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bymaroberts
2020 @03:27AM
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Attached to: Dr. Anthony Fauci Says New Virus In China Has Traits of 2009 Swine Flu, 1918 Pandemic Flu
Trump and Biden look like pretty bad choices in comparison
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bymaroberts
020 @09:43AM
(#59787214)
Attached to: World Chess Champion Plays Recklessly Online Using a Pseudonym
Rod Stewart goes to model railroad conventions and he hasn't done too badly over the years, maybe this is the secret of his success.
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bymaroberts
2020 @09:49AM
(#59710662)
Attached to: Bill Gates Did Not Order a £500m Hydrogen-Powered Superyacht
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/tec...
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bymaroberts
21, 2019 @06:13AM
(#59438480)
Attached to: A Mysterious Burst of Energy In Space Has Smashed Records
We can 'see' up to about 45 billion light years away (for various reasons)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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bymaroberts
19 @03:54PM
(#58857120)
Attached to: America Needs To See Amazon's Tax Returns
Trump wanting to see tax returns of someone who makes a lot of money.
Wonder who it reminds me of.
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bymaroberts
2019 @05:36AM
(#58833436)
Attached to: Reddit Quarantines Pro-Trump Forum Because of Threats
..is how leaving the state can stall a vote?
An absent person should simply be regarded as abstaining, and on top of that it shouldn't be impossible now to have remote or proxy voting if an absent person does not wish to abstain.
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bymaroberts
2019 @09:13AM
(#58787894)
Attached to: Secretive Magic Leap Says Ex-Engineer Copied Headset For China
When you work for a company, well not all of them but good luck finding a company to work for that doesn't nowadays, you typically sign over the rights to anything you produce as a a result of your employment in your employment contract.
You may sign over the rights to them, but your experience in designing such devices is a marketable commodity, and provided you don't breach any patents obtained or copyright, then you are free to work for someone else on the similar concept. Contracts preventing continuation of an individuals trade are generally not enforceable.
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bymaroberts
019 @11:59AM
(#58782478)
Attached to: Woman Knocked Down While on Phone Wins Payout From Cyclist
“Even where a motorist or cyclist had the right of way, pedestrians who are established on the road have right of way. Mr Hazeldean did fall below the level to be expected of a reasonably competent cyclist in that he did proceed when the road was not completely clear.”
Mauger said Brushett‘s conduct as a pedestrian must have contributed to the accident. “Ms Brushett must clearly have equal responsibility if she is crossing the road without looking – and if she is looking at her phone, even more so,” she said.
The judge’s ruling found that the parties shared responsibility, so while Brushett is guaranteed a payout, she will get only half of the full value of her claim.
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bymaroberts
2019 @06:56AM
(#58730042)
Attached to: EU Laws Requiring Audible Warning Sounds For Electric Cars Take Effect July 1
...I'm surprised Electric cars just don't auto-play some bangin' tunez from their audio stereo system for the noise output.
Although it would be a bit unfortunate if someone was an experimental music nut and decided to play 4'33" by John Cage all the time.
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bymaroberts
2019 @09:41AM
(#58712452)
Attached to: Retired Georgia Tech Professor Is Suing Uber, Lyft For Patent Infringement
You should have posted this with a proper userid as this actually a sensible comment.
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bymaroberts
2019 @08:15AM
(#58690480)
Attached to: Russian Military Moves Closer To Replacing Windows With Astra Linux
Nuclear Wessels!
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bymaroberts
2019 @03:07AM
(#58670740)
Attached to: Exploding Stars Led To Humans Walking On Two Legs, Radical Study Suggests
Reforestation after a fire happens pretty rapidly so I don't think evolution would get the chance to produce a grassland oriented creature in that sort of timescale.
30-50 years after any fire, the forest would be back again.
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bymaroberts
9 @05:20AM
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Attached to: Theresa May, Undone by Brexit, To Resign as UK Prime Minister
I don't think you can compare Boris to Trump. The difference is that Boris is only a clown on the surface.
Boris was an effective Mayor of London. He managed to get the Olympics off without any problems. On the surface he plays to the gallery but underneath he's a lot brighter (and better educated) than Trump. Whilst he didn't get a First, his Upper second Oxford degree is genuine.
Boris is allegedly quite lazy, but as a result delegates well, unlike (say) Trump.
I do agree he wouldn't be a good leader of the country. He wasn't a great Foreign Secretary and being able to get on with foreign leaders and be diplomatic is a necessity in a Prime Minister
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bymaroberts
9 @04:35AM
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Attached to: Theresa May, Undone by Brexit, To Resign as UK Prime Minister
Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain surrendered to mounting pressure from her lawmakers
They're called MPs (Members of Parliament) or possibly Conservative Members of Parliament as the others have no say in the matter/
You don't refer to members of the US Senate and Congress as 'lawmakers'
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bymaroberts
019 @04:09PM
(#58615216)
Attached to: Russia's Anti-5G Propaganda Campaign Is Spreading Across Social Media
Must get a new tin foil hat
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