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Comment Re:Interesting (Score 2) 69

I have one chefs knife that is sharp like a razor. I have a stainless steel bowl I make a sanitation solution in (one or two cap fulls of bleach) and throw in a clean small towel or two. The super sharp knife makes sure onions and the like don't squirt unneeded juice, and I can wipe off the blade between food types.

Kosher was created because people didn't know what germs are, and just knew that if you ate certain foods you were more likely to get sick, but didn't know why. And they didn't know that the problem with wood handles on knives was that bits of stuff could get stuck between the steel and wood allowing contamination. So the rabbis just made up a rule and put it in the book that said, unless it is blessed by a rabbi, you can't eat that food or use that type of cooking tool. And then the rabbis would only bless food that was less likely to make you sick. Now we know about germs and raise animals in ways they won't be contaminated (e.g. trichinosis in pigs is almost unheard of now, and we know about things like 'red tide' and other stuff that contaminate shellfish and crustaceans). So Kosher doesn't mean shit anymore. Only people who think there is a god that watches what you eat believes that nonsense now.

Comment Re:Fuck China (Score 1) 136

So the USA puts by tomorrow, 100% tariffs on Chinese goods. That means Americans' buying power with respect to what they can purchase from China, is halved. For all other countries at 50% it is one third. America can't buy as much. Just like the buying power of third world countries. Anyway, China won't care, there are over six billion people in all the other countries outside of China and the USA. And eventually when the American dollar goes low enough, all those countries will switch to using the Euro as the standard. Then the USA will be the banana republic you MAGA types have always wanted. You're number 85.

Comment Encourage People Never Go More Than 20km From Home (Score -1) 239

And then we can have a different language every 100kms, or accents that are so different we might not understand them. So cool to fragment the world again on the pillar of killing cars. Now we have ICE cars. What will the idiots excuse be for when there are all EVs or H2 cars (shut up EV fucktards, they won't work in the third world there isn't enough electric infrastructure, try actually following what's going on and see the hundreds of billions ongoing into H2 in the third world). I'll guarantee these numbskulls will make up some other stupid reason to fragment society. Modern transportation made the world smaller, and helped educate people by way of learning about people elsewhere whenever they feel like driving. It's almost like the sheep are being led to the slaughter by creating a world where the disconnected people are easier to control.

Comment Timeline doesn’t quite work (Score 3, Interesting) 138

"The area that Google did well in that would not have happened had I not been distracted is Android, where it was a natural thing for me. I was trying, although what I didn't do well enough is provide the operating system for the phone. That was ours for the taking."

The antitrust case was overturned by the Appellate Court in 2001. The DOJ and Microsoft settled the outstanding portions in November 2001.

Android Inc. was started in 2003, and was four guys using pre-existing Open Source components to build an OS for mobile phones. Google bought them in 2005, and the first handset using Android was released in 2008.

Bill, you had seven years and the entire backing of a massive corporation (including all of its employees and intellectual property) after the antitrust case was settled, and couldn’t pull off what four guys started and Google finished in five using Open Source components.

Yaz

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