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  1. Re: Why do I use Firefox Again? on Mozilla to Remove Support for Built-In Feed Reader From Firefox (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Install the addon 'Brief'. It has it's own RSS detector built in. It will take a little getting used to, but once you do, you'll like it a lot. It's certainly better than going to Chrome!

  2. He got it right on High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads Line Up For University (npr.org) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I guess Mike Rowe was right all along!

  3. Re:ALL SPEECH.... on Reddit Continues To Protect Racist Language In Favor of Free Speech (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Wish I was moderating right now so I could +1 you.

  4. Re:Disadvantage US manufacturers? on EPA Prepares To Roll Back Rules Requiring Cars To Be Cleaner and More Efficient (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Car companies want to sell cars. They don't need the government forcing them to build cars to specifications - many of which customers do not desire. If a customer wants a specific type of car, you can bet car companies will do their best to create it. Regulations only constrain their ability to do so while raising prices to the consumer.

  5. Harvesting profiles is not a breach on Facebook and Its Executives Are Getting Destroyed After Botching the Handling of a Massive Data Breach (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm confused. The only thing they did was view 40 Million profiles on Facebook? Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo do more than that every single day.

  6. Shouldn't we wait until most people are no longer worried about a global warming catastrophe before we create a new armageddon story?

  7. All of my packages from Amazon, NewEgg and eBay all are shipped by UPS or FedEx. How do you get something shipped by USPS?

  8. Sounds like a good idea to me.

  9. Re:Good on Trump Is Pulling US Out of Paris Climate Deal: Sources (axios.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Apparently, CO2 will kill us all. It's the new science, and it's settled. Al Gore told me so.

  10. Re:Where is the homophobia? on FCC Considers Fining Stephen Colbert Over Controversial Trump Joke (rollingstone.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Just imagine if Trump said that about Colbert as a joke. Then you'll see the problem.

  11. Re:God Dammit on Senate Confirms Neil Gorsuch To Supreme Court (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    "But in a speech on the Senate floor in June 1992, Mr. Biden, then the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said there should be a different standard for a Supreme Court vacancy “that would occur in the full throes of an election year.” The president should follow the example of “a majority of his predecessors” and delay naming a replacement, Mr. Biden said. If he goes forward before then, the Senate should wait to consider the nomination."

  12. Good point. I was only considering hardware, which is still the largest $ amount by far. I wonder if countries with VAT and GST tax types will change the law for things like music and apps.

  13. You can look at it that way, I guess. But all taxes are passed on to the consumer by necessity. The only Apple can get money to give to the government is from the consumer. No company or corporation pays taxes in that sense. It all comes from a consumer.

  14. The VAT tax rate on that $4.2 billion is 15%. New Zealand made a lot of money off those iphone sales.

  15. When you promote advertisements like this, shouldn't you mention that they're sponsored?

  16. Any article that discusses an issue that 'could' or 'may' do something is not an article worth reading. You can say them about anything. For example, double cheeseburgers could lead to visits by extraterrestrial life forms!

  17. Re:Hard to read on How is The New York Times Really Doing? (om.co) · · Score: 0

    No, they should research a story before they print an article blowing the subject out of proportion, only having to later walk it back once they realize it was a nothing sandwich. Boys who cry wolf stop being relevant quickly. That's exactly what is happening to many news outlets, including the NYT. You sound like you don't know about the rape epidemic in Sweden and the reasons behind it. You should look into it. It's disconcerting.

  18. Hard to read on How is The New York Times Really Doing? (om.co) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They've got to get over their hatred of Trump before they can succeed. Even anti-Trump people want to hear about something else once in a while.

  19. "There's a four-in-five chance that there's a Linux-powered smartphone in your pocket"

    That's just an odd way of saying 'an 80% chance'. Previously, it had only been used to describe dentists and their preferred chewing gum type.

  20. Sure you meant 'spouse or spousefriend'!

  21. I don't understand you. The possible uses of this new OS are... cloudy. How much more could you have to do with clouds than that?

  22. Thank you, Yoshi_Mon! I was not aware of how to remove that garbage.

  23. Would be fun! on Jack Dorsey Says Twitter Needs An Edit Function (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 2

    You could tweet, "I love [some new movie]. Retweet if you agree! Then, after a bunch of retweets, edit it to say "Retweet this message if you eat other people's boogers!"

    If the retweets would update, it could prove quite humorous for a day or two.

  24. Compatibility on FreeDOS 1.2 Is Finally Released (freedos.org) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does it work with older machines? I'm not yet ready to update my 286. Maybe next year.

  25. Re:Costs $150 per bbl to drill in Arctic on Obama Blocks Offshore Drilling In Atlantic, Arctic Areas (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    In 2005, we priced it at $37/bbl, assuming 25 wells, a few miles of piping, and 5 billion barrels in the ground. I would guess it has gone up to $40/bbl by now. Sorry your failed ideology didn't go to chemical engineering school, or the north slope.