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Comment Re:Insects (Score 1) 47

I have an application for this where I'm using 365 to 395 nm older style to attract bugs efficiently.

Come on, give us a few details. Are you collecting the bugs for research or are you using the lights as bait for your backyard zapper? Or are you collecting bugs to feed to your pet iguanas?

That's too tantalizing a statement for you not to tell us a little more.

Comment Re:outrageous (Score 1) 363

So arrest and prosecute the federal agent for attempted murder. He's the one who should be in jail. Not Ulbricht.

You don't think facilitating the transaction for a hitman for a percentage of the price should be a crime?

Remember, Ulbricht got a cut of the money for every single drug transaction on Silk Road. It's as if he bought a downtown building and rented it out to drug dealers (and hit men) and got a cut for every single transaction.

I know there's a belief that the Internet is a magical place where laws should not apply, because it's digital!, but that's just not how it works.

Comment Re:Easily fixed (Score 1) 90

Don't want to join the "rewards program?!?" -- great! You'll be spending more than I do every time you visit the store b/c I have a rewards card and you don't. You are subsidizing my purchases. Thank you!

Your "rewards program" allows your privacy to be violated. Your store thanks you.

Remember, you're personal information, spending habits, movement information, location, etc are worth something. And you're giving it away for pennies on the dollar. Have you ever read the EULA on your "rewards program"?

PT Barnum had a word for people who thought they were getting something for nothing.

Comment Re: Easily fixed (Score 1) 90

I'm enjoying my Friday lunch Burger and fries at a restaurant that offers me a free meal every 10. Deal?

You really believe you're getting a "free" meal?

I guess it's true there's one born every minute.

And to maximize my savings? Order water to drink.

The Chinese have a term for people like you: schnorrer.

Comment Re:RF? Heat? (Score 1) 227

It would have to be for some distance outside of the whitehouse as well, as a safe measure. Drones do have failsafes that could be programmed to continue its course should it lose GPS, thus the reason for the extra distance.

Yeah, my guess is they won't do much until after the first successful attack.
Creating a half mile deadzone though wouldn't be a too big of deal. You might
see a comeback of payphones, emergency call boxes, paper maps and the like
in that area to compensate but it really wouldn't be that big of a deal.

The bigger deal is what to do with them everywhere else. How do you protect
schools, hospitals, playgrounds, city halls, restaurants, etc... Granted a backpack
bomb is still fairly easy but it gets alot easier when you can be miles away.

Comment Re:Easily fixed (Score 1) 90

You missed the key word: RETAIL. Tesla isn't a retail store. Tesla is a vertical market

"Retail" only means the products are sold to the end user rather than a reseller.

Tesla is most certainly a retailer of cars, because you can go buy one from them right now.

JC Penney doesn't make their own clothes, they sell other people's clothes for more money than they spent on acquiring them

JC Penney most certainly makes their own clothes. In fact, they started by making their own clothes in 1914 and today they're betting their future on their own house brands.

https://fortune.com/2014/12/22...

Comment Re:Ronnie Phone (Score 1) 413

It may have been an existing service, but one of the reason why it became known as the "Obamaphone" is because it was under the Obama administration that they started paying money to TV and cable channels for commercials to advertise how easy it is to get one

That's not true. They have become known as the "Obamaphone" because after the Republicans gave it that name, the Obama Administration just went ahead and embraced it (just like "Obamacare"). So when it turns out the program is successful and popular, Obama gets all the credit because the GOP gave it to him.

This is the reason Obama's been able to run circles around Republicans for eight years. As horrible as he is, he's about 10 times as clever as Republicans.

Comment Re:Easily fixed (Score 1) 90

Tesla marketing starts with some sort of vague "cost" of a car after various "savings + incentives".

But those "savings and incentives" don't come from Tesla. They're not saying, "If you buy a car today, we'll give you a $1000 cash-back incentive". They're saying, "If you buy our car, you'll save money on gasoline, etc etc.

You must be able to see the difference.

Generally these companies are niche and don't have to rely on tricking or motivating a customer to switch

At least you admit that coupons are "tricking" customers.

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