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Comment Plug In Extended Range Hybrid (Score 1) 522

I would like these things.
1) Able to plug it in to an electrical source
2) A battery pack that will go 50-100 miles to reduce cost and weight vs. the all electric versions
3) Electric only to the wheels to reduce complexity.
4) Add a gas generator in the vehicle that running at it's most efficient to charge the battery after I go 50-100 miles.
5) Less than 30,000
I think the first four would be ideal and any company that can get number 5 as well will "win"

Comment Automatic removal of the bribed legislation (Score 1) 48

First, Carrier of Last Resort (COLR) legislation that was a result of this bribe should be stricken from the record. Fruit of the poison tree.

Second, there should be jail time on two fronts. One person or persons for solicitation of the bribe. Then Michael J. Madigan for accepting the bribe. Add anyone that helped in the coverup of this bribe. Not house arrest, not parole. 6 months or more in a 6 x 8 concrete box. Then number of people harmed by this is greater than any petty street crime.

Third, investigate anyone else that voted along with Michael J. Madigan to see what favors or bribes he used to solicit their votes.

Comment Allow people to block all shared content (Score 1) 61

If facebook had a setting where all shared content could be blocked then this would be solved. I only go to facebook to see what my friends and family are up to. I only want to see posts from my friends, not post of my friends of friends, not posts of whatever facebook group you belong to, just the people I choose to see.

but this would be less engagement which would be less money for 'zuck

Comment Lucky Australians no "news" in their feeds (Score 1) 177

Lucky Australians I want to ban reposting of news links in my Facebook feed too.

Things I like Facebook for
1. Seeing pictures of family and friends
2. Reading about what my family and friends are doing
3. Local events

Things I want to block
1. Links to news
2. Reposts of other people that aren't my family and friends
3. Reposts from groups I'm not a member of
4. Links to memes, I can browse the internet myself.

Comment What the difference of fine vs profit from fraud? (Score 1) 5

If the fine is 200 million. How much did they make from the Lifeline program?

1. Corporation does fraudulent thing and makes 500 million (not the real number, I made this up, couldn't find the real number)
2. Government finds out about fraud
3. Corporation says oops our bad we didn't mean to do fraud
4. Lawyers hash out deal
5. Government settles for 200 million fine instead of lengthy court battles
6. Corporation doesn't have to admit wrongdoing and profits 300 million from fraud
7. Goto step 1

Comment Disks from local library and more (Score 1) 79

A couple of reasons I will buy the disk version of the next generation

1. Disk prices on games drop faster then the PS$ store
2. I can sell an old game
3. I can let a friend borrow a game.
4. My local library allows me to check out a disk for a week at a time for free

Only reasons to get the online version
1. I can swap to the game without inserting a disk
2. I don't have to worry about scratched/damaged disks
3. Lack of physical storage space, (cabinet, closet, cardboard box) for old games

Comment Removing car crashes might add more covid19 deaths (Score 3, Interesting) 309

With social distancing, businesses and bars being closed there are fewer cars on the road. So there are probably a lower number deaths due to car crashes than normal.
If this number it taken into account the number of total deaths due to Covid-19 might be higher

Comment Theranos never worked - lied on patent application (Score 1) 159

Is a patent on technology that never worked still valid? From the article "Theranos -- the firm that shut down in scandal over medical testing equipment that appears to have been oversold and never actually worked" I would think the Judge's response would be "Theranos never worked; therefore they lied in their patent application about their technology working. All of their patents are invalid."

Someone patents a square tire. Square tires don't work. Lies to Patent Office that it does work, gets patent. Someone else invents a round tire, that tire works. Can the first person sue even though the square tire never worked?

Comment Now I'm waiting for russian bike video (Score 1) 377

So no matter what the pedestrian does the cyclist/motorist is always at fault?

From the article "She was looking at her mobile phone when crossing the road, and only noticed Hazeldean approaching at the last moment, despite the traffic lights showing green."

This sentence in the article is badly worded. I can't tell with 100% certainty if the cyclist or the pedestrian or both had the green light. Is it "...showing her a green light" or "...showing the cyclist a green light" or even "...showing both her and the cyclist a green light"

If this was clearly stated in the hearing then whoever ran the red light was guilty. But the article makes it sound like she had a red light walked into the street anyway since she was looking at her phone and still got paid because "pedestrian".

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