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  1. Re:Tesla is not a Big Three company on 10 Major Automakers Agree To Include Automatic Emergency Braking On New Vehicles · · Score: 1

    Market cap has become essentially meaningless. It used to be the sum of the expected dividends over the lifetime of the company. Nowadays it is a fantasy number that only shows how much investment banks are hoping to cash out before the next bubble bursts.

    One of the best examples of this was Nortel which had a market cap of, if I remember correctly, close to 400 billion, in 2000, but about 4 billion only two years later.

  2. Re:Who cares? on John McAfee On Why He's Running For President · · Score: 1

    Hitler was, though.

  3. Re:One has to wonder why they don't have that gene on UK Researchers Developing Influenza-Resistant Birds · · Score: 1

    Why not vaccinating poultry in first place?

  4. Re:Cyclists DON'T obey the law! on Why Biking Injuries and Deaths Are Spiking In the US · · Score: 1

    Road speeds exist only on motorways and bicycles aren't allowed there. Unfortunately, too many drivers are too stupid to understand that the speed limit is a speed limit, not recommended or required speed.

  5. Re:That's nice on Google Donates €1 Million To Help Refugees In Need · · Score: 2

    Take a dictionary, look up what a secular government is. And saying that the States have invaded a country and destroyed its government is not hate speech, it is just the sad truth. Even sadder is the fact, that Iraq was just one of too many countries USA has invaded and destroyed their governments.

  6. Re:That's nice on Google Donates €1 Million To Help Refugees In Need · · Score: 3, Informative

    The second I in ISIS stands for Iraq. Which is a country that has been invaded by the USA and had its secular government destroyed.
    So yep, they are to blame.

  7. Re:Because humans are the solution to ... on Robot Submarine Poisons Sea Stars To Save Coral Reefs · · Score: 2

    Fertilizer runoff. Coral eating starfish apparently thriveh in polluted water. Not a natural cycle at all.

  8. Re:Major disconnect from layers on Why Do So Many Tech Workers Dislike Their Jobs? · · Score: 1

    It is not a plane, it is a spacecraft. And it has wings.

  9. Re:Poor example on How Autonomous Cars' Safety Features Clash With Normal Driving · · Score: 2

    It is still not a big deal. Especially when using clipless pedals it is far safer to clip out and stand on one leg than trying to keep balance, because if anything goes wrong you'll fall on the side and probably won't be able to clip out during the fall.

  10. Re:Better not look at the "social" sciences then.. on Machine Learning Could Solve Economists' Math Problem · · Score: 1

    ORLY? Linguistics uses math in a much healthier way than economics.

  11. Re:Mogensen and Aimbetov will only stay until 11 S on Soyuz Heads To Space Station With New Crew · · Score: 1

    No, Soyuz can autodock, it doesn't need crew for that. In fact, Progress is basically an unmanned Soyuz without a reentry shield.

  12. Re:The above is informative ? on Chris Christie Proposes Tracking Immigrants the Way FedEx Tracks Packages · · Score: 1

    *facepalm*
    No, it is not.
    It is legitimate to defend yourself from enemies that try to kill you. Everything else is a crime.

  13. Re:The above is informative ? on Chris Christie Proposes Tracking Immigrants the Way FedEx Tracks Packages · · Score: 1

    So you basically admit that people are "upset" about an imaginary threat that doesn't currently exist, and is unlikely to ever exist?

    I knew you were stupid, but I didn't know you were that stupid. Guantanamo Bay is an American concentration camp for abducted muslims and most of them were released after they finally had access to a lawyer after many years of being imprisoned for nothing. The only two differences to Auschwitz are
    1) you don't gas the prisoners yet, just torture them.
    2) it is on Cuban soil, not in Poland.

  14. Re:Yeah, nah. on Chris Christie Proposes Tracking Immigrants the Way FedEx Tracks Packages · · Score: 1

    Baghdad for example. And Haliburton made a handsome profit from Iraq war.
    By the way, bombing a city with a shock and awe doctrine makes you the actual terrorists by the definition of that word.

  15. Re: Brought about by the internet? on Germany Wants Facebook To Obey Its Rules About Holocaust Denial · · Score: 1

    Sweden is a part of Europe, but Sweden is not the whole Europe, that was the point.
    In Germany, they are indeed called "bio", not "ecological". Czech also call it "bio" and if I remember correctly, so do the French. Sweden is probably a minority in the matter.

  16. Re:Christie is ideal on Chris Christie Proposes Tracking Immigrants the Way FedEx Tracks Packages · · Score: 1

    Which would be only proper. You break it - you buy it. And you broke a lot of countries.

  17. Re:Hang on a minute... on Systemd Absorbs "su" Command Functionality · · Score: 1

    As much as I dislike what Poettering does, many things with Unix and Linux are built the way they are because either it was something supposed to be a temporary hack but stayed this way by the sheer force of inertia or because it made sense decades ago, doesn't make sense anymore, but is considered a holy cow because "we've always done it this way".

  18. abusive than any corporate ever could be.

    ORLY?

  19. Re: A little surprising on German Intelligence Traded Citizen Data For NSA Surveillance Software · · Score: 2

    Yes, we are. Open Office also used to be ours by the way.

  20. Re:This kind of stuff is Exhibit #1 on FBI Informant: Ray Bradbury's Sci-fi Written To Induce Communistic Mass Hysteria · · Score: 1

    but two countries couldn't have closer economic, social and military ties than the US and Canada

    In fact, they can. Russia and Belarus for example.

  21. Re:There is some Background ... on City of Munich Struggling With Basic Linux Functionality · · Score: 1

    Actually, there are several more Social Democrat ruled cities in Bavaria than just Munich. Nuremberg, Regensburg, Coburg, Aschaffenburg, Dachau, Passau and others. Basically, CSU rules the state and the villages, SPD rules most of the larger towns/cities.

  22. Re: A way to compete: Post a sign, "Photos Allowed on Germany Says Taking Photos Of Food Infringes The Chef's Copyright · · Score: 1

    Our cars have about twice the mileage, so that's okay.

  23. Mars is bad luck for Russia on How Viking 1 Won the Martian Space Race · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Every probe they've ever tried to send there failed. Their Venus program was much more successful.

  24. The summary is misleading on Germany Says Taking Photos Of Food Infringes The Chef's Copyright · · Score: 4, Informative

    I have read TFA (and no, I am most certainly not new here) and it is full of hypothetical blah blah. Basically, some lawyer thinks that when the food has been artistically arranged, one has to ask the chef first before making photos, or one possibly might receive a cease-and-desist letter if the chef sees the photo and is in the mood for writing one. Never happened so far but maybe possibly might happen some day. Also can happen if the eating place owner generally doesn't allow taking photos.

  25. Re:basic income? on Finland Considers Minimum Income To Reform Welfare System · · Score: 1

    As for Russia being a wheat exporter before Stalin: you conveniently forget that it was also paired with regular famines in Russia. Its emperors starved the population and exported grain at the same time.