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  1. Re:Why are we still talking about this guy? on Aaron Swartz Ebook's DRM Has Been Cracked (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks for noticing. :^)

    Actually, I've been on /. since 2001, but forgot the passwords of previous accounts. My first user ID was just below 500,000.

  2. Many episodes of Star Trek have mystical or supernatural elements. From psychics to telekenetics, Vulcan mind meld to on-demand time travel.

    Or has the original Star Trek series been expunged from the official record?

  3. Star Trek is... ...a sociological utopia where poverty is eradicated.

    except for all the episodes where poverty is featured.

    ...multiple cultures, alien and human with different views on what's best.

    and they all try to kill or enslave their inferiors.

    ...solving problems in unorthodox ways.

    Wait, when was talking through your differences considered unorthodox?

    Star Wars is... ...a fight between good and bad.

    With the stereotypical 'white is good, black is bad'.

    ...a fight between chaos and order.

    Where order is totalitarianism that makes chaos look pleasant in comparison.

    ...a fight between multiculturalism and monoculturalism.

    At least the aliens look alien.

    Both universes have their place and as a viewer I can appreciate both.

    Star Wars is my favorite movie, and the original Star Trek is among my favorite TV shows.

    In Star Trek it's rarely a black and white situation that's encountered.

    I really wish you hadn't put it in those terms.

  4. Military rank structure, military weapons, military responses, etc.

    How can anyone say the Starfleet isn't military?

  5. This. Also Star Trek artificially separates various human traits into separate species.

    Star Trek's vision of an alien is a human with a funny looking forehead.

    I've stated that fact many times. Usually to some college-age person who thinks the various Star Trek series are the high mark of TV culture.

  6. Re:internal training on Spain Runs Out of Workers With Almost 5 Million Unemployed (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    At least people hired by corporations have jobs and can provide for themselves and their families.

  7. Re: his policy of driving down wages on Spain Runs Out of Workers With Almost 5 Million Unemployed (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Good rebuttal. The idiot AC tried to make it seem like you are making people scrub toilets for free for two months, before hiring them to scrub toilets for minimum wage.

    Your example is more like someone with no job is using two weeks of their own time to show you they know their ass from their elbow. They simply are doing so with equipment you allow them to use for that period.

  8. Re:Abusive government on Spain Runs Out of Workers With Almost 5 Million Unemployed (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    This may come as a shock to you, but over the last century IQ tests have been revised because each generation ....

    of people wealthy enough or important enough to bother doing IQ tests on them,

    has been scoring higher than the preceding generation...

    of important, wealthy people.

  9. Re:Abusive government on Spain Runs Out of Workers With Almost 5 Million Unemployed (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you even hear that arrow of sarcasm? It was very high.

  10. Re:Why are we still talking about this guy? on Aaron Swartz Ebook's DRM Has Been Cracked (hackaday.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And that is why ArmoredDragon is quite correct to rarely comment on the random douchebags deified by mindless slaves in internet forums.

    All of us form opinions on many people we never meet in real life. Get over it.

  11. Re:For all intensive purposes --free complaint the on Scientists Say The Asteroid That Killed The Dinosaurs Almost Wiped Us Out Too (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    No, I don't mean the swap the i and o around. I mean the replace them totally, as well as the v, with other letters.

  12. Re:what a wonderful program on NRA Complaint Takes Down 38,000 Websites (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Hillary started the birther thing, as a way to knock Obama out of the primary race.

    And conservatives hated Hillary when she claimed a "vast right-wing conspiracy" was behind the rumors of her husband's infidelity. Not to mention other issues such as HillaryCare and White Water. None of those are related to her vagina.

  13. Re: what a wonderful program on NRA Complaint Takes Down 38,000 Websites (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    If you weren't so culturally illiterate you would know that some places have onion rings as an option. So you would need to specify which side you want with your #3.

  14. Re:For all intensive purposes --free complaint the on Scientists Say The Asteroid That Killed The Dinosaurs Almost Wiped Us Out Too (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    You won't win that battle.

    You have people use "begs the question wrong" and say things like "Trump is literally Hitler" (Which would mean that Trump is actually Adolph Hitler). And spell things wrong and it becomes the norm, can't think of example

    You probably see the word "voila" spelled horribly without even considering it.

  15. Re:saving the world on DoNotPay Bot Has Beaten 160,000 Traffic Tickets -- and Counting (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    The woman across the road was his mother.

  16. Re:we're all government's bitches on DoNotPay Bot Has Beaten 160,000 Traffic Tickets -- and Counting (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, but he has a great car. It can turn on a Roosevelt, and give a Jefferson change.

  17. Re: What with Benghazi? on DoNotPay Bot Has Beaten 160,000 Traffic Tickets -- and Counting (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    For fuck's sakes, within a few days over a million people, basically the margin by which Leave won, regretted their decision.

    I never realized the petition was only accessible to people who voted to leave and then regretted that choice.

    Silly me. I had assumed the two million were just petulant children who didn't get their way, and were crying about it in public.

  18. Re:"flat rectangular panels with rounded corners" on Florida Man Sues Apple For $10+ Billion, Says He Invented iPhone Before Apple (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Would you like a box of crackers?

    That's like the eighth time you've parroted that line so far.

  19. I remember reading science fiction stories with electronic pads of various sorts. One book had it be the central detail of the whole story. This was back in the 1980s.

    I don't think anyone is really claiming that the 'tablet computer' was invented by Apple, or that any computer company didn't know they existed in fiction stories long before anyone actually made one.

  20. Re:Unrealistic hypothetical on Drivers Prefer Autonomous Cars That Don't Kill Them (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    You must not know what "ANY" means.

  21. Apparently the court system disagrees.

  22. Re: It Doesn't Matter; It Won't Ever Happen on Drivers Prefer Autonomous Cars That Don't Kill Them (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure the 'avoid killing people' algorithm includes braking. However, braking too aggressively while swerving to avoid someone can cause the vehicle to lose traction, and then slide straight through what was being avoided.

  23. The small business customers like this case may have a daily backup of their financial data (Quickbooks), but not necessarliy a full system backup to revert the whole operating system with all installed drivers, network configurations, and all programs including email (Outlook), and customer data.

    It is easier to bring in a new system, install the programs, migrate the data over, and start working.

  24. Re:New Computer on Woman Wins $10,000 Lawsuit Against Microsoft Over Windows 10 Upgrades (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A business person makes choices based on finances. Also, time costs money.

    If buying a new computer (with any Windows version), and having the company data moved over, costs less than the labor of reinstalling Windows 7 on the current computer, buy a new computer. If this solution also takes half the time, it is an even better financial decision.

  25. Re:Unrealistic hypothetical on Drivers Prefer Autonomous Cars That Don't Kill Them (hothardware.com) · · Score: 2

    You'd be idiotic to purchase a car which might sacrifice your life or health in ANY circumstances.

    If everyone followed that logic, the only vehicles sold would be SUVs, with a speed limiter to 20mph.