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  1. Re:Dollar Tree near me has a snack aisle on The Dollar Store Backlash Has Begun (citylab.com) · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    What is ALDI?

    Are the A, L, D and I keys too far apart on your keyboard to Google it?

  2. Re:Makes losing my house a GOOD thing. UL, NFPA, I on Actuarial Science Ranked As Most Valuable College Major (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It's insured for $400,000. If it's destroyed by a hurricane (or more likelly in my area, tornado or fire), I'll pay off the $200,000 I owe and then use the other $200,000 to buy another house with cash.

    You don't know how insurance works. They won't give you $400K for a $200K loss. You are giving them more of your own money to insure a nonexistent risk which they'll never have to pay.

  3. Re:I've had so many people ask me about this on 'Blood Moon', the Longest Total Lunar Eclipse of the Century, Underway (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Someone needs to notify SPACEFORCE. The US is running a blood moon deficit. This is unacceptable.

  4. Transfer From Agent 12392 on Google is Building 'Virtual Agents' To Handle Call Centers' Grunt Work (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Customer request out of range.

    Cause: Unprogrammed Request

    Customer Request: "Stick this thing up your ass."

  5. I'm an inventor. Believe me, patents suck. The whole system is bad. If people want to make money off their inventions then they should get out there and manufacture, market and sell.

    Isn't that what they tried to do before patents?

  6. Re:Bullshit. Disney is just as horrible. on George Lucas's Terrible Idea for Star Wars Episodes 7-9 (indiewire.com) · · Score: 1

    ...it invalidated pretty much everything we have learned about space battle tactics and strategy from the other movies.

    Heh.

  7. We're not sheep? You view yourself as an employee because you signed up for a service?

  8. So basically you're victim blaming YouTube.

    You're using victim blaming wrong. Victim blaming is when the victim did nothing wrong but people still blame them.

    YouTube is very much to blame for what happened.

    So the company that got shot up is to blame for not paying someone what she wanted to be paid.

  9. Re: Geez, not a "software glitch" on Software Glitch Robs Formula 1 World Champ of Season's First Win (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The typical stop time (ie the time in a pit stop that could theoretically be done faster) is about 2 to 3 seconds. There isnâ(TM)t 4 seconds to make up by doing a âoegreat pit stopâ.

    The stop time is not relevant. It's the time from pit-in to pit-out. Under green flag conditions this would be termed 'the delta time' - the total time you lose from a pit stop. But the pit lane speed limit is unaffected by the virtual safety car. So the time in the pit lane remains the same, but the circulating traffic is moving slower due to the VSC.

  10. Re:Not so much of a glitch... on Software Glitch Robs Formula 1 World Champ of Season's First Win (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    There must be some known position or time loss that pitting causes, so extrapolate it and apply that as a penalty if the driver pits while under a safety flag.

    But you can't make up that rule during a race.

  11. Re:Geez, not a "software glitch" on Software Glitch Robs Formula 1 World Champ of Season's First Win (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    If you see no difference between children playing at park and F1, then, well, yeah, have fun doing that.

  12. Let me know when it's better than carbon fiber.

  13. Re:south park messed up lot's of alexa's on Why Alexa Won't Light Up During Amazon's Super Bowl Ad (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    'Alexas' as well. Well, anyway, full points to any advertiser who purposely fucks with everyone's Alexas.

  14. Assange believes that the USA thought it would be easier to extradite him from Sweden then the UK, probably correctly. His move to Equador's embassy was unexpected.

    Unexpected and hilarious. He imprisoned himself. Now he's whining about it.

  15. Re: Breaking the law. on WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Asks UK Judge to Drop His Arrest Warrant (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would they do that?

  16. Re:The UK arrest warrant is still valid. on WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Asks UK Judge to Drop His Arrest Warrant (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The U.S. doesn't want him. If we did, he'd be here. He was in custody in Sweden, and again with the Brits.

  17. You fucking moron. The U.K. had him in custody and allowed him to remain in the U.K. under restricted terms until the legal issues played out. They could've handed him over to the U.S. right there. But they didn't.

    The U.S. does not give a shit about this smelly little Aussie, However, Assange has not exactly endeared himself with the Brits.

  18. Re:Charges are bullshit. Always have been. on WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Asks UK Judge to Drop His Arrest Warrant (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The rape allegation is nothing but a pretext to get him into custody so he may be interrogated by or outright handed over to the United States.

    He *was* in custody and he *wasn't* interrogated by or handed over to the U.S. He'd be the first one to say that he was.

  19. Re: Breaking the law. on WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Asks UK Judge to Drop His Arrest Warrant (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Please do. It promotes my reply as well.

  20. Re:Breaking the law. on WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Asks UK Judge to Drop His Arrest Warrant (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It takes a retard to see someone hiding in a a foreign embassy and call it a government ruse.

    If the U.S. wanted Assange they would have had him when he was first interviewed by the Brits and before he bolted for the Ecuadoran Embassy.

  21. Re: Breaking the law. on WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Asks UK Judge to Drop His Arrest Warrant (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    So you've dropped the kidnapping oligarchy angle? Now we're talking journalism?

    Okay, actually, journalists in the U.S. *can* be prosecuted for things they might do. But they're really good at knowing what they can and can't do.

    Still, many of them do, on occasion, spend time in jail.

    But if the U.S. actually wanted Assange, they'd have him already. The Brits had him but let him stay under some restrictions while some legal matters were resolved.

    When those weren't resolved to his liking, Assange bolted to the Ecuadorans.

    He's more of an embarrassment to the Brits than the Americans.

    That's his current situation.

  22. Re:The UK arrest warrant is still valid. on WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Asks UK Judge to Drop His Arrest Warrant (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    A problem for the U.S is something like Pearl Harbor, 9/11, or a nutjob with nukes in North Korea,

    Assange is merely a pasty faced Aussie with a delusion of grandeur,

    If he actually was a problem for the U.S. he would no longer be around for us to giggle at.

    Unless he has nukes. But I don't think he has nukes.

  23. Re:Assange still ... on WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Asks UK Judge to Drop His Arrest Warrant (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Apparently this doesn't count as the worst happening. Or, that was all smoke.

  24. Re:Breaking the law. on WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Asks UK Judge to Drop His Arrest Warrant (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    *Citation needed

  25. Because he fucked them first by agreeing to terms and then fleeing to the embassy.