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Comment Re:Nice Godwin (Score 1) 110

IBM knew exactly what Germany was doing with them. And it was against the law to sell to Germany. IBM mastered of skirting both the laws of the US and Germany, – to get tabulators into Germany and the profits out.

They didn't need to get tabulators into Germany - they were build there.

Comment Re:Nice Godwin (Score 1) 110

Which didn't happen. Hitler ran for President, and lost to von Hindenburg. The National Socialists managed to get about 40% of the Reichstag, not a majority but certainly a very important party. Hitler was then appointed to the office of Chancellor, and took over from there.

Actually, in the election after which he became Chancellor, the Nazis only had 33% of the votes.

Portables (Apple)

Apple Doubles MacBook Pro R/W Performance 204

Lucas123 writes Benchmark tests performed on the 2015 MacBook Pro revealed it does have twice the read/write performance as the mid-2014 model. Tests performed with the Blackmagic benchmark tool revealed read/write speeds of more than 1,300MBps/1,400MBps, respectively. So what's changed? The new MacBook Pro does have a faster Intel dual-core i7 2.9GHz processor and 1866MHz LPDDR3) RAM, but the real performance gain is in the latest PCIe M.2 flash module. The 2014 model used a PCIe 2.0 x2 card and the 2015 model uses a PCIe 3.0 x4 (four I/O lanes) card. Twice the lanes, twice the speed. While Apple uses a proprietary flash card made by Samsung, Intel, Micron and SanDisk are all working on similar technology, so it's likely to soon wind up in high-end PCs.

Comment Re:Running only Windows on a Mac (Score 1) 209

a surface pro is the better solution over the macbook air if one must stick with the microsoft camp IMO. light weight, compatible with everything, and in the same price range as the air. Add in the fact that it can be a tablet or a laptop

... means its a fucking compromise. http://daringfireball.net/2013/02/the_c_word

Comment Re:It's OK, every civilization collapses (Score 1) 110

No, unfortunately it's a fitness and evolution thing. The minute you bring grain bags to a starving remote village, the hunger goes away and then they immediately start having sex and cranking out more needy humans. You can see this in dependent villages, you'll notice frequency banding in the ages of the children, all conceived at roughly the same time coinciding with aid drops. Feeding the hungry sounds great, the hungry will multiply until you can't feed them all.

Yes, that's why in rich Western countries we have a massive population explosion because no one is starving. Oh, wait...

Sorry, I forgot, it only applies to poor brown people on different continents.

Didn't know Kosovanians were brown...

Comment Re:Sooo .. (Score 1) 127

That's not a mugging. Without violence it's not mugging, it's just theft.

You don't "hand over" something to someone who snaps it from your hands.

My point being that if the guy has a knife/gun on you and tells you "give me that phone", he could just as well say "password?".

Or he could just take it, and commit a lesser crime that takes less time and thus has a lower chance to get caught.

Earth

Greenpeace Co-Founder Declares Himself a Climate Change Skeptic 573

New submitter PensacolaSlick writes that [Patrick Moore a], co-founder of Greenpeace, and seven-year director of Greenpeace International, with other very pro-environmental credentials, has come out with a brief rationale for why he is "skeptical that humans are the main cause of climate change and that it will be catastrophic in the near future." He argues instead that in a historical context, human activity has saved the planet, declaring that "at 400 parts per million, all our food crops, forests, and natural ecosystems are still on a starvation diet for carbon dioxide." (Consider the source, which according to the New York Times is "the primary American organization pushing climate change skepticism.") Moore breaks with what might be expected of a Greenpeace founder as well in that he is currently chair of Allow Golden Rice.

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