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Comment Re:The same Reason Many of us Greybeards use MACs (Score 1) 284

Imagine Elon Mask showing up to a Tesla event in diesel VW. He may have good reasons, say he may need to travel longer than the current range of Tesla cars. But how idiotic would it look? The same applies here. I don't buy your excuses. Jim Zemlin is a disgrace.

Comment Re:Does this matter? (Score 1) 1109

So what is the point of withdrawing from a voluntary agreement other than scoring political points? Paris agreement is toothless, but it sets a precedent and has a symbolic value. It is like having elections where the autocratic leader wins with huge majority. It isn't democracy, but it is better than a monarchy.

Comment Re: Mint (Score 1) 510

For me its completely the opposite. When I try to fix a problem with Windows, I google it. Then there are suggestions to click on this, click on that and then untick a certain box. I do it, and the problem doesn't go away. So go to the next solution: click on that, click on this, tick some other box instead. This doesn't work either. Of course the same problem (e.g. no sound) can have multiple reasons. And if your problem doesn't come from a common reason, good luck on ever figuring out what is going on. Instead, if you run a command in terminal, it gives you output. If you run with debug options, it gives you more output. So you can at least have an idea of what to look for. It's not everyone's cup of tea, I get it. But I suspect most fans, like me, love Linux precisely because of the terminal. Why do you want us to get rid of it?

Comment Re:Not a lot of recent San Francisco experience, b (Score 1) 386

If you require dedicated parking for every single business you need to attend, then no city worth living is going to be conductive to having a family. My feeling is exactly the opposite. I used to live (with my small family) in a city in UK where parking was hell, but buses were OK and cycling was good. Now I've moved to a city in Canada, where every shitty convenience store has a huge parking space. You can see very few people walking and even fewer people cycling. The city is lifeless, even for Christmas they didn't bother to decorate the centre a bit. But hey, everyone can park their pick up track, what more do people want, right?

Comment But it is cheap (Score 1) 83

Well, in Britain I used to have a mobile plan with 200min/unlimited text/500MB for 6.90GBP. Since I've moved to Canada, the cheapest decent plan I could find is 40CAD. Sure it has more of everything but my usage for the last month was 44min/19text/53MB. Nevermind, I am sure Canada is a world leader in 4G! Hurray!

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