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Comment Re: I look forward to 2029 (Score 2) 228

Take a look at who the current frontrunners are for the next Democratic presidential nomination.

For that matter, look at what's going on during the current midterms. They've got a golden opportunity to make major gains ... and it's looking more and more like they're going to piss it all away.

Comment Re: Took 7 years but... (Score 1) 167

Ok, lets break this down for you. The previous poster was complaining that they went to California twice and said it was a third world slum. I told them to stay out of areas like Tahoe, Mendicino, Carmel and Yosemite which are not generally known as third world slums and directed them to places that obviously could be slummy like an overpass or the afore mentioned walk of fame, which IS shitty and THAT is the joke. And now that I've explained it, its that much funnier! /S

Comment Re:It wasn't researchers (Score 0) 106

Ah, yes. The old "there's totally evidence to back up my statements, I just can't be bothered to give you enough details to find the evidence" routine.

The only instance that some googling shows up is the same one linked to in the summary of this story -- namely, that 404 Media worked with a "rare bookseller" (who they won't name) to put an airtag inside one of the books (which they won't name) in a shipment of 1000 books.

Comment Re:The only books they're destroying... (Score 5, Interesting) 106

I mentioned this to the other guy but yeah they were destroying rare books. A rare book seller caught them by sneaking an Apple Air tag into one of his books that he shipped to them.

There's rare and then there's "rare." From what I've seen, the people involved have declined to say what the books involved were. About the only reason I can think of to hide that is because they know that people won't be as outraged when they find out what the "rare" books actually are. However, it was a bulk lot of something like 1,000 books, so it's a pretty safe bet that they weren't exactly valuable.

The 1973 manual for a toaster that I found in my grandfather's attic is certainly rare, but we're not losing anything if Amazon feeds it to their AI machine.

Comment Re:Why the need? (Score 1) 28

Waymo operates just fine in San Francisco which has plenty of very narrow tight streets (2 way with 1 lane) with bad visibility and lots of extra shitty drivers, double parkers etc. It goes around these just fine, and when it gets legit stuck on something (road closed off by cops or something) it can dial home to have an operator give instructions on what it should do next.

Comment Re:Should have come sooner (Score 1) 60

Discs have only been a distribution mechanism now for 2+ generations. You don't run the game off the disc it just installs it to the HD. (Then layers in a 12 GB patch anyways). Two sets of people benefit: those that want to resell the title and those that don't want the gigantic download. The no download crew is pretty much lost as you generally need "day 0" patch to make the game anything but a buggy mess, so this is 100% about resale.

Comment Re:Foldables, sounds like planned obsolescence (Score 1) 16

I can think of a few uses, such as being able to read a document or something on the go. My phone is too small, and I don't want to bring a laptop or tablet with me. But I think a six inch screen is too small still, so yeah, not sure what people are using this version for.

Comment Re:That's cool (Score 1) 16

It doesn't matter what they say. Whenever the Apple version launches, that will be when a company like Apple was brave enough to launch such an innovative device that no one else ever thought to do. Truly they are the inventive minds of our time, and we should be so lucky to get an iFold of our own, on sale now for $3500.

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