jabjoe

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[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

FPTP is going to give us a Farage reich with less than a third of the vote.

The voting system desperately needs changing. The left needs this more than the right as it's always more split. It's more idealistic, less comprising. Reform/UKIP/Brexit has been the right's split from the Conservatives, but Labour has LibDem, SNP, Plaid Cymru, Greens and now more.

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 0 points 1 month ago

What's more important? Stopping people cheating at games via technology or digital freedom to prevent all kinds power abuse? (Forced obsolescence, surveillance, anti-features, etc)

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-near-future-tale-of-refugees-and-sinister-iot-appliances/

I don't care that much about games to be honest. If they get caught cheating, how about just legal action?

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago

Partly, it will be they do care. But also, them appearing to care brings in more customers. This isn't going to change prices anyway, directly, because of the way energy is priced by the most expensive source, gas. Renewable companies already have a great profit margin because they are so much cheaper than gas, but with more storage, it could be cheaper still. I.e. more profit.

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

So I've finished rereading the first one. Your right! It's head is "generic human". The joints for arms and legs are a mix of organic and nonorganic, but to pass, it needs a long shirt and trousers. Less human in looks than in the TV series, who we see in the nude to make it clear he is not a sex bot.

Edit:

In the second book: "I don't know if there are any augmented human with enough implants to resemble a SecUnit. It seams unlikely a human would want that many implants, or would survive whatever catastrophic injury might make them necessary."

So yes, the TV series has the body wrong even head is acceptable.

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So we dont buy US military kit. It's got kill switches and hard to keep running without their support. It's increasing looking like they aren't aligned with the free world.

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago

If they use means more funding to foundations & projects, this helps everyone. You can see a feedback loop were more and more things hit critical mass. This is a nightmare scenario for the big closed source houses.

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 6 points 1 month ago

Can't talk of heatpumbs, but EVs are great. Been two years being an all EV family. I still don't see enough curb side opposition for people without drives. Home charging x10 cheaper than dino juice, but public chargers (80p per kWh), are basically the same cost. So without home charging, there is little to no cost saving. Which is not only unfair, but will slow EV adoption.

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The series is the next book on my list, and I flew from them first time. Looking forwards to rereading (I never normally reread). :-)

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago

We remember/interpret it slightly differently. I'll be rereading soon. See what I second time round. 😀

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

But the whole point of the modifications was so it could pass as human. Which means beforehand, it was a struggle to.

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 0 points 1 month ago

Poor researched articles is normal. Real journalism is rare. You said Munich was a failure and that really isn't true if MS had to work so hard to squash it.

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago

Agreed. I hope they pull it back. It's clearly where anyone would prefer to live!

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