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  1. Re:OH NOES!!! GLOBAL WARMING!!!! on Natural Gas is Now Getting in the Way; US Carbon Emissions Increase by 3.4% (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You're going to cover the poor's medical bills when the air becomes worse than in China and "drinking" water is at best available in supermarkets anymore? Or is that part of the win-win situation where they die off early to take pressure off the job and housing market?

  2. Re:Let's translate from supply side to demand side on Natural Gas is Now Getting in the Way; US Carbon Emissions Increase by 3.4% (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Well, technically we are. Post-natal, by mowing them down in case they have something we want and they don't give it to our conditions.

  3. Re:Not possible on Cancer in America Is Way Down, For the Wealthy Anyway (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Wasn't Obamacare taken back by the current administration?

  4. Re:Health insurance on Cancer in America Is Way Down, For the Wealthy Anyway (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Tell me again why I'd want that system over here in Europe? Seriously, your healthcare system sucks and blows at the same time. When I need medical treatment, I go to a doctor or hospital because I KNOW that it's covered.

  5. Re:How dare those well-off do better! on Cancer in America Is Way Down, For the Wealthy Anyway (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Venezuela? Nah. Sweden. Germany. France. Austria. That's more like it.

    I know Venezuela is the poster child for "socialism" for the "I got mine, screw you" crowd, but from over here you look like some sort of one-joke clown.

  6. For the wealthy, or the ones able to identify BS? on Cancer in America Is Way Down, For the Wealthy Anyway (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    If you look at the amount of bullshit "cures" being peddled that allegedly cure cancer, I have to wonder if it's correlated with money or the fact that fools and their money usually don't spend much time together and it's mostly idiots that gravitate to some "alternative cancer cures"...

  7. Re:Let's translate from supply side to demand side on Natural Gas is Now Getting in the Way; US Carbon Emissions Increase by 3.4% (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    But ... perpetual growth! It's mandatory for a healthy economy! Just look at all the Americans who try to participate, at least with their weight!

  8. Re:Don't sugarcoat the turd on Samsung Phone Users Perturbed To Find They Can't Delete Facebook (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The only reason he's still alive is that he's not worth a second of jail time.

  9. Re:Don't sugarcoat the turd on Samsung Phone Users Perturbed To Find They Can't Delete Facebook (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The friends I have don't have Facebook. That's one of the reasons they are my friends.

  10. Re:OH NOES!!! GLOBAL WARMING!!!! on Natural Gas is Now Getting in the Way; US Carbon Emissions Increase by 3.4% (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    So... lower taxes and having to deal with the shit instead yourself is better? Who are you that you can afford this?

  11. Re:pointless article on Google Home Gets Real-Time Interpretations For 27 languages (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    27 is already easily the number of German dialects it would have to understand to even remotely stand a chance to understand Germans.

  12. Re:Location distorts average pay on Software Developer Tops List of U.S. News & World Report's Annual Best Jobs Rankings (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Ask management. They feel as worthless as they are if they can't look over your shoulder and micromanage you.

  13. Re:Location distorts average pay on Software Developer Tops List of U.S. News & World Report's Annual Best Jobs Rankings (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    How about we try that? Shut down farms in the US and start importing food. Maybe that way Mexico would finally deliver something to the US that the US actually want to have.

  14. Re:Let the Right One In on Mark Zuckerberg's Resolution Is To Talk About Tech's Place In Society (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Such VR sex (with NPCs) would arguably degrade the value of human sexual relationships.

    Well, it should do wonders to empowering women. No longer will they have to second guess the motives of someone asking them out to dinner, since simply fucking would not only be more pleasurable but also cheaper in VR.

  15. Don't sugarcoat the turd on Samsung Phone Users Perturbed To Find They Can't Delete Facebook (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The best user experience is by definition that which is what the user wants to do. And this is obviously not it.

  16. Actually if it's not stressful, you're doing it right.

    9 out of 10 times the reason for stress in development is crappy management. The 10th case is the guy who can't develop software if Stackoverflow is down.

  17. Unfortunately, most companies have adopted "agile" as an excuse to not have any idea what they're doing, but since we're "agile", changing the specs every other day, even when almost at shipping, isn't a problem, right?

  18. Not to mention that about 90% of all statistics are made up, and 88.665% of them all are given with unmerited accuracy.

  19. They ask politely.

    Anyone else would have just done it.

  20. Hey, nobody complains, you can keep him. Could you just, ya know, finally come and pick him up, he's getting kinda ripe.

  21. Re: DOES this refute climate change generally? No on Deep Pacific Waters Are Cooling Down Due To Centuries-Ago Little Ice Age, New Study Suggests (inquisitr.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but it would also keep a lot of hot air from being produced in DC.

  22. Frankly, if you're frying me I don't give a shit whether it's at 200 or at 220 degrees. It doesn't matter whether you drown in two or two hundred meters of water. There are certain levels at which it doesn't really matter whether it's "more" or "less", there is such a thing as "enough". One bullet is enough to kill a person. Of course you can use 100, but one is sufficient.

  23. Then how about making patching the default value that you can turn off with some powrshell command that you certainly can't accidentally stumble upon without REALLY wanting to know it?

  24. Also in the news on Mark Zuckerberg's Resolution Is To Talk About Tech's Place In Society (engadget.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    I challenged myself to learn more about the Cortex M7 and pick up Russian.

    What? Isn't that the thread about stuff people do nobody gives a fuck about?

  25. The reason for this is that the post office is a government entity and more concerned with getting mail delivered than with making a buck.