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we need to add our own battle royale mode into Fortnite" and -boom- the rest was history.

Metoo usually doesn't sway players to drop one game for another.

Remember there's another difference:
Pubg: https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbo...
Fortnite: https://3bonlp1aiidtbao4s10xac...

And then also remember that realistic shooters come and go while Team Fortress 2 still has a player base 11 years later: https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker...

I think there's another highly popular online game I'm missing too... https://image.redbull.com/rbco...

Those pictures should tell you the difference and why Fortnite appeals to masses.

Java's bizarre "Duke" mascot makes no sense, was created by a homosexual, and both would ideally be exterminated.

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If you're going to make a reference, the least you could do it spell it correctly. It's "Perri-air".

Stripes painted by Wile E. Coyote ...or the DOT

Tesla dutifuly follows stripes into wall

And let's not forget what a Tesla does when it can't find the stripes: it follows the vehicle in front of it. Lawyers can't wait 'til a drunk driver leads a train of Telsas off a cliff.

If you are going to make jokes about Chris, you should at least TRY. Here are a few photos for you to look at:

http://www.chipscollection.com/Foto/Usa-58.jpg
http://cdn1.viewpoints.com/pro-product-photos/000/007/258/300/1195075582-08966_full.jpg
https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2722/4365267305_1f5bcdb3cc.jpg
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--r46VgJ3W--/c_fill,fl_progressive,g_center,h_900,q_80,w_1600/ayrpv3s5wm7efa2z8wu4.png

I hope I have illustrated my point. What is interesting is that their marketing team changed it from "cooler" to "cool" in recent years. Are their flavors different? Or was it a ploy to milk more money from the general populace by increasing MSG content and making the product more addictive. You decide, and post in the comment section below.

And remember to have a great day.

Apparently he even plagiarized his resume when applying for IGN.

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker...

There are a total of 6 ads on that page.
I am pretty sure one is the special offers which can be removed.
The other and the My Reading list need to go

Also need a list view without the cover page as well, but I doubt that will ever happen. People like pictures.

Magnets are magic.

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker...

Face it, ICEs are going to go away sooner or later. If practical, I'd rather it was sooner. I've been repairing and maintaining ICE vehicles of all kinds since I was 15, and it's no picnic.

Me too, and I find the activity cathartic... maybe you're just a shitty diagnostician :P

An electric vehicle would be so much easier to be killed by ...

FTFY. At least with an ICE I don't have to worry about being electrocuted.

A picture is worth a thousand words. It's key selling point - form factor - has been nearly eliminated. The MacBook Pro is almost exactly the same size, and has a lot more power for only a few hundred more.

Picture? All I see is a ultra-light portable device with very popular standard I/O ports vs. a thermally challenged box of soldered proprietary crap with a rather fucked keyboard.

Oh the new MBP has power alright; the power to force you to pay for 1,001 dongles. "Cheap" my ass.

A picture is worth a thousand words. It's key selling point - form factor - has been nearly eliminated. The MacBook Pro is almost exactly the same size, and has a lot more power for only a few hundred more.

[example of fake ad from the article]

"CLICK ALLOW TO GET THE NEW PIC'S [sic]"

Available buttons: "Subscribe" and "Continue"

There can be only one correct image of Jesus. (SFW, unless you work in a bowling alley)

Yes, like all of the solar panels that blew away at the San Fermín plant? Oh wait...

Solar plants, like all plants, survive what you engineer them to survive.

Check out tt-rss. It even looks like Google Reader and ships with a plugin to support Google Reader shortcut keys!

That doesn't turn out well

They expect people to publish research into how to take some English search terms and then search a pile of assorted documents in different languages. The public can see (some of) HOW one can search text. So we get to see some ideas about searching general text.

Which text they later search, for what reasons, is a completely separate issue. If they can get a system like this developed, they would be foolish if they didn't use it in their national security mission. In fact, most intelligence is from open sources (OSINT). The challenge for the intelligence agencies is to glean some useful information from the billions of newspaper articles, forum posts, tweets, ads, presentations, scholarly papers, job postings, etc that are available. For example, if a government posts a job ad for highly skilled machinists, and separately a requisition for Acme model 502 control circuits, and got a large shipment of helium, and the power plant in Skitsville is supplying abl heavier load than normal, that suggests the country is building ______ in Skitsville. The challenge is finding all these little bits of information, and then putting the pieces together. Before 9-11, various US agencies had different pieces of intelligence, but none had them all together, to see how the tidbits fit together to reveal the danger.

Here's an entertaining example where there was no need to put the pieces together, the spy agency just needed to find this one secret published in the open. When the B2 bomber was revealed to the public, reporters only got a front view and had to stand 200 feet back, so they couldn't see the rear of the plane or the overall shape as would be seen from above. BEFORE even that much was revealed, Honda ran this ad:

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker...

Honda got called to Washington to answer how the hell they knew exactly what the plane looked like - nothing like that had been released, the shape was classified at the time. Intelligence services from other nations only had to find that ad, in a mountain of ads, to get a picture of the USA's top-secret plane.

Similar in the UK. A video was release of two armed officers who were dealing with a report of some teens with a handgun. Their getting if the situation was pretty damn good.

https://youtu.be/ehzq9OdE2w0

It's bizarre. Police in the states seem to be trained in conflict escalation - immediately point your firearm at the suspect - but I suppose that's a side effect of having an armed population.

Take for instance the British army, they are trained to always have their weapons pointed at the ground as deescalation is the priority when dealing with civilians.

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker...

That's because despite all the supposed animosity in the news between tech companies like Google and Apple the reality is that the top tech CEOs are all best friends. Gates, Jobs, Schmidt, they all know each other and spend time with each other.

Ritchie wasn't a top tech CEO. Now I completely agree with you, but my point is that the decision wasn't made at Google based on contribution, it was made based on personal relationships at the top. Recognise that and it'll make a lot more sense.

Photos from 2010, at the hight of the supposed Google-Apple smartphone animosity:

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker...

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker...

This FWIW is also why there were issues with collusion on keeping salaries down by agreeing not to take each others employees - because whatever the supposed competition between the companies, the bosses just wanted to keep on getting rich together at the end of the day.

It's important to becareful not to conflate the public image of companies like Google with the reality of the fact that they're still out to make money, and their bosses are still very human, and make very human decisions and mistakes. As companies go Google et. al. do quite well at keeping things decent (They're certainly no News International for example), but ultimately you'll never eliminate human faults like greed and selfishness from the process whilst humans remain involved in it.

That's because despite all the supposed animosity in the news between tech companies like Google and Apple the reality is that the top tech CEOs are all best friends. Gates, Jobs, Schmidt, they all know each other and spend time with each other.

Ritchie wasn't a top tech CEO. Now I completely agree with you, but my point is that the decision wasn't made at Google based on contribution, it was made based on personal relationships at the top. Recognise that and it'll make a lot more sense.

Photos from 2010, at the hight of the supposed Google-Apple smartphone animosity:

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker...

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker...

This FWIW is also why there were issues with collusion on keeping salaries down by agreeing not to take each others employees - because whatever the supposed competition between the companies, the bosses just wanted to keep on getting rich together at the end of the day.

It's important to becareful not to conflate the public image of companies like Google with the reality of the fact that they're still out to make money, and their bosses are still very human, and make very human decisions and mistakes. As companies go Google et. al. do quite well at keeping things decent (They're certainly no News International for example), but ultimately you'll never eliminate human faults like greed and selfishness from the process whilst humans remain involved in it.

Except Comcast is quite squarely in bed with Democrats

Total load of bullshit. Comcast gives tons of money to Republicans.

From 2014 a breakdown of money given to Senators and House members from each of the telecom companies:

Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet

House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology

Except Comcast is quite squarely in bed with Democrats

Total load of bullshit. Comcast gives tons of money to Republicans.

From 2014 a breakdown of money given to Senators and House members from each of the telecom companies:

Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet

House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology

the original Galaxy Note https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker... running their own fork of AOSP (or perhaps cyanogenmod) vs apple's latest and greatest with manufacturer tested OS.

Thanks for that. In your link I see number of sunspots, what I found interesting was the cycle length, shown here:
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.g...

Is there a direct correlation between the two?

Of course, all of these charts may or may not mean much. After all:
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker...

AK-47: https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker...

We're facing a dangerous regime which is under the control of a guy who still uses a trackball mouse. How is that not news for nerds?

Yes, Simpletons. We ought to have 25 people selling the last mile

Here's the libertarian version of network delivery - New York City:

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-...

https://keithyorkcity.files.wo...

Lest we think it can't happen today - in India:

http://farm2.staticflickr.com/... By the way folks, don't use the many providers over one fiber stuff - to have one company put up the wire/fiber then force them to allow anyone to use and charge fo rit is about as anti-libertarian as you can get.

Anyhow, would you force this person to use a mens room? http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-... http://www4.pictures.zimbio.co...

Yes. Does she have a dick? Because then double yes.

No - she's had the complete changeover She has no tallywhacker.

Putting that aside, they could walk into a ladies room and no one would care unless they told them, but they've had enough work that it wouldn't cause a problem because they're not obviously men jammed into a dress. That's not, however, even close to the norm and you know it. If that was the average man who is trying to look like a woman, then I doubt anyone would care. That's not the case. You don't make the law for the ones who manage to get reconstructed into reasonable looking facsimiles of females.

But dear sir, I'm not making the argument, the people who are moritifed and believe that men are suddenly going to go harass women in bathrooms and then claim they identify as women is what they and probably you are so fearful of.

And as for getting beat up in bathrooms, and your horror, just imagine what gays and transgenders go through. I doubt they'd have much sympathy for the stramen of the fearful.

MOck might be killed for going into a men's room, and you brush it off like so what? Welcome to not only being consumed by fear, but pray thet you never have a gay child of grandchild who is subjected to the special treat the fearful might perform on him or her.

Anyhow, would you force this person to use a mens room? http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-... http://www4.pictures.zimbio.co...

Yes. Does she have a dick? Because then double yes.

Putting that aside, they could walk into a ladies room and no one would care unless they told them, but they've had enough work that it wouldn't cause a problem because they're not obviously men jammed into a dress. That's not, however, even close to the norm and you know it. If that was the average man who is trying to look like a woman, then I doubt anyone would care. That's not the case. You don't make the law for the ones who manage to get reconstructed into reasonable looking facsimiles of females.

Because it never happens?

If you have a dick, use the men's toilet.

I thought Libs were all for science. Where is the science in pretending a dude, with a dick and male chromosomes, is a woman?

Not quite certain what your point is, Your supposed liberal result of allowing transgenders in womens room is a pervy male, who identifies as male, Not a transgender.

Pervy males have done this kind of pervy stuff for years and years.

http://wkrn.com/2016/03/10/pol...

http://www.marshfieldnewsheral...

http://komonews.com/archive/po...

Here's a good one - a man hiding in a septic tank so he could watch women do their thing. Jeebuz! http://kfor.com/2013/07/08/man...

Point is you are using the conept of people only going into restrooms to have sex. Stop that! A transgender woman is almost certainly just going into the restroom, and just using it. And if she is going into the bathroom to look to have sex - what of lesbians? They are probably more interested in the other people's lady parts.

And if you check out the dates, these perv guys were dressing as women to work their pervy magic a while back, before even supreme court rulings on gay marriage or gender equity. Anyhow, would you force this person to use a mens room? http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-... http://www4.pictures.zimbio.co...

And she's probably going to just do her business and leave. If she wanted to engage in sexy time in a bathroom (yuk) she'd probably go in the men's room.

psst - I think she likes guys.

>If you are confused, or your attention is diverted, SLOW DOWN. I say this as a non-commercial driver who has logged $WAY_TOO_GODDAMN_MANY miles behind the wheel.

Driving too fast isn't really a problem in traffic in downtown SF. You're not going to break the speed limit because there's CARS EVERYWHERE.

What the problem is (having lived there for four years) is the hideously bad road signage. You're expected to be able to read two paragraphs of text on a sign within two seconds, to try to figure the fuck out if you're even allowed to be where you are, since the rules change as often as Calvinball. "No left turns except on Mondays through Fridays 7AM to 9AM and 4PM to 6PM". Sign below that: "Except on holidays." Sign below that: "Except MUNI and busses" Sign below that: "Except taxis" is an example of the kind of idiotic sign they expect drivers to be able to read and process while still avoiding pedestrians sporadically jumping into the street.

You also sometimes end up on a Muni line, and you don't know if you're supposed to be there. The answer? Sometimes. Sometimes not.

Then you have the irrational geometry of the city streets themselves, leading to super awesome signs like this:
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker...

I once got a ticket from a sign that had six negative modifiers on it, and got it overturned because the bloody cop didn't work through the logic on it correctly and I did.

The TV show Furturama had a take-off on that. The native tribe was of amazon females, and it was "Death by snu snu." The remains of the previous captives showed how they chose to die.

The Goatse Guy also kept his face off the Internet. However, the other end was not so fortunate.

Do you mean Kirk Johnson? Your "information" is a decade out of date. He posted hundreds of images of his face (and moustache) on the internet. Here's an interview with him.

Four moles and a wedding ring meant he could be identified in images and videos, and then tracked down from the profiles and posts on those sites, until it occurred to someone with half a brain that his preferences in sex toys would also be distinctive (Gawker). Anyone with a full brain and some Googlefu can tell you his real name and current location. He's not dead, is married, and holds a pilot's license.

Let that be a lesson for you Tablizer - you too are distinctive.

Thanks to Gurren Lagann we already know:
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-...

They also make effective melee weapons.

Uhh, these do.

While the map is quite awesome, I'm quite sure we'll see a lot of "news" bashing about how "polluted" our space is. After all, if I show this screenshot to anyone, most people will assume our space is really polluted (Wall-E style) : http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-...

Truth is, the dot on the map are far from accurate in size (if it was the case, the "debris" would be ~100km in size). Furthermore, most of those debris will eventually deorbit and reenter the earth atmosphere in the next decade.

She is a pop-country singer that comes up on a regular basis with catchy tunes with clean lyrics, and she did not build a career on dressing like a prostitute or releasing sex tapes. Already that makes her quite unique in that industry.

Not everyone likes pop music of course, but in that genre she is definitely top shelf, and her fight against bad music streaming deals is in line with pretty much everything she does. This is not U2 phony or Metallica greedy, this is someone using leveraging her position to help fellow musicians.

Taylor Swift's vocal range is among the narrowest of any pop artist in the last 20 years. Many of her songs sound almost monotone to me. Vocal range may not be the only indication of a talented singer, but someone with a very narrow range doesn't seem to me like a 'top shelf' performer.

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--xpi-b9KS--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/ydbpgu8vsccgfagz0nur.png

No problem

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-...

Stop making me want to gouge my eyes out when I look at billboards. That is all.

We have come so far since feminism began, but then stuff like this still happens... How could anyone, in 2014, have thought this was acceptable?

I can't help but feel like this whole thing is getting horribly blown out of proportion, more than likely due to a SJW invasion (does it have some absurd hash tag yet?)

I haven't read the book, but based on TFA:

• It looks like they decided to put Barbie in a design position with other people doing the actual computer programming. This is not unusual in the real world.
• The roles of designers and developers are in some many polar opposites. Is it that hard to believe that the female brain might often be better at aesthetics, usability, gameplay, and what the target audience (which, based on "cute puppies and colored blocks", sounds predisposed towards younger girls) thinks would be fun? And perhaps the male brain is better at abstract logic and systems interaction? I'm not saying everyone falls into those buckets, just that it's common. And from what I've seen on the job, this is not unusual in the real world.
• The two programmers Barbie enlists happen to be male. Since a large majority of software developers in the world are male (especially in school), this is not that unusual.
• The side-story about the computer virus is absurd, but it just sounds like it was written by someone who doesn't know anything about computers or viruses, other than what they hear on the evening news ("A new lethal computer virus is sweeping the globe, deleting files and murdering kittens! Film at 11." The portrayal of computer maladies in fiction is pretty bad in general, so this is also not that unusual.
• Finally, this is Barbie FFS. Anyone who buys into that franchise and expects cutting-edge challenge of social norms is just self-deluded (might explain the attraction to SJWs...).

All in all, it looks like a cutesy little story written by someone who knows almost nothing about computers, probably has no interest in computers themselves, and subconciously wrote the story around their personal experiences of (1) most computer geeks are male, (2) computer viruses are scary, and (3) "it's Barbie, so who's going to really give a damn?"

This kind of stuff just isn't worth the heartache and venom people are throwing at it. Take a breath, put it in perspective, and move on.

(Besides, what people should be up in arms over is the picture of Tux on the front cover! A virus taking over Linux? Inconceivable! :)

And it's also burning out because they have collectively achieved exactly nothing in the "actually it's about ethics in journalism" banner in 2 months, in spite of massively massive amounts of time and effort to discredit women they claim to have no interest in.

That arc was inevitably apparent to everyone who's familiar with gamers' actual history of trying to influence the industry. There's this whole history of making big, entitled, noisy movements about petulant non-concerns, then when the cards were on the table, just not caring about the principle that was so important.

That's not even including the fact that the initial attacks were undisguised misogyny, and no one thought that keeping the brand name forged in that behavior was a bad idea.

Everyone is going to pay one way or another... some just seem to think starting with prevention will be cheaper than dealing with scrambling for a cure later on.

Others, understandably, will just keep chugging along as they're accustomed to. No reason to change your ways if the sky isn't falling. Can't get blamed for anything that happens that you don't see coming. Can't be held accountable for it either. And they probably won't.

Case in point: drought... (whether it's related to Anthropogenic Climate Change or not is irrelevant). As you may recall, farmers in CA had to ration their water rights this year. The government stepped in and enforced a 30% reduction on farms as they have during past droughts.

For the smaller farms that had already invested in more efficient drip irrigation technologies, this pretty much means they suffered a 30% reduction in crop output, since they're already getting the maximum crop output from their water.

For the larger farms that were using inefficient flood irrigation, they got a nice emergency government subsidy to upgrade to drip irrigation. So they had the same crop output as before this year, because the increases in efficiencies more than made up for reduced quota.

So as you see, under the system we have in place now, it absolutely makes sense to be as wasteful as possible from an entirely rational perspective. The early adopters will bear the brunt of the cost of cleaning things up both before and after issues arise. That's logic. That's the way it is.

For my part, I recently moved to a part of the US which is almost all hydro and wind power. Utilities are expensive. I pay more to to the sanitation dept. to clean my water runoff than it costs to deliver.

1/2 of the world's population lives in southeast Asia... including China, India, etc.
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-...
They've been enacting lots of policies to deal with pollution and resources, stuff you'd absolutely hate to have here in the West. The smart and rich ones come here to get away from the pollution and crowding at home. It's nice.

A DIY knee defender.

Or this.

While the science may not be settled, the "drag on sled while someone wets the sand" method is corroborated with available records:
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-...

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014...

What did you expect from a hipster marketing company?

I know! Look at this sad sack showing off his iPhone:

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-...

Wait a sec... that's an Android, and that's Google's VP of design, responsible for Android's latest makeover. My mistake.

Make them get a warrant for the correct place first—if they can.

So according to your interpretation, if you played a game like this with sufficiently many cups [the cloud] and the thing to be seized instead of the green ball, you should be pretty much safe from any legal search?

Go ahead, get density like this:
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-....
With

tiny parking bays and small transit lanes between them