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  1. I know, n00b :P

  2. Re: An alarmist view on FCC Ends Decades-Old Rule Designed To Keep TV, Radio Under Local Control (variety.com) · · Score: 2

    The punishment for sharing a video can be worse than killing somebody.

    You make it sound so heartless. I have it on good authority that this imbalance will change once people are overtly the product. Then, the situation will reflect the good and fair society you expect.

  3. Re: An alarmist view on FCC Ends Decades-Old Rule Designed To Keep TV, Radio Under Local Control (variety.com) · · Score: 2

    I didn't know there were companies in the US that had the power to imprison a person for not complying with them.

    Happy to google it for you... first link clicked says

    On its website, CCA states that the company doesn’t lobby on policies that affect “the basis for or duration of an individual’s incarceration or detention.” Still, several reports have documented instances when private-prison companies have indirectly supported policies that put more Americans and immigrants behind bars – such as California’s three-strikes rule and Arizona’s highly controversial anti-illegal immigration law – by donating to politicians who support them, attending meetings with officials who back them, and lobbying for funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Showing just how important these policies are to the private prison industry, both GEO Group and Corrections Corporation of America have warned shareholders that changes in these policies would hurt their bottom lines.

    !!

  4. But FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said the elimination of the rule has been a long time coming and will produce cost savings for stations. He said, after rigorous public consultation of the type trialled during the Net Neutrality changes,* the "overwhelming majority" of public input favored the elimination of the rule

    (*) 99.9999% guaranteed downtime of our public-comment servers.

  5. There's a lot of things that I consider annoying in people, does that mean I get to forbid talking loudly, <excluded>people scratching themselves in private places</excluded>, people being obnoxious to the wait staff, [out of control-] children in general, people who are visibly sick but still handle my food, ...

    Sure, why not? As you've pointed out, those things are annoying and distasteful intrusions forced upon us by those who consider human faeces on the sofa acceptable and can't fathom that others don't want to be smeared.

  6. Exactly, there are no studies indicating whether its harmful or not, therefore i would greatly prefer not to be inhaling a cocktail of chemicals which may have as yet unknown detrimental effects on my health.

    Then you should probably move to a remote island without any kind of industry or civilization.

    Let's remember everyone, civilisation involves anything which takes us away from living in balance with the planet so that we can shed a sense of almost imperceptible distaste bubbling up from our subconscious re. our long-term heritage.

  7. Or, deity forbid, someone actually cares about the addicted n00bs injuring themselves so that an industry can profit? I know, unlikely but possible.

  8. vaping carries its own risks because the aerosol emissions can include formaldehyde, cadmium found in batteries, benzene found in gasoline and the industrial solvent toluene

    ...but we can legally make money from addiction and increase tax revenue so it's ALL GOOD, RIGHT?

  9. Re: forty spots on WeWork Employees Caught Spying on Competition (nypost.com) · · Score: 2

    Otherwise, why conceal their identities?

    Maybe for the same reason restaurant critics don't announce themselves?

  10. Re: forty spots on WeWork Employees Caught Spying on Competition (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    Hello? He finished his comment with an insult - this is standard form for correct statements on the internet. What more do you want?

  11. Re: Do not ever feed any wild animals on Bird Feeders Might Be Changing Bird Beaks (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes, it does interfere with nature,

    We are part of nature.

  12. At some point people will realize that USD is inflationary, and you won't be able to make use of it, because noone will be willing to accept it.

    ...unless the US uses its military to ensure transactions of X use dollars.

  13. The former stockbroker, who spent nearly two years in prison for fraud and financial scams, says that the Initial Coin Offerings used to raise money for cryptocurrencies are "far worse than anything I was ever doing."
    I feel slightly envious that this type of scam wasn't available to me at the time :/

  14. People still use that thing?

  15. But can they... on Chinese Scientists Create Genetically Modified Low-Fat Pigs (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    ...engineer pigs which have the taste and texture of vegetables?

  16. Re:"Protect Election Integerity" on Canadian Government Teams With Facebook To Protect Election Integrity (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    What goddamn idiotic sheep happily repeat the "EVERYBODY WHO DISAGREES WITH ME IS A RUSSIAN PLANT!!! DURRRR!!!!" talking point that your masters crafted for you?

    Heretic! Burn the witch! This meme is ours!

  17. Re:"Protect Election Integerity" on Canadian Government Teams With Facebook To Protect Election Integrity (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Liberals have hit peak stupidity.

    Good luck with that optimistic streak you've got.

  18. Farmer teams with fox to protect chicken integrity.

  19. "They also made the dataset and source code available on github. And best of all, they made an online publicly available dashboard that shows a live list of bet recommendations on football matches based on their strategy here or here for anyone to try."

    If everyone starts using the list of live recommendations, does this mean that the gambling industry won't want to let anyone 'gamble'? Sounds like a win for me :D

  20. Re: Internet "entrepreneur" shocked-- on On the Google Book Scanning Project and the Library We Will Never See (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Dan definitely doesnâ(TM)t see it that way, though. He thinks that all we do is create images, copyright them, upload them to the Internet, and then wait to sue people. As if weâ(TM)re forcing them to steal our work and waiting to punish them when they do.
    Yep, sooooo far from reality ^_^

  21. Well, I did, by mistake. I prefer to think of moving the bar for qualification so that 'potential knowledge' passes this threshold and becomes 'knowledge' so the 'known' isn't needed. Anyhow, by now, even those interested in this to begin with ^_^ have probably run out of OCD so I'll stfu :D

  22. Yep, but I'm referring to knowledge rather than potential knowledge :D

  23. How much do (you believe) I owe you for reading your comment?

  24. Uhh..., "All known knowledge" -> "All knowledge"

  25. Books schmooks. Who's got time for books these days? Personally, I'm been trapped navigating a graph which encompasses all known knowledge, after starting with a single Wikipedia article.

    Information presented in a logical (topological?) order is for n00bs.