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  1. Re:Coal gets a bad rap IMHO on Finland To Introduce Law Next Year Phasing Out Coal (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You've never even seen coal, let alone used it for fuel.

  2. Re:How'd they get there? on The Oldest Known Human Remains In the Americas Have Been Found In a Mexican Cave (seeker.com) · · Score: 1

    Damn auto-correct. Virile not viral... Ah, screw the whole thing.

  3. Re:How'd they get there? on The Oldest Known Human Remains In the Americas Have Been Found In a Mexican Cave (seeker.com) · · Score: 1

    But what would drive people with enough population to all get into the boats and just boat to the east aimlessly in hope to find a large land mass to live on?

    Well... considering the multiple females present together with a young and viral male, I'd say that there is plenty of evidence in favor of the "blackjack hypothesis".

  4. n/t

  5. Re:Yes they do... on Facebook Pages Spreading Fake News Won't Be Able To Buy Ads (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure what you're trying to do with that bit of ignoratio elenchi.

    I could give you two sources proving that, once controlled for all the various factors like exact same job, position, work experience etc. - average, spherical, women make about 5% less than average, spherical, men.
    In a vacuum.
    But I seriously can't be bothered to do googling for someone willing to throw around canards like that, copied from some self-serving radical loon's blog.
    As for the second one... it's a whole bunch of generalizations and misconstrued ideas that it is not even wrong.

    Reality has a liberal bias not because being liberal is inherently better - it's because in order to accept the truth one must dispense with sacred cows (spherical and otherwise) and other delusions based on blind faith.
    I.e. Accept the change and new information as it comes along.

    While authorities, a world of fixed values, idealization of the past... all the essence of conservative thought... are all nothing but long dead sacred cows, festering in the putrid juices of their own outdated data and ideas.

  6. Re:Yes they do... on Facebook Pages Spreading Fake News Won't Be Able To Buy Ads (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Sadly that liberal reality isn't being reflected in much of the media, or indeed in the censorship policies and actions of major social media corporations.

    It doesn't matter.

    Reality is reality.
    Those who are ignoring, bending or denying the truth are just digging their own graves and putting their reputation, jobs and even criminal responsibility on the line.
    Just to be brought down by the first five-year-old who'll shout "Emperor's naked ass is showing!" as they pass by.

  7. As soon as you say that "Reality has a well-known liberal bias." someone tries to hide the truth by modding it down.
    Basically proving the point.

  8. Yes they do... on Facebook Pages Spreading Fake News Won't Be Able To Buy Ads (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    Reality has a well-known liberal bias.

  9. Re: So they finally realized they went too far? on Apple Puts Brakes on Self-driving Car Project, Report Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Rounded. Rounded white sneakers.
    Gotta keep that fetish of a dead obsessive-compulsive guy alive.
    It's necessary in order for others to reach the mid-level earth sprite or Bhummadeva belonging to the Vidyadhara-Yakkha branch, through his example.

  10. I CALL BULLSHIT... on Thousands of ATMs Go Down in Indonesia After Satellite Problems (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    As someone who'd sit around a mortar shell crater during recess and who simply returned to class after another shell took out parts of the corner and roof of our high school gym (with no one in it at the time), while still having shitty but free medical service, working police force, rationed but working and continuously repaired electricity supply (all them shells) and water supply in similar condition, a working library, working (though mostly local) phone system, TV and radio transmissions... all while having nothing close to three square meals a day... I CALL BULLSHIT.

    Civilization works as long as there are COMPETENT PEOPLE DOING THEIR JOBS and as long as gods and other boogeymen are kept out of the equation.

    Cause it was very much a boogeymen war.
    Where boogeymen were "them", of other ethnicity which was conflated with bowing down to other god(s).
    And wherever boogeymen logic was allowed to take priority we had war crimes, ethnic cleansing and genocide.
    I.e. Failure of civilization.

  11. A simpler solution... on Alaska's Permafrost Is Thawing (cnbc.com) · · Score: 0

    Just apply the Sarah Palin caribou conservation method to carbon sequestering, but with republicans instead of wolves.
    Hunt them down with high-powered rifles from helicopters.
    You know? The Alaskan way.

    The best part is there'd be no opposition from wildlife or animal protection groups.
    Actually, they'd probably join the hunt and feel the joy of killing for the first time.

  12. Re:So they finally realized they went too far? on Apple Puts Brakes on Self-driving Car Project, Report Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Knowing Apple's penchant for blowing things out of proportion when labeling them teleporter would turn out to be a 4K TV.
    With round edges, a single USB port, a single proprietary port yet to be announced - and a high definition camera so you can "teleport" into other people's homes.
    White version will cost extra.

  13. You don't download or install a full app. Instead, they send you just the code needed to run the feature you want to try out.

    E.g. If you want to try out the new fart app, you can just try out the new fart sounds, without all the other features of the app like PoopcamTM, Fart GalleryTM, Fart-outTM message app, FratfartTM map plugins for tracking parties based on the data on number of people gathered in one place after 7 PM local time...

    Then, after you're done with it, code you tried out gets deleted from your phone.

  14. Re:When I was in school on New Immunotherapy Trial Cures Kids of Peanut Allergy For Up To Four Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    I blame his overblown allergy to liberals.
    It has made him paranoid of any contact with liberals or liberal ideas so much that he sees liberals everywhere and blames them for everything.
    He screams at them, tries to swat them away, insanity ensues...

  15. Re:Less Business Leaders Influencing Government? on After Losing Support, Trump's Business and Manufacturing Councils Are Shutting Down (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You forgot the obligatory "I'm gonna build a bigger thing... With blackjack... and hookers..." steps.

  16. Yes, but in the opposite direction... on Energy Drinks May Trigger Future Substance Use, Says Study (medscape.com) · · Score: 2

    Most "highly caffienated drinks" can't hold a candle to espresso coffee, and even "regular" coffee contains more caffeine for the same amount of liquid.
    And that's using the lower-end quantities of caffeine found in brewed coffee.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Those "highly caffienated drinks" are made to strict, regulated rules, regulations and recipes.
    Which are created in such a way to match or be lower than amounts of caffeine "found in nature" and which has been proven to be non-harmful to most humans.
    I.e. They are made to contain the same or lesser amount of caffeine as the same amount of coffee.
    For safety reasons, they mostly contain lower-end rather than the average values.

  17. Re:Tim Cooks? on Intel CEO Exits President Trump's Manufacturing Council (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Hipsters?

  18. And two more are out... on Intel CEO Exits President Trump's Manufacturing Council (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    From TFA:

    Resigned from council

    Elon Musk, Tesla
    Ken Frazier, Merck & Co., Inc.
    Kevin Plank, Under Armour
    Brian Krzanich, Intel
    Scott Paul, Alliance for American Manufacturing
    On Tuesday, August 15th, Scott Paul announced on Twitter that he was leaving because it was the "right thing for me to do."
    Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO

    No longer CEOs (still listed on White House web site)

    Klaus Kleinfeld, Arconic
    Mark Fields, Ford Motor Company
    Mario Longhi, U.S. Steel
    Doug Oberhelman, Caterpillar

    Currently on council

    Andrew Liveris, The Dow Chemical Company
    The Dow Chemical Company said Liveris would remain on the council.
    Bill Brown, Harris Corporation
    Harris declined to comment.
    Michael Dell, Dell Technologies
    Dell declined to say whether Michael Dell would leave the council.
    John Ferriola, Nucor Corporation
    Jeff Fettig, Whirlpool Corporation
    "The company will continue on the Manufacturing Jobs Initiative to represent our industry, our 15,000 U.S. workers, and to provide input and advice on ways to create jobs and strengthen U.S. manufacturing competitiveness," a Whirlpool spokesperson told Yahoo Finance.
    Alex Gorsky, Johnson & Johnson
    Greg Hayes, United Technologies Corp.
    Marillyn A. Hewson, Lockheed Martin Corporation
    A Lockheed Martin spokesperson declined to comment.
    Jeff Immelt, General Electric
    GE said its non-executive chair Immelt will remain on the council.
    Jim Kamsickas, Dana Inc.
    Rich Kyle, The Timken Company
    Thea Lee, AFL-CIO
    Denise Morrison, Campbell Soup Company
    The company strongly condemned the attack, but Morrison will stay on the council "to have a voice and provide input on matters that will affect our industry, our company and our employees in support of growth."
    Dennis Muilenburg, Boeing
    Michael Polk, Newell Brands
    Mark Sutton, International Paper
    According to Business Insider, the company will remain on the council.
    Inge Thulin, 3M
    Wendell Weeks, Corning

  19. Registeel.

    Also, Team Rocket are pretty Nuremberg too.

  20. Re:Tim Cooks? on Intel CEO Exits President Trump's Manufacturing Council (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    What some people won't do for free stationery...

  21. Re:Tim Cooks? on Intel CEO Exits President Trump's Manufacturing Council (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Except he's NOT on the White House Manufacturing Council. And neither is Bezos.

    Article conflates and confuses a single meeting, organized mainly so Trump could feel good about himself while everyone else suffered, with positions on WHMC.
    It even makes that distinction... but then loses it.

    Other companies attending the meeting include Alphabet, Microsoft, MasterCard, Intel, Qualcomm, Oracle, Adobe, and more.
    The meeting, which was announced earlier this month, follows a few other efforts by the Trump administration in modernizing the government with the help of CEOs from tech companies, including the "White House Office of American Innovation" and "American Technology Council."

  22. Re:If you don't exit you're a Neo-Nazi. on Intel CEO Exits President Trump's Manufacturing Council (axios.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But the Neo-Nazi are his strongest supporters. Chanting his name like he is the second coming or something.
    They are other groups that will just support him because he decided to run as a Republican
    They are other groups that will do whatever their Church tells them to vote for, and the Church will change its ideals to match the party.

    Nazi supporters ARE Nazis.

    It's not an issue of ownership or genetics or of social status. It's an ideological issue.
    They don't have to quack like Nazis (though they do) or goosestep like Nazis (though some clearly do that as well) - simply thinking like a Nazi makes one a Nazi.
    Ideology dictates behavior. Not the other way around.

    The only thing is that most of them were HIDING their beliefs until now.
    Not cause they thought that it's wrong to be a Nazi - but cause they knew that it wasn't popular.
    Now, when it is clearly "in" to be a Nazi again, they are crawling out from under their beds, swastikas and all.

    And there's no labeling going on.
    A KKK-er is not labeled a racist by stepping out into the light and uncovering his face.
    That's unmasking.
    And nobody's making them do that. They are unmasking themselves all on their own.
    Cause they feel like the time for hiding has past.
    They might be a tad off there.

  23. Tim Cooks? on Intel CEO Exits President Trump's Manufacturing Council (axios.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is no such person on Trump's White House Manufacturing Council. Not even on the White House's page which still lists the people who have quit the council.

    As for who's still on the council...

    Resigned from council:

    Elon Musk, Tesla
    Ken Frazier, Merck & Co., Inc.
    Kevin Plank, Under Armour
    Brian Krzanich, Intel

    No longer CEOs (still listed on White House web site):

    Klaus Kleinfeld, Arconic
    Mark Fields, Ford Motor Company
    Mario Longhi, U.S. Steel
    Doug Oberhelman, Caterpillar

    Currently on council:

    Andrew Liveris, The Dow Chemical Company
    The Dow Chemical Company said Liveris would remain on the council.
    Bill Brown, Harris Corporation
    Michael Dell, Dell Technologies
    Dell declined to say whether Michael Dell would leave the council.
    John Ferriola, Nucor Corporation
    Jeff Fettig, Whirlpool Corporation
    Alex Gorsky, Johnson & Johnson
    Greg Hayes, United Technologies Corp.
    Marilynn Hewson, Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Jeff Immelt, General Electric
    GE said its non-executive chair Immelt will remain on the council.
    Jim Kamsickas, Dana Inc.
    Rich Kyle, The Timken Company
    Thea Lee, AFL-CIO
    Denise Morrison, Campbell Soup Company
    Dennis Muilenburg, Boeing
    Scott Paul, Alliance for American Manufacturing
    Michael Polk, Newell Brands
    Mark Sutton, International Paper
    Inge Thulin, 3M
    Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO
    Wendell Weeks, Corning

  24. Re:His crime was selling stuff? on FBI Says Islamic State Used eBay, PayPal To Channel Money To the US (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Many times I've stumbled on ridiculously overpriced items on ebay.
    Like clearly overpriced... well... plastic junk.

    I remember finding a silicone cover for my sister's phone - priced at over a 1000 dollars. The phone was about 170$ at the time.
    And that's not taking in account auctioned items where both sides can jack up the price for easy transfer of money.

    Hell... if you want to maintain appearance of legality, buy a year-old mobile phone, disassemble it and put each part up for auction.
    Ebay is full of overpriced parts for obsolete but arguably useful hardware.

  25. Re:"TFA" is basically a fan-made trailer for real on Hollywood's Bad Summer Movies Are Driving a Decline in Movie Ticket Sales (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Tell that to people who believe that "Since I made X money last year I should make at least as much this year".

    Except it's not even years but quarters.
    From TFA:
    "If Walt Disney Co. had released its live-action "Beauty and the Beast" one month later than its March 17 debut, "we'd be looking at this [quarter] a whole lot differently," said Mark Zoradi, CEO at Cinemark Holdings Inc., the nation's third-largest exhibitor."

    They are literally hanging the hopes of the entire industry on a single movie.
    Which it's another remake. Of a cartoon fairy tale about joys and wonders of Stockholm syndrome and human sacrifice.
    But had it been released only a month later...