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  1. "Come on in, this is the show you want! Twenty Four Hours Live! You'll wear out before these bots do! You'll see circuit boards, you'll see interconnects, gaskets will be removed and polarities will be swapped before your eyes! We've got home models, we've got industrial models, we've got this year's releases and we've got outdated models for the specialty customers, we've got what YOU want to see! You can swipe left and you can swipe right, just be sure you are properly grounded when you come to the show!"

  2. Re:Apple? on Elizabeth Warren Calls To Break Up Facebook, Google, and Amazon · · Score: 1

    Breaking up a company is not necessarily a bad thing for the company. When Standard Oil was broken up, it make John D Rockefeller amazingly rich because he owned so many shares in all the new companies.

  3. Re:Apple? on Elizabeth Warren Calls To Break Up Facebook, Google, and Amazon · · Score: 1

    Being a monopoly is a good reason. Using a monopoly in one area to gain additional market control in a different area is already legally problematic, and since Google is so much more than a mere search company now that the huge share in its search engine industry should be enough to put solid walls between that and Android, Chrome, etc.

  4. Re:Should be what it was worth when first publishe on Spotify, Google, Pandora, Amazon Go To US Appeals Court To Overturn Royalty Increase (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    But the song writers are not employees of Apple, Google, Amazon, Spotify, etc. The songs were also not written on contract to the streaming services. The song writers OWN the songs for the most part. There is partial ownership by music publishers but still zero ownership by the streaming services.

  5. Well of course, teachers with a 5 figure salary are going to quit and get a job in sanitation with higher pay and more respect.

  6. Re:Sort and clean recyclables on Encouragement Without Education Backfires On Recycling Efforts (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    In my condo complex, people honestly don't understand that some bins are for recycling and some are for trash. Signs are up in multiple languages and yet you'll see a christmas tree or old sofa tossed into the recycling.

  7. Well, you gotta squeeze in time for chores, talk to family, watch some tv, read a chapter of a book. 5 hours sitting at a stretch isn't huge for a lot of people, but you're definitely not a casual player at that point. Not a super serious gamer but you're taking gaming seriously.

  8. But someone who's spent $2000 on a gaming system has a strong motivation to justify their purchase and thus disagree with you.

  9. Playing games at work doesn't count.

  10. If someone only plays video games on a Saturday, 5 hours is pretty damn serious.

  11. This was my first thought. Now GeForce could do that experiment with me if they'd just send me a high end gaming rig for research purposes.

  12. Re:One problem with being a web site on US Users Are Leaving Facebook by the Millions, Research Says (marketplace.org) · · Score: 1

    I have friends not on any social media, so the email is the main contact method and it gets a lot of use.

  13. Re:Great age group, guys on US Users Are Leaving Facebook by the Millions, Research Says (marketplace.org) · · Score: 1

    Oh my, that sounds too complex for me.

  14. It's hard to tell who is using and who isn't. You don't really know if someone is there until you see some posting activity. They could be passively checking the updates, or they could not be logging in at all, and you can't tell which until you open the box with the cat in it.

  15. I'd rather have twenty Kendalls than the idiot who keeps responding repeatedly to every Kendall post... I'd suggest finding a new hobby, such as chia pet breeding.

  16. Do people know if you stop being friends on facebook? I added an old school mate and it's non stop politics now, but I don't want to offend him. Similarly for a person who keeps proselytizing.

    This seems to break the unwritten purpose of facebook - share life events, pics of weddings, pics of the kids, keep everyone up to date. I already feel vastly constrained about what I can post when I do feel like it, most people won't really care about a new video game that I like. It was so much easier on Google+ where you could shove your friends and acquaintances (and the odd strangers who followed you for no reason) into separate circles. (two main groups on facebook for me: women who post about family, cats, hobbies, vacations, and men who repost stupid memes)

  17. They don't "leave", they just start logging less often until they eventually forget.

  18. Re:Obligatory Hipster Comment on US Users Are Leaving Facebook by the Millions, Research Says (marketplace.org) · · Score: 1

    Only for a couple of years, it doesn't really seem that widely used at this point in time. Google+ is going away but that was much more active and interesting with fewer politics.

  19. Re: Good. on Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean Bubble Tea And Massage LLS?

  20. It hasn't really died, it diminished somewhat but is still alive and well if you look around in some places.

  21. And take those shoes off!

  22. The show ended up like a bad high school film in the 50s called "Menstruation and You" that just had a series of male doctors smoking pipes trying to explain to girls what was happening to them.

    "Sorry ladies you made some good points, but data research shows that audiences prefer to have a man 'splain things."

  23. There was no evidence given here that the male's presentation was better, the implication was that his was just one of several voices saying the same thing. They just trimmed and cut back on what they were showing, and it was a guy who was left as the primary presenter. The fault here lies with the producers not seeing the obvious problem with the optics.

  24. Re:Prevention is better than cure on A Third Person May Have Been Cured of HIV (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    HIV also affects people who do not engage in risky behavior, but you should have known this for a few decades now.

  25. Re: Name one crazy left wing policy on Democrats Introduce 'Save the Internet Act' To Restore Net Neutrality (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The goals of the right were to reintroduce tarifs? That's pretty much the opposite of what fiscal conservatives push for, at least since Hoover days.