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  1. How do they delete the movie from my offline hard drive?

  2. Re: AKA Windows 10 Phone on Microsoft's Coming Windows 10 Cloud Release May Have Nothing To Do With the Cloud (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    But with a hint of luck it may one day be as popular as Palm OS is.

  3. Re:But, but, we have alternative facts! on Bill Gates Warns Against Denying Climate Change (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    No hookers? Then you can keep your facts too.

    In fact, screw the whole thing.

  4. Re:They already swallowed the pill on Bill Gates Warns Against Denying Climate Change (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Hell, give it time, we're working hard on rising that rising.

    It's not easy destroying a climate that's been built over millennia, that can't be done over night!

  5. So? Need to be a citizen of the US to run for an office? I know you have to be born there to become Prez, but otherwise I thought it's fair game?

  6. Re:The value of "proper" games on 10% Of 'Resident Evil 7' Players Are Wearing VR Headsets (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    It's more a matter of time constraints rather than a lack of interest in doing research. So many thing that need my attention, so little time...

  7. Are there more or do we just find more? on Asteroid Whizzing By Earth 6 Times Closer Than the Moon (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I can't help it, but those reports have been increasing in numbers rapidly. Either NASA needs money or our detectors have been improving considerably lately.

  8. Re:False equivalency on Bill Gates Warns Against Denying Climate Change (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Then how about giving out subsidies that spread the TCO of electric cars over the ownership period?

  9. Re:False equivalency on Bill Gates Warns Against Denying Climate Change (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Is that Trump-tax on cars already in? My KIA cost about 15k new.

    If there's an e-car with that price tag, please inform me!

  10. Re:They already swallowed the pill on Bill Gates Warns Against Denying Climate Change (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't know, don't care, not the topic of this subthread.

  11. Re:They already swallowed the pill on Bill Gates Warns Against Denying Climate Change (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    Disagree? Oh no, you can disagree all you want!

    But stay on your beautiful beach real estate. After all, since there is no climate change, why would you want to leave it?

  12. Re:Oh PLEASE let her get elected on Running For Congress, Brianna Wu Criticizes The FBI's GamerGate Report (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    My problem with her is that she's a narcissist loudmouth who takes herself far too serious and considers herself far more important than she possibly could be. How the hell is that a (trans)gender issue?

  13. Re:Do the same poll in 2 month on 10% Of 'Resident Evil 7' Players Are Wearing VR Headsets (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    I play a fair lot, actually. I'd have to check my Steam profile to know just how much, but I fear I'd find out I spend more time playing than working.

  14. Re:The value of "proper" games on 10% Of 'Resident Evil 7' Players Are Wearing VR Headsets (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 0

    They should showcase it a bit more. Imagine someone (like me) who considers that Reddit has too poor a signal-to-noise ratio to bother with, where should I get to hear about this?

  15. Re:"She fought the alt-right and won" on Running For Congress, Brianna Wu Criticizes The FBI's GamerGate Report (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    So do I. I like the US. It's a fun country. A bit insane on the edges, but that's what's likable about it.

    But let's face it. The fringe groups do not represent the majority. The majority wants peace, safety and most of all they want to be left alone, enjoy their life, have a BBQ or two and watch the Superbowl. They're not interested in groundbreaking changes in society, actually, they oppose them. At least if forced upon them.

    Most of all, people don't like being told that they cannot or mustn't do something. And all fringe groups will eventually piss everyone else off by demanding just that. In other words, just give them enough rope to hang themselves and they'll dutifully comply.

  16. That offer only good to him but not me? Is it because I'm gay?

  17. Re:Hypocrite Billionaires on Bill Gates Warns Against Denying Climate Change (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    Even if they try to not be hypocritical and "go green", it's nontrivial to copy their "green" lifestyle.

    "Going green" isn't easy, and by fuck it ain't cheap. Yes, electric cars are "greener" than the old gas guzzler I drive but ... guess what, the gas guzzler costs 10k, the electric equivalent 40k. Easy for Mr. Gates to "do the right thing" and buy the e-car, now try that as a single mom working 2 jobs to make ends meet.

    If you want people to "go green", you have to make it affordable. Put your money where your mouth is and subsidize some e-cars! Buy some power companies and subsidy "green" energy!

    Demanding from people to change is easy. If you're serious, let's see you helping people afford the change.

  18. Re:They already swallowed the pill on Bill Gates Warns Against Denying Climate Change (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is, you can't. It's still illegal to shoot them when they climb my hill trying to escape drowning.

    Change the law and we'll talk.

  19. Re:But, but, we have alternative facts! on Bill Gates Warns Against Denying Climate Change (usatoday.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm not dependent on your facts! I make my own facts! With Blackjack! And Hookers!

  20. Re:Oh PLEASE let her get elected on Running For Congress, Brianna Wu Criticizes The FBI's GamerGate Report (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    She's a woman, where's the problem?

    She looks like a woman, self identifies as a woman, anything else that matters?

  21. Re:"She fought the alt-right and won" on Running For Congress, Brianna Wu Criticizes The FBI's GamerGate Report (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    And could you possibly think of a way to get the general population faster fed up with it?

    Quite frankly, anyone who can muster two brain cells can easily see where this is heading, and let's put it mildly, it ain't quite in sync with the "anti-establishment" agenda that Trump was riding on.

    If that ain't enough to open a few eyes... well, then it's time to leave the sinking ship and let them go down. You can't save them all.

  22. He is? Gee, hope he ain't a Greek citizen, with the Brexit and all... ;)

  23. Re:Do the same poll in 2 month on 10% Of 'Resident Evil 7' Players Are Wearing VR Headsets (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    There are a few games that work pretty well in a VR setup, Raw Data sure is a great game to unwind. Nothing like beating the shit out of a few robots. And there's another game that I forgot the name of where you pretty much run around a town, climb up some walls in some kinda parcour style and shoot shit.

    That's capable of development. There's even a milsim game in development that looks quite promising. But that's basically the problem here: Everything's in development. There isn't anything you can point to and say "Look! This is it! The killer app, the must-have game!"

    Big studios have so far at least refrained from diving into the whole mess, not really knowing what's going to work and what isn't, and sinking a lot of money into a game idea that looks neat on paper but doesn't play well in the end is too big a risk for most big studios.

  24. Re:"She fought the alt-right and won" on Running For Congress, Brianna Wu Criticizes The FBI's GamerGate Report (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Alt-right, for all those that haven't already been pissed off enough by the old-right...

    I know I repeat myself but ... who gives a shit about them? Let's be honest here, yes, they're loud and obnoxious on the internet and they sure are loud and obnoxious wherever you happen to meet them, but they are an insignificant group in the grand scheme of things. Right now they feel important because they think that Trump "sides" with them. Let's just wait 'til they, too, learn that the only one Trump sides with is Trump.

    Quite frankly, I can't think of a less important group than them. Except maybe the equally loud and obnoxious group on the left.

  25. Re:"She fought the alt-right and won" on Running For Congress, Brianna Wu Criticizes The FBI's GamerGate Report (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, and who gives a shit about Breitbart?