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Comment Re:Buick? (Score 1) 210

There must be a real dearth of sports cars in the US if you thought of Holden as something sporty. For the uninitiated, Holden sold large saloon (sedan) cars that were horribly unwieldly, the flagship models had downturned American V8s, a 6 litre LS that produced a whopping 270 KW. The Vette with the same era LS produced around 330 KW.
Just prior to their death in 2008, Pontiac brought over the Holden Monaro and rebadged it the GTO, It had a 6 liter V8 that wasn't completely anemic(and probably could have been modded slightly to unleash more power). That is probably where the grand parent poster got the Holden's are sporty idea. Not to mention the lion logo is way cooler than Buick's logo.

Comment Re:If you can get banks to lend you $billions... (Score 1) 196

As for the Rich Dad, Poor Dad guy... he did file bankruptcy in one of his many companies but it was due to an award of $27 million filed by a guy who claimed he was owed a cut in the speaking engagement revenue. That particular company only had about $17m and Robert had no obligation to pay from his other companies or personal assets so the company folded. It had nothing to do with financial mismanagement.
Since he was awarded 27 million I'd say his claim was pretty strong. Having liabilities(real, not this guys altered definition) exceed your assets(again) certainly sounds like financial mismanagement(not to mention I didn't think you could discharge legal claims via bankruptcy, IANAL though). As for all the geniuses running around talking about rental properties, it's a good idea until you buy into an overheated urban center, and then everybody discovers they can work from home, but that will never happen.

Comment Re:Taking her comments out of context (Score 1) 363

Maybe it's you who didn't learn. Osama wouldn't have either ability or reason to arrange 9/11 if US previously didn't fund him before for Afghanistan op(which gave him both power and connections to do what he did) and yet later insisted on supporting his enemies in Israel. Quite obviously the incompatibility of those allies was known from the start to relevant decision makers.
Look, Osama really didn't care about Israel as much as he cared about the US cock blocking his attempt to use Saddam's invasion in Kuwait to bring his newly minted Mujahideen and allow him(Osama) to replace the House of Saud. The fact we didn't see that coming and didn't lean harder on the Pashtuns to give him up when they got tired of his shit, is a failing of US intelligence. But hey no one ever said the US military was great at rebuilding a place they have helped to blow up.

Comment Re:What cheek these silly Europeans have! (Score 0) 89

What own companies? All the EU wants is for all tech companies to play by the rules that they design, and that means, among other things, that irresponsible spying on their citizens and stripping them off any privacy they may still have is not ok, along with causing havoc by spreading unfounded rumors and blatant misinformation. Yes, we do actually consider this a bad thing.
Bitch please, google or use your preferred search engine the phrase "14 eyes", then get back to me. This is about SAP and other euro tech businesses hoping that the EU with tip the scales in their favor. As for blatant misinformation, how hard is the EU cracking down on Tiktok?

Comment Re:Yawn (Score 1) 53

If you want meaningless praise, go watch marketing material.
Perhaps the parent poster is one of those Gen Z'ers I've been hearing so much about. Probably has a shelf full of participation trophies and wonders why no one thinks they are as special as mommy told them they were. Yes, old /. would laud interesting pet projects, and they would also mock pointless reskins of bad projects or wonder why it wasn't done in Perl or Lisp or some other esoteric language of choice. Only thing that has changed is there's no Katz articles about Geek culture and way too many crypto-currency articles. Oh and the general libertarian bent has been replaced with crypto-Trotskyite authoritarians(but I blame COVID for that).

Comment Re:fück cars but this is beautiful (Score 1) 78

More morons glorifying car culture is the last thing "Vice City" needs, but I'll be dammed if some of the shots in that trailer aren't perfectly spot on with reality and culture in "Vice City".
You can play Hogwart's if you want trains, and broomsticks as the main mode of transportation, or perhaps you can outside and yell at the kids on your lawn.

Comment Re:Burying their heads in the sand (Score 1) 93

Alcohol (maybe butanol) could be viable however. It's got a worse energy density than kerosene, but it's not awful (butanol is closer). Not too volatile, doesn't freeze easily, and it's very short chain. Thing is though it is worse, which means with a given amount of energy stored in the fuel, planes will be less efficient. But if it's easier to produce (less energy intensive), that will make it cheaper.
Alcohols are hygroscopic which means they will pick up water from the air making their energy per volume even worse.

Comment Re:Not (Score 1) 196

Objectively I would give Biden better odds because he seems to live a relatively healthy - if highly stressful - lifestyle. Trump, with his reputation of lifelong hedonism, could be one Big Mac away from a myocardial infarction.
Tell me you've never seen any footage of Joe Biden post 2016 without telling me you haven't seen any footage of Joe Biden post 2016. Joe Biden shows all the signs of severe cognitive decline, but hey if you like that the President doesn't who and where he is then Joe is certainly your man.

Comment Re:Not (Score 1) 196

Skin color and genitalia. Pure and simple.
Grand parent poster asked what was objectionable about her, not why she got the VP nod, despite dropping out of the Presidential primaries before a vote was even cast. Short answer, she's unauthentic. Longer answer, she was pretty bad as a DA, with the aforementioned Cannabis hypocrisy. She hasn't really accomplished anything, her tenure as a Senator was pretty uninspiring, and she first got her start in politics by virtue of being Willy Brown's mistress(don't take my word for it check the LA Times circa 1994). There are some youtube supercuts where she gives the same speech regardless of event, and it is as bad a Sarah Palin's word salad.

Comment Re:I have an idea (Score 1, Troll) 48

The marines don't even have a second in command thanks to Tuberville refusing to do his job. https://www.military.com/daily... [military.com]
Actually, if the Senate wanted to they could bring up each promotion for a procedural vote, instead of a voice vote. If the position warrants Senate confirmation, perhaps it warrants more than just a passing yea or nay. You neglected to mention the reason why Tuberville "refuses" to do his job, and that's the Pentagon trying to get around the Hyde amendment. Oh and soon enough you'll have to change your sig from John Fetterman's hoodie to his wife's hoodie, when she replaces him due to mental incapacity. Also why did you drop the .sig about Hunter Biden's laptop? Did its existence, and the collaboration of high ranking govt officials to deny it, challenge your previously held beliefs about who's really in charge?

Comment Re: We need carbon dioxide to breathe properly (Score 1) 189

The AC was claiming we need CO2 to regulate breathing. Does atmospheric CO2 assist in breathing? I never heard that before and will have to google that, though it sounds really fishy.
Nothing fishy about it. Think about chemistry for a minute. Dissolve O2 in water what do you get? Not much change in the water, dissolve N2 in the water and what happens? No real change. Dissolve CO2 in the water and you form carbonic acid, which changes the pH of said water. Biological systems have evolved to respond to those types of pH changes. It's why you can easily asphyxiate yourself with N2 gas, and show no physical symptoms until you lose consciousness.

Comment Re:This could be actually a game changer for women (Score 1) 44

Think about set up gesture the watch knows, that it translates as panic switch. The watch has the phone call 911 send you GPS coordinates and turns on the mike but nothing else.
See story about boy and wolf as to why this stops being so effective by year 2.

Comment Re: Nice work Vladimir and He... (Score 1) 267

I'm a pro-gun liberal leaning centrist milktoast. Please advise.
Get out to the range, and keep your skills sharp. Pass along to your liberal friends that firearms are merely tools and don't leap out of your home to kill people. As with many things, take time to educate those ignorant of firearms about the truth. Otherwise do the same thing I'd advise all Americans, continue to enjoy life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Comment Re: And once again, Republicans take off the mask. (Score 3, Insightful) 267

What should government do/communicate to social media when we *know* some widely followed accounts are 100% curated by adversary nations trying to dissolve trust in society and facts?
They only thing that has actually worked, tell the truth. The answer to bad speech isn't censorship, it's better speech. If you've learned nothing from the COVID response, it should be that don't start lying to people for they're own good, b/c when they found out you lied, they'll never trust you.

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