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Comment Re:Disney and LEGO are very different (Score 2) 125

people could legitimately argue "you let that profit making company knowingly use your trademark for 0 dollars, so charging us more would be illegal"

I'd be interested in reading a citation supporting your theory that granting a nonexclusive license for qualifying noncommercial uses will weaken a trademark.

Comment Re:Cars are just part of what's on the road (Score 1) 454

When you buy a car, you're buying the ability to have a car in front of you when you leave the building. Autonomous rental cars that drive themselves to the doorstep also provide that ability. Making cars fungible in this manner which changes the threshold for "you are going to use the asset infrequently".

Comment Re:How is this "News for Nerds"? (Score 1) 147

About fifteen years ago I had a Macintosh Centris 660AV running Linux, just as an experiment.

I had netbsd on a IIci with a cache card. Oh, the novelty! Then I binned it. Because it was just uselessly slow. Hilarity: My first Sun machine was a 3/260, which had a slower CPU and graphics than the IIci. Had more RAM though (24MB instead of 8)

Comment Re:ObFry (Score 2) 330

I do my DTP on a Pentium IV with a 4:3 screen

If you do any notable amount of DTP, you should be investing in a big pivot display, anyway. I got mine used, it's 1920x1200 and it's pretty to look at all day. But I seldom pivot it, because I usually work with facing pages, and widescreen is awesome for that. But I could :p

Comment Re:Squarer is better. (Score 1) 330

The move from 4x3 to 16x9 was already a big loss - more scrolling for no advantage except using the PC as a TV. Don't know about 1x1 but the old 5x4 worked just fine for me.

I don't know about you, but every time I want to do something big and complicated it involves sidebars and/or apps side-by-side. Also, my 16:10 25.5" IPS has a pivot, you insensitive clod! I don't use it.

Comment Re:Thats science for you .... (Score 1) 252

When asked for advice you'll get the best recommendation scientists have at the time it's given.

No, you won't — at least not from the FDA or USDA. That's because the "food pyramid" was designed on a specious basis, the idea that eating fat makes you fat. But humans have known for centuries that eating carbs make you fat. And on the basis of one NIH study which showed that taking drugs to reduce your cholesterol levels also reduced your risk of heart disease, we were told that eating cholesterol raised cholesterol levels though there was no evidence for that, and that eating carbs was the way forward though there was no evidence for that.

So no, your central point is nonsense. Scientists actually knew that the ideas put forth were bullshit. Now, doctors didn't know. That's because they're not half as clever as people think they are, but they like to sound clever, so they simply repeated what the government told them.

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