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Comment Re:I hate and despise - but they should still be s (Score 0) 818

Oh, they can still buy it - retailers simply aren't helping them do so. And in "those states", I guarantee you there are TONS of regional retailers that will continue to sell them - probably in massive numbers now.

So, don't worry - such people will have even more such flags that the rest of us can use to identify them.

Comment Re:Those evil enemy oppressors (Score -1, Flamebait) 818

Who fought to just leave. What is the definition of oppression?

LOL, you're funny - no, they fought to retain slavery via whatever means necessary, including seceding. While YOU might support racism and slavery, this is not the 1800's, and most of the rest of us aren't such hateful bigots. Too bad. For you. Don't even have the guts to show your racism with your name attached, huh? Loser.

Comment Re:It only takes one ... (Score 1) 381

Nigeria is known for it scare tactics, I don't see our governments try the same tactics without getting trouble back.

Don't worry, Faux News is more than making up for it by trying to scare with the actual facts, and then going the extra mile (or twenty) by trying to scare with outright nonsense, lies and bull$hit.

Comment Re: Oracle (Score 1) 146

" The API itself allows for NO creativity"

Have you written any complex api? I am in software industry for 28 years and in every projects that I have worked, I spend more time on api design than implementation. It requires lots of ingenuity and creativity to come up with a set of api. Not much different than coming up with a plot for movie with intricate relations between characters and their personalities.

You need to re-read what ShangaiBill wrote. I will expound on it in parens.

The creativity should be what lies behind the API (call/name), not the API (call/name) itself.

Comment Re:Inter-species communication (Score 1) 152

The summary at least says "imitate".

Sure, making noise is some limited form of communication (a dog barking is 'telling' you something). But unless TFA goes into more actual detail, this isn't true inter-species communication, but mimicry. Is a parrot "communicating" with you when it says "Polly want a cracker?"

Actually, that's speculation on your part. Because WE don't understand it, it doesn't mean it's mimicry. Since dolphins do indeed seem to have language, names and definitely can understand sentence structures (as we do), it's more likely your speculation is wrong.

Comment Re:Competition (Score 4, Insightful) 907

Wrong - T-Mobile, who doesn't act like a traditional carrier, is SINGLE HANDEDLY driving down rates.

Before they went on their marketing blitzes to let people know, AT&T and Verizon kept raising rates, or suckering people into plans that they'd then drop and replace with more expensive things at the earliest contract excuse.

Not every market has a T-Mobile. The insurance industry is one such market.

Comment Re:Oh good (Score 1) 907

If they employ these methods, their risk should reduce significantly, as well as repo costs, and therefore be reflected in nice big loan rate drops. OTOH, if it enables a person who otherwise would not qualify for a loan to get one, it could be argued as a 'good thing'. I personally shudder at this level of what feels invasive.

Or increase, when someone can no longer go to work and loses their job.

Submission + - Ferrari Fan page creator ousted by Ferrari, Kid Sues (autonews.com)

ganjadude writes: Sammy Wassem started the Facebook fan page for Ferrari when he was 15 and eventually grew it to over 500,000 followers. In 2009, the company congratulated him on the site's success, but said that "legal issues" forced it to take over the administration, according to Automotive News Europe. Wassem could still use the site, but managers had oversight.

Wassem asked Ferrari for financial compensation to keep working on the page but continued creating content on it for the next four years. Eventually, the company terminated his administration rights. In 2013 he and his father Olivier filed the lawsuit against the business alleging it owes payment over 5,500 hours of work and copyright infringement for taking over the page. They are asking for 10 million Swiss francs ($11.3 million).

Comment Re:Don't blame others for user error. (Score 1) 394

Gears-Plural, more than one Gear-Singular, only one

It has a gear. It does not have gears.

I'm sure you'll now come in asking about reverse.

Wow, so many of you who can't count to two? A gear is useless without ANOTHER gear coupled to it. A single ratio gear driven coupling transmission system requires at least TWO gears to work. One connected to the output. One connected to the input. Those gears are coupled (teeth of one drive the teeth of the other).

Yet there are a dozen posts by transmission and gear experts who seem to think that one free floating gear magically transfers power to someplace without another gear meshed to it. Wow. Just... wow.

Comment Re:Wikipedia ruined the internet (Score 1) 517

That doesn't demonstrate that it's all about the money. Some preachers know that they're selling BS, others actually believe their derp. I think Ham is an emotional thinker, and actually believes the nonsense he spouts.

I don't. He cherry picks too much - especially when confronted with conflicting biblical "evidence" where he either ignores the conflict or cherry picks himself off into a different direction.

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