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  1. Re:Hope you enjoy being broke on More Performers Are Demanding Audiences Lock Up Their Phones (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Good riddance to both of you. It will be a better concert if the tools with a cell phone jones stay home.

  2. This guy is NOT a live music fan on More Performers Are Demanding Audiences Lock Up Their Phones (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "In this day and age, my phone is how I keep my memory," one live-music fan told the Washington Post, adding "If you don't want your music heard, then don't perform it."

    If you don't want to see the artist's performance enough to abide by their wishes and see it live rather than filtered through your smart phone, then stay home. Those of us attending the concert will be quite happy not to put up with the jostling, distracting light from your device's display, and the general assholery of a self-entitled little prick who believes he has some kind of divine right to be accommodated.

  3. Re:Hope you enjoy being broke on More Performers Are Demanding Audiences Lock Up Their Phones (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure you'll be missed. (snicker)

  4. Re:In honour of on China Just Launched Two Astronauts Into Orbit (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    LOL

  5. In honour of on China Just Launched Two Astronauts Into Orbit (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Is it true the astronauts' names are Laika and Gordo?

  6. Re:Gee on No One Wants To Buy Twitter (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Some day, perhaps somebody will teach you the concept of "molehill and mountain". If you're trying to imply that Trump's people are less violent than his opponents, then we both know you're full of shit.

  7. Yes, and we all know how often such laws are obeyed or enforced.

  8. If cars prioritized pedestrian safety over that of the driver, I can see a "challenge" developing where the same kind of morons who get burned in those "how much cinnamon can you swallow" games step in front of self-driving cars at the last second to see how close they can come to getting killed and/or how much damage they can inflict on a vehicle forced to avoid them.

    They'd probably call it "Bullfighting", or something similar.

  9. Re:Gee on No One Wants To Buy Twitter (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Looks like it's safe to assume you haven't seen any of the videos that have emerged from some Trump rallies.

  10. Shouldn't that be, "Its failure was a tragedy"? ;-)

  11. Re:Searching for the right non-auto metaphor on Samsung Will Credit You $100 If You Exchange Your Note 7 For Another Samsung Phone (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you're unaware that in the Nung language of the Tibeto-Burman tribes, "O-Licious" means "Hungry little brother who eats your guts and crawls out your ears after you die".

  12. Searching for the right non-auto metaphor on Samsung Will Credit You $100 If You Exchange Your Note 7 For Another Samsung Phone (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    "In view of the infestation of intestinal parasites you received last month from our Egg-o-licious Breakfast Special, we are delighted to offer you 20% off on your next Egg-o-licious Breakfast Special.

    "In view of your lengthy and continuing treatment, we are prepared to extend this exceptional opportunity beyond the usual 90 days. You may also pass it along to an heir, if you wish."

  13. Re:correction on Senator Wants Nationwide, All-Mail Voting To Counter Election Hacks (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Um, yes. He's right. You're wrong. Hard evidence proved voter fraud was a minor problem, while the states' efforts were largely based on keeping people the right wing establishment doesn't away from the polls.

    Sorry to disappoint you with these simple truths.

  14. I do quite a bit of travelling down two-lane paved roads in the middle of nowhere. I also have a Garmin, and it's pretty good.

    It's brilliant at ETA, I have to admit. What pisses me off, though, is when it decides RR #2 doesn't exist, because it thinks it should be called RR 2 or R Route #2 or something silly like that. It happens to me fairly often.

  15. Can we guess whose girlfriend ran off with a black dude?

    Yes. Yes we can!

  16. Re:Work ethic alternates with generations... on Baby Boomers Don't Have a Stronger Work Ethic Than Later Generations, Says Study (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    I misread the comment and thought he was referring to Iraq and Afghanistan, not WWI and WWII.

  17. Re:Work ethic alternates with generations... on Baby Boomers Don't Have a Stronger Work Ethic Than Later Generations, Says Study (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 0

    The real laugh is that you call those two little brushfire encounters "wars". What a joke!

  18. Change the rules, change the game on Baby Boomers Don't Have a Stronger Work Ethic Than Later Generations, Says Study (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    I suspect they aren't looking at this quite the right way. Employers used to exhibit some degree of commitment to their employees. Ethical employees returned that commitment with loyalty and hard work.

    Unfortunately, this is no longer the case. Most employers these days are conscienceless vampires who would cheerfully burn their employees' children in an incinerator if it would put a few extra bucks on their bottom line. So why would a sane person feel they owed their employer one little bit more than the least they could get away with?

    For a while, I think, habit ensured that the Boomers' work ethic kept them working harder. But as they came to realize all the extra work got them nothing but a "Sucker" sticker in their HR folder, they adapted to become just like their younger workmates, who have never known anything else.

    Yes, there are still great employers, but they're getting awfully hard to find. I bet their employees, no matter what age they are, will work hard for them.

  19. How the mighty have fallen! on Samsung Ships Flameproof Boxes For Note 7 Returns (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "Back in the day", I had a Samsung slider that was pretty much bulletproof. Long battery life, very primitive internet capability (but enough to let you search for information or check email), and a tolerance for punishment that verged on masochism. And it could get a signal where a lot of phones couldn't.

    Ever since, they seem to have gotten into some kind of death spiral where their phones look great and offer steadily increasing capabilities, but reliability has declined to the point where they're now they're manufacturing pocket bombs.

    It's a pity, really. When they offered a phone you could use in a road hockey game without hurting it, I was a hard-core loyal customer. Now? Not so much.

  20. Re:Lost emails on Guccifer 2.0 Dumps a Bunch of Clinton Foundation Donor Data (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless you can prove to us that you showed similar indignation over Bush, Cheney and Rove deleting literally millions of emails proving they raped the US Constitution, you should probably STFU, because your hypocrisy is sickening to decent people.

  21. Your link will take an average Yahoo user who stays logged in between sessions (which is most, I imagine) straight to their In Box. You will not see the message.

  22. It's a matter of limited perspective on Why Is Science Fiction Snubbed By Literary Awards? (galacticbrain.com) · · Score: 1

    Too often, scenery-chewing melodrama is what earns cinema and literary awards. And the best science fiction often requires some knowledge of science, so it receives short shrift from judges who couldn't pass a Grade 10 math exam.

  23. Easy Secure Password on The Psychological Reasons Behind Risky Password Practices (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Just make up a word. Use just the word on its own for stuff you don't care about. Put it into a little poem or sentence for sites you do care about.

    Example: "Goosnarp". Even without exotic characters, it's not an easy crack. For your on-line banking, you might use "I am Goosnarp, take me to your liter".

  24. Longevity and gender on New Study Suggests There's a Limit To How Long People Can Live (go.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why do men die before their wives?

    They want to.

  25. Re:challenged? on Scientists Study How Non-Scientists Deny Climate Change (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Now you've crossed the line from being a jackass to being a willfully ignorant jackass, advancing long-debunked nonsense to support what you imagine is some kind of argument.

    "The climate has swung up and down by more than 8C dozens of times over the past few million years; that kind of rapid change is what our species and ecology evolved under..."

    Bull. Fucking. Shit.