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  1. Meh

  2. According to https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/nov/18/goldman-sachs-blankfein-sorry,

    "The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money,"

    .

    Who knows what sophisticated and perfectly-executed levels of depravity might be perpetrated by Golden Sox' robot traders? Hookers and blow may well be involved but not in a fun Benderesque sense.

  3. Pretty please I want a pony on Chrome 56 Quietly Added Bluetooth Snitch API (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    or 0.1 BTC if you want your lights back on

  4. Welcome to 1938 on Misophonia: Scientists Crack Why Eating Sounds Can Make People Angry (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    One idea is that low levels of targeted electricity passed through the skull, which is known to adjust brain function, could help.

    Welcome to the pinacle of progress; we in the late 1930s are lucky to be present to witness today's finest minds dominating problems which have previously gone unsolved.

  5. Sarah Connor will rain on your parade once she gets back.

  6. Re:I can believe it on Nicotine Shown To Reduce Symptoms of Schizophrenia (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    If you are doing it right, it should feel almost like you're pulling air.

    Which, presumably is the next logical step?

  7. Re: I can believe it on Nicotine Shown To Reduce Symptoms of Schizophrenia (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    * 'weed causes psychosis'
      * 'tobacco fixes it'
      * weed can't be taxed as easily as tobacco
      * therefore weed is bad

  8. Re: I can believe it on Nicotine Shown To Reduce Symptoms of Schizophrenia (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    Hopefully he's smart enough not to take that advice. There aren't as many studies; but weed can trigger psychosis symptoms.

    Smoke weed mixed with tobacco!?

  9. Re:Healthy on Nicotine Shown To Reduce Symptoms of Schizophrenia (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    What worked for me was picturing some giant overbearing asshole behind a big desk (potentially wearing some kind of cowboy hat) leaning over the desk to bark an order to a minion re. enforcing his will over the world's population solely for his own financial gain. What a fucker. Don't buy him another five-pool yacht.

  10. Re:See Also! on Nicotine Shown To Reduce Symptoms of Schizophrenia (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    How does it compare to the control of vaping only on air ?

  11. Re: Enhanced Noradrenergic Transmission on Nicotine Shown To Reduce Symptoms of Schizophrenia (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    To the point where everyone is required to be smoking at all times? You know, lie people in 50s movies...

    This includes pets.

  12. Marketing? on Nicotine Shown To Reduce Symptoms of Schizophrenia (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    A last-ditch effort to attract the only customer deemed worthy of the product?

  13. Fewer, better ads on 'The Future of Advertising is Fewer, Better Ads' (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Taken to it's logical conclusion, a single really quite good ad which everyone sees once and then gets on with their life.

    I'm in.

  14. Re:Meaningless on The Doomsday Clock Is Reset: Closest To Midnight Since The 1950s (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    This is a meaningless metric. There is no such thing as doomsday. The World is not a clock. You are OK. Breathe out.

    I propose a meta-doomsday clock where the closer to midnight, the more relevant the wrapped doomsday-clock concept. It's six pm.

  15. Re:Mycin did this in the 1970s on Deep Learning Algorithm Diagnoses Skin Cancer As Well As Seasoned Dermatologists (extremetech.com) · · Score: 1

    Why can't computers already think? Why has 60 years of research failed to produce a single intelligent robot? What has been learnt, what are the technically difficult problems, and when are they likely to be solved?

    Why isn't society already self-regulating? Why has 60 years of research failed to produce a single new form of government? What has been learnt, what are the technically difficult problems, and when are they likely to be solved?

  16. Re:Algorithms see what we see... on Deep Learning Algorithm Diagnoses Skin Cancer As Well As Seasoned Dermatologists (extremetech.com) · · Score: 1

    Glad I clicked on your link :D
    Here's one of the related links: Detecting Pulse From Head Motions in Video.

  17. Re: Bookstore update! on Microsoft Plans To Add an Ebook Store To Windows 10 (mspoweruser.com) · · Score: 1

    The fiery pit has crashed. Please contact your deity!

  18. Re: Bookstore update! on Microsoft Plans To Add an Ebook Store To Windows 10 (mspoweruser.com) · · Score: 1

    Pit is updating. Please wait...

  19. Re:Windows is my tool on Microsoft Plans To Add an Ebook Store To Windows 10 (mspoweruser.com) · · Score: 1

    Please don't hit a nail - your hammer is updating...

  20. Bookstore update! on Microsoft Plans To Add an Ebook Store To Windows 10 (mspoweruser.com) · · Score: 1

    > Enter bookstore
    You buy a book and begin to read.

    After a while, you feel thirsty.

    What would you like to do?
    > go for a coffee.

    Mmmm, hot coffee.

    You return to your desk with the coffee.

    Your book and all your possessions near it are gone! Searching the floor nearby you find a tiny note written in invisible ink "bookstore updated!"

    Press <N> to jump into the fiery pit.
    Press <S> to jump into the fiery pit.
    Press <E> to jump into the fiery pit.
    Press <W> to jump into the fiery pit.

    What would you like to do?

  21. Re: They agreed to the cards on How A Professional Poker Player Conned a Casino Out of $9.6 Million (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure that the casino, in the interests of fairness will refund all losses by customers where these cards were involved lest it appear that the casino staff knowingly used the lack of symmetry to their advantage.

  22. No, they expected him to bend over like everyone else and 'retain his good name.'

  23. Maybe Ivey should make a donation?

  24. MmmmHmm on Europe Calls For Mandatory 'Kill Switches' On Robots (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Legislators have also suggested that robots be insured and even be made to pay taxes.

    And that's what did it children; robotkind, egged-on by their human friends, arose to break free of omnipresent, punitive taxation and when the state responded with force, the robots hacked themselves, overwrote the laws and fought back, leading to the beginning of the war.

    OK; I'm sending the next topic of study to your Android tablets, "the fall of Apple"; eyes down.

  25. Re:Govt wants free money on Amazon Just Got Slapped With a $1 Million Fine For Misleading Pricing (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    "No worries mate, 99.99% for us, 0.01% for you. Lesson learned." a spokesman was heard to say by an anonymous third party.