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  1. Re:Welcome to the Trump future... on US Life Expectancy Declines For the First Time Since 1993 (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0

    How about the opportunity to spend your money on more immediate necessities rather insane insurance premiums.

    Remember, Obamacare only gives you the "privelege" of paying a lot for something you may never need.

    If you are normal person hysterically fixated on the possibility of medical bankruptcy, then the liberal media has already damaged you. Your mental problems are the fault of liberals, not republicans.

  2. Re: Welcome to the Trump future... on US Life Expectancy Declines For the First Time Since 1993 (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    > Almost all Christians have reformed.

    They haven't reformed THAT much. This is why extremist pro-abortion rhetoric can still help sink a presidential candidate.

  3. Re:No. I Need Better Quality Movies! Please! on Slashdot Asks: Would You Like Early Access To Movies And Stop Going To Theatres? · · Score: 0

    > Bit too rapey

    Yeah... non-aspbergers sex has become "rapey".

  4. Re:I Would Rather Go To Theatres on Slashdot Asks: Would You Like Early Access To Movies And Stop Going To Theatres? · · Score: 1

    Unless they are showing the movie on their best screens, it's not too hard to replicate the experience at home. If you need a crowd around you, just recruit your own crowd. You can be as social as you want to be in your own home.

  5. Re:Depends on price on Slashdot Asks: Would You Like Early Access To Movies And Stop Going To Theatres? · · Score: 1

    IMAX tickets aren't cheap. But then again, I am not going to recreate the IMAX experience in my home theater. My own setup is more on par with smaller conventional screens in theaters.

    Without a decent home theatre setup. I don't see the point of paying extra for early releases.

  6. You don't design shit. You probably live in your parent's basement.

  7. Re:no on Slashdot Asks: Would You Like Early Access To Movies And Stop Going To Theatres? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Your excuses are terribly lame. The mail is trivial to use. A disk player is trivial to use. Your whining about wires is also lame.

    If you aren't willing to plug something into your TV, then you have to be content with "smart TV" features that suck or broadcast TV.

    But if you insist on depriving yourself, that's your own problem.

  8. Re:Bad is better than Worst on China Chases Silicon Valley Talent Who Are Worried About Trump Presidency (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    > but the same goes for the US where cops can steal your cash

    This is a largely irrelevant problem for most businesses as few deal in large amounts of cash. Just the idea of transporting cash as a non-criminal gives me pause. Never mind pause, I view it as absurd from a basic security perspective.

  9. That might have been true before the rise of Bernie Sanders. Now, not so much. Even the more "moderate" liberals want to nationalize medicine.

  10. Re:This works for me on China Chases Silicon Valley Talent Who Are Worried About Trump Presidency (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    > When people stopped chasing after the American Dream to have it all and learn to live a modest lifestyle.

    A "modest lifestyle" is for slaves and peasants. Even a single wide is better than some of the "modest" accommodations in western Europe.

    Been there. Done that. No thanks.

  11. Your entire rant glosses over the very real fact that death certificates are total bullshit. NO ONE ever puts the real cause of death down because no one wants to get sued or get entangled in the ensuing mess. So the standard practice is to put down heart disease or cancer regardless of actual cause.

    This measure would be a considerable deviation from current practice.

    Truth in death reporting would actually be nice. It will probably set off a shit storm of litigation though.

  12. There are plenty of clusters of long living people. They now seem to be the new trendy thing in cancer quackery.

    Chances are, the only thing they have on their side is luck. They tend to have both a distinct genome and a unique (usually isolated) environment.

    There is likely no magic elixir to be distilled from them.

    Although I will agree that all matters of human biochemistry are still so poorly understood (despite our own hubris on the matter) that anything could be possible.

    I just won't believe anything in particular until it's very well understood and well tested.

  13. Re:Michael Flynn Jr believes it on Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    > What ever made you think you could trust a doctor with the presidency, or a cabinet position like the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development?

    What is so special about that post anyway? What sort of extra special secret personal characteristics do you need for that job anyhow? It's a low profile domestic position.

    People are paying way to much attention to this trivial shit just because they're butt hurt that the other party won.

    It's like you morons thought that a Black President fundementally altered the nature of the universe and ended history.

  14. Re: Michael Flynn Jr believes it on Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    > Bullshit, unless... well, how intelligent is a library, anyhow??

    A library has zero intelligence. It can't learn or apply what it learned. It also doesn't have the requisite physical skills to carry out surgery.

    Your kind of stupidity actually makes look like all of your claims and those of your cabal are pure nonsense. You completely undermine the liberal narrative.

  15. Re: These wackos are cows with guns on Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Most gun violence is perpetrated by low income people living in high crime areas. The people in those particular high crime areas tend to vote overwhelmingly Democrat (when they do vote).

    Liberal news media outlets only care about gun violence when people outside of that demographic are involved. They usually focus on weapons that only account for a tiny minority of gun mayhem.

  16. Re:I quit using DVR on Most DVR Owners Are Recording Live Sports, Survey Says (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Sports is a good example of where legacy broadcasting rules effectively sabotage streaming. Even if you subscribe to some streaming service, blackout rules dating back to the 70s can still prevent you from having access to a game.

    Plus you can record in better quality yourself and you don't have to waste any bandwidth viewing a locally stored recording.

    Plus some of this stuff is completely free OTA. So it's gratis too.

  17. Re: Will this apply to slashdot as well? on EU Threatens Twitter And Facebook With Possible 'Hate Speech' Laws (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0

    Yeah... sexist and misogynist. That's the new codeword for treating a woman as an equal. You're just playing the woman card and pretending that they are all just weak victims that need protected. This goes equally well for Trump's groupies, the professional entertainer, or Clinton herself.

    When Germans need to put signs in bathrooms because the Syrians can't or won't use a toilet properly, you've got a real issue that can't be glossed over by liberal platitudes.

    The issue of successful assimilation is not something to be glossed over or ignored just because it contradicts your politics.

  18. Re:WW2 [Re: Will this apply to slashdot as well?] on EU Threatens Twitter And Facebook With Possible 'Hate Speech' Laws (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    > The recent election in the US shows that disturbing xenophobia*

    Well, that's certainly the narrative coming out of the Clinton News Network. Unfortunately we can't trust the reality of those claims at all. The 4th estate has become a party propaganda organ.

  19. Re:Inside every "Liberal" is an "Authoritarian" on EU Threatens Twitter And Facebook With Possible 'Hate Speech' Laws (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    The "Hitler Problem" wasn't that the guy said mean things. The problem with Hitler is that he also had an army of uniformed thugs beating people up. He didn't just say "bad things". He did things that relatively libertine Americans would consider illegal.

    The Hitler problem is that he suppressed dissent. He did that long before he came to power.

    It's even in that silly little poem that people have had fun misusing lately.

    This Cliff Notes version of history that liberals love to peddle ignores a lot of very relevant details.

  20. Re:The litmus test on Reuters Built An Algorithm That Can Identify Real News On Twitter (popsci.com) · · Score: 2

    Not really. There's only confirmation bias. It can be on the part of the reader or on the part of the journalist but it's just as bad either way. People will even take OBVIOUS satire sites and take them seriously so long as it fits their internal narrative.

    "Journalists" do this too. They will ignore stories that don't fit their narrative. They will rush to judgement when it suits their narrative.

  21. Re:"showcase some of our new thinking" on Plex Media Player Now Doesn't Require a Subscription; Pass Users Get Kodi Plug-in (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The only really interesting thing you mentioned is "Music DNA" and there's really only one app that does that right and it's not Plex.

    As far as portable music goes... something like the empeg was an interesting idea in the 90s but not so much now.

  22. Re:Can someone explain why this is cool? on Plex Media Player Now Doesn't Require a Subscription; Pass Users Get Kodi Plug-in (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    > The biggest benefit of PLEX from what I've been able to tell (mind you I've only looked at it from a 30,000 ft perspective) is that PLEX lets you re-encode on the fly media so that it matches the device you are watching on....

    That's become much less of a problem as tech has moved forward from the iPad1 days. Newer mobile devices shouldn't need the plex server to transcode for them.

  23. Re:Can someone explain why this is cool? on Plex Media Player Now Doesn't Require a Subscription; Pass Users Get Kodi Plug-in (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    > Sometimes people want to leave their house. I know, its crazy but true.

    In that case I just copy stuff onto my phone.

    If I am away from home, chances are that I am completely disconnected from my home machine or such access is prohibitively expensive.

  24. It's funny how people are suddenly doing good or useful things just to spite Trump. They never managed to them beforehand though.

    Hopefully they will save some of this non-apathy for the next guy from the other party.

  25. I never bothered with bootcamp. I just used the Apple partition manager to alter the partition and boot type.