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Comment Re:why ? (Score 2) 392

>Ok, what's the point of this stressed metaphor?

Fun? :-)

When people meet fun they often forgot that the purpose is to laugh, and being too hard on a person who tries to make you laugh does not benefit that purpose at all. :-)

If something intended as fun does not seem funny to you the best thing is to ignore it.

Comment Safety (Score 1) 104

With 8 stitches in my hand, not more than 12 hours ago. I have just gained new respect for multirotors, they are powerful beast.

I really really hope that Amazon puts proper protection in them drones so there are no injuries. The little toy one I have spins at around 5000 rpm with rotors with 16 inches propellers. It can cause serious injuries, just ask my hand.

Who will be responsible if an injury does occur, which they will. If you look at the Amazon prime air demo, the customer asks the drone to descend via his smartphone. Say there is a 5 year old standing under this thing or comes running in its direction, are there smarts in the drone to abort the mission. Who is responsible for the injury, Amazon or the customer who sent the descend order?

Comment Re:Someone didn't read the screen, methinks. (Score 2) 210

> These people probably did this and forgot that they did so.

Actually that's about the only thing I remember now.

Since we are talking about LinkedIn, what do you guys do with the flurry of all those "endorsement" that started several months ago? I suspect those are just from people randomly pressing buttons on their screens, because I got those from people who have no idea what I am doing right now.

I feel uneasy not reciprocating to those but so far I am standing my ground. May be I am the black sheep of my network because of that....

Comment Regime is not stupid either (Score 2) 362

What I don't get is that when rebels had momentum, they did not use chemical weapons. Now that the rebels are losing ground and the Asad military machine is winning and gaining grounds, they go ahead and use chemical agents.

Personally, it doesn't add up. IMO, the most to gain with this show was actually the rebels. Nonetheless, politics played by Putin and Asad turned this into an advantage, once they hand over the weapons, the regime can crush the rebellion in the most brutal way followed by negotiating a peace on their terms (we can hope can't we).

Personally, I would support the devil I know, i.e. the Asad regime. The other devil have significant extremist elements, aka al-qaeda.

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