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Comment Re: "Buy now, pay later" (Score 1) 63

then as long as you don't spend the cash in your account and keep it there for an emergency then the only way you can default on it is if you had an emergency that you had to spend the money.

Or you get hospitalized, or just really busy and forget, or you leave payoff to the last minute and the 'net is down, or whatever. This will happen to a percentage of people, so they will make a percentage on top of fees. It might not happen to you, but it definitely happens to people.

Comment Re: Here we go... (Score 4, Insightful) 36

"What I don't want is a mass subpoena exposing answers I received. That's called privacy."

What you should have realized was that every interaction was being retained, and this meant it was out of your control.

"I can't imagine how anyone thinks that is funny. My problem is with the court- not the AI."

Your problem is that you're using AI with your brain turned off. Practically every slashdotter would laugh at your lack of realization that data, once out of your hands, is out of your control. There is no cloud, you are not Buddha, your data just went to someone else's server and it was always subject to subpoena and this is true of everything you ever did online. Nobody is throwing away data they have about you except as required by law, and they probably sold it first.

Comment Re:We respect each other, but we still compete ... (Score 1) 66

There is a long list of companies destroyed by MS and Gates from very early on in the 80s.

As if some open source devs never had dreams of replacing some commercial software.

Did those open source devs willfully abuse a monopoly position in basically every way possible, as the USDoJ found Microsoft did under Gates? Fuck your whataboutist billionaire worship cuckery.

Comment Re:Was probably cheap to just bury it... (Score 1) 50

Evil? This is the price of modern life. You want your electronics, medical devices, cars, cozy homes, etc, etc? They all require manufacturing that generates lots of waste. It has to go somewhere.

Fine. But maybe not somewhere near groundwater, hm'kay?

Is there anywhere in Western Europe that isn't "near groundwater?"

Comment Re: Synthetic fuels (Score 0) 322

I mean, there are no recent calculations there to indicate X amount of fuel is required, required algae feedstock, yields, areas, etc. It's from 1998.

Oh, I see that you didn't read it, as the study was literally about which algae is required. Since you don't seem to want to read it, let me explain: The primary takeaways are that it's not beneficial to try to choose a specific algae, and you can recapture up to 80% of the CO2 emissions of a fossil fuel power plant by bubbling the exhaust through algae ponds.

If you're too lazy to read the study, at least read the conclusions.

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