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Comment Re: How does it work (Score 1) 240

It's called constitutional rights, that's why govs can't just reinstate slavery even if it's popular.
Now judges are saying that what's obvious for scientists should also be so for politicians, that whatever your elected opinion is, you just can't vote to hand your children a shitty future.

Comment So sell it! (Score 4, Insightful) 236

The app has an option to transfer ownership of the system, so do the right thing and sell it. Its old products are well supported so they retain good value after some years.
They are being honest about what are they going to do with the thing if you want the discount, they are in the business of selling hardware not refurbishing it. Not right from the lifecycle perspective, but definitely better than making it obsolete after a couple years as we see in other products...

Comment Re: Cheating more of an issue for diesels (Score 1) 203

NOx it's not an issue in gasoline, but CO and CO2 are. And are probably cheated also, for the monster trucks they sell in America. But as it is local industry, audits are softer. And with low taxes on gas, EPA's stance on reducing car emissions is a practical joke.
Your government, reflecting your society, doesn't take the environment seriously; but you are starting to taste climate change in the form of drought, we'll see if that changes.

Comment Re: Sunk cost fallacy (Score 1) 485

Not that well informed you are.
Greece is already in primary surplus, so yes, they could run the country and be in the positive after all.
They have raised to 67 the retirement age, as requested. Progressively, as other countries are doing.
It's curious, creditors didn't have any problem with corruption, while the current government thinks it has been the main reason for the situation they have today.
Over military spending, when negotiations were held, the Germans didn't want to touch it, as it was the main contractor. Maybe it's the only goal Tsipras has marked, halve mil. spending for the next years.

That's it for the facts, in my opinion they should bankrupt now , it's much cheaper than what they seem to be about to sign. As for banks liquidity, grexit and quickly create an electronic currency. In Africa electronic mobile payments via sms are quite common, Greece should be able to do it fast...

Comment Re: It's like Venezuela but without all the gun c (Score 1) 431

Insightful? Really? Just repeating something you saw on Fox news, that is.
German and French banks were going to default because Greek banks were bankrupt. Here comes savior bce to lend the Greek government to bailout Greek banks. Private debt turned into public debt, with a shitload of military spending in the middle that went... Guess it, Germany and France.
Greece problems comes from chronic corruption that fed a network of privileged closed to the governments, and troikas bailouts didn't put any stop to that, which demonstrates that they just want to keep pumping money out of Greece. Tsipras offered to cut military spending, and other cuts that were utterly dissmissed by the troika. They just wanted to cut social spending, to push their agenda, not to make Greece an economically viable state in the long term.

Comment Security standards (Score 3, Interesting) 342

I've been in manteinance in a car factory, and standards are quite simple and secure. You don't enter a âoerobotized cellâ without physically locking the restart key, which is typically besides the door lock. That way you ensure nobody will think the cell is empty and restart production.
I've been in the Wolfsburg plant and it's a modern one, with quite squared workers, so it's very strange that it happened there. In my work life, I've seen reports of this happening twice, albeit not in western plants; it has allways been a breakdown intervention where the worker didn't follow the security rule.

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