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Comment Re:Question of Reliability (Score 1) 276

Sure, but the big difference is with Uber someone else is taking car of the car, with Car2Go no-one is, with an expanded version that includes trucks you are just inviting heavy abuse of product.

I use some city rental bike systems, those are usually heavy duty bikes. Even they suffer significant damage at times from abusive users.

Comment Re: Bricking or Tracking? (Score 2) 299

I'd recommend reading "The Conquest of Bread" by Peter Kropotkin.

My perspective is that governments and economies are command and control technologies for civilizations, and the ones we have are ill suited to a world without scarcity. They destroy wealth to make the system work as it is, and with the technologies emerging, it's going to become ridiculous. So, the imperative is to create a better command and control technology, one that is fair, makes everyone feel suitability represented, elevates the right people at the right time and works toward abundance instead of destroying it.

Comment Re:Nobody else seems to want it (Score 2) 727

I'm a Linux (and UNIX and Windows) user, but I honestly know very little about how drivers in Linux differ from drivers in, say, Windows, or any other OS for that matter. Could you explain what the issues are? I Googled for "Linux driver model" but didn't find anything particularly enlightening.

Whne a smug Windows users wants to coomplain about Linux drivers, just ask them about how Vista handled drivers.

Then sit back and listen to the litany of replies blaming everyone else but Microsoft. Meanwhile a lot of contemporary peripherals were just unusable. ALthough they still worked on Linux.

Comment Re:Nobody else seems to want it (Score 3, Funny) 727

BTW what Torvalds SHOULD have said was "I want the desktop....but not enough to give up my shitty 1970s throwback driver model" because you look at the forums and a good 90% of what the problems in linux get boiled down to is that shitstorm of a driver model,

You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. the 70's are gone, but your idea that Linux is still in the 70's shows ye know nought.

Next up, why don't you tell us all about those stupid 1 button mice that apple is still using....

Comment Re:Easy, India or China (Score 1) 303

Well, all the initial groups where created by LBJ, and then Nixon consolidated them
The clean are act did no such thing and created looser standards.

please, Please, PLEASE read up on the stuff.

DDT had never been shown to do what the speculation is SIlent Spring claimed it did. It was pure FUD.

There is nothing wrong with fracking. Saying Obama is for fracking is like saying Obama is for factual evidence based decisions. I know you can't handle a politician that doesn't just spout nonsense that happen to support your uneducated biases.

Comment Re:Easy, India or China (Score 4, Informative) 303

You should really read those links. Seriously dude, just linking something you don't actually understand as some sort of proof just mkas you look foolish.

The first one made it worse:

The law reduces air pollution controls, including those environmental protections of the Clean Air Act, including caps on toxins in the air and budget cuts for enforcement. The Act is opposed by conservationist groups such as the Sierra Club with Henry A. Waxman, a Democratic congressman of California, describing its title as "clear propaganda."

Among other things, the Clear Skies Act:

Allows 42 million more tons of pollution emitted than the EPA proposal.
Weakens the current cap on nitrogen oxide pollution levels from 1.25 million tons to 2.1 million tons, allowing 68% more NOx pollution.
Delays the improvement of sulfur dioxide (SO2) pollution levels compared to the Clean Air Act requirements.
Delays enforcement of smog-and-soot pollution standards until 2015.
By 2018, the Clear Skies Act will supposedly allow 3 million tons more NOx through 2012 and 8 million more by 2020, for SO2, 18 million tons more through 2012 and 34 million tons more through 2020. 58 tons more mercury through 2012 and 163 tons more through 2020 would be released into the environment than what would be allowed by enforcement of the Clean Air Act.[2]

In August 2001, the EPA proposed a version of the Clear Skies Act that contained short timetables and lower emissions caps [3]. It is unknown why this proposal was withdrawn and replaced with the Bush Administration proposal. It is also unclear whether or not the original EPA proposal would have made it out of committee.

The second one--Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on December 17, 1963

The third one-- Nixon combined existing groups into one, for budget reasons.
However, I would argue the the Pubs of the 60's and 70s are vastly different then the pubs of today. Post religious right control.

Comment Re:Bricking or Tracking? (Score -1) 299

They want to prevent people from using new communication technology to self-organize and make the existing government obsolete.

Or maybe it's that I want to use mobile as a platform to develop new communication technology that will let people self-organize and make existing government obsolete, but this renders the enterprise pointless.

Yeah, probably that second one.

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