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Comment Re:Consequences? (Score 1) 58

There is a story about a math teacher in a flight in the USA, he was taking notes, mostly equations while flying. His neighbour was a lady who could not read a thing of what he wrote. But panicked he would be terrorist.

Seriously: he is writing in a paper booklet, that made him a terrorist ...

For some odd reason the crew emergency landed the flight.

I guess with some google fu you find the story ... it was a few years ago, but not very long.

Comment Re:Future failure (Score 1) 65

I see you have no reading ability. I was referring to "new computer", not the one form the story, very obviously.

I guess the rest of your "analysis" is on "utter crap" level as well. And no, the war in Ukraine is not destroying our economy either. For that you have to get a moron in power that imposes massive tariffs and makes everybody wanting to stop to trade with you at all and removes all stability from trade. Oh, and starts a disastrous war with Iran to misdirect away from him having raped underage girls.

Comment Re:Reasons for solar/wind (Score 1) 93

so expensive stuff like solar panels and wind turbines aren't gonna have a long lifetime there.
Solar panels are not expensive
They are dirt cheap, since years.
If your country was not run by Yahoos, you had factories that chum them out and you would sell them in Africa, instead of China.
An 850W panel costs about THB1000, that is roughly $28.
A 4kW mini installation is 5 panels and roughly $125 - $135.

There are people who run DC appliances directly from the panels, no inverter or batteries involved. For example a pool pump.

Solar panels are expensive in your country, because:
1) they are shipped around half the planet - hint, oil costs
2) some moron thought it is smart to put a high import duty on them
3) there are probably a-hole rules how to set up a small plant

Many solar things are appliances ... for example a street light, with a square foot of solar on top and a battery. It is cheaper to set up than to pull extra power lines and have "normal" lights. Most modern lights are all LED ... so the power cost is insignificant, the battery has 30years warranty. Or the G5 repeaters in the village ... of course they are all Huwei :P

P.S. there are half a dozen new solar technologies getting ripe for the market. However all the technologies to produce them, do not exist in the USA ... because the only thinks you can do are some processors, macs and fighter bombers. Just as if you are not interested in "technology" anymore. If you had not that Eloi, USA had probably no high tech at all anymore.

Comment Re:No, they are wrong (Score 1) 93

We are a republic for this reason. And the electoral college is part of the checks and balances. We need them today just as we did 250 years ago.
Historically the electors where needed because you could not expect all the voters to go to Washington.
So people went to the states, and declared "you tell me how to vote, and I promise, if the guy looks decent when I meet him: I vote as you said". That is where the "electoral college" comes from. However: the elector could vote how ever he wanted.

In our times: they are bound to vote how their state decided the election.

That means: they are completely superfluous. There is no check and balance what so ever ... it only gives the "switch states" irresponsible power.

The USA probably have the wort democratic system of the planet ... and the one that is most resistant to change :P

Comment Re:I'm just not interested in more Star Wars (Score 1) 86

I will note that you apparently believe that fans of SW and ST want to have something they loved torn down and destroyed.

Come on, don't do that. This narrative that somehow the new stuff is retroactively ruining your childhood, that it's specifically designed as an insult to your fandom... That's toxic.

Last Jedi is a good example of that. Some people complain that Luke isn't a Marty Stu anymore, he's not just waiting to be unleashed and go defeat the First Order with a laser sword. That would have been a terrible movie. How unsatisfying would it be that all the Rebels needed to do was find the guy who saved them last time, so he could do the same thing again. It would also prove again that the only people who matter are Skywalkers, everyone else is just waiting for them to resolve their issues.

The whole point was that everyone in the Rebellion matters, they all contribute, and The Force isn't just something that a few privileged people can use to shape events on a galactic scale. Rey is revealed to be nobody special at all, just someone who has the opportunity to do something meaningful. Then they blew all that up by writing a movie that was supposedly based on "fan feedback", and it was the worst one of the lot. Undid all the interesting ideas from TLJ.

Probably one of the worst examples of fans ruining a franchise. It's never really recovered. Andor was only good because it ignored all that stuff, didn't have any Force stuff in it, just ordinary people trying to make a difference, and not because it's the right thing, but because the Empire hurt them and the people they care about.

Comment Re:the "core fans"? (Score 1) 86

That list just proves the point. Finn isn't trying to beat her, he's trying to diffuse the situation. She can't fly the Millennium Falcon better than Han, in fact the first thing she does is crash it into the ground. At no point does she ever demonstrate particularly good piloting skills, unlike Luke who goes from shooting womp rats to taking down a heavily fortifies Death Star in about a week.

I can't be bothered to go through every point, and I'm not disputing some bad writing decisions, but she is in no way a Mary Sue. She is no way the equal of Kylo Ren either, who dominates in his fight with her in the first movie. She never beat Luke in a 1-on-1 fight either, that simply never happens in the movies.

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