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  1. Re:He may have violated SEC rules, but with cause on Elon Musk Pulled Out of Settlement With SEC At Last Minute (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    We all know that this is a regulation. I have no idea whatever manipulation he was attempting.

  2. No bets, this is so strange and unexpected that option 4 - some sort of unexpected failure in the sensors or the data processing/interpretation - seems to be the most likely result.

  3. Re:He may have violated SEC rules, but with cause on Elon Musk Pulled Out of Settlement With SEC At Last Minute (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    What Musk said and did was harmful to noone but the shorts. My immediate interpretation of the $420 per share price was that it was a joke - come on, 420, really?!

          He committed fraud, black-letter regulation, that everybody and their dog knows about. I am not a business executive, I know all about it.

          What you are saying is that since you think he's a cool guy, the law just doesn't apply,

  4. Re:Thanks I needed that on SEC Charges Elon Musk With Fraud Over His Statements To Take Tesla Private (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Really - it's getting to the point that you can't even commit securities fraud anymore without someone getting their nose out of joint. Life is so unfair!

  5. Re:No hedgehogs here on Robot Lawnmowers Are Killing Hedgehogs (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    If a robot mower (or regular mower) hit a woodchuck, I think major repairs would be required.

        Yes, but have you priced out woodchuck brain surgery lately?

  6. Or, rather, have been screeching about being persecuted for it for 60 years. Never mind that, in fact, the government *actually was infested with communist operatives*, and never mind that neo-McCarthyism with one nutty "Russians own Trump!" conspiracy after another is the official platform of the Democratic party.

  7. Right, no one even gets stabbed or trampled, and people try to cover up injuries - not claim fake ones. Where's the appeal?

  8. Right. The basic design principles were perfectly well-understood 60 years ago. No one is going to come along and improve the efficiency by a factor of 75. It's a claim that anyone with any sort of technical knowledge, not even specific knowledge of nuclear energy, would reject out of hand. It was bullshit for dimwitted financial types and loony environmentalists, some of whom apparently took the bait.

  9. Re:Sounds very European... on Swiss Soccer Fans Protest Esports by Throwing Tennis Balls and Game Controllers On the Field (variety.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Baseball is too subtle and sophisticated for the average European, and no one starts a riot if they lose, so, to them, where's the appeal?

  10. Well, duh, indeed - don't like the fact that you are living hand-to-mouth? Then *get a real job*. There are a remarkable number of openings and a severe labor shortage, stop screwing around with this hippie crap.

  11. There's no real outrage - people still keep buying the accursed thing in massive numbers. If anyone was really outraged, they would get something else.

  12. Re:The important part of this article: on EU Justice Commissioner Quits Facebook, Describing Her Experience as 'Channel of Dirt' (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Not many people know that #Facebook has made available their data to third parties

          WHAT!? There are still people that do not understand this? What, the "special needs" community? If this is true (which I doubt - most people probably know but don't care), then I despair for the future of humanity.

            I actually didn't know about the "full copyright" part, myself, but I also never even considered posting anything to Facebook.

  13. That is a quite excellent point. It's just one of a large number of massive data mining operations that survive by grabbing and selling information about the users and anyone else they can glom on to - to anyone who will pay for it. The fact that they are also hyper-leftists just means they will use it, ethically or not, to get their way - ironically actually doing what they accuse the right of doing despite it being a rare event.

  14. Re:You should get that treated. on Facebook Will Open a 'War Room' Next Week To Monitor Election Interference (theverge.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Butthurt", that;s so cute...Jimmy got a new catch phrase.

            I actually don't care very much what Facebook does, anyone who spends a lot of time there or believes what they see there is patently a moron.

            The ridiculous pretense of actually trying to be fair, and concerned over the integrity of the election process. It's the absolutely unashamed and apparently oblivious hypocrisy that makes me laugh.

             

  15. Just to clarify on Facebook Will Open a 'War Room' Next Week To Monitor Election Interference (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A War Room to monitor election interference that doesn't go their way.

  16. Re:Why do tech-bros love antisocial behavior? on The New Yorker on Linus Torvalds (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    However, "aggressive confidence" is nearly mandatory to get anything done. Otherwise, you end up dithering endlessly, never able to make a decision one way or the other.

        Real engineering work, that is, work of legitimate value, is not done by focus group mentalities and gathering community consensus. It is done by people with the guts and confidence to make real decisions and move on, tempered by experience to know how wrong it can go when you make an incorrect decision.

  17. If I didn't know better, I might come to the conclusion that storing sensitive data on someone else's hard drive, at random, was a risk and a bad idea.

  18. Ah, so you are a racist and proud of it, then? And can't spell?

  19. I am as mystified as to why this is even here as the rest. But "crushing student loan debt" is influencing eating habits in a sigificant way? When it affects a tiny fraction of the population, and only those who did something really stupid?

  20. What I believe on Automation: The Exaggerated Threat of Robots (flassbeck-economics.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    People think I am crazy for believing this, but I believe that robots are stealing my luggage.

  21. Water vapor is a very effective greenhouse gas, far more effective than CO2.

  22. Re:fragmented society on San Francisco Gets Its First Cashierless Store (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it's just you...

  23. Re:Mulched rubber tires on Road Makers Turn To Recycled Plastic For Tougher Surfaces (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    How is this different?

    Its probably even worse.

  24. You have to pass it to see what is in it.

  25. Re:They've really taken fear-mongering to a new le on How the Weather Channel Made That Insane Hurricane Florence Storm Surge Animation (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not just the Weather Channel, it's every news outlet available. Every storm is "the storm of the century!!!!" and "more dangerous". This is part of a larger approach to hype *everything* far beyond its rational danger or importance, due to the need to fill 10 different 24-hour news channels with content, and the more shrill and unrealistic you are the more people want to watch. Same with the ever-escalating hype associated with global warming, Trump, child kidnappings, etc.