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Comment Re:the corporate masters bungled this one (Score 1) 190

It isn't good for business throwing your lot in with a man baby backed by a death cult obsessed with triggering Biblical end times, and an Internet army of full-time losers. Have fun filling your jets and delivery trucks. I doubt that free next day deliveries can scale when most of your fleet isn't electrified yet.

So you're rooting for the ... literal murderous theocrats? The mullahs of Iran?

Comment Re:Yes, becuase ... (Score 1) 75

It's a revelation to some people when a solar panel can't keep the lights on after sunset. Or when the battery never gets charged during the day due to heavy overcast, or the 8000 tons of batteries needed to keep a 50 MW data center running through a 15 hour winter night. Yes I did the math.

It might also be a revelation to you that the owners of the data centers have no intention of turning them off at night. Since hydropower is tapped out, coal is classified as unclean, gas turbines are back-ordered if the gas supply is even available, solar and wind are intermittent at best and batteries boost the real cost of that power if you can find the land to install it, the list of options gets thin. Geothermal only works in a few places, and that leaves fission and fusion. Only one of those is known to work.

Bingo.

It's all well and good to mutter the shibboleths when it doesn't matter ... but the data center operators actually need lots of reliable power, not just vaporous feel good-isms. So lookie there; all of a sudden nuclear isn't so bad anymore, lol.

Comment Re:Not much fun to be deaf (Score 1) 33

Out of curiosity, do implants help with tinnitus? I have what can best be described as raging tinnitus, along with little hearing above 3 KHz.

From what I've read of others' experience, some get better, some worse, when it comes to tinnitus. I don't know what studies there are about it; you might want to look.

For me personally, it's better. Much less tinnitus. Not sure why. Maybe actually hearing stuff on that side again stops my brain from wanting to make stuff up? Dunno ...

Comment They are right (Score 2) 49

"Harmful" is subjective and debatable.

If we want software to help decrease social injustice, we should oppose licenses that restrict how software can be used.

Yep. Software freedom is software freedom. Even if it lets those smelly other people who dare to have different opinions use the software ...

Comment Re:Not much fun to be deaf (Score 1) 33

Forever guessing what people said is not much fun.

No, it's not. Nor is having people seem to suddenly materialize on your deaf side, lol

I'm very glad that I got my cochlear implant for single sided deafness. Although who knows; if they ever figure out something similar to the treatment in this story for it, maybe I blew my chances for true recovery. But I sure can hear a lot better now, with the implant, than without.

Comment Re:Kewl retort - want to explain to the rest of us (Score 0) 40

Most right wing news sources are lazy and racist. For example, they put up a picture of one bad black man, and say all black men are bad. Then they put up one Mexican, and say all Mexicans are bad.

lol ... you've literally never watched Fox News, right?

Because if you had, you'd know that you are spouting not just a lie, but a ridiculous lie?

What's your basis? He made a clear statement. I don't watch Fox News if I can avoid it, so please explain to the rest of us your actual point. You're claiming he's saying a ridiculous lie...he may be, he may not be, but I can't tell a fucking thing about what your point is or what you're getting at. So you want to explain your perspective like an adult, or throw out lame comments like "it's a lie" with no further explanation?

You ... need to have the concept of a lie explained to you?

He was using a ridiculous, ludicrous lie to try to make his "point" (that in his view "Most right wing news sources are lazy and racist.")

If you need a ridiculous, ludicrous, obvious lie to make your point ... then clearly you can't make it.

Comment Re:So I suppose that leaves PBS,CBC,BBC, and Aljaz (Score 0, Insightful) 40

Most right wing news sources are lazy and racist. For example, they put up a picture of one bad black man, and say all black men are bad. Then they put up one Mexican, and say all Mexicans are bad.

lol ... you've literally never watched Fox News, right?

Because if you had, you'd know that you are spouting not just a lie, but a ridiculous lie?

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