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Re:Is Rotten Tomatoes Still Reliable? A Statistical Analysis on Thursday August 21, 2025 @08:10AM (#44971760)
Critics often score based on first few episodes to be released in, and never revisit the score. And if it's shiny/ expensive (and RoP was both) and seems like it might lead somewhere, they risk ridiculing themselves by being too critical.
Re:A Man Who Coined the Word "Robot" Defends Himself on Monday January 22, 2024 @11:09AM (#39091050)
I believe it's a similar thing. Semi-educated guess based on historical facts: Because of various (not least religious) reasons, Czech-speaking intelligentsia pretty much ceased to exist mid-17th century (fact, replaced by German/Latin) and only actual serfs spoke Czech, work and robota became defacto synonym (speculation). And when it became fashionable and cool to speak Czech 100-200 years later for the city-dwellers (fact), they probably felt the need to differentiate whatever they were doing as a job from the definitely uncool farmers of the countryside (speculation).
Re:A Man Who Coined the Word "Robot" Defends Himself on Monday January 22, 2024 @08:37AM (#39089372)
No, in Czech the meaning really is more specific and forced labor is not an overly bad translation, it's work done by serfs in medieval times. It can be used to describe any work as heavy, but that's either in joke, or when used by people geographically close to Poland (typically referring to mining).
Re:The new and upgraded Framework Laptop on Thursday May 19, 2022 @11:13AM (#31435754)
Ouch, that hurts. It seems you're right at least about Dells, and HPs are going too.
Re:The new and upgraded Framework Laptop on Thursday May 19, 2022 @10:25AM (#31435070)
Business class Dells and HPs have one too. Named differently because TM but good enough.
Re:RasPBX Installation for Beginners on Friday November 26, 2021 @05:00AM (#29348862)
That's not true for over two years. Capped by EU at 19 eurocents a minute. And 70 dollars is pretty expensive, I think you should check if there aren't better deals available (I assume it's CZ?)

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/MEMO_1...

Re:Czech gunmaker CZG buys Colt in cash and stock deal on Friday February 12, 2021 @02:55PM (#26117841)
Nope on the first part. 8M adults, 300k gun permits. And that's including almost 100k active police/military. As for the latter part, maybe, but there is way more guns in US than in CZ. And last time I checked.. Let's say I don't think there is any correlation between the two statements.