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Comment This is a bit silly (Score 1) 15

I mean, the language in the summary merely rephrases the question, without really explaining anything. And the body in the article says, in black and white, that the reason is because there is less material available for the black holes to swallow. Nice that they have found out, but hardly an unexpected answer.

Comment Re:DO NOT WANT (Score 1) 54

I pay a premium for Apple products because they claim to put the user as a centre of everything they do.

You are now going to carry on paying premium for those products and you are going to be subjected to ads. And you are going to like it, because Apple knows what you need and want.

Comment Re:Who could've seen this coming? (Score 1) 34

Yeah, I couldn't imagine wanting one of these at all, let alone paying almost three grand for it. I've had the same $200 phone for five years.

I would like a phone like that - but never at that price. In fact, I wouldn't pay more than a few hundred US dollars for it. It is a nice gadget, but nowhere near as nice as warranting that preposterous price.

Comment That's wishful thinking (Score 3, Insightful) 101

Taking into account the vastness of space and time, the constraints imposed by physics, and the relatively short existence of individual biological species, chances are any advanced civilizations will be too far from us either in space or in time (or both) for us to detect. Unless humans prove to be an exceptionally long-lived species (which is a very doubtful proposition, given their inveterate stupidity) the most likely scenario is one in which humans will go extinct without ever finding out whether or not other advanced civilizations exist, have ever existed, or will ever exist.

Comment To be borne in mind (Score 1) 34

The percentage of individuals with high levels of psychopathy indicators have been found to be significantly more noticeable among people in the executive tiers of for-profit companies. I would not be surprised that, if the allegations against him are true, Mr. Carson were to belong to such a group: if so, chances are Mr. Carson felt no compunction nor remorse about having made up important aspects of his résumé and about grabbing data that he was not entitled to grab.

Comment No kidding (Score 1) 62

What was he expected to say? CEOs are little more than ra-ra, performing seals for their respective companies, whose job being to make sure to megaphone that their wares are the most wonderful thing in the world, that they give you minty fresh breath, that they make you irresistible to gorgeous members of your favorite sex, etc. For him to have said otherwise would have been like the proverbial guy understanding something when their salary depends on not understanding it.

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