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  1. Re:It's a nice start. on Germany Calls For a Ban On Combustion Engine Cars By 2030 (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Contraceptives for MENA and rest of Africa is probably much more effective. Besides it can be started now as the technology for effective contraceptives is quite well known. If we really were to start now then by the time they fix the car and its engines problem the effect in terms of CO2 would be much bigger and without major damage that production and disposal of batteries will cause. So by all means ban the bloody sods with combustion engines but start delivering humanitarian aid only with contraceptives mixed in.

  2. Re:Slightly misleading on Germany Calls For a Ban On Combustion Engine Cars By 2030 (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    so what are statistics in California for this. for instance I would be very interested to know: how many electric car owners there have only one electric vehicle (and use another one for longer journeys). Also what is the electrical mileage compared to ICE mileage driven per year in California?

  3. Re:So the bureaucrats have solved all the problems on Germany Calls For a Ban On Combustion Engine Cars By 2030 (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    commuting is not a reason I use car. Dealing with needs of my kids is.

  4. Re:So the bureaucrats have solved all the problems on Germany Calls For a Ban On Combustion Engine Cars By 2030 (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    South west of the republic look significantly different from the middle west and from the east. There are differences in wealth and demographics. These regions look like they were 3 different countries. Besides a use case for a single person looks significantly different than a person with a child or many children. There is no public transport that can help here even if you live in a city. Unless of course you can hire help (which would deal with the problem with own transportation).
    As a counter proposal I would suggest to include the contraceptives to each batch of humanitarian aid especially to MENA countries. This will have bigger impact.

  5. Re: What a joke on Germany Calls For a Ban On Combustion Engine Cars By 2030 (engadget.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Citizen I warn you not to use abusive and divisive language again! The official term for rape by newcomers is intercultural exchange. Alternatively you can refer to this process as an enriching of the culture of the host country with diverse and colorful habits from afar.
    If we catch you doing your hate-speech again a reeducation center will be the least that you can expect.

  6. Re:unfortunately they do not on Germany Calls For a Ban On Combustion Engine Cars By 2030 (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The all significant parties may look quite different after federal elections in 2017. I certainly hope some will collapse into irrelevance.

  7. Re:I call on Germany Calls For a Ban On Combustion Engine Cars By 2030 (engadget.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Germany is being in a process of violent islamisation, a process led by current gov. They open borders policy will destroy German social systems even earlier than the original demographics would have done. So looking at this I rest with ease. Besides they will to come up with solutions to some problems first or the law will never be effective - fast charging/swap of batteries. Besides even if the proposal becomes a law and there will be no legal possibility to register a car with combustion engine then - this will apply to new vehicles. As said Germany thus me will have whole bunch of other problems by then but I still wonder where all these batteries are going to come from and what the green party members will say to environmental disaster that production and later disposal of all these batteries will cause. Plus they will still have to use some combustible material to produce electricity fed to these batteries. The way things are in Germany building of new power plants based on coal or oil is all but blocked by Greens. The side effect of that is that instead of having modern power plants with lesser env. footprint we have old power plants with old dirty and less effective technology. I am actually for some of the goals of Green party but I do not think any of these morons think their proposals through.

  8. Re:The screen buffer? Really? Consider... on New AI Is Capable of Beating Humans At Doom (denofgeek.com) · · Score: 1

    It is inevitable.
    Good part is - we short circuit the entertainment industry like this means we win some private time we can do something else....

  9. Re:A poor craftsman blames his tools. on Are Flawed Languages Creating Bad Software? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1
    You mean you never finish?

    It would really help if so called SW engineers did an engineering course. Any would do I think as lpong as they have reliability of a product and/or system in program.

    Assumption that SW piece can be faultless is already wrong. Smarter of us know this but because this got trough also to not smart enough folk, the result is that they say: cannot produce faultless SW so we do not need to try too hard. Better rely on [silver bullet of choice] to find them. etc

  10. Re:site still down? on Krebs Is Back Online Thanks To Google's Project Shield (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    works for me now.

  11. Re:This is stupid on How ITT Tech Screwed Students and Made Millions (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I was wondering where you were going with this - after second bullet I was good and wondering what else you can add and woooops Turmp supporters. Now I know. Maybe it is even true - the guys that were grouped raped by this 'school' could possibly be angry. Judging by the numbers there are also some that looked at that and said - fuck we have to rape back. Or do you think that this school was big enough to debt rape all these people?

  12. Re:This is victim blaming. on How ITT Tech Screwed Students and Made Millions (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    We have lots of problems in Europe too but somehow such a rip off were rather difficult here. Then again we take over all goof things USicans tried so people choosing schools here must do it very carefully.

  13. Re:Better than any sanctions on U.S. Funds Challenges To North Korea's 'Information Shield' (freekorea.us) · · Score: 1

    There is nothing infantile about this. If you do not believe what propaganda says you will reveal your evil thinking eventually and this means either labour camp, prison or a bullet. There surely are people that have doubts there of course. The question is how big doubts these are and how many of such people are there. Regime like this is on the other side - the attempts to overthrow would have to reach critical mass and that is impossible. The massive long lasting famine would help change that. Lost war could do too. Nobody sane wants to risk this. The west can kill them many times over but mayhem the confrontation with them could cause is nothing the West and especially South Koreans want to try.

  14. Re:Waste of money on Senate Panel Authorizes Money For Mission To Mars (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    I do not think you can stop global warming. There are different reasons of course and these may depend on the current view of reality that one has too. There is for instance this thing that Baltic sea could be crossed by foot few times in the middle ages and this happened not very long time after significant vineyards have been in operation on north part of the old continent and Greenland was actually green. I do not think you could stop processes that lead to such changes. The common human output is just adding to the change in some way of which we have only started to have a clue. Political bickering is not helping to get closer to truth of course. Secondly even if we were certain about how and could change that there would be the issue of thermal inertia of the system called earth.
    Then you can turn from nature of things and interaction between humanity and nature to how production facilities are moved to China and how they pollute everything from there - the reason is probably at least as much quality of these factories (no enforced enforced regulation) as the quantities of stuff that they produce. Besides you turn off the shopping spree in China you will end up with a war as all societies under serious economic stress tend to turn to war to resolve the pressing issue of wealth distribution when there is not enough for lower classes.
    Another thing is this - the amount of money and CO2 associated with mission to Mars is minuscule comparing with financial implosion caused by system relevant institutions and what human built economy farts into atmosphere in comparable time window. It does not mean it is negligible but it is nothing as major as you make it to be. Better this than wasting money on so called refugees from MENA or subsidizing banksters aka saving economy.

  15. voted their own representatives in the office. They can vote them out if these are so corrupt as to hinder them in access to basic service. If not maybe they should form a well organized militia and hand them bastards. I can imagine this right cannot be argued away by the individual state.

  16. Re:Just keep it running. on Appeals Court Decision Kills North Carolina Town's Gigabit Internet (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    If you arrest all of them for traffic violation there will be no contempt. You just have to be as creative as the lawsters.

  17. big enough bomb can solve that problem too. Unless of course humanity will spawn independent colonies that is, in which case you would need more bombs.

  18. Whz is parent's post tagged troll? It is either informative or insightful.

  19. There have been many good people that were obsessed with 5ys plans. But even diedushka Jozef S. who had that fever for 5y plans too, failed miserably or rather the plans failed him miserably...

  20. Re:Have you ever read the Constitution? on House Committee: Edward Snowden's Leaks Did 'Tremendous Damage' (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Parliamentary system does not give you advantages that you hope it does. It is the same all over - the American Revolution did actually create something that benefited people comparing with what they had before. Yet as with all systems - this one got tired and dementia set in. It is corrupted ans skewed towards the oligarchs and big corporations. Parliamentary system can protect you against that as much as it protect people against the chance it will get an autocrat and/or murderer as a leader. Sometimes it is beneficial actually - a benevolent autocrat comes in and cleans up the shit from the system. The problem with that is not even that most of the autocrats are not benevolent but that they inevitably corrupt the system even more. There is an irony hidden in this circle of corruption and revolution - I cannot laugh however.

  21. Re:Good on House Committee: Edward Snowden's Leaks Did 'Tremendous Damage' (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Two things.:
    Assuming that GP was born in US means that asking them to live because they think their gov is dishonest and not interested in their well being is at least as dishonest as the US gov is.
    The other thing is this. Complaining about own government does not mean that all government is bad and has to be abandoned. I do not read that in GP post either. So how the fuck did you arrive on that conclusion is beyond me. MOst of governments do evil things either because of incompetence or negligence or because of bd will. It seems to me that the amount of bad will in US gov. is quite overwhelming. More they say they support democracy, more I get afraid this shit will hurt me in some way.

  22. Re:Other robot services on Robots Will Eliminate 6% of All US Jobs By 2021, Says Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    actually that is the only progress that I am eagerly awaiting to happen. No sign of it actually being worked upon. What a pity. Need it more than a self-driving car.

  23. Re:Bah, humbug! on Robots Will Eliminate 6% of All US Jobs By 2021, Says Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I am sure there will also be (surely automated) correction camps beyond the city limits citizen - you can go and be fixed there.

  24. Re:Complete nonsense on Robots Will Eliminate 6% of All US Jobs By 2021, Says Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    this productivity improvements making life of unemployed easier may not materialize as Brits recently showed.

  25. Re:Complete nonsense on Robots Will Eliminate 6% of All US Jobs By 2021, Says Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    and farming occupies what 3% of working age population? You make 30% of jobs more automated than they already are so you will get at 2% of working age population. One thing we shall remember - the replacement of truck drivers does not start at the steering wheel. The drivers used to plan part of their journeys - now they follow automatic advice where to go and what route to chose - to optimize their job the way they could have never done. Maybe there will be sitting there in their cabins and doing less actual driving like the pilots of today - navigation etc. 5y is probably out of the q. - we may see first real autonomous systems that actually drive around in 5y. But actual products - probably not. The question how fast the trucks will be replaced is economic one - depends on how much a driver costs and how much the replacement costs - the old truck will probably not be written off but modified. There will still be lost of work around. Then it will cease to be around. Then people often underestimate how ready we are to accept bad service if the price is 'ok'. Just look at airlines they are making huge profits - yet their booking systems fail all the time because of lack of investment and they talk about introduction of a new class below the lowest one - I guess you will pay extra for sitting there - this all happens because there is economic factor that benefits those that do. 6%? probably exaggerated - 6% normal jobs replaced by 5% worse paid service jobs is more likely with all the idiocy of siri being anything close to service clerk.
    Interesting times. Even more so when one thinks about the contrast of what happens in US and say Germany and places like MENA where 380m humans live on income below 1.25$ a day.