Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 10
If they both get there and don't stop the race, then the new race will become Mars.
Comment Re:Surprisingly good. (Score 1) 71
Yes, yes America is better. America has problems, but we try to have human rights.
Even the USSR tried to have human rights.
Even the USSR tried to have human rights.
Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 10
According to their stated purpose:
1) National security (because humanity decided we couldn't trust each other, we decided to keep building weapons).
2) National pride (raise the scientific and cultural levels of China, the want to be the world's best).
3) Innovation, discovery, science/technology improvement, the reasons everyone gives etc.
1) National security (because humanity decided we couldn't trust each other, we decided to keep building weapons).
2) National pride (raise the scientific and cultural levels of China, the want to be the world's best).
3) Innovation, discovery, science/technology improvement, the reasons everyone gives etc.
Comment Bon voyage/Huan ying (Score 1) 10
I'm somewhat concerned that the itinerary to the moon in the summary does not seem to include a return trip.
Comment Re: they will keep selling them (Score 0) 71
Have you considered thinking before typing? It comes highly recommended by the finest typers across the nation.
Comment Re:they will keep selling them (Score 0) 71
Sorry, I didn't realize you were an apologist. I thought you were scientific.
Comment Re: they will keep selling them (Score 0) 71
Your idea is that working in a factory is the same as slavery?
Dictionaries are mostly outdated, but you should buy one because you're ignorant.
Dictionaries are mostly outdated, but you should buy one because you're ignorant.
Comment Re:Surprisingly good. (Score 0) 71
You mean workers with no actual healthcare, no real vacation days , no sick days, no parenting days, no paid overtime?
No. They have race-based slavery, and when they get the right age, they harvest their organs. Both of these facts are well documented.
Comment Re:they will keep selling them (Score 0) 71
There's plenty not to like about the way that the Chinese EV business operates. Their factories were massively subsidised by state intervention
Worse, they are built with slavery (forced labor).
Comment Re:they will keep selling them (Score 1) 71
Is there any reason to believe BYD cards will have any less longevity?
These numbers are almost certainly inaccurate, but there is cause for concern.
Comment Re:they will keep selling them (Score 1) 71
I think for the most part in the US, the EV market is saturated...
At the current price point. When they cost $15,000 each, that will open a new market segment.
Comment Re:Resistance is futile :o (Score 2) 47
SystemD people finally building the secure OS they always talked about.
It's not secure.
Comment Re:Might be good news for open source (Score 1) 90
If the only thing in your life is entertainment, then you are already (metaphorically) dead. Goethe wrote about this in Faust.
Comment Re:It continues (Score 1) 42
Some people put a lot of work into curating their slop feed.
Comment Technopeasants! (Score 1) 126
Is it intelligent--or is it a program running on a future-stealing amount of energy, running the fastest video cards--and our memory!
