And are you sure that Texas did not make similar changes?

Such a shame that the other replyer to your posting did his best to make you mad. When we humans are mad our brain stops working properly. Making you mad and thereby stopping your rational though was definitively not on my mind.

I do not want to push you in an emotional state. I like rational thought.

So having said that, all the examples you give actually confirm my previous post. You have made up your mind. And you are so convinved that you are right that you even use your limited time to try and convince me. So thank you for your time (and I really mean that, there is no sarcasm here), but this is not about you needing to convince me. You do not need to convince me, for the exact same reason that you will not let me convince you.

Again, you have made up your mind on this point. I cannot change that. I can only have a faint hope of stimulating you to contemplate your own inner human processes.

So I can only ask you if you have compared the incidents in this election with the incidents in previous elections. Because with elections on this scale, there are bound to be incidents. If you have do no such comparison, then why not?

Also, you why do you give a link to a piece from conservativewomen.co.uk, which only asks questions and is low on actual information, but you do not debunk the information in articles like this and this. Why do you not debunk the information there? What is wrong in these articles? What is fact, what is fiction and what is speculation? Is the US court system really set up to ignore evidence, like asserted (without supporting evidence) by convervativewomen.co.uk? Was Giuliani lying in court, but speaking the truth outside of court? Mind you that lying in court is particularly bad for a lawyer, and Giuliani knows that.

Why has Giuliani stated in court that there was no evidence of fraud? That is probably a pivotal question. What happens in your brain when that question enters your brain? Do you immediately start looking for ways so you can throw that fact out?

Again, what you are probably feeling now is as human as human can be. Your brain has invested in what you consider 'the truth', and it does not want to change anymore. You might even start to dislike me. That's normal. But please do not let it get in your way. Again, I do not want to make you mad or insult you. I would just like to share what I have found our about my brain and how this is probably related to your brain as well.

Well, I certainly look at it from outside of the US. I am Dutch. And all I can see, is expected behaviour. At least, I expected it, because said behaviour is consistent with "Win Bigly" from Scott Adams.

Having read that book, all I can see is a lot of persuasion. And the people who are able to see through persuasive behaviour and look at the stone hard facts (judges in this case) are not persuaded. You seem to be persuaded, though. You think that there is significant irregularities going on. (note that every election that is big enough is going to see irregularities, but probably never enough to change the outcome)

And that you are persuaded gives friction with the fact that all those court cases (50 or so?) effectively had no result. Judges asked for proof, but it was not given. Giuliani even stated in court that there was no fraud. But you have already made up your mind, so you must conclude that there must be something wrong with the courts. Even all those conservative judges that were appointed by republicans must somehow be in error. And that feeling that you are feeling when contemplating this has a name: cognitive dissonance.

One thing certainly stands: Trump is a master in persuasion.

No mod points today I'm afraid; this post was definitively worth a +1 Interesting. The Stationers' Copyright was something that I have never heard about before.

Quality of posts on /. has gone down over the years, but every once in a while there is something really interesting. The quorum of today has been met. Thanks!

They have to come in cheaper, because they are not nearly as reliable.

Define 'reliable'? Solar + wind + big battery is lauded for its added stability to the grid.
Tesla big battery. Fully paid for itself in 2.5 years. That's right, after 2.5 years the whole cost of building it was paid for by the profits it generated.

Solar + wind + big battery is not only cheaper, but also more stable than natural gas or coal or nuclear.

There is a massive disruption going on. Tony Seba has predicted this in 2014 already.

Fortunately this disruptive change is not depending on you to actually see it. And it is not a future thing. It is already taking place, right now.

I think Apple makes mediocre stuff. But the bad thing is: the rest is even worse. I am hoping for a worldwide surge of Right To Repair legislation to counter this lunacy.

No. 2. Really? All this progress, and we still need euphemisms because humans are too uncomfortable to use direct words for their feces?

I worked with both early versions of ms-dos as well as cp/m at that time. Both were no joy to work with, but ms-dos definitively sucked way more for me.

Not true. See https://www.historyofinformati... for a more accurate timeline.

IBM approached MS for a cp/m-like os. MS simply bought QDOS (quick and dirty operating system), made some small adjustments and renamed it MS-DOS. IBM could market it under the name PC-DOS. Noteworthy is the position of Bills mother within IBM at the time.

Humans are stupid. Just read the responses on Trevors tweets. A lot of rallying behind the great leader. All those who doubt or question are haters.

There are very few responses like *disappointed, selling my shares and taking my loss*.There is a lot of cognitive dissonance going on. Even lots of people saying they are pleased with the rebuttal. Which means that they have no issue in being fooled with a purposely deceiving movie of a moving truck.

I totally agree. It is probably the reason why Germany does not have any other car factories. It also explains the lack of German car brands.

I have been following some US news outlets lately. What strikes me is the number of times the news is not about an action, but a person.

X says that Y ...
Senator A smashed in discussion about ...

A lot of people will, when exposed to these patterns, adept to this line of reasoning. Maybe this happened to gp. I am Dutch, and once again happy with the press we have here. Even the worst are better than this âattack the messangerâ(TM) thing.

So, let me see if I understand this.

About 4% of infected ends up on a ventilator, half of those dies. That's probably also the 'oldies', and I assume that the workers are younger.

That still leaves a 2% chance of being put into a coma and put onto a ventilator.

Huge chance of becoming infected.

$25 gift card to compensate. Wow.

Those âcasesâ(TM) are the known cases at that moment, not the real number of cases. We know that people do not exactly fall dead immediately after they have become infected. That takes some time. You did not account for that time, making your analysis worthless. In simple terms: a lot of the infected did not yet âhave the timeâ(TM) to die. It takes weeks.

Please face your Dunning-Kruger effect and stop spreading nonsense.