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Comment Re: One step from most hated (Score 1) 175

Great, now you are arguing in semantics. So tell me:
- What was the Roman salute?
- What was Roman about it?
- Was it different for Romans and non-Romans living in Constantinople/Rome?

This is the problem with dealing with disingenuous people. You know very well what is colloquially known as "Roman salute". You know very well that it was invented by idiots and used by Nazis who to shepherd idiots. But you want to argue that Roman is a valid adjective for whatever salute happened thousands of years ago so that the Nazis can hide in their make-shift cocoon of being technically correct.

Comment Re: One step from most hated (Score 1) 175

According to an apocryphal legend, the fascist gesture was based on a customary greeting which was claimed to have been used in ancient Rome.[2] However, no Roman text describes such a gesture, and the Roman works of art that display salutational gestures bear little resemblance to the modern "Roman" salute.[2]

Google-foo for reference. I would assume people would do at least that much before commenting. But it seems reddit has leaked to Slashdot while older generation dies off.

Comment Re:Note Android users, no big change. (Score 2) 218

There's no fee for the service. There's no fee for the basic cell service, and my car came with 8 years of the higher tier service (that allows streaming), but you can tether the car to WiFi from a phone and be able to access those features.

GM DOES push OnStar still. In my car, there's an OnStar safety package thing (which is free for 3 years?), and you need to pay some sort of fee to use the built-in cell modem as a WiFi bridge after 1 year (IIRC). I believe that after 8 years, there's a fee for certain services (namely audio streaming).

I think pretty much every car company is now charging to use the cellular modem in some way or another. Typically the basic services are free, and "premium" services (real-time traffic and weather, and streaming services seem to be key). In the case of my car, GM charges to you enable the WiFi hotpost the same way my cell-service provider used to (but no longer does).

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