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  1. Maybe D. in DB stands for Dr. Evil?

  2. What's more there is nothing really to connect this Rackstraw person to the letters, and the known details of his career don't really match up (which of course they wouldn't).

    So being that he hasn't really given up anything - it's a Rackroll?

  3. Pigcoin is the future... on Five Major Credit Cards Are Now Blocking Cryptocurrency Purchases (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Pegged to the price of pork, its value will soar in the Mad Max future criplecurrency enthusiasts have been masturbating to for decades.

    HUGE derivative potential.

  4. but I'm wondering how this was deemed either news for nerds or stuff that matters?

    Handling penises is a traditional pastime for nerds, and most of the humanity. Entire human culture is built around a penis.

    Also, something something cryptocurrency something something bubble.

  5. "Raised" would be more appropriate to the story.

  6. Cry, fascist snowflakes, cry... show us your tears on 'How We Made Starship Troopers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh look!
    Snowflakes who can't bother reading their fascist jerkoff material get upset when faced with actual fascist lines from said material. Boohoo. Saddey. Cryye. :''(
    So they try to block the reality. Poor snowflakes. So stupid and pathetic.
    Losing their cool over a line of text cause they only like BEING FASCIST - not being called fascist.

    Anyway... through the power of copy and paste the balance is restored yet again. BEHOLD!

    Oh... Verhoeven conveyed it JUST FINE. Particularly the fascist parts.

    Major Reid paused to touch the face of an old-fashioned watch, "reading" its hands.
    "The period is almost over and we have yet to determine the moral reason for our success in governing ourselves.
    Now continued success is never a matter of chance. Bear in mind that this is science, not wishful thinking; the universe is what it is, not what we want it to be.
    To vote is to wield authority; it is the supreme authority from which all other authority derives - such as mine to make your lives miserable once a day.
    Force, if you will! - the franchise is force, naked and raw, the Power of the Rods and the Ax. Whether it is exerted by ten men or by ten billion, political authority is force."

    "But this universe consists of paired dualities. What is the converse of authority? Mr. Rico."
    He had picked one I could answer. "Responsibility, sir."

    "Applause. Both for practical reasons and for mathematically verifiable moral reasons, authority and responsibility must be equal - else a balancing takes place as surely as current flows between points of unequal potential.
    To permit irresponsible authority is to sow disaster; to hold a man responsible for anything he does not control is to behave with blind idiocy.
    The unlimited democracies were unstable because their citizens were not responsible for the fashion in which they exerted their sovereign authority... other than through the tragic logic of history.
    The unique 'poll tax' that we must pay was unheard of.
    No attempt was made to determine whether a voter was socially responsible to the extent of his literally unlimited authority.
    If he voted the impossible, the disastrous possible happened instead - and responsibility was then forced on him willy-nilly and destroyed both him and his foundationless temple."

    It's a militarist-fascist masturbatory fantasy where uniform and a gun will give you a new family, make you a "real man", earn you the love and respect of both your father AND your superiors and even give you a new, bigger, stronger body.
    It's almost as if Heinlein was being groomed for the military "glory" but "washed out" cause he was "weak" and had to ride a desk when the war finally came.

    In the words of Steve Rogers... I can do this all day.
    Or at least until I run out of copy and paste. Or fascist snowflakes run out of mod points. Whichever happens first.

  7. Re:Oh... Verhoeven conveyed it JUST FINE. on 'How We Made Starship Troopers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I am amazed by the wordity and stronginess of your argumentision and factutia.
    Truly, a huge work of a unique mind. Unich? Eunuch?

    Truly, a huge work of a eunuch mind.

  8. Re:Oh... Verhoeven conveyed it JUST FINE. on 'How We Made Starship Troopers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Poor snowflakes... Stupid snowflakes... don't let your eyes go dry. Sad snowflakes... Pathetic creatures... Cry. Cry. Cry.

    Cause look!
    I can just copy and paste that post that made you so depressed and suicidal when you realized that you're a closet fascist!
    Ta-DAH! As good as new! Like it was never modded down for calling fascist a fascist.

    It's funny how some people find that actually quoting the book or mentioning author's biography is trolling.

    It's almost as if some people have trouble admitting to themselves what they are leaning to.
    "This can't be fascism! Fascism is bad! BUT I LIKE THIS! Therefore, this is not bad! Thus, this is not fascism!"

  9. Re:Oh... Verhoeven conveyed it JUST FINE. on 'How We Made Starship Troopers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Oh look!
    Snowflakes who can't bother reading their fascist jerkoff material get upset when faced with actual fascist lines from said material. Boohoo. Saddey. Cryye. :''(
    So they try to block the reality. Poor snowflakes. So stupid and pathetic.
    Losing their cool over a line of text cause they only like BEING FASCIST - not being called fascist.

    Anyway... through the power of copy and paste the balance is restored yet again. BEHOLD!

    Oh... Verhoeven conveyed it JUST FINE. Particularly the fascist parts.

    Major Reid paused to touch the face of an old-fashioned watch, "reading" its hands.
    "The period is almost over and we have yet to determine the moral reason for our success in governing ourselves.
    Now continued success is never a matter of chance. Bear in mind that this is science, not wishful thinking; the universe is what it is, not what we want it to be.
    To vote is to wield authority; it is the supreme authority from which all other authority derives - such as mine to make your lives miserable once a day.
    Force, if you will! - the franchise is force, naked and raw, the Power of the Rods and the Ax. Whether it is exerted by ten men or by ten billion, political authority is force."

    "But this universe consists of paired dualities. What is the converse of authority? Mr. Rico."
    He had picked one I could answer. "Responsibility, sir."

    "Applause. Both for practical reasons and for mathematically verifiable moral reasons, authority and responsibility must be equal - else a balancing takes place as surely as current flows between points of unequal potential.
    To permit irresponsible authority is to sow disaster; to hold a man responsible for anything he does not control is to behave with blind idiocy.
    The unlimited democracies were unstable because their citizens were not responsible for the fashion in which they exerted their sovereign authority... other than through the tragic logic of history.
    The unique 'poll tax' that we must pay was unheard of.
    No attempt was made to determine whether a voter was socially responsible to the extent of his literally unlimited authority.
    If he voted the impossible, the disastrous possible happened instead - and responsibility was then forced on him willy-nilly and destroyed both him and his foundationless temple."

    It's a militarist-fascist masturbatory fantasy where uniform and a gun will give you a new family, make you a "real man", earn you the love and respect of both your father AND your superiors and even give you a new, bigger, stronger body.
    It's almost as if Heinlein was being groomed for the military "glory" but "washed out" cause he was "weak" and had to ride a desk when the war finally came.

  10. Re:And the others..? on A Single Line of Computer Code Put Thousands of Innocent Turks in Jail (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    North Korea on the Bosphorus is far warmer in the summer and there are so many things to see.

  11. Re:Oh... Verhoeven conveyed it JUST FINE. on 'How We Made Starship Troopers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    It's funny how some people find that actually quoting the book or mentioning author's biography is trolling.

    It's almost as if some people have trouble admitting to themselves what they are leaning to.
    "This can't be fascism! Fascism is bad! BUT I LIKE THIS! Therefore, this is not bad! Thus, this is not fascism!"

  12. Oh... Verhoeven conveyed it JUST FINE. on 'How We Made Starship Troopers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Particularly the fascist parts.

    Major Reid paused to touch the face of an old-fashioned watch, "reading" its hands.
    "The period is almost over and we have yet to determine the moral reason for our success in governing ourselves.
    Now continued success is never a matter of chance. Bear in mind that this is science, not wishful thinking; the universe is what it is, not what we want it to be.
    To vote is to wield authority; it is the supreme authority from which all other authority derives - such as mine to make your lives miserable once a day.
    Force, if you will! - the franchise is force, naked and raw, the Power of the Rods and the Ax. Whether it is exerted by ten men or by ten billion, political authority is force."

    "But this universe consists of paired dualities. What is the converse of authority? Mr. Rico."
    He had picked one I could answer. "Responsibility, sir."

    "Applause. Both for practical reasons and for mathematically verifiable moral reasons, authority and responsibility must be equal - else a balancing takes place as surely as current flows between points of unequal potential.
    To permit irresponsible authority is to sow disaster; to hold a man responsible for anything he does not control is to behave with blind idiocy.
    The unlimited democracies were unstable because their citizens were not responsible for the fashion in which they exerted their sovereign authority... other than through the tragic logic of history.
    The unique 'poll tax' that we must pay was unheard of.
    No attempt was made to determine whether a voter was socially responsible to the extent of his literally unlimited authority.
    If he voted the impossible, the disastrous possible happened instead - and responsibility was then forced on him willy-nilly and destroyed both him and his foundationless temple."

    It's a militarist-fascist masturbatory fantasy where uniform and a gun will give you a new family, make you a "real man", earn you the love and respect of both your father AND your superiors and even give you a new, bigger, stronger body.
    It's almost as if Heinlein was being groomed for the military "glory" but "washed out" cause he was "weak" and had to ride a desk when the war finally came.

  13. Highly biased article... on Tesla Employees Say Gigafactory Problems Are Worse Than Known (cnbc.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Two main sources for the story are people who either "worked at the Gigafactory in recent months"... Past tense...

    But more than a month later, in mid-December, Tesla was still making its Model 3 batteries partly by hand, according to current engineers and ex-Tesla employees who worked at the Gigafactory in recent months.

    ...aaaaand a guy with a huge "shorting" investment, standing to win millions from perceived losses by Tesla.

    Stanphyl Capital's Mark B. Spiegel, who has a significant short position in the company, told CNBC:
    "While I've no doubt that Tesla will eventually work out its Model 3 production problems, the base model will cost Tesla at least mid-$40,000s to build.
    The company will never deliver more than a token few for less than the current $49,000 lowest-cost offering.
    Sales will hugely disappoint relative to expectations of over 400,000 a year.
    And even at those higher prices Tesla will never come anywhere close to its promised [profitability]."

    Also, article is reeeeeaaalyyyy trying to paint a picture of doom and gloom.
    It takes a line from a Tesla engineer about how workers were "slapping bandoliers together as fast as they possibly could" back in December - and presents it as a doom&gloom subtitle:
    'Slapping bandoliers together'

    Hell, it even manages to paint higher test standards as bad, by omission of the fact that test standards are higher than expected not simply "[not] the same kind".

    The two engineers also said that Tesla doesn't do the same kind of "stress tests" of its Model 3 batteries which would be expected of other electronics or carmakers.

    And then there's that thing where I can't seem to find a single article by that author, about Tesla, which isn't a story about how VERY DOUBLEPLUS BAD Tesla really is.

    Feds to investigate Tesla crash driver blamed on Autopilot
    Tesla factory workers have filed a lawsuit claiming widespread racism, unsafe conditions
    https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/01/elon-musk-tesla-fired-700-people.html
    https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/17/tesla-firings-former-and-current-employees-allege-layoffs.htmlTesla employees detail how they were fired, claim dismissals were not performance related
    Tesla employees detail how and why they were fired
    Tesla cites performance reviews as it fires SolarCity employees, though workers say reviews never took place
    Tesla fires hundreds of employees while trying to ramp up vehicle production

    German report calls Tesla's Autopilot a "hazard"
    Senate committee calls out Elon Musk, wants answers on Tesla Autopilot
    Tesla under investigation for possible breach of securities law, WSJ reports
    What the NTSB know

  14. Re: Where does the ocean plastic come from? 10 Riv on Plastic Pollution Is Killing Coral Reefs, 4-Year Study Finds (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Municipal waste is usually a mix of various waste products, but the temperature is more determined by the kind of plasma technology and configuration used.
    E.g. The pyrolysis stage will run at around 600 C, to separate most of the gases, but then the gasses are "cleaned" of particulates by plasma at about 1200 C.
    Or, plasma arc can burn the mix at 6000-15000 K (hot electrode) or 7000 K (cold electrode).

    It's not yet a world-wide standardized technology, mainly due to attempts to make it both economically viable as an energy source and to minimize solid waste output in an economical fashion.
    Places which can't waste land area on garbage dumps, and which produce a lot of waste, like Japan, get most out of it.

  15. Re:Worse than known? on Tesla Employees Say Gigafactory Problems Are Worse Than Known (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I donÃ(TM)t quite understand why there is almost a hope in some people that this project and all associates Musk ventures collapse into oblivion.

    Shorters will short.

    Also, if you prove you're smarter than very smart people on a single, small, issue you are automagically the smartest person ever and your dick is the largest dick around.
    And not just around but by length too.

  16. They taste kinda like pork.

  17. There are no refunds for lost time.

    Time of people who'd go on Rotten Tomatoes to shout at the void on account of what they percieve as a "conspiracy of critics" against a Max Landis movie isn't very valuable to begin with.

  18. Re: Where does the ocean plastic come from? 10 Riv on Plastic Pollution Is Killing Coral Reefs, 4-Year Study Finds (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Now if you burn waste in general what's the difference?

    Depends HOW you burn it.

    Burning it in open air, low temperature fires, is not the same as plasma gasification.

  19. Well, apart from those millions of dollars and a few jobs at... what was that again? Beme?
    Have they tried changing the name to Blockchaineme? Maybe that would help.

  20. Re:The only downside I see to this ... on An AI-Powered App Has Resulted in an Explosion of Convincing Face-Swap Porn (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Good for you man!

    For now.

  21. Re:Surprising? Not really... on CNN Shutters Casey Neistat's Video Company Beme, Which It Bought 14 Months Ago For $25 Million (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    an attempt at regaining the sub 30 market that broadcast news media has more or less completely lost.

    Two words: Rachel Maddow.
    http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser...

    One of the most significant cable news ratings stories for Q2 '17 was the performance of The Rachel Maddow Show.
    Maddow finished this past quarter as the No. 1 show across all of cable news in the all-important A25-54 demographic.

    And it's not just the under-30 market. MSNBC took even younger audiences.

    MSNBC also set network records in the adults 18-49 demo during weekday prime (M-F 8-11 p.m.), finishing at No. 1 for the first time ever for a full quarter.
    While the achievement should be seen as a positive, the A18-49 demo is almost never cited by cable news advertisers.
    The A25-54 demo is the standard in this genre.
    A18-49 is the key demo for advertisers looking at broadcast and cable entertainment networks.

    Generations raised on Jon Stewart's Daily Show want charming, intelligent hosts, hosting factual, informative and insightful shows.
    They DO NOT WANT to feel like they are being click-baited to sit in front of the TV until that one particular bit of news they are interested in, and are continuously being promised is "coming up next", shows up in the "24-hour news cycle".
    They want to feel like they've either learned something or understood something after watching a news show.
    You know... Like how you already need to know about the things joked about on The Daily Show - in order to get the joke.

    It's not a coincidence that so many entertainment shows are copying the Daily Show's infotainment format.
    Some of them hosted by Daily Show alumni.
    Humans LOVE to "get" the joke. Or anything else. It's in our genes to get a dopamine kick out of that "Oh! I get it now!" moment.

    Alex Jones mines that same human need - only he, according to his talents, aims at the lowest common denominator audience.
    The usual mix of stupid, lazy, mentally deranged and racist. Some of those audiences may overlap.

  22. I could have told them that for the same price they'd have to pay to watch one of those youtube videos.
    Probably cheaper cause it would be a very short assessment.

  23. Re:The only downside I see to this ... on An AI-Powered App Has Resulted in an Explosion of Convincing Face-Swap Porn (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Unlike most others (who are deeply rooted in traditional upbringing) I don't have double standards regarding sex.

    You should tattoo that somewhere visible. Like on your head.
    The forehead one, not the foreskin one.

    You know... to simplify things. From dates to divorces.

    Just remember to include an explanation WTF all that means.
    Tattooing a footnote (or a leg note, or a back note...) should come in handy with that.

  24. Re:The only downside I see to this ... on An AI-Powered App Has Resulted in an Explosion of Convincing Face-Swap Porn (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe it would finally knock sex off its high pedestal and trivialize it enough to become just ordinary entertainment, like watching a movie or having supper at a restaurant.

    Most of us avoid restaurants and theaters where a random stranger may ejaculate on us.

    At the same time, it would hopefully unlink sex and deep feelings, because currently if someone's banging his wife's best friend it's a huge scandal, even though they're simply doing it for fun.

    Something tells me that your best friend might see such a situation... differently.
    My advice is that you should continue to keep close watch of his whereabouts.

  25. Re:The only downside I see to this ... on An AI-Powered App Has Resulted in an Explosion of Convincing Face-Swap Porn (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    but it's still not easy to deny a compelling faked photo.

    Most of them will be quite easy to deny, simply by finding and presenting the original porn video.

    Of course, that will require extensive knowledge of porn lore... or a video-frame-recognition algorithm with access to a database of all the porn ever made.
    But until such algorithm is released to the public... it is up to us, ordinary humans, to take on the thankless job of porn forensics.
    It's a dirty job. But that's what the tissues are for.