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Comment Re:WINNING! (Score 1, Insightful) 204

What's his alternative? Either one is a turd sandwich because you can choose between corrupt and vile, or authoritarian and antidemocratic and vile, or someone who at least won't derail the USA completely and give Putin, Xi and other criminals(*) free reign to do as they please. Anyone with a brain in the GOP is stuck between a rock and a hard place.

(*) criminals as in they don't care how many people die as long as they get their Maslov pyramid needs.

Comment Re:Define "assets" (Score 1) 196

On the other hand, he was right for his (non-technical) audience.

For most people, cars are liabilities: they cost money, provide little to no income, and deprecate rapidly. If you need one to work it's an investment, but not really an asset: most cars are not worth what you paid for them.

So while technically the term is correct (it's an asset because it is worth money), for most people it is much better to call it a liability.

Comment Re: Sell or give them away. (Score 1) 88

It's about historical wills, where there are copies for anything relevant.

Yes I'm sure you can come up with fantastic scenarios why you need to store old shit. You know, like hoarders. But the government has other fish to fry as well and digital scans are fine for most purposes.

The Dutch Tax & Customs authority hasn't had new paper entries in the archive for years now. They still have two very large and expensive climate controlled and guarded storage areas for historical papers and objects that remain relevant. But do you think the 7 billion documents that are created from digital data and need to be stored over a 7 year period will be useful to store as paper? Including the destruction of 1 billion paper copies each year?

In that case I'd really like to see the business case and also the plans for a few very large buildings. And a powerplant to be run off the waste heat.

Comment Re:It will get worse (Score 1) 44

You're talking about South Korea. "Recent World Economic Forum and United Nations reports rank South Korean gender empowerment among the lowest in the developed world." It was only in 2005 that families were no longer registered as belonging to the male head of the family. It's the same country that has serious issues with rape, pedophilia and basically defined the term "upskirting".

I'd say feminists in South Korea have a point, and the elections merely prove that point.

Source: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/e...

Comment Re:Pricing woes (Score 3, Insightful) 44

Indeed. They're pricing it at the level "the market will bear" which is one of the most annoying ways to price goods I can think of. Well, now they can no longer finetune it to extract the maximum profit from each area, and I'm totally fine with that. I really hope we will get a common market for digital goods as well.

In the short run, things may get more expensive for people in lower-income areas. In the long run, I expect this to balance out.

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