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  1. Not me. I have no kids and the maybe 30ish years I have left on this planet it's gonna last.

    I used to think that I should probably leave the planet in a better state than what I got it in, but, ya know, as you grow older, less idealistic and more jaded, you notice that even those that have a reason to do so, because they have kids and will maybe one day have to explain to them why they fucked up the world, don't, so why should I?

  2. They don't parrot anything. They tell their parrots what to squawk, and that's in general whatever lines their pockets best. And since not dumping your waste but actually having to clean it up cuts into your profits, it's BAD.

    Now tell your sheep to repeat that and you're golden.

  3. Ad hominem in the first one already? No, that's not how it's played. First you have to make up some argument. Whether it's for or against climate change doesn't really matter, nobody's gonna read it anyway. Then you'll have someone react to it, then two or three more before someone derails it and goes of on a completely irrelevant tangent, and THEN you can come in with the ad hominems.

    Stick to the script, please.

  4. Re:New excuse for a killing spree on MIT's BeeMe Giant Social Experiment Puts a Human Under Internet Control (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    So anything not in GTA is allowed?

    Anyone know some Furries? I know they'd have some ideas...

  5. Re:New excuse for a killing spree on MIT's BeeMe Giant Social Experiment Puts a Human Under Internet Control (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    I was more thinking along the lines of

    "Sorry your honor, they still control my actions, and this explains my lack of pants. Or underpants. Or why 'it' has an American flag attached."

  6. Oh that would be the first "X react to" video I'd willingly watch!

  7. Came here to say that.

    But knowing /., I knew that I'd probably be hours too late.

  8. Re:Yeppers, this is late-stage capitalism on Restaurants Shrink as Food Delivery Apps Get More Popular (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Or I could sit in my underwear in my flat, watching the TV channel (or netflix show) I want, actually hearing the TV instead of loud, obnoxious assholes, in my comfy couch instead of some chair that were designs more for looks than comfort while waiting for my food.

    Then eat that food while still watching my preferred show in a comfy chair, drink from a large coke bottle that cost about as much as a glass of that stuff would cost at a sit-down restaurant...

    you get the idea.

  9. You may start the mudslinging.

  10. The same left that ruled my country since pretty much the whole time since WW2?

    I wonder what information I am lacking. Judging from various discussions with people all over the world, I usually get the impression that I'm not the one with a limited information.

  11. I'm kinda torn. On one hand I'd love to see what it would be like if every redneck goofball could buy a 155mm howitzer, on the other hand I kinda like the US.

  12. Re:But don't worry on Feds Expand Security Researchers' Ability To Hack Without Going To Jail (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The UAE, of course.

    I always forget that you're still talking English...

  13. Re:But don't worry on Feds Expand Security Researchers' Ability To Hack Without Going To Jail (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The VAE pay better than the Saudis.

    Just saying...

  14. Re:Happens probably a lot on Civil Servant Watching Porn At Work Blamed For Government Malware Outbreak (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    In my experience (with more than a decade in IT security), the weakest link is that CEO secretary that curiously needs to bypass the corporate content filter and also needs for some godawful reason admin access on her PC, despite the fact that she can't turn on the machine without causing a security incident.

  15. Re:Single Rogue Host on Civil Servant Watching Porn At Work Blamed For Government Malware Outbreak (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Wanna bet that he will be? You need a scapegoat after something like that, after all, and he's neither a politician nor a CEO.

  16. But don't worry on Feds Expand Security Researchers' Ability To Hack Without Going To Jail (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We'll do the research for you. We might even sell you the results, provided your industry lets you have them. If not, well, it was nice to know you. Just don't expect us to come over to the US anymore for any security conferences, now that it's becoming more and more like trying to have a porn conference in Saudi Arabia.

    signed, the rest of the world

  17. You are aware that when the 2nd amendment was written, nobody could have foreseen that you want to stash nukes in your basement, yes?

  18. Re:Corporations != Free Speech on FCC Falsely Claims Community Broadband an 'Ominous Threat To First Amendment' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Then you're fucked. Simple as that. Because that means obviously you're no longer able to change your government if you find out it sucks donkey balls.

    When again die the US become a dictatorship?

  19. You do know what the first amendment says? Yes? Ok. Who does the first amendment apply to? Government or private businesses? Who does it NOT apply to?

    And now please answer who can and who cannot dictate to you what you may say on "their" cables: Private businesses or government?

  20. Re:Sorry, Ajit can't come to /. to post right now. on FCC Falsely Claims Community Broadband an 'Ominous Threat To First Amendment' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    We're doing fine without Ashit Pile.

  21. That's exactly the thing, government COULD NOT do this, exactly because of the first amendment. ANY commercial provider can censor and dictate what may or may not be transported through its cables, but a municipal provider COULD NOT.

  22. Of all the organizations... on FCC Falsely Claims Community Broadband an 'Ominous Threat To First Amendment' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The FCC, of all the organizations possible, call something a threat to free speech. For real. The FCC. The same organization who made it its business to make broadcasters bleep and bloop every word that could remotely be called a "bad" word.

    The hypocrisy is so far off the chart that I can't even find a suitable parallel anymore to make a snide comment along the lines of "that's like X saying Y".

  23. Re:Welcome To Your Trumpian Future on FCC Falsely Claims Community Broadband an 'Ominous Threat To First Amendment' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Hmm... I doubt Lenin was against hate speech. I have to admit, I don't know his speeches too well, but considering that he fought a civil war, I doubt he was above calling the Whites assholes and worse.

  24. Vaporware. Quite literally so.

  25. Re:Windows 10 is not bad on Windows Defender Becomes First Antivirus To Run Inside a Sandbox (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    People don't like to embrace change for the sake of change, because I still don't see any benefit in using Windows 10. What is my advantage? The apps I can't get rid of that clutter the inferior user interface, or the telemetry that still doesn't tell me just what information is sent to its master?