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  1. Re:The adults of this civilization on Man Pleads Guilty To Swatting Attack That Led To Death of Kansas Man (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's called narcissism and it is an incredibly powerful tool for keeping your mind chipper in the face of repeated failure. It is the bedrock of every success story in American history. I am clinically narcissistic and it has brought nothing but good things to my life. You don't get to be president by drolling over your failures and attributing them to your own lack of talent. You brute force blame someone else. If you are intelligent and well liked (Obama for example) you can pull it off in every situation. Its baked into the soul.

  2. Re:Doesn't take into account changing usage patter on Study of Cellphone Risks Finds 'Some Evidence' of Link To Cancer, At Least In Male Rats (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Putting a phone on your face is so undignified. We have excellent bluetooth devices and automobile integration.

  3. Are you OK? This is a paid protest. Some complete asshole dredged these people up and paid them to walk all this way. At the very least stoked their hopes of going to America, a futile effort, for their own gain. A "progressive" did this. Took advantage of these people, exploited them, for a political show.

  4. If you don't need a manual you aren't really doing anything. I want a jet engine that just works. Puts things in perspective. Write a manual for an iPhone? No. You aren't doing anything.

    Manual for Pandas or Xamarin.Forms? Several required. Browsing the internet? No manual required. Analyzing data in Tableau or Excel? Read the fucking manual.

  5. Re: What a bunch of cynics on Ask Slashdot: Why Does Almost Nothing Come With a Proper Printed Manual Anymore? · · Score: 1

    Damn. Brings back memories and I fear you are correct about the times in which we now live. I feel sorry that so many will never know what it was like to live through an age like that as an intelligent person.

  6. Re: What a stupid question on Ask Slashdot: Why Does Almost Nothing Come With a Proper Printed Manual Anymore? · · Score: 1

    Exactly what I was thinking without the deluge of profanity.

  7. Re: This is not helpful on Amazon Will Raise Its Minimum Wage To $15 For All 350,000 US Workers (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Then the fed would be virtually powerless. Not going to happen.

  8. Re: then lobby to increase min wage to kill main s on Amazon Will Raise Its Minimum Wage To $15 For All 350,000 US Workers (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Main street was not ripping anyone off. They lacked efficiency which Amazon has.

  9. Re: This will spur inflation on Amazon Will Raise Its Minimum Wage To $15 For All 350,000 US Workers (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Just outlaw bonds. Problem fixed.

  10. Re: This will spur inflation on Amazon Will Raise Its Minimum Wage To $15 For All 350,000 US Workers (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Everyone is worth $15 a hour. If we could only convince them of the same truth they might actually be productive. People are lazy and unproductive when they don't think much of themselves.

  11. Re: This will spur inflation on Amazon Will Raise Its Minimum Wage To $15 For All 350,000 US Workers (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Agreed. The likely outcome looks something like people paying thier rent on time and being able to afford a pizza. This will mean less stress and an elevated sense of themselves.

  12. Re: A living wage for workers? on Amazon Will Raise Its Minimum Wage To $15 For All 350,000 US Workers (recode.net) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is going to clobber thier retail competition during the holidays. This is enough to put a lot of them out of business. They are fucked.

  13. Re: A living wage for workers? on Amazon Will Raise Its Minimum Wage To $15 For All 350,000 US Workers (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Really? I didn't get off my ass until I was about 33. Basically dicked off and did drugs the whole time. I did apply myself to studying software engineering and data engineering but I only did what I wanted to do. I'm now in the top 11MM people as far as income in the US.

  14. Re: 300 years ago they didn't have food stamps on Amazon Will Raise Its Minimum Wage To $15 For All 350,000 US Workers (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    This is win, win, win for Amazon. They will get higher productivity, get people off their back, and make it really difficult for their competition going into the holidays. They are going to fucking clean up on this.

  15. Re: Ford and the Fed on Amazon Will Raise Its Minimum Wage To $15 For All 350,000 US Workers (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Controlling spending comes from controlling lending. The powers that be are the powers that be because they lend the money.

    You always see long diatribes about economic dominos that start with good times. I realized that excessive lending/borrowing in the good times is always the cause of problems in a downturn. Downturns are good, slight, and barely noticed unless big corporations and banks can't service thier debt....then shit hits the fan. Watch.

  16. Re: Ford and the Fed on Amazon Will Raise Its Minimum Wage To $15 For All 350,000 US Workers (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Well something will change...they will lose thier food stamps.

  17. Re: Ford and the Fed on Amazon Will Raise Its Minimum Wage To $15 For All 350,000 US Workers (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Wait until people get thier check and realize nothing changes about thier life. Going from $10 to $15 is sort of a big deal...for a month.

  18. Re: Rapepublicans have one question: on Consumer Reports Gives Its Recommendation Back To Microsoft's Surface Laptops (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    Why the fuck did this piece of shit even appear for questioning? He could have bowed out and at least saved some honor. Ah, nevermind, he has no honor. I believe all the accounts, especially the first one. The second one sounds like a regular, rather uneventful, college drinking party. He was crying cause his life is fucking cooked. Overkill? Yeah but he brought it on himself by dragging this out. This is going to kill Trump. The fork has been inserted. Trump should have nuked this dude from space when the first accusation arose.

    Disclaimer: Life long conservative swing voter who no longer votes. Money talks, votes are quaint.

  19. Do these guys know what a fucking summary is? Hint: it is not a three page diatribe.

  20. The people who did this study are sexist. I didn't need a study.

  21. It bounces off the walls and you hear screaming?

  22. Right but the friction and cost of payments and the regulation involved with becoming a payments processor erases the possibility of utilizing micro transactions. So our micro transaction conduit is ad revenue.

  23. A big fucking yawn.

  24. Travel on $100k income? LMAO

  25. Re: Contradiction on Humans Are Causing the Earth To Wobble More Than It Should, NASA Finds (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    People aren't really stupid so much, just gullible. I'm not much smarter than your average person but I was blessed with a disdain for authority and a habit of moving my brain outside the box to ask questions. Most of the "order" in the world exists because people stay in the box and are happy to be there. My innocent questions made for a lot of uncomfortable times at my fundamentalist church as a child. These were questions coming from a kid who was a full on believer and slated to be an upstanding Christian. Didn't work out that way. I have learned to conceal my questions as an adult and use the perspective to my advantage while allowing others to believe they know what I believe. The best of both worlds. The global warming scientists and politicians are not to be trusted. Don't hate on thier useful idiots though...they will come around when the real leaders of this world prevail.