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Comment Re:The corruption and grift are astounding (Score 3, Funny) 85

He flat out says he wants to run Venezuela and take the oil. https://www.bbc.com/news/artic...

He is really after "recovering" "his" Nobel Peace Prize that was given to a Venezuelan woman. Just wait till he starts flaunting it at the Trumpskyy house (formerly the White House).

Comment Re:Confirmed: Ghana more progressive than america (Score 1) 31

If I have to hear one more prophecy about how we will make it to mars in 2026 or all cars will be automated by X, by the richest person in the world....

Those are predictions not Prophecy.

Prophecy relies on the authority of God-given information. True prophecy is therefore never wrong because it always carries the authority of God's truth and character. On the other hand, prediction is based on man's ability to determine what may happen in the future.

Comment Re:Intel? (Score 2) 58

For example, they marketed the CPUs to end users as being 133MHz but the BIOS reports the true speed as 120MHz.

That was the type of thing that happened when the ram was either rated slower than required OR the BIOS defaulted to the lower speed for the RAM. Use/Set the memory correctly and you got the full speed. You could set it higher and overclock the CPU.

Comment Re:BSoD was an indicator (Score 2, Interesting) 82

I did the following things that reduced BSOD's massively.

1/ UPS with brownout protection.

2/ Put the swap file on its own partition.

3/ Move all applications and data to their own partition leaving the C: drive with only Windows itself on it.

My experience was that most BSOD's were 3 categories, power fluctuations, programs (including windows itself) interfering with the swap file and programs interfering with Windows on the hard drive. Also after that defrags were much less needed as the only partition that badly fragmented was the C: drive with windows itself fragmenting itself.

Comment Re:Cable guy? (Score 2) 130

You have a large company in the cable company causing you to stay home all day (not making money) and all to often causing you to lose multiple days work. If they do show up and you aren't home they still charge you. So you pay for what you don't get. They are comparing that to all the promise to bring electricity to these regions for 50! years and it is still a no show. That is the comparison they are making.

This "Solar punk" is different in that instead of dealing with a major corporation you are dealing with a small one that comes and installs the panels and YOU are generating your own power. Your neighbours see that unlike all the promises made for GENERATIONS your private deal WORKED and show that others can do the same. Little companies working with private individuals are doing what the big companies and governments failed to accomplish.

Comment Re:no international jurisdiction (Score 1) 38

Even Diaper Diddler Donny has stated that he prefers Carney to Poilievre: He likes a pushover when he dictates "deals".

Garbage. He merely learned that his being against Carney and for Poilievre caused Canadians to back Carney and blocked Poilievre from becoming Prime Minister as the more Trumpskyy backed him the more his support fell. The Conservatives were a shoo in until Trumpskyy started backing them when it all fell apart. He is now saying "good" things about Carney hoping that Canadians will stop supporting him and go back to the Conservatives.

Comment Re:Drunks (Score 2) 75

As for "drunk on profit", I have yet to see a self-driving venture make a profit.

The executives take "profits" in the form of high bonuses they vote themselves no matter how badly things go. A failure they walk into another high paying job with bags of cash. A success and they vote themselves lots of share which increase rapidly and again they get bags of cash.

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