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Re:Top navy admiral wants rust-free ships on Saturday April 30, 2022 @11:19AM (#31216693)
>JAG

>URL JOs

>BAH

if only i knew what any of those words mean. Why haven't people learned to describe their abbreviation unless they already pre-established that the audience will definitely know them?

Re:On Being Indispensable on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @02:25AM (#30695899)
i think the indispensable idea is from an era where job stability is important and you might be at one company for decades.

The méthode en vogue of the current era is to jump ship every 2 years because that's the best way to get a raise/promotion. With that strategy being indispensable isn't that important because you will self-dispense in 2 years anyway.

Re:Satellite finds methane leaks from gas pipelines on Friday February 04, 2022 @09:37AM (#30207236)
The leak is a cost of doing business of delivering gas to YOU the consumer. So the leak is actually part of your carbon footprint.
Re:People don't want to run their own bank on Friday February 04, 2022 @09:32AM (#30207167)
> That the cryptocurrency space exists in the first place is the evidence of this.

Maybe the existence of banks would be better evidence that 'some' people wanna run their own banks?

crypto shills will say anything to get people to buy into crypto and thus inflating their holdings
Re:Elizabeth Holmes found guilty on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @07:03AM (#29793905)
She effectively stole millions. That's multiple lifetimes worth of work for a lot of people.

If you assume average salary of 100k per year per person with 1/4th of time work per year. that's effectively 400k per year per person. He stole a hundred million which would be 250 years.

Re:Tesla AutoPilot – I give up, it's downright lethal on Monday July 26, 2021 @01:42AM (#27956078)
>where self driving software should be default illegal until proven safe.

Would you apply the same standard to human drivers?

Re:First atomic clock wristwatch (2003) on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @04:41AM (#25914013)
> which is unnatural

There's nothing unnatural about Cs-137. Fission occurs naturally in U-235.

I am not angry or outraged. I didnt call him a hypocrite.

People simply lose sight of the luxury and freedom that we have in modern societies. It takes active reflection and a study of history to really appreciate the things we have.

While an improvement to the economics system or the lives of the common man is possible, you cannot do it if you don't have an honest vision of what the current condition is.

So much work has been done to build the modern society. You wouldn't call linux a waste of time because it has bugs, would you?

A serf cannot 'quit' his lord. An employee can.

Everybody can say 'NO' to the CEO. What you cannot do is agree to exchange your work for his money, and then when he asks you to work, say 'NO'. If you do not wish to work, simply cancel this arrangement.

And the inquisition could BURN YOU ALIVE. HR cannot even physically touch you for fear of the lawsuit.

This comparison is such an insult to the people who had laid the foundation of a modern society, and to those who actually died fighting to defend and maintain such societies, that you should seriously reconsider your position.