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Comment Re:Just say no (Score 1) 97

It's pretty easy to beat this. Just stop buying from Delta.

Do you have any idea how difficult this is? That's like telling people to stop buying from Amazon because of how awfully they treat their workers and all the fake Chinese stuff they sell.

It's impossible to do. I haven't bought from Amazon in years, that's how difficult it is.

Comment Why DVDs are better (Score 4, Insightful) 21

I know there are people who will grumble and whine that DVDs are sooooooo outdated, but this is another example of why they are superior. You never have to worry someone else will take it away from you.

You bought it. You own it. Unless someone breaks into your home and takes it or your home burns down, it is yours forever. You can watch it as many times as you like whenever you want. You are not restricted to someone else's schedule. Nor do you have to worry about it breaking up because the signal got botched.

Further, DVDs don't change. No one can alter the movie with "new and improved" scenes or added "features". Han will always shoot first.

That Microsoft has told users there are no refunds is further justification why DVDs are better than streaming.

Comment Re:Shouldn't have gotten rid of calculus (Score 1) 96

Who did that? Many years ago, I had to get a math minor (which I ended up with a second major) to get my computer science degree. Looking at my school's current requirements, they don't have quite as much math required, but it still has all the calculus, linear algebra, and probability/statistics (with a note that you can add one more math class to fulfill the technical elective in CS and also get a math minor).

Comment Re:Well done! (Score 1, Insightful) 28

Sensible humans? The ones in India? The most populous nation on the planet? The one where air pollutants are so thick in major cities it looks like fog? Where farmers openly burn their fields to make way for next year's crops contributing to the air pollution? The country which the article states will increase its use of coal-fired power plants? Those sensible humans?

Comment Re:Be thankful (Score 1) 105

It's very simple. Experts need to continually prove they're worthy of trust. If they do that, people will slowly start trusting them again. If they abuse that trust, people will kick them back out. This isn't rocket science. And I can tell you that there's a rot at the core of academia, and people know about it and are fighting back. We won't put it behind us until we see significant reforms.

Comment Re:money (Score 1) 101

I quote the parent poster: "UK here". The voting system in the UK does not know primaries as the U.S. has. Only the Conservative Party has experimented with open primaries since 2009. The last one was 2019 in the Constituency of Gower. If the parent poster were a resident of Gower by chance, he could not vote in any primaries in the last five years, if not, he probably has never had the chance to vote in any primary ever.

U.S. defaultism...

Comment Re:Be thankful (Score 1) 105

You should first study the long winding path that brought us to this point, to give you perspective, and then you should look at current events as the tiny small footsteps that they are when compared to the long stretch of time. Sometimes we stumble on long walks. When this happens we should avoid spending all our time despairing at the road stretching out endlessly ahead of us, and take some time to appreciate the distance we've already covered. Then we need to return our eyes to the ground before us and allow the stumble to focus our mind on the importance of carefully considering every step.

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