. Re:Its So Much Quicker To Steal EV Tech... on Elon Musk Offered Chinese Green Card (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    Point is: there are votes. Which our parent claimed there weren't.

  4. Re:So what will it be this time? on Elon Musk Offered Chinese Green Card (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess some people would argue: there is nothing better. Only the origin and quality varies ... and the price.

  5. The question was not if a child learns a language faster (which it actually does not, it takes about 3 years to be considered fluent, and the first year they barely speak) but the claim that older people learn slower.

    Language learning in school is slow because (at last when I was in school) the teaching methods are wrong.

    If you use a modern language teaching method, you are half fluent in 3 month and fluent in 6 ... even if you learn japanese or chinese with their pictogram characters, you easy learn about 800 pictograms in 6 month, and a highschool graduate in japan is supposed to know about 1100.

    Perhaps you want to cite a study first that supports your claim :D then we can laugh at the date of the study ... The idea that children learn faster "for some reason" is outdated since 30 years, if not longer.

  6. Re:It's a Trap! on Elon Musk Offered Chinese Green Card (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    In theory ... in practice I'm not so sure about your freedoms.
    Considering e.g. legal age for sex or alcohol ...
    The home land security flight bans ...
    The retarded punishments for "computer crimes".

    The social credit system in the US is FB ... in case you have not noticed. Employers forcing you to hand access to the account over before accepting you e.g.

    Weekly drug tests etc.

  7. Re:Its So Much Quicker To Steal EV Tech... on Elon Musk Offered Chinese Green Card (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    East Germany actually had more than one party ... and you were obliged to vote, so nothing about "approval".

  8. Re:So what will it be this time? on Elon Musk Offered Chinese Green Card (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    Out of cash in 6 months you watch. He smoked pot.
    Pot is cheap. Even in countries where it is "illegal".
    I doubt he runs out of cash because he spends some money on pot ...

  9. Re:Its So Much Quicker To Steal EV Tech... on Elon Musk Offered Chinese Green Card (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    You seem to be an idiot.
    Against popular believe: they have elections and voting in China, too.
    And: Vietnam is a "communist" country, just like China.

    There are dozens of underdeveloped but reasonably FREE countries where people need jobs just as badly as China
    Underdeveloped as in: not developed enough to run such factories ... so why do you want to produce anything in a country that can't produce it?

  10. Re:It's a Trap! on Elon Musk Offered Chinese Green Card (politico.com) · · Score: -1

    I doubt "human rights abuse" in China is higher than in the US.
    Unless you want to point out that China has 3 times the population.

  11. Re: Declination is not news on Earth's Magnetic Field Is Acting Up and Geologists Don't Know Why (nature.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yellowstone is a supervolcano.
    Chances are that half of the US are gone and the earth goes into a "nuclear winter" when it erupts.

  12. There are thousands ... which one do you want, if you are so lazy to look for yourself?

  13. Re: Nobody uses it on Earth's Magnetic Field Is Acting Up and Geologists Don't Know Why (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    GPS is only interesting if you for some reason want to know the speed over ground.
    Record 14.8 knots for me ... in the british channel, 8 - 9 knots was current.

    A friend of mine nearly had an accident in the Baltics, along the Finnish coast, far north, for some reason GPS was about 60m off ... he noticed nearly to late that all the rocks are misplaced ...

  14. Re: Nobody uses it on Earth's Magnetic Field Is Acting Up and Geologists Don't Know Why (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly! Parent is an idiot. Most of the time on boats we don't even have GPS. Sure, every second crew mate has a "professional" hand GPS ... but we don't use it for navigation.

  15. The idea that a child can learn a new language faster than an adult or even old person: is just a myth.

  16. Re:Highly advanced image recognition indeed on Car Manufacturers Want To Monitor Drivers Inside Their Cars (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Well,
    I never had sex in a car. No idea what I miss ...
    But the likelihood that it ever will happen seems rapidly dwindling ...

  17. Re:No One Has Respect For Consumers on Car Manufacturers Want To Monitor Drivers Inside Their Cars (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple fanboys and girls, I'm looking at you...
    Yeah ... and how should a bluetooth device scrap data from an iPhone without being prior authorized to do exactly that, e.g. accessing the phonebook to call one?

  18. Re:No One Has Respect For Consumers on Car Manufacturers Want To Monitor Drivers Inside Their Cars (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Which "land of the free" do you mean? Thailand?

  19. Re:No One Has Respect For Consumers on Car Manufacturers Want To Monitor Drivers Inside Their Cars (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    A combustion engine with pistons?
    Yes, close to impossible. You can 3D print the parts and then assemble them.
    Same for the rest of the car, perhaps you could 3D print it in zero gravity, or with some fancy tricks in plastic foil under water.
    I doubt you even can 3D print an electric engine ... and honestly, for many things that makes no sense anyway. How to 3D print a wheel with tire and air valve, the glass of the windshield, the wiring to the lights etc. or do you want to 3D print bluetooth and a solar cell and a battery into each blinker? What about the furniture, the seats, the steering wheel, the instruments, the suspension?

  20. Re:Seems people don't grasp ... on Some Nevada Governments Are Using Blockchain For Public Records (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually all blocks are immutable, hence you create a new block for every "change" and chain it to its predecessor. It basically is just a digital cryptographic accounting book.

  21. Re:Seems people don't grasp ... on Some Nevada Governments Are Using Blockchain For Public Records (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh!? The block chain is not a chain of blocks? Stupid me coming from a germanic/nordic language!

  22. Re: Supply and demand on American Cheese Surplus Reaches Record High · · Score: 1

    Well,
    no idea where you live ...
    I live in Thailand.

    And you are contradicting your self between mid and end of your post. So: is the food in Thailand better, or not?

  23. Re:Supply and demand on American Cheese Surplus Reaches Record High · · Score: 1

    In isan they had both problems, to much rain and to much drought.
    The first harvest was nearly destroyed by rain, no second planting because of lack of water.

    The Mekong river is not used significantly for irrigation anyway. (To far away ....)

    "in Central Thai the main rivers overflow and cover nearly all the farmland for an extended period."
    Hu? Floods here are from rain ... and no idea what you consider "central Thialand".

    South Thailand just was flooded, not by rivers going over their borders.

  24. Re:LOL Protecting adults from themselves again on Amazon Dash Buttons Ruled Illegal In Germany (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the defending party should have explained that process in court ...

  25. Re:Coincidence I read about this last night on American Cheese Surplus Reaches Record High · · Score: 1

    Hey, I live half in Europe and half in Asia.
    I have not to cope with that jargon.

    Either there is chocolate in it or not. If there is, it is on the label.
    Either there is chocolate on the label or not. If it is on the label, it is inside with the given percentage ... give or take.

    Good luck in your third world country.