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Comment Re:360 degrees is not what you think it is (Score 0) 133

his article needs taken down now, It is not factual, and the patent is for available credit, not bank account balance. there is a huie difference in both availability and ethics.

A fucking shiny toy manufacturer wants to find out your available credit and use it to target ways of getting you to part with it, and you think that's substantively from using your bank balance?

You complete fucking muppet.

Comment Re:Adult Diagnosis (Score 1) 131

Getting diagnosed was excellent for me. It hadn't occurred to me that I might have Aspergers until I went through the testing, but it suddenly explained a tremendous amount about my life.

It also means that I no longer try and act like other people. That takes a lot of pressure off me, because I can't do some of the things that others take for granted. So instead I live life my way, not the way friends and family seem to think I should. Far far happier as a result.

Comment Re:11 rear enders (Score 1) 549

I've avoided contact more than once by coming to an emergency halt safely with distance to spare, looking in the mirror, realising the car behind isn't going to make it and moving forward into that spare space to give it to the guy behind.

I don't do that at junctions though, and I'm not sure how an autonomous vehicle would be able to reliably judge that a car isn't going to stop in time sufficiently accurately to then calculate the avoidance action needed, the safety of that avoidance action and the likelihood of it avoiding an accident.

Basically by the time it's clear that the accident is going to happen it's too late to accelerate away from it.

Comment Re:Secure Boot (Score 4, Insightful) 628

Well, I think forced updates is it.

Can't be, this was announced and has been known for at least a couple of months already.

It's why I'm waiting another six months or so before deciding whether to take the free upgrade or not. Hopefully by then it'll have gone catastrophically wrong and they'll have given users some control back, or the after-market options will exist and I'll know what I need to do to cripple the automatic update.

Comment Re:I am surprised it took this long (Score 1) 216

I don't get why you'd even try.

Surely strip the firearm down to the essentials - barrel, chamber, pin, trigger mechanism and the magazine/reload bits. No, I can't remember the proper names, and no, I don't care.

My point is that you don't need the sights, the grip, the safety catch.. the tripod mount, the carry handle, the sling hooks, the stock, the under barrel grenade launcher..

Ok, I changed my mind. Ditch everything else, keep the grenade launcher.

But cut the weight! It's not that hard to dismantle a firearm and keep it functional!

Comment Re:Priveledge (Score 1) 727

Well, shit, women don't face problems that men do.

Don't give me nonsense about women having it so fucking tough. Check assault rates, life expectancy, relative wealth, social engagement, work/life balance, health spending and a ton of other comparators and come back to me when you have a fucking point.

Comment Re:Priveledge (Score 1) 727

. It's not a problem that men don't face problems

No, it's a fucking lie.

Men face problems too. White people do. Rich people do. Everybody does.

The whole meme about privilege is just utter fucking bullshit and anybody that pretends it's real is just a cunt that needs educating.

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