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Comment Re: This is like SF (Score -1, Flamebait) 133

London. Conservative? Hahaha. Yikes. Those are words so diametrically opposed in substance that I refuse to put them in the same sentence.

No. This is purely the result of the "progressive" globalist set importing so many third worlders that native English are a -20 point minority in their own capitol, police being directed to turn a blind eye to any number of criminal transgressions if the perpetrators fall on the right side of the paper bag test, while simultaneously going after native English for things such as going to church during the Covid lockdowns while ignoring the politicians throwing extravagant bashes, going after comedians, politicians, and regular citizens for posting unapproved narratives and very mildly spicy language on the internet, prosecutors turning away cases such as the former while voraciously persecuting the later.
London in particular, and the UK as a whole is seemingly the result of someone asking "what is a sensible, rational approach to successful governance of a population?" and then doing the exact opposite.

Comment Re: Not cheap enough yet (Score 1) 265

Old cars certainly can't hold a candle to new cars in the spying department. Practically all of them have remote data connections now, so every aspect of your life can be monitored and monetized by global data brokers. At least my old car won't rat me out to my insurance company if I'm a little happy on the accelerator, or if I occasionally use my brakes to their full ability.

Comment Re: Latency? (Score 1) 90

That feature has been baked into mobile operating systems for quite a while now; If you're just listening to something, it's automagically accounted for; I forget what Bluetooth spec that was introduced with. Video frames are buffered a bit behind the audio and it all syncs up so you don't feel like you're watching a kungfu movie dubbed in English. Where it is a problem is actual interactive programs. Games, music making programs etc. where user inputs regularly need to by synced to the sound. No way around it.

Comment Re: misplaced quotation marks (Score 1) 110

The US military mandated all sorts of vaccinations without informed consent, and with often with dubious reasoning, readiness be damned. Basically you're the governments Guinea pig, you'll take the shot and that's that.

For example, the use of the anthrax vaccine was halted when it made a whole bunch of those young able bodied men late to go to war back in 2004. There were all manner of congressional hearings about it; then they modified its use guidelines to include only soldiers likely to encounter it (basically nobody outside of bioterror units), scaled back the dose, and also reduced the number of doses.

Comment Re: Unacceptable (Score 1) 120

I wonder why that is. Wouldn't be related to the fact that one is able to go into the store, rip them off for less than a grand and walk away scot-free, and then do it again next Thursday, tomorrow and every day which ends with a Y?

That's kind of the point: these policies, like almost every other so-called liberal policy, have enriched and protected the criminal at the expense of everyone else. Even if the harm was limited only to inconvenience of having to find a Walgreens employee to fetch a product behind plexiglass (it very definitely isn't), then not only have these policies enabled criminals to rob a corporation blind, they have robbed society at large of something even more important but less tangible. Trust.

Comment Re:IANAL but... (Score 2) 93

Disney surely still has trademark on all variants of Mickey and key characters of their old animations. Using those characters in a commercial context could be construed as linking Disney and that commercial enterprise, when there is no such affiliation. They will NEVER approve of it.

Because it's out of copyright, one could freely broadcast the animations, include them in an anthology of old animations, play them on a projector for the neighborhood, etc. That does not mean you can adopt Mickey as your company logo.

Comment Re: Is there anyone here that voted for Trump (Score 1) 264

The core principle here is that Americans should believe that Elections are Free and Fair

I do not care what camp you hail from, but those are wishy-washy lawyer-speak level words I cannot abide. Most Americans believe some mighty retarded shit at the end of the day, and if they believe elections,
  as we know them, are free and fair then they have good company in the people who believe sky daddy wants the Jews to slaughter civilians--and that we should be complicit in the act by paying for it--and the people who believe men can become women and vice versa and that EVERYONE else should follow that delusion, and that everything our civilization offers should be free to foreign invaders.

Replace "believe" with "have" and I will vehemently agree with you.

Comment Re: So much winning! (Score 1) 321

You're off by about 3/4 of a century. Margarine became a mass market thing around the civil war era, if not a little before. Perhaps corpos strongly pushing margarine as a healthy alternative to butter began around WWII. Of course like most marketing, it is almost entirely bullshit.

Comment Re: It's ending... (Score 1) 258

In the case of kits like that, it's more likely that being a low volume business, that sort of thing will be handled by a contractor who already has an injection molding line which has capacity to spare, and the completion--retail boxing, inspection, cutting spruces etc) would be done by the kit maker.

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