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Comment Re:Product not of merchantable quality (Score 1) 171

by VisceralLogic (#60218092) Attached to: Samsung Blu-Ray Players Suddenly Stop Working Worldwide

If you are in the US, a have you bought a major appliance lately? You are basically lucky to get over a year out of a washer, dryer, or refrigerator, after which it is cheaper to replace it than repair it.

I have to throw away a 5-week old refrigerator (manufacturer is giving me a refund) because it was “unrepairable.” (A valve needed to be replaced, but there was no economical way to do it.) I also have a nice 8-year old dryer where the control board is shot... and replacing that is 90% of the cost of a new unit

I guess it varies from brand to brand. After buying a new house four years ago, we bought a new washer/dryer immediately (LG, still working), replaced the dishwasher a couple years ago (GE, still working), replaced the refrigerator a couple years ago (Whirlpool, still working), and replaced the stove and microwave within the last year. Apparently, we are very lucky indeed, since everything is still working as well as when we bought it.

Comment Re:Mental and Financial Wellbeing (Score 1) 560

You have to look at national income, not GDP. GDP includes government and capital spending. For example building a new auto plant is GDP, but it is not income. There is only about $13T of national income in the US.

The money used to build the plant is income to the people who are paid to build it, is it not?

Comment Re:Race (Score 1) 155

A white person from Boston and a white person from the deep south of Texas are not different ethnicities, but are most assuredly different cultures.

Ethnicity includes culture. From Merriam Webster:

Ethnic: of or relating to large groups of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background

Comment Re: And Congress knew they would (Score 1) 139

Bernie is not a Democrat. So you could always vote for him as a stick in the eye to the establishment.

That's the same logic that got us Trump.

The election of Trump has had a great effect in overhauling the Democratic party. Perhaps the election of Sanders would accomplish the same for the Republican party.

Submission + - Something in Deep Space Is Sending Signals to Earth in Steady 16-Day Cycles (vice.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: A mysterious radio source located in a galaxy 500 million light years from Earth is pulsing on a 16-day cycle, like clockwork, according to a new study. This marks the first time that scientists have ever detected periodicity in these signals, which are known as fast radio bursts (FRBs), and is a major step toward unmasking their sources.

FRBs are one of the most tantalizing puzzles that the universe has thrown at scientists in recent years. First spotted in 2007, these powerful radio bursts are produced by energetic sources, though nobody is sure what those might be. FRBs are also mystifying because they can be either one-offs or “repeaters,” meaning some bursts appear only once in a certain part of the sky, while others emit multiple flashes to Earth.

Submission + - SPAM: Truth Decay

Submitted by Geoffrey.landis
Geoffrey.landis writes: It's easy to see the contempt for truth (what RAND calls "truth decay") in politics (and easiest to see it in the political side we disagree with), but an article in Nature looks at how that the basic denial machine was put together by public-relations think tanks attacking threats to industrial profits. The interesting thing about the denial machine is that since their goal is uncertainty and disbelief, pushing out clearly false narratives that can be trivially debunked works fine. This is the firehose of falsehood approach: if you flood the narrative with manure, the stink of manure covers everything.
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