Comment Re:Not really (Score 1) 91
Comment no, absolutely not. (Score 1) 91
Comment How fucked up can you get? (Score 0) 298
All this tax will end up accomplishing is diminishing dairy production.
Comment Re: But who is Sky? (Score 1) 241
Comment Re: But who is Sky? (Score 1) 241
Comment Re: But who is Sky? (Score 1) 241
Comment I think what social media companies ought to do... (Score 1) 278
Only after a person has explicitly added a person as a contact, should content from that person start regularly being highlighted in one's own feed.
The only suggestions that the social media company can make to newcomers are possible contacts.... those who have a high number of followers or are geographically proximate. Even then, none of a person's posts should ever automatically appear on a person's feed until they have explicitly added that person as a contact, not simply because they may have checked out a particular person's content.
Beyond that, the only other thing that should appear in a person's social media feed are advertisements, if the social media platform is otherwise free to use, and every ad should have an option to flag it as not being one that the user wants to see, so that ads of that type of content are not presented to the user again.
So when a person first joins a social media company all they see are ads, and perhaps suggestions for contacts that they can voluntarily choose to follow.
Comment Re:US Gov hypocritics (Score 1) 109
I think that the biggest reason why generally weapons, even if they were expressly defined in the treaty, were probably rejected out of hand by the USA, is that ultimately there are people that would ultimately be interested in waging war regardless of such a treaty, and that certain types of weaponry may be necessary to defend one's own territories, without being directly used to attack another.
Which, I'm aware, is not dissimilar from the argument that a lot of people use to justify the second amendment of the USA.... but just as the treaty did ultimately prohibit nuclear weapons in space, the government could still reasonably have the freedom to impose limitations on the kinds of weapons a person in the USA was allowed to possess.
Comment Re:What a bunch of BS (Score 1) 160
Enlighten me as to which union you are speaking of.
Modern cars are made by machines, not people. They haven't been made by hand in decades.
Comment Re:What a bunch of BS (Score 1) 160
Comment Re:US Gov hypocritics (Score 1) 109
I think the reason why all weapons were not banned in space and why it was vetoed is simply because the definition of "weapon" is too broad, and the mere act of enabling any sort of communication with countries you might happen to be at war with can be interpreted as a "weapon" from that nation's point of view. WMD, however, is quite unambiguous.
I have no facts to back up this opinion... it is just my own personally held belief. If someone has some cold hard facts to refute it, I'm open to the debate.
Comment Re:Nice idea, but (Score 1) 109
Comment Re:What is anyone going to do? (Score 1) 109
The best option is that Putin is somehow brought out of power as soon as possible and held directly accountable for his actions.
Think about it for a second... if someone just goes and kills the guy, then he doesn't have to live with the consequences of his own actions....sure, he's dead, and death may or may not be an effective deterrent from someone doing likewise in the future...
But meanwhile, Putin himself will be rendered completely free of all responsibility for everything he has done. Whoever succeeds him will have to bear the consequences in this world. How is that fair?
Comment What a bunch of BS (Score 1) 160
Electric cars can be made, from scratch, at a cost of about $12 or $13k in materials, the most expensive part being the batteries.
I've never seen an electric vehicle offered for sale that didn't cost at least three times that amount.
So unless they are giving their salesmen an absolutely massive commission, I'm pretty sure that this claim is nothing short of lying.