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  1. Re:Works for me on The IRS Decides Who To Audit By Data Mining Social Media (typepad.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do you think we care about your videos?

  2. Re:Works for me on The IRS Decides Who To Audit By Data Mining Social Media (typepad.com) · · Score: 1

    But I don't shop at that gay porn shop near campus, their prices are outrageous! There is this small shop in the side street, you know, near the gay bar with the male hookers where... what? Why're you looking funny at me?

  3. Re:Works for me on The IRS Decides Who To Audit By Data Mining Social Media (typepad.com) · · Score: 1

    No facebook, no snapchat, no tinder, no grinder.

    I'd think here is the tune you're looking for. Text away.

  4. Re:Works for me on The IRS Decides Who To Audit By Data Mining Social Media (typepad.com) · · Score: 2

    No, I see it more like some antisocial medium.

  5. Re:Works for me on The IRS Decides Who To Audit By Data Mining Social Media (typepad.com) · · Score: 1

    This.

    I have a Facebook page. And Google+. I think there's even some Myspace page collecting dust (is that still on? I should maybe check once in a while). On these pages you'll find out that I'm a renowned security researcher, rubbing shoulders and shaking hands with the greatest minds in the field. My hobbies show off my sainthood where I selflessly offer my rare spare time to the needy and poor. And my hobbies are just good wholesome activities like watching sports like every good citizen and having a BBQ every now and then with a few select friends (they're a bit cam shy, so curiously all the pics of them are from behind or lacking heads), of course the BBQ is vegetarian and you will even find a few healthy and tasty recipes on my pages (courtesy of someone who swears that that grub is edible)!

    Yes, it's all a lie. And if you use social media to learn about me, you deserve it.

  6. Re:Works for me on The IRS Decides Who To Audit By Data Mining Social Media (typepad.com) · · Score: 1

    And I don't do the US Government.

    Not even with rubber.

  7. Re: Works for me on The IRS Decides Who To Audit By Data Mining Social Media (typepad.com) · · Score: 1

    In Europe it could well work.

  8. Re:It makes sense. on The IRS Decides Who To Audit By Data Mining Social Media (typepad.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, that's never gonna happen in the US. That would certainly hit the wrong kind of people.

  9. Re:It makes sense. on The IRS Decides Who To Audit By Data Mining Social Media (typepad.com) · · Score: 1

    Anyone who ever had to sit through 17 carousels of slides from auntie and uncle's visit to Galapagos will agree wholeheartedly.

  10. Re:Don't cheat and don't worry on The IRS Decides Who To Audit By Data Mining Social Media (typepad.com) · · Score: 1

    Spoken like someone who never had an audit.

    Audits at the very least cost you time. If you hand it over to some tax guru, it's gonna cost you money. Not to mention that you can be the most honest person on the planet and forget something, welcome to being human. Too bad the IRS doesn't give a shit.

  11. Re: Nazis are Scum on Japan Activated Air Raid Sirens During North Korea's Missile Test Monday (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Lump them together with the "only black lives matter" idiots and sell the rights on pay per view.

    Whoever loses
    We win

  12. Re:North Korea is a bastion of peace . . . on Japan Activated Air Raid Sirens During North Korea's Missile Test Monday (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, when you consider the possible impact either country can have on your life, you'll notice that the potential influence NKor has is negligible.

    Yes, it sure is the worse government. But then again, the recent storm (or whatever it was) in the US was certainly also worse than the hail we had here yesterday, yet the latter did damage my car while the former didn't really affect me.

  13. I can't even determine whether your example disproves my point because you still didn't bother to explain it.

  14. Re:Horribly inefficient on Publishers Are Making More Video -- Whether You Want It or Not (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't want to learn it from a video at all. The point is that not every problem is a nail, no matter how much you love your hammer. The right tool for the right problem is the key.

  15. Re:Horribly inefficient on Publishers Are Making More Video -- Whether You Want It or Not (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Not everything should be on video, but video is not every time inferior to written information.

    I trust you can see the difference here.

  16. Re:It kills active brain clusters. on FDA Designates MDMA As 'Breakthrough Therapy' For PTSD (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    The only safe stuff that's used as medicine that I know about is homeopathetic. If it doesn't have any effect, it's pretty safe to assume that it also doesn't have any side effects.

  17. Re:Also works great against depression on FDA Designates MDMA As 'Breakthrough Therapy' For PTSD (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    So I'll assume you're not one of those people that get calm by taking your drugs, yes?

  18. Don't know that game, care to elaborate what your point is?

  19. Re: Old news on FDA Designates MDMA As 'Breakthrough Therapy' For PTSD (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    There's plenty of money in a cure. Yes, they remove whatever condition a person has, but who says that it stays removed. If anything, with people no longer having to avoid contracting it because they know they can get rid of it again, people will get careless and then beg you to sell them your cure.

  20. Re: Old news on FDA Designates MDMA As 'Breakthrough Therapy' For PTSD (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    You might want to read my comment again, you'll get it eventually. ;)

  21. Re:Horribly inefficient on Publishers Are Making More Video -- Whether You Want It or Not (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    There are things that are easier shown than explained. I sure wouldn't want to learn dancing from an instruction text.

  22. Re:What about the Side effects? on FDA Designates MDMA As 'Breakthrough Therapy' For PTSD (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    I think it would take at least heroin to numb the pain from having my eardrums pierced.

  23. Make away on Publishers Are Making More Video -- Whether You Want It or Not (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    More and more people are ignoring your bullshit videos. Whether you want it or not.

    Welcome to the free market, bitches. If you don't provide it, someone else will.

  24. Re:Horribly inefficient on Publishers Are Making More Video -- Whether You Want It or Not (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Video works if what is spoken is also available as text. Either on the sidebar with timecode (which I'd prefer) or at least as subtitles. That way you can fast forward through the video to get to the part that interests you.

    Anyone not providing either needn't apply.

  25. Re:Also works great against depression on FDA Designates MDMA As 'Breakthrough Therapy' For PTSD (futurism.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, those pills rarely make you happy, but they motivate you. And the very last thing you want is a motivated and unhappy mob.