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  1. Best keep my computer full so the update fails then

  2. Re: Fucking liberals... on Monarch Butterfly Numbers Plummet 86 Percent In California (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    So then why is it that California is 12% of the population of the whole US, and yet 25% of the homeless population lives there?

    Because the weather is nice?

  3. Re:LyingwoodCuckster here to obfuscate again, joy on Monarch Butterfly Numbers Plummet 86 Percent In California (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    No you didn't.

    He clearly did. I have no idea if it's correct or not but he clearly goes on to mention milkweed availability as a root cause. Again, no clue if that's right or wrong but it was said.

  4. Re: They should also warn them on Seattle City Council Members Visit New York To Warn About Amazon HQ2 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    A large amount of the problem is that parliament is incompetent. Despite the evidence, they are convinced that repeatedly franchising it out will work better even though whenever a franchise collapses and the civil service takes over, reliablility goes up. But it's quasi-religious fanatacism on the part of our elected reprehensibles.

    Oh definitely. It's not overpriced and unreliable by nature, that's all down to the way its being run currently, ie badly. If it works for you though then all the better.

  5. Leftists and socialists are the Donald Trump of politics.

    Isn't Donald Trump the Donald Trump of politics?

  6. Re: They should also warn them on Seattle City Council Members Visit New York To Warn About Amazon HQ2 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The British built train stations in every major and medium town.

    Yeah and the rail network is overpriced and unreliable.

  7. Re:Doesn't happen in the UK either. on AT&T, Dish, Comcast All Raising Cable TV Rates To Counter Cord-Cutting (dallasnews.com) · · Score: 1

    They'll badger you by letter and eternally send out "Will you be in on Wednesday? We have authorised a checkup" but never bother to come. And if they do, you can just tell them to come back with a warrant.

    Or they will tell you their super secret, massively high tech, definitely exists TV detector vans will be in your area.

  8. Re:You are about to discover the TCO of apple on Ask Slashdot: Which Laptop Should I Buy For My First Employee? · · Score: 1

    Since you will now have to provide tech support and patching to prevent attacks you are about to discover why apple's are cheaper to own than other computers in companies that lack dedictated tech support.

    Ha, Apple's dedicated tech support will just tell you to buy another one and if you don't want to they will charge you almost as much as another one anyway.

  9. 1. How many people USE assistant? 2. How mnay people know they have it installed?

    1 No

    2 Yes

    This is basically just a count of android devices.

  10. Re:Fake is not a catch all word on FBI Investigating Fake Texts Sent To GOP House Members (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I read this as "faked" texts, i.e. spoofed.

    That would be more accurate but that's a different word lol

  11. Re:take it up to 11! on LG Unveils 88-inch 8K TV That Doubles as a Giant Speaker (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 1

    Listen to this...seven...minute...abs

  12. Re:What a shithole country! on National Parks Face Years of Damage From Government Shutdown (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    comic book superhero bland cgi fests

    Comic book, superhero and cgi, yes. But bland? Not really.

    Bland? Yes. There are no stakes, no threat of anything actually changing. So half the people died in endgame, pretty fucking ballsy move on their part but how many of those are coming back? Marvels problem is they refuse to let anyone actually die and there's never any real possibility of the good guys actually losing unless it's to set up a bigger win later on.

    Unless you mean visually in which case they are quite impressive but there are only so many times you can watch cgi army a fight cgi army b before it gets boring.

  13. Re:Where are the people? on National Parks Face Years of Damage From Government Shutdown (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    If you care about the environment and live nearby wouldn't you step up as a citizen and volunteer to spend some time fixing the problem?

    Yeah, every civic minded citizen should spend a couple hours a week sweeping the forest floor, maybe even dust some trees do. That's what they do in Finland, right? No forest fires there.

  14. Sell the parks and lower government responsibility.

    To who? Who is going to buy all these parks and maintain them when there's no way at all enough people would come and pay enough to make that a profitable business. Or just chop them all down and sell the wood? Yeah, see how well that goes.

  15. Re:Oh No! Oh No! Oh No! on National Parks Face Years of Damage From Government Shutdown (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    I vist a lot of National Parks throughut the year, and most the time I don't see a soul. No employees, no visitors.

    Doesn't mean they're not there. Do you see people building the roads when you go? They still got built and maintained didn't they.

  16. Fake is not a catch all word on FBI Investigating Fake Texts Sent To GOP House Members (wsj.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Several House Republicans have received the texts

    So the texts are real then. The may be fraudulent, or misrepresentation or whatever, but they seem to definitely exist, were sent and received and all that so the texts themselves are indeed, texts.

  17. Re:People don't understand what digital music is on Vinyl and Cassette Sales Continued To Grow Last Year (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    ... At the same time, the digital version causes ear fatigue for long term high volume listening. The cassette can be listened to at a maximum volume before clipping occurs without such ear fatigue....

    Nah, pretty sure that's just metallica.

  18. Re:Hiss and crackle on Vinyl and Cassette Sales Continued To Grow Last Year (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah but it wasn't that bad. Even the rather failure prone D120s would last a fair while. The somewhat thicker tape that music was sold on generally lasted better than that. I basically listened to everything on D120.

    Part of the problem is people don't realise there were a whole bunch of different types of cassette tapes because they all looked the same and went in the same players, of which there were also different types. Most people had bad tapes on bad players so the experience was bad.

  19. Re:Pretty easy fix: on National Parks Face Years of Damage From Government Shutdown (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If Trump really, really, really wants it. He can pay for it himself.

  20. Re:What a shithole country! on National Parks Face Years of Damage From Government Shutdown (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Let's see Bollywood or China make something on the order of "Avengers: Endgame". USA still dominates world culture in a big way.

    The fact the biggest and 'best' movies coming out of hollywood are comic book superhero bland cgi fests says it all really.

  21. Re:Hiss and crackle on Vinyl and Cassette Sales Continued To Grow Last Year (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I listen to vinyl songs on youtube.

  22. Re:Traitor Drumpf must hang! on Vinyl and Cassette Sales Continued To Grow Last Year (fortune.com) · · Score: 0

    This country is too great to have treasonous frauds shutting it down on a bullshit-supported whim. It's time to deal with the coward-in-chief, once and for all. Make America GREAT Again, GET RID OF THE TRAITOR.

    Isn't that what your second amendment is for?

  23. Re:Hiss and crackle on Vinyl and Cassette Sales Continued To Grow Last Year (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Your tapes and records are in shitty shape if you hear hiss and crackle. The best part about analog music? No DRM and no bit rot.

    Tapes suffer from degradation all the time and records get worn out just by playing them.

  24. Re: Just a response to smugness on Anti-Tesla Pickup Truck Drivers Take Over a Supercharger Station -- Again (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    Given how many charging stations are paid with public tax money - I'm quite all right with tax payers blocking chargers and preventing their tax money from being wasted on some asshole's car.

    Don't forget that Teslas are partially paid for with our tax money, and those chargers are also subsidized with our tax money, for a service almost no one can use.

    Tesla owners deserve everything they get.

    Didn't some car manufacturers get a massive taxpayer bailout not too long ago?

  25. Re:Speak a language they can understand on Anti-Tesla Pickup Truck Drivers Take Over a Supercharger Station -- Again (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    I see you've played knifey spooney before.