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  1. Totally not the parents . . . on 'Fortnite' May be a Virtual Game, But It's Having Real-life, Dangerous Effects (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "We have one kid who destroyed the family car because he thought his parents had locked his device inside," Rich said. "He took a hammer to the windshield."

    Who finds out about that and then thinks its a video game issue.

    Seems to me the parents suck ass.

    Although, video games to have an impact on people, and to thing there is no effect, especially to a developing mind, would be foolish.

    But this? this is bad parenting. Should have had his system removed from him a lot sooner.

    Give him so old laptop that can't run it.

  2. It can also just be humorous to think about.

  3. My question, honestly, is are you really that stupid?

    It's a joke and a time of years to be humorous. Yeah, clearly this story is fake, but the idea is funny.

    Do you stand up at comic shows and scream: "LIAR!" or "WE KNOW IT'S A JOKE!"

    Don't find it funny, fine. The rest of us are emotionless, humorless automaton.

  4. Re:April first is a blight, need to be stopped!! on OS/2 Warp Community Announces It's Merging With the Flat Earth Society (os2world.com) · · Score: 1

    " aimed at fools"

    incorrect. It as to make people feel foolish. as in a unexpected and nonsensical change to their environment.

    It was done BY Fools(it's there day) not to fools.

  5. The education isn't useless. There is more use then 'money'.

    And there is no trick.

    But great, lets motivate college away from the Arts. That's not stupid at all.

  6. Re:Sounds good on More Colleges Try Forgoing Tuition For A Percentage of Future Income (yahoo.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The Arts. English, writing, these are all needed for a healthy society.

    Motivating college to focus only on high paying career fields means things that make life beautiful will be forgotten.

  7. Here are three:

    1) Monkey Paw

    2) Magic genie

    3) Thoughts and prayers.

  8. Absolutely correct.

  9. Re:The exploding cost of education on More Colleges Try Forgoing Tuition For A Percentage of Future Income (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    That's misleading. It only applies if you are sending your child to a private ivy league schools. Remove those from the equation and it's not nearly as bad as the chart misleads people into thinking.

    https://trends.collegeboard.or...

    pssst: Ohms law is the same at community college as it is at MIT

  10. Re:This isn't 'innovative' on More Colleges Try Forgoing Tuition For A Percentage of Future Income (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    The difference is power balance.

    What happens when 'payback' percentage starts being based on your degree?

    What happens when you don't take a job the university thinks you should?

    You post is based on the false premise that they will be faithful actors.

    Anytime someone has a direct hook into your pay, it becomes abusive. see: Entire history since the industrial age started.

    What you are talking about would require a very expensive dept just to groom people into the 'correct' position, and the idea that the people running the college actual give a fuck about 5+ years down the road. They are not. They are worried about what they can get NOW, and it's i their best interst to control what you choose to do.

  11. Re:BEWARE: Deceptive ISA con game... on More Colleges Try Forgoing Tuition For A Percentage of Future Income (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    This history of this sort of thing is pretty nasty and abusive.

    While it might start well, eventually it will get to the point where interest will mean forever servitude and you will be liable to pay them back in full if you don't take the job they want you to take.

  12. Re:More, or less trouble for white men? on More Colleges Try Forgoing Tuition For A Percentage of Future Income (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    "the struggles that white men face in the workplace,"

    as a white middle aged man, let me tell you:

    You're full of shit.

  13. Re:Ideal for MRS degrees? on More Colleges Try Forgoing Tuition For A Percentage of Future Income (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Going to college for your Mrs. Degree?

  14. Re:Free college for gender studies students on More Colleges Try Forgoing Tuition For A Percentage of Future Income (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    No degree earns anyone any money.

    It's what the person does with it that counts.

    So, shove your BS back up your ass.

  15. "Learn today, pay forever"

  16. Re:Googled "What is google+" on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Feel About the End Of Google+ ? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    It was an easily curated social media platform that didn't bombard you with crap.

  17. Re:I don't care about G+... on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Feel About the End Of Google+ ? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    didn't hangouts become duo?

  18. Re:Enough! on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Feel About the End Of Google+ ? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    A lot of people. It was the best platform so social media if you liked to curate it.

    I organized a lot through g+ because it was trivial to do.

  19. sucks, it was the best social media platform out there. It was so easy to curate, and create groups(circles) to maintain a sane feed.

  20. Re:Also.... Desperation... on Why Hasn't The Gig Economy Killed Traditional Work? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Your grocery company in central USA represents every gig worker in the nation? wow.

  21. Re:$30/hour low-skill jobs. People like consistenc on Why Hasn't The Gig Economy Killed Traditional Work? (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    30 an hour? I'd love to get those prices.

    My yard won't take a professional more the 30 minutes to do, and the cheapest I could find was 130 a week.

    House keeping? 175 for 2 hours.

  22. Re:gig economy is there but on Why Hasn't The Gig Economy Killed Traditional Work? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Software contracts aren't gig economy. That's not what it means.

    Gig comes from entertainment, where it's night by night.

    Contracting work is far better then gig economy.

    You want to include every person who has a contract? Well the it's meaningless term then because baseball players making 10s of millions, doctors making 600K a year, and lyft drivers would all be in the same category, rendering it meaningless.

    It was created specifically for Uber/lyft/day labor type of work that sprung up to supplement people during the recession.

  23. Re:Ignoring The Boomer Factor on Why Hasn't The Gig Economy Killed Traditional Work? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    well-off baby people.

    I just had a relative pass. She married into money in the 50s.

    Her funeral had people, across every generation starting in 1930. None of the one with money do shit for themselves.

    It's funny how you mention travel agents. I thought they were gone until 2 weeks ago when some 20 year old is talking about havng his travel agent do some books.

    I thought he was kidding. Nope, it turns out he and his friend prefer to do that.

    So, to sum up: People with money prefer other people to do work.

  24. Re:software has always been a service on Why Hasn't The Gig Economy Killed Traditional Work? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    "it works". That is the lowest level of readiness of the software.

    1000 times Yes!

  25. Re:Gig Economy's don't work as well. on Why Hasn't The Gig Economy Killed Traditional Work? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    gig economy is fore the childless. Why people who make less then a steady 50K have children will always be baffling to me. It's literally worse for the parent, and the child.

    So goddamn selfish.

    Oh, I answered my own question!

    For the records, I have 2 kids. I didn't have the first one until I was making 70k+