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  1. Re:I know that ... on Music Labels Sue Charter, Complain That High Internet Speeds Fuel Piracy (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ewww, Bill wouldn't stoop that low...

    Joe Biden would, though...

  2. Again, I quote for you:

    Wireless EV charging is just as efficient — or more efficient — than plugging in.

    More efficient? That's a lie. Flat out. They are not even as efficient. Even your own numbers say so. Why do you insist otherwise? And I don't think you realize that the losses of the inductive charging portion is in addition to the losses of the charger in the first place. It's an additional loss...

    Let me guess, you're not an electrical engineer, are you? Because if you were, you wouldn't even have this discussion to start with, you'd realize the fallacy of their claim, and you'd understand the losses inherent in wireless connections - and that it is in addition to losses in the charger in the first place.

    Stop and think: what is more efficient - power via high-tension line, or power via broadcast energy? Because that's what we're dealing with - losses that go as the cube of distance for the wireless method versus losses that are linear with distance for the wired method.

  3. Re:Trump's campaign manager and personal lawyer... on Mueller Report 'Summary' Delivered to US Congress (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Hiring foreign nationals to use Russian lies to build up a dossier, and meeting with Russian operatives in secret and NOT reporting the meetings. That's collusion right there, at least that's what we've been told for the last several years...

  4. Re:Trump's campaign manager and personal lawyer... on Mueller Report 'Summary' Delivered to US Congress (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Yet it is not the GOP. Is it? But why does the DNC and the Clinton campaign get a free pass from you? Is it because you believe that those you favor shouldn't have to play by the same rules, or suffer the same consequences as those you don't like? Justice isn't blind, right?

  5. Re:You gotta pay attention to the whole system on Oslo Will Build Wireless Chargers For Electric Taxis in Zero-Emissions Push (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    Wireless EV charging is just as efficient — or more efficient — than plugging in.

    When you start off with a physical lie, just quit...

  6. Re:The rest of the article on Apple Debuts Apple Card To Transform the Credit Card Experience (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    Who cares what the interest rate is? There is no late fee - so just don't pay. Let that interest rack up...

  7. Re:Wireless charging efficiency on Oslo Will Build Wireless Chargers For Electric Taxis in Zero-Emissions Push (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Right off the bat, ignore the Cleantechnica site. ANYONE who claims inductive charging can be more efficient is simply ignoring the laws of physics. There is ALWAYS loss in an inductive system. It manifests as heat. It will never be as efficient as a direct wire connection (provided the direct wire is large enough to actually handle the current). The best you can get is a transformer with a common core - and that is not a wireless system, and usually are in the 95% range themselves (note - this is NOT wireless, but common core) Inductive coupling is always lossy. Always.

    The Wiki article notes that the "efficient" Magne Charge system is 86% efficient, and that's probably at an optimal positioning of both coils. Offset the receiving coil by 10% and watch that efficiency cut in half.

    Inductive charging only makes sense if you have a surplus of power in the first place. Norway may make sense due to the massive amount of hydro they have. For most other places? I guess if you want to toss 20%+ of the electricity used for transportation...

  8. Re:Trump's campaign manager and personal lawyer... on Mueller Report 'Summary' Delivered to US Congress (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Free Beacon is an independent, conservative leaning news site. The Clinton campaign and the DNC are directly involved in the election. BIG difference there...

  9. Re:Cheaper alternative? on Oslo Will Build Wireless Chargers For Electric Taxis in Zero-Emissions Push (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Or do like the BYD/BAIC cars in China, especially the ones used as taxis in Xiamen, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, etc.: have replaceable packs underneath. Takes about 3 minutes to drop out the drained pack and place a new one in.

  10. Maybe because wireless charging is pretty inefficient; unless you have a solid 40%+ extra electricity than you need, it's actually a pretty bad thing to do.

  11. Re:Units of Distance on Improved Estimates of the Distance To the Large Magellanic Cloud · · Score: 1

    Gonna need a lot of Supercharger stations between here and there...

  12. Re:Trump's campaign manager and personal lawyer... on Mueller Report 'Summary' Delivered to US Congress (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    That is a twisted history you have. Citation needed - because everything I've seen says the dossier was started after the DNC and the Clinton campaign began funding Fusion GPS. Rachel Maddow would be proud of you!

  13. Re:Trump's campaign manager and personal lawyer... on Mueller Report 'Summary' Delivered to US Congress (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Eh, no, It was the Republicans who commissioned the 'dossier', the Democrats just picked up where the Republican left off after they decoded Trump was their new god emperor.

    No, that is not correct. It was started by the Free Beacon, but then dropped. It was not funded by the GOP. However, we do have the Clinton campaign and the DNC paying Fusion GPS. So no - you're wrong. The GOP did NOT commission the dossier. That's a lie. The Democrats own that one - and like most things, they want to get rid of their connection - so they lie about it.

  14. Re:Trump's campaign manager and personal lawyer... on Mueller Report 'Summary' Delivered to US Congress (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    So meeting with Russian operatives during your campaign is not an issue? Great - so why the charges of collusion against Trump? Obvious double standard is obvious.

  15. Re:Trump's campaign manager and personal lawyer... on Mueller Report 'Summary' Delivered to US Congress (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Not the one with Robert "Sheets" Byrd, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, etc. And you seem to forget that the GOP publicly stated - and voted - a rebuke of Steve King. Yet the Democrats refuse to do so for the obvious racism/anti-semitism in their own ranks...

  16. The more flexible the language, the more ways you can screw up and allow a security hole.

  17. Re:Trump's campaign manager and personal lawyer... on Mueller Report 'Summary' Delivered to US Congress (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The campaigns who funded the research, both Republicans and Democrats, hoped to learn how to campaign against Trump

    That is a lie, and you know it. It was funded by the Clinton campaign and the DNC, and the Washington Free Beacon - a new site, NOT a campaign - hired Fusion GPS for some intel but it was not the Steele Dossier.

    Quit lying.

  18. Re:Trump's campaign manager and personal lawyer... on Mueller Report 'Summary' Delivered to US Congress (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe because right up until Election night, the Democrats were 93% certain to win the whole thing? Why use it and open up the can-of-worms, especially since it did its job to get the FISA warrants to spy in the first place...

  19. Re:Trump's campaign manager and personal lawyer... on Mueller Report 'Summary' Delivered to US Congress (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    It's not the GOP. They tend to condemn Nazis and supremacists. Democrats and the Left, meanwhile, gladly endorse and celebrate them provided they are of the right race/gender/political bent (thus doubling up on their supremacy, hatred, and discrimination).

  20. Only one way on Can We Build Ethics Into Automated Decision-Making? (oreilly.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The programmer is ethical.

  21. Re: Seek help for emotional stress you will fact on Mueller Report 'Summary' Delivered to US Congress (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    Oh, and the ONLY thing that all the Democrats are hanging on for obstruction is the firing of Comey. That same James Comey who unequivocally stated that President Trump had full authority to fire him. There was no obstruction - per the very man who's firing was supposedly the obstruction!

  22. Re: Seek help for emotional stress you will fact on Mueller Report 'Summary' Delivered to US Congress (cnn.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    No, read what Comey said. He said there was plenty of illegal happenings, including handling of classified and top secret information. But he unilaterally decided that a prosecutor wouldn't charge, so he would not recommend anything.

    There was no saying "we're not sure what there was, since that wasn't our purview" like with Mueller; this was "there was lots of illegal activity, but we don't think it was on purpose and prosecutors probably won't charge so we'll ignore the crime".

    Plenty of evidence of a crime, just an unwillingness to prosecute it. I don't care if you're a Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, or Communist - willfully ignoring to charge actual crimes should be abhorrent to all but the most strident political hacks.

  23. Re:Trump's campaign manager and personal lawyer... on Mueller Report 'Summary' Delivered to US Congress (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    I love the saying:

    Democrats haven't been so mad at Republicans since we freed their slaves

    Responses show their true nature...

  24. Re:Trump's campaign manager and personal lawyer... on Mueller Report 'Summary' Delivered to US Congress (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    if a campaign co-ordinates with foreigners to engage in activities aimed at influencing an election (such as, oh say, hacking your opponent's email servers) then that is collusion

    Your words, not mine. Is that a crime or not? Because Mueller said it never happened for the Trump campaign - but we have sworn testimony from FBI agents and other that it DID happen with the Clinton campaign.

  25. Who wants to join me in a new startup? on New App Gives Free Movie Tickets To People Who Watch 15 Minutes of Ads (indiewire.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    We hire people in China and India to use VPNs to watch the commercials for $0.19, then we sell the movie tickets for $4.99 each! I figure with Square/Paypal overhead, we should clear a solid $4.50 per ticket!