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Comment Re: Well... (Score 0) 276

Bernie Sanders is what was once called 'Liberal'

It is still what Liberal means in Europe. but it has been scandalized as "Socialism" in the USA by the gop

Libertarian has been hijacked as some small government laissez faire concept which allows for complete control by the wealthy be convincing the masses that there is no benefit to cooperative efforts like Unions to support their common causes

Yeah, that's the problem.

Sure, the Left got everything it wanted, but since everything still sucks, that must mean that we didn't "stimulate" enough.

And somehow, some way, it must be those wascally wepubwicans fault. Because reasons.

Comment Re:New Jersey and Other Fictions... (Score 1) 615

These people are increasingly rare, given that more gas stations lack "full-service" pumps.

Well, chalk one up for electrics, I guess.

Tesla's working on automated full-service battery swapping stations. And apparently also on charging cords that can plug themselves in:

http://www.theverge.com/2014/1...

Robots of that sort already exist, so you can see the sort of thing he's probably referring to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Comment Re:Won't save most of the 4000 lives (Score 1) 615

Local delivery (Fed Ex, UPS etc) will still have an operator (or perhaps two or more) that can jump out with the package while the delivery truck drives around the block

That's what the Amazon drones are for. The truck just has to cruise through the neighborhood. Meanwhile, small drone aircraft that it carries will work to carry packages out of the truck and to front doors. A human will still be needed for heavy or bulky packages, or for deliveries that have to be brought inside or where there's no convenient place for the drone to land to deposit them, but those packages and destinations can be separated from the others at the local depot, and all put on a smaller number of trucks, therefore needing a smaller number of humans. You won't need a human for every truck if you work out the routes each day based on the nature of the packages you've got and where you're taking them.

Comment Re:Work stays at work! (Score 1) 776

Apparently you have never worked in a job where you are on call 24/7 even when you only work in the office 9-5. I am a Sr. Systems Engineer, but when things go really bad somewhere, I am supposed to be reachable at all times except when I specifically am "on vacation". Fortunately, I get to use my own phone with no obnoxious company software on it.

We get a "phone bonus" every month, to help cover a phone that we own. It's not enough, but then the phone isn't just for work, and is ours to keep, so hey. We can get any phone we want, from anywhere that we want, as long as it has, you know, a number.

Comment Re:See it before (Score 1) 276

If you let the code generate the UI you'll get what only a programmer thinks is a good UI (for reference, property grid controls). It's akin to thinking the content of a magazine can dictate a pleasing layout. It can't. Without writing code (or using a tool that writes code based on a graphical layout tool) to specify what is important, what needs emphasis, how the user should progress through the UI, you'll just get a mess. As soon as you go down the path of tagging items in the source code to help a system determine those things you're back at the starting point, you're having to "write text" (horrors!) to get a workable UI. Yes, just workable. You'll never get a stellar UI without a proper person designing it.

Comment Re:Now do the same for Russian & NK? (Score 1) 82

Or maybe draw up a list of Islamic militants and post it. Oh, they won't? Why is that then? A bit scared of what might happen? Boo hoo.

Yes, you're right.

Islamic militants post their resume on LinkedIn in perfect American English with all the right keywords to make sure ISIS's clueless Human Resources minions don't throw their resumes in the trash by mistake.

It also helps that when they decapitate someone in an online video, they hire someone to close caption the video, translate it, and make sure all the names of the participants, from the executioner, down to the make up artists, and the fashion consultants, get clearly written into the credits (because like they say in Hollywood, if my name is not in the credits, I will f___g kill you).

Right. Just like US intelligence personnel post their "code words" on LInkedIn, oblivious of the mad skillz of the lefties..

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