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Comment Re:This ought to be an opportunity (Score 1) 26

Nope, they are going the other way. There's a proposal to dramatically increase residential power rates, in part to fund the 'increased demand due to datacenters". They want residents to pay for stuff instead of making those poor, cash-strapped AI companies have to pay for what they are inflicting...

Comment Re: a much needed move? (Score 1) 199

What you said was dumb because what we need is to reduce emissions further than our weak targets. Also automakers do NOT have any trouble meeting the targets. They could have met those targets years ago, but they would have had to make less exciting vehicles. You're putting your excitement over sustainability. This explains why you support a child molester's tampering with the future.

Comment Re:junk science (Score 1) 190

You seem to be ignorant of science and the scientific method.

"Ink" isn't a single thing with tattoos. It is stupidity to claim "ink" does this and "ink" does that or that "ink" migrates anywhere. A scientist would do a real study and say for example 'argan oil based titanium dioxide pigmented ink" migrates in the body to lymph nodes.

Your "study" was by unscientific wanna-bees.

As opposed to an award wing researcher such as yourself.

The article isn't about every single possible ink or combination. It is about the results of subcutaneous injection of various chemicals or substances. Where Macrophages transport those chemicals to the lymph nodes. Here's your challenge. Show point by point the inaccuracies in their work - you make the claim of scientific fraud - prove it. I'll even provide web space and will publish your analysis. You can end up on retraction watch, the researcher who pointed out actual fraud.

Comment Re:Leviticus 19:28 nor print any marks upon you (Score 1) 190

How tragic that pieces of shit like you can no longer give inherently beautiful women like her boundaries. Fucking disgusting, dude. Fucking disgusting.

You mad bro? Or is this sarcastic?

She's well within her rights. I'm a big fan of the Wiccan Rede: "An' ye harm none, do what ye will." Now some might find that she is harming herself - especially in the context of the issues in this topic, that is a her decision to make. If she is comfortable with what many find intentional disfigurement, I'm fine with it as far as having the right.

But if I find it repulsive, I have the right as well. You might find my right as me being a piece of shit and disgusting. You have that right. I might note that your over the top reaction says more about you than me.

That is, if you are serious. If not, I'll take my whoosh and move on, considering the source.

Comment Re:Anomalies are a learning experience (Score 1) 85

SpaceX Falcon 9 boosters have been landing on land for many years. Does it matter if it's not the launch site?

It's the wrong question. Obviously you can set a barge out on the ocean and land a rocket on that. But the idea that you cn launch and land anywhere is a non-starter.

The landing spot must be related to the launch location, and where in orbit you are sending the payload. Sometimes the first stage has to be discarded. In principle, you could guide the first stage back to anywhere if you had enough fuel and ability to maneuver. Of course, that would make the booster much heavier and complex. In reality, not happening.

All related to orbital mechanics and the so-called "rocket problem" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... or https://www.astronomicalreturn...

And that is why even Spacex discards their boosters at times. No practical place to land them. Boosters not having the fuel and maneuverability to get them to a place where they can land.

Comment Re:Wassa matter China? (Score 1) 85

A Chinese company, Great Wall Motors, recently showed off the first motorcycle ever designed with a straight eight engine. It also has a touchscreen UI and a retractable windshield. They're years ahead of the rest of the world.

That is just bizarre. But before we go further - it's a flat-8, not a straight 8. https://www.cycleworld.com/mot...

This "years ahead" motorcycle is just a Honda Goldwing type motorcycle with a couple extra cylinders. Meh. No thanks. I'll settle for my big-twin Honda Shadow Spirit 1100 cc. It looks like a classic Fatboy Motorcycle. Stump pulling torque, gets 50 mpg, and comfortable enough I can ride 150 miles at a stretch, which is handy since it has a 3 gallon tank and is ready for fuel at that point.

Burgundy Chameleon paint. Un-branded, no rear seat.

Comment Re:Wassa matter China? (Score 1) 85

The Chinese motorcycles you can buy on Amazon are 70 year old Honda technology.

Which is, good technology, by the way. Even Honda uses some of that olde stuff. My first motorcycle, a 60's era Honda trail 90, is remarkably similar to the Trail 125 they sell today.

In many countries, the paradigm is different.

Comment Re:Anti-features (Score 1) 31

Not a weirdo, and it's all about their business interests against the users.

A user increasingly keeps their device over a longer term, 8 year old devices are common. Between their needs not evolving and to the extent they are, they focus on their phones. As a result, Microsoft gets thrown a few dollars by the OEM when the device sold, and that's it.

Meanwhile, if they get someone into a microsoft account, they can upsell them on subscriptions to office and onedrive, and easily make more money per user per year than they made from many of those users over a decade.

Comment Re:Has Climate Doom Modeling Turned Into Clickbait (Score 2) 48

The idea that humans in 2100 will politely sit on their hands while the planet burns is genuinely adorable.

It's happening now. There are serious effects now. And there is mostly a lot of thumb-sitting going on.

Humans invent things.

Yes, for profit.

AI is already chewing through research faster than half the committees publishing these forecasts.

AI is chewing through NATURAL RESOURCES faster.

Pretending society wonâ(TM)t respond, wonâ(TM)t adapt and wonâ(TM)t innovate is probably the most unrealistic assumption in the whole exercise.

We don't have to pretend, we can see it happening right now. Or rather, not happening.

Comment Re:some problems (Score 1) 19

For example if you need to get call records months after the fact, with prepaid, tough shit, they don't have them at all.

Nonsense.

Want HD calling? Prepaid got it years after postpaid.

Why would I care? I don't speak a language for which call quality matters.

Paying three times as much or more for someone else to keep records for you is dumb. My phone keeps records for me.

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