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  1. Re:Realistic number on Why Airlines Make Flights Longer On Purpose (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    What, are you going to jump out the hatch?

    If they don't have a gate available, they don't have a gate available. Which means they also don't have baggage handling available, etc. They have these schedules for a reason and if you move outside the schedule, then sometimes resources aren't available until they were scheduled to be.

    Are you really advocating for a massive build-out of infrastructure to be able to handle willy-nilly arrivals? Or would you then be bitching about all the over-building and the tax revenues and ticket surcharges necessary for it? I think we know the answer already.

    No of course not. That's fair enough, they cant just have people deplaning like its a bus station or whatever. All I'm saying is that it would be more irritating (to me at least) being stuck on the ground for an extra 30 mins than in the air.

  2. Re: Clueless American Defines Free Speech on Facebook Are 'Morally Bankrupt Liars' Says New Zealand's Privacy Commissioner (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    A shithole that everybody seems to want to immigrate to for some reason. Hmmm.

    Everyone whos other options world require them crossing the pacific or atlantic you mean. You ain't the best, just the closest.

  3. For real. All they need to do is stop covering Trump and he will wither away. Who gives a shit if he's president? All he does is watch tv, play golf and talk shit.

  4. Re:Article or it didn't happen? on Black Hole Picture Captured For First Time in Space 'Breakthrough' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's all about your frame of reference.

  5. For years Walmart wouldn't sell CDs with explicit lyrics. Can the Chinese Communist Party make business harder or impossible for Apple? Are they doing what they have to do to remain eligible to serve that market?

    There's a difference though between a retailer choosing not to sell something and the government mandating no one can.

  6. Re:Liberals = shit on Apple Music Caught Censoring Pro-Democracy Music In China (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Really pining for the fjords aren't you.

  7. Re:Apple caught Censoring NAZI movies in germany on Apple Music Caught Censoring Pro-Democracy Music In China (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    Local laws and regulations require Censoring. Look at germany. Look at France. where certain historical items are not allowed for trade like nazi gear. And even look at the US where you have to censor crypto when sold overseas. You used not to be able to advertise if you were a lawyer. You can't advertise cigarettes near schools and other venues for minors. You also can't sell certain drugs, not just illicit drugs, in the US that are legal in europe.

    Ronald Reagan banned envionmentalists from canda (Farley Mowatt).

    Countries ban things that offend their sensibilities.

    This is more like saying you're not allowed to talk about the whole slavery thing.

  8. Re:Could always pull out of China on Apple Music Caught Censoring Pro-Democracy Music In China (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    Google complied with Chinese law by ceasing to do business in China. I imagine that opponents of censorship would prefer that Apple follow suit.

    Good luck if anyone expects apple to choose morals when sales are on the line. And I don't think apple would be willing to risk all that sweet, sweet sweatshop labour.

  9. Re: Business as usual on Apple Music Caught Censoring Pro-Democracy Music In China (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    So whatever makes them money is OK with you?

    It's certainly ok with apple.

  10. Re:No. Capitalism. on Apple Music Caught Censoring Pro-Democracy Music In China (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Q: How do you console a grammar nazi?

    A: There, their, they're

  11. Re:Democracy on Apple Music Caught Censoring Pro-Democracy Music In China (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Are they expecting apple to take a stand when money is involved or something? Can't see it happening to be honest.

  12. Yea because that's how we measure things. Based on how many men like my little pony. /s

    Fucking Idiot.

    If more men like my little pony than your thing, well your thing is pretty fucking shitty.

  13. To be a Nazi you would need to be a member of the national socialist german workers party (yep, thats right, Nazis were socialists..),

    Yeah, in the same way that North Korea is a Democratic Peoples Republic...

  14. What about the consent of the people they are near. They did not consent.

    I didn't consent to reading this drivel yet here we are.

  15. Re:I thought Republicans were "tough on crime"? on Chicago Is Tracking Kids Awaiting Trial With GPS Monitors That Can Call, Record Them Without Consent (theappeal.org) · · Score: 1

    All politicians are crooked shysters.

    Trump is included. We've put him in the swamp to kill as many of the other critters as he can before his term is up.

    We don't have to invite Trump over for a dinner party. We just have to let him do his job.

    But instead hes's decided being a critter is actually pretty good and is trying to set himself up as head critter.

  16. Re:Willing to pay on Viewers Who Stream More Also Go To Cinemas More (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In other words, people that like watching stuff go to a place to watch stuff. Well I never.

  17. Windows; the operating system which made "did you reboot it" the first troubleshooting question of idiots who don't understand uptime.

    If the system has crashed keeping it up is kinda pointless.

  18. Re:Why aren't public displays monitored 24/7? on London's BT Tower Broadcasted Windows 7 Error Message Over the Weekend (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    When traffic lights fail, car accidents can happen.

    When this board fails, people post gibberish on social media. No one is going to die or be maimed. I don't mind discussion - people should be interested in the world around them - but lets not lose our minds.

    Apart from the guy that gets rear ended by the person distracted by the giant gaping rear end?

  19. Re:Why aren't public displays monitored 24/7? on London's BT Tower Broadcasted Windows 7 Error Message Over the Weekend (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Lots of electronic billboard monitor jobs going these days are there?

  20. Re:It makes me feel good when I'm early... on Why Airlines Make Flights Longer On Purpose (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I know this stuff is padded, and I think its great.

    I do the same thing when I'm the driver of any trip. I plan for 9am, tell everyone else to be ready by 7:30am or 8am, and when we get a 'head-start' of 15 minutes everyone is happy.

    It was a thing with my brother any time a thing was we would tell him it was 2 hours before, he was that consistently late. It was one thing when we were young but its probably worse today. You arrange to go out at say 5, then when it gets to 5 that's when he decides to start getting ready.

  21. Re:Realistic number on Why Airlines Make Flights Longer On Purpose (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Serious question.

    If you had arrived "on time" and been in the same seat 30 more minutes in the air, do you think you would have felt better about it than arriving "early" and sitting on the tarmac 30 minutes?

    Probably, its one thing being the air but being at your destination locked in would piss me off. Just open the door already.

  22. Re:Try to cut this on Cord-Cutting in America May Have Already Peaked (fool.com) · · Score: 1

    First Post!

    Swing and a miss

  23. Re: misspelled headline on Automakers Want Cars That Won't Start If You're Drunk (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, but around here distracted driving is much more of a concern and dwarfs the alcohol-related accidents.

    So. That means that the car will have to shut down if it detects any sort of wifi device/LTE modem in the car.

    Any money says the thing is an app for your phone XD

  24. Re: And thats not all... on Automakers Want Cars That Won't Start If You're Drunk (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure you won't change your tune when you're in a wheel chair and you had to bury your child because some random idiot thought he had the right to drink and drive. Because its clearly worth being in that position, just as long as drunk people can keep driving. Right?

    Might as well make it so cars just don't start because sober people run people down too.

  25. Re:Ill never stop pointing this out on New Apps Fight Robo-Calls By Pretending To Be Humans (nola.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is it makes you look like you don't give a shit.

    They don't though