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nepotism2016on Who Owns England?

So the domain wasn't available

nepotism2016on Who Owns England?

Either the author doesn't know England is not Britain or the domain wasn't available. Scotland and Wales are a different country to England

nepotism2016on Xperia Touch makes any surface interactive

Looks awesome. Now I need someone to write up a Raspberry Pi version

nepotism2016on America’s Cars Are Getting Faster and More Efficient

I just came back from Boston, every other car was a SUV

nepotism2016on Introducing Surface Laptop

" up to four more hours of battery power than a 13” MacBook Pro."

isn't this sign of defeat? mentioning another competitor in your marketing

nepotism2016on Wikipedia blocked in Turkey

Before Erdogan, Turkey had no middle class. You either lived in remote villages and lacked education OR you were "rich" thanks to high level of nepotism. Well, Erdogan changed all this, he moved people to into cities and these people didn't forget and started to vote for him.

Before then, the Kemalist or secular people were very relaxed, they knew from history if some how they lost the government, military coup will restore power. Again, Erdogan changed this.

Even by anti-erdogan majority, Erdogan is seen as the only true politician in Turkey, he knows how to convince or play people/groups. Just ask Gulen Movement!

nepotism2016on Amazon Echo Look

throw it against the wall and see what sticks?

nepotism2016on Exercise 'keeps the mind sharp' in over-50s, study finds

I hate direct exercising, ie running around my local area or going to the gym. However what I do love is participating in activities which require exercising; mountain biking, table tennis, football, hiking and badminton. I love all of these sports for its social benefits and most of the time I forget I'm exercising :)

nepotism2016on How SSH got port number 22

I was hoping for some epic Lord of the Rings story, disappointed...but SSH makes up for it :)

nepotism2016on Whistleblower uncovers London police hacking of journalists and protestors

I'm really shocked, not. How else do you control society lol

nepotism2016on Is the F-35 a Trillion-Dollar Mistake?

Does the world need F35...by the sounds of it f22 was good enough

nepotism2016on Why F.E.A.R.’s AI is still the best in first-person shooters

AI hasn't moved on because multiplayer world has exploded in the last 10 years

nepotism2016on How 1,600 People Went Missing from U.S. Public Lands

Sounds like first season of True Detective

nepotism2016on Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 light years from Earth

James Webb Space Telescope is going to accelerate all of these discoveries by x100...star KIC 8462852 is clearly aliens!!!!

nepotism2016on France’s military is training eagles to attack drones

Talk about animal abuse lol

nepotism2016on As Leaks Multiply, Fears of a ‘Deep State’ in America

Oh yeah...the countries listed in that article, which one has a state in state without any influence from outside?

nepotism2016on As Leaks Multiply, Fears of a ‘Deep State’ in America

"Deep state" requires influence from outside, Russia? I really much doubt it. Turkeys deep state goes back all the way to Gladio setup by NATO after WWII

nepotism2016on Elon Musk: Humans must merge with machines or become irrelevant in AI age

So tesla is leading the very thing that Elon is warning will cause chaos...brilliant

nepotism2016on Oxfam: World's 8 richest as wealthy as half humanity

Greed is good, baby...I mean poor people

nepotism2016on Amazon to Create 100,000 New Jobs in U.S. In Next 18 Months

Might as well rename the company "Trump" - BTW "Amazon Just Got Slapped With a $1 Million Fine For Misleading Pricing"

nepotism2016on A man who put up $1.5M to help 200 Syrian refugees

Good on him, he did more than I would ever do. However I believe in helping communities rather than individuals

nepotism2016on UK Government is breaking the law by collecting everyone's internet data

Alexa...tell GCHQ to sod off

nepotism2016on Amazon Sells Out of Echo Speakers in Midst of Holiday Rush

For useless stuff like playing music, setting timer, checking train status, creating reminds on gmail

nepotism2016on Amazon Sells Out of Echo Speakers in Midst of Holiday Rush

My amazon dot and Rpi3 enabled kodi are next (literally) to each other, yet communication needs to leave the house for them to talk to each other...sort it out amazon!

nepotism2016on Cisco confirms it’s killing Intercloud public cloud in March 2017

I work for a big corp working on openstack, given the rate of companies dropping openstack makes me think I should look to move on

nepotism2016on Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS

This site can’t be reached

I guess I google virtual private servers

nepotism2016on Docker and Canonical Partner on Commercially-Supported Docker Engine for Ubuntu

like xen? I sat on a 10 minute presentation during openstack meetup, Ubuntu dude presented LXD...then I asked myself...xen does all this...then again choice is always welcomed

nepotism2016on EmDrive study officially published

For those who dig this stuff...I strongly recommend you watch BBC Horizon episode Project greenglow

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x40a65t

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How many founders does k8s? I thought it was Brendan Burns

nepotism2016on Fewer than 3% of cars sold in the U.S. have manual transmissions

I got to San Francisco last October and was due to pickup my "top class" rental car from AVIS. I got to the parked car and noticed it was automatic. I straight away thought this was a mistake and ran upstairs to ask for a manual transmission car. The two ladies before the counter looked all confused and said I would be very lucky to find such car...something like a sports car.

So I spent the next 20 minutes inside the car trying to figure out how I'm going to operate a saloon, automtic (I havent driven before), wrong side of the road on a busy motorway (san fransciso airport is next to the highway)...

By the end of my "training" week...I loved the automatic transmission...It even allowed me to roll my window down, hang my arm out while playing California love by Tupac&DR Dre....American dream?