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  1. I imagine they'll be affected by a spotlight being shone on their untenable position.

  2. Re: US Court - Russian Site on Sci-Hub Faces $4.8 Million Piracy Damages and ISP Blocking (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    And a call for mirrors lest the corrupt us interests gain influence over the site.
    Russia is looking increasingly like a great place to live to avoid MickeyD et al.

  3. Re: Perhaps I'm just crazy... on Sci-Hub Faces $4.8 Million Piracy Damages and ISP Blocking (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe they know something we don't about some future Doomsday scenario brought on by progress which is too rapid, eg. A cure for cancer might be discovered more quickly and then everyone would live happily ever after? Scary stuff - we should be grateful that Elsevier et al are providing humanity with this progress-retarding service - FOR FREE.

  4. Re: I didn't think they were US based... on Sci-Hub Faces $4.8 Million Piracy Damages and ISP Blocking (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    And Streisand's themselves as the anti-humanity ghouls that they are.

  5. How very dare she... on Sci-Hub Faces $4.8 Million Piracy Damages and ISP Blocking (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    .free the world's knowledge from these paywall-mongers for the betterment of personkind. How very dare she.

  6. ...because one of their products was used to demonstrate that people take 'sport' way too seriously.

  7. User experience low on Chinese Man Jailed For Helping Net Users Evade State Blocks (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    FTLOG, put an expand/collapse link in your post. Usability 101 yo.

  8. Re: Well on Chinese Man Jailed For Helping Net Users Evade State Blocks (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The US has no need to fear freedom of speech - there's so much FUD out there is neutralises all motivation to act againstand the overbearing state - unless it threatens their viewing of American Idle or right to shoot each other.

    If not, there'd be censorship.

    Seriously, which other things which hinder the 1337 are legal?

  9. Why not find a robust technological method of ensuring that it's impossible to go against your wishes?

  10. Perhaps we might see an unexpected release on their site about how they've decided to 'do the right thing (tm)' re. net neutrality ?

  11. Re:Canadian Universities not like US on A Canadian University Gave $11 Million To a Scammer (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    How about a comparison of the quality of their graduates?

  12. Re: Universities deserve to be scammed on A Canadian University Gave $11 Million To a Scammer (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Cue the goal post shift in 3...2...1...

    Actually, goal-posts are no longer the de-facto standard for this type of idea-transfer.

  13. Re:Universities deserve to be scammed on A Canadian University Gave $11 Million To a Scammer (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep, it's only fair, universities have been scamming students for generations - that does seem to be tailing off though...

  14. Let me be the first to say "Fuck you LG" as you are presumably going to deny UK users access to this as you did with the V10 and V20.

  15. I'd be interested in... on FDA Designates MDMA As 'Breakthrough Therapy' For PTSD (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    ... trials intended to evaluate its effect on US aggression. Simply enhance the water supply of anyone involved with foreign policy/military and get to work recording those data points - ideally to a repetitive beat.

  16. If they love it so much why not just beat each other to death for the fun of it I and anyone who likes that can watch for the fun of it?

    It seems as though people today (yep, get off my lawn!) do _things_ only because (a) they're being paid to or (b) they're paid in likes after submitting images to prove they've done the thing. What the duck?

  17. One disgruntled 'sportsfan' complained

    I paid good money to watch these two guys beat each other to death and all I saw was 'grainy video, error screens, buffer events, and stalls'. How am I supposed to feed on someone else's misery under these conditions!?! Waaaaa"

  18. Newsflash: People are idiots on People Are Complete Suckers For Online Reviews (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    News at eleven

  19. Re: No-reply@ is a valid address here on Modest Proposal To Companies: Let Your Customers Respond To Your Emails - Kill no-reply@ (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    our customers are too stupid to reply to the topic-specific email addresses listed in the emails we send out.

    What's the name of your company? Maybe if we publicize the problem from your perspective it will be self-correcting...

  20. Sending emails === Potential for additional sales
    Receiving emails === Guarantee of additional costs

  21. Germany expands the category 'left-wing' to include anything objectionable.

  22. That an engineer would have the ability to set policy for a multinational car company.

  23. American taxpayers send billions to Kabul every year and every year billions disappear into the pockets of Afghan government officials.

    That money should be going into the pockets of home-grown God's honest American government officials!

  24. Re:Working for Microsoft is UGLY. on Microsoft Will Never Again Sneakily Force Windows Downloads on Users (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Many people think that Microsoft is a software and hardware company. It isn't. It's an abuse company. It only uses software and hardware to deliver abuse.

    My opinion, and the opinion of many, many others.

    No idea what you mean. I certainly didn't spend a whole day and seventeen attempts to update windows the other day because <unknown error which wasn't displayed but caused microsoft-built 'laptop' to repeatedly overheat, switch off and thus rewind the update>. Sure, why would I want the fan to come on, or have the option to control whether it's on, or even when the option's been un-hidden and enabled, have it come on. Far better to switch off and show a giant thermo meter on the screen.

    Anyway, yeah - I love m$ so from my perspective, your slur is unfair.

  25. Microsoft will not download install files for new operating systems to a user system's hard disk without a user's consent.

    Cue oily-weasel style redefinition of the words/phrases/concepts "download", "new", "operating systems", "user", <the concept of ownership>, "hard disk" in 3, 2, .....

    (*) "consent" has already been heavily flexed as a concept so will likely be last to receive a refresh.