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Comment Sounds like a big risk. (Score 1) 29

My Android tv has never been connected to the internet or logged in to anything and I donâ(TM)t have any form of Google account. I wonder how seriously I should take this risk.

I will still never buy another Android TV because of the âoefinish setting up Googleâ nag messages that pop up over my content.

Comment Re:Okay, so I understand why getting off oil is go (Score 1) 219

We sure have thought about that here in Canada. There's a huge push to get everyone back to work in person whether it's better for the employer or not, and the reason is literally to force people to spend more on gas to help the economy and force people to send more on lunches in business areas to help the food service businesses.

Our governments want to destroy the environment to make more profits for their buddies.

Comment Art school dropouts should not write tech blurbs (Score 1) 32

Astronauts could save half the fuel they need for a return trip home by making what they need on the red planet once they arrive, Wu said.

Yeah. Every kg of fuel you bring with for your return trip takes many kgs to get to Mars. And then each of those extra kgs you want to launch with takes many more again.

Plus what does "half the fuel they need for a return trip home" even mean? If getting them home now needs 1000kg of fuel for the return trip then this reactor means they only need to bring an extra 500kg of fuel for the return trip?

Comment Re:Is spaghettification real? (Score 1) 92

Eventually (very quickly at this point actually) protons and neutrons would be ripped apart by the same process,

Time is relative and proportional to gravity. Sure it would be very quick to the person being ripped apart, but to the outside universe, it would take billions of years. Sorry for being pedantic, but how often do I get a chance to cite relativity :)

Comment Re:Is spaghettification real? (Score 1) 92

Remember, gravity is proportional to the products of the masses divided by their separation squared. For something the mass of the earth the event horizon (actually called Schwarzchild radius) is about 0.35 inches. Jupiter's mass would be 9 feet, and the sun 2 miles.

A 6 foot tall person would span an immense range of gravitational force when dealing with something as dense as a black hole.

Comment Re:Voters to get here the elected (Score 1) 336

So this is only for currently elected officials, not their opponents during elections? You think a person voters elected last election cycle should have enhanced access to communication over their opponents in the next election? That would be the end of free and democratic elections.

Or should all candidates get this protection? So any crack-pot who wants to spew a hate message can get themselves on a municipal ballot by paying a nominal fee and then be able to spam whatever hate speech they want with impunity? Even terrorist groups can run a candidate and then have free access to social media.

Whichever way you look at it, this is an idiotic idea.

Comment Re: It ignores crap men too (Score 1) 340

Boxing categories are a great example. And nobody cares in the slightest about anything but the heavyweight category. The other categories are just crap to sit through waiting for the last match which is the only thing anyone cares about. If the heavyweight match wasn't last, everyone would turn off the TV after the heavyweight fight anyway.

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