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  1. Re:How to overturn the rule of law on What Happens When Telecom Companies Search Your Home For Piracy (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    >- to convince a lower court to grant an "Anton Piller" order to allow one party to a suit to search the premises and seize evidence from the other party without prior warning

    "Anton Piller" maneuver still requires the consent of the defendant.

  2. Re: A lot of the arguments seem hopelessly simplis on Authors of Controversial 'Seattle Minimum Wage' Study Revise Their Conclusions (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: 1

    Obama spent like crazy when he inherited housing bubble disaster from Bush. Heck, I got a new road.

  3. Re: seems reasonable on Samsung is Suing Its Brand Ambassador For Using an iPhone in Public (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    The story is that she is moderately anti Putin opposition and daughter of the legendary Eltsinoid politician who was major benefactor of Putin in those days

  4. can't stand that privileged nobody

  5. it's just Darwin's law

  6. Re: This will sort itself out on Sentimental Humans Launch A Movement to Save (Human) Driving (freep.com) · · Score: 2

    I will never believe that the writer of this piece was able to call a head of insurance company a "sentimental" or "human"

  7. I'd say more than that. The real fight is about sanity. Are we going to be driven to the future by the mood of the crowd and people who catch positive feedback loops from it (politicians)?

    Or are we going to be driven by scientists? Gutenberg revolution (that started Eternal September) never ended.

    The result is more and more abilities for charlatans to manipulate people our of their minds.

  8. https://ourworldindata.org/co2...

    According to the graph Emissions by source, we exhale today as much as we burned in 1950 by all our machinery combined.

  9. 8% of all CO2 released to the atmosphere comes from humans exhaling.

    You can think about this number as banana for scale

  10. tried this once on When Your Day Job Isn't Enough (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Working 12 hours a day is not for everyone. In several months i earned about 20K (I did not work 12 hours), I became a nervous wreck.

  11. This reminds me on NASA Astronaut Details Fall To Earth After Failed Soyuz Launch (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    on how reliable as a whole Soyuz system is. The successful healthy recovery of astronaut and cosmonaut when they literally fell from space, without any propelling cushion one would expect more cheer in the crowd. But no, since it is made by evil Soviet and Russian governments, let's just ignore the fact that this is one of the most astonishing events of the international space program in years.

  12. What part of the cost is tape cost? on The Future of the Cloud Depends On Magnetic Tape (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    >meaning higher costs for the big cloud providers

    What part of the cost of the cloud-keeping is tape cost?

  13. Re:Evaporite deposits [Re:Use renewable sources] on Some Electric Car Drivers Might Spew More CO2 Than Diesel Cars, New Research Shows (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    >they are raping the earth

    I usually stop reading at that sentence.

  14. Should not they be comparing total emissions = during the making of the car + during operating the car for 10 years?

  15. You, Stephen Hawking is not "most" people. He is a modern "saint" of atheism.

  16. >Bread and Circuses

    That's not enough by definition: bread and circuses existed at the time of invention of circuses.

    Throw in absolute human redundancy nowadays. In Roman time the value of male or female life was higher than today. They were really needed. That's why they were killed by the enemy

    In consumer society only the money in your pocket have value. How much you can buy. If you can't buy shit, you are worthless.

    That's why we do not make more people. They still make more people where human life has value (human skills, human will, human determination, human ability to sacrifice) - in Somalia for example.

    Human life in USA is worthless compared to human life in Somalia

  17. Re: Holy shit no. on Slashdot Asks: Can Anything Replace 'QWERTY' Keyboards? (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    RTFA. There is no touchscreen

  18. Re:Complete nonsense on Are Universal Basic Incomes 'A Tool For Our Further Enslavement'? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    >based entirely on the Fed printing money, and it has not led to inflation

    It's not about what how much money is printed it's about where the money goes.

    And money is not printed. Government issues bonds, citizens of US (80% or 90% of US debt is internal) buy them.

    Before trickling down to retail, this "printed" money works rounds doing many good things, oiling up economy wheels. If you give it straight to the buyers of retail, it will work exactly as it worked when Mansa Musa went to Hajj: retailers will immediately raise prizes and not only given $1000 will become nothing, it's every single $1000 bill will become nothing, including $1000 belonging to the salt of the Earth: software developers, gas station managers, computer science teachers, the Atlants of the economy.

  19. obligatory STEM, voluntary humanities on Tech Suffers From Lack of Humanities, Says Mozilla Head (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    Every single teenager should study STEM (every single letter of it), while humanities should be optional.

    Period.

  20. 200-350 billion per year by 2030 on Climate Change Report Actually Understates Threats (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    https://ourworldindata.org/how...

    If we aggressively pursue all of the low-cost abatement opportunities currently available, the total global economic cost would be â200-350 billion per year by 2030. This is less than one percent of the forecasted global GDP in 2030.

    That is according to goals of Paris agreement.

    From the other hand, damage from global climate change is predicted to be
    https://www.independent.co.uk/...

    As a result, the worldâ(TM)s gross domestic product would fall by $21 trillion by 2050, compared to $33 trillion under a âbusiness-as-usualâ(TM) approach that allows global warming of 2.5 degrees. This saving of $12 trillion (about £9.6 trillion) represents about 10 per cent of global GDP.

  21. >It's the best of both worlds.

    No

  22. Re:You misspelled Jupiter on Economics Nobel Laureate Paul Romer Is a Python Programming Convert (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    > You are probably confusing it with the name of a well known planet.

    Right. As Sheldon said: "Happy coincidence!"

  23. I will never forget where I was on Economics Nobel Laureate Paul Romer Is a Python Programming Convert (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    .. when I learned about this.

    Thank you for this, Python fanboys. May the indentation be with you.

  24. Re:I wish people stop using the word "pirate" on London's Radio Pirates Changed Music. Then Came the Internet. (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    > I suspect this is why it translated so easily over to other kinds of unlicensed activity, including copyright infringement.

    That might be true, but what is more important is the difference between two activities that I pointed.

  25. Re:I wish people stop using the word "pirate" on London's Radio Pirates Changed Music. Then Came the Internet. (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    >The term "Radio Pirate" was used in the 1960s, it had nothing to do with copyright violations

    I know. I wish you and at least 4 other people know how to read. That's exactly the point I am making.