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  1. Demagogues on US Drought Brings A Surprise Benefit: No Tornados (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    will love this and spin it as much as possible into the "right" direction.

  2. No, not Turkey, nor government! on Turkey Blocks Access To Twitter, WhatsApp, YouTube, and Facebook (itpro.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It's people doing it to and with other people. The question is why is this happening again and again?

    Fear, stupidity or what else is causing this it on one side, pathology on the other?

  3. 30 % of retail? on Amazon May Handle 30% Of All US Retail Sales (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    hahaha - groceries included - that's retail too, right?

    I am trying to avoid this monster as much as possible - takes smaller companies down.

  4. Must be drunken with arrogance on Feds Walk Into a Building, Demand Everyone's Fingerprints To Open Phones (dailyherald.com) · · Score: 2

    and full of themselves to pull this off...

  5. I do my own "support" and build my own machines from components. The original equipment costs for MAC are something else in comparison. Also being part of this special "race" of Apple/MAC-Hype-Members being proud of any new gadget coming out, lining up at stores feverishly and looking forward to the next Apple-Event would be way too high a cost as well.

  6. This truly exposes a major hypocrisy present on Facebook Bans Animated Breast Cancer Awareness Video Showing Circle-Shaped Breasts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Repression of lust, enjoyment sexual expression is present in any human society on this planet. To control one of the most important drives in a species - procreation - is paramount to control, repress and pervert people in various societies (and religions) from early childhood on.

    Just look - everyone has it, any creature on this planet does it, it's part of life and it is "forbidden", controlled - no, your body does not belong to you, what you do and how you do it in your bedrooms - no, can't do this or that, it's against (fill in whatever believe conditioning is there),

    This Facebook acting is another example of this ongoing mental castration!

  7. Brain damage on China Just Launched Two Astronauts Into Orbit (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    appears to be a certainty doing this, if they go out above the Van Allen Belt.

    Dunno....

    https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/28427...

  8. I think that marijuana is going to be the sequel to tobacco. Smoking different stuff isn't healthier. Around the 2030s we will probably see lung cancer and throat cancer go up again along with everything else as the second anti-smoking campaign begins.

    Amateur!

    Ingesting THC from MJ has 5 x the potency compared to smoking. Why is anyone smoking that stuff?

  9. This is exactly how the new "people for the people" democracy works: Wealthy people or corporations use money in bribes to influence legislature bypassing unbiased education and disclosures of facts for voters.

  10. What's in the mind on Are Tech Firms Liable For What Their Users Post? (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    of people pulling this off?
    One has to wonder....

    needs recognition
    feels inferior and has to compensate trying to fill this void
    stubborn frame of mind
    shine before his/her peer group, partner
    neural concept how things have to be ... ???

  11. If a prediction prevents an event, the model of prediction fails and can no longer predict if it is self-learning.

  12. Re:The ROOF The Roof THE ROOF IS ON FIRE on Feds Go After Mylan For Scamming Medicaid Out of Millions On EpiPen Pricing (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    What to you want to do? The holy grail in US - and other's is money - the more one can squeeze out, the better. Where it comes from, what does it do, does not matter, those are the losers and not smart enough, so they are the problem.
    Look at airlines with their charges for non-refundable ticket returns. They can charge any obscene price they want. Many people just drop the game and the tickets can be sold again - profit. Read somewhere that 7 % of all non-refundable tickets will not be used - ok, so it's double sales on 7 % of those tickets sold, all a money game. Charging $ 400 (UA) for a re-booking - how much does an actual computerized transaction cost? $ 15 or so. OT this here but the underlying urge, more is never enough sure is there too.

  13. one of the x million claimed users has W10 silently sleeping on a HD somewhere laying around on the floor waiting to be used at one point, when I get around....

    Got more important stuff to do.

    Ah - when I try again and plug on the disk, network cable is unplugged and there is somewhere a printout of this:

    http://www.howtogeek.com/22386...

    which I have to read in more detail...

  14. Re:Just compare the prices of other utilites on You're Paying 40% More For TV Than You Were 5 Years Ago (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Why did you put quotes around natural? What's not natural about natural gas? Do you think the methane is manufactured somewhere?

    There are some voices that "natural" gas is not of organic origin, but formed or occurring deep down in the planet at a time long before organic processes existed nor, when they existed, those would not capable of creating such amounts:

    http://origeminorganicadopetro...

    That's not my point though. The term "natural" implies being OK, renewable, then good to use. While it may be better than crude oil derived fuels or coal, it still is a carbohydrate when oxidized, creates CO2, a greenhouse gas contributing to global warming currently creating climate havoc on this planet.

    So, IMHO, it's a hogwash misleading term for the use of large corporations securing their established way of business and continuing creating profits at the cost of others.

    You may think of all that what you want, won't make a difference at all...
         

  15. Just compare the prices of other utilites on You're Paying 40% More For TV Than You Were 5 Years Ago (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2

    Electricity
    Water
    "Natural" gas
    Sewer
    Garbage

    against TV

    and what you get as net gain and how much abuse you have to take

    is it really worth it?

  16. We the people, for the people by the people

    (suckers)

  17. Ha Ha Ha! on Many Looking Past iPhone 7 to Next Year's iPhone 8 (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Luckily, I am not part of this "Many" at all.
    My life won't change a bit through Apple, except this post...

  18. Re:I have a better idea. on Should We Kill All The Mosquitoes? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's kill the rich and all the corporations instead. The planet will thank us.

    Yah - and start farming on Wall Street to feed the city.
    Good luck with that!

  19. So what! on C Programming Language Hits a 15-Year Low On The TIOBE Index (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    C is great - love it and if somebody shits on it, even more so!

  20. Sensationalists! on The Big Short: Security Flaws Fuel Bet Against St. Jude (securityledger.com) · · Score: 1

    There: "MedSec CEO Justine Bone acknowledged in an interview with Bloomberg that her company did not first reach out to St. Jude to provide them with information on the security holes"

    nuff said....

    Maybe even investors listening to grapevine going short before the hubbub trying to make a buck.

  21. Re:Nope, no wealth inequality here on Bill Gates's Net Worth Hits $90 Billion (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    It doesn't get much better than that.

    hmmm.....
    Weird - no software patents, skalp CP/M and ...

    http://forwardthinking.pcmag.c...
    After a couple of years then...

    In his 43-page conclusions of law, Judge Jackson's final judgment on the evidence, the judge wrote that ''the court concludes that Microsoft maintained its monopoly power by anticompetitive means and attempted to monopolize the Web browser market,'' as well as ''unlawfully tying its Web browser to its operating system'' -- all in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.

    (http://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/04/business/us-vs-microsoft-overview-us-judge-says-microsoft-violated-antitrust-laws-with.html?pagewanted=all)

    You need to watch His court depositions, what a hero!

    Having control over OS and application software to control and monopolize a market may have been wrong i. e. unlawful, but in the United States, where nothing is impossible, it just wen through after the proven principle "it cannot be what may not be".

  22. Sick people!

  23. Making recordings on Maker of Web Monitoring Software Can Be Sued (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    of a person's activity without consent or court order is illegal and should be punished.
    Keeping those recordings on a storage facility for later view does not change anything of the original act.
    Parents doing it to their minor children w/o consent of those is within their right of parents.
    So, a program installed concealed without consent is illegal.
    Surveillance cameras active in an area need to be disclosed, phone conversations/email activity within a company need to be disclosed to employees that this is happening.

    Now, is all this happening to those rules?
    Boah!
         

  24. How is that going to work? on Metropolitan Police To Target Online Hate Crime and Abuse (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Written or spoken word can be insult, defamation or ??
    Hate crime seems to be a crime (deed) against a person or group - how is this possible with words?
    If it's (a deed or fact) being reported/mentioned on some internet place, it is possibly worth pursuing by some police, but this seems to become a thought-police type thing. Where are the exact rules and regulations to get a hold of what is going on except politician/hype.

    Is England going the Turkey way - wholesale locking up judges/journalists/soldiers without due process because of one mentally sick madman?

  25. Yet another reason on Facebook Will Force Advertising On Ad-Blocking Users (wsj.com) · · Score: 0

    why I don't do facebook....
    except for testing, I have test accounts to be able to look, but posting anything personal, staying there forever, visible to anybody and owned by a corporation
    - thanks, no

    And, I get oodles of "you have yadayada", "do you know...?" emails from facebook, all goes into trash.