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  1. Eh, it's not like that. It's more that the vast majority of public schools have been de-funded to the point that the only people left they can afford to hire to run it are the same type of people who generally fall for everything anyone is selling hard enough.

  2. Re:Hardly on Naked Mole Rats Defy Mortality Mathematics (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Rodents don't usually even live one tenth that long. 30 years for a small mammal is an absurdly long time, and the fact the life span doesn't have the usual rough correlation to body mass and metabolic rate in this case would be the equivalent of humans living 1,000 years. You'd better believe this is a hat trick worth learning.

  3. I'm honestly more puzzled why Twitter/Facebook don't just cut out the middle man and do it Loot box style.

    Probably because they can't come up with original ideas, only steal them. Now that you posted this though, you've just given them a new idea.

  4. Re:how do you figure out who's hot or not? on One in 50 of Us is Face Blind -- and Many Don't Even Realize (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think they just see a "nondescript gray blur." I think it's more that people who they haven't seen in a few days and aren't expecting to meet or run into by chance will just seem oddly familiar in an almost noticeable way that still fails to trigger recognition.

  5. Kids knew it. People in the industry knew it. Advertisers knew it but tried to hide it while using it. People like our parents and grandparents however, unfortunately, not only did not know it, but also literally can't believe the notion. The vast majority of the voting public in fact can't react maturely to this revelation. They will simply think the concept is too absurd to happen in real life. And that's why it worked.

  6. Years too late on this one guys.

  7. But this statement is false. I don't approve of my own government's behavior in this regard either. I would be amongst the ones voting to pardon Snowden. Not that it will ever come to a vote, the poor sod. And, quite ironically, I'm even less able to influence my own government than those of other countries.

  8. Being raised by parents that are really stupid sets you back a long way in life. Maybe more so than being raised poor. But if your parents are both poor and stupid, man is it a lot more work just to learn to interact productively with normal people.

  9. Everyone was exposed.

  10. Re:They are not the target audience. on Apple's 'What's a Computer?' Ad is Annoying People: Business Insider (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure they all hate this commercial too. Maybe you should actually ask them, assuming you're not just a shill like the other guy.

  11. Re:They are not the target audience. on Apple's 'What's a Computer?' Ad is Annoying People: Business Insider (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    You're an idiot.

    It's completely understandable you'd want to believe that. I wish it were true, myself.

  12. Barefoot, naked, and fueled by fruit, nuts, and veggies.

    Unfortunately, the cost of the first ankle/foot injury and subsequent nutritional and time cost of healing it completely offset any savings with this method even if you don't go to the doctor.

  13. ... that I could be confident our elected officials were at least smart enough not to believe Russian officials also needed root access to all the production machines in order to complete a source code audit.

  14. Re:Global Warming Is Haram on Scientists Calculate Carbon Emissions of Your Sandwich (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Well, you can't eat sunbeams, so maybe a better solution would be to find some more sustainable sources of feed for the livestock.

  15. It's more efficient to eat it yourself then ride a bicycle, assuming you're carrying nothing and discounting the carbon emissions of making the bicycle.

  16. Re:Quitting to Advance the Cause on San Jose Mayor Quits FCC Advisory Committee, Says It is Dealing ISPs a 'Very Favorable Hand' (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Obviously not, or he wouldn't have quit. You never get to hear the stories about micro-aggressions or harassment happening behind the scenes leading up to a high-profile departure like this.

  17. He'll never make it as far as a jail cell. He owes Russia too much now.

  18. They are not the target audience. on Apple's 'What's a Computer?' Ad is Annoying People: Business Insider (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    The target audience is adults who never learned to type and still can't read above a 4th grade level. The fact it happens to also alienate the well-educated is actually part of the design. This will work very well, unfortunately.

  19. Re:How is China solving this dillema on Senator Asks FBI Director To Justify His 'Ill-Informed' Policy Proposal For Encryption (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow, they really paid you to shill against one time pads? What a load of misinformed garbage. You should reevaluate your life.

  20. Re:if they have more accidents then that's fair on Admiral Charges Hotmail Users More For Car Insurance (thetimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Stress could be a contributing factor in many types of cancer. We don't actually know.

  21. Didn't Google start you know... a search engine? Like Netscape and Yahoo and AltaVista? Then they started a webmail service... just like Hotmail and Netscape and Yahoo before them. Oh, then they also started a online map service... just like MapQuest before them. When were they ever anything other than a "me too" company? Have they in their entire history made a single product that wasn't a dig at some other established market? I'm seriously expecting them to target Amazon or Netflix's business plan next.

  22. Re:Big surprise on NSA Deletes 'Honesty' and 'Openness' From Core Values (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    I have this theory that the agency doesn't actually exist and never did. I think the whole operation was simply dreamed up by some clever criminals who initially managed to work in total secrecy and after being discovered have so far managed to skate by simply by telling any actual authority they don't have the security clearance to question it.

  23. Re:Serious question on NSA Deletes 'Honesty' and 'Openness' From Core Values (theintercept.com) · · Score: 0

    Never. Never before, never after. Judaism teaches pacifism above all else. If you thought any of them were fighting back, your world view is horribly warped.

  24. Suckers!! on You Spend Nearly a Whole Day Each Week On the Internet (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Wrong. I spend almost two whole days on the internet every day.

  25. Re:Good luck with that. on Montana Becomes First State To Implement Net Neutrality After FCC Repeal (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Comcast was already serving Montana so poorly they lost any bargaining force they have in the matter, too, or this wouldn't have happened.