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Comment Re:I want a passenger car like that (Score 1) 86

Just buy a Japanese car from about 1990-1994 and you're there. OBD-II didn't become mandatory until 1996, but some 1995 models have it too like in the Nissan 240SX. 1994 is the last OBD-I model there. These vehicles tend to have sequential fuel injection and the only emissions equipment is EGR and an O2 sensor for mixture control. They are easy to megasquirt and in some cases you can even buy a premade harness. One advantage of a vehicle like this is that even in California you're allowed to use aftermarket emissions parts, e.g. it's legal to install a high flow catalyst on a 1994 model.

Sadly I've sold both of my cars that were like this, I've had a 1989 240SX and a 1993 Impreza. I miss them both real bad. Now I own a 2008 Versa. It's OK. It is pretty much what you describe. It has a 1.8 but allegedly you can put the 2 liter from the Sentra into it (MR18 -> MR20 swap) and the ECU will adapt to it, as it's just a stroker motor. It has cruise control and manual windows, and mine came without infotainment. I put an Android stereo in it.

Comment Re:Insert Neocon war propaganda (Score 1) 252

even if that were true, china and russia (and iran) have very powerful reasons to put any conflict aside for the time being. also, none of them are typical expansionist/colonialist mindset nations (unlike the west)

Donbas what?

oh, btw, about "russia infiltrating ukraine" ... you should check a bit of ukranian history. "ukraine" literally means "frontier" in russian

Ukraine had paved streets and multi-story buildings while Russians were still crawling in the mud.

Comment Re:False optimism - no permanent tech advantages (Score 1) 252

Ukraine needs to:
(a) make an offer that the Russians can at least use as a fig leaf to concede peace.

Never pay the dane-geld.

Why? So Ukrainian people can live. So its current leader can live. So the country is not at risk.

The only way that's true is if Russia is destroyed. Is that what you want?

Comment Re:No, It Won't. (Score 1) 47

This is true only if "can be done" includes the fine print "maybe within the lifetime of the universe"

At this rate, that's still going to be before someone makes a practical quantum computer. These clowns are dicking around with a handful of qubits with which they can't do anything useful and claiming they're going to have a working and useful solution in three years? Absolute nonsense.

Comment Re:Good Luck (Score 1) 124

Minix was virtually as functional - had Tanenbaum released it under the GPL or a more permissive license, there's a good chance - given Linux's history - we'd be using Minix with the Linux kernel today.

No. GNU was taking over Unix before Linux even existed. Unix sysadmins were installing GNU tools as fast as they could from early days.

Comment Re:Capitalism wins again. (Score 1) 86

I'm not sure what improving capital means.

It means GETTING MORE MONEY.

Capital != money only in that just having money doesn't mean you have enough to invest meaningfully. For the most part it's a bullshit statement, because someone with no money also has no capital. They might borrow some, but what they are borrowing is... money.

Comment Re:Capitalism wins again. (Score 1) 86

Let's be clear: Attempting to prevent the customers that 'bought' your product from repairing them is NOT capitalism.

What? I don't think you know what capitalism is.

Capitalism is all about the free market.

Oh, I was right. You don't know what capitalism is.

Capitalism means one and only one thing: Capital controls the means of production. There are many kinds of capitalism, and "free market" capitalism is only one of them. Regulatory capture is absolutely an expected aspect of capitalism.

People want freedom, not to be owned by the company they thought they were buying stuff from.

Yes, but that's irrelevant to the question of whether or not this is capitalism. Not just slightly, but completely. It has absolutely no place in that discussion.

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