Comment Re:Does anybody care? (Score 0) 8
Look for yourself, but I'm seeing over 30,000 players.
Comment Re:Were their two of their/them(s) /s (Score 0) 33
Were their two of their/them(s)
You can't know the eclipse's gender unless you know which bodies are involved...
Comment Re:Why the myopic obsession with O2? (Score 1, Informative) 24
The appeal of Mars is that it could theoretically be made Earthlike, with a bit of handwaving perhaps, but not wholly outside the realm of plausibility.
As the appeal is in sending humans someday, there's going to be little support for building a toxic atmosphere, especially one which is particularly unpleasant to die in.
Comment Re:Context/Priorities (Score 2) 116
These do not seem to be mutually coherent goals... (subsidizing the power industry, providing NASA with adequate resources, and potentially restarting the nuclear arms race)
Of course it makes sense. Giving it to the power industry means we need to make more, and he can award the contract on a bribery basis.
Comment Re:uh (Score 1) 134
Espionage isn't against international law.
Absolutely not the point. That's not a small amount of money to have wandering around doing things.
Comment How? (Score 0) 44
and currency pressure from a stronger Israeli shekel against the dollar
Is the Shekel really stronger? Or is the dollar just going into the toilet? I'm seeing more and more international boycotts against Israel.
Comment Re:stupid (Score 0) 67
WTF are parents for these days?
Coddling their little cupcakes until they become worse than worthless. Same as it ever was in times of plenty. Unfortunately, it leads to suffering.
Comment Re:Good (Score 4, Interesting) 67
He has been remarkably consistent for his entire tenure on Slashdot. His entire brand is not giving a fuck about anyone but himself, and he's proud to tell you so.
Anything that scares him is bad, and everything scares him.
Comment Congratulations! (Score 1) 71
Apparently the "hot fire" test was a great success!
Comment Re:Grundfos? (Score 1) 60
"Grundfos is a global leader in advanced pump and water solutions, renowned for its highly efficient, reliable, and sustainable pumping systems."
Yeah, what that means is that they are going to be the de facto choice for pumps for european DCs, and yet they are asking the EU to build fewer of them, which will mean less business for them. This doesn't mean what you think it means. Unlike in the USA, a lot of major European corporations are still run with sustainability in mind. They would like there to be a tomorrow for them to profit in.
Comment Re:uh (Score 1) 134
It's likely not bought with tax money. The company has various means.
Sure, it's bought with money from drug trafficking.
I don't want the CIA doing that either.
Comment Re:Blaming Meta is like... (Score 1) 67
The analogy is not quite right. Meta are not analogous to drug dealers. They are analogous to drug designers who tweak the formula to make it as addictive as possible, ignoring any harms.
They are both things, as they are both producing the product and delivering it to the end user, and they are collecting the revenues.
Comment Re:Rejected a push to avoid (Score 1) 67
For example, what does "This is a book that you must on no account fail to miss" mean?
It means someone was being snarky, and if you can't parse it out, it also means you're not good at understanding English.
Comment Re:The algorithm is designed to maximize profit (Score 1) 67
You trust what Zuck says? He has a name for people like that.
Comment Re:Tech industry is right wing? (Score 1) 65
Citation needed
It's called personal experience. Bots like you don't, but real humans actually have such things.
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