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  1. Re:Censoring vs. Educating on 'Why YouTube's New Plan to Debunk Conspiracy Videos Won't Work' (vortex.com) · · Score: 2

    They give you a soapbox here...

  2. Re:You're thinking like an engineer on Ford's Badly Needed Plan To Catch Up On Hybrid, Electric Cars (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    GM and Chrysler have the same.

    Correction, 'Chrysler' isn't anything at this point but a sticker that Fiat puts on some of their product.

    My personal favorite is the big Sheep Fucker logo they put on a lot of 'Chrysler' product.

    What does a farmer keep a 'Ram' on the farm for? To 'Ram' stuff around? No. Simply put, to fuck the sheep.

    Think of all the Dodge Ram trucks you see out on the road as sheep-fuckers. It helps relieve the weariness of dealing with that big massive phallic design everywhere you go in traffic.

  3. Re:Path to EV success on Ford's Badly Needed Plan To Catch Up On Hybrid, Electric Cars (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    And yet Microsoft collects more royalty revenue for each cellphone sold than Google, the Android maker, does.

  4. If Ford fails, the US taxpayer will be on the hook, because Ford is too big to fail.

    In the economic bailout of the recent past recession, Ford was the only big automaker who didn't require or accept a government bailout. In fact, they weren't too big to fail, nor did they fail.

    Government Motors and Fiat on the other hand, needed trussing up.

  5. Re:How to use diesel in a hybrid on Ford's Badly Needed Plan To Catch Up On Hybrid, Electric Cars (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It is odd. One would think that the diesel-electric designs that have existed for many decades on locomotives would be easily transferred to road truck designs. Is the I.P. all tied up in the companies that make locomotives?

  6. Re:Don't make perfect the enemy of good on Ford's Badly Needed Plan To Catch Up On Hybrid, Electric Cars (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    He says cars he has driven.

    Which of the vehicles you rattled off in your list have you yourself actually driven?

    Are you spending too much time reading Popular Science articles?

  7. Instead of investing all that money and effort into complex hybrid systems, throw it all at EVs and infrastructure.

    Who's throwing all this money around? One big central authority? Maybe we can design it in such a fashion that it's too big to fail?

  8. Tesla built a boutique network that went where the going was easy. What they did can't scale to the whole world.

    Put another way, Tesla has nabbed low-growing fruit. Probably going forward that will be the basis of any future profit for the company.

  9. "the way forward" is a Leninist catch phrase. Taken to the furthest degree by the Stalinists who followed. It's the sort of catch-phrase that you used to mostly only hear in Marxist Study Centers where they were strategizing how to take over the Pipefitter's Local.

  10. Re:Least Significant Bug Ever on Apple's Newest iPhone X Ad Captures an Embarrassing iOS 11 Bug (theverge.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It doesn't matter. Apple has the highest margins in the industry.

    That's the priority in the new Apple.

  11. Why is it extremely important for people not directly affected to immediately know when there has been a terror attack?

  12. Re:Nobody cares. on Android Wear Needs More Than a New Name To Fight Apple Watch (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You can use bluetooth to connect devices that are not connected to any other network.

  13. Re:As usual on Android Wear Needs More Than a New Name To Fight Apple Watch (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Is the Smartphone market some sort of Tower Defense game, and you're on the smaller, smarter team that is winning? Because of the brand of smartphone you bought?

    No, I am afraid that the people you call 'fandroids' are just The Rest Of Us not buying something overpriced just because it's Apple branded.

  14. Nobody cares. on Android Wear Needs More Than a New Name To Fight Apple Watch (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Smart Watches have flopped. I bought a Pebble, but am back to a $30 Casio. Most people wear no watch at all, and have no intent to do so.

  15. Re: Elon is the ultimate flim-flam man on Tesla Employees Say Automaker Is Churning Out a High Volume of Flawed Parts (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    He is not alone, he is not unique. Numerous other billionaires are not 'just trying to find new inventive ways to screw over everyone else.'

    But your cynical point of view is noted.

  16. Re:Enough! on Apple Bans Iran from the App Store (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, for over a decade. Why is Apple unleashing this crap only in recent times?

  17. Re:Elon is the ultimate flim-flam man on Tesla Employees Say Automaker Is Churning Out a High Volume of Flawed Parts (cnbc.com) · · Score: 0

    He got his start at PayPal. What could anybody expect?

  18. Re:Any Tesla Owner Could Have Told You That. on Tesla Employees Say Automaker Is Churning Out a High Volume of Flawed Parts (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    An electric car with a defective charging port is profoundly safe. As long as it's not stuck somewhere in the way of other cars.

  19. Re:A loss for children. Adults, not so much. on Toys R Us To Close All 800 of Its US Stores (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    It has more to do with trademarked plastic crap not being as appealing today as it once was.

    Kids are much more into virtual electronic toys today.

  20. Re:Tesla is good for the environment on Tesla Employees Say Automaker Is Churning Out a High Volume of Flawed Parts (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Landfills are the 22nd centuries' resource strip mines.

    The thing that the people of the future are going to HATE are the high temperature incinerators that are so popular with some environmentalists today. They destroy so much that could be banked away for the future in a good clay-lined landfill.

  21. Re:Toys Rn't Us on Toys R Us To Close All 800 of Its US Stores (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    All that open and cheap retail space: it's an opportunity for more flea markets.

  22. Re:Customer Service on Toys R Us To Close All 800 of Its US Stores (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Walmart is 'crappy' in some ways, but they have over-the-top customer-friendly customer service counters. You can return about anything, and since the employees are just Walmart Employees, they don't care. It's a no-brainer to buy anything you might want at WalMart because it's so easy to change your mind if you have second thoughts. And that's even with stuff like Laptops and Tablets.

  23. Re:For me it was the Sears and Roebuck catalog on Toys R Us To Close All 800 of Its US Stores (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It sounds like your 'Sears Catalog' experience colsely parallels a modern-day Amazon.com experience.

    Me, I was a nerd. I spent my adolescence with the Jameco and Allied Radio catalogs as wishbooks.

  24. Re: A loss for children. Adults, not so much. on Toys R Us To Close All 800 of Its US Stores (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Born in '59. When I was little we had stores called 'dime stores' which were filled with toys, but everything in the store was five or ten cents.

  25. Re:Don't rely on Wikipedia for your facts on Wikipedia Had No Idea YouTube Was Going To Use It To Fact-Check Conspiracy Theories (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Even I know that Venezuela and the USSR are very illiberal.