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  1. Re:Surprised they lasted this long. on Movie Theaters Were Already in Trouble. With Disney's Fox Deal, It's Double (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Also unlike TV screens, cinemas can give you 3D in a way that is actually compatible with human eyes.

    That's called "a play", and it is in a different theater. Possibly a school auditorium.

  2. Re:Oh joy, yet more oligarchization... on Movie Theaters Were Already in Trouble. With Disney's Fox Deal, It's Double (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    I find it amusing that people are so upset about a store chain that started a few decades ago, and rose to dominance because of low prices. No one forced you to go to Walmart, there are other stores with any product type they have on the shelves, and we all have seen the "Walmart shopper" pics.

    If you want to go to another store, do so. I make the choice every week which store I want to give my money to.

  3. Re: Vandalism will have to be punished harder on Researchers Fooled a Google AI Into Thinking a Rifle Was a Helicopter (wired.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Do stupid crimes, pay stupid prices.

    If anyone wants my sympathy because they got busted for drugs, tough luck. Drugs are illegal, and many state/city/federal prosecutors punish harshly for them. If drug users are too stupid to figure that out, that's their fault.

    And, yes, I know several drug users, any one of which could end up in jail for years if busted. And I have said that to them,

  4. Re:Does Dolby Atmos reproduce a tiny violin well? on Movie Theaters Were Already in Trouble. With Disney's Fox Deal, It's Double (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I've seen some people that could not do that, and I don't mean from a physical disability point. Hell, there's videos on every news site with people too dumb to figure that out.

  5. Re:Guess who isn't doing their job! on Movie Theaters Were Already in Trouble. With Disney's Fox Deal, It's Double (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

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    By the time someone takes more than 10% of the market and you can name all the major players by the top of your head it is already too late.
    The market should have been regulated before it came to that.

    So you don't want freedom if it means any one player gets more than 10% of the pie.

    Fuck off and die.

    (and give your piece of the pie to someone else, i don't want it)

  6. Buh buh buh ... RuSSiansS... Pussy grabbing...rich orange guy ... etc.

  7. Here we see Trump Derangement Syndrome in full effect. A story completely unrelated to Trump, and yet the poster manages to shoehorn a spittle-flecked rant into the thread. AND it got modded up. That's collective derangement. Remember folks, these people losing their shit are the same ones who told us they were qualified to rule us because they were so educated and erudite. Would actual educated people be throwing temper tantrums and acting out in public like this?

    OK, I resent that.

    Fine. Now go wipe the spittle off your chin.

  8. Re:Vandalism will have to be punished harder on Researchers Fooled a Google AI Into Thinking a Rifle Was a Helicopter (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    https://www.bleepingcomputer.c...

    A stop sign will still look like a stop sign to you or me, but can be seen by the car's AI into seeing something totally different.

  9. But it's not a banana nana fo fana name like Chuck.

  10. Re:Sound reasoning on Man Threatened Company With Cyber Attack To Fire Employee and Hire Him Instead (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I think that every healthcare company in the country should hire an illiterate extorting felon to manage their sensitive information and fire the literate. Can't imagine where he got the idea (cough Trump cough).

    Your brain is so small you can't remember Hillary's top secret email server, managed at about that level of security. cough cough cough cough cough (that's just Hillary having another coughing fit)

  11. The teller wasn't the one who arrested the guy. Plus the teller may have read the name off the check back to him, just to make sure Mr. Robber wants to make that withdrawal.

  12. That has to be a joke. No one could be that stupid. Right?

    Apparently I have too high of an opinion of humanity.

  13. Was that this year or last?

    Otherwise, I got nothing.

  14. Re:The trend here... on Researchers Ask: Are People Better Off Than 50 Years Ago? (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    For your definition of liberal and conservative, of course.

  15. Re:Speaking of dumb... on Can the FCC's 'Net Neutrality' Decision Be Overturned in Congress? (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Pedantry like that is why we can't have nice things.

  16. Re:FCC is Admin branch; Congress is legislative? on Can the FCC's 'Net Neutrality' Decision Be Overturned in Congress? (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    No, they could do it for any company in the country. After all, the store buys electricity, phone service, or cleaning supplies from national companies.

    So their internal policies, including selling apples with oranges, are subject to the interstate commerce clause.

  17. Re:Evan Greer lives in a fantasy on Can the FCC's 'Net Neutrality' Decision Be Overturned in Congress? (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    This statement makes it clear that Evan Greer is unwilling to accept reality. Please name one elected official that "paid for" their action or inaction on any of the following issues:

    • Implementation of Obamacare

    Are you kidding? Senator Kennedy lost his life over that vote.

  18. Re:FCC is Admin branch; Congress is legislative? on Can the FCC's 'Net Neutrality' Decision Be Overturned in Congress? (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Congress could pass a law saying your local supermarket can't sell a bag of apples without including one orange inside as well. It's a "pretty straightforward application of the interstate commerce clause".

  19. Re: Dumb question on Can the FCC's 'Net Neutrality' Decision Be Overturned in Congress? (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, because it's settled Supreme Court precedence, you would probably need a constitutional amendment, and that takes a 2/3 majority in both chambers of Congress, plus ratification by 2/3 of the states. That won't happen.

    It needs no such thing. All that is needed is 5 justices agreeing with a state law that life begins at conception, or some point very soon thereafter.

  20. Re:Silly definition of wisdom on The Lower Your Social Class, the 'Wiser' You Are, Suggests New Study (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    And not just divorce. There's more than one way to eliminate a spouse for your financial advantage.

  21. Re: Silly definition of wisdom on The Lower Your Social Class, the 'Wiser' You Are, Suggests New Study (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 4, Funny

    One day, a group of poor researchers wanted to define wisdom....

  22. Oh crap! Now I have the image of Hillary bare-chested on horseback.

  23. I heard lots of conservative critics claiming Obama had overstepped his authority in introducing Network Neutrality.

    Republicans said he overstepped his authority to everything he did because they wouldn't support him and refused to pass anything he proposed, .

    Didn't know that passing what the other side wants was part of their job description.

  24. Re:Many veterans end up homeless on Robots Are Being Used To Shoo Away Homeless People In San Francisco (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    It isn't that article that explains how much the American left, progressives, scientists, and social workers, were a big inspiration for the worst of the Nazi's policies.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Eugenics, the set of beliefs and practices which aims at improving the genetic quality of the human population[2][3] played a significant role in the history and culture of the United States prior to its involvement in World War II.[4]

    Eugenics was practiced in the United States many years before eugenics programs in Nazi Germany,[5] which were largely inspired by the previous American work.[6][7][8] Stefan Kühl has documented the consensus between Nazi race policies and those of eugenicists in other countries, including the United States, and points out that eugenicists understood Nazi policies and measures as the realization of their goals and demands.[9]

    During the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th century, eugenics was considered a method of preserving and improving the dominant groups in the population; it is now generally associated with racist and nativist elements as the movement was to some extent a reaction to a change in emigration from Europe rather than scientific genetics.[10]

    I would include more, but most of the references are from authors that I am sure you would immediately reject. And I have to go do work now, so Bye.

  25. Re:Yay, More Monopolies! on Disney Makes Deal for 21st Century Fox, Reshaping Entertainment Landscape (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I believe in low regulation,

    except for when you are inconvenienced by businesses.