Posts by Blank Reg 1094 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Jun 2011
No it does not become a free speech issue because these companies aren't the government, and the first amendment is about the government not suppressing freedom of expression. Anyone other than the government has no obligation under the first amendment and are free to block you, ignore you, not publish your BS etc., no matter how much you may whine about it.
Why are so many Americans so clueless about their own constitution?
free speech has limits, and lies should be called what they are. Not alternative fact, misinformation etc. Trump and his cronies should have been called liars from day 1 but the media didn't want to offend people. And the social media platforms should have cracked down on the blatant lies from the beginning, instead they were the primary channel to disseminate and amplify the lies.
now its too late and there are millions of people who have lost touch with reality.
"Enjoy your Level 4 Lockdown"
Enjoy your 3000 dead per day, soon to be 5000. And all because the toddler in chief couldn't be bothered to deal with reality and his idiot followers who just keep on spreading this plague. On the upside there will be a lot fewer of them in a few months.
I am so incredibly thankful that I'm not American and just get to enjoy this shitshow from the sidelines.
"I truly do not know how come judges have all decided to stay honest when it seems US senators can lie through their teeth with impunity."
Because they actually care about their standing and reputation within the legal profession. And as it's really difficult to kick someone off the SCOTUS they have no reason to be loyal to those that appointed them, especially when they come forward with allegations and no evidence whatsoever
Yes, but Panasonic is hardly the only battery maker out there. Beside the names you know like LG, Samsung, Sony, Toshiba etc, there are also other very large battery makers like CATL and others.
It's not like these companies have been sitting around doing nothing all these years, they have their own fleet of scientists and engineers figuring out how to push the technology forward.
GM's new battery, which I think are being developed with LG, are supposed to be much cheaper than any other current tech. And I'm sure they are not alone. Everyone is trying to make the big breakthrough that would make EVs viable for almost anyone. It would surprise me to see companies like Duracell or Energizer jump in to the market.
Earlier this year Sony showed off an EV at CES. Though I believe it was meant as a showcase for their cameras and sensors, they are actually in a better position to make a car than Apple is as they have a lot of relevant technology already.
Given the poor build quality of their vehicles I don't know that anyone would be interested in their manufacturing technology. Even their battery technology is likely going to be eclipsed by the big battery makers now that they have taken an interest in this market.
It didn't have to end that way for Sun but they got addicted to the high profit margins on their big systems. Solaris X86 was miles ahead of Linux, and had they allowed it to continue then maybe it would have become the dominant server OS instead of Linux. But they didn't want the low end PC servers cutting in on their business and so Solaris X86 wasn't allowed to prosper
The level service depends on the company. The last item I had that failed under warranty was a top end Logitech web cam. I contacted support, told them that I'd tried it on two different computers, and the audio didn't work, meanwhile my other identical web cam worked fine on both. So they just shipped me a new one and never even asked for the old one back.
Or they could have an independent, non-partisan organization that handles elections. The would decide on locations and number of polling stations, set uniform voting rules and most importantly decide on the redistricting without taking into account which kind of voters live where.
But that will never happen. Without gaming the system republicans would never win again.
We can look to history to see what happens when the two ends of the economy grow too far apart. It usually ends with those at the top having heads separated from bodies, or some other equally grisly end.
They could easily avoid that by paying more taxes, or in too many cases start paying taxes. And maybe not be too quick to offshore making their widgets just to make an extra 2% profit.
Exclusives are the main reason to pick one console over another. So as Microsoft has no exclusives then there is little reason to own an xbox.
Sony has been releasing older titles to PC recently, but I suspect a large part of the reason for that is to entice PC gamers to get a Playstation so that they can play the latest iterations of these older games without having to wait 4 or 5 years for a PC release.
Yes it is, You're actually better off capturing the methane and burning it than letting the methane go into the atmosphere, the net impact of the CO2 from burning it is less than that of the Methane itself. And in the process you can generate electricity. It's not at all carbon neutral, but if you've got the methane you might as well use it rather than let it escape.
And it's not just the thawing tundra that is a potential source. We have lots of it under the oceans and those deposits are becoming unstable
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane_clathrate#Methane_clathrates_and_climate_change
Such Hydrogen leakage is too small to pose any serious risk in most applications. And if there is a major leak, gasoline is far more likely to pose a problem than Hydrogen. It's actually not that easy to get Hydrogen to burn or explode, gasoline on the other hand is easy, and it burns for much longer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bFJK5kU_UQ&feature=emb_err_woyt
The real issue with Hydrogen is storage density. There are number of proposed solutions, but we're still waiting for one to take off.
Republicans have been doing this sort of stuff for years, its the only way that they can win.
That's why they are always accusing the democrats of election fraud, they have been cheating for so long that they just can't fathom anyone running for office without cheating.
luckily their supporters are dying off at a greater pace than average, so it's only a matter of time before they become irrelevant.
Isn't it funny how Biden possibly having met a Ukrainian energy exec is a scandal to the republicans, but they seem to be just fine with every one of trump's associates having Russian connections. And it's highly likely that trump himself is in deep debt to Russians. And of course there is the Russian backed disinformation campaign that played a part in his getting elected. But that's ok according to the republicans
"digital currency supercedes cash"
That's not going to happen until governments start issuing their own. Even then it will take a while.
What good is a currency that can take 10's of minutes per transaction and that is accepted at only a tiny number of retailers? Even pro-crypto web sites only list a hand full of places to spend your bitcoin, So few that they can all fit on one infographic. And typically I've not even heard of the majority of the retailers listed.
And what some americans refer to as batshit leftist policies to the rest of the world just looks like center right politics at most
You only have a right wing party and crazy nutcase right wing party. When you're that far right every one else seems left.
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