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  1. Re: "Crack Down"-Should be Forced Rebates & Pe on Airlines Face Crack Down on Use of 'Exploitative' Algorithm That Splits Up Families on Flights (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    Airlines would not exist if they were losing money.

    Airlines would not exist if governments didnt keep bailing them out. But they do. Repeatedly. Again and again. Each airline gets a bailout every few decades, and heavy subsidies every single year.

    Hence, what you claim isnt true. The airlines can go on and on forever without showing any real profits.

    The entire industry has been in the red for its entire history as an industry, From day one all the way to today.

    The big question is how come you were so eager to join the conversation, imparting your wisdom, when you dont know such well known, important, indisputable facts on the topic? A year doesnt go by without another airline bailout by one government or another, and its always well publicized. Front page publicized. Nightly news publicized. 60 minutes publicized. Everywhere publicized. Apparently no amount of press can inform you.

  2. Re:Profitable business [Re:"Crack Down"-Should be. on Airlines Face Crack Down on Use of 'Exploitative' Algorithm That Splits Up Families on Flights (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Its all fun and games the decade after you've discharged all your debt with bankruptcies. Wont be so fun when they have to buy new planes again.

    This isnt real profit in the same way that uber drivers arent making real profits.

  3. Re:"Crack Down"-Should be Forced Rebates & Pen on Airlines Face Crack Down on Use of 'Exploitative' Algorithm That Splits Up Families on Flights (independent.co.uk) · · Score: -1

    So what you are saying is that the airlines arent losing enough money?

    There will be plenty of posts ignoring the fact that airlines lose money. You folks will go on about capitalism and greed ... but the facts on the table tell us that its the people flying that are the greedy exploiters.

  4. Re:People want cheap tickets - people get them. on Airlines Face Crack Down on Use of 'Exploitative' Algorithm That Splits Up Families on Flights (independent.co.uk) · · Score: -1, Troll

    The problem is that some people are infantile cunts.

    The airlines stopped doing seat reservations by default because its cheaper. As soon as one did it they all had to. The upshot is that if you want the same level of service as before, you have to give up on the savings. Infantile cunts expect the budget price AND the non-budget service. They can go fuck themselves.

  5. Re:Especially question flooding linked to sea leve on Many of the Climate Impacts Predicted in the Last National Climate Assessment, in 2014, Are No Longer Theoretical (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Because 1mm average sea level rise means 1mm more water in low tide and roughly 6mm more water in high tide and on top of that

    Stop making shit up. I can tell you are making shit up BECAUSE YOUR MATH DOESNT WORK.

    If 1mm is the low, and 6mm is the high... you know what the average absolutely isnt? the 1mm you just claimed. You just shat a giant dishonesty turd on the discussion AND ITS PEOPLE LIKE YOU THAT ARE THE PROBLEM.

    You are a lying dishonest fuck and you n eed to fucking STFU forever. People as egregiously dishonest as the lying fuck you are harmful to every possible conversion

  6. There is no prediction that CO2 emissions will rise in 2018.

    Yes there is.

    Why would they?

    Because they are shutting down nuclear plants like they are going out of style.

  7. Seems to me that the recent videos critical of Intel and nVidia are spot on, while both Intel and nVidia would (do?) claim they are hit pieces.

    it will all forever be murky precisely because a hit piece can also be true but that it takes a hit piece to remind/inform the public because the press fucking sucks.

  8. Re: The Seas AREN'T Rising.. on Rising Seas Give Island Nation a Stark Choice: Relocate or Elevate (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    And the seas are rising faster than even in geologic history.

    Ever think that people like you, the ones that just make shit up like what I quoted here, are the fucking problem? You are a dishonest lying fuck, proven with this quote, and yet nominated yourself as a vocal spokesperson for AGW.

    How about you just STFU forever you disgusting dishonest fuck. Your kind hurts every conversation.

  9. Re:How about a picture of the fucking glyphs? on The Mystery Font That Took Over New York (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Uh. how about SHOWING us the glyphs instead of textually describing them and making us look them up so we can understand what the fuck you are going on about???

    When you are writing an advertisement for a font that the copyright holder wishes to sell, a bad move would be to include the font glyphs for free.

  10. Re:Green acres is the place for me ... NOT on Air Quality in San Francisco is So Bad that Uber Drivers Are Selling Masks Out of Their Cars (recode.net) · · Score: 0

    Because he nailed it, while you are in denial.

  11. Re:Sleep apnea? Lose some weight on Why Sleep Apnea Patients Rely On a Lone, DRM-Breaking CPAP Machine Hacker (vice.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    most likely a deviated septum, which affects ~80% of the population

    If it effected 80% of the population, it would be a normal septum and the people without issues would have the deviated septum.

    This seems like a gross hyper-diagnosis similar to how everyone is diagnosed with attention deficit disorder now.

    1) Relax the standard until everyone has it.
    2) Sell treatments to all 8 billion people.

  12. Fake News on Facebook Claims NYT Expose Has 'A Number of Inaccuracies' (variety.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The fake news is challenging the the gatekeeper of memes. Pretty sure the memes will win.

  13. Re:I'm sorry but HTTPS sucks on Safari Tests 'Not Secure' Warning For Unencrypted Websites (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    And so long as you always get to cherry pick what conditions to frame the situation you put "everyone" in ... you might as well declare unencrypted HTTP hitler, because thats about as much honesty and sense you are making.

    So again... you havent said shit... you havent made a point.. you are just waving your hands

  14. Re: A modest proposal on FDA Seeks Ban On Menthol Cigarettes To Fight Teen Smoking (npr.org) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You are one of those people that, in spite of being told again and again that you are wrong, by the very Scandinavians that you are mislabeling, that you get to mislabel them because you want to win a political debate that you dont even understand.

  15. This is what happens when you go too far left.

    You wont be able to convince people that going this far left turns you into nazi's.. because the left has been telling everyone that the nazi's were right wing for over 60 years now. It doesnt matter how obviously wrong the left is on the matter of the nazis... even if yet another leftist nation is calling itself the fatherland.

  16. Re:I'm sorry but HTTPS sucks on Safari Tests 'Not Secure' Warning For Unencrypted Websites (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    When the public thinks "secure" they dont think the same thing that you do about what that means, so your point is less than nothing.

  17. Re:Coming Soon: on Safari Tests 'Not Secure' Warning For Unencrypted Websites (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    +1 Well done sir.

  18. Re:Think about WHY we don't make PC cases on 'Why PC Builders Should Stock Up on Components Now' (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    We know how to make them but we cannot do it as cheaply as they can in China.

    It is indeed the labor, but I dont think most people here understand what the costly labor is. The costly labor isnt the people running the machines that produce the parts in a mass production environment. The costly labor is the human assemblers they need when it either isnt a mass production scenario or when they need fastest possible time-to-market.,

    A company like NZXT probably cant seriously consider mass production (they arent selling millions of a case), and their time-to-market is probably important to them given their focus on looks and flashiness.

    The fact is that there is going to be a lot of production labor per unit when sales targets are in the thousands instead of millions.

    Some people may argue about where NZXT sits in the marketplace, but its pretty obvious to me that they are a low quality producer with mid-range prices, a price markup made possible by focusing on eye-catching exteriors.

  19. Re: Interesting Thing About Tariffs on 'Why PC Builders Should Stock Up on Components Now' (pcmag.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    its a tax on your purchase

    better yours than... oh... wait

  20. Re:#MAGA on 'Why PC Builders Should Stock Up on Components Now' (pcmag.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sounds like a business opportunity to make PC cases in the US so Americans aren't 'forced' to buy Chinese shit.

    Apparently you missed the past decade where big businesses has been positioning to transition to using south american cheap labor instead of southeast asian cheap labor.

  21. Re:get some furniture quality hardwood on 'Why PC Builders Should Stock Up on Components Now' (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    So what you are saying is that proper geeks use a 3D printer instead of a skill saw?

  22. Re:Red herring on 'Why PC Builders Should Stock Up on Components Now' (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Hopefully the outcome of these tariffs is that another country (maybe even the US?) will step up and start producing and supplying components.

    ...because only NZXT currently builds components? Hell, they barely build any at all... and thats their real problem.

    NZXT wants to be able to build low volume flashy cases, in a world where high volume always wins. As someone who has been waiting for ram prices to drop so has been iterating over component selection, one of the brands of desktop case that has not made it to my newegg cart is NZXT because they sell looks rather than quality or purpose. Giant glass windows instead of ventilation, rounded corners, stupid "machine learning" fan controller dongles, and so on.

  23. Re: But muh Jewelry on 'Why PC Builders Should Stock Up on Components Now' (pcmag.com) · · Score: 2

    Its hard to imagine a build where the DDR4 cost isnt dominating the equation... but you did it.

  24. Re:What a crock of shit on The Problem Behind a Viral Video of a Persistent Baby Bear (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 0

    fun fact: zooming with a telephoto lens doesnt actually move the camera closer ...bet you didnt know that... or even what zooming is

  25. Re:Pay cash where you can on Credit Card Chips Have Failed to Halt Fraud (So Far) (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    plus your drug dealer only accepts cash

    proof by induction