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Comment Re:What about their company motto? (Score 1) 358

The basic concept of "employee should be loyal to the employer" is so fundamental to the concept of employing people, that even socialists and communists demand it when they function as employers.

I don't think you are right.

Employees delivers their time and knowledge in exchange for money. They do not sell their soul.

Speaking as an employer.

Comment Just follow the law (Score 1) 134

How about - the car keeps itâ(TM)s lane, doesnâ(TM)t speed, slows down when someone looks like they might cross the road - and slam the brakes when something unexpectedly appears on the road ahead of it?
Yes from time to time an accident will happen, but less so than if we let people drive.

Comment Re:Not "communism" but embargo USA enforces on oth (Score 2) 239

Cuba would have been a much better functioning communist country if it could participate in the markets.

I would argue that Cuba isn't - and never was - a communist country. It's a dictatorship. Just like all other countries claiming to be communist. I don't think communism is possible at all as long as humans are involved.

Comment Re:Only in rare cases (Score 1) 215

Not really a problem when most cars are self-driving, because then the people inside will not be so impatient that someone turning bit slow annoys them.

If shit like that doesn't bug you then you must be really bad at back-seat driving. For me, it wouldn't matter if my wife was driving or the computer. "Fucking Go!" is the first thing I'd say in a situation like that.

Your definition of a good back-seat driver is somone sitting in the back seat shouting "Fucking Go!" at the driver?

Comment Re:I don't understand the fuss (Score 1) 40

The wife and I wear our grey hairs like badges of honor. It shows we're veterans of life. We've seen shit and yet are still here.

Good for you. I like that kind of attitude.

I think it's silly to worry about turning grey.

I wouldn't say I worry about turning gray, but from time to time I dye my hair or get a new type of haircut. That is no different from when my hair wasn't gray. I also change the way I shave my bear, just as the kind of clothes I wear differ over time. I don't feel like I HAVE to wear the same type of clothes every day, keep the same hairstyle - or color; it's quite okay to change your appearance.

Comment Re:I don't buy it. (Score 1) 40

This study showed that for some people, if stress causes their hair to turn gray, it can be reversed.
You don't need a study of thousands for that statement, just observing it occur in one person is enough to prove it.

Well... seeing in one person (or 14) that a period of stress coincides with the graying of hair doesn't neccessarily prove that the stress was the deciding factor in the graying of hair - it could be all sorts of things doing it. And seeing that for a moment the hair stopped graying doesn't neccessarily prove that it was due to less stress.

I would argue that you need a larger sample size in order to know whether stress was actually the deciding factor in all of this.

Comment Re:How much will it cost. (Score 1) 398

Charging at home every day, assuming an outdoor parking spot in the yard. he certainly spends more than that untangling the cables, plugging in, putting the cables back...

No I don't. I arrive at home, plug it in - the outlet is right next to the car. It takes around 10-15 seconds; I don't even think about it.

Comment This is so sad. (Score 5, Insightful) 290

The comments in this thread, I mean.

Seriously - we are talking about new technology - a new gadget to play with. We could be talking about the interface, comparing it to other smart watches, discussing possible future apps that would make sense in this context. But no - it's from Apple, so let's all talk about how we don't want a watch.

Personally I think the success of the watch highly depends on the interface. Other smart watches have been hard to navigate, and I am not entirely sure I believe Apple has cracked the code on the. If they have, this could be a really cool device. If not, I don't think we will see too many generations of it.

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