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  1. Re:What do you call a russian Manchurian candidate on Computer Scientists Believe a Trump Server Was Communicating With a Russian Bank (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah... the "Abe Lincoln defence" was a classic. It's a shame that no one was there to declare "I knew Abe, and you're no Abe."

  2. Re:No one is flipping to the Russians...sheesh on Computer Scientists Believe a Trump Server Was Communicating With a Russian Bank (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    > Let me tell you something. You take a look at Mosul.

    You did notice how all of the high value targets in Mosul were able to flee? There was no apparent attempt to capture these people on the run or hit them on the road or otherwise get them.

    Meanwhile we've got a nasty bit of urban warfare that hasn't even started yet and they're talking about a flood of refugees that are going to overwhelm what little resources they have set aside for that sort of thing.

  3. Re:No one is flipping to the Russians...sheesh on Computer Scientists Believe a Trump Server Was Communicating With a Russian Bank (slate.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    > A rich white New Yorker is the oligarchy.

    You mean the senator from New York?

  4. Re: Temper your enthusiasm on Computer Scientists Believe a Trump Server Was Communicating With a Russian Bank (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, love him or hate him he was a nice break from sex scandals.

    The DNC were morons for letting Clinton anywhere near the nomination. It's like they and she thinks she's entitled. Forget about all of the people that haven't stopped hating her since she was first lady.

    She's going to bring people together? You have to be a partisan dope to believe that.

    Whatever happens election day, I won't stop ridiculing whoever wins. =P

  5. Re:Putin and Trump bromance on Computer Scientists Believe a Trump Server Was Communicating With a Russian Bank (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Aleppo is someone else's civil war. You seem to want to cry crocodile tears over it. Are you willing to shed your own blood over it?

    Ukraine was a dick move but it was still largely a regional thing.

    So far, the biggest threat to western security seems to be from the idiot that wants to impose a no fly zone where the Russians are already entrenched and have SAMs.

    Those horses are out of the barn already. That pooch has already been screwed.

  6. Re:I trust Russia MORE than I trust the DNC on Computer Scientists Believe a Trump Server Was Communicating With a Russian Bank (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah... a real estate developer and entrepenuer is a communist.

    That's as stupid as painting Putin as a communist.

    I wonder if you were still alive when the Russians were still communist.

    Who's next? Bill Gates? Warren Buffet?

    Billionaire blacklist?

  7. Re:African-American sounding names? on It's Harder To Get an Uber or Lyft If You're Black, Study Says (time.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    > But naming their son "John" is perfectly OK, right?

    Yup. This is why off the boat immigrants will give their children nice WASP names. They aren't trying to actively sabotage their children's success.

    Actual Africans will probably avoid this kind of nonsense.

  8. Re:African-American sounding names? on It's Harder To Get an Uber or Lyft If You're Black, Study Says (time.com) · · Score: 0

    > It's simply because the person was easily identifiable as black.

    Alternately, they come from a family that's anti-assimilationist. They don't believe in fitting in or trying to be successful. They view those things as "acting white". They hold anti-social cultural views.

    Trump housing accusations are probably older than you are.

  9. Re: Are linux adverts still bad adverts? on MacBook Pro (2016) Disappointment Pushes Some Apple Loyalists To Ubuntu Linux (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    > The Touch Bar I understand slashdot will pan because, somehow, the culture here has been dominated by technophobia.

    It's an interesting idea as an ADDITION, not something that comes at the cost of standard functionality.

    If anything, it reminds me of the function key overlays from the days of DOS and certain 80s game consoles. It's by no means a new idea.

  10. Re: Are linux adverts still bad adverts? on MacBook Pro (2016) Disappointment Pushes Some Apple Loyalists To Ubuntu Linux (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    > Lol. You have no idea until you own one. All the bargain basement people cling to their thrift like it is a choice. It is not. You have no choice because you simple can not afford it. Period.

    No. You just need to desperately justify your purchase in order to avoid feeling like a moron.

  11. Re: Are linux adverts still bad adverts? on MacBook Pro (2016) Disappointment Pushes Some Apple Loyalists To Ubuntu Linux (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    > By your logic, Mercedes are just Kia's with 'gimmicks'?

    Except Apple products are no Mercedes. They're more like a Lincoln. They're the same internals as a Ford with some superficial bits that are different.

    Since Macs are now just x86 PCs, that's more true than it ever was.

    Now an actual Mercedes is overpriced and has unnecessary proprietary elements that are bothersome. You're overpaying for an over hyped logo.

    I don't think you've ever done so much as test driven a Mercedes.

  12. Re: Are linux adverts still bad adverts? on MacBook Pro (2016) Disappointment Pushes Some Apple Loyalists To Ubuntu Linux (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    My screen isn't shitty. It's 17 inches. It's heavy, but it's also got 2.5TB of storage space. Life's a trade off.

    Or was that a lame attempt at denigrating System76 Ultrabooks?

  13. Seeing the manner in which Democrats behave on social media has caused me to flip my party affiliation this election. The histrionics started to wear thin at a certain point. The vitriol and anti-liberty attitudes of Democrats make them look like they are "projecting".

    The communist pretending to be a Democrat also didn't help.

    They may find that the insults they are eager to overuse may end up diluted by their shenanigans.

  14. Yes. Trump pushed the logical extreme and Clinton was unable to handle it. Sure, twitter was all over it but twitter wasn't at the debate. She was all tied up in her rhetoric that she forgot the broader context of the situation.

    It's not just last month fetuses that are viable.

    Technology has advanced to the point where abortions and heroic attempts to save the fetus overlap. A great deal of money can be spent to save a single infant in this manner.

  15. Forget about the future, what about now? on Climate Change Rate To Turn Southern Spain To Desert By 2100, Report Warns (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Have any of you actually been to southern Spain. It already looks like New Mexico or Nevada. It seems pretty dry already.

    The palm trees were also a bit of a shock. I was not expecting to see those in Europe.

  16. Re:Because Enterprise Faired So Poorly on Star Trek Discovery Gets Delayed After Losing Showrunner Bryan Fuller (variety.com) · · Score: 2

    The original ideas for the Romulan war were just stupid anyways. NONE of it made any sense. They needed a new canon either way. This is a good example of some of the weaknesses in TOS that just needed to get pushed out an airlock.

    You simply can't fight an interstellar war (in Trek terms) without Warp drive.

  17. Re:They tell you upfront it isn't going to be good on Star Trek Discovery Gets Delayed After Losing Showrunner Bryan Fuller (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    Except the "diversity" in TOS represented bad 60s racial and ethnic sterotypes and largely one dimensional characters. This is one of the things that's blatantly obvious when comparing TOS to the reboot. You get crude stuff that doesn't age well when all you're really about is ticking off checkboxes.

  18. > Why do you even want this ad delivery platform on your computer?

    You can strip the ads out you idiot. People on ALL platforms have been doing this since 2003 or so. There are even Mac apps that do this.

    Before that, you could just skip through them.

    A tablet app for the PVR/streamer?

    Apple is like LAST to the party on this one.

  19. No one had a vested interested in engaging in scaremongering here so it will be sort of "swept under the rug".

  20. Re:Interesting, but probably irrelevant on Repeat Infringers Can Be Mere Downloaders, Court Rules (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Copyright is one of those weird things where it is or is not a crime depending on the circumstances. It can also be a tort. Clearly a manifestation of the obvious cognitive dissonance inherent in imaginary property.

  21. Re:Interesting, but probably irrelevant on Repeat Infringers Can Be Mere Downloaders, Court Rules (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    > How many mp3s do you download by accident?

    On the modern web, I download plenty of stuff "by accident".

    Some of us even alter our web browsers to put somewhat of a lid on the madness.

  22. Re:Not Unexpected on Repeat Infringers Can Be Mere Downloaders, Court Rules (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Laws have been completely struck down for the kind of broad and vague legal language they just happily applied.

  23. Re:Doesn't Netflix do this in its main interface? on Apple To Help Viewers Discover TV Shows Through an App (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    >>> "the Watch List," the app will recommend shows based on the content viewers access through their Apple TV

    > I seem to remember Netflix suggestions just showing up on my main content selection screen. Never having seen one, why does an Apple TV need a separate app to suggest TV shows to its viewers?

    Tivo suggested things for you 17 years ago.

    If iTunes was less lame, it would already be doing this (like Amazon).

  24. You are confusing the applications with the underlying API.

  25. Yeah... ask a Russian about that. If they weren't being propped up they would have fallen over.