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Comment Re:With stock tires on my local road? (Score 2) 171

Once you get down sub 4-5 seconds everything is about traction, not about power. The fact that the P85D/P90D are four wheel drive means that they have a metric fuck ton more traction than a Camaro. Add to that that the Camaro you're talking about did 4 seconds on 1970s tyres, and you get quite easily to a car with 4 wheel drive and a lot of torque can do 0-60 in 2.8 seconds.

Admittedly that's into the range of current super/hyper cars (a McLaren P1, and The Ferrari The Ferrari will both do around 2.3 seconds), but that's not surprising when the current way that said super/hyper cars generate enough torque to do that is with electric motors.

Comment Re:This is really simple... (Score 2) 267

says the moron who has never been at a company where an employee sued for tens of thousands of dollars because one employee decided to look at porn and another employee was "offended".

That's trivial to deal with - you explicitly write it in the company hand book that looking at porn is banned. When the other person is offended, you quickly nip it in the bud by disciplining the person looking at porn.

As I said - if you don't trust the employees, don't employ them.

For reference, there are some enormous companies out there that don't filter the internet (I work for one). They survive just fine simply by saying "don't be idiots and look at porn at work".

Comment Re:Reasonable Access (Score 4, Insightful) 267

It's entirely reasonable to expect employees to take short brain breaks during the working day. It's entirely reasonable for those brain breaks to be spent on random web pages.

All this comes down to is simply trusting your employees. If you can trust them to get on and do their job, and only take reasonable breaks, then you don't need a filter. If you can't trust them, then 1) your culture is fucked up, fix that, and 2) why the hell are you employing someone so untrustworthy that they don't do their job.

Comment This is really simple... (Score 2) 267

Stop blocking access at all.

Just fucking trust your employees. An environment in which people are overtly not trusted to do their jobs just breeds resentment and in fact employees that can't be trusted. People who feel like they're being treated unreasonably tend to act unreasonably in return.

Comment Re:They have no intent to ban Whatsapp and others (Score 1) 174

Right, but what will actually happen (hopefully) is that the law will come into force, and WhatsApp, SnapChat, Apple, Google and Facebook will all say "okay, well, all your chat apps are now unavailable, sorry".

As you rightly point out, that'll make the law immensely unpopular, and hopefully it'll get repealed.

Comment Re:Even U238 isn't radioactive. (Score 4, Informative) 242

U238 will happily absorb neutrons (which are produced by the fusion) and become U239. U239 will happily absorb beta radiation (also production by the fusion) and become Np239. Np239 will also happily absorb beta radiation and become Pu239. Pu239 is nasty stuff that you don't want to get anywhere near you.

This is in fact exactly the reaction used in the production of Pu239 for nuclear weapons.

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