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

    For example, the sole reason of this word being in the title, because it evokes modern usage of "piracy" as incredibly stupid but accepted word for "copyright violation".

    Obviously, when you are using a radio frequency without paying for it, you are actually taking somebody's resource: nobody else can use this band in that area.

    Modern copyright infringement does nothing of that sort.

    Result: confusion, obfuscation, disinformation, propaganda.

  2. What is really new in this study? How does it compare to previous studies? Are previous studies wrong? Did they discover new facts?

  3. On the subjecr of environment they try to present themselves as valid climate change fighting players. With one hand....

  4. Re:Local vs Global Temperature on Wide-Scale US Wind Power Could Cause Significant Warming, Study Says (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    It's started to be called "climate change" instead of "warming" for a reason

  5. Re:as a last-resort on Amazon Will Raise Its Minimum Wage To $15 For All 350,000 US Workers (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    >unionized developers

    As long as more developers needed there will be no union. There is only quantum vacuum level of unemployment among software developers.

  6. Bullshit: it's just bad jobs on The Coders Programming Themselves Out of a Job (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    People are talking about data entry. Data entry is not coding.

    This is non existent problem

  7. It does not take much for people to argue. The problem is that people argue about crap like Star Wars.

  8. You had me until this:

    > Adam Driver is a bad actor

    No. Adam Driver is not a bad actor. Star Wars is idiotic from the get go. It's an idiotic juvenile shitstory that got randomly selected to reach the level of positive feedback "cult" status that only needs shitty producers to invest.

    Every cinephile worth his salt would like to stay away from bullshit like Star Wars, Marvel Universe and other bullcrap lo-end sci-fi crap. And if they had to write critics of these it's only for money.

    The actor who fit perfectly into Paterson did it for money. You got shitty result because pearls do not come from shit.

  9. Re:that's not even applied science, that's technol on Physics Nobel Won By Laser Wizardry -- Laureates Include First Woman in 55 Years (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    You do not know what science is. Science is not to answer ANY questions.

  10. >Those "speed traps" you don't understand

    No. YOU do not understand, dimwit. You are talking out of your fat ass.

  11. >I would assume I would be on camera as I approached it, even if I sneaked up behind it.

    Shield and sword never ends, Not a reason to give up.

    It's a robbery, plain and simple.

  12. Re:that's not even applied science, that's technol on Physics Nobel Won By Laser Wizardry -- Laureates Include First Woman in 55 Years (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    None of the problems you mentioned have a clear experimental path to verifiability

  13. Re:Digital search? on New Zealand Travelers Refusing Digital Search Now Face $5000 Customs Fine (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    ambiguous

    The term you are looking for is "pun intended".

  14. Re: Digital search? on New Zealand Travelers Refusing Digital Search Now Face $5000 Customs Fine (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm of Arab descent

    Another Arab said 1400 years ago:

    "If I had been sure that you were looking at me (through the door), I would have poked your eye with this (sharp iron bar)."

    That Arab's name was Muhammad, sal Allahu 'alaihi wa sallam and this saying is recorded in Sahih Bukhari

  15. Than current equally portable small mounted photocameras, sometimes well hidden besides other large roadside objects.

  16. I do not care about privacy. I can make my Google Maps history public right now.

    What I care is when this information will be used to rob me by local government in the form of bullshit road fines.

  17. Re:When you let the government own the roads on The US Government Is Using Road Signs Showing Drivers How Fast They're Going To Capture License Plate Data (qz.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Right. Because private ownership would be so much better. You are an idiot. And the mod who upvoted you is an idiot as well.

    Roads are natural monopolies. You do not have a choice on which road to take really. Do you ever see two parallel roads?

    Die

  18. That's all. We should start a national campaign of vandalizing this bullshit good-driver tax.

    It's very well known that all the speed controlling devices are located in the areas where people are most likely to speed and people are most likely to speed in the areas where it is the SAFEST to speed.

    The parkway with a healthy forest devider three lane on each side that has typically 50 mph limit in California is getting a 35 mph speed trap for no reason but to rob the drivers.

    Vandalize them. Destroy them. A la guerre comme a la guerre.

  19. Re:that's not even applied science, that's technol on Physics Nobel Won By Laser Wizardry -- Laureates Include First Woman in 55 Years (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    >We have so much left to learn that we are nowhere near hitting the limits of what science can discover.

    Empty declarations.

  20. Re:Science requires tools on Physics Nobel Won By Laser Wizardry -- Laureates Include First Woman in 55 Years (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    You are an imbecile

  21. Re:that's not even applied science, that's technol on Physics Nobel Won By Laser Wizardry -- Laureates Include First Woman in 55 Years (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    You can't know everything. Science is about _repeatable_ phenomena. There is vast areas in existing world where they are not repeatable.

  22. Re:Gender doesn't matter on Physics Nobel Won By Laser Wizardry -- Laureates Include First Woman in 55 Years (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    There should be a moderation flair called "Dumbass" for shitposters like you.

  23. Re:Gender doesn't matter on Physics Nobel Won By Laser Wizardry -- Laureates Include First Woman in 55 Years (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. The goals contradict each other

  24. Re:Gender doesn't matter on Physics Nobel Won By Laser Wizardry -- Laureates Include First Woman in 55 Years (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a mixture of virtue signalling, propaganda, and genuine wish to encourage women to participate in really hard work of being a scientist.

  25. that's not even applied science, that's technology on Physics Nobel Won By Laser Wizardry -- Laureates Include First Woman in 55 Years (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    People do not get that fundamental physics is over (you would not call seriously "string theory" "scientific" would you?).

    I know I am repeating what Lord Kelvin said to his embarrassment just before great discoveries in relativistic physics, quantum physics, etc.

    Nevertheless, that's truth: everything ends, everything has limits, humanity has limits and science has limits.

    The clear indication that we are close to the limit is absence of ANY fundamental discoveries since a long time ago.

    We are gradually shifting towards applied science and mere technology. All of three fields, basic science, applied science and technology are essential for humanity, but the fact is that the first one is almost over or probably over already.

    Call them for what they are: Nobel Prizes in Technology