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  1. Re:So? on Google Is Restructuring Under a New Company Called Alphabet · · Score: 1

    I do not have much but I do love my BRK.A stocks. They hold money for me until I need it and they grow fairly regularly. Those are not part of my play portfolio. That is probably a good thing.

  2. Re:Tax purposes . . . ? on Google Is Restructuring Under a New Company Called Alphabet · · Score: 1

    I'd try that but it would probably spell out ads and spy on my internals as it moved through my system. I just can't risk it.

  3. Re:Hovered over property for only 22 seconds .. on New Video Shows Shot Down Drone Hovered For Only 22 Seconds · · Score: 1

    Some residential and rural areas have a specific exemption for shotguns on the books. It is not usually publicized but it is often there. They may want to look into that as I do not know the specifics for their area. I know of only one city that has a sign that happily tells folks that they are free to blaze up shotguns in city limits but I know a number of other municipalities have a local ordinance specifically allowing for such.

  4. Re: Why are people going to jail for this? on New Video Shows Shot Down Drone Hovered For Only 22 Seconds · · Score: 1

    If the cops were called every time I touched off a few rounds they would just rent a room. I tend to go out and fire a number of rounds (usually a few magazines) almost daily. I do not actually want to shoot a human (or a drone) or anything but I do like to keep my skills sharp. At my age I am still steady enough to stand-and-fire at 500 yards with iron sites. I stay this way because I practice.

  5. Re:premature discharge on New Video Shows Shot Down Drone Hovered For Only 22 Seconds · · Score: 1

    Umm... They are quoting the person they are replying to.

  6. Re: Yeah 22 seconds? on New Video Shows Shot Down Drone Hovered For Only 22 Seconds · · Score: 1

    I am not a redneck but I love firearms. I really do not want to shoot anyone to be honest.

  7. Re:Yeah 22 seconds? on New Video Shows Shot Down Drone Hovered For Only 22 Seconds · · Score: 1

    Never ever fire a warning shot. You will not win in court - except in Texas. If you fire a warning shot they assume you were not in immediate danger. Fire a dozen extra rounds in Texas. Always shoot for one reason and one reason only - to kill your enemy. You do not shoot to wound, you do not fire warning shots. Do not pump extra rounds into them if they appear to be incapacitated. That is bad form and you will likely go to jail.

  8. Re:Yeah 22 seconds? on New Video Shows Shot Down Drone Hovered For Only 22 Seconds · · Score: 1

    Some of us advanced beyond high school physics. Resistance and mass are a thing.

  9. Re:Yeah 22 seconds? on New Video Shows Shot Down Drone Hovered For Only 22 Seconds · · Score: 2

    Muzzle flash - it is clear they did not listen to the warning.

    As I have said since the beginning... I would still shoot it. More so now than ever before. He left and came back. I'd have given him permission if he had asked. When you leave and return? Wow... Yeah, I am really going to shoot it. I may even light it on fire and dance on the blaze.

  10. Re:Poor Value on Continued Cord Cutting Hits the Pay TV Business Hard · · Score: 1

    To be fair, you do not own any media really (unless you made it and not even then always). You license it for use in specific circumstances. If you owned it then you could charge others to see it (as well as other rights) which, well, is quite specifically not allowed normally. You just buy specific use rights and the medium that it is on - if any medium is used at all.

  11. Re:Don't worry! on Continued Cord Cutting Hits the Pay TV Business Hard · · Score: 1

    It was every bit as awful as I remembered, thanks! I love that movie.

  12. Re:Don't worry! on Continued Cord Cutting Hits the Pay TV Business Hard · · Score: 1

    I shall return in a couple of hours - and likely stoned. I have not seen that movie in years.

  13. Re:Expect the Republicans to stop this... on Continued Cord Cutting Hits the Pay TV Business Hard · · Score: 1

    Yet you probably do not have to really buy automobile insurance. You can likely bond yourself with your government. The price varies per state. I do not know of any single state that does not allow this. There may be one, you could be an exception. Search for automobile insurance alternatives and your state name. Throw bonding in the search and that may narrow it down. I just insure my license with an insurance company. None of my cars (and I own too many) are individually insured.

  14. Re:Expect the Republicans to stop this... on Continued Cord Cutting Hits the Pay TV Business Hard · · Score: 2

    I buy enough for 25 people and that is just for weekend use.

  15. Re:By the curly beard of Mohammed on How Uber Is Changing Life For Women In Saudi Arabia · · Score: 1

    I suspect that, if I tried hard enough, I could probably find someone trying to repress someone in the name of Buddhism. There are all types.

  16. Re:Uber is not the answer on How Uber Is Changing Life For Women In Saudi Arabia · · Score: 1

    I did not know that. I did some international work but never in the peninsula or, well, the Middle East for that matter. I was out of the military just before we got involved heavily there so I have only visited Israel and Egypt as a tourist.

  17. Re:This is going to....omg on Google, Facebook and Twitter To Block "Hash Lists" of Child Abuse · · Score: 1

    These are, and correct me if I am mistaken, hashes of the images as seen by image recognition software and takes other values into account. Changing a little bit of the image will not change what the image looks like, in general, and the image recognition software will have the same hash value. Even if you add borders, crop some out, and resize it - the image still looks the same and that is what the hash is based on (as well as other things - I assume). This is not like a MD5 where you can just unzip, change a date, compress, and have a new checksum.

  18. Re:So if they can do this with pictures on Google, Facebook and Twitter To Block "Hash Lists" of Child Abuse · · Score: 1

    I would not be willing to do bit flipping and image manipulation for child pornography but I'd start ripping everything I own and sharing it if they did it with music and movies. Then again, I do not own any child porn.

  19. Re:Can't or won't? on Google, Facebook and Twitter To Block "Hash Lists" of Child Abuse · · Score: 1

    Google has nothing to do with the darknet. They do not even crawl it. While there is some unsavory content on the darknet it is really what the internet was supposed to be like. Hell, in a way it is what the internet was.

  20. Re:Uber is not the answer on How Uber Is Changing Life For Women In Saudi Arabia · · Score: 1

    Ah - okay. I was under the impression that the whole country was cut off except for certain exemptions such as employment. I still do not think I want to go there as a general rule. I enjoy going to new places and learning new things but some places just do not seem to be worth it.

  21. Re:How to stop the losses on Tesla Suffering Cash Flow Issues; Every Model S Means a $4,000 Loss · · Score: 1

    I dunno? It seems to be fluctuating a lot right now. I invested 50k and it is worth about 10 times that now. I am waiting to see what happens. I may stick with it for a while if it drops, I probably will, as I assume it will just be picked up and carried by another and that will make the stock double again.

  22. Re:s/uber/taxi. on How Uber Is Changing Life For Women In Saudi Arabia · · Score: 1

    I found stats that indicate that it was $19/hr in Boston a couple of years ago. I'd have to drive for something like 6750 hours just to pay for my car. I could get a cheaper car.

  23. Re:s/uber/taxi. on How Uber Is Changing Life For Women In Saudi Arabia · · Score: 1

    I pick up my car on Thursday. It is a new BMW, of course, and is the 640Li. I paid cash for it, it is "bespoke." I did not finance it as financing is a waste of money in many cases. Now, my car was around $135,000 with all the applicable fees, add-ons, sales tax, etc... I typically buy a new car every two years and sell the used car instead of trading it in.

    Could I ever, realistically, pay for my car by driving for Uber? I do not mean my time, maintaining it is free though they might be angry when they find out I am using it for commercial reasons but it is warrantied, or even my consumables - could I even pay for the car even if I drove for the Uber Black program? Assume that I am in the busiest area that they operate in. (I am not -- there is no such service here but we are pretending.)

    Do the drivers even gross above minimum wage on average? We can even ignore net income. I just want to know if I could pay off my car before it was too old to even qualify for them. I can not find statistics on this though it may be because I am not sure about Uber and which queries to use.

  24. Re:By the curly beard of Mohammed on How Uber Is Changing Life For Women In Saudi Arabia · · Score: 1

    I am a Buddhist. I do not repress anyone and I know of no teachings that advocate repressing women. I guess you could say that Buddhism is not a major religion but there are quite a few of us. And no, I am a Buddhist, not a fucking monk.

  25. Re:Uber is not the answer on How Uber Is Changing Life For Women In Saudi Arabia · · Score: 1

    I can not fathom wanting to open a business, of any kind, in Saudi Arabia. I just can not think of a reason why I would expose myself or my employees to the region. Even if my business was selling veils and women-whips (I am only assuming that they whip them) I still would not want to open a business there. I might not even want to ship anything there from a mail order catalog. I have no idea if the regular citizens are online, it seems unlikely but they might have access. Other than the history of the Sauds I really do not know a whole lot about them. Wikipedia is so very far away.