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Comment Re:Windows 8? Seek help. (Score 1) 103

Oh if you want to fuck around with custom scrips just install Windows 11 and do the same thing. No need to be a complete masochist and than back out when the dominatrix shows up.

There are other things wrong with Windows 11, but most importantly for this conversation, the telemetry isn't added by updates so you can't remove it so trivially.

I have windows 7, 8, 10, and 11 in VMs and bring them up on a non-routed network. I then mostly ruin this by allowing them access to the web via a proxy, but I can turn that off if I wish. I scarcely ever use any of them, but that's OK, I have plenty of disk space.

If I were running Windows on the metal, it would be Windows 10 LTSC, and I would be using that script to remove the added telemetry "updates", which is what I was doing with Windows 7 and 8. But now I do not boot Windows on any machine. I'm done kicking that can.

Comment Re: I don't have any sympathy (Score 1) 30

What about Trump?

He's more of a shitstain than a person, and he was also never poor, which explains how he could afford to spend all that time on Epstein's island where Epstein's procuress claims she never saw him raping the children he definitely raped there.

Were you going somewhere else with that, or...?

Comment Re:Medical evacuation for example (Score 1) 44

A helicopter is definitely not more efficient than a fixed wing.

Indeed. It's also not faster. And since this is VTOL, it will be able to land in most of the places where a heli can land.

None of that necessarily means this particular craft is ideal for medevac duties, but the argument the GP presented is nonsense, as you successfully pointed out.

Comment Re:Could we just get some trains (Score 1) 44

Communists can't stand the idea of people being able to decide where they want to go without permission from the State.

What most public transportation proponents are asking for is not an end to privately owned modes of transportation, but rather their dominance over all other forms of transportation. Furthermore, there is frankly no such thing as a completely privately owned mode of transport. You can own your car, but it is completely meaningless without the road network, and you don't own that. There are literally rough men with guns whose job it is to enforce the rules for using it.

Comment Re:I don't have any sympathy (Score 1) 30

You know what incels are? Generally poor, disabled, and/or just too awkward of ugly.

I never had a hard time getting laid when I was poor and awkward. Ugly is up for debate, I suppose. My level of disability is relatively mild but not zero. But I have always treated other people like humans, and never assumed they owed me sex. I would suggest this to anyone self-describing as an incel.

There are plenty of incels out there who are clearly just assholes, without the charisma that gets some assholes laid. They should try not idolizing assholes, and treating people like people. It might or might not lead to them having sex, but it definitely can help.

Comment Re:Good luck regulating products made abroad (Score 1) 42

It's bad charge management over the life of the cells. That's why AMERICAN devices are known to catch fire, AMERICAN software causes the cells to fail.

Nobody is racist for claiming that Chinese batteries, BMSes, or battery packs can be the culprits, unless they assert that the cause is genetic inferiority.

Comment Re:Explains why Spanish sounds so rapid (Score 1) 39

I didn't think it necessary to specify all the fine print, like that there are variations, because that's kind of obvious.

I was asking about the differences. Therefore everything you said in response to my comments in this subthread was irrelevant, which is kind of obvious.

Comment Re:Explains why Spanish sounds so rapid (Score 1) 39

Correct, I ignored the first sentence of your comment, because it wasn't relevant.

Every sentence in my comment was relevant to the point I was making, which escaped you.

it doesn't change the fact that Spanish speakers have to spit out many more syllables than English speakers, to express the same thought.

That is irrelevant to the point I was making, which is that some Spanish speakers are speaking much more rapidly than other Spanish speakers. You responded with an irrelevant comparison of Spanish to English.

The sentence you ignored was "Spanish speakers also don't all speak at the same rates." How can you possibly believe that to be irrelevant when the subject at hand is the speed at which information is conveyed? That's like thinking different network speeds are irrelevant to the time it takes to transfer a file.

Comment Re:wait but why? (Score 1) 42

Do things get worse when the cabin pressure goes down a bit (approx to 8000 - foot atmos equivalent) ?

That's an interesting question. Most batteries in small devices are pouch cells, and when the pouch bursts they're no longer contained and air can reach their contents. On the other hand, air inside a plane is usually so dry that it can cause some people nosebleeds, so I don't know how big a factor that might be. Especially since I've done some [casual] experiments with swollen pouch cells and they seem to react to atmospheric moisture very slowly. A punctured pouch cell will continue to swell up for a very long period, I've got a small one outside that has been displaying additional swelling for months and months now.

Comment Re:Explains why Spanish sounds so rapid (Score 1) 39

The study related to the speed of communicating *thoughts* and the pauses between them, estimating that each phrase took 1.6 seconds.

Your reply shows you ignored the first sentence of my comment. No sentence in that comment was irrelevant to my point. If you like, you can take another stab at it.

Comment Re:How do we explain Shatner? (Score 3, Interesting) 39

I am more interested in whether it's possible to overclock your speech.

I have to read some stuff to people on a regular basis. If it's clearly the umpteenth time they've heard it then I read it quickly. If it seems to be the first time, I go much more slowly. If they're in a hurry then I read it very quickly. I know my diction is still good (and therefore the same amount of information is being conveyed) because I regularly receive compliments on how I am able to read it very rapidly and still be understood. I also invite them ahead of time to let me know if I'm going too fast, and nobody has done so yet.

You can definitely overclock your speech. Watch a drug commercial.

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