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Comment Re:Most visitors... (Score 1) 231

Actually, I recently bought a book on Google Play (but I guess it's the same on all platform) and I could start reading in 5 seconds. In the end I returned the book because it was DRM riddled, which was also pretty fast (20 seconds), but it's still cumbersome to manually return those 15 books you want to leaf through.

Comment Re:Mapping Wifi? What for? (Score 1) 113

t would seem that its essentially useless as soon as a certain percentage of SSIDs change.

Then you map it again. It's not that hard especially if it works ok for ~2 years, and you manage to get an installed base during that time. Every time a phone says "i can see X Y Z", and Z isn't in the DB you will now that Z is near X Y.

Comment Re:Teens and adults driving less: yes (Score 1) 635

Will we all be riding bicycles or using public transportation or some other non-personal transportation option? Are we all destined to become herd animals?

You have bought into too much from car comercials, a car is a the ultimate herd animal, at least most of the time, except those rare occasions you drive to the beach a coast along in the turf at 90 mph.

Comment I get my food delivered (Score 1) 219

I don't have to worry, I just prepare and cook those dishes they deliver to my door/store, serisouly it's solved, AFAI can see the automatic grocery list is a long way off. We eat better and spend a lot less time on dealing with food, at least 2 hours less per week,

Things in my kitchen order by importance:
1. fridge
2. stove
3. food delivered to my apartment/store, with 4 meals.
4. running water

Comment Re:Yay! (Score 1) 439

Hadlock. Get your facts straight, my friend. The State of Sao Paulo, where I live, would still be in the G-20 if it was an independent country, with a world class infrastructure.

Maybe, even though the Sao Paulo republic has a huge amount of filthy rich people, it wouldn't survive 5 minutes in South American politics. Just saying.

Comment Re:Less pay or no job (Score 1) 606

What's it going to be? It's a global economy, there are people in other countries willing to do the job you won't. Sad to say but unions are effectively dead until third world countries stop working for pennies on the dollar.

Ok, Amazon can get the hell out of Europe and put up shop in Pakistan ? Myanmar ? Tajikistan ? Afghanistan ? Some god forsaken hell hole of southeast asia ? [...]. Nothing is worth destoying what good labor laws we have in the continent, most of time gained through blood and violence during the last 2 centuries.

Except I think those workers in Pakistan deserve good working conditions too. Since big companies move around so much I believe it's very important to make them treat their employees well even if they are in another country, no excuses like "we are just starting up in Pakistan and lots of people need jobs".

Bah.

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