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From what people say, if you want french door fridges, Bosch and Fisher Paykel are the ones to go for.

I’ve had 3 LG french door fridges for 5 to 10 years and none have had any issues, and they cost half or a third as much as Bosch and Fisher Paykel.

I feel like I save a lot more money just buying whatever decent rated LG stuff on Costco and replacing it whenever it breaks (hasn’t happened yet).


Do you think this is a consequence of the seemingly quarterly RIFs at Oracle? Is it that offshoring wasn’t such a good idea?

The irony, of course, is that this will likely have a negative impact upon Oracle's reputation, which will have a negative impact upon its value, which will then be resolved with more RIFs.

It's okay. Larry got another island.


At this point if Oracle's reputation has any more negative impact it is liable to roll over and suddenly have an amazing reputation.

I doubt it, look at all other breaches over the years.

If anything Oracle will "contribute" a lot to congress people's midterm reelection and in a few months all will be forgotten and Oracle will get more Gov. contracts.


I mean, the whole business basically started in order to get government contracts. Not even IBM can boast that.

> have a negative impact upon Oracle's reputation

Do they have any positive reputation left, or is it just more negative from the previous negative position?


So. The beatings will continue until morale/profitability improves?

> implying that morale mattered in the first place at Oracle

I think the student is making a mountain out of a molehill. They didn’t “transform him into a studentin” they just replaced him with a female student in the position he was in the original photo.

Sure, it’s stupid to be so lazy that you can’t use a new photo with whatever characteristics you want. It’s also stupid to slim down a chubby student without permission. I think she has more reason to be upset than he has. That said why does the university see the need to alter reality?


It's interesting to see people castigate the host country while wholly absolving their actual home countries from any fault. Like they expect the host country to be better at treating a person who migrates than the actual country the migrant leaves. If anything, people should focus on the faults of the country of origin and get them to treat and accept their own people as their own that they are. And if there is a problem that's driving people from their home countries, fix that. Don't add fuel to the fire where the country is left with the worst of all people with little chance to recover.

Japan and now China, have used automation rather than the importation of foreign workforces. China, according to many accounts, is doing quite well compared to other world economies, Japan is not too shabby either and moreover are not suffering from increased effects of importing foreign labor --China is noticing which path is more harmonious for its people.

Japanese rice cultivation does not really make economic sense, yet they do it and create barriers effectively making foreign rice more expensive that it would be thus making locally produced rice "competitive". If the Japanese can do it, well, so can anyone else.

There are certain lines we can think of that an A.I. system should not cross. The staged set-up is not one of them.

Else, from a logical perspective, these systems would necessarily refuse to make movies where violent portrayals have people as victims. Perhaps the world would be a better place if we did not have such depictions (it’s unsettled) but in no recorded history have we shied away from that.


Adults were kids. Without kids there are no adults. Without adults there is no society. Without pets life is a bit duller but society goes on as it did before people adopted animals as pets.

And without humans life would be just fine in this planet

And if we recursively say that about each and every species as this would reduce to, we can state that Venus and Mars are just fine.

/heitsh/ vs /eitsh/. I think it's mostly Irish with the former.

"I think it's mostly Irish with the former."

Actually, it's a shibboleth. It used to be said in Ireland that Roman Catholic called it "haitch" and Protestants called it "aitch". "Haitch" is to be found furth of Ireland though.


And Australian, I believe.

I'm Australian, and I say 'A Hotel', and 'A Herb'. Until very recently, I'd never heard anyone ever say it differently.

GP is talking about the name of the letter H like when you're saying the ABCs. How do you pronounce it?

Pardon me. I actually pronounce it heitsh, but I don't think there's a concensus among Australians about that.

Sounds like a plot for a Superhero movie ;)


Dibs on Otisburg.

More like a bond villain plot. Nefarious under the guise of altruism. And a volcano lair.

Not exactly a superhero movie, but The Core (2003) is kinda related

Personally I was thinking of the Bond movie "A View To Kill" (the plot to destroy Silicon Valley through activating the San Andreas fault).

That might be tempting if the techbros achieve their post-democracy ideal... ;-)

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