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Comment Re:NIH syndrome (Score 1) 54

Feature not bug. These people are now gleefully announcing how they padded their resumes. And I mean, it's real experience so why not?
All of this is careerists dancing around institutional ritual festival. The idea of popular based fundamental political movement is totally alien.
Of course they happily support US policy which backs anti-institutional political movements, from civil groups to armed militias, as suits them.
That's fine over there VS people they don't like. These people like the empire they got, and there's chairs to be moved around, so keep busy now!

Comment Re:Let Me Explain Why that is Insane (Score 1) 21

Burying in the earth has nothing to do with paper bags having zero CO2 footprint, being produced from trees which took CO2 from air does.
As well as all the other containers which were used for centuries and millenia without anthropomorphic CO2 escalation of latest 2 centuries.

Comment Re:Competing with themselves (Score 1) 28

I think the trajectory is shifting from Google profit harmoniously growing to stagnancy, which means everybody else will tend to feel the negative effects of monopoly defending their monopoly... If easy growth doesn't come naturally, they will try to force profit growth wherever they can... If they don't, financial markets will demand they cash out if they are a mature monopoly, leaving little scope for alternative. Of course they are simultaneously passing (or passed) the threshold of regulatory vulnerability. Playing nice with NSA/DOD/etc can win some friends in certain places, but probably won't help in other places... and their valuation depends on being everywhere.

Comment NEWSFLASH: TV INVENTS ADVERTISING TV ON INTERNET (Score 0) 168

In case your faith in our genius corporate benevelong overlords was wavering... ...a baby who will be famous in yet-to-be-created meme .gifs gives CBS two thumbs up for quality in advertising TV shows on the internet!

But all I got to say is... I don't give no fucks because Star Trek: The Sisko still kicks this so hard the entire Trek retirement home pisses their pants laughing.

Comment Re:Updated information (Score 3, Insightful) 81

If you think a figure (90k) is just as likely made up or an exaggeration, why post it or lend it any merit?

"Number of current infections" is conceptually a very different figure from "Offically confirmed cases".
The fact latter figure (4,500) is much less than speculation on current infections is not "underreporting [as] entirely expected".
Accurate assessment of confirmed cases is important in deriving plausible projection of current real infections.
Conflating the two metrics does not help acheive any awareness of reality, or appropriately calibrate ideal response.

Comment Re:This could be solved simply (Score 1) 166

On the contrary, this isn't done already, and your example of premium boarding first directly contradicts the finding that boarding slowest passengers first is optimum approach. Consider that premium passengers are seated at front so have fastest transit time, atop having less seats per row so less impediment to loading luggage, so premium passengers will overall be faster than economy passengers and thus should be boarded LAST, yet premium passengers are boarded first despite penalty for overall delay. It is not about "most people" avoiding delay for themselves, economy passengers needing to wait for premium passengers are not avoiding a delay they are being forced to wait behind premium passengers. Premium passengers enjoy privileged treatment even though it increases overall delay vs optimum boarding. So the only comparison to "Communist takeover" I see is to pre-revolutionary period where social failures exist due to unegalitarian power & privilege. Nothing is inherently "fair" about premium airline seating, it merely expresses overall power disparity and ideology of capitalist society, so ascribing a flaw of status-obsessed capitalist society to human "fairness" seems an odd inference IMHO.

Comment Re:Gripe (Score 1) 49

I don't even get this complaint, this isn't browser security issue. If FF can bypass weak PDF password controls, any other program can too, so exactly where is the problem? Not FF. The complaints seems based on premise security is about restricting user. If you don't want to print your PDFs by accident, unplug your printer I guess? Or make encrypted folder that any program needs password to even open, probably a hell of alot safer. But I don't think he's contemplated USian jesus freaks with quantum decrypter supercomputers to read everbody's naughty stuff. Better off praying for protection than depending on protected PDFs.

Comment Re:Won't this break a ton of websites? (Score 1) 49

Yup. And by my book standard-enabled anti-fingerprinting is absolutely wonderful, with flaw of custom anti-fingerprinting being it tends to stand out, even if less unique than total fingerprint it's still relatively distinguishing at least "weakly".

Comment Re:Frankenfood (Score 2) 159

Hold on there... this is just like "pork and sausage" and "real burger" and "absorbs flavor like real meat".
Perfect combo with real red flavor Kool-Aid. And who said Ameristan live like pigs with no real cuisine?

Seriously, can anybody ask why the example dishes all have as little meat texture as possible?
I'm not even sure what association I'm supposed to infer from "noodles". No BBQ ribs. No steaks.
This smells like check box marketting to internally conflicted vegetarians who harbor sinful lusts.

But hey, just regular vegetables can't be copyrighted, any goddam farmer can grow them from the earth.

Comment Re:Vancouver's just across the river from Portland (Score 1) 153

AFAIK it's not so much about easier air travel, unless replacing major air transfer route, which only seems case if extended to Eugene in Oregon.
Sea-Tac colocation could make sense parallel with 2nd station for Northern Seattle/Everett for convenient access from both ends of urbal sprawl.
It mostly seems about convenience of mass transit "feeders" which doesn't per se prioritize airport colocation, other locations possibly better there.

Comment Re:Cooking on same skillet is a no no (Score 1) 350

Sure, and that's the thing: those are religious dietary requirements.
But advertising something as "0% beef" does not indicate it is upholding a religiously strict vegan stance with no contact etc.
"0% beef" is phrased in same way as non-religious ingredients advertisements, which don't have ultra-pure stance to incidentals like this.
If you expect religiously pure conformance, you distinct phrase to indicate that, equivalent to Halal or Kosher.
Not all vegans conform to one strict stance, but if expects this he needs a specific formal code to be indicated by phrase.
Not even "Vegan" really may qualify to strictest of stances, may "Pure Vegan(TM" or whatever, and run certifications like Halal/Kosher do.

Comment Nutritional ingredients VS Religius paradigm (Score 1) 350

This is crux of issue.
Foods are normally labelled by ingredients which don't have ultra strict "1 molecule" tolerance. Calling it 0% beef is legit by this metric.
The guy suing them is doing so because he is imposing ideologically strict stance that goes above and beyond that metric.
Which is equivalent to a religous purity test like Halal or Kosher. If somebody advertises Halal or Kosher it's reasonable to expect that.
But it's not reasonable to infer "0% beef" advertisment is referring to his ultra-strict essentially religious attitude to veganism.
Veganism isn't even necessary to be interested in "0% beef" burger, and many vegans are so for personal health or environmental reasons.
Even amongst vegans who are so for "ethical" reaons re: animal slaughter, may not be so strict to care what pan it was cooked on.
Because that ultimately goes beyond the normal understanding of ingredients, to ultra-purist stance on adjacent factors like Kosher etc.
And it's legit to advertise such an ultra-purist vegan product. But just because they said "0% beef" doesn't imply they are doing so.

Comment Wrong article (Score 1) 65

Sorry, I thought it was going to be actually informative about successfull Chinese space program,
like mentioning what they are launching, details of institutes actually creating launchers and engines,
specifics about their upcoming plans, maybe even brief interview from leader or engineer involved.

Oh well, at least they managed to spend almost half the article on old news about US space industry,
which was only #3 space launching country while #2 Russia not even worth a mention like New Zealand was.
Gotta keep it all in the 5 Eyes club, after all. Just natural inclination for imperial rulership, that anglo blood...
Of course, it finds space to remind the reader China is "authoritarian". Thank (white) god they didn't forget that.
Nothing like NASA led by Dr. von Braun. Or wunderkind Musk, of the quaint stories of family ruby mines in africa.

Comment AtlanticCouncil.com ??? (Score 3, Funny) 62

Hmm... Blackwater? Oh, that's taken.
Lockheed-Myspace Industries? Maybe not.
"That guy everybody hates" Hm. Spicy. Has possibiliites....

(Graphic Designer) "Here's your logo design, thanks for the $50,000. And I really appreciate the tax evasion advice, too... man."
"What is this? Is this a death threat? I don't need to remind you we have people in FBI."
"Nah, man it's just symbolizm. I learned that in school, heh. The face everybody loves to hate. Crucified on a cross. Transmutation of the soul. Philosophy shit, man."
"OK, whatever bitch, but you don't get your bonus until focus groups give it positive rating"

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