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Comment Screenless Cell Phones&Startrek Computers-Stev (Score 1) 44

Hey it's been about 15 years, if you remember me, I'm the #1 Starcraft/Broodwar/Warcraft3 guy.

What you might not know about me is Steve Jobs and Larry Page used my 100+ pages to design the smart phone.
didn't sue them because I was waiting til they became the Surveillance State and they have..
So I showed my designs to Warren Buffet's Lawyers last year and Warren Buffet sold 133$ billion.
Steve Jobs didn't invent the Smart Phone, I did.
See designs at: www.techaform.com
In response to revealing to the world in Fall 2024, Apple/Google did not honor me, instead Tim Cook cost his company $833 billion fighting me:

1) Warren Buffet sold $133 billion in stock when his lawyers advised him my designs were indefensible.
2) Open AI cancelled its deal with Apple. $300 billion(future of Apple)
3) The stock market crashed on March 6th,2025: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fgroup... $200 billion
4) Eu fined/regulated Apple/Google... $200 billion

If I wanted money, I would have sued em 20 years ago for a hundred mil. I'm already succeeding in what I wanted to achieve.
I designed this to fight surveillance state.
Yes, I chose to not take a hundred million when I was young so I could help the world when I was older. Not many are like me.
I saw the phone would have GPS and everyone would use it. As a punk, I stood vs corporations and control at age 23. I saw it coming.
I had a choice: Don't invent the Smart Phone, or invent it so hard that I'd have a hand in the game down the road. I chose to bridge over the River Kwaii it.>
I have a solid following of over 100,000 people today... They see me as a champion for freedom world wide who'd rather live in poverty willingly than give in to the surveillance state. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DG7...
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dozp8GB-i2Z4 5000+ viewer stream shouts me out often
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwolfsheadonline.com%2Fbiggest-story-of-the-century-the-smart-phone-design-stolen-by-not-invented-by-apple-google%2F
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwolfsheadonline.com%2Fse... video: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Frumble.com%2Fv51bj30-jam...
Or: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2FJamesSager%2Fstatu...
Set A: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2FJamesSager%2Fstatu...
Set B: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2FJamesSager%2Fstatu...
web: http://techaform.com/
Design papers from 2000 that Tim Cook stole: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechaform.com%2Fbin%2FSmar...
Dilbert Guy confused about it lol: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...
#1 Virtual keyboard
#2 3 button nav
#3 App store
#4 Palm+Cellular
#5 Cloud Computing
#6 Contact list
#7 Advanced Scheduler
#8 The Smart Watch->Apple Watch
#9 APPLE VISION PRO IN GOGGLE DISPLAY!
#10 Global Positioning System
#11 QR business Cards
#12 Wireless communications in a handheld device
#13 Fuzzy search settings by typing
#14 Different Sounds for different alerts & Vibro/Visual/Sound Alert combo.
#15 Voice recorder
#16 Air tags
#17 Wire to computer to move files
#18 Undo/redo
#19 Contextual help system/Adaptive onboarding and custom icon set circle around ?
#20 Spell Check
#21 Copy/paste
#22 Customizable programmable calculators
#23 Graphical User Interface (GUI) Principles for Mobile for screen realestate-Hideable zones/Customizable Home screen
#24 Email
#25 Media Casting from Mobile to External Display (from _ChromeCast_TO TV _DISPLAY)
#26 Filesystem Navigation in PDA/Smartphone (_filesystemfolder)
#27 Foldable Screen Hardware Design
#28 Different Device size parameters to different users
#29 Ergonomics of Device Dimensions and UI Layout
#30 Pc data link cable:
#31 Ipod designs

So I'm working casually on screenless cell phones and Star Trek like Computer Linux Interface designs...

Comment It's not Waymo's fault (Score 3, Insightful) 169

"I'm not sure a human driver would have avoided the dog either, though I do know that a human would have responded differently to a 'bump' followed by a car full of screaming people," the Waymo passenger wrote on Reddit.

I can tell you exsctly how many human drivers would respond in a situation like this, because I've seen it happen and have heard about it enough times: the driver would have accelerated away from the incident at high speed.

Lots of people are jerks. And others don't want to take the risk of confronting an angry (possibly armed) person who blames the driver for running over their pet.

The dog was unleashed. The legal fault lies with the owner. This was an unfortunate accident, but it is hardly Wayno's fault.

Comment Short! (Score 2) 73

MS stock is only down 1% today. Still time to get in.

They claim to use AI for 30% of their coding. If they had even one person QC this build, this would have been caught. You can't log in to test without hitting this bug.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2F2025%2F04%2F2...

If this is the future, we're all in trouble. And yes. I run Ubuntu, but none of my corporate programs run on Ubuntu. I have to use MS. As does most of the world.

Comment Re:For the record (Score 1) 108

Don't know about the Nürburgring.

However, this is from Car and Driver:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.caranddriver.com%2Fn...

"YangWang U9 Track Edition just reached a top speed of 293.54 mph at a test track in Germany" at the ATP Automotive Testing Papenburg track.

In Germany. Not China.

Comment First hand knowledge (Score 5, Informative) 108

I've been to China a few times in the last few years. I've been in plenty of Chinese EV taxis or "Didi da che" (their version of Uber). Yes. They are good. Ask a cab driver how the car has been for the last 2-3 years, and they have positive comments. Trust me, the cab drivers will bitch about anything they don't like - from government corruption to speed cameras to the long waits at the airport. After 2-3 years of heavy use, the interiors of those taxis are generally in impressively good shape. They hold up. Some of the interiors would hold their own against a Mercedes E class. Same with exterior fit and finish. Take the badges off, and it is difficult to tell the difference next to a new Audi.

Comment Re:Second-generation homeschooling (Score 3) 217

I'll counter your anecdote with my own. I know quite a few homeschooled kids who are now adults who are homeschooling their own children.

Religious motivations aside, those children can all read, write, and perform basic mathematics far above equivalent public school levels. Their grasp of basic science is pretty good, too, at least when it doesn't conflict with religious beliefs. And every one of them plays some sort of musical instrument, and is active in sports.

I was once a homeschooling skeptic myself, but the results speak for themselves. Done right, homeschooling provides excellent outcomes. Done poorly, not so much. But in that respect, it's certainly no different than a whole lot of public schools.

Comment A bit of a double standard (Score 1) 57

Shouldn't the ACLU and EFF be devoting their efforts to ending the Valley Transit Authority's comprehensive video surveillance of all its bus and light rail passengers first?

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.marchnetworks.com%2F...

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

What's been going on with the VTA over the past twenty years makes the deployment of LPR cameras in San Jose look like a joke. An LPR system records license plates, but the VTA records comprehensive video and audio of every single passenger who rides on it. That includes where those passengers get on on off - exactly the sort of "tracking" that the ACLU and EFF condemn.

Exactly when did all those MTA passengers consent to give up their privacy? If privacy is sacrosanct for people driving on public roads, what about people on public transit?

Comment Obvious questions (Score 2) 60

What depreciation method are these companies using? What is suggested by GAAP? What is reality ( or how fast are these chips actually going to zero value? )?

My understanding is that most companies use 3 or 5 year straight-line depreciation with 0 residual value for "computers". This seems reasonable for these Nvidia chips. Are they doing something different?

Comment Re:Why does THE STATE have to pay for all this? (Score 1) 235

You can lament all you want, Ken Fluffernutter, but I will not work to pay for your vacation. That's not going to happen. Stop trying to make it happen.

No amount of definition twisting and and grandstanding will change the fact that no, I will not pay for your plane tickets and parcel deliveries.

The taxes I pay are extracted from my income. And my income is compensation for the time I spend working away from my family, breaking my back or numbing my brain and a return on the the skills and education I spent years and many thousands of bucks to get. With the costs of living and housing rising sharply, it's difficult enough as it is. I will NOT spend a single dime on taxes to pay for the vacations of other people.

Not happening, Ken. Pay for your own stuff.

Comment Re:Why does THE STATE have to pay for all this? (Score 1) 235

Where did you learn to use a calculator? I didn't even check your sources and values, because the math, logic and subject area knowledge alone are terrible enough.

First, maths: you're off by one order of magnitude. 26,8 billion dollars for 16,4 million flights is 1'634 USD per flight. So it's 1,6k per plane, not 16k.

Second, logic: you've duly noted that only 55% of those 16,4 million flights are passenger flights, but calculate them as if they're all passenger flights with 104 pax average per flight, even compounding rounding errors as you go, omitting the 45% cargo-only flights and pretending that shippers for cargo don't need to pay for air traffic security.

Third, subject area knowledge: there are no true scheduled "passenger-only flights" in commercial aviation. What laypeople call "passenger flights" are actually only flights where some air cargo capacity is used by passengers and their luggage. Especially on transcontinental and long-haul flights, "passenger planes" carry an extraordinary amount of air freight and their profitability is hugely dependent on that as well. Making the airline passengers pay the entire flight security tax of that flight would mean the cargo shippers ride tax-free. That's not what we're after.

Cargo shippers, commercial operators, producers, assemblers, too, have their choice of using long-haul trucking, trains, air freight, boats, pigeon carriers or switching to localized production, bulk transport, to and from just-in-time logistics etc.. If company A wants to avoid setting up a warehouse near their production facilities to store all the bits and pieces they need on-site and with sufficient stock to allow for bulk transport, that's their prerogative. Only they can know if the capital assets locked in raw materials are too much compared to just-in-time logistics buying and transporting only the part that's actually needed right now. And air freight costs and air traffic costs play right into that. If company A wants to do just-in-time logistics and company B and C optimize their logistics, localize their production, keep reserves on site? Guess what, A pays the air traffic safety tax, B and C don't.

Same thing. And we can't count the number of boxes or metric tons of cargo vs. passenger counts and the number and weight of their luggage to even properly estimate the actual cost per passenger.

To re-use your simplification to get the absolute upper bound of that tax: if all those 16,4 million flights were passenger-only, air cargo didn't exist like you pretended, and all the flights had 104 passengers on average, then the cost would be 1,6k per flight or 15,71 USD per flight per passenger. Fifteen bucks per flight, at the very maximum, if air cargo didn't exist or was tax-free. And 104 passengers per plane is an absolutely ridiculously low number that applies only to the US domestic market. It doesn't even include the transcontinental flights coming and going to the US, because those are wide-body twin-aisle aircraft that have a LOT more than 104 seats. The top 10 current wide-body aircraft models for long-haul routes have over 200 (737) or over 800 seats (A380). Except these two extremes, most other types carry between 300 and 400 people. They're not flying 70% empty for that "104 passenger on average" number. If airlines actually allow to fly their planes half-empty, that's not a problem for the taxpayer to fix.

No taxation without representation. No taxation to correct or support voluntary and luxury decisions by others. You want it, you pay for it. End of story.

Comment Re: Why does THE STATE have to pay for all this? (Score 1) 235

Any plane will only be given takeoff clearance, if all the costs required to guide it safely to its destination have been paid for.

Anyone who takes off without that clearance gets forced to land by air defense and will be forced to pay for all the costs involving that. Nobody will risk that.

Anyone who lies about the payment of the costs to get that clearance gets docked with these costs and a punitive fine after that. People who risk that will pay later or lose their license to operate an aircraft.

And all of a sudden, all the air traffic safety expenses are paid in full, before the plane took off in the first place, so no plane is ever in the air without air traffic safety.

Comment Re:Why does THE STATE have to pay for all this? (Score 1) 235

If air traffic is a benefit to you, you can pay for air traffic.

I don't pay for your air traffic because you find it too expensive to pay for your air traffic all by yourself.

You can always choose a different mode of transport for you and your package. You chose air traffic, because you wanted that package tomorrow, not next week. You chose air traffic, because you chose to spend your vacation 1000's of miles away. You choose, you enjoy the benefits, you pay the costs. End of story.

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